Chapter Twenty-Eight: Clever Escape from Trouble
Because it was an interrogation, it was not appropriate to bring too many people, so Jiang Yu only brought lime over.
When he entered Jiang Congwen's study, he saw Jiang Congwen writing something, and Wang Rubi was studying ink for him next to him.
Jiang Yu shouted "Daddy", and then saluted Jiang Congwen.
Jiang Congwen just said "um" and didn't react.
After letting Jiang Yu and Lime maintain this position for a long time, Jiang Congwen let them get up and asked, "Do you know why I called you here?"
Jiang Yu shook her head and said suspiciously: "My daughter doesn't know, please ask my father to make it clear."
Jiang Congwen put the brush on the table fiercely and said, "Do you really don't know or not."
"After my father called my daughter here, I kept my daughter hanging here, and I didn't let the summoned person tell my daughter what it was, and where did my daughter know."
Jiang Congwen disliked Jiang Yu because he suspected that the ancestral hall was on fire and related to Jiang Yu, and then saw Jiang Yu's face similar to An Furu with a look of neither humility nor arrogance, thinking of An Furu's humiliation of himself at the beginning, he was even more angry, "Do you dare to say that you don't know about the fire in the ancestral hall?" ”
Jiang Yu said: "Why doesn't my daughter know when the fire in the ancestral hall is related to my daughter."
"You went to change the candlestick in the ancestral hall, and you were the last to enter the ancestral hall, do you admit it?"
"It's true that I was the last to enter the ancestral hall, but my father can't conclude that the fire in the ancestral hall has something to do with me based on this point."
As soon as Jiang Yu finished speaking, Wang Rubi said to Jiang Congwen worriedly: "Master, don't make such a big fire, what if you scare the eldest lady, and the fire in the ancestral hall is not sure to be done by the eldest lady, it will not be good if the eldest lady is wronged." Then he said to Jiang Yu: "Miss, you will confess to the master, I believe that even if the fire in the ancestral hall is related to the eldest lady, the master will not be willing to blame the miss."
Although Wang Rubi's words seem to excuse Jiang Yu, it is actually like having determined that Jiang Yu is the one who set the fire.
Jiang Yu looked at Wang Rubi, sneered, and said: "What does the third aunt mean by this, if I am the last person to enter the ancestral hall to change the candlestick, then the candlestick I changed was given to me by my aunt's subordinates, how can my aunt explain this?" And why did my aunt say that the fire in the ancestral hall was done by me? ”
Wang Rubi's face froze, then looked at Jiang Yu, and said sadly: "Eldest Miss, is this suspected that the concubine is framing Eldest Miss?" The concubine has always treated the eldest lady as her own daughter, but the eldest lady doubts me like this. ”
If it was before, Jiang Yu wouldn't have known what to say, let alone doubt her, when did Jiang Yu become so smart.
Jiang Congwen saw that Jiang Yu still dared to refute, and became even more angry, and said: "You are the last person to enter the ancestral hall, and the ancestral hall was on fire that night after you came out, it is clear that you did it."
"Just like my father said, the ancestral hall was on fire at night, and my daughter went to change the candlestick in the morning, and she left after the change, so my father can ask the people who guard the ancestral hall, even if the fire in the ancestral hall was set by the daughter, but the daughter has been staying in Lanyue Pavilion before the ancestral hall is on fire, how can she have time to go to the ancestral hall to set fire?"
Jiang Congwen's anger gradually subsided, and he also understood that his tone just now was too aggressive, but he couldn't admit that he was wrong, so he said: "Then you explain to me, why did you scold the third aunt's maid after you left the ancestral hall?"
Wang Rubi's heart suddenly sudden, and before she could stop it, she heard Jiang Yu's puzzled voice: "When did my daughter scold the third aunt's maid?"
Jiang Congwen also understood, glanced at Wang Rubi, and was slightly dissatisfied.
Aunt Wang dared to lie to him.
Wang Rubi hurriedly said: "I, I asked Cailian when I went back just now, and I blame Cailian's girl, and I blame the eldest lady." Wang Rubi couldn't help but scold Jiang Yu in her heart.
Jiang Yu glanced at Wang Rubi, and the corners of her mouth curved into an arc, but she didn't let Jiang Congwen see it, "My daughter has some guesses about the fire in the ancestral hall, and I don't know if my father can let my daughter say a thing or two." ”
Jiang Congwen just blamed Jiang Yu for fire, and it was not good to continue to embarrass Jiang Yu, so he nodded and said, "Say it."
"The ancestral hall has always been an important place in the house, but Aunt Zhang hides ill-gotten wealth in the Buddha statue, and her daughter is the daughter of her father, and when she changed the candlestick, she felt that the ancestral tablet was not right, and the ancestral hall was on fire after the daughter went to change the candlestick, and I think it was an early warning from the ancestors."
"It's also to blame my daughter for being careless, if my daughter had found out earlier that the ranking of the ancestors was giving her daughter a warning, then the ancestral hall would not have given another warning to set the ancestral hall on fire." After Jiang Yu finished speaking, she looked at Wang Rubi and asked, "Does my aunt think what I said is right?"
Wang Rubi has not prepared evidence to frame Jiang Yu is the one who set the fire, if she does not admit Jiang Yu's words, it will not be good if Jiang Yu is in a hurry to push the matter on her, so she also said: "Master, the concubine feels that what the eldest lady said is quite right, the ancestral hall has been peaceful for so many years, I think it is because my sister is guarding the ancestral hall, the ancestor is not good at giving warnings, the concubine has just taken over the affairs of the ancestral hall, and then let the eldest lady go to change the candlestick and then catch fire, I think it is indeed an early warning from the ancestors."
Jiang Congwen was originally superstitious, but now when he heard Jiang Yu and Wang Rubi say this, he couldn't help but believe that the fire in the ancestral hall was an early warning from the ancestors, and he thought about it seriously, except for the early warning from the ancestors, it seemed that he really couldn't find any other explanation.
He had let the Zhang family take charge of the Hou Mansion for so long, and he also let her hide dirty wealth in such an important place as the Buddha statue, and he didn't know if the ancestor would still blame himself, and secretly regretted that his punishment of the Zhang family was too clear.
Jiang Congwen thought that after thinking everything through, he felt that he had just misblamed Jiang Yu, so he said: "It was Daddy who blamed Ayu just now, Ayu, don't blame Daddy."
"How dare my daughter blame her father, and thanks to her father's clear understanding of the fire in the ancestral hall, it has come to an end."
Jiang Congwen looked at Jiang Yu's sensible appearance, and was more satisfied with Jiang Yu, just as it was getting dark, he asked Jiang Yu to go back to Lanyue Pavilion.
After going back, Lime said with some dissatisfaction for Jiang Yu: "Master Hou is inevitably too partial."
Qingping Qinghe also nodded in agreement.
If it was Jiang Yu in the previous life, she might still be uncomfortable because of Jiang Congwen's cold treatment, but after being reborn, many things that she didn't understand in her previous life were also seen through.
So he comforted the lime, and then said with a smile: "I don't care about everything Jiang Congwen has done, but you are more uncomfortable than me."
Her name is Jiang Congwen, not Daddy.