Chapter XVII
Hou Ye reprimanded: "These two letters were given to me by her, this is not evidence of her fornication with Lu Zhou at all, but evidence that you Xie Yuyuan framed her!" ”
Seeing that Hou Ye was so angry that he stopped talking, Shu Ying defended himself: "The letter paper used in my room and sent by me has always been the worst kind of shengxuan, you can go to Shentu's house to verify; The paper used for this false letter is delicate and thick, and it is a fine flower. ”
Xie Yuyuan retorted reluctantly: "It is impossible to fake the handwriting!" Do you dare to copy another copy in front of us and let Master Hou identify it? ”
Shuying took the forged letter and calmly copied it with Shengxuan, and sure enough, it was very different from the handwriting they imitated.
"You deliberately changed your penmanship to make the two handwriting different! I don't admit it! Xie Yuyuan was already angry, and she was like a mad dog biting the handwriting, a life-saving straw.
Shuying smiled helplessly, and called An Yue again and asked her to copy it too, but it was eight or nine points similar to the cursive handwriting on the fake letter.
"A few days ago, there were a few letters that I did not write by myself, but when I was bedridden by the cold, I asked An Yue to write on my behalf. As for the handwriting I wrote on the birth announcement today, you can let Mr. Suiyun and the porter's Xiaoshun come to identify it. On that day, Mr. Suiyun watched me write a letter to my family in the concierge room, and he sealed and sent it to Shentu's house, and there would be no mistake. ”
"Yun Gongzi? Oh, ridiculous! How can he help you? Xie Yuyuan scoffed. Indeed, Lu Qi has always been upright and never pays attention to these trivial matters. But this time, the situation is different after all.
"On the evening of the second day of the first month of August, I personally went to the concierge to ask Xiaoshun and happened to meet him." Shuying calmly told the truth.
Hou Ye immediately sent someone to invite Lu Qi and Xiaoshun. Lu Qi compared the two handwritings and recognized the handwriting of the shadow girl.
Xiaoshun testified that Yun Gongzi did not favor anyone, "It was indeed the shadow girl who wrote a good family letter in front of Gongzi that day, and directly encapsulated ......"
At this point, he stopped abruptly, sweating on his forehead.
Xie Yuyuan had already held Xiao Shun in his hand before, glared at him and said fiercely, "Why didn't you say it?" It can be seen that it is nonsense! Master Hou, don't believe them! The nephew and daughter-in-law are dedicated to the Huaiyong Marquis Mansion, and they are exhausted, and everyone sees it. Such a big thing, how could I fabricate it out of thin air and ruin the reputation of the Lu family! ”
Lu Tongyi has been a parent for decades, so naturally he will not listen to and believe partially, but let Xiaoshun say truthfully, "If someone threatens you, can you make sure that she will not unload the mill and kill the donkey?" ”
Xiao Shun trembled and told the truth: "Earlier that day, the little ones were indeed broken away by the apricot fragrance, and those letters left my eyes...... After a while, I realized that something was wrong, Shadow Maiden's letter had already been moved! The little one didn't dare to tell a lie in front of the Hou Ye! ”
"And then?"
Later, ......" Xiaoshun didn't dare to confess Xie Yuyuan, his heart was tormented, and he suddenly sweated like rain.
"I thought someone was making a hindrance, so I specially asked," Lu Qi pushed the boat down the river and took the words, "Second sister-in-law, fortunately, your actions were finally discovered by me, otherwise you went to the government to falsely accuse the shadow girl of committing ten heinous crimes, and you have to wait and sit back, and the death penalty will not escape!" ”
Xie Yuyuan still wanted to defend herself, but Xingxiang suddenly came in from outside, knelt down in front of the Hou Ye and explained everything that had happened, and identified Taohong as the person who imitated the handwriting of Shuying and forged letters.
Under the protection of her master, even if she is not afraid of heaven and earth, she will be afraid of death, so she has to admit: "Master Hou, this is all forced by the second grandmother!" Several of our family members are in Xie Mansion, and the second grandmother said that if they don't do what she wants, they will all have to worry about their lives! ”
The human and physical evidence all pointed to Xie Yuyuan, and she was the one who arranged all this.
Two months ago, Lu Zhou raped a maid in the Hou Mansion, and the maid had a strong temperament, so she committed suicide by throwing herself into the river. Her family asked the Hou Mansion for a hundred taels of silver to burn and bury, otherwise they would go to the government to denounce Lu Zhou.
Usually, the maid's buried silver is only twenty taels at most, and this hundred taels is spent, and if someone asks about it in the future, he will definitely be suspicious. Although Xie Yuyuan is in charge of the silver account book with one hand, he can't always drag this matter on, so he has to find a way to find a way to make up for the silver taels from elsewhere and not let the bad deeds be recorded in the account.
Xie Yuyuan originally planned to let Lu Zhou defile Xie Shuying, and then blackmail her and the Shen Tu family, and gave the silver to the maid's family, and also let Xie Shuying also be under her control, killing two birds with one stone, who knew that their plan had already been discovered by Xie Shuying, but let her calculate herself!
Lu Tongyi stood up and pointed at Xie Yuyuan and Lu Zhou and his wife and scolded: "You beasts! Those pickled things I did in the past, my old man wanted to protect the reputation of the Hou Mansion, and he didn't want to pursue it; But you still want to harm others, I will do good deeds for the sake of accumulating virtue today, and if I don't hand you over to the officials, it will be considered that I have done my best to be benevolent and righteous!
"From today on, your power will be handed over to the third room, and you will have to kneel in the Lu family ancestral hall every day in the future, I will send someone to watch you kneel for three hours, and you can reflect on your mistakes to your ancestors and ancestors, and atone for their sins!
"The master and servant of the two rooms and the four rooms, all those who participate in it, each of them will be given three years of silver rice, and every year they will go to the Zhuangzi below to do agricultural work for three months! Taohong and Xiaoshun were each punished with twenty canes and expelled from the Hou Mansion; The apricot cane is punished by ten, and it is left for the photo girl to fall! ”
The cane punishment of the Hou Mansion was carried out by the soldiers of the Hou Mansion of Huaiyong, and those soldiers of the Mansion were all brave warriors trained by the Hou Ye himself, and they were seriously injured or killed at the slightest point, and the number of twenty rods was very sufficient.
After Lu Tongqi and the Sifang couple left, someone immediately came to drag Xiaoshun, Taohong and Xingxiang away.
Xie Yuyuan listened to them screaming and pleading, and realized that she was also at the end of her crossbow. She still refused to admit defeat, and asked Shuying fiercely: "Why are those two fake letters in the hands of Hou Ye?" ”
"Big sister can arrange eyeliner by my side, and I can also install someone next to my sister myself."
And this person is none other than Lu Xiuqin, who followed Xie Yuyuan to learn talent and etiquette.
"People's hearts are kind, Xiuqin also has her own judgment of right and wrong, and she will never watch good people be wronged in vain!"
At the beginning, Lu Yang and the Liu couple in the third room showed their prejudice against Shuying in the mourning hall, just because they didn't know her character before; On the contrary, it is the two "sisters" who defend her everywhere on the surface, such as Xie Yuyuan and Xie Yujiao, who are the ones who really have bad intentions towards her.
Xie Yuyuan looked at Lu Qi, who was watching coldly, suddenly hooked the corners of her mouth, and said with a smile: "You two are the same sanctimonious, friends are treacherous, I have seen everything in my eyes and remembered it in my heart!" Tomorrow...... I will not let you die well! ”
Seeing that she didn't repent no matter what, Shuying was emotional and walked towards Xie Yuyuan, but was stopped by Lu Qi's eyes.
Xie Yuyuan was enraged by her move, took advantage of the situation to break the vase in the room, picked up a broken porcelain piece and hit her.
Lu Qi reacted quickly and stepped forward to protect Shuying. Shuying only felt that it was dark in front of him, and exclaimed "ah", his hands unconsciously clutching his clothes.
"I still have a competitive hibiscus, and there will always be a day when I will come out in the future. Sister, don't blame my sister for not reminding you today, you have nothing in the Hou Mansion, you must be very careful in the future, don't be deceived again! Hahaha! ”
Xie Yuyuan saw that she had not succeeded, and returned with hatred.
When there was no more noise around, Shuying woke up like a big dream, and let go of his hands, "Mr. Suiyun, are you okay?" ”
Lu Qi didn't answer, just backed away from her. When I walked into the light, I found that I couldn't dodge just now, and my clothes were torn. The forearm was scratched and was already bleeding.
Shuying saw the bright blood, her eyes trembled, and then she realized how cowardly she was just now, and she actually asked Lu Suiyun to block the knife for herself.
"It turns out that you will also be scared sometimes."