Chapter Twenty-Four: Picking Up the Mess

After roughly cleaning up the yard, Mu Ruqing and the guards stopped to rest, after all, the house is empty now, and naturally they can't cook, Mu Ruqing and Fang Cannon went to buy some steamed buns and meatloaf, as well as a bucket of thick rice porridge, Ruan Mianmian and Liu Xin'er took out the only remaining clean bowls, divided the porridge for everyone, and sat around the main hall of Yipinxiang to eat simply.

At this time, the Qi Palace's Mansion was a painful wail.

As soon as King Qi got up, he learned that although his own person smashed a fine light in Yipinxiang last night, he didn't find anything, and he originally planned to pretend to be a robber to rob and kill all the people in Yipinxiang, but who knew that this group of people was actually taken to the palace.

King Qi couldn't help but be furious when he heard the people in the palace report that it was the hairy boy of the King of England who recommended him to the emperor, so he summoned all these killers who went out to do the mission last night early in the morning to interrogate them clearly.

King Qi held a clear teapot in his hand as usual, pursed his lips, and said nothing with a gloomy face. The dozen or so people kneeling below were all masked, their heads bowed deeply.

"Really didn't find anything last night?"

"The minions rummaged through the first pint of incense, but there is indeed none, that thing is probably not in the first pint of incense now, please see the master."

King Qi glanced at the person kneeling on the ground, took out the short knife of the butler beside him, and the knife fell, and the body of the person who spoke fell backwards in a strange posture, blood spurted out, and the butler opened his fan to block in front of King Qi.

King Qi threw away the short knife, still holding the teapot and turned away, the butler did not follow, but beckoned, and there were a few more secret guards beside him, and then there were screams in the courtyard one after another, and soon calm returned.

Yipinxiang closed the door to thank the guests, cleaned up the mess and strengthened the house, it was already two days later, this day everyone transported some of the remaining waste materials away, although the courtyard of Yipinxiang was still empty, but fortunately it was still tidy, and it was almost time to buy new furniture.

Those guards who came to help stayed in Yipinxiang for two days, and they were still reluctant to leave, and kept praising Mu Ruqing for being good and kind, and they tried their best to provide them with warm quilts and different meals after such a flying disaster, coupled with Ruan Mianmian and Liu Xin'er's careful hospitality, they were even more reluctant to leave.

Before leaving, the guards promised that they would come to patronize the business when Yipinxiang opened, and a young guard who looked white and clean blushed and gave Liu Xin'er a wood carving.

When these guards rode back to the plum garden, Ruan Mianmian pulled the cannon and came to Liu Xin'er's side: "Sister Xin'er, what are you?" ”

Liu Xin'er's face turned imperceptibly red, and then she returned to her previous arrogant and hot temperament: "This is what he paid me for his jade pendant yesterday, can't he?" ”

"Yo, these guards can be on an errand in the plum garden, all of them are martial arts masters, why did they clumsily drop your jade pendant?" Fang Cannon followed behind Ruan Mianmian and teased with a smile.

"You! I'm not going to reason with you! Liu Xin'er walked towards her room angrily, still holding the small wooden carving tightly in her hand. Mu Ruqing and Uncle Hua also came over, with smiles on their faces.

The people of Yipinxiang are very optimistic, although their home is destroyed like this, they are also angry, and they will never be depressed because of this, but will be glad that people are okay.

Everyone sent off the guards who helped and did not return to the courtyard immediately, because Jiang Xinyue had sent news from the palace before, and Jiang Xinyue also left to return to Yipinxiang at this time.

After a while, I saw a large canopy carriage slowly appear at the corner of the street, occupying two-thirds of the width of the road, with eight palace maids holding various rewards in front and behind, and two palace maids holding fans following on both sides of the carriage, so unhurriedly.

Before the carriage stopped in front of the Yipinxiang Gate, the curtain was lifted, and a fiery woman jumped out of it, which was Jiang Xinyue, who had just been named the lord of Jingshu.

Although she lived in the palace for the past two days, she did not change into a procrastinating palace dress, but still wore a fiery red dress with a slim waist, but this dress was a hundred times more delicate than what she had worn before, with a black belt and a fiery red coat, and a golden crown with a whole ruby on her head, shining in the sun.

As soon as Jiang Xinyue jumped out of the carriage neatly, Ruan Mianmian lifted the hem of her skirt and went up to hold Jiang Xinyue's hand: "Sister Yue, how is it?" Is it comfortable to live in the palace, do you miss us? ”

"Of course I miss you, I also prepared a gift for each of you, this is not the place to talk, let's go in first."

After that, Jiang Xinyue waved her hand and asked the coachman to drive the carriage back to the palace in the palace, but these palace maids who followed did not leave, but followed Jiang Xinyue and Yipinxiang's people into the courtyard.

"Why is this yard empty? Kitchen and bedroom also empty? Ruqing, do we want to decorate when we are rich? Jiang Xinyue looked at Mu Ruqing and frowned slightly.

"It's not that you're getting rich, but you've been robbed, and I'll tell you later, how will these people you brought settle down?" Mu Ruqing glanced over and looked at these palace maids again.

"Let's arrange to stay with us for the time being, the emperor and the queen mother said that they would give me a piece of land to be converted into the county lord's mansion, and let them help in Yipinxiang when the time comes, and then they will still live in the county lord's mansion." Jiang Xinyue understood and diverted the topic.

"Yo, these sisters are all palace maids in the palace, you actually asked them to help in the small restaurant, are they willing?" Ruan Mianmian was really puzzled, in her heart, these palace attendants were also arrogant, just like Gonggong De and Manager Zhan that day, although they were kind words, but the arrogance in their eyes could not be hidden, and she suddenly told her that there would be palace maids to help her in the future, she naturally didn't believe it.

Who knew that before Jiang Xinyue could answer, the eighteen palace maids had already knelt on the ground with a neat thud, and said in unison: "The slaves and maids are willing to follow the county lord, and there are no two hearts!" ”

Not only Ruan Mianmian was startled, but even Mu Ruqing and Fang Cannon were stunned for a moment, and then heard Jiang Xinyue's voice: "How many times have I said don't kneel, don't kneel, I'm not the master in the palace who will cut off your head if you don't kneel, don't salute me, tread water, help the wind, and quickly lead them to stand up." ”

The two big palace maids said "yes" and stood up with the palace maids behind.

"Okay, Sister Yue, don't murder them, I'll take them to clean up the place where they live first. Brother Mu, you first discuss the matter of the past two days with Sister Yue. Ruan Mianmian smiled at Jiang Xinyue, Jiang Xinyue also nodded, and those palace maids followed Ruan Mianmian to the second floor of the front hall.

The second floor was originally a private room of Yipinxiang, separated by screens, but now those tables have also been destroyed, so they have been changed into small cubicles one by one, or separated by screens, and each compartment has clean and tidy bedding, and the people and those guards of Yipinxiang have been crowded here for the past two days.

Originally, those Meiyuan guards brought their own bedding later, and naturally took them away when they left, after Ruan Mianmian took the palace maids upstairs, he first took them out of the new bedding and laid them, and then brought all kinds of side dishes made by Uncle Hua.

Originally, Ruan Mianmian was still nervous in her heart, afraid that the palace maids in the palace would not be used to the simple meals in the past two days, but seeing that they were all happy in their hearts, it seemed that they were really willing to leave the palace to live, so they put their minds at ease and jumped downstairs to find Jiang Xinyue in the backyard.

In the backyard, Mu Ruqing told Jiang Xinyue about the robbery of Yipinxiang, and also said that Lu Gui was the king of England and his help to Yipinxiang.

Jiang Xinyue's eyes seemed to be burning with anger: "This King of Qi is as weak as a woman in front of the emperor, I didn't expect it to be such a ruthless and vicious person!" ”

Jiang Xinyue thought for a while, and then said: "But this is secondary, as long as none of us are injured, I'm afraid I can't find any evidence now, but... The thing we hid in Yipinxiang wasn't discovered, right? ”

The thing she said was hidden by the incense, which was naturally the jade seal of the regent. At this time, Liu Xin'er was angry in her room, she didn't know what she was doing, those palace maids were resting on the second floor again, and they didn't come out, all the people in the courtyard were Yipinxiang's own people, and everyone didn't stop her from saying this, they were also worried.

"The night I came back, I quietly avoided people to take a look, and the things are still there, so I'll take you to see them." Mu Ruqing took everyone to a fragrant... Lavatory.

The courtyard of Yipinxiang is not small, in addition to the kitchen and a few people's bedrooms, on the other side is the adjacent warehouse and toilet.

As a modern person, Mu Ruqing is naturally extremely hygienic, and even has some cleanliness, this toilet is naturally not filthy at all, not a big room, open the door and go in to see several identical Gong buckets with lids neatly placed, next to a simple wooden washstand, there is an incense box on the table, a bucket of water and a wooden scoop placed below.

"Brother Mu, did you put the jade seal in the Gong bucket?" Ruan Mianmian exclaimed, made an exaggerated gesture of covering her nose, and waved her hand in disgust.

The others were also surprised, their eyes widened, and Fang Cannon also covered his nose when he learned this Ruan Mianmian's movements.

Everyone's expressions and movements made Mu Ruqing laugh heartily: "What do you think, little monkey cub, take a closer look at where I put it." ”

With that, he picked up a bucket and moved it to the side, and lifted a wooden board underneath, and under the board was not earth, but a neatly dug groove, and in it was the ebony box containing the jade seal.

Mu Ruqing opened the box, and the superb jade seal lay quietly inside, glowing with a faint luster.

In just a moment, Mu Ruqing covered the box again, laid the wooden plank, and put the gong bucket back in its place, and nothing could be seen in all this.

Everyone was afraid that others would be suspicious, so they all went out of the toilet and returned to the yard, but fortunately no one came out. If someone saw them coming out of the toilet at the same time, it wouldn't be explained.