said that Mama Zhu sent an honest and reliable subordinate to guard outside Guan Zhourui's house, and asked him to listen carefully to what was happening in the house. The two of them knew that there was someone outside, and they only bit their ears when they spoke, and although the person heard the sound, he couldn't really hear it when he put his ear on the door, and he was tired and tight, so he just stopped.

On the second watch, a kid came over with a bag of snacks and a pot of tea, and said with a smile: "Uncle, the old lady said that you have worked hard, and this is a reward for you." ”

The man was very happy, thanked the old lady repeatedly, and patted his chest again: "With me, they can't run." The boy complimented him a few words.

The weather was extremely cold at this time, and a pot of hot tea and snacks immediately made me feel much more comfortable. Who knew that the good times would not last long, but after three quarters of an hour, he suddenly had a stomachache and hurried to the toilet.

He had only been gone for a short time, and he only heard a muffled sound of "bang", as if something had landed. Zhou Rui and his family are cold, hungry, frightened and afraid, where can they sleep? Seeing that something broke through the high window and fell in, he hurried over and grabbed it, and looked at it in the slight moonlight, it was a burden, and it was still warm. The two of them hurriedly opened it - it was a few hot steamed buns! Poor Zhou Rui and his family have been rampant all their lives, how could they have been so hungry? Zhou Rui's family hurriedly said: "It must be that Mrs. took pity on us and secretly sent someone to send it!" As he spoke, tears fell, and he regretted that he should not have betrayed his master before. The two of them didn't care if their hands were clean or there was no soup, so they grabbed and ate it. I ate several times in a row before I was full.

The vigil squatted in the latrine for half an hour, came back scolding, sat and took a nap for a while, and his stomach hurt again for half a night.

After breakfast the next day, Mama Zhu came over again to interrogate the two of them, and opened the door to see: the two of them were blue and black, foaming at the mouth, and they had been dead for a long time, so frightened that their faces were purple, and they hurried back to Mother Jia. Jia's mother became more and more frightened, and asked people to report to the official. Not long after, he rushed to inspect and found that both of them had died of arsenic. Frost poisoning, and found a blue cloth wrapper and two half-eaten steamed buns in the house, and arsenic was indeed detected in the steamed buns. Frost.

Because he called the person who kept vigil last night to ask, he suddenly felt that the kid who delivered the idea of tea was extremely suspicious. It was dark and dark, and the man couldn't remember his appearance at all, but he said that he was a little white, and he said that he seemed to have seen it in the stable. Mama Zhu hurriedly called all the boys in the stable to line up for him to see, but he looked at them carefully for a long time, and none of them were right. Mama Zhu gritted her teeth, and took Mother Jia's words and forcibly called hundreds of children up and down Rongguo Mansion, but he became more and more dizzy.

Mama Zhu had no choice but to reply to Mother Jia first, saying that "the slave is incompetent". Mother Jia comforted her a few words, but she didn't say anything, and secretly suspected that Mrs. Wang had killed people. She wanted to ask Mrs. Wang what "only the second wife knew" today, so she called her.

Mrs. Wang thought she was looking for her at first, but she heard Jia's mother ask her what Zhou Rui's house was doing that day. How did she know? Naturally, I don't know. After listening to it for a while, it seemed that something was wrong, and the old lady seemed to be suspicious of her, so she was shocked, screamed again and again, knelt down and said with tears: "Ancestor! How dare I do such a thing! At first, I heard that many of the subordinates in the palace had been robbed, but their homes were safe and sound, and I was already a little suspicious of him. I think it must be the mouth of a thief. Besides, Zhou Rui's family was my companion, and he has been by my side for more than ten years, and how many things he has done with me, even a dog can't bear it......"

Jia Mu said lightly: "So she knows too much, and your courage is not small." The man who kept vigil had laxatives in his tea, and he used my name to give medicine to people, but few people in this house dared. ”

Mrs. Wang was busy kowtowing: "Even if the daughter-in-law has the courage to take the name of the ancestor, she will never dare to risk the name of the ancestor......" Looking up, she suddenly caught a glimpse of Jia's mother's gloomy face, and couldn't help but immediately make a few poisonous oaths. Bi Jia's mother still didn't believe it, she was in a hurry, and said, "If I do such a thing that destroys the principles of heaven, I will make Baoyu fail the imperial examination!" ”

Jia Muli shouted: "Shut up! Pointing at her and scolding, "You actually swear by Baoyu's future!" What a clean person Baoyu is! ”

Mrs. Wang cried: "I have said that the five thunders will hit the top, and you will not be able to live forever, but the ancestors only don't believe it. He kowtowed again.

After a while, Jia Mu sighed: "That's it, it's not it, it's not, why bother, use Baoyu as a gimmick." Because he waved his hand and let her go down, but he still couldn't let go of his heart.

Originally, because Zhou Rui and his family knew too much about the affairs in the house, they didn't dare to hand it over to the government, but now that everyone is gone, there is nothing to prevent. On the one hand, all kinds of things of Zhou Rui's family were entrusted, and on the other hand, the mansion was carefully investigated, and the people of the mansion were panicked for a while.

Jia Cong only found out about this when he came back from school, and heard that it was a "white and pure boy, I have seen it in the stable", and glanced at Mi'er. Wu Yousheng, the son of Wu Leopard, is quite white, and his name is still taken by Jia Yu, and he occasionally goes to the stable to play a few times, but he is not from Rongguo Mansion.

The stables are also suspicious of him. It's just that the people who came to their stables never caught anything, and "Robin Hood" never lost anything that day; Second, Wu Leopard is usually generous and very popular, Wu You has a sweet mouth and loves horses, and is very likable; Third, everyone knows that Wu Leopard is Jia Amnesty's person, and Ping Su Jia Amnesty has given a lot of rewards, and the flattery of everyone in the stable is not enough, who is willing to cause trouble for him? Besides, Zhou Rui and his family were a little more proud, and they were like two masters on the shelf every day, and the people in the stable had been secretly angry for many years. So no one said anything.

The next day, the Five Cities Terracotta Division found the outer house of Zhou Rui's family and copied out a lot of belongings in it, but there were not many valuables. In fact, because the houses of the wealthy slaves were robbed one after another, their families moved all the extremely valuable ones into the mansion, which happened to be cheaper. Because the case was not solved by "Robin Hood" in the Rongguo Mansion in the past, this time they made a lot of real efforts, and soon turned out many account books and letters from under a large cabinet. Zhao Cheng saw that his scalp was numb, and after thinking for a long time, he ordered someone to take a big box to load those and personally beat the horse to Rongguo Mansion.

Jia's mother heard that there was a letter in the case, so she ordered someone to call Jia pardon and Jia Zhengdu to Rongxi Hall, Jia Lian has asked for leave to accompany her at home for the past few days, and she herself sat behind the screen, but said: "Please ask Zhao to command." ”

Zhao Cheng came in and gave up his hand again and again, only said hello, and never said anything first.

Jia Zheng hurriedly asked: "Tired adults have worked so hard, our family is very grateful. The adults came over so quickly, thinking that our family's case has a letter? ”

Zhao Cheng smiled bitterly: "The lower officials really don't know what to do, so they have to bring it all." "Because I put that box of evidence on the table with my own hands.

Jia Yu was in a hurry, so he hurriedly opened it and took a copy to read, and the more he looked at it, the darker his face became. Jia Zheng also took the book and looked at it, and immediately fell on the case in anger. And when he saw many letters, he stretched out his hand to open a few and looked, and was astonished!

Jia Mu was in a hurry behind, and hurriedly shouted to the mandarin duck: "Take some and I'll see." ”

The mandarin duck responded and came out to salute the two masters. Jia Yu sneered: "Take more and show it to the ancestors." The mandarin duck hurriedly lowered his head, took out a few letters and a few account books, and went in. Jia Zheng's face was as black as iron, and Jia Yu said sarcastically: "Mrs. Zun is so powerful. ”

Jia Mu looked at those things anxiously, and shouted in a trembling voice: "Lawless!" At this time, she already believed that Zhou Rui and his wife must have been killed by Mrs. Wang, and because she hated her for not covering her mouth, she swore by Baoyu's fame.

Jia Yu simply fished out some more and sent them to the screen: "The old ancestor took a look slowly, and took a closer look." We'll settle the score. ”

It turned out that there was evidence that Mrs. Wang and Zhou Rui were greedy for public accounts, smuggled the property of Rongguo Mansion, and took over the lawsuit. Zhou Rui is afraid that one day the East Window incident will be thrown out by Mrs. Wang as a scapegoat, and he secretly prepared it. Jia Mu has always known some of these things, and she doesn't think so, but she never thought that they were so bold and greedy for ink. I hate her for being inconsiderate, and now she is sending the evidence into the hands of the government, which is completely impossible to hide. For half a day, she walked from behind the screen on crutches and saluted Zhao Cheng in person. Zhao Cheng returned the courtesy and did not fall, saying "I don't dare".

Jia Mu said: "It's time for Lord Zhao." The old man is not good at governing the family, so that the evil slave is greedy for ink, and he deceives the upper and lower to do many things. I also hope that the adults will help to severely punish this thief and slave, and recover the stolen property in our house. ”

Zhao Cheng understood that this was to put all the blame on Zhou Rui's family. It is not surprising that it has been like this since ancient times, and it is said that it is, but it is only said that "it is all on the lower officials". He pointed to the account books and said, "I'm afraid that the lower officials will have to bring them back, otherwise it won't be easy to do." ”

Jia Mu said: "Why don't you put it in the old body for the time being, and take a look at the old body?" ”

Zhao Cheng knew that they had to do tricks and feet to get rid of the second wife's dry breath in their house, so he said with a smile: "Naturally, the old lady will take a look at it one day, send someone to sue him, and the lower official will come to fetch it in person." After saying that, he immediately said goodbye, and ran like a hot wheel under his feet.

As soon as he went out, Jia Mu sat on the right seat and ordered, "Bring them all with me." The mandarin duck hurriedly took the box over. For a while, the hall was silent, and no one even dared to cough. I don't know how long it took, Jia Mu sighed: "The arrears of the treasury will be paid by the second room, boss, what do you think?" ”

Jia Yu sneered in his heart, and snorted in his mouth: "The old lady is too biased, and the big warehouse has to be so thoughtful?" ”

Jia Mu said: "I don't know if the big warehouse was stolen by Zhou Rui's family, but in my opinion, the second family never knows." "Mother Jia understands that Mrs. Wang is not so bold to move openly, she has always only done things from the account; Second, a few days ago, she wanted to get the silver from the big treasury to pay off the money owed to the treasury, but she obviously didn't know. "Brother Feng said that the inventory of the old year is still complete, and the thieves have not stolen it for a long time, and the official family can recover it for us."

"Chase back? Do you believe in your ancestors? Jia Yu sarcastically said: "The sticks in that cold shop flew in by themselves." ”

Jia Mu ordered the mandarin duck to "give it to your lord", and said: "Look for yourself, it's not as much as the amount of silver owed." ”

Jia Yu glanced at the box, turned his head and shouted, "Lian'er, let someone investigate carefully." There are also public accounts, which may not be complete. ”

Jia Lian hurriedly responded, and came up to hug the box.

Jia Mu said again: "You just look at the account book, and those letters are left with me." ”

Jia Yu sneered: "Lian'er, didn't you hear? Your grandmother wants the letters from your second aunt to take care of the lawsuit, so pick them up and send them quickly. ”

Jia Muyin said: "Boss, you have to be forgiving and forgiving, you are originally a family, and you haven't done anything about the lawsuit." ”

Jia Yu Daqi: "I did it?" How could I not know it myself? Does the ancestor have any evidence? "Where did Jia Mu get the evidence? Fang wanted to reprimand him a few words, but pressed it down again. At this time, Jia Yu spoke again, "This time the family is here, why is she not a family when she is greedy for public accounts?" ”

Jia Mu knew that he was not happy, and she hated Mrs. Wang for being too greedy, and she had the heart to divorce her. I hated her for being too anxious, and she actually killed Zhou Rui's mouth, and the thief was really involved with the two of them, and they broke the clue when they died. It's just that now there is no way, this big family is pointing at Yuan Chun and Baoyu, what can I do if I can't bear her? And she never saw her own with those which she had removed, but only for the sake of the children.

Jia Lian couldn't care about his face at this time, so he really stood beside Jia Yu and carefully took out the letters in the box, handed one to the mandarin duck, and then handed it in. Jia Zheng seems to have opened a silk shop, with all kinds of colors, which is also interesting.

When he finally finished picking, he smiled and said to the mandarin duck: "Thank you, sister." ”

The mandarin duck was busy and returned to Jia's mother with the letter.

Mother Jia looked at them and sighed dejectedly: "From now on, the affairs of the family will be handed over to Lian's daughter-in-law and Brother Zhu's daughter-in-law." ”

Fortunately, Gong San had already expected this matter, and Jia Yu's heart became colder, and Sen Sen said: "The public account must be re-examined." ”

Mother Jia saw that his face was dark and almost turned her face, and she immediately regretted it, but she forgot that this eldest son was a bastard, and she should be more appeased, so she hurriedly said: "Brother Zhu's daughter-in-law has never been a director, let her help Feng Yatou." ”

Jia Yu nodded: "This is natural, but the public account must be re-examined." ”

Jia Mu said with tears in her eyes: "This is a family, why bother, like a black-eyed chicken, I can't wait for you to eat me, I will eat you." ”

Jia Yu sneered and said: "The old lady knows me, I have never been afraid of any dignity, whoever touches my silver, be sure to spit it out to me in the slightest, otherwise don't blame me for not knowing who has a face and who has no face." ”

Jia Mu said angrily: "Where do you put the reputation in the mansion? ”

Jia Yu said lazily: "Come again!" Since the ancestor thought that the reputation of the house was more important than the silver, why not ask the person who was greedy for ink to spit out the silver, wouldn't the reputation be preserved? ”

Jia Mu took the cane and knocked the ground twice: "You can't break up the family!" ”

Jia Yupi smiled and said: "The second child wants to split the family, but the accounts must be calculated clearly when the family is separated, if the master is missing a tael of silver, the master is not afraid of going to court." It's okay to call the whole capital to come and see. He shouted again, "Lian'er, take the account book box in your hand, we will have a lawsuit in the future, this is all evidence." ”

Jia Lian responded crisply and said, "Father, don't worry, my son will not lose one." ”

Jia Mu collapsed on the chair in a daze. One of them is her son and the other is her grandson, how can she not know? The money in the oil pot can be fished out and spent, and where there is less of their money, it is their life. It's a pity that the family has suffered a catastrophe, and even the foundation has been destroyed, this boss doesn't think that only the family can survive this catastrophe, and he just wants to get the second room, and he can't help but be disheartened. After a long time, he finally waved his hand: "That's it." "Stand up on crutches. The mandarin duck had no time in his hand, so he hurriedly motioned for Amber to step forward and help, and left.

Jia Zhengzhen's head was about to hang to the ground, and when he saw Jia's mother leaving, he had the heart to say something to Jia Yu, but he couldn't say a word for a long time, and finally hid his face and left.

As soon as he left on his front foot, Jia Cong, who had been peeping outside for a long time, slipped in, wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, and only whispered in a voice that could be heard by the whole room: "Our second uncle is really ...... There is no responsibility at all. The second aunt's matter was to let the old lady carry it for him. ”

Jia Yu snorted, and stood up with his hands behind his back: "Go, go and seal the account, so that your second aunt can repay the money." ”

Jia Cong cheered, and the grandfather swaggered to the tent.

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