Chapter 81: I Found the Vine

Yunxiang had just come back, and she brought the housekeeper's daughter-in-law who had washed the pulp, and a few maidens and mothers-in-law came with her; Mrs. Chen is among them.

Red Sleeves and Shen Miaoge didn't have time to listen to what Yunxiang said, and when they heard Mrs. Shen ask, they asked Yunxiang to enter the hall with the person who had been washed with the pulp.

After Mrs. Shen saw a few girls, she asked the housekeeper's daughter-in-law, "Are these girls getting breakfast?" ”

The housekeeper's daughter-in-law is a lawsuit: "Mrs. Hui's words are these girls; However, there are not all people, there is a girl who has something to do at home and is not in the house. "She's dying of annoyance now, and I don't know why she's being questioned so much on the pulp.

There was no need to guess, she knew that something big must have happened in the house; Now the big thing in the house is nothing more than the two young "milk" and "milk" in the pot, but the people on their pulp wash can be the same as the people in the yard of the second young "milk" and "milk", there is nothing to say? But there are also no evil people, why is it that the masters of the house are eyeing them who are washed by the pulp.

Also, that hateful girl, she doesn't take leave early or late, but she is not in the house at this time; Even if it's okay, this time there will be three things.

What's more, she checked her face and looked at the "color", and found that the personal girl of the five young "milk" and "milk" was not interested in a few girls in the house, but was very concerned about the one who was not in the house.

After listening to the words of the housekeeper's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Tai ignored the maid in the hall, and first asked the housekeeper's daughter-in-law about the situation of the girl who was on leave, such as what errands she did in the pulp washing, what preferences she had, who she was more intimate with, and which master liked her.

After hearing Mrs. Tai's words, the housekeeper's daughter-in-law knew that it was the girl who caused so much trouble for the pulp; Even if she gritted her teeth with hatred, she couldn't catch anyone now - if she caught someone, it wouldn't be her turn to hit someone.

At that moment, she told the girl in detail.

That girl is called a fat girl, and she doesn't do her work carefully, but she just relies on her natural strength, so she can be regarded as a capable person in charge of her daughter-in-law's "wife" in pulp washing.

When she heard that the fat girl was strong, the corners of the red sleeves' eyes twitched, but she didn't open her mouth to interrupt the words of the housekeeper's daughter-in-law, and let her continue.

The fat girl got up early in the morning, and went to fetch breakfast with a few girls as usual: because she was so strong that she could do the work for four people—she could carry two food boxes full of food, and she did not look at all laborious; So taking breakfast has always been indispensable for her.

She went out of the yard with a food box and a few girls, but when she came back, she didn't eat much, saying that her stomach was a little uncomfortable; She has always eaten a lot, and she is also a person who loves to eat, and there are not many times like this. When they asked her if she needed to see a doctor, she shook her head and said no, and went to lie down in the house.

The housekeeper's daughter-in-law later thought that it was a fat girl who wanted to escape from laziness, but later it seemed that something was really wrong with her: she was covered with a quilt in the house, her face was not bloody, and her whole body was trembling slightly.

She also probed the fat girl's forehead, and wanted someone to call a doctor to come and see her; The fat girl said that she didn't need to, just lie down for a while; And someone happened to come in the yard, and the housekeeper's daughter-in-law also put down the fat girl's business.

After she and the people of the Seventh Lady explained the matter of the clothes, the fat girl's family brought a few words, saying that her father was sick and asked her to go back and have a look; The fat girl immediately got up to take leave, and the housekeeper's daughter-in-law heard that her father was sick, and this leave could not be allowed, and the fat girl was also sick, so she was just asked to go back to rest for two days, so she happily let her go.

After listening to this, Red Sleeves asked lightly: "When you take breakfast, what does the food box that the fat girl carries look like?" ”

"It's a new food box;" A girl replied, "Because the new food box is strong, you can put more things for her to carry." ”

Red Sleeves nodded lightly, and began to calculate in his heart: If someone uses the same food box and changes the pulp to wash the original food box halfway, the girls on the pulp wash will not be able to see it; Then the fat girl replaced the food box with the food box of the Seventh Lady, and then someone used the food box that was originally washed by the pulp to replace the food box that the fat girl replaced, so it was seamless.

In other words, in addition to the fat girl for the food box of the seventh lady, these girls should have met other people; Otherwise, where is the opportunity to change the food box?

Red Sleeves asked the girls if they had met someone on the way to get food; The girls shook their heads together: people met, but they didn't stop any longer, they just said hello while walking.

Hearing this, Red Sleeves thought for a while: "Before and after taking the food that day, what did the fat girl do differently?" ”

"Well, she was in a bad stomach that day, and when she went to get food, she didn't have anything; When she came back from fetching her food, she said she was sick to her stomach, so she put the food box in the pavilion and went to the latrine—she had been there twice. ”

"Are you waiting for her?" Redsleeves asked.

"Nope. She walked quickly, and the food box would not be lost in the pavilion, nor would it be knocked over, so we would go our own first; She said the same thing, let's go first, and she'll catch up in a moment. ”

Red Sleeves knew that the fat girl's food box was replaced in the pavilion, and then she changed the food box of the Seventh Lady, and then changed the food box in the pulp washing courtyard in another pavilion.

Who made the chubby chick do this? She said that she was afraid that her stomach was not good, and she was afraid after doing this, and she was just scared and trembling with fear; As for those few words——?

Red Sleeves immediately asked, "Who sent the message to the fat girl?" ”

The housekeeper's daughter-in-law didn't know, she only knew that it was a letter sent by someone from the second gate; Red Sleeves immediately found Laiwang's daughter-in-law's "wife" and made it clear that it was not someone from the fat girl's family who came to deliver the message, but a half-sized man who claimed to be a fat girl's neighbor.

Red Sleeves glanced at Mrs. Shen, she already had a bad premonition in her heart, but she immediately asked Laiwang's daughter-in-law to send someone to the fat girl's house to have a look, if the fat girl was at home, let her go back to the house immediately; Red Sleeves also told him not to forget to bring a few taels of silver, and if something happened to the fat girl's family, leave the silver.

After Laiwang's daughter-in-law left, Red Sleeves glanced at Mrs. Chen, but did not ask her; Instead, he called a few girls up one by one to ask questions, and then asked the girls to stand aside.

Then I asked the girls who took the food in each room, and the more they spoke, the clearer they became, and everyone was a little clear when they asked: In addition to the fat girl who changed the food box, there were also people who changed the soup in the fat girl's food box and the soup in the frost food box.

Who could it be? Of course, it was the person who turned the food box, and there was only one person who was rummaging around the food box at that time, and that was Mrs. Chen.

Mrs. Chen's legs were already weak when she heard this, not leaning against the wall for fear that she would have already knelt on the ground; She knew that what she had done had failed, and she thought it was just a prank, but it also happened to show the evil anger in her heart.

I don't want to poke out such a big thing today: listening to the meaning of the masters, it seems that the dystocia of the second young "milk" and "milk" has something to do with that bowl of soup.

In these years, there is no pie-in-the-sky good thing, she should have known; If it was really a good thing, how could the eight hundred big money get into his hands so easily? It's just that it's too late to regret it now, and she's so scared that her brain can't turn anymore.

Finally, after asking all the people, the red cuffs were also dry, and they ate two cups of tea in a row; After eating tea, she talked to Mrs. Tai and Mrs. Shen in a low voice, and from time to time the three of them would look at Mrs. Chen, making Mrs. Chen's back cold.

Mrs. Chen finally couldn't stand it anymore, and without waiting for Red Sleeves to ask her, she fell to the ground and kowtowed: "It's the slave's fault, it's the slave's fault!" The slave maid was confused for a while, and she mistakenly believed people's words before she changed the bowl of soup. ”

It was not someone else who made Mrs. Chen change the soup, it was the fat girl.

It turned out that these girls who were picking up food in the frosty yard once quarreled with Mrs. Chen because of a piece of clothing, which caused her to be fined half a month's monthly money by the housekeeper's daughter-in-law, which made her angry and itchy: because the clothes were obviously good when she washed them, and they were not washed at all.

Besides, a new dress, is that easy to wash? When the girl saw what was going on in the laundry, she was sure that she had washed it: because the place where it was dried was a rope that had been pulled up, and it was impossible to break the clothes anywhere.

Mrs. Chen suffered a lot of grievances, but she couldn't reason with it, thinking that she could only swallow it like other people who encountered such an unlucky thing; I didn't want the fat girl to come to her in a few days, saying that she wanted to tease the girls who were getting the food from the second young "milk" and "milk", because those girls were too much.

Mrs. Chen asked the fat girl, knowing that the fat girl was also bullied by those girls, so she persuaded her to swallow this breath and forget it, they are all rough people in the house, where can there be any way to teach them.

The fat girl said that she should replace the soup of the seventh lady and the second young "milk" and "milk", and then the meal was not right, and a few girls couldn't say it clearly, so they would naturally be punished by the second young "milk" and "milk" or the second master; Moreover, the fat girl also gave her 800 big money, and when she said that, it was up to her to attract the attention of those people, so that Mrs. Chen pretended that the earrings were lost, and replaced the soup when she pretended to be looking for the earrings - which was the food box, of course, was hinted to her by the fat girl.

"They didn't take the food from the people in your yard, how could you say that you took the food back and lost the earrings?" Red Sleeves frowned: "You are clearly still lying to Mrs. Tai." ”

Mrs. Chen was so frightened that she kowtowed again and again: "Don't dare, the slave doesn't dare to deceive Mrs. Tai; A few of them received food from a small group of people in the courtyard, but those of us who were more inferior had to go to the big kitchen to get it ourselves—and the food was different from what they used. ”

After listening to this, Red Sleeves glanced at the housekeeper's daughter-in-law: "This matter, I will settle accounts with you later!" "The rough girls and mothers-in-law all have the same meals, and the difference in the monthly money they receive is only in the amount of work they do - if the meals they eat are different, and someone else goes to the big kitchen to get the food, then someone can only take the food of other people. Remember the permanent address of Q Pig Literature Station: for easy reading next time!