Chapter 3 Catching Thieves and Taking Stolen Goods
On weekdays, Jiang Liu often went around the princess's courtyard, thinking about being able to meet the princess, and thank you for the opportunity to show up. The princess is tolerant and generous, does not say anything, and sometimes can ask for some benefits.
In the past, Lu Qiao heard that she was going to the princess again, and she must have been ridiculed, but today I don't know why, but there are some different feelings in my heart, and I can't say the words in my mouth, so I willingly obey the orders.
Seeing that Lu Qiao took a red floor-length skirt and a green thin shirt, Mo Ziyu frowned and said, "It's too bright and cheesy, take a plain piece of clothing." ”
Lu Qiao was quite surprised: "This is my favorite thing to wear on weekdays." ”
"Take it if you want to. Mo Ziyu said lightly, and asked Hongxuan to comb her a simple hairstyle and put a silver hairpin.
Green Pretty and Red Silk are full of doubts, these seven ladies like to wear red and green, there are not many jewelry, they prefer to wear them all at once, how can they dress up so plain today?
Whether it is as the concubine of the General's Mansion or the princess of the palace, Mo Ziyu has been to the Qi Mansion several times, so she found the courtyard of Princess Qi Tongzhi Courtyard.
Before he could enter the hall, he called a maid to stop outside the courtyard gate, and the maid was dignified, smiling and moaning, and her attitude was very gentle, but there was contempt in her eyes that could not be concealed.
"Mrs. Jiang go back first, the princess is resting, if there is anything, you might as well come back at another time!"
Lu Qiao also felt that her face was dull, pulled Mo Ziyu's sleeve, and whispered: "The princess doesn't want to see you, go back." ”
Jiang Liu was favored by King Qi for a night, so he thought that he could be commensurate with the princess sisters, and at the beginning, he often ran to the princess's yard, often begging for some food, clothes and jewelry, and if he met King Qi, he also licked his face and moved forward. King Qi hated her vulgarity, and gradually did not like to come to the princess's courtyard, and now the princess and the people in the princess's courtyard were annoyed when they saw her, and often closed the door and did not let her in.
Mo Ziyu smiled at the corner of her mouth, and her eyes turned slightly: "Today, Mama Liu said that I stole the bracelet rewarded by her second lady and ordered someone to turn over my house. She threatened to report the matter to the second lady and give me a good look. Mama Liu is an old man in the palace, I think that maybe this matter is really my mistake, but this matter involves the second lady, I am from a humble background, I don't know the rules, I came to ask the princess for the guilt, and I also want to ask the princess how to make amends with the second lady. ”
Qiu Tong lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment: "You are here later." ”
Mo Ziyu still knows a thing or two about the situation in King Qi's mansion, the princess Wang has been married to King Qi for ten years and has nothing to do, and she is also respectful to King Qi.
The most favored are the two ladies of the Yang family and the You family, the Yang family is strong, the You family and the Qi King are childhood sweethearts, and the only heir of the King of Qi is the fourth lady Qin, the Qin family is low-key, and only likes to worship the Buddha on weekdays, so far I don't know what she looks like.
The power of the Wang family is average, her father and brother have been degraded one after another, and she has no heirs under her knees, and her position in the palace is quite embarrassing, but fortunately, she also understands this reality, so she is low-key on weekdays, and the Yang family and the You family compete with each other.
After waiting for a while, Qiu Tong invited Mo Ziyu in.
Wang sat upright, twenty-five or sixteen years old, with a medium appearance, and a dignified atmosphere.
In Mo Ziyu's previous life, he had some friendship with this princess of Qi, this princess has a gentle temperament, but sometimes she is a little indifferent to the snow in front of the door, and she has no bad intentions on the whole.
"I've seen Sister Princess. ”
"Don't be polite. Wang smiled lightly, "How is your body recovering? There have been many things in the past few days, and I haven't visited him." ”
"Sister Princess Lao is worried, her body has improved a lot, and there is no big problem, but she has caused you trouble, and the concubine is not happy in her body and mind. Mo Ziyu lowered his eyes and said.
"You're not well, sit down first. I have a good ginseng here, you can take it back to replenish your body. ”
Jiang Liu advanced and retreated to a certain extent today, so that the Wang family was a little impressed with her today.
"Thank you for the reward, Sister Princess. ”
"I've heard everything Qiu Tong say, Mama Liu has gone too far, but she used to be a person next to the concubine, and she is an old man who has been in the palace for ten years, so you can take care of it. The princess said lightly, "I'll let someone call her and compensate you, and this matter will be over." ”
"That's not what the concubine meant......"
Before he finished speaking, he saw Qiu Tong walking into the inner report: "Princess, the second lady is here." ”
As soon as the words fell, a beautiful and tall woman broke in, twenty-four or five years old, her eyebrows and eyes were very gorgeous, like a warm rose. Yang is a well-known beauty in Beijing, if it weren't for something happened to her sister back then, she was afraid that she was also the wife of the prince and would not be a concubine for King Qi.
The Yang family is powerful and loved by the Queen Mother, so the limelight in the Qi Palace's Mansion has long overwhelmed the serious princess.
She glanced at the Wang family and said unruly: "The concubine has seen the princess. ”
Without waiting for Wang's answer, she looked at Mo Ziyu sharply, and said mockingly: "You are here to complain to the princess, and you are here to beat a rake?"
The concubine didn't understand what the second lady meant. Mo Ziyu got up and lowered his eyes and said respectfully.
Yang sat down by himself, sneered, and said sarcastically in a fierce voice: "In the end, it is a cheap maid, a bracelet that rewards people, and it also tells you to do such a thing, and you can't get on the table." But when you came to the princess, don't you really think that you can fly on the branches and become a phoenix, so you don't have to take me seriously? I just taught you a lesson two days ago, but I didn't listen to it at all!"
"Princess!" Yang glanced at Mo Ziyu with disdain, "This kind of thing should be sent out as soon as possible." I know that the princess is a kind-hearted person, and now my sister will make the decision, find someone to have a tooth, and buy it, so as not to make people laugh and lose her big teeth. ”
"The concubine is stupid, I don't know what I did to make the second lady so despised. Mo Ziyu stood up unhurriedly, "The concubine is originally a subordinate of the palace, whether she kills or sells, it is all up to the princess, but it is always clear to the concubine in her body and mind." ”
"Sure enough, with the support of the princess, they will talk back. Yang sneered and played with his red nails, "Someone will slap his mouth and sell it." ”
The Yang family has always been domineering, even the Wang family can't say anything at the moment, so he has to sigh faintly.
"Although the concubine body has not been on the jade butterfly, she has also crossed the bright road. Mo Ziyu's face was not afraid, "As the saying goes, rewards and punishments are clear, if the concubine is wrong, the second lady can only deal with it, but now the concubine does not know where the mistake is, and the second lady will dispose of it at will, which is inevitably suspected of being unfair." ”
After a pause, Mo Ziyu glanced at Mama Liu behind the Yang family, and then said: "As the saying goes, catch a thief and take stolen goods, the second lady thinks that the concubine has stolen something, but there are witnesses?
"Sister Princess, it's so lively here!" a delicate voice came, "I didn't expect the second lady to be here, it's a coincidence that I'm here!"
Mo Ziyu recognized this voice, it was the third lady of the Qi Palace, You Shi, who was medium-sized, delicate and lovely, with bright eyes and pitiful eyes.
The main owner is on the field.
Mo Ziyu naturally didn't know that with the princess's temperament, she would definitely not offend the second lady for helping herself, but there were few eyeliner of the third lady in this Tongzhi Courtyard, and I was afraid that the matter here would have already reached her ears. She may not be willing to hold grievances for herself, but she is naturally happy to be able to slap Yang's face.
The fight between the Yang family and the You family, for the princess, is just a matter of pushing the boat along the river and watching from the wall.
"I heard the voice of the second lady from afar, the second lady is so majestic, this is the princess's Tongzhi courtyard, when will it be the second lady's turn to guide the country?" You Shi wore a lake-green gauze skirt, which made her more and more beautiful, and the fan in her hand shook gently, and she glanced at her maidservant.
The handmaid took out a green bracelet from her sleeve.
You asked, "Mama Liu, is this the bracelet you lost?"
"I guess you didn't show off to me the day before yesterday?" said the maidservant.
"How could this bracelet end up on your hand?" Yang asked in a cold voice with a frown.
"Hey, if I don't come here today, Second Madam, I'm afraid you'll be deceived by this old slave. You Shi shook the fan and shook his head slightly, "The son of this old slave gambled with others, and when he lost, he took his mother's bracelet away." The old slave found that the bracelet was missing, so he accused Mrs. Jiang of stealing it. I don't want to think about it, Mrs. Jiang is carried out of your second lady's yard with a bloody face, and has been recuperating in bed, where do you have the kung fu to steal your things? Not to mention that this bracelet is of average quality, if she likes such bracelets, why not give her a few, can she steal them?"
"Mama Liu, what's going on!" Yang's face sank and he shouted.
Mama Liu's face changed, and she knelt on the ground in fright: "This old slave doesn't know that this bracelet was taken by my unsuccessful son, but he only knows that the bracelet is a reward from his wife, and he can't lose it, so he is anxious, he just wants to find it back quickly, and he doesn't think so much! If Mrs. Jiang can let the old slave search, the old slave will not misunderstand Mrs. Jiang!"
"You old slave, it's shameless to want to blame others for your mistakes!" You Shi raised his voice, "Framing the master, this one mistake;
"The old slave didn't dare to deceive Madame, the old slave was really anxious, and he didn't think so much!" Mama Liu hurriedly defended, "The old slave knew that she was wrong, and begged Madame to be lenient." ”
"You don't have the courage to deceive me, and you will only make mistakes when you think of the things I reward, in the end, I still put my master in my heart, punish you for half a month, and think about it for three days behind closed doors. "No matter what, the Yang family should always make his face passable, and if he is angry in his heart, he will admit that Mama Liu is guilty, which is to sweep his own face.
"Princess, the second lady's punishment of Mama Liu is too light!" Mo Ziyu said, "If those who make mistakes do not get the punishment they deserve, and those who keep to themselves are not protected, then who wants to be a good person in this mansion in the future?"
That's not bad. A man with eyes like jade and eyes like a torch entered the room with his hands in his hands, and his voice was low and steady, "Rewards and punishments should be clear, remember to have a bowl of water level, how many disasters are caused by unfair rewards and punishments." Today seems to be a trivial matter, but tomorrow the people below will learn the same, won't this palace become a mess?"
"I've seen the prince!" "The ladies in the house all greeted Liu Xu, the king of Qi.
"Let's all be flat. Liu Xu disliked the hem of the robe, sat down on the left side of the Wang family, and his gestures were all extravagant, "Although Mama Liu is an old man in the palace, she must be punished for violating the family rules. The affairs of the inner court are in charge of the princess, and the matter will be left to you to deal with. ”
Yang lowered his head and was silent, You looked like he was watching a good show, the princess looked a little embarrassed, thought about it and said: "Although Mama Liu has violated the family rules, she has also worked hard over the years, so it's good, playing 20 boards and fining a year's monthly money is a small punishment and a big commandment, if it is a reciprocal offense, it will never be spared!"
Liu Xu's handsome face didn't show joy or anger, but his thick black sword eyebrows raised slightly: "That's it?"