Although the second old man Li Chengqi had an ugly face, he didn't say anything yet.

After hearing this, the third old man Li Chenghuai began to scold angrily: "You bad girl, you went to the palace and caused such a disaster, it really humiliated my face." Look at Meng'er, you have known books since you were a child, you only know nonsense day by day, and now you have angered the queen, if it implicates the fortune of our Li family, see if I don't kill you! ”

After speaking, he really raised his hand and slapped Li Jinyao.

The crisp slap sounded in the room, Li Jinyao covered her face and began to cry: "You beat me to death, you beat me to death, you don't like me since I was a child, you haven't really treated me as your daughter!" ”

Li Chenghuai raised his hand again: "You bastard, do you think I can't beat you?!" ”

The third lady held down Li Chenghuai's hand, threw herself on the ground to protect Li Jinyao and began to cry: "What's wrong with what Yao'er said, you have always only favored the fox concubine, where did you care about the life and death of my mother, and now I have finally found an excuse, why don't you kill me together and straighten out that little concubine!" Spoil the concubine and kill the wife! Spoil the concubine and kill the wife! ”

The two girls on the ground hugged their heads and cried together.

The old lady shouted, "What are you crying about! If you want to cry and go back to the room to make trouble, raise a troublemaker, and affect the future of the Li family, is it reasonable? ! ”

Li Jinyao saw that the old lady who had always loved her didn't speak for herself, and she cried even more fiercely.

Li Jinyue took Li Jinyao's hand and began to wipe her tears and said: "They all blame me, they all blame me, when you go out in the morning, it would be good if I reminded you to put away the necklace, the queen mother punished you because of that necklace, if you didn't bring that necklace." ”

yes, if only I didn't have that necklace!

That necklace shouldn't have been her in the first place!

Li Jinyao looked at Li Jinshu who was standing aside, rushed to her with a hideous face, grabbed her shirt and shouted, "It's you!" It's you! You're hurting me! It was you who harmed the fortune of the Li family, not me! ”

The maids hurriedly stepped forward to pull the two apart, Li Jinyao opened her teeth and claws and wanted to beat Li Jinshu, but she was held down by the maids, and her face could only turn red with anger.

The old lady asked, "What's the matter?" What the hell is going on?! ”

Li Jinyao pointed at Li Jinshu and said: "It was she who harmed me, this chain was originally hers, and she deliberately made me wear it on my body!" She used to be a medical lady in the palace, she must know the preferences of some nobles, she knew that this chain would attract the queen's dissatisfaction, so she deliberately let me wear it! ”

The third lady got up from the ground, walked up to Li Jinshu and asked, "How can you be so vicious?" She's your sister, and you're deliberately hurting her! ”

Li Jinshu watched Li Jinyao make a fuss with a cold eye: "I make a plan? What kind of trick am I doing? ”

Li Jinyao stopped squeaking.

"Fourth sister, it's really far-fetched for you to bite like this, that necklace was snatched from me, remember? You first came to say that the old lady spoiled you, and you could influence the old lady's wishes. The old lady's face was not good.

"Later, I said that I liked the necklace and asked me to lend it to you, but I didn't borrow it, so you just grabbed it directly with the box, and my little maids in the yard all saw it, and your maid Xiaotao was also there at that time, so many people looked at the things you snatched, and you said that I designed you?"

The second lady looked at Xiao Tao and asked, "Is there such a thing?" ”

Xiao Tao knelt on the ground, hesitated for a moment, but nodded.

Li Jinyao refused to give up and said: "That's why you deliberately designed me to go and see your necklace!" Otherwise, where would I borrow your things! If it weren't for your necklace, if it weren't for the fact that the queen didn't like the chain, it was just a necklace, a trivial matter, how could I be punished today! You ......"

"Enough!" The old lady shouted impatiently, "It's because I spoil you too much on weekdays that I make you so pampered!" Do you really think you can be my old lady's master? Can you influence my wishes? Let the whole family listen to you? ”

Li Jinyao shook her head and said, "Grandmother, I didn't mean that, I said this because I heard that I was going to give the second sister to ......."

"That's it!" The third lady interrupted her, "Now that Yao'er's disaster has been broken, finding a way to make up for it is that I am willing to choose some suitable gifts from my private use and send them to the masters of the official family tomorrow, so that they can help our Li family talk!" ”

Li Chenghuai of the third room has been in the business of sending medicinal materials to the army, and the family in the house is quite rich, if he can come up with some generous gifts and give them to the officials and lords in Kyoto, it will indeed help his career, and the second master Li Chengqi saw this, and no longer spoke.

The old lady said to the third lady: "As a mother, you must strictly control this girl in the future, so as not to cause another big disaster!" ”

The third lady should get down and reach out to help Li Jinyao.

Li Jinshu said slowly on the side: "That's it, it's not appropriate!" The Li family is afraid that it will lead to a catastrophe! ”

The second lady standing next to her changed her face: "What nonsense are you talking about!" ”

Li Jinshu sighed and said: "Fourth sister, after you return home, you will kill yourself, just now you kept saying that the queen punished you for a trivial matter, if it spreads, it will be clear that the Li family is dissatisfied with the punishment and dissatisfied with the queen." What's more, the young lady of the Su family who was punished together today was because the young lady of the Su family recited poetry and music regardless of the suffering of the people. ”

At the same time, the queen also punished all the sons who were present to intercede, and asked them to go back to the house and think about it behind closed doors. Today's four sisters' uproar, if it reaches the ears of people with hearts, go to the saint to criticize the second master, saying that the second master's family education is not strict, he does not care about the disaster victims in the south, and he has no virtue as an official. ”

As soon as these words came out, the whole family was silent, only Li Jinyao shouted: "I didn't mean this, you framed me!" ”

"It doesn't matter if I frame you or not, what matters is what the queen thinks and what the emperor thinks." Li Jinshu's voice was not loud, but it was clearly audible in the room.

When the second master Li Chengqi heard this, his eyes immediately widened, "Now the saint is worried about the affairs of southern Xinjiang, if there is really a book to participate in me at this time, my official career will be ruined!" The future of the Li family has also been ruined! ”

The old lady's face also changed when she heard this: "How is this good?" What a good thing that is! ”

The second lady said on the side: "Yao'er is a child after all, as long as she ...... As long as the master severely punishes her, it means that these are just children's nonsense, and the master cannot be implicated. ”

Li Chengqi nodded when he listened, looked at Li Jinyao and said, "You are indeed messing around today, so I will punish you for kneeling in the ancestral hall for seven days, think about it." ”

When the third lady heard this, she quickly shook her head: "No, seven days is too long, Yao'er will not be able to stand it." ”

The second lady persuaded on the side: "Third daughter-in-law, this is not the time to feel sorry for the child, if you don't punish it severely, how can you reflect the master's strict management of the family, if it really reaches the ears of the saint, if it is not handled well, it will implicate the entire Li family!" ”

The old lady also nodded and said, "What I said is that it must be severely punished at this time." ”

He said to the third lady again: "It is because of your pampering that she has cultivated this character, take advantage of this time, take advantage of it, take care of it, and avoid greater disasters in the future!" ”

The third lady could only watch as the two mothers-in-law pulled Li Jinyao out of the old lady's courtyard and walked in the direction of the ancestral hall.

The matter finally came to an end, and everyone dispersed.

The third lady returned to the courtyard, looked at Li Chenghuai's sinking face, pulled his sleeve and couldn't help crying again: "Master, Yao'er has been punished in the palace, and she has been punished to kneel in the ancestral hall, she will not be able to stand it." If Li'er knew, how sorry she would be for her sister! ”

"Master, Yao'er is your own flesh and blood after all, you can't ignore it! For the sake of the second master's career, they were not punished by their own daughter, of course they were not distressed. Master, look at Yao'er's appearance, her face is swollen, and her knees are full of bruises, if you really kneel for another seven days, you will have to peel off the skin if you don't die! ”

Li Chenghuai broke free of the third lady's hand and snorted angrily: "I said? Do they listen to what I say in the second room? Give me half a chance to speak today! His second child feels that he is an official and the future of the Li family, I bah! His future is not paved by me with real money! Without my money, he's a fart! I paved the way for him in vain, but he looked down on me in his heart! I think I've lost his face as an imperial businessman, right? I think my daughter is delaying his future, right? ”

"Master, you have to think of a way, think of a way to get Yao'er out!"

Li Chenghuai was already in a bad mood, and he was even more annoyed when he saw the third lady crying, so he went directly to the concubine's house.

Lu Cao carefully received the string of flower feather pearl necklaces that Li Jinshu brought back into the box, she hesitated a few times, and finally asked: "Miss, did you deliberately let Miss Fourth snatch this string of beads?" ”

Li Jinyao ate the fruit and asked rhetorically, "What do you think?" ”

The green calyx whispered: "The slave maid thinks that whether the young lady did it on purpose or not, the fourth young lady deserves it, every time the young lady has something good, she has to come and grab it, see if she dares after this time!" ”

Li Jinyao looked at the green calyx's smug little expression and smiled: "You girl! ”

Green Calyx said: "Miss, do you remember the promise that the little young master would take him to the temple fair a few days ago?" The little master is looking forward to it every day, don't break your promise. ”

"Where is it enough to go to the temple fair, you go and arrange the arrangement, this time we take the opportunity to go to the incense to have a good time, there are few people nearby and the scenery is beautiful, arrange it!"

Green Calyx said happily: "Okay, the slave hasn't been out for a long time, the little master must be very happy!" ”

After the Tangram Festival, the hot sun finally subsided, and the weather began to cool down gradually in the morning and evening.

Li Jinshu found an excuse to incense, avoided walking with other Li family members, and took Li Jinyu early in the morning and quietly set off from the side door.

At the age of eight, the child was lively and active, and the second lady never asked for schoolwork in order to raise Li Jinyu on weekdays, but allowed him to play at will, but rarely took him out of the house, only let him play with people in the house.

On this trip, Li Jinyu chattered excitedly along the way, and stopped to watch any cattle, sheep, ducks and poultry she encountered.

Green Calyx brought a box of dim sum, and Li Jinyu sat in the carriage and stretched out her head to look at it while eating dim sum.

Li Jinshu looked at him, like a spring outing when he was a child, the same excitement and curiosity.