Chapter 7 The Dog Cave Returns Innocence
Gu Zheng didn't care about Mother Chen's attitude at all, and only said to Mama Yu confidently: "Since this is the case, then I can be sure that this bag of things must not have been stolen by my mother, and I ask Mama Yu to return my mother's innocence." β
Mama Yu saw Gu Zheng's unhurried and confident appearance, and there was a look of surprise in her eyes, and then Mama Yu was not ambiguous at all, and gave Gu Zheng enough face on the spot: "Miss Gu, as long as you can show the certificate to prove your mother's innocence, the old slave will definitely help Mrs. Gu get justice and let people go away and ask the old lady to show her." β
With Mama Yu's assurance, Gu Zheng quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and then she raised her little face and looked at Mother Chen intently, and said word by word: "Mother Chen, my mother was not in Cen Mansion last night, so the thief who sneaked into Ruixiang Garden to steal things must not be her, and the mother-in-law who guarded the garden must have looked at the wrong person." β
Mother Chen said disapprovingly: "You said that your mother was not in the house last night, so she was really not there?" The mother-in-law of the second gate didn't see your mother out of the second gate all day yesterday, could it be that your mother was not in the house, but she had wings and flew out?! β
Gu Zheng was too lazy to say more to Chen's mother, so she only motioned to the spoon to move the two pots of hosta flowers in the corner, and when the dog hole in the corner appeared in front of everyone, she unhurriedly revealed the mystery: "My mother got out of this dog hole last night, stayed outside all night, and didn't come back from this dog hole until dawn." β
This Gu Liniang is good at drilling dog holes, and by drilling dog holes and taking out the things that Cen Mansion gave her to sell them as pawns, Mother Chen and others all know it, otherwise Mother Chen would not have used this reason to let Mrs. Luo set such a trap for Gu Liniang to drill.
It's just that Chen's mother thought that Gu Liniang would only drill the dog hole during the day, and she would definitely go back to Cen Mansion at night for the night, so the time when this thing was stolen would be set at night......
It's just that Chen's mother never expected that Gu Liniang would be so outrageous and never return all night after getting outβββ not to mention everyone's ladies or ladies and wives with heads and faces, even ordinary women would not dare to stay all night without returning home and staying in a pickled and dirty place like a gambling house!
It's a pity that Gu Liniang is not a beautiful lady or a woman from a good family, she is a "bad woman" who has been in the market for more than 20 years.
The situation suddenly fell to Gu Zheng's mother and daughter, making Chen's mother subconsciously worried that she would be blamed by Mrs. Luo, and she was unwilling to let Gu Liniang turn over like this!
So Chen's mother immediately said stiffly: "Miss Gu, it is understandable that you are caring for your mother, but can you take out the voucher to prove that Mrs. Gu was not in the Cen Mansion all night last night?" β
Since Gu Zheng dared to show the dog hole to prove Gu Liniang's innocence, she naturally would not be frightened by Mother Chen like this, but she immediately stretched out her finger and pointed to the spoon and the chopstick, and said unhurriedly: "The two sisters can prove that my mother did not return last night, and the Baofeng Fang outside that stayed all night for people to have fun is more than a few people who can prove that my mother did not leave Baofeng Fang all night last night and gambled in Baofeng Fang." β
As soon as Gu Zheng finished speaking, everyone present turned their heads to each other, and their eyes looked at Gu Liniang with more disdain, as if Gu Liniang had stayed in the gambling house all night and became the heinous sinner.
Fortunately, Gu Liniang didn't care what others thought of her at all, so she straightened her chest and glared at everyone viciously, and spoke arrogantly to squeeze Chen's mother: "Mother Chen, my family has already said it so clearly, do you still want to continue to wrongfully frame me and put the basin on my head?!" Don't hurry up and kneel down and kowtow to the old lady to apologize, otherwise the old lady will go to the yamen in turn to accuse you of being framed! β
Now Chen's mother has nothing to say, so she can only bend her knees hatefully to apologize to Gu Liniang, but she refuses to die when she kneels and kowtows, and finally said a sentence in the end: "Since there is such a hidden situation in the matter, then I think someone really wants to frame Mrs. Gu!" The slave and maid will go back to Madame, and ask Madame to send some more people to check last night's incident, and she will definitely not wronged the good people again. β
Chen's mother was afraid that Gu Liniang would pull her unrelentingly and insist on asking her to kowtow to apologize, so as soon as the scene was finished, she hurriedly took the group of minions and slipped away...... Because she was in too much of a hurry, before she was discharged from the hospital, Chen's mother was unprepared and tripped over the threshold, and fell to the ground with her feet on all fours in public, with a disgraced face, and clapped her hands in joy!
Let's not talk about how Mother Chen replied to Mrs. Luo after she went back, but said that after the people gathered in Tingquan Courtyard dispersed, Gu Liniang quietly pulled Gu Zheng aside, avoiding the two spoons and chopsticks and whispered: "Nannan, Mrs. Luo doesn't look like a good person, I think we should leave Cen Mansion quickly, so as not to provoke right and wrong for no reason!" β
If there had not been a framing and being slighted by Zhou Chun, Gu Zheng might have agreed to Gu Liniang's proposal and chose to leave when he couldn't stay in Cen Mansion. But now that these two things have happened one after another, Gu Zheng has to think about it carefully, and he doesn't dare to make a rash decision before he thinks it clearly......
After Gu Zheng pondered the matter before and after, his face gradually became solemn: "Mother, I look at Mrs. Na Luo and seems to want to kill you, otherwise Mother Chen will not send you to see the official as soon as she comes up!" Think about it, with the relationship between the Cen family and the government, if you want to use the government to punish people to death, isn't it as simple as pinching an ant to death?! β
Although Gu Liniang also has a lot of bends in her stomach, her bends and bends are completely unrelated to the house fight, so she got Gu Zheng's reminder and thought about it for a while before she suddenly realized: "Nannan, do you mean that sending the official is just an excuse, and Mrs. Luo actually wants my life?!" β
Gu Zheng nodded, and gave Gu Liniang an approving look, as soon as Gu Liniang got Gu Zheng's encouragement, she immediately spontaneously used her brain and said: "Since we have guessed that Mrs. Luo wants my life, then we will continue to stay in Cen Mansion, won't it be in vain to give her the opportunity to harm us?" β
This review Zheng shook his head and denied Gu Liniang's words, and carefully analyzed with Gu Liniang: "You are wrong this time, if we continue to stay in Cen Mansion, maybe we can still have a chance to live, after all, Mrs. Luo still has to take care of Mrs. Tai's side, and dare not blatantly move to get rid of us!" But if we take the initiative to leave the Cen Mansion, then Mrs. Luo will have no scruples. β
There is another thing Gu Zheng didn't want Gu Liniang to worry about, so he didn't say itβββ if they left the Cen Mansion and lost the umbrella of Mrs. Tai, if Zhou Chun learned about it, it was very likely that he would bully people and rob her to the Zhou family as a waiter!
She doesn't want to become Zhou Chun's perverted plaything!
Although Zhou Chun's side was just a possibility and speculation, Gu Zheng didn't want to take risks casually, so at the moment, they couldn't leave the Cen family no matter what......
After analyzing the current situation, Gu Zheng had a trace of calmness on his face that did not match his age, and said decisively to Gu Liniang: "We can't leave Cen Mansion no matter what, at least we have to wait for Mrs. Tai to come back and figure out her purpose for bringing us to Cen Mansion before making plans!" If you can, it's best to ask Mrs. Tai to come forward and settle us down at that time. β
So in the following days, Gu Liniang never drilled the dog hole again, and stayed in Tingquan Courtyard honestly. And although Gu Zheng didn't take another half step out of Tingquan Courtyard, she begged Spoon and Xiao'er to find out the news for her, especially the date when Mrs. Cen returned home......
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The weather was a little bad on this day, and the sunlight should have fallen from the sky at this hour, but at this moment, the four corners of the eaves that were like paper-cuts attached to the gray sky were pressed with billowing black clouds, which made the light in this small world in the courtyard very dim, and even made some courtyards hang lanterns under the porch early.
Little by little, the rolling black clouds pressed down to the ground, and the birds hanging under the verandah were restless, fluttering their wings and jumping around irritably...... But it didn't rain all the time on this day, and it only made the weather very stuffy, which made Gu Zheng, who was lying on the windowsill, a little irritable for no reason.
I saw Gu Zheng fanning the fan vigorously and complaining to the spoon: "When will this rain fall?" If you are so gloomy and stuffy, you have to suffocate people! This dragon lord is really unhappy, and he squirms like a little lady when it rains! β
Gu Zheng's complaints and metaphors made the spoon laugh out loud: "Yes, this dragon king really doesn't give our girl face, and our girl has been chattering all day and it doesn't spill the rain happily!" β
It was really a coincidence, and before the words fell, there was a "crackling" sound like fried beans outside...... The sound sounded like a bean-sized raindrop hitting the eaves, and Gu Zheng was so happy that he immediately poked his head out happily to look, and when he raised his eyes, he saw that the ground was already wet, and the raindrops were getting bigger and bigger, but in the blink of an eye, there were pools of rain in the yard.
Seeing this, Spoon immediately closed the open window with his hands and feet, and then looked at the courtyard that gradually became white and said, "Come on!" Lord Long has given you face now, and it has rained down on you in one breath! β
"It's better to rain heavily than to keep the clouds on the top and the rain to fall, right?" Gu Zheng stood under the eaves and admired the rain, and said casually: "This rain is falling so quickly and heavily, presumably the people who originally walked around the house must have all hid now, and they will not go out at will......"
"The masters will not move around at will anymore if they are fine, but the slaves and maids should be on errands or where they should be on errands," said the spoon, pointing to the ladle who had already put on the coat and a big oil umbrella, and said, "Look, the master is going to the kitchen to bring dinner to the girl, you and your wife, you can't make the masters hungry when it rains, right?" β