Tang Sheng came, but the county lord was not behaving, and looked at the Cao family and watched her eat.

The Cao family didn't eat either, and persuaded the county lord to eat first.

The county lord said, "You have come to me as a guest, so naturally I will respect you." I didn't respect you a few days ago. This time, are you willing to take it? ”

Cao couldn't say a word, his face turned red, and his eyes swept towards Guiyuan and Yuyuan.

Yuyuan was so good that he hurriedly bowed down and said, "When our wife came over, she ate." In the past few days, my stomach has been swollen, and I am afraid that I will not be able to eat a few bites. My wife doesn't dislike it, so let me eat it for our wife. ”

Yuyuan said this, glanced at Guiyuan slightly, and didn't know whether to provoke or leave a chance for Guiyuan.

Guiyuan was robbed of the credit by Yuyuan, very unhappy, now that there is time to pause, where is she willing to let go, go up and take Cao's soup bowl first, and then say: "I'll come!" ”

Gui Yuan took a bite and swallowed it, revealing a face full of deliciousness and unfinished thinking.

The county lord slowly picked up the soup bowl, didn't eat it, and said in his mouth: "You have a heart." Alas, after all, the girl is a child from outside, different from the children in our house. If you know the rules, you won't run around and get caught up in other people's maze. My wife said that day that she had apologized, and I thought to myself, what is there to apologize for? Anyway, my wife is an elder, so I don't need it. So, she was tormented, she couldn't stand such a ceremony at a young age, and she really fell from the stairs, isn't it retribution? ”

Cao pretended to be shocked.

The county lord was full of sadness, and the soup that he wanted to send into his mouth unconsciously put down, and said, "Maybe my wife will return to Beifu at that time, but I never know." Now, she is angry with me, and she hides and does not see anyone. Don't say that Mrs., you go with such a good intention, even if I go, I won't see it! ”

Cao said: "Hey, I just turned my eyes, how did this happen?" When I left, it was fine, and the orb was still inside. If you don't believe me, madam, you sent the orb to ask. ”

The county lord shook his head.

The two of them probably understood each other's meanings. The meaning of the county lord is to inquire about Cao's ability to be in Shizhai that day, and to experience the fall of Yu Qi from the building, and to pay attention to what Yu Qi does not see, but Cao Shi responded: I went back, and I left before the accident, I don't know anything, it's none of my business.

Cao's meaning was clear, and he had to force the county lord to send the jewel to confront him.

The county lord shook his head, he understood it, and he also looked down on it. Between the concubines, the emotions are indifferent, but that's it. The passage that the county lord said also has a meaning: The girl is not seen now, and if you bring soup, she may not see you, so she will naturally not drink your things.

Of course, the joke of Huanglong Soup, where has the county lord never heard it, this is a shameful man's pretentiousness, scolding. The county lord naturally didn't want to drink it, and he didn't want to accept it for Yu Qi to eat.

Since they scolded people in such a way, they would be counted, and the county lord let them eat by themselves. Fortunately, the county lord has the title of "official", and the Cao family can't help it, and he doesn't dare to be disrespectful, glad that such humiliating consequences are eliminated by the people under her.

Unexpectedly, Baozhu heard Cao's words outside.

Originally, the county lord let Baozhu rest, and then went into Shizhai to have a look, because she heard that the second wife of Beifu was coming, she thought that the second wife came to intercede for her, so she struggled to come to see her.

So, I heard Cao's cold shirk words.

Baozhu cried, covering her mouth and crying outside the curtain.

Hearing the cry, the county lord asked Jiangzhu to take a look, and Jiangzhu went out to see that it was Baozhu, so he persuaded him to ask what was wrong, and his wife was talking inside. When the lord heard that it was the jewel, he let her in.

After Baozhu came in, he stared at the Cao family bitterly, and his legs couldn't help kneeling down to the county lord, and said, "Madam, in fact, I ......"

Baozhu actually wanted to say that she and the master and servants of the Cao family were in Shizhai that day, watching Miss Qi fall downstairs, and found that Miss Qi was gone, all of which the Cao family knew! He Zuo is just a leader in the past, a person who didn't report something in time.

didn't report it to the county lord in time, wasn't it also Cao's repeated instigation not to report?

The county lord frowned and said, "What do you want to say?" ”

Baozhu shook his head, didn't reply to the county lord's words, turned his knees to Cao Shi, and said, "Madam, that day, Miss Qi fell downstairs in Shizhai, and several of us were there. Why did my wife tell her that you went back? Why did you leave me alone when you went back? Did I let the girl go upstairs and fall? I didn't report it to our wife that day, isn't it what you mean, wife? You said you were afraid that our wife would be frightened when she heard it. ”

Cao Shi was nervous, stood up, and said, "Nonsense! ”

Cao didn't expect the orb to appear at this time, and heard what he had just said.

Fortunately, the county lord waved his hand and smiled: "What's the matter?" Stretched out his hand to pull Cao Shi to sit down, and then said angrily to Baozhu: "Foolish and heartless things, in vain I treat you as the leader of people, there are no rules at all." If you don't say your wife doesn't know, what if you do? Didn't you make a mess of it yourself? ”

After speaking, he comforted Cao with a pleasant face.

Baozhu was ordered by the county lord to go out and lie on the ground, take off his shoes and bare feet, and let people beat the soles of his feet as a punishment for talking too much and unruly.

Seeing that things were like this, Cao had no intention of staying, so he quickly left.

Out of the West Mansion, Cao said to Gui Yuan angrily: "Who are they!" I don't have the slightest look, can I say these words in front of my masters? I'm smiling with her master! What's wrong with the fact that there is no one in Xifu? It's really that the mutton didn't eat well, knocking out the entire front teeth, from the gap between the teeth to the navel. ”

Guiyuan was relieved: "Mrs. is angry, although the jewel is in trouble, after all, Mrs. Xifu did not go to her heart, and Xifu is still in awe of Mrs. You." Look, she's going to drink the soup we left behind! ”

Saying this, Cao's heart was much more comfortable, and later, he asked Guiyuan: "That soup is delicious?" I wanted to drink it, but I couldn't open my mouth when I thought of your joke. ”

Gui Yuan smiled: "How can you let my wife into a joke, such a thing, I will do it!" It's just that there is a strange smell in the soup. As he spoke, he turned his head and asked Yuyuan, "What did you add to the arrangement that you arranged?" ”

Yu Yuan laughed uncontrollably, and this time he grinned and said, "What can there be!" Do what my sister says. ”

Cao said: "Dead hoof, then you are still laughing so happily, your ancestor crawled out of the ground to punish your enemy?" So happy. ”

Yuyuan said no, but she was happy in her heart, as if she had something added to the soup, or did she put it with her own hands, a pot of peony fragrant wine and a lump of gold and jade.

It's not human urine and!

Now, Guiyuan has drunk such a soup, how dare Yuyuan tell the truth.

As soon as the Cao family left, the county lord asked the people outside to stop playing the orb, but he didn't ask the orb to come in and talk. only asked Yuping to go out and pass the word to Baozhu and let her go back and rest.

Baozhu is wronged, the more I think about it, the more angry I become, and the more I think about it, the more I feel that life is boring. In the final analysis, she thought: from now on, the county lord will have to despise himself, and it will be difficult to reuse himself. After going back, she lay on the bed in a daze, and in the evening, Jiangzhu and Yuping came to see her, and brought food to persuade her to eat.

Baozhu tear-wet pillow towel, never dried for a day, to the eye, not thirsty, not hungry. Jiangzhu and Yuping were worried, and if they persuaded a few more words, her tears flowed more vigorously, and she was extremely sad, shaking her head and answering the numbers.

Jiangzhu and Yuping knew that she was wronged today, and persuaded her a few times, but she stayed like this for a while, and the two left. After the two left, Baozhu got up, opened the cabinet, found a red dress, hung a red cloak, and found a pair of red embroidered shoes, and tried his upper body against the lamp quietly.

She said to herself: "The whole dress was given by my wife, and my wife said that she would wear it when she left the cabinet in the future." After so many years of total opportunity, why waste your wife's kindness. ”

He put on his clothes, and at the same time took out all the gold and silver jewelry he had in his possession, and put them on his hands and feet. Looking in the mirror, this looks like a bride who is about to leave the cabinet!

After taking pictures for a while, he felt that something was missing, so he looked very dissatisfied, and took off his headdress and clothes angrily. After that, he took a hand lamp and went outside.

This time, I went to Shizhai first, sat alone at the door for a while, and then went inside, sat on the bed where Lu Qi slept for a while, and started to clean up the house for Lu Qi, and when everything was clean and tidy, she left satisfied.

When he was about to close the door of Shizhai, he silently said to the inside: "Blame me for not cultivating yin in my previous life, I hope the girl will forgive, I didn't take a good look at you." ”

Then, Baozhu closed the door, walked back faintly and resentfully, and when she came to the door of the house where she lived, she stopped, and didn't know what to think, so she turned her feet and walked to the side yard again, and took the path to Beifu. Entering the courtyard of the Beifu realm, dodging and dodging, when he saw someone, he turned his back, and walked all the way to the daily account office of the Beifu.

At midnight, the knocker came and saw someone, so he stopped her. The jewel couldn't hide, so he responded with a smile, and said to the knocker: "I want to weigh something there, but I can't estimate the money two, and I'm afraid that something will go wrong in the future, so I'll borrow a rod and scale." ”

He said, "It's not the right time for you to come, the deacon of the account has just left." If you can catch up, you can call back and open the door. ”

After listening, Baozhu thanked him and tapped in the direction that the more people said. After a while, he found the deacon in the accounting room and came back to open the door and borrow the scales.

The deacon of the bookkeeper was curious and asked her, "Why doesn't the girl wait for tomorrow to come?" It's late tonight, so why bother running in the dark. Either the little one will come, or we will send it over. ”

Baozhu said: "My brother has a good heart and eyes to treat me like this." If I ask for this thing tonight, it won't be of much use, and after tomorrow, I will have to use it on the third watch. It's not yet the third watch day, so borrow it as soon as possible and pay it back as soon as possible. ”

The deacon of the accounting room was full of doubts, and said, "What kind of treasure does the girl want to call?" It was three watches in the middle of the night. ”

The jewel took it, bowed deeply, did not answer, and then separated the weighing rod from the weighing stone, and returned the weighing rod to the deacon, and she took the weighing weight.

The deacon of the accounting room was confused, chased him out, and said, "The girl took the scale, why don't you use the weighing rod?" ”

Baozhu said: "I have a pole in my heart, I'm afraid that others can't see it clearly, the scales in Beifu are accurate, let it measure it." I've got enough scales. ”

She smiled and replied to the deacon, and when she was done, she returned the way she came, and went to the house where she lived, and put on the clothes and shoes that she was going to wear when she went out of the court, and put on all the gold and silver jewelry, and prepared to go out.

days.

An earth-shattering news was spread in the Zhuang Mansion, saying that someone had hanged himself from the old locust tree outside the Central Mansion, and he was out of breath, his face was bursting, and he was hideous and terrifying. The whole body is dressed in new clothes, all of them are red, and there is a weighing stone tied to his feet, and there is a consistent amount of money on the back of the weighing stone, and when he is fully calculated, it is seven seven forty-nine in total.

When these words came to Xifu, the county lord asked who it was?

The girl who passed the word trembled, stumbling, and finally said, "It's Sister Baozhu!" ”

The county lord was so frightened that his eyes turned black and he staggered to his seat.