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The hall was brightly lit, Mrs. Tang sat on the main seat, and Mrs. Tang was invited. When the old lady's people just went to invite her, she was still a little weak-hearted, after all, she sent someone to the third child to raid the house, although there were some excuses, but this point was found by the old woman, thinking that she saw through this matter. On the way, she thought about it, but she didn't feel afraid: "What's the matter with my mother sending her daughter-in-law so late?" ”

"Is it late? Your people are hustle and bustle, I thought it was dawn or Chinese New Year's Eve? ”

"What did my mother say? Just now there was a thief in the daughter-in-law's yard, and there was a lot of things missing in the small storehouse, and they chased them out, and now they just want to find out the thief, so as not to keep the scourge in the Zhuangzi. ”

"This thief is too bold!" Chen Biyan slowly took a sip of tea: "Caught?" ”

"Not yet."

"I'm afraid it's hard to find, our Zhuangzi is a handyman who carries water, and he is better than the second- and third-rate masters on the rivers and lakes. If you can steal in your yard, you're not an ordinary person. ”

"But isn't it, that's why the daughter-in-law is strictly investigated."

"What's the matter?"

"Of course, it's along the route of the thieves' escape, one by one, and check one place at a time."

"This thief is really stupid, waiting for those mothers-in-law in your house who don't know martial arts to catch him?"

Mrs. Tang was speechless for a moment.

"And how did I hear that I wasn't going to search for thieves, but like I was going to raid my house?"

"How, of course it's a thief, I don't know which subordinate who is dissatisfied with his daughter-in-law chews his tongue."

"That virtuous daughter-in-law must take care of them, what I am most afraid of in the backyard of this house is that the subordinates talk nonsense behind their backs."

As he was talking, Mama Wang and Mama Hong and others came in. Mama Wang is still holding Lian'er's jewelry box in her hand.

When Mrs. Tang saw the Wang family's holding things, her heart was happy, and she saw how the old woman favored the third child for a while, This is a spot.

"Mama Wang, where did you get this thing in your hand?"

"The old slave was about to tell me that he had gotten up from Miss Cousin's house. The old slave felt that a few pieces of jewelry here were a little familiar, as if he had seen them in the small treasury before, but he was afraid that the thief had stolen them from the warehouse, and before he had time to take them, he secretly hid them at Miss Cousin's place and came back later to get them. ”

Chen Biyan glanced at the calm Lian'er and the Li Shi with a smug face, and sighed in her heart, This daughter-in-law has not grown up for decades.

"You said that Miss Cousin found the jewelry in the lady's storeroom?"

"There are a lot of things in the storeroom, and the old slave is not entirely sure, but I think there are a few things that are very similar."

"What treasure does your wife have so much to worry about?" Chen Biyan smiled, but it always made people feel weird: 'Bring it to my old woman with long eyes.' ’

Li Shi said in his heart, I don't know how to put these things in front of your eyes, you have to see it yourself, just right.

Chen Biyan glanced at the jewelry in the box, her face sank, and Mrs. Tang's heart began to bloom.

"Girl Lian, I've always thought you were sensible, and I'm so disappointed today."

Lian'er lowered her head and blessed the old lady: "It's all Lian'er's bad." ”

"You can't even hide this little thing, how can you do great things in the future."

"It's not good for Lian'er, Lian'er thinks she doesn't usually wear it, these are put in the drawer of the dresser, ordinary people won't rummage through the room when they enter the house, they won't be found, but now the grandmothers come in and don't speak, they rummage everywhere vigorously, and turn over all the cabinets, boxes and bookcases I have there. Mammies are good at raiding houses. ”

Chen Biyan looked at Li Shi coldly: "Didn't you say that you were looking for a thief?" ”

"It's really looking for a thief, the white girl is an orphan girl alone in the courtyard, and the daughter-in-law is not at ease, so she specially asked the grandmothers to bring a few more people over to see if there are any thieves, also for her safety."

"The result is all this precious jewelry out of the dresser? How do I not know that there is a sect in the rivers and lakes that has such a powerful collarbone miracle that can make people hide in a dresser drawer? It seems that the old woman has been in vain in the rivers and lakes for decades. ”

Lai was sweating and didn't know how to respond.

"You're getting more capable now. You and Mrs. Jinnanhou are handkerchiefs, right? ”

"Yes." Although Li Shi was afraid, he wondered why Mrs. Tang asked her.

It is said that Mrs. Hou likes to let her mother-in-law take people to raid her house in all parts of her house. After raiding the house many times, I became addicted, and I took the aunts at home to repair it when I had anything to do, and I copied it five or six times last year. Since it has become a habit to raid the house, it is estimated that the emperor will be sympathetic to them, so that they can really understand what copying is, and three days ago he has issued an order to thoroughly raid the Jinnan Marquis Mansion in Beijing. Do you want to come to your daughter-in-law and learn from them? It's just that Lao Sheng doesn't have much to deal with officialdom in this life, and he doesn't know the rules here. ”

Mrs. Tang's face turned blue and red for a while: "My daughter-in-law knows that this is a bit too much, but how can she, an orphan girl who has run away, have so many head and face jewelry, which adds up to tens of thousands of taels of silver." ”

"Mrs., she may have been the thief's helper in the first place," Mama Hong said indignantly at this time: "The old slave originally wanted to go into the house where no one was there to see if there were any thieves, but the young grandmother asked the old slave to block the old slave and others from the door and never let them in." ”

Lian'er raised her eyebrows and did not speak.

"White girl, why don't you give us an explanation?"

Chen Biyan was speechless for her stupid daughter-in-law, I don't know how her mother-in-law picked such a strange girl back then, and she was born in Dongtingbo Mansion, maybe her parents were too pampered and protected too well when she was a child. She was about to speak, lest she continue to lose face, but she heard Li Shi start to say again: "If you don't speak, it's okay." Mama Hong, you can take someone to take a closer look at the yard for me to see how many things she has in it. ”

"The old slave obeys." Mama Hong hurriedly prepared to go out.

At this time, Lian'er spoke: "Mama Hong, you are in such a hurry, are you loyal to your wife?" Or is there some other purpose to be in such a hurry? But what is there in the Three Young Houses that attracts you to find it? ”

"White girl, do you have a problem with your brain? Didn't you hear what my wife said, I went to your yard to get the stolen goods? ”

"Really? What is a thief in this Zhuangzi? Gold and silver jewelry? ”

"You don't have to disguise the delay and create an opportunity for your accomplices to transfer the stolen goods, right?! The old slave is not so stupid. With that, he hurried out.

"Mama is in such a hurry to meet your accomplices."

Mama Hong froze when she heard this, but she didn't stop.

"Mama Hong, if you are for your son, I advise you to come back now and confess everything in front of the old lady and his wife, if not, let others confess in a while, I am afraid that your family in this Zhuangzi will lose their face."

Mama Hong turned around in surprise, how could she mention her son.

Lian'er didn't look at her, but raised her voice and commanded, "Bring that spy in." ”