Early in the morning of the second day, the second aunt's wife, Zhao Mingxiang, thought that yesterday the concubine Yingchuan said that she was going to take Cai Wei to live in the palace for a few days, so she thought in her heart, if she could send her daughter Wu Wan to live in the palace for a few days, if she could get the eyes of the concubine, she could bring one or two, and she would be a good friend.

Poor her sister Wan is sixteen years old this year, and she hasn't decided on a family yet, Yifang is the same age as her, and she will go out in October, Yihui will marry in Xing'an Bofu in November, Zhou Caiwei and her father have already told her about a family affair, even Yifei's disgusting little girl, who is only fourteen years old, is also making a fuss about getting married. Seeing that these girls are married one by one, isn't it true that only her daughter is left alone in this mansion, which makes her feel so worried.

As for Wu Wan's thoughts about Zhang Yun, she naturally knew it, and she didn't have this thought in her heart. She also tried to mention this to her eldest sister Zhao Mingxiu, Mrs. Changpinghou, but just after she opened her mouth, she was said by her eldest sister, "My brother Yun is not a knight, so naturally I have to find the daughter of a noble family in this family matter, and I can also get the help of some wives." "I can't say a word anymore.

Her Wu family is now in decline, and she was expecting her son to revive the family business in one fell swoop in the middle of the spring, but the result is ......

This Zhao Mingxiang was thinking about how to open this mouth with Zhou Caiwei, but Wu Wan was sitting next to her, but she was thinking that Zhou Caiwei had come over to say goodbye to her mother earlier, how could it be that it was this hour today, and she was still missing, but she had just recognized a concubine cousin, and her temper grew. Just as she was about to complain to her mother, she heard a shout outside the curtain, "Miss Zhou's cousin is here!" He pursed his lips and sat quietly again.

Zhou Caiwei came in and asked Zhao Mingxiang to say goodbye: "Hello to my aunt, I should have come earlier, I don't want something bad to happen in my house today, it's too late, please forgive my aunt!" ”

Zhao Mingxiang noticed that her eyebrows were slightly frowning, and her face was worried, and she couldn't help asking, "Okay, what's wrong?" If you have anything, just say it, and your aunt will call the shots for you! ”

Cai Wei said: "When I took off my makeup last night, I suddenly found that my makeup box seemed to have been turned over, and there were traces of someone turning it in several other places in the house, missing a few taels of silver, and a jade phoenix. It's okay to lose a few taels of silver, but the jade phoenix, which was carved to me by my father, is now gone, but I am so anxious that I quickly asked them to look carefully in the room, because they have not found it after looking for it several times, and it was almost the fourth watch at that time, I thought that I would not watch the color at night, so I let everyone sleep first, and then continue to look for it when I got up this morning, who know——"

"Can you find it?" Her aunt hurriedly asked.

Cai Wei shook her head with a sad face, "We have searched several times inside and outside the house, and we have searched every place, but we still haven't found it." I'm afraid that one of them is that young, and when I saw my jade phoenix by chance, I was greedy for a while, and I secretly took it to wear it to play, so I called a few girls to ask them who had seen it, and they didn't want to say no. My nurse is anxious, and said that since she said no, she was not afraid to open the cage for everyone to see, and it was better to be suspicious. ”

"My nurse poured all her things on the kang one by one, and they all spread out their things to see, but when it was the turn of the two little girls, Huan'er and Shen'er, they fell out of their clothes. But my jade phoenix is still nowhere to be seen......"

Zhao Mingxiang paused when he heard that it was the maids from the two mansions of Shen'er and Huan'er, and said: "Could it be that the two girls took it together, didn't you ask the two girls in detail?" ”

"This—" Cai Wei hesitated a little, and then said to her nurse, "Please also ask the nurse to return to my aunt for me!" ”

Mama Guo hurriedly said: "We were also afraid of wronging those two girls, so we asked carefully, at first they didn't admit that they stole the silver, but the two of them were just third-class little girls, even if they saved up for a few months, they couldn't save these two ingots of silver." Then they changed their words and said that it was given by someone else, and asked who gave it and when, because what gave them two taels of silver at once? They all stood up again, and finally saw that they couldn't hide it, so they told the truth. ”

"But who would have thought that they said that Aunt Liu ordered them to find something in our girl's room, because they were busy yesterday, they took advantage of the rummaging in the girl's room, but it happened that the girl's red rope tied to the jade phoenix broke, and the jade fell into the changed clothes, and the two of them took advantage of the chaos to find it, thinking that it was Aunt Liu who wanted, and sent it that night, and these two ingots of silver were the reward that Aunt Liu gave them!"

Cai Wei said sullenly: "If it's something else, it's fine, I'd rather have less than one more thing, I will never go to her again to theorize." However, this jade phoenix has been worn on my body since I was five years old, and it has never left my body, and it is a relic left to me by my father, and it can be called a priceless treasure in the heart of my niece, and it must not be given to others. But now that Yufeng has been sent out by those two little girls, it is the first time that the niece has encountered this kind of thing, and I really don't know how to get it back? ”

Zhao Mingxiang first heard that the hands and feet of the two little girls were not clean in Huan'er and Shen'er, and she also felt that it was a little difficult to do, because these two girls were not brought by Caiwei, but the girls in this house, who were in trouble.

As the wife of the main house, she naturally looks down on the likes of a concubine, and Zhao Mingxiang is no exception, even if this Aunt Liu is the concubine of her fourth brother, but before the fourth master became an uncle, Zhao Mingxiang never looked at her seriously.

So when the fourth room entered the main courtyard and took over the power of the house, Aunt Liu did not make it difficult for this down-and-out and poor second aunt wife, adding to her blockage and anger, coupled with Wu Wan's various jealousy and dissatisfaction with Yifei, Zhao Mingxiang already hated Aunt Liu in her heart, and wished that she could seize an opportunity to find out her bad luck and give her some color.

Seeing that there is a great opportunity in front of me, I naturally refuse to miss it, which can not only help Zhou's niece, make her owe herself a favor, but also make Aunt Liu unlucky, why not.

She is also a careful person, and asked the two little girls carefully, then slapped the table and said angrily: "That slut is really bold, she actually instructed someone to steal from her relatives, is this worth it?" Good boy, don't be afraid, since your aunt knows about you, she will never ignore it, and your aunt will take you to the old lady, her old man has been very fond of you these days, please let her call the shots for you! It's my fourth brother who wants to protect that slut, and you also have a concubine cousin to support you, I'm afraid she will do something! ”

After speaking, he pulled the roses and came to Xuhui Hall. When he arrived at the upper room, as soon as he finished saying hello to Mrs. Tai, Zhao Mingxiang crackled and told Cai Wei that Cai Wei was ordered by Aunt Liu to steal the jade pendant.

She wiped her sweat with a handkerchief, and said: "Mother, don't say that it is the first time that Wei Yatou has seen this, this is my daughter, I have lived for half my life, and it is the first time I have seen this little aunt dare to instruct the girl in the house to steal the things in the room of a relative's young lady?" If she dares to steal Wei girl's things today, she will dare to steal my things tomorrow, and in the future, she can't even dare to remember her mother's things? ”

Mrs. Tai didn't want to see Aunt Liu, but when she heard her second daughter's words of adding fuel and vinegar, she was even more annoyed, and immediately ordered Cuiyun to bring the Liu family over.

When the Liu family came in, Mrs. Tai had just finished listening to the confessions of the two girls, Shen'er and Huan'er, and was angry, when she saw her come in, she still had the flirtatious smile on her face, and walked to her with a handkerchief twisted her waist to ask for peace, so she first rewarded her with half a cup of tea, and splashed all the head and face on her face.

Aunt Liu couldn't find the southeast and northwest when she was poured with this hot tea, so she heard Mrs. Tai shout: "You bold slut, don't you kneel down for me and ask for guilt!" ”

Aunt Liu wiped the tea and tea leaves on her face with her sleeve, and kept shouting, "The slave knows that Mrs. Tai has always looked at the slave unpleasantly, but what mistake did the slave make, so I begged the old lady to give a clear explanation, even if the official master decided the case, no one was accused of being guilty as soon as he went to court!" ”

There was no need for Mrs. Tai to speak, the second aunt and Mrs. said on the side: "Do you still have the face to ask the old lady?" If people don't know this, unless they don't do it, the good things you instructed these two girls to do yesterday will not be forgotten today? ”

Aunt Liu turned her eyes, and then she saw the two girls who were kneeling on the side, Shen'er and Huan'er, and immediately panicked, but there was still a trace of luck, and she said stiffly: "What is Mrs. Gu talking about, she is the girl in front of the girl in your courtyard, what does it have to do with me?" Don't indiscriminately wronged good people here! ”

"Didn't you give her two of them two taels of silver each, and let them steal Wei Ya's jade phoenix so that they could hand it over to you, and now that everyone is stolen, do you still want to deny it?" The second aunt said to the two girls: "What did you say this morning, why don't you tell Aunt Liu again!" ”

The two little girls cried and said: "As early as two months ago, my aunt found the two of us, saying that we wanted us to help her find something from the cousin's room, and we asked what it was, but the aunt couldn't say clearly, only that it was the one that the cousin valued the most precious one." The two of us are just third-class miscellaneous maids, and I can't get into my cousin's side to wait, so I haven't done this for a long time. Yesterday, my cousin and my aunt came to us a day in advance, saying that on the day of the meeting, she would think of sending a few fewer people to the cousin's side, and then her four maids would be busy with her ceremony, and the two of us could take advantage of the hurry to enter her house to find something. ”

"We did according to my aunt's words, and searched for a long time in the cousin's house, and saw that the cousin's jewelry was just ordinary, and there was no locked place in the house, so it was not tight, and then we found a jade phoenix pendant tied with a red rope in the dress she changed out, and the red rope was very old, thinking that it was worn on the body all the year round, and we felt that this could be worn by the cousin every day must be her very precious thing, so we hurriedly took it and quietly sent it to Aunt Liu at night."

"Originally, my aunt said that if we can do this for her, she will reward us with five taels of silver, if it is not for the reward of enough silver, the little one will not dare to steal the things of the cousin, who would think that we sent things over, my aunt said that we dragged on for so long to get something for her, and I don't know if she asked for it, and deducted three taels of silver from us, and only gave us two taels of silver......"

In the end, she complained bitterly that Aunt Liu's words were not enough, and she laughed secretly in her stomach when she heard the second aunt's wife, and on the other hand, she despised Aunt Liu's childishness that she had to deduct even for rewarding a subordinate.