Chapter 49: Who's the Murderer
Hearing this, Gu Yunxin didn't have time to put on her makeup, put on her coat, and ran towards Zuixia Garden quickly. The grandmothers and girls in Zuixia Garden were busy, and after a while, Mrs. Gu and Mrs. Gu also rushed over after hearing the news.
Hongling walked out of the room and wiped the sweat from her forehead with her sleeve, "Hongling, how is my mother?" Gu Yunxin said anxiously.
"Master, please rest assured, the eldest lady and the child in her womb are fine." Hongling said with a long breath.
"That's good, that's good. But how could this suddenly become popular? Old Madam Gu wondered.
Gu Zhan's has always been very steady, and it definitely won't be because of carelessness, she doesn't know the methods in this mansion, but before she obviously handed over Gu Zhan's safety to these people, would it be difficult for them to dare to do it?
"What the old lady said is that the eldest lady's popularity this time is indeed not an accident, but artificial." Hongling said lightly.
"Let's go, go into the house and say, Ziling, Jinhua, Mama Guo, you take people to guard the house, no one is allowed to approach, and besides, if you heard the old man speak just now, you'd better keep your mouth shut, or you will all be killed." Old Madam Gu said angrily.
"The slaves don't dare." All the maidservants present knelt on the ground.
Gu Yunxin swept a circle of maids kneeling on the ground, except for Hongling and Hongxuan, the rest were either domestic slaves or signed the death deed, it can be said that the deed of sale of these people is in the hands of Mrs. Gu, and Mrs. Gu's style of acting, they are all very afraid.
"Yun Xin, you are still a girl who has a family, don't get the blood in the house dirty, just go in and take a look." Old Madam Gu patted Gu Yunxin's hand and said.
"Grandmother, I want to see my mother, and there are some things I need to know." Gu Yunxin said lightly.
Now that he is in charge of the matter of the middle feed in the house, Gu Yunxin is in charge, and if there is such a thing in the house, it is natural to find out.
"Alright, let's go, let's go inside." Old Madam Gu took Gu Yunxin's hand and said with a smile.
Walking into the room, Gu's mother was leaning on the side of the bed, Mama Chen beside her was feeding the decoction, and Hongling stood in front of Mrs. Gu, "Old lady, master, master, the eldest lady saw red because she was contaminated with musk and tulips." ”
"What? Musk? Tulip? This musk old body knows that people who are pregnant can't touch it, but what does that tulip mean? Old Madam Gu wondered.
"Old lady, ordinary people only know that musk is harmful to pregnant women, but tulips alone are fine, but if it is accompanied by ginseng soup, it will also cause miscarriage."
"How can there be musk in the eldest lady's house? How did you all get on errands? Old Madam Gu said angrily.
It's no wonder that Old Madam Gu is angry, these people all came from the Zhan family with the eldest lady, they are all not dedicated to their masters, can they still count on others?
"Old lady, the eldest lady's food and useful things, the old slave was checked by Miss Hongling and there was no problem before letting the eldest lady eat. And for the sake of safety, the eldest lady sent Yuexin and Bang Xiang to go out to buy vegetables every day and came back to make them. Mama Chen knelt down and said.
Hearing this, the old lady frowned, according to Mama Chen, this should not be a problem, the last time Bang Xiang and Yue Xin met the mountain bandits, they didn't say that they abandoned Gu Zhan's clan and fled, which shows their loyalty.
In fact, even Hongling felt a little strange about this matter, but she had checked all the food and clothing, and she had to check it every day, never slack, what was the reason for this.
Just thinking about it, Hongling saw the purse on Gu Taifu's waist, "Taifu, can you show your purse to the slave?" ”
Seeing that Hongling was not joking, Mrs. Gu took off the purse on his waist and handed it to Hongling's hand by Qi Bo, Hongling took the purse and sniffed it carefully under his nose.
"But what's wrong with the contents of this purse?" Gu Yunxin's eyes narrowed slightly.
It's really a delicate trick, put the purse with musk on Gu Taifu's side, Gu Taifu has often rested in Zuixia Garden since Gu Zhan's pregnancy, in order to worry that the battle in the backyard will harm his sister-in-law. But I didn't expect that I would become someone else's accomplice.
"Old lady, yes, there are not only musk but also tulips in this purse, the eldest lady is pregnant, and the kitchen will also stew ginseng soup to replenish her body, fortunately, this purse is only brought with the Taifu, not on the eldest lady's body every day."
"Who made this purse?" Old Madam Gu slammed the table and said.
"This purse is made by the Zhang family of Rumengxuan." Gu Taifu said in a deep voice.
This Zhang family is not Gu Taifu's favorite concubine, his favorite concubine Wu family, after the miscarriage last year, his health has not been good, and after a long time, he is busy with the affairs of the DPRK and China, so he will go less.
And this Zhang family and Yu Qingxuan's Wang family are both hired from outside, and their appearance is not outstanding, but their temperament is extremely gentle, which is very clear to the Gu family.
Therefore, when the problematic purse pointed to the Zhang family, Mrs. Gu still didn't believe it. But this fact is already in front of you, and it would be unfair to your wife if you didn't bring it over and ask about it.
"Someone, bring me Zhang." Gu Taifu said angrily.
"Slow, Dad, Grandmother, this matter has not been investigated clearly, it is not easy to make a big move, Hongxuan took the purse to find Zhang's, and said that Miss Ben likes the fragrance of this purse, so she wants to learn to make one, but it is broken, let her make another one for my father." After finishing speaking, he handed the torn purse into Hongxuan's hand.
Hongxuan took the purse and came to Rumengxuan, this Rumengxuan is in the courtyard a little south, because there is no one in Zhang's mother's family, so the place where she lives is naturally not as good as Feng's concubine.
In the Great Zhou Dynasty, concubines are also divided into noble concubines and good concubines, and most of the noble concubines are the daughters of official families, either their father's official position is too low, or they are the concubines of ordinary official families. A good concubine is the daughter of a poor family, to put it bluntly, it is equivalent to the lack of money in the family and the sale of her to others.
As soon as Hongxuan walked to the gate of the courtyard, she heard a few rough mothers-in-law chewing their tongues.
"Alas, they are all slaves, why is my life so bitter, with such a master, Mama Hua is still hello."
"Mama Ye, my master doesn't have anything good, it's just that she was married off in the middle of the family, and she also accompanied some dowry, and she can't be favored by the Taifu, if you want to say that she is favored, it has to be Qiushui Pavilion." Mama Hua pouted.
"That's better than my master, this mother and daughter, who hide in the house all day long and rarely come out." Mama Ye snorted coldly.
"Are you planning to change masters? Now the eldest lady is in charge, our eldest lady has always been the best to speak, you go and talk to her, before, didn't you still help the general of the Qiushui Pavilion to ...... Musk"
"Shhhh......h You have to rot in your stomach about this matter, this method is still your contribution, and you have not taken the reward of Qiushui Pavilion. Mama Ye glanced at Mama Hua and said.
"Anyway, it's just the two of us in this courtyard, and you're still worried about being heard."
"You don't know that the wall has ears."
As soon as the words fell, Hong Xuan cleared her throat and walked into Rumengxuan, "Mama Hua, is your aunt here?" ”
"Yo, it turned out to be the red silk girl, Aunt Zhang, she is in the house." Then he smiled and led the way to the door of the room, pushed open the door, Aunt Zhang was teaching her daughter embroidery, and she was also surprised to see Hongxuan enter the house.
"Why is the red silk girl here, please take a seat." Aunt Zhang was busy with Zhang Luodao.
"Aunt Zhang doesn't have to bother, the slave maid is to pass the word for my young lady, my young lady saw that the purse around the waist of the Taifu smelled very good, so she thought about opening it and matching some of herself, but she didn't expect to be able to restore the purse, and asked Aunt Zhang to make it exactly the same again, so that my young lady could make a difference."
Aunt Zhang took the purse in Hongxuan's hand and said with a light smile: "Since the eldest lady likes it, I will make one for the eldest lady, this is the master's, I will hurry up and do it, later, the girl will come and get it." ”
Aunt Zhang's expression, Hongxuan saw it in her eyes, but Mama Hu looked weak-hearted, when she sent Hongxuan to the door, she didn't say a word to Hongxuan, when Hongxuan girl came, did she hear any sound?
"Voice? What's the sound? Hongxuan said with a puzzled expression.
"Nothing, nothing." Mama Hu hurriedly waved her hand.
Since Hongxuan didn't hear anything, then she naturally wouldn't repeat what she just said again, it's really thrilling to think about it carefully, if that Hongxuan heard the conversation between her and Mama Hua just now, wouldn't it be a big disaster?
It's just that Mama Ye thought of the purse that Hongxuan brought over, and there was always an indescribable feeling in her heart, fortunately, the purse did not pass through her hands, even if she found something, there was a fool from the Zhang family to blame.
"How? Is the red silk gone? Mama Hua said softly.
"It's gone, it's a false alarm, but fortunately she didn't hear anything." Mama Ye touched her heart and said.
"It's good if you didn't hear it, don't think about it, if there was evidence, you would have come to arrest someone a long time ago, how could you just send a purse and sew it again." Mama Hua said lightly.
"You're right, I can't show my weakness, otherwise, I won't be admitting myself."
"yes, you're busy, I should go back too." After finishing speaking, Mama Hua got up and left Rumengxuan.
Drunken Xia Yuan, Hong Xuan repeated all the things just now, and after listening, Mrs. Gu swept the tea cup on the table to the ground, "Feng Yao, a slut, dares to murder my wife and children." ”
"Hmph, she has the means to find a way to follow you when you go on patrol, and you know that she is not a good thing, how can such a frivolous woman teach her daughter well, you look at her children, what they have been taught." Old Madam Gu said coldly.
"Mother, what you said is that the son didn't think it through at the time, and since he already knows that this slut did it, then I naturally won't tolerate it."
"Dad, just the words of the two slaves and maids don't count, what's more, those two people Mama Ye belong to Aunt Zhang's yard, and Mama Hua is from Aunt Wang's yard, these people are not from Feng's yard, if these two grandmothers insist that Aunt Zhang did it, won't she become a scapegoat?"
"Girl, do you want to let her continue to do evil? She's going to hurt your own mother. Mrs. Gu said with displeasure on her face.
"Boss, don't worry. Yun Xin, tell your thoughts to your father and mother. Old Madam Gu smiled lightly, picked up the teacup, and took a sip lightly.