Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Nail Polish Storm
What you see, what you hear, is not the truth of the matter.
So what's the truth of the matter?
Did you not see it and hear it?
So who knows?
The corners of Shen Qingli's mouth curved, she lowered her head and stroked her slender fingers, smiled self-deprecatingly, her eyes fell on the two boxes of nail polish on the dresser, she reached out and took it, looked over and over again, she didn't expect that someone would give her a return gift for the gift she gave out, and the person who returned the gift turned out to be Aunt Tian.
It's incredible!
Aunt Tian is in the eyes of everyone, but she is the person who doesn't know how to be polite.
Raising his hand, he beckoned to Ah Hua, who was standing at the door, and asked her to come and help her paint her nails.
I haven't used ancient nail polish yet!
Ah Hua ran over and painted her nails with a clear eye, the two boxes of nail polish were bright red, and they looked particularly good on the pink slender nails, and Ah Hua was stunned: "Young lady, your hands are so beautiful." β
"It's not that my hands look good, it's that my nail polish looks good, right?" Shen Qingli smiled and said, "The only person who can make nail polish so authentic is Aunt Tian." β
"I heard that the shop left by the shopkeeper Tian to Aunt Tian is a rouge shop, and Aunt Tian has a lot of good things there." Bi Tao was carefully wiping the window in the outer suite with a rag, and when she heard her say this, she probed and said, "By the way, young lady, I also heard from that lark in Lixiangyuan, saying that Aunt Tian has been drinking some beauty soup recently!" β
"Women are pleasing to themselves! Aunt Tian is being favored now! Speaking of which, although that Aunt Tian is only twenty-five years old, she looks similar to herself, which shows that she still has a good look.
As he was talking, Ah Hua, who was squatting on the ground and painting his nails, suddenly covered his mouth and ran out, vomiting with a wow.
Shen Qingli and Bi Tao couldn't help but look at each other.
A thought came to the minds of the two people at the same time, could she ......
No way!
After a moment, I saw Ah Hua walking in quickly with a basin of water, grabbed Shen Qingli's hand and pressed it into the water without saying anything, and said urgently: "Young lady, quickly wash your hands out, this nail polish has the fragrance of furnace ash and poison." β
"Ah Hua, what is the incense of furnace ash?" Shen Qingli asked suspiciously, and hurriedly washed the two fingers that had just been painted, and the water in the copper basin suddenly turned a light pink.
Although Bi Tao didn't know what the furnace ash incense was, when she heard Ah Hua say this, she hurriedly took a cloth towel to help her dry her hands, and said angrily: "I didn't expect Aunt Tian to be so despicable and want to harm the young lady." β
"Young Mrs. Hui, this gray incense is a kind of chronic poison and medicine that can make people inert." Ah Hua said clearly, "Young lady don't need to panic, this furnace ash incense has to be used for a long time to be effective, and the young lady has painted two nails, which will not have any effect on the body." β
"How do you know there's burn ash in this nail polish?" Shen Qingli was a little surprised.
"Don't hide it from the young lady, the slave's mother used to be an old, bustard, and the slave and maid followed her mother to prepare sachets with ash incense for the girls when she was a child, and she was very sensitive to this smell." Ah Hua smiled innocently, "Although the smell of the stove ash incense in this nail polish is covered by the fragrance of flowers, which is not easy to detect, but the slave still smells it." β
"Young lady, this matter is not trivial, do you want to tell Mrs. SΓΉ about this matter?" Bi Tao is still angry.
"I don't think Aunt Tian knows about this." Shen Qingli looked at Bi Tao and Ah Hua, and said in a deep voice, "I have no suspicion with Aunt Tian, why would she harm me?" Besides, if she really wants to hurt me, she won't send it herself, right? β
Aunt Tian is not a fool!
Besides, Aunt Tian really has no reason to harm her.
It's Xia who can't get along with her.
"Also, when Aunt Tian came to deliver nail polish, the slave happened to meet her at the door, and she repeatedly said that she made it herself!" Bi Tao also calmed down when she heard Shen Qingli say this.
"Bi Tao, you go to the study and invite Aunt Cui." Shen Qingli commanded, Cui Gu is proficient in medical skills, and she can be trusted.
In case, Ah Hua is mistaken.
Wouldn't that be embarrassing.
Bi Tao understood and took the order.
Cui Gu looked at it, and said with a calm face: "There is indeed an incense of furnace ash inside. At the end, he looked at Bi Tao again, and said coldly, "Miss Bi Tao, you should be cautious about using the things that are sent in from outside in the future, it's best to take them over to let me see, the clothes that the prince gave to the young lady yesterday, Gong Si also deliberately took it to me to see, just worried that someone would do something on the way." β
"I was careless, too." Shen Qingli frowned, it was just a box of nail polish, who would have thought that there would be so many mysteries, and that dress, Aunt Cui had also seen it, no wonder she said that to her last night, it turned out that she knew that the prince had given her a gift, so she enlightened herself like this, sweat!
"Ah Hua, you go to Lixiangyuan to invite Aunt Tian and say that I will invite her to tea." Shen Qingli had a bottom in his heart.
After a while, two figures flashed outside the window.
A crisp voice came in first: "Second young lady, please drink tea, it's really an honor for the concubine." β
Aunt Tian walked in like a gust of wind, and after saluting each other, they sat down separately.
"I think I have no grievances with my aunt, but I don't know why my aunt wants to harm me?" Shen Qingli sank his face, pushed the nail polish in front of him on the desk, and pretended to be angry and said, "Aunt Tou can figure out that she added furnace ash incense to nail polish to harm me, and now Aunt Cui is also there, the evidence is conclusive, what does Aunt have to say?" β
"Second Young Madame, what are you talking about?" Aunt Tian stood up in confusion, and saw that the expressions of the people in the room were solemn, and she hurriedly said, "What kind of ash incense?" Haven't you heard of the concubine? β
Cui Gu picked up the tea, took a sip gently, and said, "Hmph, you don't know who knows, you said that the nail polish was made by yourself, not by you, who else?" β
"No way, absolutely impossible." Only then did Aunt Tian come to her senses, she rushed forward with an arrow, took the two boxes in her hands, opened the lid, wiped them on her hands, gritted her teeth and said, "I hate to mix people behind my back, so I will prove to you that my nail polish is made of impatiens and alum, and there is nothing." β
Shen Qingli hurriedly got up and walked in front of her, took the box in her hand, and sighed: "Auntie, if I really doubt my aunt, do I still need to call my aunt here?" I did this just to give my aunt a heads-up. β
"The second young lady is saying that the people around me did it?" Aunt Tian's heart suddenly shuddered, no wonder, it was obvious that Mu Changyuan often stayed with her, but she had never been pregnant, the reason why she did not pay attention to it was because she felt that she was still young, and it didn't matter if she was two years late, if she was really pregnant, she would not be able to serve Mu Changyuan.
It turned out that she couldn't conceive a child at all.
Bai Ling is Mu Changyuan's person, so he shouldn't.
But that Mama Lan, it's hard to say, in the three months that she was punished to Zhuangzi, that Mama Xu even went to see Mama Lan again and again, and the relationship between the two was very good.
And that Mama Xu needless to say, is a person from the Su family.
If there is no one to instruct her, that Mama Lan is tired of living and dares to calculate her.
Got it, got it!
Aunt Tian stepped forward and grabbed the two boxes of nail polish, and said angrily: "I'm going to find Mrs. Tai, Mrs. is the main room, can she frame the concubine like this and cover the sky with one hand?" With that, he strode out.
The people in the room were stunned for a moment.
She's too impulsive!
"Auntie, don't be impulsive." Shen Qingli got up and walked quickly to Aunt Tian to stop her, and said in a low voice, "Mrs. Tai is worried about the master's affairs, Aunt still don't go over to disturb her, I think it's better to leave this matter to Mrs. to investigate." β
If this matter is handed over to Mrs. Tai to investigate, Su will leave herself clean, but if Su Shi is allowed to investigate by herself, then she will have to give an explanation, at least, she has to find a scapegoat.
"Give it to Madame?" Aunt Tian was stunned for a moment, "If you hand it over to her, you won't find out anything, but it will cover up the past." β
"Madame is the head of the house, and she will never let this matter go." Shen Qingli said, whispered a few words in her ear, and said with a light smile, "Auntie, don't worry, I'll go with my aunt." β
Cui Gu looked at Shen Qingli quietly, and saw that there was a sly smile on her beautiful and moving face, and she couldn't help but have the corners of her mouth slightly curled, and followed everyone into Yiqing Garden silently.
"Madam, the concubine is wronged!" As soon as she entered the door, Aunt Tian hurriedly knelt down in front of the Su family, told her what had happened, and said, "Madam, the concubine thought in her heart that the second young lady had been rewarded, and gave the concubine a flower hairpin, so she gave the second young lady two boxes, which was also regarded as a gift exchange, but she was so misunderstood by the second young lady, the concubine is really difficult to distinguish, and she is the master of the concubine body." β
Shen Qingli blessed the Su family, and said angrily: "Mother, Aunt Tian is really a wicked person who sued first, these two boxes of nail polish were obviously sent to Qingxin Yuan by Aunt Niang herself, and now this nail polish is mixed with furnace ash incense, and I found out, Auntie is embarrassed to say that she was wronged?" Could it be that I put this ash incense into it myself? β
"Madam, there is indeed furnace ash incense in these two boxes of nail polish, if Madame doesn't believe it, you can ask the doctor to come and see it." Cui Gu also stepped forward and said.
Su Shi sat on the big kang by the window, quietly listening to the woman in front of him and I talking one by one, and generally understood a little in his heart, and pinched his brows: "No need, I can trust Cuigu." He turned his head to Mama Xu and said, "Mama Xu, go and bring me all the people from Lixiangyuan." β
"Mother, when the daughter-in-law came, she had already brought all the people from Lixiangyuan, and she was just outside the door." Shen Qingli hurriedly said, "What's the matter today, my aunt has to give an explanation to my daughter-in-law." β
That, in fact, she also sent someone to call Mu Changyuan too.
He's fine at home anyway, just in time for him to see how his beloved woman is being calculated.
"Then bring it in!" Su Shi gasped, a trace of displeasure flashed in his eyes, who made you so diligent.
"Ma'am." Bai Ling and Mama Lan stepped forward respectfully to salute.
Su Shi was just about to ask, but when he saw the curtain shaking again, Mu Changyuan walked in expressionlessly, touching the woman kneeling on the ground, and couldn't help but feel a little troubled in his heart.
"Father." Shen Qingli hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.
"Sir." Aunt Tian knelt on the ground and looked at him pitifully.
"Get up and speak." Mu Changyuan frowned, when he came, he generally knew what was going on, and at the moment, he couldn't say anything for a while, just sat there with a cold face and didn't say a word.
"Bailing, Mama Lan, have you seen these two boxes of nail polish?" Su Shi glanced at Mama Lan, coughed lightly, and asked.
"Mrs. Hui, the slave knows, this is made by our aunt herself, and I sent two boxes to the second young lady yesterday." Mama Lan understood and replied respectfully.
Bai Ling also echoed and said yes.
Mu Changyuan couldn't help frowning slightly, looked at Tian suspiciously, and a thought passed through his heart, could it be that she and Erlang's daughter-in-law had any suspicions on weekdays?
"Tian, what else do you have to say?" Su Shi looked at her coldly, and said expressionlessly, "You also admit that you sent it to Qingxin Yuan yourself, how do you explain the furnace ash incense here?" Could it be that Erlang's daughter-in-law can frame you?"
"Don't hide it from Madame, the fat powder used by the concubine is all prepared by herself, and this nail polish is just two boxes that the concubine took with her." Aunt Tian turned her head and smiled at Mama Lan, "At that time, did I ask Mama to help me get these two boxes of nail polish?" β
"Exactly." Mama Lan replied casually.
"Madam, Lixiangyuan is not far from Qingxin Garden, did I poison it on the road?" Tian asked rhetorically.
"You know what you have done yourself, and now that the evidence is ironclad, what are you still quibbling about?" Su Shi slapped the table angrily, pointed at Tian, and said sharply, "I originally thought that you had stayed in Zhuangzi for three months, and you knew that you had repented, but I didn't expect that your nature is difficult to change, and you dare to frame the second young lady, how can the master and I tolerate you?" βR1152