Qi was locked up, and she hadn't figured out why her eldest maid had to take the initiative to stand up and identify herself as the one who poisoned her, obviously the most likely person was the old lady.

The person assigned by the Meng clan to serve the Qi clan was a little maid named Xiaoying, who was quick with her hands and feet, and quickly cleaned up the dilapidated courtyard, and prepared pen, ink, paper, inkstone and a scroll of Buddhist scriptures.

Qi Shi was angry when he saw the Buddhist scriptures, what do you call yourself too utilitarian, obviously she took over the feed after Meng Shi fell ill, it was not at all that she poisoned Meng Shi for the sake of feeding, these people are really black and white, right and wrong are not distinguished! I didn't listen to her explanation at all, and I just locked her up.

The more Qi thought about it, the more angry he became, and he grabbed the Buddhist scriptures and tore them.

"Madam, I can't help it." Xiaoying was startled, and hurriedly jumped up and hugged Qi's hand and snatched the Buddhist scriptures down, "Madam, the slave knows that you have been greatly wronged, you have been wronged, but people are under the eaves, you have to bow your head, if Mrs. doesn't copy this Buddhist scripture, how can you leave here." ”

"Y-Do you believe I've been wronged?" This is still the first person to say that he has been wronged, Although he is just a little girl, Qi's heart also has some warmth.

"Of course the slave believes!" Xiaoying nodded vigorously, "When Mrs. Hou was sick, Mrs. was not in charge of the feed, how could she replace the things in the warehouse with her hands and eyes, it was obvious that someone else did it, but let Mrs. blame it!" ”

That's right, when the Meng family was in charge of the feed, the treasury never let people enter casually, how could she replace the Qingqi incense and bird's nest, she was not like the old lady, who arranged people everywhere.

…… Staffed everywhere, old lady!

Qi stood up in shock, to speak, only the old lady can do things in the warehouse! It is impossible for the Meng family to poison herself, the Mei family has a rich and powerful father, and he has always disdained these, this poison is given by the old lady!

Qi Shi seemed to have suddenly opened his mind, and his chaotic brain suddenly became clear, why did his eldest maid take the initiative to jump out and identify herself, it must have been instructed by the old lady, that damn maid is the old lady's person!

Qi was almost mad, and walked around the house twice with red eyes, what an old lady, who has been in charge of the feed for the past few years, has been obedient to her, and has reaped many benefits for her, but as soon as something happens, the old lady pushed her out to take the blame.

Xiaoying looked at Qi's expression carefully, convinced that she had understood, and said angrily: "Mrs. was wronged so much, the master didn't even help Mrs. say a word, and scolded Mrs. for being a poisonous woman." ”

Master? Qi Shi looked at Xiaoying with a frown.

"Ah, slave maid, slave maid didn't mean to arrange the master!" Xiaoying was so frightened that she knelt on the ground with a puff, "The slave is, it's just that I'm sorry for my wife, others don't know, doesn't the master know that my wife is innocent?" ”

The lord should know. Qi Shi lowered her head and thought, except for the silver from the greedy ink, she didn't tell the master truthfully, she never hid from him what she had done in this Hou Mansion, the good and the bad would tell him, and even the little wit between the concubines would tell him.

The old man is so smart, he must know that she was wronged, and he must know that the real person who poisoned the old lady is the old lady, it turns out that in his heart, he is not as important as the old lady, and he can give it up at any time......

The more Qi thought about it, the cooler his heart became, and he sat down on the shabby chair, covering his face and crying.

Xiaoying found a cleaner towel, silently handed it to Qi's, waited for Qi's crying to be a little smaller, stepped forward to help her comb her loose hair again, and persuaded while combing: "Madam, don't be sad, even if the master is ...... You still have two girls, and the second young master, although the slave is useless, as long as you don't dislike the slave and the slave are stupid, the slave and the maid will always guard you. ”

"You're a good one." Qi wiped the tears on her face, this little maid is right, she still has Sister Fu'er, and Sister Rong'er, Sister Fu'er is now His Royal Highness the Prince's person, Brother Ji'er's studies are also good, and he may be able to enter the Jinshi in the future, when the time comes, the children will have a great future, who would dare to wronged her.

……

The Qi clan was suddenly locked up, and the middle feed of the Hou Mansion was not handed over normally, and the Meng clan could only take stock of it in the same way.

The inventory in the warehouse and the inventory of items are the same, but the things received everywhere in the second room have greatly exceeded the standard, for example, there are more than a dozen sets of tea sets in Sister Rong's house, not that Ye Rong really uses so many in the house, but she often breaks it when she loses her temper, but she does not compensate according to the price, but directly receives a new set, so that there are more tea sets registered in her house.

Meng listed all these things in turn, and each yard should be used as much as it should be, and those that should be returned to the treasury should be returned, and those that have been damaged should be compensated according to the price.

After counting the warehouse, Meng Shi began to check the accounts again, and this time she took Ye Qian with her. The baby daughter is the concubine of King Yu, and it is inevitable that she will have to manage the inner courtyard of King Yu in the future, and she can't do it if she doesn't understand anything. In the past, she was more than willing but not enough, but now that she has stood up, she naturally has to teach her daughter hand in hand.

Ye Qian had never been in contact with these, and she felt very novel when she watched Meng Shi crackle and calculate. "Mother, do you have to do all this right?" Ye Qian looked at the account books stacked high, and was a little worried about her mother's body, she was just getting better, is it okay to work like this?

"No, you don't." Meng Shi naturally understood what his daughter was worried about, "I don't need to reconcile all the accounts personally, as long as there is no problem with spot checks." "Reconciling the account book is the business of the account room, but she has just taken over, who knows if the Qi family and the account room have joined forces to make fake accounts, so we have to randomly draw a few account books to review, if there is no problem, it will be fine, if there is a problem, all of them must be re-reconciled.

Ye Qian patiently watched her mother finish checking the account, saw her mother's brows frowning, and asked worriedly, "Mother, but there is a problem with this account?" "If there's a problem, don't you have to do it all?

"It's fine." Meng Shi's white fingers tapped lightly on the account book twice, "However, this cost is a big problem. She has also been in charge of the family for many years, and she naturally knows how much she spends a month, and she is roughly clear about how much money it costs to hold a banquet. Moreover, not only the cost of the second room, but also the cost of each courtyard has doubled, including her Siyuan Hall.

Qi shouldn't be so smart, it is estimated that the old lady taught her. It is easy to find out the fraud in the account book, and the abacus will be exposed, but it is difficult to check this kind of expenditure when it becomes larger, Qi's can say that eggs have become more expensive, bird's nest prices have risen, there is very little charcoal in a certain year, and ice is very rare in a certain year, and she can check the current prices, but the prices in the past few years have not been checked.

Ye Qian couldn't bear to see her mother distressed, and persuaded: "Mother, forget about the past, let him go to the silver that can't be recovered, and take care of the future expenses." ”

"It's okay, my mother has her own way." Meng Shi smiled and touched the top of her daughter's soft hair, she and Qi have been concubines for many years, and have dealt with her countless times, she knows Qi very well, and there is a way to get her greedy silver back, she sent Xiaoying to Qi's side, but not really to serve her.

……

For the two sisters, Ye Fu and Ye Rong, it has been a lot of bad luck recently. Ye Fu was almost killed by the prince, and her body was only recovered, while Ye Rong was barely able to eliminate the injuries on her face, and the two sisters were just able to come out to meet people, and their mother was locked up.

Although it was locked up, the Meng clan did not send anyone to guard it, and Ye Fu Ye Rong saw the Qi clan very smoothly.

"Mother, what's going on?" Ye Rong was furious when she saw this dilapidated small courtyard, "How can you live in such a dilapidated courtyard!" It was Ye Qian and the eldest aunt who harmed you, didn't they? As soon as Meng's illness cured, his mother was locked up, and he didn't have to think about it to know that it was Meng's harm.

Ye Fu was also very angry, "Mother, everyone in the house said that you poisoned your aunt, is it true?" She wasn't very sure that her mother was innocent, according to her idea, in order to snatch the middle feed from Meng's hands, she poisoned her and couldn't get up, which was a very effective practice, maybe that's what her mother thought.

"Of course not me." Qi Shi pulled Ye Fu with one hand and Ye Rong with the other, and his eyes turned red again, "I am in charge of the feed, but I am not the one who poisoned me." Qi thought about it, but decided to tell the truth to the two daughters, and let them beware of the old lady, so as not to be harmed by the old lady like himself one day.

Qi asked Xiaoying to go to the yard to guard, told the two sisters what she guessed, and advised: "The old lady said it herself, she has placed people in each yard, like Mama Zhao who just left in Sister Qian'er's yard, my yard is the big girl who betrayed me and testified against me, there must be one in the two of you in the yard, you two must go back and check carefully." ”

"The old lady was poisoned and asked her mother to carry the black pot for her!" Ye Rong jumped up, "There are also people in my yard to spy on me!" This、This is also disgusting! "If the old lady asks her directly what she does every day, she has nothing to hide, but this is not the same thing as being quietly watched, especially when the old lady instructed the maid to frame her mother, this matter is even more unacceptable, who knows if the person secretly planted by the old lady in her yard will bite her in the future.

Ye Fu was also frightened by the old lady's perverted desire to control, and secretly went through the big and small maids in the yard in her heart, thinking about who the old lady was

Planted moles.

"So, you two have to check it out when you go back." Qi squeezed Ye Fu's hand, his eyes were full of expectation, "Sister Fu'er, you can't relax on His Royal Highness the Prince's side, the person sent by the prince that day said, when you are fourteen, I will take you to the East Palace, if you can sit in the position of the side concubine in the future, what else is there to be afraid of." ”

As soon as she heard the prince, Ye Fu's body trembled violently, and the sense of near-death despair spread in her heart again.

Ye Rong didn't know about Ye Fu and the crown prince, and her eyes opened in surprise when she heard this, "Big sister and the prince? It's true? "If this is true, then what else is Ye Qian to be proud of, no matter how powerful King Yu is, can he still be stronger than the prince? The crown prince is the prince, and the king of Yu is a minister, which is more noble, do you need to say?

"Nature is true." Qi finally showed a smile, "However, this matter is confidential and must not be spread outside, and Sister Rong can't mention it to anyone." ”

"Why?!" Ye Rong shouted dissatisfiedly, "Then Ye Qian has the name of Princess Yu, and she is rampant, my mother looks at how arrogant she is, if the eldest sister is the prince's concubine, why don't you tell everyone, in this way, who dares to bully us!" ”

Qi Shi stiffened his face, "If you say that you can't spread it, you can't spread it!" His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the prince, how many pairs of eyes are staring at him, if people know that he and Sister Fu have ...... If you have anything to do with it, you will be used as a handle. ”

Ye Rong pursed her lips regretfully, while Ye Fu looked at Qi pleadingly, "Mother, I don't want to see him again." ”

Qi Shi grabbed Ye Fu's hand hard, "Sister Fu'er, don't be afraid, last time His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was drunk, and it was inevitable that he would get a little out of control, and next time it won't." Besides, my mother was locked up in such a broken yard, so that every day should not be, and the earth was not spiritual, and my mother was counting on you. ”

"Mother," Ye Fu almost cried, at the thought of seeing the prince again, she was heartbroken, she never wanted to experience that kind of pain again, "Isn't there still a father?" Dad won't let it go, he will naturally save his mother. ”

Qi Shi snorted coldly, "I can't count on your father, he's so smart, can't you see what's going on?" He already knew that it was the old lady who poisoned me, and when the maid pointed out against me, not only did he not help me defend myself, but instead came up and scolded me for being a poisonous woman, in order to protect the old lady and let me take the blame. Hmph, in his heart, the old lady is his relative, and our mother and daughter have to stand aside. ”

"How can Dad do this?!" Ye Rong's face was flushed with anger, "Dad knows that his mother was wronged, and he still helps the old lady?" I don't believe it, I'll go to him and ask for clarification! ”

Ye Rong stood up and ran out, Qi didn't stop her, and hurriedly asked Ye Fu to catch up, "She has a temper tantrum, Sister Fu'er quickly follow her and take a look, don't let her make your father angry, she will be the one who will suffer at that time." ”