Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Jade Crown
"Auntie, this time, you can go."
Mrs. An looked at this Qu Miaoling steadily, and the other party couldn't stop blinking her eyes, looking a little cunning.
"What are you trying to do?"
"I really can't hide it from you, I want to invite you to watch a show."
After Mrs. An agreed, Qu Miaoling came to Min Tian's courtyard with Mrs. An.
Min Tian is in a very good state now, under the treatment of Taiyi Li, a miracle doctor, Min Tian's legs are getting better day by day, and the congestion that has been pressing on the cranial nerves has also dispersed a lot, and as for the headache, it has completely disappeared.
Now Min Tian can be said to be refreshed, and everything he eats is fragrant.
Mrs. An was finally relieved, looking at her son who was suffering a lot, she said rarely: "Your second cousin also worked hard before, and I want to take this opportunity to let him rest well." ”
As soon as Mrs. An's words fell, there was a sound of ghosts crying and wolf howling in Min Tian's room.
Qu Miaoling was startled, and was about to rush in, but was grabbed by Mrs. An's wrist.
"Miao Ling, don't go in."
"But—"
"I really don't need to, your second cousin has been practicing walking for most of the day since his leg has been healed, and his leg is swollen and doesn't stop, Doctor Li can explain, just move appropriately, if it is excessive, it may aggravate the condition."
"So you're going to find someone to tie your second cousin to the bed?" Qu Miaoling stared at the group of subordinates who came out of Min Tian's room, and they were still carrying hemp ropes as thick as two thumbs in their hands.
She grunted in her throat.
can imagine the tragic situation of Min Tian in the Daoli House, Qu Miaoling laughed out without giving face.
The laughter came into the house, and Min Tian yelled, "Miao Ling, isn't it, you are here, save the second cousin!" ”
Qu Miaoling couldn't help but laugh into Jingwu, and saw Min Tian, who was tied up and couldn't move.
Afraid that he would catch a cold, Min Tian was still covered with a thin quilt, and after his struggle, the rope didn't know how to tie the knot, and it became tighter and tighter.
Min Tian blushed and asked Qu Miaoling to untie it for him, and after being ruthlessly rejected, he murmured unlovingly, "The taste of being betrayed and separated from relatives is not good!" ”
Qu Miaoling laughed again.
"But how did I hear that during your illness, you also made friends who died?"
Min Tian twisted away arrogantly, unwilling to talk to Qu Miaoling, a traitor.
"Okay, my aunt and cousins are also for your good, look at your legs, you just don't want it, don't you?"
Qu Miaoling spoke bitterly, but Min Tian didn't appreciate it at all.
"You're still not my sister anymore, even the king of the county is better than you!"
During Min Tian's illness, Situ Huaizhu came to visit many times, but each time he would cleverly diverge from the time Qu Miaoling came.
Even Min Tian couldn't help but be amazed.
"I used to want to be a matchmaker for you and the king of the county, but now it seems that the fate of the two of you is simply simple, he walks on the front foot and you come on the back foot, or he won't come together, hehe-"
Looking at his brother's mocking appearance, Qu Miaoling thought in his heart: Is it such a coincidence?
Leaving the Jingkang Hou Mansion, Qu Miaoling, who lived in the carriage, couldn't help but think back to the few times he had met Situ Huaiju.
One by one, one by one, it skimmed through my mind like a marquee.
If this is fate, then it should be fate!
Qu Miaoling forced herself not to think about it, but thinking that it was disobedient and had to go at her own pace.
In the end, Qu Miaoling also gave up.
Forget it, just think about it, it's not a big deal!
Back at the Hou Mansion, Qu Miaoling returned to his courtyard.
It didn't take long for her to be called away by the maid in the front yard, saying that something had happened in the front yard.
Something went wrong?
Qu Miaoling was not flustered, she guessed what was going on in her heart, but her feet were speeding up.
Come to the front yard.
The old lady, Wu Dehou, Qu Chensi and Wen are all seated.
On the tray of the maid in the center, there is a broken jade crown.
"What the hell is this!"
Wen's face turned pale.
"Wen, now that everyone has arrived, you can say it!"
Qu Miaoling went to the Jingkang Marquis Mansion in the afternoon, so she didn't know that the old lady wanted to prepare a gift for her only grandson, but when she opened the warehouse, she saw that the jade crown that the old marquis gave to the old lady was actually cracked.
Just by looking at the lines, you know that they are broken.
The old lady was furious, and called Wu Dehou, who was drinking flower wine outside, back.
"Mother, what's wrong!"
Seeing that the old lady was furious, Wu Dehou sobered up a little.
Wen was sincerely frightened, and he got drunk repeatedly, "Master, this jade crown is broken, and the concubines don't know it!" ”
Wen pleaded.
Only then did Wu Dehou look at the jade crown, and conspicuous cracks lay across it.
Wu Dehou was taken aback, "Mother, isn't this a gift from your father?" How's that? ”
"Now it's time to ask your good wife!" The old lady snorted coldly.
"Wen, what the hell is going on!"
Wu Dehou yelled.
Then, he shouted, "Call everyone in the Hou Mansion to me, I want to see who is so bold!" ”
So there was the scene where Qu Miaoling and Jiang Jingjing were called.
The two met in front of the front hall, and after each glanced at each other, they sat down on their front and back feet.
"Father, what's going on, such a big battle?"
Qu Miaoling asked again.
"You ask her!" Wu Dehou snorted.
"Mother, this is—"
was frightened by Wu Dehou, Wen immediately knelt down, Qu Chensi followed to kneel, and was quickly dragged by the nurse next to him.
"Madame, free solution."
said such a sentence in Qu Chensi's ear, and the difficult little master stopped.
"Wen, you are guilty!"
The old lady sat on top, and she looked at Wen with a condensed face.
"Old lady, the concubine really doesn't know!"
Seeing that Wen was about to cry out in mourning, there was no one present to help her speak.
Gently leaned into Qu Miaoling's ear and told her the whole story, and she understood.
The old lady wanted to give Qu Chensi a birthday gift, but this thing has been kept in the private vault of the house, and when she opened it today, she found that the things inside were broken.
This is something given by the old marquis, the old lady is careful to take out her face and look at it, now the thing is broken, no wonder the old lady is angry.
Opposite Qu Miaoling, Jiang Jingjing looked at Wen's embarrassed appearance, and couldn't help but smile in her heart.
Before she could make a move, this Wen was more than reprimanded, and it seemed that this Wen family's good days were coming to an end.
Jiang Jingjing thought so.
"Master Hou, this thing has been kept in the private warehouse, Xu Xu is the watchman who left his post without permission, and it is possible that the farmer has broken it."
Qu Miaoling said "empathetic".
Qu Miaoling helped Wen speak, but the other party did not thank her.
In this regard, Qu Miaoling only shrugged her shoulders, anyway, she didn't really help her, even if she thanked herself, she wouldn't accept it.
Not long after, the steward was escorted over.
"Say, what's going on with this jade crown!" Wen shouted angrily.
"Madam, the minions don't know!" The steward's eyes widened, and he almost cried at the sight of the shattered jade crown.
Such a valuable thing cannot be damaged by the old lady's thousand instructions, and he will not dare to touch it if he is given a thousand dares.
"You should know who has entered the private treasury in the past few days!"
"Except for the old lady's people, no!" The steward really cried.
A few days ago, the old lady sent someone over to take a look at this jade crown, but only a few days later, this good thing cracked.
The old lady was furious, and in the end, she cried.
"Old Marquis, you better take me away, leave me alone in this mansion, what's the point! I'm so old that I can't even look at my own stuff! ”
The old lady gave Wen's eye medicine around the corner, and Wu Dehou listened to the old lady's complaint and was furious.
"Say, did you break this jade crown?"
Wu Dehou continued to ask the person in charge, and the other party kowtowed again and again, and the ground was stained with blood.
But still found nothing, Wu Dehou was furious, and asked people to stay in charge and interrogate him strictly.
The person in charge was dragged away, and Wen also panicked.
She opened her mouth to explain, but the words she spat out were nonsensical.
"Master, concubine—"
"Master Hou, Wen's has been the head of the house for many years, and the house has been safe and stable, why did Miao Ling come back, and Wen's left the family affairs? Stirring up the smoke and miasma of the Hou Mansion, what kind of heart does she have to say! The old lady reprimanded repeatedly, and the Wen family, who was in the wrong, could only bear it.
Wen's heart, who was kneeling on the ground at this moment, was also in a mess.
Didn't she just bring her son to ask for a reward? How did it become like this now?
"Master Hou, this jade crown is cracked, the problem must be in the private treasury, everyone who approaches the private treasury must be strictly interrogated, after finding the mastermind behind the scenes, we must deal with him ruthlessly, our Wude Houfu cannot become a den of thieves!"
"My son saved."
Wu Dehou responded.
"Wen's, since you can't manage your family well, then Ben Hou will find you two helpers, Miao Ling, and you will follow Wen's to learn the things of running the family in the future."
"Yes." Qu Miaoling stood up, her expression was not shocked, as if it was a simple matter to take a piece of Wen's pie.
Wen was in a hurry, last time in the old lady's hands itched, Qu Miaoling almost snatched away her housekeeping rights, and now it is her son's turn to celebrate his birthday, she doesn't give up, she still wants to rob?
The tremor in Wen's heart hadn't passed yet, and she hadn't had time to come up with a way to deal with it.
Wu Dehou said again: "This time the Yuguan case, I will supervise it with Miao Ling to ensure that the thief is found." ”
The old lady's birthday banquet last time was a shame, and this time it must not happen again.
"Master Hou—"
She was already uncomfortable when she asked Qu Miaoling to hold a birthday banquet with her, and now she asked Qu Miaoling to investigate the case.
With Qu Miaoling's relationship with her, it would be hellish not to stumble on her.
Perhaps her son's birthday feast will be affected.
"Father, that's—it's not good!" Qu Miaoling hesitated.
"What's so bad!" The sound that comes out of the nose is sharp.
"After all, my mother is my elder, I went to her yard to check, what did it look like, if it spread, not only would my mother and my face have no place to put it, I'm afraid the Hou Mansion will be implicated!"
Qu Miaoling's words are reasonable, but this time, no matter what she says, Wu Dehou will not waver anymore.
First the old lady was poisoned, and now her precious treasures are also damaged, if this Hou Mansion does not investigate thoroughly, whether he himself died quietly one day, and the real culprit cannot be found.
"No, this matter must be investigated, and I must be investigated fiercely!"
Seeing this, the old lady also persuaded: "After all, this is our housework, it is not good for the reputation of the Hou Mansion if it is too big, Miao Ling is a junior, you let her go to various courtyards to check the elders, you don't want to be a man, Miao Ling still wants to marry!" didn't have to damage Miaoling's reputation because of the thief. ”