Chapter 24: House Arrest
Leisurely outside the courtyard, two figures are busy.
"Miss, have you noticed something big going on in the house lately?" Xiaocao approached Wen Yi's entourage, and after making sure that there was no one around, she asked in a low voice.
"Nope." Wen Yisui concentrated on the work at hand, and his answer was a little perfunctory.
"None? Miss, you're too slow, aren't you? Xiaocao looked at her young lady incredulously, she thought she was like her, and she had found out early in the morning.
Wen Yisui sighed lightly, put down the small shovel in his hand, looked at Xiaocao and said seriously: "Xiaocao, it seems that I haven't left since I lived in this leisurely courtyard, right?"
Youran Courtyard, it was she who got the name for her new courtyard, because it was her own opinion, and the name of the courtyard was not approved by anyone, so there was no plaque in the courtyard, and only she and Xiaocao knew that it was called.
Xiaocao didn't speak, and nodded slightly.
"You're the only person I can meet here, right?" Wen Yi asked again.
Xiaocao still didn't speak, only nodded.
"In that case, why do you think I should know what's going on in the mansion lately?" The people she could see, except for Wen Yiyu and others who came to the door to find fault a few days ago, there was only grass left, and she had no way of knowing what was going on in the house.
"That seems to be the case." Xiaocao is a bit of an afterthought.
"It's good to understand, come, put a seed in this pit." Wen Yi signaled, and Xiaocao immediately threw seeds into the pit.
"Xiaocao, do you think I can succeed this time?" After the seed was thrown in, Wen Yi covered it with dirt, watered it, and turned his gaze to the grass.
"I don't know, I guess it can." Facing her young lady's inquiring gaze, Xiaocao replied a little hesitantly.
You must know that Wen Yisui also asked her the same question three days ago, and she answered quite definitely at that time, but three days have passed, and none of the seeds they have worked hard to plant have sprouted, so she doesn't know how to answer the same question at this time.
"No, you should have answered in the affirmative like last time." Warmth retorted.
"Miss, I will definitely be able to grow vegetables this time." Xiaocao was very knowledgeable and immediately changed her words.
Wen Yisui nodded with satisfaction, and the children can be taught.
"Miss, don't you care about what's going on in the house?" Seeing that Wen Yisui didn't seem to care much about the affairs of the house, Xiaocao was a little anxious, as a young lady in the Wen Mansion, her own young lady couldn't know nothing, so she took the initiative to ask this question again.
"I don't care about anything that doesn't concern me, so instead of wasting that time, why don't I do more research on how to grow vegetables?" Warmth continues to loosen the soil.
She stared at the buried pit, wondering in her heart, she remembered that it was easy to grow vegetables, just sow a handful of vegetable seeds on the ground and water them regularly, but why did she not bear fruit when she did it last time? She had to change her way this time, a few seeds and a pit like this.
"Miss, you haven't even asked, how do you know that the matter has nothing to do with you?"
Wen Yisui didn't speak, she frowned and thought for a moment, and then stopped what she was doing and looked at Xiaocao in surprise, as if asking, is it related to me?
Xiaocao knew that her young lady's interest was coming, so she hurriedly spoke, for fear that her young lady's interest in coming would suddenly disappear.
"This matter has to start with the incident a few days ago when the second lady slandered the young lady for stealing things." Xiaocao shook her head, like a storyteller.
"Didn't the second miss slander Miss for stealing things at the beginning? In the end, it was proved that the young lady did not steal anything, and the lady also gave the young lady a lot of things as comfort. ”
A few days ago, the Bai family did send a lot of things to Wen Yisui, Wen Yisui was not pretentious, she accepted them all, who told her to be innocent now, don't be a fool.
However, the other party never mentioned Wen Yisui's innocence, let alone apologize, but since the Bai family sent things afterwards, Wen Yisui did not continue to investigate, in her opinion, even if she continued to pursue it, she would not be able to pursue a satisfactory result, so it was better to pass it like this.
And when people saw that the Bai family had sent things to Wen Yi, it was silently that Wen Yi was wrong, but she had to take care of her Miss Wen's face, and what was slandered was just an insignificant concubine, so it was inconvenient to put this matter on the table.
"Go on." Wen Yi thought back to what had happened that day.
"It stands to reason that this matter should end here, but what is surprising is that not only did it not end, but it also extended to the outside of the house, and it is said that now people outside are rumoring that Miss is stealing, and she used to be a habitual thief." Speaking of this, Xiaocao was very angry, what kind of people are outside, they slandered her miss like this, do they know her miss? Have you ever spent time with her? No, why are they the same.
"People outside think I'm stealing?" Wen Yi watched Xiaocao repeat, and for some reason, when she heard that she was slandered and stolen outside the house, the figure of that person immediately appeared in her mind.
"Yes." Xiaocao nodded sadly.
"Because people outside the house said that I stole something, what is the situation in the house? Are you going to punish me? "What she knew about what Mama Cai told her, everything is important for the face of the Wen Mansion, don't do anything that damages the face of the Wen Mansion, in short, for the sake of the Wen Mansion, she must obey the arrangements of the Mansion.
"Not for the time being, Madame is now investigating who spread this matter outside the house." Because of this incident, many people in the house were interrogated, so she had the opportunity to know so much detail.
"Did you find it?" Wen Yi got up and shook her legs, her legs were numb after squatting for too long, and if she didn't get up and move, she would have to be helped away after a while.
"No, because there are so many people who know what happened that day, I can't find out who first told the story." Unable to find the murderer, Xiaocao felt that it was a pity that she couldn't give a heavy punishment to the person who slandered her young lady, so that person knew what trouble came from the mouth.
"It's normal, after all, so many people know about it, and I don't know if the person who spread the news was intentional or unintentional."
After shaking her legs, Wen Yi was ready to go back, after knowing this, she was no longer in the mood to continue planting things, she had to think about it now, because of her, something happened that damaged the face of Wen Mansion, why didn't Bai come to the door to blame her for the first time, but helped her find out the murderer.
"Miss, this dish is no longer grown?" Xiaocao got up and followed.
"I'm done, let's plant the others tomorrow." After going back, Xiaocao fetched a basin of water for Wen Yisui, and she wanted to serve her to wash her face and hands, but she was refused.
"It's okay, you can put the towel away, I'll just come by myself." She's not really a young lady, and she's not used to asking for help with simple things.
After finishing it, Wen Yisui took a sip of tea, and then took out the small transparent stone from the sachet, she originally wanted to give it a name, after all, it plays an important role in the later routine, but she couldn't think of a suitable name for a while, so she had to use the small stone to live temporarily.
Holding the small stone in the palm of his hand, there was immediately a cool feeling in his hand, and his heart, which was still confused and uneasy, began to slowly calm down.
"Xiaocao, you go and rest first."
After calling Xiaocao down, Wen Yisui began to fall into deep thought.
The Bai family was busy for a long time, but they still didn't find out who spread the matter, and when they arrived at Wen Zhengqing, they would inevitably be scolded.
But compared to being scolded, she is more worried about Wen Yiyu, she is rude and willful and does not listen to persuasion, she is afraid that she will really get into trouble one day.
So before going to Wen Zhengqing again, she found her first.
"Mother, why are you here?" Seeing Bai Shi coming to find her, Wen Yiyu rushed to her side, and finally brought a smile on her face, which had been gloomy for the past few days.
"Come and see you." Bai Shi put his arm around her, and like her, she also smiled when she had not had a good time in the past few days.
After the mother and daughter exchanged pleasantries for a while, it was Wen Yiyu who entered the topic first.
"Mother, you have been in the house for the past few days...... Do you want to restore that concubine's innocence? Wen Yiyu asked hesitantly, but the general meaning was that the Bai family understood.
"No, I want to clear your name." If he doesn't stand up for the truth, his husband will be the first to suspect her, and his second suspicion is his daughter, after all, from the point of view, the two of them are the most suspicious.
"For me?" Wen Yiyu didn't understand a little, shouldn't she settle things down for her sake, or simply sit that thing down?
"Yes, you have to believe that my mother did this for you." Bai Shi took Wen Yiyu, and there was a trace of unpleasant tiredness on his face.
"Mother, you don't want to lie to me, do you?" Wen Yiyu came out of Bai's arms, looking at her eyes full of doubts, she really couldn't understand what she did for her good?
It's obviously the worst behavior for her, doesn't she know that she did that, and people outside are saying that her reputation can't compare to the reputation of a humble concubine?
At this time, Bai was sad.
"There are some things that I can't tell you, but you have to believe that my mother is doing this for your own good." Bai Shi turned his head away from her, she didn't want her to see the sadness in her eyes.
"Mother, you can't find a reason to use this trick to perfunctory me, right?" Wen Yiyu's words were excessive, it was because she didn't believe that her mother would be in distress at all, because she was the biggest in the backyard of this Wen Mansion.
"Yu'er, you...... You've really let me down. After saying this, Bai got up and prepared to leave.
"I disappointed my mother, so who gave my mother hope? Is it my sister, or is it that ugly bastard? Wen Yiyu looked aggressive, which made Bai's heart a lot colder.
Kuzhu couldn't stand it anymore, so she persuaded: "Miss, you just say a few words."
"Shut up, there's no place for you to talk here." Wen Yiyu looked at the stunned withered beads with a straight face, she was not her, nor was she her mother, and she didn't know what gossip she had suffered, and what qualifications she had to teach her.
Not to mention Kuzhu, Bai was also frightened by her daughter, she looked at Wen Yiyu who shook her face in disbelief, and the shock in her eyes slowly turned into disappointment.
She sighed, for her own good, she hadn't come out recently, so she couldn't hear a trace of emotion in a light tone.
"If you don't understand, stay in the house and think about it until you figure it out."
This was said very tactfully, but everyone present understood, Wen Yiyu was under house arrest in disguise.