Jiang Lingran blinked, blinked again, and didn't know whether to laugh or laugh at the situation in front of him.

sighed, got up and walked to Mrs. Hou's side, took the letter from her hand, read it with three or two eyes, and said, "Where did you find the letter?" What is the Yixiang Pavilion? ”

Zeng Da saw that there was finally a calm and sober person in this room, and he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, waved his hand and said: "Mrs. Hui, this letter was nailed to the door of the mansion a quarter of an hour ago. As for the second question, Zeng Da coughed lightly with embarrassment, and said thoughtfully: "Yixiang Pavilion is a green building in the West Market. ”

Mrs. Lao Hou cried for a while, lifted her eyelids, and her eyes passed over Jiang Lingran's back, seeing that she didn't notice anything, she put her mind at ease for the time being, and scolded bitterly: "What kind of lowly beast is not as good as pigs and dogs, and actually tied my curling autumn moon Pei'er to that kind of pickled place." ”

Zeng Dada's eyes looked aggrieved, and it seemed that Meng Zhipei had been defiled by **, Mrs. Hou, pursed her lips and lowered her head.

Mother Song and Qu Lian, who was crying and hiccuping, glanced at each other, and they also bowed their heads and did not say a word.

Jiang Lingran almost laughed out loud when he heard Mrs. Hou's words, how brazen he was to be able to connect the four words of curling Qiuyue with Meng Zhipei!

What kind of person is Meng Zhipei, the people outside the mansion are tightly hidden, and the people in the mansion will not know? Looking at Zeng Da and Song's mother eating maggots, Jiang Lingran was even more cola.

Too lazy to watch Mrs. Lao Hou act, Jiang Lingran picked up the arrow and looked at it carefully, and raised his eyes to look at Zeng Da: "Can you catch the person who delivered the letter?" ”

Zeng shook his head. Not to mention catching someone, they don't even know when the arrow was nailed to the door! But I was afraid that Mrs. Hou would blame them for dereliction of duty, so I didn't mention it.

Looking at the cluster of arrows that Jiang Lingran pinched in his hand with a cold glow, Zeng said with a big face: "Madam, what should I do now?" ”

Jiang Lingran didn't answer Zeng Da, but looked at Mrs. Lao Hou and said, "Is there 50,000 taels of silver in the treasury?" Silver tickets are also fine. ”

After the marriage, Mrs. Lao Hou said that she would hand over the power of the family to her, and in the future, she would make fun of her grandson and enjoy the blessings. That's what he said, but it's just a lip service, a pair of cards, treasury keys, and even the front yard steward, the backyard slaves, the account room, the kitchen and other personnel are still firmly in the hands of Mrs. Hou.

She now has the name of the head of the family, but she has no real power, so the object of the matter after Zeng Da came in just now was Mrs. Laohou, not her.

But she still knows these days that the co-manager of the house has about 50,000 taels of cash and silver tickets in the treasury.

Mrs. Hou was covering her heart and crying about Meng Zhipei's innocence, and when she heard this, she barely stopped, and looked at Jiang Lingran with tears in her eyes: "What are you going to do?" ”

Jiang Lingran shook the letter clipped between his fingertips and said, "Redeem people." ”

Qu Lian choked up and asked, "Shouldn't you report to the official?" ”

Zeng Da nodded in agreement, and said with crossed eyebrows: "This thief dares to kidnap Master Hou, and he will die without a place to be buried!" ”

Mother Song was worried when she heard this, and hesitated and whispered: "It is credible that it is not allowed to report to the official, otherwise it will..." Because she witnessed Qu Lian's heart, Mother Song didn't dare to say anything more.

"Most of the people who dare to do such things are outlaws." Jiang Lingran said: "They dare to choose a place like Yixiang Pavilion where there are many people and let us pay the silver to ransom people, it can be seen that it is unscrupulous, if we rashly report to the official, they will jump over the wall and break the jar and fall, regardless of the injury to the Hou Ye, but what should I do?" ”

Mrs. Lao Hou trembled with fright when she heard this, shook her head and waved her hand: "No, no, no, don't report to the official, let's not report to the official, Pei'er's safety is the most important." As he spoke, he instructed Song's mother: "You go to the treasury to get the silver quickly, go quickly." ”

Mother Song said yes, and walked out of the small Buddha hall without touching the ground.

Zeng Da saw that the current situation was to break the fortune and avoid disasters, and he was private, so he said: "The letter said that the relatives had to pay the silver before they were willing to let the Hou Ye come back, this..." "Only Mrs. Lao Hou and Jiang Lingran are Meng Zhipei's relatives in this mansion, who will go to the two of them?

Mrs. Hou lowered her head and wiped her tears, but the afterglow under her half-closed eyes turned to Jiang Lingran.

Jiang Lingran noticed Mrs. Hou's gaze, and looked back, only to see her leaning over to wipe her tears, her shoulders shaking with sobbing looked pitiful and helpless, and the aggressive sharpness on her body was gone.

If you ignore the shrewd calculation in the wrinkles in the corners of the eyes that have been infected by the afterglow for a long time that day and night, Jiang Lingran will have to pity the old man in front of him.

After glancing at it, Jiang Lingran retracted his gaze, lowered his eyes, folded the letter slowly, and then said: "There are only me and my mother in the house, and I will go." ”

Hearing this, Mrs. Lao Hou suddenly lifted her eyelids, her eyes brightened, and her face showed the first look of satisfaction in the three months that Jiang Lingran had been married, and she was relieved: "Husband and wife are of the same heart, you are very good, very good." ”

In her previous life, she was used to seeing Liang Bo, but at this time, in the face of such a hypocritical old lady Hou, Jiang Lingran had suppressed the ridicule in her eyes very indifferently, and she was even inspired by the impromptu performance of the old lady just now, and she could even hang a few traces of worry and panic on her face very realistically.

Qu Lian saw that Mrs. Hou had changed her attitude towards Jiang Lingran, and she was jealous and hateful, and suddenly interjected: "Isn't our Hou Ye studying in the Poetry Academy?" Why was he held hostage to Yixiang Pavilion? ”

Mrs. Lao Hou was stunned after hearing this, and said after coming back to her senses: "Yes, there is no shortage of nurses in the poetry courtyard, how can Pei'er be held hostage?" ”

Zeng Da thought of something and exclaimed: "Could it be that the people in the poetry courtyard and the thief should be working together?" ”

Mrs. Lao Hou snorted coldly and said gloomily: "It's not impossible." The little cub whose family background is not as good as that of others has always been jealous of Pei'er. ”

Jiang Lingran listened to this reasoning, and secretly glanced at Qu Lian, the timing of this question was excellent, and it saved her a lot of tongue. After Mrs. Lao Hou finished speaking, Jiang Lingran twisted her eyebrows and said: "This is impossible, the people in the poetry academy are all children of official eunuchs, who would do such a thing?" Besides, Wang Lu was waiting in the gatehouse, if it was really done by the people of the Poetry Academy, how could they not come back to report the news? ”

Mrs. Lao Hou also knew that the matter was too big to be judged, and said: "It is not difficult to prove whether the Poetry Academy is involved or not, just send someone to give it a try." As he spoke, he looked at Jiang Lingran.

Jiang Lingran was very willing to cooperate with Mrs. Hou's eyes, nodded knowingly, and raised his voice to call: "Qingyu." ”

Qingyu was in a hurry under the corridor, and was about to enter the small Buddha hall when she heard the sound, but was stopped by the Xiang Zhu who came over, and she said, "I'll go." After settling down, Xiang Zhu entered the small Buddha hall and said, "Mrs. Hou, Mrs. ”

Jiang Lingran and Xiang Zhu's eyes briefly collided together, and then turned away.