Chapter Seventy-Six: Reversed and Dismounted
"Dare to torture Jin'er, I think it's just to scare them, it's too cheap for them." Jiao Yuzhen sat down at the dining table with a smile, looking at the breakfast served by Liu Wu, there were actually eight plates, and sure enough, holding the key to the house in his hand was different, "Is Jin'er's situation okay?" ”
"The slave maid has sent the golden girl back to Feng'an, Mr. Gongsun and Du Gongzi said that it was a little maid who was familiar with Jin'er who came to call Jin'er out, so they didn't feel inappropriate, after all, it is inconvenient for their big men to intervene in the private affairs of their daughter's family, but this morning the housekeeper Uncle Cai twisted the little maid over, it was the low-grade maid in the yard of the second lady, and the relationship with the Jin'er girl was quite good before, I heard that the young lady was sent to the pigsty of the farm that day, It was this little maid who was ordered by the second lady to go to the firewood room to release Miss Jin'er, perhaps because of this, Miss Jin'er trusted her very much. ”
"Madame and Second Sister have already been going to deal with me in secret, Jin'er is my person, they must have premeditated a long time ago, and that little maid may have arranged it from the beginning to be close to Jin'er." Jiao Yuzhen glanced at the sumptuous breakfast in front of her, and suddenly lost her appetite, "Since I am now holding the key to the house, the second sister is sick in bed again." You talk to Uncle Cai, the housekeeper, after breakfast, my eldest sister and I will clean up the people in the house together. ”
"Yes, slave and maid will go." Liu Wu also smiled proudly, she always looked at her master before she was not majestic enough to be suppressed frequently, but now she finally has the real power of the whole house, and she wants to exhale and raise her eyebrows, how can she be unhappy?
Jiao Yuzhen picked up the spoon and ate the shark fin porridge in front of him while calculating how to open his mouth for a while.
Jiao Ruzhi was Jiao Yuzhen who rushed over just after breakfast, and she led the two maids in her yard all the way over: "Third sister, are you ready?" ”
Seeing Jiao Ruzhi, Jiao Yuzhen smiled slightly, took out a bunch of keys from his sleeve and shook it: "Yesterday I taught the second sister a lesson, and by the way, I took the key over to her, and now I am the housekeeper's wife, anyway, my father is busy with the government and will not take care of the small things in the house, and my grandmother no longer asks about the world, now it is the world of sisters, you and me." Sister, I plan to let the housekeeper Uncle Cai gather all the people in the house for a while, as long as the people related to the eldest mother and the second sister must be listed one by one, if the children of the family are sent to the Qingzhou Annex, the name is to let them serve the eldest mother well, not the children of the family, and those who are sold into slavery will all be dismissed. In the end, it is necessary to adjust all the stewards one by one, and the people who belong to the eldest mother and the second sister must all be replaced. But sister, I don't know much in the house, so I'll leave the person in charge to the eldest sister to arrange. ”
Jiao Ruzhi sat next to Jiao Yuzhen and looked at her in surprise, with a look of disbelief on his face: "Sister, although I say that I am now an alliance with you, but I didn't have a good look at you in the previous years, why would you leave such a thing as arranging for a steward to me?" If I arrange my people, I will turn against you in the future, do you think you still have the opportunity to regain control of Jiaofu like today? ”
Jiao Ruzhi's doubts are human nature, if Jiao Ruzhi leaves all this to her to arrange, Jiao Yuzhen does not dare to guarantee that he will not swallow everything alone, after all, as the saying goes, "people are not for themselves, and the heavens and the earth will be destroyed", but she used to be the queen of jewelry in the 21st century, her insight into people's hearts depends on her own pair of fiery eyes, but to win people's hearts depends on her means, so she smiled softly at Jiao Ruzhi, and then stretched out her hand to hold Jiao Ruzhi's hand: "Sister, you and I are people who are sympathetic, You and I are the closest people in the world and can rely on each other. The eldest sister should understand that the hearts of grandmother and father are only in the body of the younger brother Hongfu, and the eldest mother will only take care of the second sister. And as the so-called suspicious people don't need to be used, there is no suspicion of employing people, sister, I will never suspect you, sister. ”
Jiao Ruzhi felt that her nose was a little sour, she inhaled hard, and took up the arrogant posture of the usual eldest lady: "Since my sister said so, sister, I will always protect you." I'm the eldest lady, and I've been a little bit of my own over the years, so I'll leave the person in charge to me. Sister, just take care of those minions. ”
Seeing that Jiao Ruzhi actually showed such an awkward expression in order to hide his emotion, Jiao Yuzhen suddenly felt that this always arrogant Jiao Ruzhi was really cute, and he responded with a smile: "Don't worry, eldest sister, I will arrange these things well." This mansion will be our sister's world from now on, so does the eldest sister want to hint at Prince Heze and let him come over to propose? ”
Speaking of Jimo Zize, Jiao Ruzhi's originally arrogant look suddenly disappeared without a trace, but a shy flush appeared on his face: "Actually, he said it, but I don't want to be so fast...... Men don't cherish what is so easy to get, I can stay up in this belly for at least another month, I want to let him propose marriage in a while, and it will be okay to get married within a month. ”
"It's good if the eldest sister has a plan, it's not easy for my sister to ask about these things." Although I don't like the deep city and scheming Jimo Zize, if Jimo Zize treats Jiao Ruzhi sincerely, it will be the best destination for the current Jiao Ruzhi, "In the future, my sister will marry Prince Ze, and I will marry Prince Jing, and the future will definitely be very good." ”
Jiao Ruzhi also laughed: "Yes, the future should be fine." ”
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How Jiao Yuzhen was bullied before, the housekeeper Uncle Cai saw it all, but now looking at her beads, dressed in brocade clothes and sitting on the main seat with Jiao Ruzhi, he is over half a hundred years old, and the chief housekeeper of the Taifu Mansion, who is used to seeing wind and rain, can't help but feel a chill.
"To the eldest miss, the third miss, please be safe." Uncle Cai, the housekeeper, led a group of stewards and middle- and high-ranking maids to kneel down and salute Jiao Ruzhi and Jiao Yuzhen.
Seeing a bunch of people kneeling in the hall, Jiao Ruzhi couldn't help but show a smug smile, she has been the eldest lady in Mrs. Jiao's mansion since she was a child, as a concubine, she has long been accustomed to such a condescending feeling, but Jiao Yuzhen has only recently turned over, so she glanced at Jiao Yuzhen beside her with the corner of her eye, but found that Jiao Yuzhen's expression was calm, and she didn't seem to be surprised, so she also restrained her smug look and said to the people below: "Get up." ”
After everyone stood up, Uncle Cai, the housekeeper, stepped forward and handed a roster to Jiao Ruzhi, but Jiao Ruzhi gave it to Jiao Yuzhen without looking at it after getting it, and Jiao Yuzhen took the roster and looked through it before speaking.
"In addition to looking at the roster today, I want to see the little maid who rushed to harass my distant cousin Jin'er, she is so bold that she dares to attack the master's relatives." Speaking of this, Jiao Yuzhen paused, and then looked at the housekeeper Uncle Cai, "Uncle Cai, that girl...... Did you bring it? ”
"Brought, brought." Uncle Cai, the housekeeper, didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly asked the two housekeepers to come up with a little maid.
The little maid Moyo is only thirteen or fourteen years old, and she looks like a very sharp girl, but no matter how clever the girl is, it is useless, because she is weak at this moment, and her mouth is full of blood, and she has obviously been severely punished, and the heavy punishment is unceremoniously used in her mouth.
Jiao Yuzhen couldn't help frowning, and looked at the housekeeper Uncle Cai with sharp eyes: "Uncle Cai, what's going on?" I just let you take her, I didn't let you torture her. ”
"Third Miss, it's not the old slave's fault." Uncle Cai, the housekeeper, hurriedly shouted injustice, "This little girl was found in Madame's small house in the side courtyard, and she was already like this when she found it, listen...... I heard Mama Li say that this is the torture ...... used by Madame before she went out."
"Then you won't treat her?" Jiao Ruzhi suddenly heard Duan'er and understood, this housekeeper Uncle Cai is clearly yang and yin, if he is truly loyal, seeing the little maid like this, he will definitely let the doctor come over to take a look, instead of letting her fend for herself, at this time, drag out such a little maid, the little maid can no longer say anything.
"Without the orders of the masters, the old slave...... Old slave ......"
I don't care what Uncle Cai is explaining, Jiao Yuzhen looked at this poor little maid, although she didn't get close to check the little maid's injury, but she can also know that this little maid will definitely be speechless now, this little maid is just following the order to trick Jin Er over, how can she not be tortured, because even if she says that kind of thing? And Jin'er...... The Wang family wants Jiao Youhan to extract a confession from Jin'er, and wants to prove that she is a fake Jiao Yuzhen, but so what? In fact, if Wang and Jiao Youhan wanted to deal with her at the beginning, it would be normal to secretly make things difficult and make some moves to let Jiao Ruzhi beat her, but when she was dying, Wang and Jiao Youhan happened to save her, which shows that it can be seen that ...... They didn't want her dead.
Why...... This doesn't meet the standards of the house fight, if the Wang family and Jiao Youhan wanted to kill her, they should have had a lot of opportunities before, why is this so? But in order to cover up their investigation of her identity, it is completely illogical to inflict such a terrible punishment on Jin'er and this little girl, unless they know that her identity is for another reason!
Jiao Yuzhen's mind came up with the picture of the courtyard where she lived, her yard was where her biological mother Aunt Liu lived before her death, there were evergreen bushes there, there was a wooden box under the bushes, and there was a clay jar and a letter in the wooden box, she had no time to pay attention to the box, but this waiter suddenly felt that maybe it was connected with everything!
"Forget it, take her down and ask a doctor to take a look." Seeing that Jiao Ruzhi was about to make a fuss because he was very dissatisfied with the answer of the housekeeper Uncle Cai, Jiao Yuzhen hurriedly spoke.
"Yes, yes." Uncle Cai, the housekeeper, nodded and commanded the family to drag the little maid out.
"Eldest sister, don't be impatient." Jiao Yuzhen looked at Jiao Ruzhi and spoke softly, "I have something to discuss with you, let's deal with these things later." ”
Jiao Ruzhi looked at Jiao Yuzhen a little strangely, but finally nodded, and then spoke to the housekeeper Uncle Cai, but the tone was really not good: "Uncle Cai, let's leave this roster with us for the time being." Go down and work hard, lest Miss Ben be displeased and punish you all." ”