Yuan Niang took the maids away.

Wu Niang looked down at her toes and didn't speak.

Sanniang sent the maids around her away: "Fifth sister, if you have anything to say, just say it." ”

Wu Niang glanced at Sanniang, bit her lip, turned out something from her purse, and handed it to Sanniang.

Sanniang looked down, but it was a small turquoise fish, which was the one that Sanniang had fallen on.

Sanniang reached out and took the little fish, put it in her hand and played with it, waiting to listen to Wuniang's explanation.

But after Wu Niang handed Xiao Yu to San Niang, she remained silent.

Sanniang pondered for a while and asked, "Fifth sister, what does this mean?" ”

"Not me." Wu Niang suddenly looked up at San Niang and said seriously.

Her eyes were big and clear, and there were some tears in the matter, which seemed a little aggrieved and helpless, and anyone who saw it couldn't help but feel distressed, but Sanniang was not one of those people.

"What isn't you?" Sanniang said slowly, indifferent.

Wu Niang's eyes darkened, she pulled her sleep, bit her lip and said, "Third sister, do you think I ripped off the pendant on your forbidden step?" ”

Sanniang looked at Wuniang and was noncommittal.

Wu Niang was a little anxious: "Third sister, it's really not me, you believe me." When I returned yesterday, I saw this little fish on the floor next to the table, so I picked it up and put it away. ”

Sanniang was silent for a while, and finally spoke: "Did you really accidentally find this fish?" Didn't you return to the attic again with something else in mind? ”

Wu Niang lowered her head, and after a long time, she whispered: "I actually accidentally saw the second sister throw something on the ground before turning back." I think although she looks gentle and generous on the surface, she is not like this in her bones. I...... I don't like her. I was afraid that she would harm us, so I didn't feel at ease, so I went back to see it. But it really made me discover this. ”

Speaking of this, Wu Niang looked up at San Niang and said, "Third sister, you believe me." Second sister, she is really not a good person. She wants to calculate you. ”

Sanniang smiled: "If it's really her who wants to calculate me, fifth sister, tell me why she suddenly remembered to calculate me?" Didn't you deliberately fan the flames? ”

Sanniang looked at Wuniang carefully from head to toe, and nodded: "You have really grown up." I've always treated you like an ignorant child. I was wrong. ”

Wu Niang was even more aggrieved when she heard this, tears were already rolling in her eyes, and she choked up and said, "I admit that I deliberately provoked her." But I'm just trying to get both of us off. She likes to be strong so much, so let her come out. ”

Sanniang was silent. She pinched the turquoise fish in her hand and looked at Wu Niang in front of her, and suddenly didn't know what to say. Maybe everyone has many faces, the innocence and liveliness in the past is just one of the sides of Wu Niang, but because she has never been involved in a conflict of interest, she has never exposed other faces, so San Niang has always only regarded her as a lively and lovely little sister.

But one day I suddenly found that this little sister had already grown sharp teeth.

Sanniang thought that she was always making a mistake after she got here. That's what she always thinks of the children here as children. This is true for Wang Jing's question, and the same is true for Wu Niang.

If you ask her if she believes that Wu Niang doesn't have the intention of harming her, San Niang thinks, she doesn't know.

Maybe Wu Niang will not harm her when there is no conflict of interest, because she can feel that Wu Niang's closeness to her on weekdays is not pretended, and she does not need to pretend.

However, some feelings are vulnerable in the face of interests.

So for what Wu Niang said today, San Niang didn't want to comment. She thought that Wu Niang had never hurt her, but in the future, she would no longer be unsuspecting to see her as an innocent and ignorant child. She won't make the same mistake a second time.

"What happened just now? How could the fourth and sixth sisters suddenly go to their father's study? Sanniang put the small fish in her hand into her purse and asked lightly.

Wu Niang lowered her head again, her fingers around the tassel on the jade ring around her waist.

"You tricked them? Want to cover up when we went into the second floor of my father's study yesterday? ”

"They went in on their own. I didn't force them. Wu Niang bit her lip and said, "I called the second sister aside to talk, and they sneakily followed behind and eavesdropped and were discovered by the second sister." The second sister deliberately mentioned her father's study, and they were only half obedient, thinking that there was some secret for me there. I thought I'm going to find it out and make me look good. If they don't have such a mind, how can they be calculated? They want to calculate others, so naturally they can't blame others for calculating them! ”

"Who came up with this plan?"

Wu Niang raised her eyes and glanced at Sanniang, and saw that Sanniang had no expression on her face, not at all like her gentle and talkative sister on weekdays, and she was also a little scared in her heart: "I...... I didn't think about what to do, but I was afraid that the second sister would think of some way to harm us, so I was scared...... I thought, if we have to find someone to take the blame, why must it be us! If it's the fourth sister and the sixth sister, they are not from our third room, even if their father knows about them, they won't do anything to them, they don't need their father's favor, and they are protected by their aunt. But if my father knew that it was us, the second sister would be better, and I am afraid that we will dislike my father even more in the future. ”

Wu Niang's eyes darkened: "My father has already ignored me and the third sister...... But although I thought so at the time, I didn't really do it, I just called the second sister out, and wanted to question her about the assassination of you, and expose her hypocrisy, so that she would not dare to attack us again. I don't want the second sister to understand what is going on as soon as she hears the noise behind her, and then tricks the fourth sister and the sixth sister into going to her father's study. ”

Sanniang was silent for a while when she heard this. Wu Niang meant that the strategy was what she thought, but she hesitated halfway and didn't dare to start. I don't want to let Erniang be broken, and I will count Siniang and Liuniang as scapegoats.

What Wu Niang said may be true, but she called Er Niang aside at that time and took out the fish, whether she subconsciously wanted to throw things to Er Niang to decide because she couldn't do it is unknown.

Some people are born with an instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm, but she has not yet discovered it or realized it.

"Sister, you believe me, I never wanted to hurt you." Wu Niang said again.

Sanniang sighed in her heart, but nodded on her face: "I know." ”

"Will my sister believe me?" Wu Niang's eyes were bright.

Sanniang lowered her eyes and stroked her green cuffs: "I naturally believe it." ”

Wu Niang breathed a sigh of relief and said happily: "I'm afraid that sister, you will misunderstand me and ignore me in the future." I should have known that my sister must still be the same as before. ”

Sanniang doesn't know what she said in her mouth is the same as before, it must be the previous Sanniang, she doesn't want to know anymore. In a blink of an eye, Bai Ying hurriedly walked over there, and Sanniang said to Wuniang: "You go back, I should go back to the courtyard too." ”

I also wanted to go back to explore the situation in the study, so I nodded and said goodbye to Sanniang and left.

Sanniang watched Wuniang leave, and only then did she wave to Bai Ying's side when she turned a corner and disappeared.

Bai Ying hurriedly trotted over.

"What's going on?"

"Miss, the slave maid just followed Miss's instructions, standing by the small corner door in the backyard very close to the study, paying attention to the movement over there. Not long after I got there, I saw the old man coming to the study, and the slave and maid were far away and did not hear the movement in the building clearly. But then the entourage who followed the old man hurriedly ran out of the building and went to the backyard. After a while, the second miss came over with someone, and then the second miss led the fourth and sixth misses out of the study. Speaking of this, Bai Ying's eyes were a little puzzled, I don't know when the fourth and sixth young ladies entered the master's study, and they were caught by the master, and the faces of the two young ladies when they came out were really mournful.

"After that, the master stayed in the study and did not come out, and the slave and maid returned."

Sanniang nodded when she heard this, thinking that she didn't know if Siniang and Liuniang had gone up to the attic to see it. But no matter whether they went up or not, Wang Dong would think that the people who turned over his camphor wood box were Siniang and Liuniang.

Wu Niang is right in one sentence, if Wang Dong's secret is discovered by his daughter, he can still give a cold face, or because of embarrassment, he will throw away his hand and ignore it from now on. But if someone else's child touched his things, he could only send them back. Even letting parents blame their children for being naughty is a little unbearable.

Sanniang took her maid back to Hefeng Courtyard.

It didn't take long for someone outside to report that the second lady was here.

Sanniang put down the book in her hand, got up and went to welcome Erniang into the house in person.

"You're at ease." Erniang glanced at the travelogue that Sanniang casually rested on the couch and said with a smile.

Sanniang picked up the book, put it back on the shelf, and smiled at Erniang while turning around: "It's just to pass the time, second sister, please sit down." ”

Seeing that her expression was natural, Erniang didn't look like she had a bad heart, she stepped forward with a smile and took Sanniang's hand and sat on the couch in the study with her, looked at Sanniang's eyes and said apologetically: "My sister came today to apologize to my third sister." ”

Sanniang looked at Erniang in surprise and said, "What do you mean by this, sister?" ”

Erniang sighed and said: "I, who is a sister, really didn't do a good job, and I actually let the fifth sister do such a thing, and finally involved the people in the big house to come in." It's just that the fifth sister is still young after all, and since we are sisters who have eaten more than her for a year or two, we can only help her take care of it. It's just the fifth sister's temperament...... We'll have to teach her more in the future. ”()