Text Chapter 51: First Sight
Should we be moved by being so blindly trusted, or should we iron it like a pat on the chest? Anyway, Yi'er will think it's a little ridiculous!
The carriage stopped outside the Weeping Flower Gate, Yi'er got out of the car first, and then instructed Lan Qiao to take a set of clothes for the servants in the inner courtyard and let Zhuang Xiu change in the carriage, and then Lan Qiao led Zhuang Xiu to Dongnuan Pavilion to settle down.
said that as soon as Yi'er entered the inner courtyard, she was blocked by the big girl Juxiang beside the Li family, saying that the Li family called Yi'er to go over and talk back.
Li's side originally only had two close big maids of Zhihua Liuying, and after Liuying was given to Yi'er, there was only one Zhihua left, and this chrysanthemum was added to Qingli later.
Yi'er saw Ju Xiang, and her heart chuckled, without Ju Xiang's hint, she had guessed that the news of Du Ziwu's imprisonment had reached the ears of the Li family, she had some doubts in her heart, when she went out of the mansion to Yunfu, she had strictly ordered all the servants in the inner courtyard to follow the girl, not to chew the root of the tongue, and never to pass the news to the Li family in the main house, but obviously, her words, some people did not take it to heart!
Fortunately, Li is open-minded, and she is not a weak woman who has not experienced anything, when Yi'er arrived at the main house, although Li was worried, but her face was still calm and calm, and she only asked about the process of the matter and Yi'er and Qin Guosan's thoughts on how to deal with this matter, so she let Yi'er deal with it herself, and she didn't have to worry about her.
After returning to Dongnuan Pavilion, Yi'er asked who leaked the news in front of the Li family, Qing Li pondered for a while, and then said softly: "The servants of the main house have greeted Mama Xu in advance, Mrs. is now pregnant, and it is at the critical time of the first three months, I want to come to those who know the severity, and they will never go to Mrs. to talk nonsense, besides, Mrs. has always been the sister of Zhihua herself, and it is not difficult for others to show their faces in front of Mrs., But if you want to avoid the sister and Mrs. Zhihua being alone, it is almost impossible to even talk to each other! ”
Yi'er said: "Zhihua has a stable temperament, this matter will not be said by her mouth, so who else has been to the main house and seen her mother?" ”
Qing Li glanced at Yi'er, lowered her voice and said: "After Miss went out, only one person has been to the main house, and that is Sister Liuying, but she didn't see Madame, and the slave didn't know!" ”
Yi'er was furious, and immediately slammed the teacup in her hand to the ground.
The blue and white teacups shattered to the ground, porcelain slag splashed all over the room, and the tea in the cups splashed everywhere, some even splashed on Qingli's feet.
Qingli and Lufu are all in the house, they have followed Yi'er, how have they ever seen Yi'er make such a big fire? At the moment, they were all startled, and they hurriedly knelt on the ground, not daring to make a sound.
Yi'er took two deep breaths, settled her emotions, and then said: "Get up, this matter has nothing to do with you, Qingli will clean up the house, Lufu will go to the front yard to wait, and as soon as Qin Lao comes back, he will invite someone to me over!" ”
The two girls hurriedly answered, got up separately, and went to do things according to Yi'er's instructions.
Yi'er was bored, so she went to the bookshelf and pulled out the book, but she wanted to read it but couldn't read it at all, but fortunately, it didn't take long for someone from the gatehouse to come in and report that the shopkeeper of Wanhuazhai in the city, Kang Niangzi, was asking to see her outside the door!
Yi'er was surprised, this Kang Er shopkeeper Kang Hua she naturally remembered, at that time she had just arrived in Beikai with Du Ziwu and his wife, Li took her to the city's largest jewelry silver building Wanhuazhai to choose some jewelry heads, at that time I met Zhu Gui's Aunt Tao and Zhu Yuxin, and also had some conflicts for a pair of heads worth eight hundred taels, at that time it was this Kang Niangzi who came forward to avoid the deterioration of the conflict and escalation, when Kang Hua wanted to sell the head to Yi'er for five hundred taels of silver, and was rejected by Yi'er, the next day this Kang Niangzi actually came to the house to meet, brought another more gorgeous head to send Yu Yi'er to make amends, and in the end, it was Li who left that gorgeous head face with eight hundred taels of silver, and the matter came to an end.
But since then, Yi'er and this Kang Niangzi have not had much contact, even Wanhuazhai, Yi'er has never been to again, Kang Niangzi chose this time to come to the house to see, what will it be for?
Yi'er asked Kang Hua to lead her into the reception hall, but what she didn't expect was that Kang Hua didn't come alone, and there was a maid who came with her, which is not surprising, the strange thing is that this maid turned out to be a man, and this man Yi'er also knows, it is Zhu Youzhen!
Seeing Kang Hua and Zhu Youzhen appear together, Yi'er suddenly figured out a question that she had not understood before.
At the beginning of Wanhuazhai, Li and Yi'er's mother and daughter had a conflict with Zhu Gui's Aunt Tao and Zhu Yuxin, just after going out, Zhu Youzhen stepped forward to apologize and atone, Yi'er felt strange at the time, Zhu Youzhen was Zhu Gui's sister-in-law, even if he was no longer favored, he would not accompany an aunt and sister to visit the jewelry and silver building, and he came so quickly and so coincidentally, Yi'er didn't understand it at the time, this would naturally suddenly open up, but it turned out that this Zhu Youzhen was familiar with Kang Hua, I'm afraid that Zhu Youzhen was not accompanied by Aunt Tao and Zhu Yuxin to Wanhuazhai at all, but went to look for Kanghua, and then happened to run into Li and Yi'er!
Yi'er's conjecture was quickly confirmed, but what she still didn't expect was that Zhu Youzhen was not just familiar with Kang Hua at all, that Wanhuazhai turned out to be an industry secretly cultivated by Zhu Youzhen, that is to say, Zhu Youzhen was actually the behind-the-scenes boss of Wanhuazhai and the owner of Kang Hua!
Speaking of which, just a few days ago, the Wang family shop was also Yier's first property in the outside, and Yier also knew in her heart that with her current status, it would be very simple to set up a few properties outside, but to ensure that these industries can make money, it is true that they can't make money, at least they can't lose money, that's another matter, if you say that like Wanhuazhai, to be the biggest and best in the entire North Kaecheng, this is not something that can be determined by status and identity!
The so-called business in business, into this industry, you have to follow the law of the rise and fall of this industry, Zhu Youzhen is the son of an official eunuch, can run Wanhuazhai to the current scale, where can it be a simple thing?
However, Yi'er has never looked down on Zhu Youzhen, on the contrary, she has always been a little jealous of this person, and always feels that this person is not very old, but his scheming is too deep, and he is not a person who can talk deeply!
Zhu Youzhen's appearance was already handsome, but he was even more delicate in women's clothes, if Yi'er hadn't seen this person a few times, he would not have thought that this was a man for a while!
Zhu Youzhen came with a piece of news.
Du Ziwu had said before that the reason why Tang Wang insisted on the system of isolation camp was actually because of a secret letter and account book left by Wang Hong, the former governor of Lianzhou, and later it was pointed out that the secret letter and account book may have been taken out of the isolation camp!
Although Du Ziwu and Yi'er have never figured out how the Beikai Isolation Camp, which was strictly guarded and isolated by the Xizhi Army, could be taken out unknowingly, but what Zhu Youzhen has brought is more accurate news, the person who sneaked out of the isolation camp with the secret letter account book is Dong Qing!
Although he did not disclose the source of the news, Yi'er felt in his heart that the news was very likely to be true, because this just explained why it was not the soldiers of the county government who rounded up Dong Qing, but the soldiers of the Xizhi battalion led by Wei Ling himself!
After sending Zhu Youzhen and Kang Hua away, Yi'er immediately asked someone to call Zhuang Xiu.
Facing Yi'er's inquiry, Zhuang Xiu said: "The second brother has indeed entered the isolation camp!" The young lady knew that the man from the slave family had only been dead for a few months, but what the young lady didn't know was that he had actually died in the isolation camp. ”
Yi'er was stunned, she really didn't know how Zhuang Xiu's husband died, because she never thought that the cause of death of the man named Zou Tong would be related to today's events!
Zhuang Xiu continued: "My man went to the countryside to pull vegetables in the morning, and when he returned to the city at noon, he happened to meet a group of refugees, and it was so coincidental that a large number of officers and soldiers came at that time, and those officers and soldiers indiscriminately arrested people as refugees, and my man was so unlucky to be arrested in the isolation camp!" ”
Later, the second brother entered the city, and after knowing it, he went to explore the isolation camp outside the city several times, and the first few times he returned because of the strict guards, and the last time, he successfully sneaked in. The slave family remembered that it was a rainy night, and the slave family waited in the woods outside the city to answer, and it was not until the next day when the second brother came out with a burden that was almost dawn, and the slave family asked if he had seen my man, and the second brother only shook his head, but his eyes were red, obviously he had cried, and the slave family was not asking, but his heart was very clear! ”
"The second brother is a real man, he has grown so big, the slave family has only seen him cry once, that is, when He Pingyao led the army of the Western Direct Battalion to break through the Longqingshan Cottage, that time, his eldest brother and sister, and many former brothers and sisters died, and the second brother cried afterwards, crying heartbreakingly, not to hide from Miss that the slave family has lived so big, and I have never seen a man cry so sadly! Other than that, the slave family had never seen the second brother cry, so when they saw the second brother's expression that day, the slave family knew that my man was afraid that he would have died in the isolation camp a long time ago! ”
Yi'er bit her lip and asked, "Then do you remember where is the satchel that Dong Qing brought out of the isolation camp at that time?" ”
Zhuang Xiu shook his head and said, "Where was the slave family still in the mood to ask about the satchel at that time?" If it weren't for the fact that the second brother went in empty-handed, and there was such a thing on his body after he came out, the slave family would have some impressions, otherwise I was afraid that I wouldn't remember this matter for a long time, and the second brother didn't mention the shoulder bag to the slave family in the future, could it be that there was something important in the shoulder bag? ”
Yi'er stared at Zhuang Xiu for a few moments, and then said slowly: "The reason why your second brother was rounded up by Wei Ling and others is that the root cause is in that satchel, do you say it is important?" ”