Chapter 28: Guarding and Stealing
A few little girls were blocking the door of Yinping Pavilion and looking in, and as soon as Lin Qiantan came over, they dispersed in a hurry.
Lin Qiantan looked inside, only to see that Song and Qingchuan were arguing with something in a low voice, and there were several open cages next to them, and the objects inside were spread out there, half-exposed, so that people could vaguely see that they looked like some utensils and silk.
Lin Qiantan's eyebrows moved slightly, and she walked straight over, and the people inside naturally saw her for the first time, and Qingchuan saw her, especially with a look of shame on her face. Lin Qiantan was already prepared, and she was not too surprised by what might happen. As if he was afraid that he would be a step slower and ask Qingchuan to say something first to mislead Lin Qiantan, the Song family hurriedly told Qingchuan about the self-theft of the guards.
Most of the large boxes contained valuables of some value, many of which were old things used by Lin Qiantan's mother Chu Ling, so Lin Qiantan never took them out and put them on the table, but put them in one place and locked them for safekeeping.
Among them, the letter that Lin Qiantan wanted to see was at the bottom of the box.
While listening to the Song family's complaint, Lin Qiantan had already bypassed Qingchuan and walked up, scanning the past on several boxes one by one. In order to count the items, the Song family spread out the objects to check, and the inconspicuous little wooden box that Lin Qiantan was looking for was completely taken up from the bottom, and after being cleaned up, it was placed on the top.
In my ears was Song's voice: "... There is one missing a Wufu Linglong bowl produced by the official kiln, a second-class Yunjin horse produced in Shuzhou, and a second-hand sable Zhaojun set from Qingfeng Pavilion......"
Lin Qiantan listened and nodded, not very surprised by this result. She wasn't sure what the box was about, but she had a vague impression. What Song said, she also heard for the first time.
She glanced at Qingchuan, who was kneeling there and begging for mercy, and thought to herself, in fact, Qingchuan's approach was very smart.
There are several boxes, and different items are often not only one and only one, and Qingchuan only takes a little at a time and sells them for money, and then sells them to the low-priced market to get some black market goods back to make up the number. If it weren't for the fact that the Dongshan Marquis Mansion suddenly moved back to the capital, she was so busy following Shangjing that she didn't have time to fill the hole, and she, the master, said on a whim that she would check it, otherwise Qingchuan would not be exposed.
In order to pray for forgiveness, Qingchuan poured beans and told her how to move flowers and trees and fill her private pockets, Lin Qiantan didn't think so, but Song and Jinhe reacted the most.
The Song family felt sorry for Lin Qiantan, these boxes were all used by Mrs. Xian, which was of commemorative significance to Lin Qiantan, so she was stolen and replaced with pillars.
Jin He spoke even more politely: "You cheap hooves who should chop off your hands, you don't do it cleanly and pour dirty water on my aunt and grandmother all day long, who gave you a sassy face?" Is it Wu Chunsheng in the house of the eldest young master in the second room, or Zhao Dahu in the gatehouse? ”
Jinhe and Qingchuan have a lot of grievances on weekdays, and they hate Qingchuan for being unfaithful, and they don't have a door to speak, but they actually chase the wind and have no evidence and say: "You look at others and don't know what you think, there is one hanging on the left, one hanging on the right, you took the young lady's silver to raise a man, and you want to climb the bed of the second young master......"
It's okay in front, it's all about things that everyone vaguely knows, and the more it comes to the back, Qingchuan can't bear it, so he kneels on the ground and replies: "Let go of your mother's fart!" Who climbed the second young master's bed? You're just climbing! Lin Qiantan followed them as if she was laughing, and regretted that her mother's relics had been sold to nowhere. only hated her for trusting Qingchuan too much in her previous life......
said in his heart, Jinhe's mouth is quite accurate. Later, Qingchuan didn't just climb Lin Ziye's bed.
Until they quarreled undecently, the people who had temporarily dispersed when Lin Qiantan came back and listened to the corner ran back, and the people who watched the excitement there gathered more and more.
Before noon, everyone in the whole house knew that there was a thief in Lin Qiantan's house. But Lin Qiantan looked indifferent, as if she didn't care about being said.
Song was indignant: "Why did Miss let her go?"
Lin Qiantan smiled: "I don't beat her, if she goes out from here, she will only be beaten worse by some people."
Lin Qiantan didn't have time to delay more in Qingchuan's affairs, and she didn't bother to pay attention to what would happen to the former first maid by her side after she left her. She took out the box containing the letter from a pile of surviving mother's relics, put it away in the dowry alone, and then went to Shen's place.
Shen asked her to help write some gift lists, while Lin Bixiang wrote invitations in another room.
Lin Qiantan felt that she should be illiterate in the eyes of everyone, let alone calligraphy. So I thought about deliberately copying the handwriting to be ugly. But maybe it's because of habit, the words that are written are still extinguished, and the charm that has been practiced in the past few years by the yin tenacity training is almost done, so I didn't deliberately change it.
Lin Bixiang didn't know what Lin Qiantan's words looked like from beginning to end. She was still happily waiting for Lin Qiantan to be her foil.
On a whim that night, Shen personally went over and flipped through the things that would only be sent out the next day, and his eyes widened.
called the mother-in-law to ask, and the mother-in-law said that all the gift lists were written by Lin Qiantan alone, and there was indeed no one else's ghostwriting, so Shen dared to believe that the handwriting on the paper was written by Lin Qiantan.
It is said that practicing calligraphy is not overnight, and Lin Qiantan's font does have a sense of "ripening" fueled by seedlings, but the glyphs are neat and powerful, not to mention how good-looking, but it can already be seen that the take-off image implied by the person who writes can be seen.
In addition to being surprised, Shen was naturally suspicious. Lin Qiantan grew up in front of her since she was a child, not to mention how much she loves her, at least she knows very well how much ink is in her granddaughter's stomach.
The third daughter-in-law was raised in the parenting style of "a woman is virtuous if she is not talented", and her granddaughter only practiced female red embroidery skills since she was a child. How can a person make such a big change in just a few days?
Shen wanted to think about it in her heart, but she chose not to be quiet, thinking for a moment, she did not publicize this matter, but only instructed her subordinates to just put these gift lists and invitations from the Hou Mansion together and send them out at dawn.
The Lin family of Dongshan Houfu returned to Beijing, and invited guests to come to the door to gather, and each family received the invitation and got the Yunzhou special gift carefully prepared by the Lin family, which shows the sincerity of the Lin family.
However, among these invited families, the Chu family is not included.