"Yes...... Aunt Nanqiu. Mo Er lowered her head and replied, her hands unconsciously behind her back, her action made Shui Xiu even more suspicious, and remembered that Mo Er had been deliberately curling up her hands since just now, frowning and saying, "Stretch out your hand." ”

Mo Er's expression changed, but her hand was hidden deeper behind her back, and she refused to take it out no matter what Shui Xiu said, this look was obviously a ghost in her heart, Shui Xiu forcibly pulled her hand, broke her tightly curled fingers, and shouted in her mouth: "Don't let go of your hand yet!" ”

"Don't!" Mo Er said in fright and fear, clasped his fingers and refused to let go, when the two were pulling and struggling, Mo Er's hand shook, something fell from the curled palm, Shui Xiu's eyes were sharp, and he immediately squatted down and picked it up from the carpet, but it was a jade bead with a green body, Shui Xiu looked familiar, stared at it for a while and finally recognized it, isn't this the bead on the jade chain that the master accidentally tore off when he got up in the morning? How could it be in Moer's hands? Don't......

Shui Xiu walked quickly to the dresser and opened one of the agarwood boxes, and it was these jade beads that were contained in it, because there were so many of them, even if someone took a few of them, they couldn't see it.

Shui Xiu already understood the reason why Mo Er appeared here, and shouted: "You are so bold, you dare to steal your master's things!" ”

"I didn't!" Mo Er shook her hand in a panic, as her palm accidentally opened, more beads fell from her palm, and it was roughly estimated that there were at least four or five, and now she was even more panicked, and stammered: "These are me, I picked them up from the ground, and I didn't touch the beads in the box, Sister Shuixiu, believe me, I really didn't steal it." ”

Shui Xiu sneered and said: "Shui Yue and I have already picked it up when it fell to the ground, and even if there is really a miss, there will be only one or two at most, how can there be so many." Mo'er, you are really a thief, you even dare to steal the master's things, today is a jade bead, so what was yesterday and before? ”

"Not really!" Mo Er's face turned red, and he pointed to a corner under the dresser and said, "That's where I picked it up, a total of five, Sister Shui Xiu, I really didn't lie to you, please believe me!" ”

"Hmph, it's still making up words. At the beginning, you had to follow you into the palace with a dead face, so that you knew what it was. Mo Er usually complains in front of people that the monthly money in the palace is not enough, saying that he will go out of the palace in the future to have a sad and comfortable life, this palace is originally a place for words, Shui Xiu naturally heard about it, but everyone was doing things in the same place before, Shui Xiu pretended not to know the way, so as not to hurt each other's harmony, but now that Mo Er has made this kind of stealing, the original love is naturally gone.

"You don't have to say anything, I'll tell my master about it." Shui Xiu turned her head and left, just about to take a step, her legs were hugged by someone, the person who hugged her was Mo'er, I saw her begging bitterly: "Sister Shui Xiu, don't, please, don't, this bead is indeed what I picked up, the most...... At most, I'll give it back to you. ”

"If you do something wrong, you should be punished, and remember that you should think about the consequences before you do something you shouldn't do." Shui Xiu glanced at Mo Er in disgust, and couldn't break free after a few hard breaks, and couldn't help but shout angrily: "Hurry up and let go!" ”

"Don't, Sister Shui Xiu, if you let the master know, she will definitely drive me out of the palace, I ...... I haven't saved enough money, and I'll be hungry and poor like I used to be, so you should have pity on me, and don't make this matter public, okay? Mo Er couldn't care about anything else, she just desperately wanted Shui Xiu to hide this matter, and she never wanted to suffer a second time after suffering before.

It's a pity, no matter how much she begs, it's useless, in Shui Xiu's heart, the interests of the master are even more important than herself, not to mention that Mo Er is determined to steal, how can she leave a person with unclean hands and feet in the palace. As the saying goes, thieves are hard to change, and there will be fifteen when you have the first day of junior high school.

"Shui Xiu, you haven't been out of the stove for so long?" Just when the two were at a stalemate, Nanqiu walked in with a curtain, and when he saw Mo Er kneeling on the ground, he looked stunned and said in surprise: "What's the matter, what are you doing kneeling on the ground for no reason?" ”

Shui Xiu sneered: "What is unprovoked, this slave has unclean hands and feet, and he stole the master's jade beads, and I happened to be caught by me, and he was about to return to his master." ”

"Auntie, I didn't." Mo Er hurriedly defended himself, "I just heard that the master's chain was broken, so I wondered if a few grains would fall on the ground and not pick them up, so I came here to pick up the beads, and I really didn't steal them." Auntie, you have to trust me. ”

"Whoever is a thief will admit it." Shui Xiu didn't believe her words at all, "Auntie, don't listen to her rhetoric, pull her away quickly, I'll go to the master." ”

Nanqiu nodded, stepped forward and dragged Mo Er away, looking at the back of Shui Xiu leaving, Mo Er couldn't help crying, she really didn't steal, no one wanted to believe her for anything!

Nanqiu looked at Mo Er's gaze with sympathy, after all, Mo Er could be said to have been brought out by her, and she had some feelings. But that's all, the last thing you need in the palace is sympathy, not to mention that this matter is indeed Mo'er's mistake, and if you make a mistake, you should be punished, which is a matter of course.

Let's say that Ling Ruo was both surprised and angry after getting Shui Xiu's return in the front hall, not to mention the palace, even in the palace, there has never been a prison guard stealing. She has been gracious to Mo Er many times, originally the two met in Pingshui, and there was no deep friendship, not to mention bringing her back to Beijing all the way, and agreeing to let her enter the palace, even if this kind of kindness is not repaid, at least it should not be repaid with resentment.

"Master, there really isn't a slave." Mo Er knelt on the ground and kowtowed like pounding garlic, her face was full of tears, she couldn't remember how many times she had defended herself, but no one wanted to believe it, would the master believe it? Moll didn't have the slightest faith.

Ling Ruo took care of the few beads that Shui Xiu had brought up, his expression was cloudy, and it was not until Mo Er knocked on his head that he was bleeding, and then said softly: "You don't need to kowtow, get up." ”

Mo Er was overjoyed, raised his head and said, "Master, do you believe that the slave is innocent?" This joy lasted only for a moment before turning into a deeper and more helpless despair, as she saw Ling Ruo shaking his head, and the pearl step shook his cheeks with a cold light.

"To steal is to be a thief; Pick up, is for greed. Either way, it's not the slave that this palace needs. Ling Ruo's words were tantamount to sentencing Mo Er to death, because she didn't even care about the truth anymore.

"Don't! Master, please spare the slave and the maid this time, the slave and the maid will definitely abide by their duties in the future, and will never do anything that dislikes the master. If the slave and maid go out of the palace, there is no relatives to run to, and there is no place to live, and they will really starve to death on the street. Mo Er kowtowed in fear, as if as long as she kept kowtowing, Ling Ruo would spare her.