Chapter 40: Discovering the Clues
"Third sister, what do you mean by the young master of the Zhou family?" Ji Yunshu originally looked at the note in Ji Yunyun's hand curiously, but when he heard Ji Yunlan's words, he was stunned and hurriedly asked.
I didn't hold my mouth for a while just now, and I told Xia Lian and Zhou Heng all the things in one go. Ji Yunlan reacted and hurriedly stuck out her tongue, dodging Ji Yunshu's gaze, and hesitated: "...... Be...... yes......"
Seeing her spitting appearance, Ji Yun was anxious, "Third sister, are you talking about cousin, what did you see in the garden?" ”
"That's it...... I saw that the person named Xia Lian was talking to Zhou Gongzi, she wanted to go to serve you from the laundry room, she was interceding with Zhou Gongzi, crying pear blossoms with rain, and pretending to fall down and pounce on Zhou Gongzi, she looked restless. I think she really wants to serve you, and she is trying to get close to Zhou Gongzi. Seeing her asking, Ji Yunlan stomped her feet, and she didn't hide it, so she simply said it all in one breath.
"How...... How could it be, she didn't look like such a person, she had already gone to the Zhou Mansion to be a maid before, if she wanted to get close to ......her cousin, how could she come to us" Ji Yunshu opened her mouth and retorted in disbelief, and suddenly paused as she spoke, she remembered that Xia Lian did not say that she wanted to come to the Guogong Mansion at that time, it was the second sister who opened her mouth, and Xia Lian came to the Guogong Mansion.
"Some people are good at pretending and gaining sympathy, and often what you see is not who she is. That's what I was told. Ji Yunlan glanced at Ji Yunyun meaningfully and said.
Ji Yunyun had a headache and held her forehead, she didn't expect Xia Lian to be so capable, Zhou Heng came to the Guogong Mansion and she found a chance to meet, and she was also seen by Ji Yunlan, and now she is known by Ji Yunshu.
"Big sister, are you alright?" Seeing that Ji Yunshu hadn't come back to his senses for a long time, Ji Yunyun asked with concern.
Ji Yunshu had mixed thoughts in her heart, she remembered that day when Zhou Heng came back from the garden and took the initiative to talk about letting her transfer Xia Lian to her side to serve, and remembered that Xia Lian had been well-behaved and capable by her side in the past few days. Hearing Ji Yunyun's question, she forcibly suppressed these thoughts and shook her head, "It's okay." Then he focused on the note and asked curiously, "What is written on this note?" Why did the third sister say that just now? ”
Ji Yunyun smiled bitterly and handed her the note, "You'll know when you read it." ”
Ji Yunshu took it and looked down slowly, his eyes gradually widened, and after reading it, he was shocked: "Grandmother Jade Buddha's incident is actually related to Aunt Fang?" ”
Now that she knows it, Ji Yunyun told her all about the investigation, "Actually, I have always wanted to find out who framed me, and when I was in Zhuangzi, I painted the portrait of the little maid who led me to my grandmother's Buddhist hall, and I have been secretly looking for it since I returned to the capital." Later, I found the neighbor of this little maid in an alley in the south of the city, and said that the aunt of this little maid was Aunt Fang, and the little maid went to live in the Guogong Mansion around the Lantern Festival last year, but the family moved to Yaozhou a few days later. It happened that my uncle was working in Yaozhou, so I wrote to him to ask him to inquire, and this note was brought to me by my uncle when he returned to the capital. ”
In order not to cause misunderstanding between Ji Yunshu and Ji Yunlan, she omitted the process of Qi Cheng helping her find her neighbor's family in the middle.
The note said very clearly, two days after the Lantern Festival last year, Aunt Fang's niece Yan'er went to live in the Guogong Mansion, and the children were naughty and loved to run around. Yan'er was frightened, and quickly ran back to tell Aunt Fang, Aunt Fang knew that her hind legs were about to weaken, she was afraid that the old lady would be punished, and it happened that the Guogong Mansion invited the opera troupe to sing in the past two days, she took advantage of the fact that everyone in the mansion only cared about listening to the opera, and no one noticed the Buddha Hall, Yan'er had just arrived at the Guogong Mansion and no one had seen it, so she found a little girl's clothes for Yan'er to change, and then specially led Ji Yunyun over, and blamed Ji Yunyun for breaking the Jade Buddha.
After reading it, Ji Yunshu put away the note and sighed: "Aunt Fang actually framed you for the matter, and you were wronged, not to mention, and was punished to live in Zhuangzi for a year." ”
"It's hard for you." She reached out and patted Ji Yunyun's hand gently, and asked again, "What are you going to do?" Do you want to tell my grandmother and my mother? ”
"Of course you have to tell it, why don't you say it when you have evidence, do you want to be wronged for the rest of your life?" Ji Yunlan slapped the table next to her and said.
"I don't know, let me think about it again." Ji Yunyun pinched her eyebrows in distress, if she was framed by others in the house, she would definitely not hesitate to take the evidence to her grandmother and aunt, and then it was Aunt Fang. In the last life, when she was bullied by Ji Yunlan in this mansion, Aunt Fang helped her several times and comforted her softly, except for framing her, Aunt Fang didn't do anything bad.
Ji Yunlan glared at her when she heard this, "Indecisive!" ”
"......" Ji Yunyun choked, she looked at Ji Yunlan and wanted to reply, you only bullied me in your last life, and I saved you, why can't you think about Aunt Fang's affairs?
Ji Yunshu agreed with Ji Yunyun's opinion very much, and said: "Then think about it first, don't be in a hurry At this time, I heard my mother say that Aunt Fang has not been in good health recently, and the doctor has come to see it several times." ”
Ji Yunlan looked down on the bad intentions of these two people, if she was framed and wronged, she would immediately expose the evidence if she caught it, so that she didn't care whether the other party was in good health or not. Ji Yunlan was so interested that she didn't want to stay, so she got up and was about to leave.
"Third sister, you keep this matter on the note secret for the time being, don't let anyone else know." Seeing that she was leaving, Ji Yunshu did not forget to tell her.
Ji Yunlan waved her hand angrily, "Got it." ”
Ji Yunlan left, and after a while, Ji Yunshu also got up to say goodbye, she went out of the Splendid Courtyard, and as soon as she returned to Cuihua Courtyard, Ying'er came over and said, "Girl, the young master is here, waiting for you in the front hall." ”
"Cousin is here?" Ji Yunshu was about to pass, when he suddenly paused and asked Ying'er, "Where is Xia Lian?" ”
After Xia Lian came from the laundry room, she took pity on her background and kind nature, and directly asked her to serve in the room and do some easy work of serving tea and pouring water. Xia Lian has done a good job in the past two days, and she has the ability to do things quickly, and the people in the yard like her very much, and she likes it too, until today I heard from the second sister that she was pestering her cousin.
"She serves the young master in the front hall." After Ying'er finished speaking, she saw that her girl's face had changed, and she hurriedly asked, "Girl, what's wrong?" ”
"It's fine." Ji Yunshu pulled the corners of her mouth and smiled, she said, "I'll just go to see my cousin alone, you don't have to follow." ”
Thinking that her girl had a separate whisper to tell her cousin, Ying'er pursed her lips and nodded with a smile.
Ji Yunshu walked to the front hall alone, and the maids along the way wanted to salute her, but she stopped her, and when she crossed the door of the front hall, she saw Zhou Heng sitting on a chair drinking tea, Xia Lian serving on the side, and saw that the teacup was missing, and the teapot was refilled.
There was no announcement from the maid, and neither of them noticed that Ji Yunshu had come. Xia Lian said in a soft voice, "Young Master Cousin, it's almost noon, and the girl doesn't know when she will come back, I remember that you have a bad stomach and can't be hungry, so let someone serve a few plates of snacks to fill your stomach first." ”
"No, I'll wait for my cousin." Zhou Heng waved his hand, and when he saw that she had only been in Zhou's mansion for a few days, he remembered that he had a bad stomach, raised his eyes to look at her, and said gently: "Do you remember that I have a bad stomach?" It's really heartfelt. ”
"Although the time is short, Li'er has also served the young master. I'll go get a few plates of dim sum, the young master's body is important. With that, she put down the teapot and was about to go out.
"Not really." Zhou Heng stretched out his hand to stop her, but accidentally knocked over the teapot, and the hot tea spilled out at once, and it was about to be sprinkled on Zhou Heng, Xia Lian panicked and rushed over to block it with her hand, "Young Master Cousin, be careful!" ”
Zhou Heng avoided it in time, and the hot tea was all splashed on Xia Lian's hand, Zhou Heng grabbed her hand and hurriedly said, "Are you okay?" I can avoid it, what are you doing here? ”
Xia Lian watched her hot red hand being held in the palm of Zhou Heng's hand, her face turned crimson all of a sudden, and she said with shyness: "I'm worried about the young master ...... cousin."
Zhou Heng sighed and was about to speak, when out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly noticed Ji Yunshu at the door, was startled, hurriedly shook off Xia Lian's hand and took two steps towards Ji Yunshu, and pretended to be casual and said, "When did my cousin come?" ”
Xia Lian turned around and saw Ji Yunshu, and hurriedly blessed her body and saluted, "Girl." ”
"Just here." Ji Yunshu's gaze swept over Zhou Heng and fell on Xia Lian's body, "What's wrong with your hand?" ”
"I accidentally knocked over the teapot just now and was scalded by the tea. I'll clean it up now. Xia Lian hid her hand in her sleeve and hurriedly turned around to clean up.
Hearing that she had just arrived, Zhou Heng breathed a sigh of relief and said to her: "Cousin, let's go for a walk in the yard, we haven't seen each other for a few days, I have a lot of things to say to you." ”
After speaking, he hugged her out of the door, and said with concern as he walked: "Be careful of the steps." ”
Every time it is like this, as long as the girl appears, the young master will no longer pay attention to her. Xia Lian clenched the teacup tightly, her red fingertips turned white, and her eyelashes drooped, covering the strong jealousy and resentment in it.
Ji Yunshu would go to Ji Yunyun's house every day to talk to her to relieve her boredom, but she was a little absent-minded, Ji Yunyun looked at it in her eyes, and when she saw Ji Yunshu talking with her again this day, she was stunned, and couldn't help asking: "Big sister, are you worrying about what the third sister said about Xia Lian's entanglement with Young Master Zhou?" ”
Ji Yunshu smiled bitterly, "When I went back to Cuihua Courtyard after I heard about it last time, my cousin came to look for me, and I saw some clues." If it weren't for the third sister, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to find out until now. ”
Ji Yunyun held Ji Yunshu's hand comfortingly, she asked Ji Yunlan, it was because after listening to her words before, Ji Yunlan felt suspicious, so she sent someone to keep an eye on Xia Lian, but she didn't expect that she really found out about Xia Lian and Zhou Heng's involvement. Although Ji Yunlan suspected that she had already known Xia Lian's purpose, she didn't tell Ji Yunshu, otherwise Ji Yunshu would have asked her, and she really didn't know how to hide the past.
"Big sister, Xia Lian is just a maid, there is nothing to worry about, she has a chance to pester Young Master Zhou by your side, let her out of the house, and then inform the Zhou family to see how she still approaches Young Master Zhou." Now that Ji Yunshu already knows, Ji Yunyun doesn't have to worry about it in secret, and says directly.
Ji Yunshu shook his head sadly, "It's not her who bothers me, but ...... Cousin......"