Mu Xuan left, and Rong Zheng accompanied the county lord at home. Take care of their property and manage their own shop. Life is pretty good.

Duanhui proposed to choose a day for Fifteen Niang to come to the house to relax, Rong Zheng said: "This is still in the hot filial piety, and I don't know if she can go out." ”

Duan Hui said: "As a friend, I can help her, it's a handful." Hopefully she'll be able to get out soon. You give her a post, let her come out and hang out. ”

"Okay, I'll try, but I'm not sure she'll come out."

Duan Hui saw that it was not early, and said, "It's late, you go to sleep first." We'll talk about it again tomorrow. ”

Rong Zheng got up and said goodbye.

Duanhui asked Xueqing to help send Rong Zheng, Xue Qing carried a hydrangea lamp, and Yutang carried Rong Zheng and walked slowly. Not far from the Splendid Courtyard, Rong Zheng said to Xue Qing: "Sister, go back." There are begonias, which are out of the way. It's getting late, so you should rest early. ”

Qingyin Pavilion is at the back of the Splendid Courtyard, it is not far away, go out, pass a hall, and then walk through a willow forest, and then arrive at the gate of the Qingyin Pavilion.

There were two mothers-in-law guarding in front of the courtyard gate, knowing that Rong Zheng had not come back yet, and no one dared to withdraw first.

"Grandma is back." One of them also took the initiative to give Rong Zheng a lantern.

Rong Zheng walked into the courtyard and said to Yutang: "It's sticky, you have to take a bath anyway, you go and urge the water." If you are a little tired, don't forget to add some herbs to boil together. ”

Yutang agreed and went.

Rong Zheng entered the house alone, and the house was bright, but there was no one, and I don't know where those maids went. She walked to the bedroom and heard the sound of rustling. She stood there without moving, nor making a sound.

There were maids walking by outside the window, walking all the way, talking all the way.

At this moment, the person inside the screen came out.

"Grandma! When did you come back, why didn't you make a sound, and I was scared to death when I met by chance. Ruyi came out of it with her clothes in her arms, and was startled at first, but soon returned to normal.

Rong Zheng said: "What about the others, why don't you shadow?" ”

Ruyi smiled: "Fucui and Qiu Ci went to help grandma count the things in the library." ”

"Oh, why didn't you go?"

Ruyi smiled: "Isn't this helping grandma pack up her clothes, besides, no one is guarding for fear that grandma won't be able to find anyone when she comes back." ”

"You are faithful."

Ruyi said again: "Grandma, the slave maid will go and call them in." ”

Rong Zheng took a comfortable bath, and asked people to take pen and ink to prepare a post for Li Shiniang, and invited her to come to the house for two days. It didn't take much effort to write the post. She handed the post to Qiu Ci and instructed, "Tomorrow you find someone to send this to Cui's house." ”

Qiu Ci received the post and responded yes.

Rong Zheng saw that the hour was not early, so he had to fall asleep. These days, she has become accustomed to sleeping alone, so she does not let the maid stay close to the bed, and only lets the big maid on duty stay in the room outside.

The room was quiet, Rong Zheng moved the lamp and candle by himself, went to his shoes and went to bed. She didn't fall asleep right away, but in a drawer at the head of the bed. She opened the drawer, and what was supposed to be inside was gone.

She gasped, and secretly said that someone couldn't hold her breath anymore. She didn't call the maid to ask, pretended that nothing had happened, and lay down quietly to sleep.

"Sure enough, the people in the room did this!" Rong Zheng was strict in his previous life, and he often got angry with the people around him, and he scolded and reprimanded him at every turn, and when he died, there was nothing left of the people around him. After starting over, she has changed a lot, and she has been much more generous, and she has not scolded her for occasionally making small mistakes before. And now it's happening.

This matter is serious, and she can't ignore it. Not long after lying down, Rong Zheng finally couldn't hold it anymore and called: "Someone!" ”

Qiu Ci, who was on night duty in the outside room, hurriedly walked in, bowed down and said, "What does grandma command?" ”

"Go, and call me all the servants in the house."

Qiu Ci wondered, what happened to make such a big move at this time?

"What are you still doing in a daze, didn't you hear what I said?" Rong Zheng was a little angry.

Qiu Ci hurriedly retreated to pass the word.

Rong Zheng sat on the bed with her hair scattered, she was going to have a good trial today, and she didn't believe that she couldn't catch the inner ghost.

It didn't take long for all the maids in the room to gather. The crowd didn't know what was going on.

Rong Zheng didn't get down from the bed, she asked people to move the screen to the wall, looked around the people in the room, and asked Fu Cui to count the number of people. Fu Cui looked around and said, "The maids are here except for Xiao Juan." ”

"Why didn't Xiaojuan come?"

"Xiao Juan didn't inform her when she was sick. If Grandma wants to call her over, the slave and maid will go. Qiu Zi said.

Xiao Juan is a third-class maid in the room, and she is usually responsible for the flowers and plants in the yard, so she has no chance to enter the room to serve. Rong Zheng thought for a while and said, "If you're sick, let her rest." Fucui, you stay first. The rest of the people were waiting in the room outside, and whoever I told to come in came in. Whoever slips through the way, come back and take care of your skin! ”

Rong Zheng married into the Mu family, and for the first time he said something heavy, everyone was shocked, and they didn't dare to have any objections. Fucui stayed, and the rest retreated.

Fucui didn't know what was going on, and if there was such a big movement in the middle of the night, it would definitely not be a trivial matter. Knowing that Rong Zheng was in a bad mood, he didn't dare to slack off. Without waiting for Rong Zheng to speak, he knelt down, looking submissive, and let Rong Zheng interrogate.

I heard that Fucui and Qiu Ci were from the county lord's room, and later the county lord gave these two maids to Mu Xuan. Rong Zheng has always given enough face to Fucui and Qiu Ci, and when he saw this, he couldn't help but say: "Get up, I'll ask you a few words." ”

"Grandma, please command." Fucui lowered her head, but she didn't know the bottom in her heart.

"Let me ask you, I went to the county lord in the afternoon, what did you do?"

Fu Cui pondered for a moment and replied: "Back to grandma, the slave maid and Qiu Ci have been cleaning grandma's treasury all afternoon. If Grandma wants to read the accounts, she should be able to sort them out tomorrow morning. ”

This is what Rong Zheng instructed Fu Cui and Qiu Ci to do, nodded and said, "Just clean up the warehouse, nothing else?" When has it been done? ”

Fu Cui thought for a while and said: "Until the beginning of the unitary period, Qiu Ci said that he was a little tired and rested for half an hour. You are using dinner, and after dinner, we will continue to clean up. ”

"Where were you in the half hour of rest?"

Fu Cui said: "In my own room." ”

"Who can prove your word?"

Fu Cui shook his head and said: "The slave maid was alone in the room for half an hour, and the slave maid didn't go anywhere, and was busy making shoes after lying on the bed for a while. ”

Rong Zheng nodded when he heard this: "Turn around and show me the shoes." ”

"Yes!"

To this day, Fucui is still confused, and he doesn't know what Rong Zheng wants to interrogate.

Rong Zheng pondered for a moment and said, "Okay, you go and call Qiu Ci in." ”

After Qiu Ci came in, Rong Zheng asked Qiu Ci the same question, and with the words of Fucui before, they could also prove each other. Rong Zheng nodded and said, "Okay, you go down and call Ruyi over." ”

A moment later, Ruyi came in with her head down.

The first thing Rong Zheng asked when he saw her was: "What have you done this afternoon, tell me." ”

Ruyi bowed her head and said, "The slave has been helping grandma clean up her clothes. The winter woolly clothes should be taken out and dried, and the windy ones should be cleaned up, and the bad styles should be cleaned up. In the summer these folds need to be ironed neatly. These are what grandma had ordered before. ”

Ruyi, as her dowry maid, manages the clothes and jewelry in the room for her, which shows that she is very trusted by Rong Zheng. Rong Zheng did tell Ruyi to do this, but he couldn't find anything wrong, and asked, "Who did it with whom?" ”

Ruyi said: "This is the work of the slave maid, and the slave maid did not ask for help." ”

"So you cleaned up all afternoon, where did you do it?"

Ruyi bowed his head and said, "In the big house to the west." ”

"What about the clothes you were carrying when I came in tonight?"

"Yes!" Ruyi's head is getting lower and lower.

Rong Zheng was a little displeased, and said, "You raise your head and look at me." ”

Ruyi bravely looked at Rong Zheng, Rong Zheng's eyes were burning, as if to see people through, Ruyi didn't dare to look directly at Rong Zheng's eyes, dodging, and didn't know where to look, and finally his eyes still fell on the blanket spread on the ground.

Rong Zheng's tone was a little stiff, he stopped looking at Ruyi, and said, "Okay, you can go out." Ask someone to come in. ”

Ruyi let out a long sigh of relief and withdrew.

After the interrogation of the servants in the room, all that was left were some servants and maids, who were not allowed to enter Rong Zheng's room. After asking the last person, Rong Zheng called them all in and said, "You can't leave for the time being, wait for Mother Bai to come back." ”

Mother Bai is the daughter-in-law of the housekeeper here, and she was also given to Rong Zheng by the county lord. Mother Bai is in her thirties, and she behaves very well, and in a few months, she has become an indispensable helper of Rong Zheng.

It's been three days in the blink of an eye, and no one dares to say that they are sleepy. Rong Zheng sat on the bed, full of energy, she made up her mind to end this matter today, and she couldn't delay it any longer.

Mother Bai had already come in and said, "Go back to Grandma, Grandma, what you are looking for has been found." As he spoke, he took out the things hidden in his sleeve and showed them to Rong Zheng.

A blue-gold embroidered purse appeared in front of everyone.

Rong Zheng took the purse, nodded and said, "It's hard work, mother, go to sleep." ”

The rest of the matter should not be interfered with by Mother Bai, she bowed and retreated.

Rong Zheng held the purse tightly, like a fish in her throat, she looked at the people in the room with difficulty, and said, "The thing has been found, you all go down." The one who took the purse is left behind! This is the last chance I give. ”

The maids went out in twos and threes, and in the end only one person remained.

Rong Zheng was angry, and scolded angrily: "You kneel down for me!" ”

Ruyi trembled and knelt down.

Rong Zheng guessed and guessed, but she never expected that the person who betrayed her turned out to be the person she trusted the most.

"I ask you, why did you take this purse?"

Ruyi bowed his head and said, "It was the slave maid who accidentally brought it out when she was cleaning her clothes." ”

"Clean up your clothes? Accidental? Rong Zheng felt ridiculous, pointed at her and asked, "The clothes are either on the shelf or in the closet, and you can find this thing for me in the drawer on the bed?" And make excuses like that. With the facts in front of you, what else do you have to say? ”

Ruyi's head was buried lower.

"Who are you instructed by? Do you want to make the same purse to lure me into the scheme? ”

Ruyi defended: "Grandma, the slave really doesn't know anything. ”

"You're my dowry. Ziying is married, Zisu also has a family, I trust you so much, but you treat me like this. For the sake of your face, I will not expose you in front of everyone. If you haven't figured out what to say, then go back to sleep first, and come back to me tomorrow when you think about it. ”

Rong Zheng's heart is like ashes, and he doesn't want to see Ruyi.

Ruyi knelt for a while and had to stand up, burying his head low and retreating.

She went outside, but luckily she didn't meet anyone. She has taken such a road of no return, and she is destined to be unable to go back. It all started with the incident of following my grandmother to the palace to ask for peace.

Shizi knew that she was grandma's personal maid, found her, and coerced and seduced her in every way, and she had to submit to his obscenity. teamed up with the prince inside and outside to make this identical purse to lure grandma to the bait. The prince promised her that as long as the matter was completed, he would give her glory and wealth and let her be a side concubine.

She disdains to be the side concubine of the prince, and she also knows what the end of betraying her master is. At that time, she had to take this path as a last resort.

Now that she has been discovered by Rong Zheng, she has no way out. It's all her to blame, to blame her for not resisting the temptation and doing something that betrays the Lord. It seems that grandma will not spare her.

Ruyi returned to his house with trepidation. Not even the lights were lit. Can't sit still any longer, she has to escape. Flee overnight, as far as you can.

At that time, Ruyi only had one thought, and she didn't dare to light the lamp. In the dark, I found a few important things and rolled them up, and I was ready to escape.

The night was as deep as ink, and there was not a trace of moonlight.

Rong Zheng, who was lying on the bed here, was not sleepy at all, she never expected Ruyi to betray her. At the beginning, she chose Ruyi to be the dowry maid, just because she thought that Ruyi was loyal to her in her previous life, and she never did anything to be sorry for her in that environment. This life is much better than the previous life, why did you change your personality instead?

In fact, it's also to blame Rong Zheng for realizing it later, if it weren't for attracting Ruyi to steal things, she wouldn't be able to catch Ruyi. Now that I think about it carefully, it is indeed the most suspicious of Ruyi. Her personal things are Ruyi to help take care of them. Ruyi's needlework is brilliant. At the beginning, the purse and the letter were also brought in as expected. Later, she was trapped in Caojia Lane and couldn't get out, but fortunately Mu Ying saved her. After coming back, she was worried about Ruyi's safety, and was about to arrange for someone to rescue Ruyi, but Ruyi came back by herself. The reasons given are also far-fetched.

It's not that she didn't doubt Ruyi, but she believed in this person more, but it was this confidence that hurt her.

The night was peaceful, and she was willing to give Ruyi a chance, a chance to explain the truth. She still believes in Ruyi, and believes in this person who was once sincere to her. (To be continued.) )