Chapter 24, Suspicion
Mu Chenxue and Mu Chenfeng's sister and brother suddenly attacked the eldest lady, so scared that Aunt Cheng couldn't even leave. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info was carried into the side room by Jiang's mother, and the whole person couldn't support it anymore, and sat on the chair shaking and couldn't say a word.
Mother's reaction was expected by Mu Chenxue, so she comforted her in a suppressed voice, "Mother, my daughter knows that it is a little more dangerous today, but if we don't do this, we are afraid that no one will know about rotting and dying in the backyard, my daughter is a person who has died once anyway, even if it is bitter, it doesn't matter, but you can't let Brother Jiu'er suffer with us, don't worry, this is what happened today, the eldest lady will never attack us for a while, as for the daughter in the future, she will definitely think of letting Brother Jiu'er go to the county school, this is out of the shogunate, The eldest lady is just a woman in the inner courtyard, and she will never throw her face outside the house! "In ancient times, patriarchy was preferred, although this cheap mother was good to her daughter, but she was not as good as her son, so Mu Chenxue directly moved out of the ninth brother as a shield.
Mu Chenfeng stood aside and listened, he saw everything his sister said and did today, although he didn't like or understand the intercession for the eldest lady, but in terms of the results, it was exactly the same as what his sister expected last night, and he couldn't help but admire this sister a little more.
Naturally, he also helped to persuade, "Yes! Mother and mother are relieved, the son is no longer the child who doesn't know anything, and the son will be careful in his behavior in the future, and will not let the eldest lady have the opportunity to blame us for some reason! Looking at the determined daughter and strong son, what else can Aunt Cheng say. thought to herself, "The big deal is death, in short, she will never let the eldest lady hurt her children!" "There is a certain number in the heart, and people are not as afraid as before. Together with Jiang's mother, I helped my children change their clothes, and then went out to feast.
During the banquet, the eldest lady forced a smile, and Chenxue was secretly happy when she saw it, but her face was bent step by step. There was no one around her to follow her, and at this time, she even rushed to do the rough work of serving tea and pouring water, and lowered her head and pretended to have made a big mistake, frightened and afraid.
The nurse accompanied the eldest lady while carefully observing the fifth miss, she always felt a little strange about this matter today, but she couldn't say what went wrong, but her intuition told her that this matter was inseparable from the fifth miss.
What Mu Chenxue never expected was that she was wronged here, but in a few days, she got an unexpected harvest.
At the end of the banquet, everyone returned to the courtyard, and the steward of the outer courtyard Liu got the master's instructions early in the morning, and checked the accounts of the inner courtyard that night, according to the rules of the shogunate, the eldest son was five taels per month, and the second son and daughter were three taels per month, and there were four sets of clothes per quarter. The concubine is two taels per month, and the concubine and aunt are one tael, and there are two sets of clothes per season. So after this calculation, there are one hundred and forty-four taels of monthly arrears to the Ninth Young Master over the years, not counting the clothes and other ornaments of the four seasons. Even Aunt Cheng's owed sixty taels, but Miss Five owed the least, only ten taels.
Mu Qian listened to the steward's accounting, and his brows tightened more and more, "Madame is really confused!" If such a thing is spread out of the house, won't it make colleagues laugh! Although it is not a big mistake to govern the family strictly, and the hat that teaches no way is not a big mistake, my official career will still be affected to some extent! ”
"Back to the master, Mrs. Xu was confused for a while, and Aunt Cheng is timid, and the ninth young master and the fifth miss have almost never left the house, and the things in the house will never be spread outside!" Steward Liu is the son of a family, and he has been serving Mu Qian since he was a child, and he knows this master very well. The lord has the best face, but I am afraid that the eldest lady's move will touch the lord's scales. But no matter how wrong the eldest lady is, it will not be his turn to comment, so when it is time to help persuade him, he will spare no effort.
"What do you know, above the officialdom, which one is not glamorous outside, my lord, I say from the position of the sixth grade whether it is high or not, whether it is low or not, but there are also many people staring at it, although these are just some small things that are jealous of the women in the inner courtyard, but if someone wants to use this to make any article, I am afraid that when the time comes, this small thing can be spread into a big thing!" Mu Qian is not an official, he may have stayed in this position for so many years, and he is not a mediocre person, otherwise he would have been kicked down.
"You will send the silver to Aunt Cheng today, let the subordinates take care of their mouths, and this matter must not be spread outside the house today!" Such a big thing happened, and Mu Qian just asked the steward around him to go on a trip. In fact, in his heart, his official reputation is the most important.
"Yes! Minions, let's do it! Steward Liu went to the account room to pay the money and sent it directly to the backyard.
Mu Chenxue didn't care who sent the silver, in short, the silver was in hand. The backyard was joyful, but there were no firecrackers to celebrate. The inner courtyard was a gloomy mist.
The eldest lady looked at her crying son, and her daughter with a gloomy face, she was already upset, and she was even more angry at this time.
"Crying, you know crying, if you weren't talking nonsense, I wouldn't have given a set of clothes and a pair of beaded flowers!" The fourth sister Mu Yu looked at this younger brother more and more annoyed.
"Okay, don't talk about him, Starling is just a child, the bad is bad for Brother Jiu'er, he dares to sue in front of your father, it seems that it is not enough for him to learn at home these days! I knew that today, I shouldn't have let Cheng's slut give birth to this evil seed in the first place! The eldest lady was so angry that she even said such things in front of her children.
The nurse nervously motioned to the maid next to the eldest lady to go out and stare at it, this wall has ears, although no one in the inner courtyard will spread this, but you have to be careful. "Madam, according to the old slave, I'm afraid that this matter today is not something that the Ninth Young Master can think of!"
After the nurse's reminder, the eldest lady calmed down, thought for a while and turned her head to ask the nurse, "In your opinion, could it be that Cheng's instigated it?" ”
"Aunt Cheng's temperament, don't you know it, as early as when she was in Cheng's mansion, she never dared to disobey her wife, all these years, even if she doesn't want to do it in her heart, I'm afraid she doesn't have that temperament!"
"It's not Cheng, who could it be?" The eldest lady looked at the nurse in puzzlement, there are only four people in this backyard, and Mother Jiang is just a subordinate, and she is used to being honest, if she could have come up with this idea earlier, she would not have let Aunt Cheng be pressed by her for all these years.
"The old slave is just suspicious, but there is no evidence, I am afraid that this matter will be inseparable from Miss Five?"
"Fifth sister?" The eldest lady was even more puzzled, the fifth sister had been raised in her courtyard since she was a child, if she really had this thought, it would be impossible not to even show a clue over the years.
"Since the fifth lady recovered from her last illness, although her attitude is no different from before, the old slave always feels that something is different, but she can't say it, so this matter today is just a suspicion, and there is no evidence!"
"If it's really her, I'm afraid we've raised a white-eyed wolf over the years!" The eldest lady didn't believe it all, but she had doubts in her heart.
"Madame, it's better to wait, if the fifth miss returns the clothes and jewelry borrowed today, then I'm afraid that this matter is just a coincidence, but if the fifth miss doesn't come to return it, I'm afraid that she wants to be on a par with the fourth miss!"