There were more than a dozen people standing and kneeling in the room, but there was silence in the room, and even a pin could be heard. Xiao Man sat upright, holding a teacup in his left hand, his eyes seemed to sweep over the kneeling crowd in the hall, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth.

After letting the group of people in the hall dry for a while, causing them to panic even more, Xiao Man put down the teacup and coughed lightly.

It doesn't matter if you cough, the important thing is that when the people in the hall heard this cough, they only trembled a little, while the already timid person fell to the ground completely under his legs, shaking like chaff.

"Who started the incident first?" Xiaoman didn't talk nonsense, and asked straight to the point: "Say, who is willing to stand up and tell the truth of the matter." ”

The hall was silent, and no one dared to stand up and answer Xiaoman's question.

Of course, this situation was also expected by Xiao Man, so she chuckled, fiddled with the teacup, and said slowly: "The first one to stand up will be rewarded with one or two silvers." ”

As soon as these words came out, some of the people who were already lying on the ground in the hall got up with a bang, rushed forward, and shouted in unison that they knew what had happened and wanted to be the first to tell Xiaoman.

If it weren't for Pearl and a few other maids stopping Xiao Man in front of him, those people would have been able to rush over directly and knock Xiao Man down.

"That's it!" Xiao Man got up and snorted, glanced at the hideous faces of the people who rushed up with a straight face, frowned, and pointed casually: "As for you, as far as you are concerned, if there is a little detail that is made up, then-"

Without waiting for Xiaoman to finish speaking, the man replied first: "If there is a lie, I will thunder and thunder in the sky, and I will not die well!" ”

After receiving Xiaoman's signal, the man cleared his throat and said, "After coming here for so many days, Mrs. Lu takes care of our food, manages our accommodation, and lets Pearl and Jade take care of us, but Madame, you must know that we are here to make money after all!" It's been months since we've been here, and we haven't made a penny, so we're in a hurry! ”

Hearing this, Xiao Man glanced at her with slanted eyes, and said without being cold or hot: "Before this, it seems that a few people have already gotten my permission to leave, right?" If you don't like to make money during this time, why don't you go with them? ”

The man who had just spoken was speechless for a moment, and lowered his head in some shame, not daring to say anything more.

Seeing this, Xiao Man took a deep breath, forcibly held back the anger in his heart, and raised his hand to signal: "Okay, you can continue, I won't interrupt you." ”

"Yes, ma'am." The man nodded, sorted out his emotions, and continued: "In the past few days, there has been an endless stream of people coming to the house to sign up, and seeing so many people signing up, a few of us thought to ourselves, now it's okay, there will be work to do in the future, and we will be able to make money now." ”

But soon, Wang Youhe came out, and she drove many people out, saying that these people were unqualified and couldn't come to the house to learn the craft! We were anxious as soon as we saw it, so we went to find Wang Youhe's theory, but who knew that she acted on orders one by one and ignored us at all! ”

Speaking of this, the man gritted his teeth and said viciously: "She is a young lady, how can she know the suffering of us poor people!" There are so many students in the house, how many of us can be assigned? That's how much money you make, so-"

Before he finished speaking, Xiao Man frowned and interrupted: "How many people are recruited in the house, what does it have to do with how much money you make?" ”

She can barely understand the previous paragraph, but when it comes to this, why is she more and more confused, what does the student recruited in the house have to do with these embroidery girls?

Hearing this, the man scratched his head and said, "Naturally, it has something to do with it!" If there are more people recruited in the house, the more registration fees you pay, the more you earn, and the more wages you can pay us, so why doesn't it matter? Besides, if each of us teaches more people, will everyone soon work harder? In this case, you still have to pay us! ”

"!" Xiao Man got up and shouted angrily: "Who told you that this is how you are paid? Who told you I was charging these people?! ”

The cause of such a big commotion is unwarranted speculation!

The man was so frightened by Xiao Man's slap on the table that he froze in place, not daring to speak, and the embroidery girls who were standing and kneeling were also frightened, eager to bury their heads in the ground.

Looking at the absurd scene in front of her, Xiao Man was so dizzy that she frowned and stared at the hall, wanting to scream angrily, but found that her throat was stinging, so she could only take a deep breath, try her best to calm down, and said: "Who brought it up first, and who instigated you to fight Wang Youhe?" And those who blocked the door, who were ordered by whom, said one by one. ”

After saying this, the room was quiet for a long time, several kneeling people looked at each other, and those who rushed to speak also retreated, everyone looked at me, I looked at you, pursed their lips and did not speak.

"No one said?" Xiao Man seemed to be extremely angry at this time, but he didn't expect that he was a group of people who could help him, but now they made such a big fuss for such an idea, and what is even more ridiculous is that at this time, no one dared to stand up and admit it.

Not to mention whether these people are bold enough to dare to do such a thing in the house behind their backs, just talk about the environment they came out of, this is a vicissitude! They represent the Donglan people, and if they make the slightest mistake, they will be misunderstood by others as the nature of the Donglan people.

They want to make money and teach more people, Xiaoman can understand, but no matter how poor they are, they can't rely on more people to do such things!

What's more, she never thought about shortages of their wages.

Xiao Man took a deep breath, sat down and took a sip of tea from the teacup, his eyes lowered: "Okay, if you don't say yes, I'll go to the official and drive you to prison one by one!" ”

As soon as they heard that they were going to prison, the people below were really panicked, even if they were bold, they couldn't hold back such intimidation.

No matter what, Xiao Man is the county lord of Canglan after all, if she proposes to throw her group of people into prison, how can the yamen dare to disobey? offended the county lord of Canglan and went to the prison of Canglan, can there be a day when he can come out?

Therefore, the crowd, which had been silent, suddenly stirred, especially the sturdy woman, who immediately got up and shouted at the top of her voice: "Madame! I say, I say! In fact, all this is what Qian Juan said! If she hadn't told us that those people had been driven away by Wang Youhe, we wouldn't have acted impulsively! ”

After saying this, the rest of the people also chimed in: "Yes, yes, yes! It's Qian Juan, she told us all this! ”

"Where's Qian Juan?" Xiaoman asked again.

Qian Juan, who had been cowering in the corner and didn't dare to make a sound, crawled out tremblingly, crying and shouting: "Madam, wronged, wronged, I told them that Wang Youhe drove away all the people who came to sign up, but I didn't encourage them to beat people!" Madame, be discerning! ”

Hearing this, Xiao Man couldn't help frowning, raised his eyes and looked directly at the sturdy woman, and said impatiently: "Who instigated it?" ”

When the sturdy woman heard this, her eyes gurgled, and she quickly pointed her finger at another woman who was already lying on the ground before Qian Juan, and said categorically: "It's her!" Zhao Fen instigated us, all because of her! She said that as long as you can teach a few more people, you can make more money! ”

Unexpectedly, the group of people who originally echoed her looked at each other in surprise for a moment after hearing these words, and then nodded one after another, responding to the words.

"Yes, it's this Zhao Fen, spreading some fake news all day long."

"If it weren't for her, how could we have started to beat someone! It's her, it's all instigated by her! ”

"Madame, this Zhao Fen doesn't do anything all day, she knows how to chew the root of her tongue! If she hadn't jumped at us, we wouldn't have beaten anyone! ”

These people were full of righteous indignation, as if all that they had done, including beating Wang Youhe, was instigated by this woman named Zhao Fen.

Seeing this, Xiao Man couldn't help but look in the direction of their fingers, only to see a thin, shriveled woman kneeling on the ground, her forehead tightly pressed against the ground, her thin shoulders trembling and trembling, and she didn't even have half a sentence of argument in the face of everyone's accusations.

The other party looked thin and timid, Xiaoman couldn't help frowning, thinking: Is such a person really capable of doing such a thing?

Thinking about it, Xiao Man couldn't help but retract his gaze and glanced in the direction of the sturdy woman, as soon as the other party came into contact with Xiao Man's sight, he immediately moved away in a panic, as if he was hiding something from Xiao Man, and his heart was very weak.

As a result, the doubts in Xiao Man's heart were even worse, she couldn't help but summon Xiao Xue, and asked in a low voice, "Xiao Xue, is it really as she said?" Is this Zhao Fen really as they described? ”

Xiaoxue helped the little guy escape, presumably it should have nothing to do with these people, but she is usually with these embroidery girls, so she should be more familiar with Zhao Fen, ask her, there should be no problem, right?

But Xiaoxue scratched her head in embarrassment and whispered: "Madam, I wasn't there when the accident happened, and I don't know what happened, so... So it's not clear what you're asking. ”

"Then what kind of person is Zhao Fen, you and her are both embroiderers, and they rushed from Shangjing to Canglan together, and they have lived together for so long, you should always know, right?" Xiaoman was a little helpless.

But what she got was also Xiaoxue's shake, and she carefully explained: "Madam, Aunt Zhao doesn't usually deal with us much, as for what kind of person she is, I really don't know." ”

Xiao Man nodded a little irritably, motioned for Xiao Xue to go down, and then looked directly at Zhao Fen, "Zhao Fen, in the face of so many people's accusations, do you have anything to say?" Is it true that you planned all this, as they say? ”

She didn't believe that someone could pour dirty water on her.