Chapter 11: Questioning
Sanniang and they walked out and saw a plainly dressed grandmother leading a girl about ten years old to go inside. The grandmother saw that everyone was busy and stopped, and pulled the little girl to salute. The little girl was dressed in coarse cloth, and some of the old pulp was very dry. Seeing that the person who was not dressed in the house, but he was a person who understood the rules, he didn't look when he entered the door, and she saluted respectfully and did not look up.
When everyone went out of the yard, Liuniang pouted and said, "That's the girl who wants to go to her grandmother's yard on an errand?" Look at that dress, and I'm not afraid of hurting my grandmother's dignity. ”
Siniang nodded in agreement, Liuniang glanced at Yuan Niang and Sanniang, remembered what had just happened in the house, and pouted.
"I just said that the eldest sister and the third sister are in a gang, and they came together to bully me and the fourth sister."
Sanniang was very helpless about this girl's reversal of black and white, thinking that this was a nine-year-old girl, and she didn't want to worry about her, so she lowered her head and pretended not to hear.
Yuan Niang sighed and said, "Sixth sister must not talk like this. We are all sisters, what is not a group, everyone loves each other is the right reason. ”
Siniang was about to open her mouth to help, but the second lady interrupted softly: "Pei'er can't argue with her sister, it is a woman's duty to respect the elder and love the young." I'm a little tired, you help me back. ”
When Yuan Niang heard this, she confessed to Siniang and Liuniang, nodded to Sanniang with a smile, and helped Bai to go.
Sanniang saw Yuan Niang walking away, glanced at Siniang and Liuniang, and said first: "I'm going to see the fifth sister, are the fourth sister and the sixth sister going together?" ”
Siniang glanced at Liuniang, and Liuniang frowned and was reluctant.
Siniang said: "My sixth sister and I also want to go to see the fifth sister, but my mother told us this morning to go back to Qiuheng Courtyard immediately after asking our grandmother for peace, and my mother asked Aunt Xia to guide us to be a female celebrity." Fifth sister, we will go when we have time. ”
Liuniang nodded and said, "Exactly." Third sister, you go first, and we'll go when we're free. ”
Sanniang smiled and took the girls away.
Wu Niang lived with her biological mother Aunt Cui, not in the Hexiang Courtyard, but in the original courtyard of the third room, the small side courtyard behind the Fangzhi Courtyard where the third master and his wife Liu lived. Sanniang went to Fangzhi Courtyard, but Aunt Cui's maid Yugui stopped her and said that Wuniang had just taken the medicine and had already rested, and she was afraid that she would be sick and give Sanniang a curse, saying that she would go to Hexiangyuan to ask for guilt when she was sick.
Sanniang didn't force it, and asked Yugui to wait well and went back to the Lotus Fragrance Courtyard.
At noon, each room received food in the large kitchen and went back to their own yard to eat. Today, Bai Guo and another little girl, Bai Qi, went to receive the meal in Hexiangyuan, but when they came back, it was later than before. But the crowd didn't care.
Sanniang took a nap as usual after lunch, and not long after she got up, there was a girl from Songling Courtyard, who said that she wanted to ask Baiguo from Hexiangyuan to ask.
Sanniang asked Bai Zhi to call Bai Guo, and asked Mama Zhao to take the broken silver out to reward the little girl who came to call people.
"I don't know why the old lady asked Bai Guo to go to the Songling Institute?" Mama Zhao asked the little girl.
The girl touched the silver in her hand, hesitated for a while and said: "When the old lady drank the tonic soup today, she found that it was much lighter than usual, and felt that it was wrong, so she called the people in the kitchen to ask, and the people in the kitchen said that the soup jar was checked by Mama Li and the kitchen steward Fushun's sister-in-law before it was brought to the west chamber and waited for the girl to pick it up, and the old lady called the new little girl named Sanqi who went to the kitchen to serve the soup today to question, but saw that her hand was wrapped in gauze, and said that it was burned. The people in the kitchen said that it must have been Sanqi who spilled a lot of the old lady's tonic soup because of his hot hands when he went to the kitchen to get a meal for the old lady. She was afraid that she would be punished, so she mixed water in the soup. ”
"What does this have to do with Ginkgo seeds?"
"This ......" the girl rolled her eyes and shook her head. This slave is not clear. ”
At this time, Bai Zhi happened to lead the white fruit over.
Bai Guo heard that he was summoned in the Hefeng Courtyard, and he was a little puzzled. When I remembered that I had heard that the old lady was very strict, I felt a little apprehensive.
"Miss......" Bai Guo looked at Sanniang with a pitiful look in his eyes.
Sanniang, she comforted Bai Guo and said: "Since your grandmother summoned you, go ahead, ask you what you ask you truthfully, and you must not hide it." ”
Bai Guo had to turn back one step at a time.
Sanniang thought about it, so she sent Bai Ying to take a little girl to follow behind to see, and if there was anything, she sent the girl back to report that she knew.
Bai Ying originally wanted to call Bai Qi, but found that the girl didn't know where to go, so she brought another little girl.
Sanniang went to the study to practice calligraphy.
As soon as she finished writing two big characters, Bai Shao, the girl Bai Ying had brought, ran back out of breath and went straight to the study.
"Oh no, no, Baiguo is going to have an accident."
The pen in Sanniang's hand trembled, and a drop of ink dripped down, dyeing the word "An" just written.
Sanniang put down the pen in her hand and whispered to the girl: "Don't worry, you just say it slowly." Bai Zhi on the side had already poured a cup of tea and handed it to Bai Shao.
The girl was soothed by Sanniang's soft voice and calmed down a little.
Sanqi in the old lady's room said that when she went to the kitchen, the people in the kitchen were busy, so she asked her to go and put the tonic soup warm on the small stove in the west chamber into a bowl. When she picked up the casserole jar, she found that the right ear handle of the jar was loose, and she was afraid that the soup would be spilled, so she was in a hurry to stabilize it with her hand, and as a result, her hand was burned. Sanqi also said that when she burned her hand, Bai Guo happened to go in to get the food box, which can testify for her that she did not spill the soup. After that, Bai Guo went to the old lady's yard, and the old lady asked her about noon, and she said that when she went to get food at noon, she did see that Sanqi burned her hands in order to protect the soup can, and the soup did not spill out. ”
The girl gasped and continued: "But at this time, Bai Qi in our yard asked to see the old lady, Bai Qi stepped forward and said that she went to the kitchen with Bai Guo to get food at noon, and just walked out of the garden Bai Guo found that the purse was missing, so he asked her to go to the kitchen first." Bai Qi went to the west room in the kitchen alone to get the food boxes in each room. She waited there for a while, and the mother-in-law and housekeepers in the west chamber at that time all went to the kitchen to help because the guests of the eldest lord came to the outer courtyard to help make some dishes from the inner courtyard, and she also followed them out of the west chamber and planned to go back to the lotus courtyard first. She thought about waiting for Bai Guo to take her food box and the two of them came back together, so she followed Bai Guo and walked to the west room of the kitchen, but she saw from a distance that when Bai Guo went in, she was too anxious and collided with Sanqi who was holding the soup bowl and spilled the soup. She was afraid that she would be implicated, so she did not enter the West Chamber, but went back to the Lotus Fragrance Courtyard by herself. I just heard the old lady in the courtyard say that she wanted to interrogate Bai Guo and Sanqi, so I went to ask to see her. ”
Sanniang frowned when she heard this.
Sure enough, the girl said again: "Now the old lady suspects that Bai Guo and Sanqi collided, and she spilled soup and burned Sanqi's hand." The two of them contended together, and discussed together that they deliberately broke the handle of the casserole, and added water to the old lady's soup. Sister Bai Ying saw that the situation was not good, so she asked me to come back and tell Miss. ”
Sanniang has a headache, this is the crime of bullying, and the old lady's taboo. The dream she told Mama Liu that time, although it was not all true, but bullying the master and betraying the master was indeed the most intolerable thing for the Sun family. If the charges are confirmed, these two girls may have to shed their skin if they don't die.
However, with Bai Guo's temperament, she shouldn't do this kind of thing, that is, someone framed her? But what is the purpose of dealing with two little girls like this?
Sanniang thought about it for a while, and said, "Mama Zhao, you stay in the courtyard, and Bai Zhi and Bai Peony will go to Songling Courtyard with me." ”
Mama Zhao glanced at Sanniang and stopped talking. Seeing that Sanniang was about to go out, she stomped her feet and chased after her.
"Little Miss, the old lady's temper is you...... Ay...... Don't bother with it! If there's really no way...... That...... That was the child's life. ”
Sanniang comforted Mama Zhao and said: "Don't worry, Mama, Sanniang knows how to measure and will never contradict the elders." ”
Mama Zhao only watched Sanniang helplessly, she stood in the courtyard for a while, and then went to the Guanyin statue on the incense table in her room to burn incense and kowtow to ask the Bodhisattva for blessing.
Sanniang arrived at the Hexiang Courtyard, and Bai Ying, who was waiting at the gate of the courtyard, greeted her from afar.
"Miss, the situation is very bad. Mama Li said that if Baiguo and the others confessed, they would be driven out of the house and no longer investigated, but Baiguo was stubborn and refused to admit her mistakes, saying that she was wronged. The old lady was very angry and was about to beat Bai Guo and Sanqi to death by expert method. ”
Sanniang listened and went to Sun's main room. As soon as I entered the house, I saw a few grandmothers coming forward to pull the white fruit and the maid named Sanqi, and took a closer look at the Sanqi was the girl in the coarse cloth clothes she saw when she came to ask for peace during the day today. The Mama Chang who came with her at that time was kneeling down in front of Sun to plead for mercy at this time. Sun turned his face to the side and ignored it.
Bai Guo saw Sanniang's eyes lit up and was about to call for help, Sanniang leaned her index finger to her lips to signal her not to speak, Bai Guo stopped talking, but the eyes were full of pleading, and Sanniang sighed in her heart.
I saw Mama Li step forward and pull up the Chang Mama and said, "The old lady is the most nostalgic, otherwise how could she call your niece to serve in front of you?" That's a big face! But your niece ...... Ay...... Originally, the old lady also said, as long as you admit your mistakes, for the sake of your many years of service, you only drove that girl out of the house, but what about her? But she deceived the old lady with a good heart! This certification and physical evidence are all there, and she still wants to deny it, and she will not repent! ”
Sun snorted coldly when he heard this, but in a blink of an eye, he saw Sanniang enter the house.
"Why are the three girls here? Could it be that he is interceding for your girl? Sun said coldly.
Sanniang didn't argue, and stood aside respectfully after stepping forward to salute Sun. The so-called witness Bai Qi was kneeling aside, looked up at Sanniang, and then lowered his head again and said nothing.
Sanniang said softly: "I just heard that the girl in my house was in trouble, so I rushed over." No matter what it is, it's always the girl in my house, and it's my negligence in discipline. Because they made her grandmother tired, Sanniang was very panicked, so she hurried over to ask for sin. ”