Chapter 42 Killing Chickens to Serve as an Example to Monkeys, East and Mulberry Elms
Gangnam is different from Gangbei, which has a fixed place for picking up people and handling family affairs, that is, the main hall, while Gangnam does not.
Most of the residences of the Jiangnan families are garden-style, but the style of the buildings is different, so the hospitality places are different depending on the seasonal weather.
Rong Zhengtang was established with reference to the customs of Jiangbei. Usually, if there is anything in the courtyards of Rong Mansion, they will close the door and solve it by themselves, and they will never ask other courtyards to see the jokes, let alone Shangrong Zhengtang.
Once you go to Rong Zhengtang, it means that the matter is so serious that it needs to involve the entire Rong Mansion.
As soon as Rong Jingyu entered the door, he felt an unprecedented solemn atmosphere. The masters and maids of the various courtyards who had just gathered yesterday got together again today, but the smiles on their faces turned into different thoughts, and even their fathers, who had never been involved in the affairs of the back house, were unexpectedly present, which Rong Jingyu did not expect.
Old Madam Rong nodded slightly to Rong Jingyu, and nodded at the position next to Lan Qinxi, "Jingyu, come, sit down." ”
Rong Jingyu glanced at the woman who was kneeling in the hall, her head lowered, and couldn't see clearly, and walked to the position. Her position is excellent, sandwiched between her mother and Rong Lanhua, which is just convenient for her to observe.
After Rong Jingyu sat down, she looked at Rong Lanhua without a trace, and found that her face was a little pale, her eyes were slightly dodgy, and she didn't dare to look at anyone in the venue for too long, and her father and grandmother didn't dare to look at each other for even a second.
Her mother, on the other hand, had a calm face and could not see anything.
It's just that Rong Lanhua is enough, Rong Jingyu believes that she can see it, it is impossible for her grandmother not to notice it, and what Rong Jingyu wants is precisely this awareness.
No one cared about the life or death of that maid, including Rong Jingyu. Since this woman came out to apologize for Rong Lanhua, whether she is innocent or not, whether she is willing or forced, it proves that she is from Rong Lanhua's side, and Rong Jingyu has always shown no mercy to the enemy.
"After investigation, it was you who stopped the eldest lady's letter, do you have any objection to this?" Mrs. Rong was routinely interrogated.
All eyes in the room are on the middle of the lobby.
The woman knelt silently, without admitting her guilt or refutation, if it weren't for the heaving of her chest to prove that she was still alive, Rong Jingyu would have thought that this was a puppet.
Mama Jiang's tense body relaxed, and Lan Qinxi breathed a sigh of relief silently.
Rong Jingyu didn't report hope at first, so he couldn't talk about disappointment, but it wasn't the case on the other side.
Seeing this scene, Lian Wanhan looked away in disappointment, and was excited about the next process.
Old Madam Rong frowned, and said coldly: "I thought that the incident of a year ago would teach you a lesson, but I didn't expect you to become more and more bold, and even the eldest lady's letters dared to intercept privately. ”
When Mrs. Rong said this, her eyes kept looking at Rong Lanhua, and Rong Lanhua's move had already touched her bottom line!
Rong Lanhua was both aggrieved and angry, but more fearful and resentful......
Old Madam Rong looked at everyone present with different expressions, a trace of coldness flashed in her eyes, and she said decisively: "Someone! ”
"In!" The two family members, who had been waiting outside, heard the news and immediately ran in.
Old Madam Rong got up from her chair, and Rong Hanmo followed suit. The two most powerful people in the palace stood up, and how could the others dare to sit? Under the leadership of Lan Qinxi, all of them stood up straight.
"Drag this down and beat the fifty boards, and then expel him from the house to make an example!"
Everyone changed color in unison, Lan Qinxi's face was ugly, she didn't expect that her mother would not give her half face this time. These fifty boards are fifty sticks that are not mixed with a trace of water! It's just a strong man who has to be cut open and unconscious after being beaten by so many sticks, let alone a woman!
Lian Wanhan and the others knew that the old lady was really determined to come and beat them, and this time it was definitely not as easy to fool them as before, but they were afraid that everyone in the courtyard would have to take off a layer of skin!
Realizing this, Rao is as cold as Wang Nan, and he also has an opinion about everyone on Lanqinxi's side.
The woman's nerves seemed to be touched by such a punishment, and Broken Jade, who had been silent all along, suddenly resisted violently!
Lan Qinxi's previous face hadn't eased up, but it had changed again!
"Old lady, broken jade didn't privately stop the eldest lady's letter, ask the old lady to see it!" Broken Jade struggled violently, and the two family members were able to break out by her for a while.
Rong Jingyu finally knew the name of this person, but 'broken jade'? She raised an eyebrow, she couldn't think of anyone else who would take such a name except her sister.
Broken Yu knelt down violently, and the sound of her knees colliding with the ground was heard by others, and they all hurt for her, but she didn't hesitate for a minute, and just knelt down and kowtowed hard, five or six down, and the skin on her forehead had been broken by her, but she didn't seem to know the pain.
Blood flowed out of the broken jade's forehead, the two concubines hurriedly covered the child's eyes, Lan Qinxi also wanted to cover Rong Lanhua's eyes, but there was a Rong Jingyu in between, and the moment she saw Rong Jingyu, she retracted her hand.
Rong Lanhua looked at the broken jade who kept kowtowing with a pale face, she saw blood only twice, and it was all on Rong Jingyu, she hated Rong Jingyu, of course she didn't feel anything, but the broken jade was different, she knew that the broken jade was for her, thinking of the way her grandmother looked at her before, she felt like she was immersed in ice water.
The old lady was determined to kill the chicken and make an example of the monkey, and she didn't pay attention to the pleading of the broken jade at all, and the broken jade begged for a long time and did not see the old lady moved, and she realized it, and pinned her last hope on Rong Lanhua.
Rong Lanhua avoided her eyes in a panic, just looking at each other for a short moment, her neck was like being strangled by a rope, thinking of the feeling of suffocation, she ran behind Mama Jiang in fear.
Broken Jade is desperate, she is not afraid of being punished, but she also has an elderly and weak old mother and two younger brothers at home......
Mama Jiang hugged Rong Lanhua, afraid that the broken jade would fight back, so she said angrily to the two family members: "What are you doing?" Don't drag people down yet! The house has really raised you for nothing all these years, and you can't even do this kind of trivial thing! ”
The two family members were scolded by her, and they suppressed the unhappiness in their hearts, and stepped forward to drag people.
Broken Jade looked at everyone in the hall with resentment, and let the family drag him up, that look made everyone present chill, as if the person in front of him was no longer a person, but a terrible ghost who asked for his life!
Rong Jingyu's eyes narrowed, he moved, and took advantage of the opportunity to shake and look.