The tenants in the grange depend on the weather for their food, and if the wind and rain are good, then they can earn two or three taels of silver a year by relying on the crops in the field. Two or three taels of silver, placed in the home of a person like Topaz, is enough to make more than half a year old.

It's just that Yunnan has been in a drought for three consecutive years, and the paddy fields are better.

For the sake of the family's livelihood, some families have to sell their biological daughters to large families like the Gu family, relying on their daughters' monthly silver for a month to maintain the family's expenses.

Mother Qin looked at Topaz who was kneeling on the ground and constantly rolling and crying, even though she was a little unbearable in her heart, she still said, "Even if you need silver, you can't do anything to murder your wife?" If you need money, you can go to your wife, and she is not such an unreasonable person, she will not sit idly by! ”

Huang Yu, who was kneeling on the ground, listened to Qin's mother say this, stopped crying, and immediately replied, "You said that Mrs. is not such an unreasonable person?" But two days ago, when I begged her to transfer me to the house to serve, she said that there was already Sister Xinghuang in the house, and there were enough people, so she let me stay in the small kitchen to serve. ”

Hearing this, Mother Qin sighed several times in a row, looked at the Liang family who was still lying on the couch, and said lightly: "Huang Yu, can't you see that this is the wife's intentional arrangement?" Everything in the small kitchen is to be spoken, and it is inevitable that some ill-intentioned guys will want to break in and do some tricks, so Mrs. will transfer you over. One is to let you supervise those cooks, and the other is to give you a chance to hone you. ”

"I didn't expect you to live up to your wife's kindness! Miss Topaz, you have disappointed her so much! As soon as Mother Qin's words fell, Xinghuang led a few stout mothers-in-law to walk in.

Xinghuang held a thing wrapped in kraft paper in her hand, handed it to Qin's mother, and said to Huang Yu: "Huang Yu, Mrs. Vain has taken care of you many times, I can't imagine that you really poisoned and murdered your wife!" Think you hide all this dirt in the cracks in the wall and no one will find out? You are underestimating this mother-in-law who came out of King Liang's Mansion behind me! ”

Mrs. Zhao, who is the leader, is the most useful person under the Liang family, and at this time, she has already asked people to grab Huang Yu from the ground, and then brought the person to Qin's mother's side, and asked, "Mother Qin, now that the wife has not woken up, you are the only one in this house who can call the shots, what to do with this little hoof who dares to murder his wife, we all listen to you." ”

"When I ask a few more questions, yours will be at your disposal. When the time comes, it's disposed of, just find a mass grave and bury it! It saved my wife from listening to it, and it chilled her, and there was a white-eyed wolf in our house! As Mother Qin spoke, she glanced at Mrs. Zhao on the opposite side, and Mrs. Zhao ordered someone to take out the clamping stick and prepare to torture Huang Yu.

"Miss Topaz, if you could honestly tell who is behind it? This flesh and skin punishment can also be less painful, and you will be left with a whole corpse directly! Mrs. Zhao said so, but she had already instructed her mother-in-law to clamp the clamp stick on Topaz's foot, but she hadn't used force yet.

Doctor Zhang saw that Mrs. Zhao and the others were going to torture Huang Yu, so it was inconvenient for him to stay in the house any longer, and after saying a few words to Qin's mother, he turned around and left the house.

"Mother Qin, it was Mingxi who was waiting in the outer courtyard who instructed me to do this! I don't know who's behind it, so how do you tell me to tell you?" When Huang Yu saw that the clamping stick had clamped his ankle, he was already panicked in his heart, and he lost his previous composure.

Mrs. Zhao is not Qin's mother-in-law, she is the mother-in-law of the rough envoy of the outer court, but she was brought out by the Liang family from the Liang Wangfu in Jinling, and when she was in the Liang Wangfu, she did such a job as forcing confessions.

As long as the prisoner doesn't speak honestly, after getting on the stick, no matter how hard your mouth is, you can pry it open, but afterwards, these two feet are really crippled. And the prisoners that Mrs. Zhao interrogated in the Jinling Liang Palace, there was no one with a thin body like Huang Yu.

After being clamped, I was afraid that Topaz would go to half of his life.

Mother Qin heard Huang Yu say this, and then ordered Xinghuang beside her, "Xinghuang, you go to the outer courtyard, find Lao Chen's steward, and ask him to check for us, is there a maid named Mingxi in the outer courtyard?" If so, tie them up for me right away! ”

Xinghuang got the order, and when she was about to step out of the house, she suddenly remembered that when she saw Lao Chen's steward two days ago, she heard that a few maids had disappeared in the outer courtyard these days, and they had not been found yet. She had seen the list of missing maids, and the Mingxi in Topaz's mouth seemed to be on top.

Xinghuang thought for a moment, but still said: "Mother Qin, that girl named Mingxi, I'm afraid I can't find it." In the past two days, a few maids have run away from the outer courtyard, and that Mingxi is among those people. What now? Do you want to go to the Yamen to report to the official? ”

"Xinghuang, you can't go to the official. We now live in the second room, and the second room and our small long room are one, and they are all surnamed Gu. If it was for such a thing, I went to report to the official, and asked the arrester to come to the house to investigate. I'm afraid of the reputation of the second room, so I should go a mile away to pick it up, and Feng Lao'an and Mrs. Cai should also hate us. Although Mother Qin was anxious about Liang's poisoning, she didn't faint and said slowly.

"Mother Qin, if you don't go to the Yamen to report to the official, what should we do? I looked at the appearance of the girl who didn't know what to do, and thought that she was also a scapegoat for others, how could I know who was behind the scenes? It's better to lock her up first, wait for everything to be clarified, and then ask her wife to convict her! Although Xinghuang hated Topaz for poisoning Liang's medicine, after knowing what happened to her, Xinghuang still felt some sympathy for her in her heart.

Instead of killing her now, it is better to save her life and atone for her sins later!

Mother Qin listened to the meaning of Xinghuang's words, she wanted to keep the girl Topaz, the girl Topaz was pitiful, but she couldn't be hated. If she wasn't really short of money, she wouldn't have done such a foolish thing with her conscience.

Mother Qin looked at Topaz, who had already cried into tears and was still whimpering, and felt compassion in her heart, so she said to Mrs. Zhao beside her: "Take this little hoof down, if Mrs. Hui wakes up and sees this little hoof, I'm afraid it will feel cold!" ”

Mrs. Zhao didn't understand what Mother Qin meant, whether to take her down and dispose of her or take her down and imprison her, and asked again, "Mother Qin, what should I do with this little hoof after I take it down?"

Mother Qin knew that Mrs. Zhao already had an idea in her heart and wanted to dispose of Topaz, but after all, Topaz was served in Liang's house, and if she wanted to dispose of it, she would have to wait for Liang to wake up and ask her what she meant.

Mother Qin walked to Liang's side, changed the handkerchief on her forehead, and instructed Mrs. Zhao: "After all, she was promoted by her wife, and she is the maid who waits in the second room, if you want to deal with her, you have to wait for your wife to wake up, ask clearly, and then deal with her!" ”

Listening to Qin's mother say this, Mrs. Zhao realized that Qin's mother wanted to save her life. In her eyes, such a maid who dares to murder her master is killed 10,000 times, and she can't get rid of her hatred.

But Qin's mother said so, and she could only do it. Mrs. Zhao instructed a few strong mothers-in-law to re-tie up the topaz and press it away.

At this time, Gu Yutang, who came to deliver ginseng to the Liang family, had already arrived, and saw that Huang Yu was escorted out of the Liang family's house by several mothers-in-law, although he was a little curious, he did not show it.

On the contrary, Ah Hua on the side saw it, but made a fuss, "Girl, look! Isn't that the topaz girl who waits in the second wife's house? How could she be tied up by Wuhuada, where is this going?"

It is said that the slave and the master have been together for a long time, and they will follow the master in character. But Ahua has served him for so many years, and he has not followed him, but he has become more and more brainless.

This is in someone else's yard, not in her own yard, such a fuss completely disgraced her face. Gu Yutang hurriedly tugged at the corner of Ah Hua's clothes, and said softly: "If you shout louder just now, I'm afraid that the whole courtyard will be able to hear it." ”