On the morning of the 21st, Daiyu got up early and dressed up, her hair was full of pearls, wearing a red two-color gold makeup cloud dragon satin sable cloak, a mud gold crepe beaded hydrangea mofu skirt, a small sleeve of light fish white poke yarn Haitang pattern rolling gold hanging line velvet, a chain of wishful wealth and constant cloud shoulders, a golden silk silk, and a jade pendant with a double crane peach.

Lu Jing saw that Daiyu was dressed up in a shy and beautiful way, and couldn't help laughing: "Madame, are you going to participate in the Yaochi Immortal Meeting?" ”

After hearing this, Daiyu's majestic expression that had just been posed in front of the mirror instantly broke through, and she smiled helplessly: "Husband, don't make me laugh, the concubine is going to be powerful today!" ”

Lu Jing smiled and said, "Madame's expression just now is just right, not angry and arrogant!" ”

After thinking about it, he said: "Madame might as well take Zhiyu to watch today, and let her learn the methods of Madame's housekeeper." ”

Daiyu nodded, and then asked Zijuan to inform Lu Zhiyu.

Lu Jing saw that everything was arranged for Daiyu, and believed that Daiyu would handle the matter well, and explained a few words to Lu Bei and Lu Zheng, and then left the house with confidence.

When the time came, Daiyu summoned the stewards of the two prefectures to the tea hall, and the outermost row stood a group of small servants and miscellaneous servants, and the inner layer was an elderly mother-in-law, a group of maids stood at the threshold, and the housekeepers and male and female stewards of the two prefectures stood in the house.

Daiyu sat on the Taishi chair on the left, and Zijuan, Qingwen, Youxia, and Qingqiu stood on both sides of Daiyu like the four protectors.

Everyone came to the room respectfully and kowtowed, and then respectfully withdrew, and the whole process was silent, neat and serious.

Lu Zhiyu sat quietly on the other side, watching everyone meet Daiyu, and her heart showed a sense of worship.

After everyone saw it, Daiyu ordered Qingwen to announce the new fifteen new family rules one by one and explain them clearly.

When everyone heard this, they were all a little frightened, the new family rules were a little stricter than the old ones, and some of them were so shocked that they stuck out their tongues and couldn't retract them.

Later, Daiyu asked Zijuan to start assigning various tasks, and assigned the work of merging the Lu Mansion and the Lin Mansion to several stewards one by one, and told them to come here to reply if there was anything in the future.

Everything has been decided, Daiyu only asked: "Do you know?" ”

Everyone agreed in unison: "Yes." ”

Seeing this, Daiyu nodded at Qingwen, and Qingwen stood up again and shouted, "Which one is Meixiang?" ”

A little maid stood up tremblingly, Qingwen glanced down at it, and said coldly: "Kneel!" ”

Mei Xiang immediately knelt on the ground and cried, begging for mercy.

Qingwen frowned and said: "Now that I know that I beg for mercy, how did I have the courage to do that shameless thing in the first place." ”

After finishing speaking, Mei Xiang stole Lin Ruhai's jade pendant and took it out to pawn it to make it clear in public, and took out the redeemed jade pendant and the pawnshop's note.

Seeing that the evidence was conclusive, Mei Xiang immediately cried and begged: "The slave and maid were confused for a while, begged the girl to be merciful, spare the slave and maid this time, and the slave and maid will return the money." ”

Daiyu said coldly: "The state-owned country has family rules, and if you make a mistake, you will be punished, I think you are a first-time offender, this time I will not hand you over to the government to deal with it, but the government can't tolerate you, you were originally bought in Beijing, go home." ”

Qingwen immediately asked Mei Xiang to fork out, scold her with a cane twenty times, and tell her family to receive it.

Later, Qingwen announced several cheating and slippery little girls and mothers-in-law one by one, all of whom were punished with rods, ranging from ten or twenty strokes to the rod according to the degree of their fault.

After the trivial matter was dealt with, Qingwen's face turned cold, and she sneered: "Lin Yuan, Lin Yuan's family came out to reply." ”

Lin Yuan walked out tremblingly, but Lin Yuan's family walked out with a generous smile.

Qingwen glanced at the two of them coldly, took out an account book and said: "Lin Yuan managed the spice shop to lose money for three consecutive months, and last month's account had one hundred and twenty-three taels on credit, what do you have to say?" ”

Lin Yuan was so frightened that he was about to confess, only to see Lin Yuan's family stand up and reply: "It's normal to have accounts that can't be recovered when doing business, as the saying goes, if you make money, you will lose money, girl, are you right?" After finishing speaking, he looked at Daiyu with a smile on his face.

Daiyu glanced at her and ignored her, picked up the tea and took a slow sip.

Qingwen said angrily: "Don't give me a sloppy eye, the eldest grandmother has already verified that you are the guards who stole it, stole the spices and sold them elsewhere and made fake accounts to make some fictitious things." ”

Lin Yuan's family shouted: "Even if the girl is the master, she can't defile people's innocence out of thin air, the two of us have always been on an errand in our duty..."

Daiyu interrupted her directly and said coldly, "Bring people up." ”

Lu Zheng hurriedly turned around and brought the shop guy and the shopkeeper Zhang who helped Lin Yuan ship.

As soon as Lin Yuan saw the two of them coming in, he knew that the matter was exposed, so he hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy, and kept kowtowing.

Daiyu asked Lin Zhong to take care of the two, and then asked the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper Zhang to explain the matter, and then asked Lu Zheng to send the two out of the house.

Seeing this, Lin Yuan's family sat on the ground and cried: "If the girl drives us out, I will find death, and I will lose my face, and I have nothing to worry about." ”

Qingwen and Zijuan all glared angrily when they heard this, but they didn't expect that there were such shameless people.

Daiyu saw her splashing, and said with a smile angrily: "I was worried about your face and the feelings of being an errand in the house, and I originally planned to deal with you in private, but since this is simple, Steward Lin took the master's name and went directly to report to the official, and it also saved our mansion to be lynched." ”

Lin Yuan's family was frightened when they heard this, and they hurriedly knelt down with Lin Yuan and begged for mercy: "Ask grandma for mercy." ”

Daiyu looked at her and smiled: "If you are hard to the end, I still look up to you, and now I can't beg for mercy." ”

Seeing Lin Yuanjia's eyes rolling wildly, he wanted to stand up, so he immediately ordered Lin Zhongdao: "Tie them up and hand them over to the government immediately." ”

Lin Zhong immediately ordered a few people, tied up Lin Yuan's two people, gagged them and brought them to the yamen.

After disposing of a few people, Daiyu glanced at everyone and said solemnly: "Don't you think that this time you just disposed of the people of the Lin Mansion, it has nothing to do with you, now I am in charge of the two mansions, no matter who it is, as long as you violate the rules, you will also be punished." ”

The crowd replied in unison, "Yes!" ”

Daiyu nodded and said, "Abide by the rules, go down, and come back in half an hour when something is important." ”

Lin Zhong, Lu Bei and the others walked out one by one according to the rules, and stretched out their heads and smacked their tongues together: "This is the best way to see the grandmother." ”

After everyone left, Daiyu ordered Zijuan to send someone to keep an eye on Mei Xiang, first, to give her medicine, and second, to prevent Mei Xiang from committing suicide, and to explain the matter to her family clearly when her family arrived.

After hearing this, Qingwen said: "She did such an ugly thing, and she committed suicide, which shows that she is still a little ashamed, and her family may have known about it a long time ago, otherwise where would she have the courage to steal the master's things." ”

Daiyu shook her head and said: "Her culpability is lighter, even if it is disposed of, this public disposal is just for Liwei, and she will not lose her life." If she really goes because of this, the reputation of our house will also be affected, just like our house is not considerate of the subordinates and forces people to die, if her family makes trouble, although we take advantage of it, but outsiders will only sympathize with the deceased and accuse us of not. ”

Lu Zhiyu nodded and said: "What my sister-in-law said makes sense, I think she still has a little remorse, not as hateful as Lin Yuan's two!" ”

Daiyu nodded and said: "Lin Yuan is also the old man of the Lin family, and he has always done his duty, but he didn't expect to become like this after a few years of marriage, most of it was his daughter-in-law who picked it up behind his back." ”

While talking, a maid came to report that the second grandmother of the Jia family was here, and Daiyu listened and hurriedly went to greet her.