Yan Ran hadn't heard such a harsh reprimand from Master Yan for a long time, as well as the words "unfilial girl".

But she no longer felt aggrieved as before, her mind was calm, and she even asked with a smile: "Dad, what happened, why did you get so angry?" ”

When Master Yan saw that Yan Ran was still laughing, he was even more angry: "You still ask me what happened?" As the saying goes, family ugliness should not be publicized. It's good that you sent so many people to find that disorderly slut and caused a storm in the city. Now, the entire Anyang City knows that the personal maid of the eldest daughter of the Yan Mansion has fornicated with others, and it has become a joke in other people's mouths, where do you put my face? ”

Yan Ran immediately glanced at Wen's, but found that Yan Yao was standing beside Wen's, and her complexion had recovered a lot.

Seeing Yan Ran looking over, Yan Yao glared at her proudly and happily.

Yan Ran retracted her gaze, stepped forward to support Master Yan, and explained in a gentle tone: "Dad, although I asked people to go to Xuanyue, I have strictly forbidden them to spread the word about this matter. And they went out of the city to look for people, and they didn't attract attention. If it weren't deliberately spread by someone with a heart, how could everyone know about the disappearance of a subordinate in Yanfu? ”

Old Man Yan was silent for a moment.

What Yan Ran said makes sense, but the matter has happened, and now is not the time to hold accountable, but how to solve it.

Old Man Yan ordered with a gloomy face: "Call all the people sent out, don't look for it again." She did such a despicable thing, no matter whether she was dead or alive, she declared to the outside world that she had surrendered, and it was also her face. ”

Yan Ran sneered in her heart, announcing Xuanyue's death, is it for her face, or for the face of Yanfu?

Her eyes were a little cool, but her tone became calmer: "Dad, Xuanyue is the person my uncle gave me, and she will be my maid in the future." Therefore, I must find her, I want to see people in life, and I want to see corpses in death, which can be regarded as an explanation to my uncle. ”

Master Yan was not lightly angered by Yan Ran's stubbornness, and raised his voice: "That slut behaves inappropriately and immorally, you still want to make her a maid, where is the face of the Yan family?" Even if she came back alive, it would be impossible! ”

Master Yan said, breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Yan Ran in a serious tone: "Don't worry, if this kind of thing happens, your uncle will understand." ”

Yan Ran said: "Dad, Xuanyue was wronged, and she and Zhang Qing have no personal relationship. ”

Yan Yao shouted unconvinced: "That slut seduced Zhang Qing and was arrested by my mother, everyone in the house can testify!" You have seen it with your own eyes, and you say that if you don't have it, you won't have it? ”

Yan Ran didn't pay attention to the clamoring Yan Yao, and only said to Master Yan: "Since Xuanyue wants to be my maid, I will not treat her badly in the future, why should she be committed to the steward of a grange?" Her escape and disappearance is the best proof that she doesn't want to marry Zhang Qing at all! ”

If Xuan Yue really had a personal relationship with Zhang Qing, she had already gotten what she wanted, but why did she jump out of the car and run away regardless of the ice and snow, so that her whereabouts were unknown?

Master Yan was asked, and Wen and Yan Yao were also stunned, unable to say anything to refute for a while.

At this time, Xian Luo came in and said, "Girl, Mama Feng is here to bid you farewell." ”

Mama Feng was the most useful person by Concubine Yun's side, and Master Yan didn't dare to slack off, so he quickly suspended the discussion and invited someone in.

Master Yan first expressed his gratitude to Mama Sun and thanked her for sending Yan Ran back.

Mama Sun smiled and said: "Lord Yan is serious, and the old slave doesn't dare to be it." The concubine Niangniang values Miss Yan, and the old slave is just doing things according to orders. ”

Mama Feng said, and said to Yan Ran: "Oh, by the way, the old slave just got the news that the concubine Niangniang sent someone to send a horse and whip it, saying that the maid called Xuanyue next to the girl is in Miaoxian Nunnery. However, the frostbite on her body is severe, and it is temporarily inconvenient to move, so let her be raised in the nunnery first. When the ice melts, the concubine will send her back. ”

Yan Ran said gratefully: "Ran Ran thanked the concubine for saving her life, and the concubine Lao bothered!" ”

Wen's heart sank suddenly, this matter is too much of a coincidence, right?

She was suspicious: "Xuanyue is the runaway maid of the Yan Mansion, how did she get to Miaoxian Nunnery?" ”

Mama Feng replied unhurriedly: "Miao Xian'an only takes in those homeless women, regardless of their origin or origin. Mrs. Yan's question should be asked to Xuan Yue, but the old slave couldn't answer it. The old slave only knew that when the concubine learned of Xuanyue's identity, she was afraid that Miss Yan would be anxious, so she hurriedly sent someone to send a message. ”

Wen was choked speechless by Mama Feng's words, and was glared at by Master Yan's warning, and closed his mouth unwillingly.

Yan Ran looked at Xian Luo and showed an approving smile.

It turned out to be Xianluo's cleverness, and after Yan Ran was called away by Master Yan, she quietly took a few steps behind and rushed back to Qionghua Courtyard to report to Grandma Sun.

The place where Xuan Yue is now is not safe, if the people of the Yan Mansion find it first and bring it back, things will be even more tricky.

The only way to send her to Myosen'an as soon as possible is the safest move.

Since Concubine Yun had already intervened in the matter of Xuanyue, Master Yan didn't dare to mention it again, so that she would die to prove her innocence.

But Master Yan was still very unhappy with Yan Ran's insistence on looking for Xuanyue regardless of the reputation of the Yan Mansion.

He said, "You are young, inexperienced, and impatient, so give back the stewardship to your mother!" ”

Wen naturally wanted to take back the stewardship, but after being troubled by Yan Ran like this, she was forced to become taken advantage of, and she was resentful in her heart, and she didn't even have a good expression on her face.

Master Yan thought that she was still worried about Yan Yao and didn't want to take care of her, so he said: "Yao'er is well now, you don't have to accompany her every day, and you should prepare for her wedding." ”

Wen had nothing to say, and responded, "Yes, master." ”

Yan Ran also said: "What Dad said is that my daughter also has this intention. But before that, there's one more thing that needs to be addressed. ”

No one noticed, Qingxuan retreated at some point, and walked in with a stack of ledgers.

Old Man Yan said strangely: "What is this?" ”

Yan Ran explained: "Dad, this is the account book of the Grange. ”

Wen immediately looked at him alertly.

Master Yan also asked, "Oh, what's wrong?" ”

Yan Ran's eyes glanced at the Wen family as if he didn't seem to be there, and said slowly: "The account book of the grange is the yin and yang account book. ”

"You talk nonsense!"

Wen immediately retorted sharply, but in a blink of an eye, he complained to Master Yan: "Master, all the businesses in the house and the accounts of the grange are taken care of by the concubine herself, and there is no mistake or omission, and Zhang Qing, the steward of the grange, is a distant relative of the concubine. Ran'er said so, but she was suspected of being a concubine who was full of private pockets and colluded with that Zhang Qing to embezzle the property in the house? The concubine is really wronged! ”

Yan Ran looked at the Wen family who was pretentious, and smiled: "Mother is not in a hurry, the daughter is not aimed at the mother, and it is not empty words." ”

Yan Ran said, having divided the account book into two stacks, and said, "On the left is the account handed over to the house by the grange, which is the yang account; On the right is the actual account of the Grange, which is the Yin account. In the past three years, the income of the positive account has decreased sharply, but in fact, the income of the negative account has increased steadily. The income from these two accounts is enough to go out tens of thousands of taels of silver! ”

Master Yan was shocked, and immediately looked through the account book, the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became, and the more he looked at it, the more he couldn't suppress the raging anger burning in his chest.

Wen didn't expect Yan Ran to find out this kind of secret, so he was confused for a while, and shouted: "What yin and yang account book, I have never seen it!" I don't know where you got the account book casually, so you tried in vain to frame Zhang Qing! ”

Wen has always been shrewd, if Zhang Qing did something to the accounts, she couldn't have been unaware.

Therefore, this matter must have been conspired by the two of them.

And the difference between the two accounts of yin and yang is 10,000 taels of silver, the amount is huge, and Zhang Qing can't swallow it alone, thinking that the Wen family took the lion's head, so she is so eager.

Wen's reaction also made Master Yan suspicious.

Yan Ran looked at Qingxuan and nodded.

Qingxuan understood, turned around and left, and soon brought someone over, who had brought the poison to Qionghua Courtyard in order to repay his kindness, and was then driven to Zhuangzi's Huan'er by Yan Ran.

Yan Ran said: "Huan'er did something wrong before, so I punished her to go to Zhuangzi to do things, and it was she who found out about the Yin and Yang account book and told me the truth." In order not to startle the snake, I did not explain the matter to my father for the time being, but asked Huan'er to wait for the opportunity to steal the account book. That Zhang Qing not only embezzled the income of the Grange, but also acted as a prestige in the Zhuangzi, enslaving other subordinates, bullying men and women, just like a soil emperor! Now, he dared to hit my handmaid with his idea! Dad, please make the decision for your daughter, don't spare Zhang Qing! ”

Huan'er is indeed a clever person, and successfully used this move to make meritorious contributions.

After Yan Ran got the account book, she originally wanted to use this criminal evidence to attack the Wen family.

Unexpectedly, in order to take revenge on her, Wen conspired with Zhang Qing to calculate Xuanyue.

Yan Ran just used this evidence to solve Zhang Qing first, and by the way, let the Wen family suffer the consequences.

Yan Ran said, turned to Wen and continued: "Mother, Zhang Qing is a distant cousin of your foreign family, and he was born lame. You cared about your family affection and took pity on him for being disabled, so you gave him the position of the account office of Yanfu Grange. Later, he worked diligently, and you promoted him to stewardship. You must have trusted him so much, but he used that trust to deceive you! Dad, my mother was also deceived by a traitor, please don't blame my mother! ”

Wen just wanted to defend himself, but was stunned by Yan Ran's words.

It stands to reason that at this time, Yan Ran should take advantage of the victory to pursue, fall into the well, and give her a hard blow, but why should she help her excuse her?

Although Wen felt that Yan Ran's motives were bad, he was on guard.

However, in this case, she could only follow Yan Ran's words and begged Master Yan: "Master, it is the concubine who has no eyes and no beads, and she has not known people clearly, and she has been deceived so far. The concubine has betrayed the trust of the master, and she asks the master to punish her! ”

Master Yan was not in the mood to listen to Wen's crying, so he shook off her hand angrily, and viciously ordered his subordinates: "Bring Zhang Qing to me!" ”