Chapter 150: Rectifying the Inner Courtyard
Two questions in a row hit the guilt that Ji Yunyi had always felt in his heart.
Gui Mingyue was a little moved, whether it was last night or now, everything the eldest sister did was to protect herself. But she also understands Ji Yunyi's difficulties, he is a man, no matter how he ignores the world's eyes, but sometimes he is really not enough for the affairs of the inner house.
Therefore, since I am married, I have to do these bad things in the inner house by myself.
After drinking tea, it was time for Gui Jingxue to say goodbye, Gui Mingyue prepared some pastries, silks, popular ready-to-wear clothes, pen and ink, etc. from the famous shops in Bianliang City, and stuffed a carriage full of them, and Ji Yunyi sent a few entourages to escort them all the way.
When Gui Mingyue and his wife sent Gui Jingxue out of the door, the group of maids and women who had been waiting in the courtyard could no longer stand. Especially a few maids in Su Ri who are proud of their beauty and always dress up, under this hot day, they are already sweating, and the makeup on their faces is also spent, and after seeing Ji Yunyi again, some people immediately sobbed quietly, and even worse, some people fainted to the ground suddenly.
"Young Master, Young Grandma, someone fainted." Grandma Jiang came in to report.
"If anyone faints, he wakes up with water from the well." Ji Yunyi said coldly.
"Yes! Gentleman. "Grandma Jiang got the order of the eldest young master and walked out quickly, and she had already seen that these lawless little hooves were not pleasing to the eye.
After a girl named Ning'er was splashed with cold well water, no other maid dared to pretend to be dizzy.
Ji Yunyi is resting today, and he also wants to go with his daughter-in-law to see how she remediates the inner courtyard. was driven to Yunlang's small courtyard by Gui Mingyue, and at the same time gave him a task, that is, to order a group of people to watch the door of the west courtyard, and the other group to go to the mother-in-law and maid's room in the courtyard to secretly search for stolen objects.
When the noon sun was at its most poisonous, Jin Qi'er got an order from the young grandmother to let everyone go to the side hall.
The maids and ladies were like amnesties, and when they went to the side hall to see Gui Mingyue, they were much less arrogant.
Seeing the maid on the ground, Gui Mingyue took a sip of tea and said slowly: "You are in my western courtyard, and the time is not short, and you know how I treat you in the past day." Who knows that you are eating things that are outside the mouth, and say, which of those things that are missing in my treasury have been stolen? ”
Hearing Gui Mingyue come up so straightforwardly and asked, a few maids and women involved couldn't help but sigh in their hearts, could it be that this young grandmother already knew who did this?
A few people secretly took a photo, each of them was forced to calm down, and their eyes warned each other that their mouths must be closed tightly.
"What about the young grandmother's questioning, are you dumb?" Grandma Jiang reprimanded.
At this time, a grandmother got up and said, "This grandmother, we were sent by the eldest lady to the west courtyard to serve the eldest young grandmother and the eldest young master." To put it bluntly, we are all slaves, and you can't talk to us in such a tone! ”
It was Lao Qiu's family who said this, and Lao Qiu was the steward of the concierge. The old Qiu family was once a celebrity under Mrs. Ji, and served together with the two grandmothers, which was extraordinary in the position of the Hou Mansion.
Listening to the tone of such a foreign mother-in-law, I felt resentful.
Grandma Jiang was originally a master chef who made head and face jewelry under Gui Mingyue, and she started to do handiwork, which was nothing to say, but if you want to say that you are intrigued in the inner house, your mind and mouth are out of reach.
"Whew!" The silver pendant standing on the side of Gui Mingyue sneered and said, "Since the eldest lady sent her to serve people, you should have the consciousness of serving people." Grandma Jiang is the first-class grandmother of our West Courtyard, who is close to serving the eldest and youngest grandmothers, and the others, no matter what position you used to have elsewhere, in our West Courtyard, you have to call her Grandma Jiang. If you are not satisfied, our West Courtyard will not be able to accommodate your big Buddha, and we will give the eldest lady another day, please go back and forth from where. "Yin Shen'er is used to being cold, so he gives birth to a kind of momentum that is not angry but mighty, even in front of Gui Mingyue, sometimes not big or small, Jin Qi'er and tortoiseshell, are a little stunned when they see her, and they dare not make a mistake.
Lao Qiu's family was robbed by her this time, and she lost face in front of everyone, and was about to open her mouth to scold angrily.
I only heard the "click" of the tea cup of the young grandmother, and the sound of the tea cup on the table was neither light nor heavy, but it just poured out the anger of the old Qiu family.
For the pair of cool and slanting phoenix eyes of Shanggui Mingyue, the old Qiu family was also a little afraid in their hearts.
In the past, Gui Mingyue was also a decisive decision in the shopping mall, but today, in the face of this gang, the subordinates with different minds and ghosts know in their hearts that this matter is urgent.
"Since you don't talk about yourself, let's talk about others, tell me who you think will steal the treasure of my treasury, you are all in one place every day, and someone stealing will not be noticed by others." After Gui Mingyue drank the tea and owed her body, Jin Qi'er stuffed an autumn-colored embroidered peony double butterfly pillow onto the ebony carved chair, and Gui Mingyue leaned on it.
Gui Mingyue's posture was lazy, casual, and even a little leisurely, but none of the maids and women below dared to breathe a sigh of relief, just because no matter how leisurely and easy-going the young grandmother sits, her eyes were full of killing and decisiveness.
Grandma Jiang glanced at the girl with gratitude, straightened up, pointed her finger, and said, "This girl, you talk first." ”
It happened to be the daughter of the Lao Qiu family, Ning Xiang, because she was the son of the family, and her father and mother were celebrities in front of the eldest lady, so this Ning Xiang girl has always been arrogant.
"I, why do you want me to say it first......" Ning Xiang muttered a little dissatisfied, looking at her Lao Tzuniang, and the old Qiu family also desperately glanced at her.
"If you can't tell anyone else, then you stole it yourself?" Gui Mingyue suddenly said idly.
When Ning Xiang heard this, she "chuckled" in her heart, and immediately waved her hand to deny it, saying, "It's not me, it's not me." ”
"Who's that?" Gui Mingyue narrowed her eyes impatiently.
"Yes...... It's her! Ning Xiang stomped her foot and suddenly pointed with her hand.
Hongluan was pointed at by her, and she "chuckled" in her heart, first she couldn't believe it, and then she was annoyed.
"You don't have much blood! Which eye did you see me stealing my young grandmother's treasure? Hongluan pointed at her nose and scolded.
"It's you, it's you who dressed up and went to the young master to make up, hum! The last time you were scolded by the young master, you must have made such a big mistake with a grudge! Ning Xiang was complacent at her own clever inference.
This Hongluan, I have long looked at her unpleasantly. Confident that she has a bit of a posture, she scratches her head and makes a posture in the town, dangling in front of the young master, every time she sees her such a contrived posture, Ning Xiang is angry.
"Heh, grandmother, I will report it too! It was this incense that stole your night pearl...... "Xiao Nizi relied on Lao Tzu Niang to be a powerful blessing every day, and she dared to climb me today."
Hongluan said without thinking about it, and Qingxiu beside her tugged at her sleeve.
"What are you dragging me for?" Hongluan said angrily.
"You...... I didn't drag you......" Qingxiu said angrily.
Gui Mingyue sneered and said, "Night Pearl? I didn't lose my Night Pearl, I already showed it to everyone last night," Gui Mingyue looked at Hongluan, collected the smile on her face, and said, "How do you say that Ning Xiang stole my Night Pearl, or is there something else in it that I don't know?" ”
"I ......" Hongluan then realized that he was angry with Sheng Ningxiang, and he forgot about this stubble, after sneaking back from the banquet hall last night, he wondered why this young grandmother took out the night pearl at the end, this night pearl is obviously ......
"Say!" Silver pendant scolded sharply.
"I don't know, I said nonsense, I only occasionally heard a little bit of a word from the banquet hall last night, so I said it casually." Hongluan was going to bite her mouth to death, but she said horizontally and vertically, I don't know, what can this young grandmother do with her!
"Oh? casually, saying this, are you deliberately wronging others? Gui Mingyue sneered: "Hongluan, today you have committed two major crimes, corrupt character, maliciously climbing others, this is one crime; It is not a crime of disrespect for you to talk nonsense in front of your master and confuse the public. The two crimes will be punished together, and the person who comes will be dealt with according to the family rules of the Hou Mansion! ”
"Yes!" Two Ji Yunyi's guards came in from outside the door, and carried Hongluan out as if they were catching chickens.
Less leaning, there was the sound of a heavy board hitting a person outside, followed by Hongluan's heart-rending cry.
The side hall was silent, and some timid girls couldn't help but tremble.
Several mothers-in-law were even more pale, and they knew in their hearts that the young grandmother was attacking her heart. Let them testify against each other, have dislike and resentment with each other, and then use the fight between them to deal with them one by one.
Hearing that scream, Qingxiu's lips turned white, and she clenched her fists tightly, as if she felt that the board was hitting her body all at once.
The only thing to be proud of is Ning Xiang's girl, today is really a bad breath, hitting her board is cheap for her, and she should scratch her nasty face.
"Now it's time for you to tell the truth, let's all talk about it." Gui Mingyue said.
"Back to the words of the eldest and young grandmother, according to what the slave and maid saw, all the people in this courtyard are suspicious about the theft of the warehouse, especially the girls who have the opportunity to enter and leave the warehouse frequently, and they can't get out of it." It was Mrs. Cheng who spoke, she was also one of the mothers-in-law sent from the eldest lady, and she didn't talk much on weekdays, but she was also a very thoughtful person.
She can secretly guess the intentions of some young grandmothers in her heart, but who is clean here, maybe everyone will be implicated in a while, and they will all be punished and punished. In order to get away with it, I had to do this.
"You!" This old fox! The people who can have the opportunity to enter and exit the warehouse are her and Sister Shen'er, and this side is targeting them again.
"Yes, yes, Mrs. Cheng is right, if you want to talk about the suspicion of stealing, the biggest one is the two girls next to you, young grandma." Another Mrs. Zhang chimed in.
"You fart! How can we steal the things of the young grandmother," Jin Qi'er couldn't help but scold: "If Sister Shen'er and the tortoiseshell want to steal, when they return home, what good things can't be stolen, do they have to wait until they come to the Hou Mansion to steal?" ”
"Miss Qi'er, don't be impatient, we didn't specify that the girl and the tortoiseshell girl stole it, let's just talk about things." Lao Qiu's skin said with a smile.