20. Token of affection

Mrs. Yan was taken aback, and hurriedly greeted her with a smile: "Sister Zhou, why are you here?" ”

The person who came was Mama Zhou, who was in charge of the old lady's yard. She ignored Mrs. Yan's question, and broke into the door in three steps and two steps: "With Yun, what's the matter?" ”

Mrs. Yan was about to grab the conversation, but Xianyun cried loudly: "Mother Yan beat the young lady to death!" ”

"This prime minister's mansion is really reversed!" This loud shout did not come from Mama Zhou's mouth, but from outside the door.

A dignified-looking old woman holding a bamboo cane, supported by a maidservant, followed slowly behind the moon.

Mrs. Yan knelt down and stepped forward on her knees: "Old lady, eldest lady, she has misbehaved with others, and the old slave is on the order of Madame to teach her......"

"I didn't!" Ruan Qingzhi woke up at this time, turned over and knelt down and cried: "Grandmother, I didn't!" ”

"It's not up to you to have the final say!" Mrs. Yan turned around and scolded sharply.

Ruan Qingzhi seemed to be frightened by her, shrank back, and then fell to the ground and cried: "I'm soft-spoken, can you slander me at will?" ”

When Mrs. Yan heard this, she was about to jump up and scold again, but she was glared at by Mama Zhou, so she had to kneel down again.

Ruan Qingzhi cried for a while, leaned over again and saluted the old lady tremblingly: "Qingzhi is young, I can't understand those nonsense bastard words, and I don't dare to confess my guilt and beg my grandmother to call the shots!" ”

The old lady looked at her for a long time, then slowly walked over with her feet raised.

Mrs. Yan's face changed greatly, and she knelt down and said urgently: "Old lady, the eldest lady openly brought wild men into the mansion to fool around, and many people have seen it!" ”

The old lady frowned and stopped, looking at her coldly.

Mrs. Yan pointed to a few family members behind her, and said hurriedly: "They have all seen it with their own eyes, it is a tall, thin and thin-looking ...... with a fierce appearance."

At this time, a guest doctor in the house finally heard the news and rushed over, and Mama Zhou drank Mrs. Yan and ordered the doctor to diagnose Ruan Qingzhi's pulse first.

The doctor was startled when he saw Ruan Qingzhi's face, and he didn't dare to delay any longer, so he hurriedly stepped forward to look at it, and then he saw sweat on his forehead.

Ban Yue rushed over to help Ruan Qingzhi up, crying and asking, "What the hell is going on?" My young lady just soaked in cold water overnight in mid-autumn and was not healed, and today she was beaten by Mrs. Yan, so it won't be a big problem, right? ”

When the doctor heard the words "no one healed", he sweated even more.

The old lady narrowed her eyes and repeated coldly, "Soak in cold water? No one to heal? ”

With the clouds, he hurriedly told the details of the fall into the water that night in mid-autumn. The old lady glanced at Mrs. Yan, and her face became more and more ugly.

Ruan Qingzhi lowered his head and grabbed the corner of his clothes, and timidly squeezed out a smile: "Grandmother, don't be angry, Qingzhi knows that her life is not good, and she can't compare to her sister, so she doesn't dare to make trouble in the house......"

Banyue's mouth was fast, and before she finished speaking, she had already rushed to say: "Don't you dare to make trouble, didn't we go to ask you for a doctor?" Obviously they didn't come! Not only did the old lady not care, but she didn't ask about it and threw Xianyun half to death in the firewood room! The incident of falling into the water that night was clearly a conspiracy, why didn't anyone ask from beginning to end! It's been so many years, Miss, are you really in a bad life or others don't allow your life to be good, don't you understand......"

"With the moon!" Ruan Qingzhi shouted angrily and shook her head to signal her not to say more.

Banyue stopped aggrievedly, shook his hand and stepped aside to bow his head and weep.

The old lady walked to the main seat in the hall and sat down, and said in a deep voice: "These old people don't care about family affairs, but they don't know that the house has reached this point!" ”

Mrs. Yan's face was so anxious that her face was distorted, and she kept glancing at the family at the door.

The old lady noticed her, her face sank and she looked at the servants again: "You all saw the eldest lady bring a foreign man into the mansion with your own eyes?" ”

A few family members pushed me, and it took a long time before one of them stood up with his head down: "The servants only saw Yiyun standing at the corner gate talking to a man from a distance, and they didn't hear what was said. ”

"Two bolts you!" Mrs. Yan was so angry that her face turned blue, and when she saw someone looking at her, she said stubbornly: "...... Xieyun is the eldest lady's personal servant, and it is not proper for her to talk to a strange man outside the house! Andβ€”"

She rolled her eyes and saw a rather delicate wooden box on the table, and immediately jumped up and grabbed it in her hand: "What is this?" also said that there is no adultery, and the love tokens are here! - Yo, it's old ginseng! Two sticks of such a thick one, to say the least, are worth two or three hundred taels of silver, right? ”