Chapter Seventy-Eight: It's the Second Lady

Shen Miaoge looked at the red sleeves: "Sleeves, don't play dumb riddles; Did you find something in the big kitchen? ”

"No, nothing was found;" Red Sleeves spread his hands: "There is no difference between peacetime. ”

Second Master Shen frowned: "It's really unreasonable!" What the younger brother and sister just said meant——? He heard that there was something in the words of the red sleeves, and he should have something to say.

Red Sleeves sat down, and she also thought that the soup had been replaced: "The second sister-in-law is a person with a clear heart, and it is impossible for people to do anything in her room; The soup could only be changed outside her room, and now everyone has pushed things away, and if what they said is true, wouldn't the bowl of safflower soup have become a flight from the sky—so, among those girls, someone must have lied. ”

Second Master Shen and Shen Miaoge looked at each other: "It's unlikely, right?" They concealed it, and when they found out afterwards, they were considered complicity; Now that the truth is told, they will be sent much lighter. ”

Red Sleeves smiled faintly: "No matter how light the hair falls, isn't it going to fall?" ”

Shen Miaoge and Shen Erye immediately understood, but there was still something they didn't understand: "We are not ordinary people, how can we not use some means; Are those girls' mouths too hard? ”

Red Sleeves shook his sleeves: "If someone hints at them anything, then of course they will grit their teeth and deny it; Don't forget, second brother, the way you look when you are (lustful can scare people to death.) ”

Shen Miaoge and the others immediately understood that the more they used their means, the more the girls would believe someone's hints, thinking that after telling the truth, they would definitely be severely punished.

"At the moment, as long as you tell the girls that they will not be punished, they will naturally speak." Second Master Shen stroked his palm.

"That won't work;" Red sleeves smiled: "The country has national laws and the family has family rules, how can there be mistakes and not punished?" As long as we make it clear that we will not be punished heavily, what is wrong will be punished - unintentional mistakes and intentional mistakes, of course, the punishment is different. ”

"Yes, as long as the difference between unintentional and intentional is made clear, I think the girls will not bite and not speak." Shen Miaoge also agreed with Red Sleeves' words.

Second Master Shen's words are not impossible, but Red Sleeves thinks that the person in the dark has such a detailed layout, and she doesn't want to take any wrong steps: rules can't be 'chaotic'; That person doesn't necessarily have a backhand, but it's always good just in case.

Second Master Shen immediately asked people to bring the girls and mothers-in-law up, and after making the words clear, he ate tea with Shen Miaoge and Red Sleeves in silence, and no longer said a word.

Quiet, for those who have faults in their hearts, it is a great pressure; Soon a little girl fell to her knees, crying and begging for mercy; As soon as she opened her mouth, she immediately knelt down three or four more girls.

Second Master Shen looked at it, it was all the girls who took breakfast; Before they opened their mouths to say the details, Shen Erye, Shen Miaoge and the others also knew that they had met other people on the way.

The girls didn't dare to hide it anymore, so they told what happened on the way to get the food at that time; It turned out that when they picked up the food, it was the time for the Shen Mansion to have breakfast, and everyone in each house and courtyard sent people to get the food, so they met a lot of people.

Red Sleeves said lightly: "You have to say it to everyone you meet, especially who you have chatted with, and who you have met when chatting...... these must be explained in detail." ”

The girls said alone, and several people added, although they were scared and weak, they still made things clear.

In the morning, when they came back from taking the food, they came back with the second lady's girl, and when they met the girl in the seventh lady's room, they talked together for a while, and the food box was placed on the ground because of its weight.

One of the seven lady's girls was the girl next to Gui Yue, who lived in the guest house, and she took some of the pine nut candy she made herself and distributed it, and everyone got together and pushed it out; Then, after they broke up with the girl of the seventh lady, they met the third lady and the girls of the Ding family and the An family after they left, and they also said two words.

The Seventh Lady?

Second Master Shen glanced at Shen Miaoge and thought for a while, "It can't be because you helped that Mrs. Xilan, right?" ”

Red Sleeves and Shen Miaoge glanced at each other, but they didn't speak; Although judging from the current situation, the matter seems to be related to the people in the seventh room, but it is not easy to draw conclusions.

After a few words of discussion, the red sleeves sent a few girls down: "Okay, you originally told the truth, at most, it was a matter of punishing one or half a month of silver, but now you have to add two more precepts - the hidden thing is very important, and it is not important that I will not call you to ask." ”

When the girls heard that it was just such a punishment, they were all relieved; One of the girls said timidly: "The maid still remembered something; When we met the third lady and a few young "milk" and "milk" people in the room, a mother-in-law came to look for her missing earrings and asked us to reprimand her. ”

In this matter, although a few girls don't think it's important, but Red Sleeves and others have made it clear in advance, and they can't hide what to say.

After hearing this, Red Sleeves nodded again and again: "Very good, it's right to do this; Whether things are useful or not, it is up to us to judge, and you just need to tell the people and things you meet. It seems that if you know that you can change your mistakes, you will be exempted from the responsibility of the ruler and punished you with a month's silver. ”

It is better to be fined than to be beaten, and whether there is really no money depends on the master of the family; If the errand is done well, the master will reward some things, and it will not be less than the moon silver.

A few girls immediately thanked the red sleeves.

After sending a few girls away, the three of them were silent; If you want to bring the girls from each room over for questioning, you have to inform Mrs. Shen about this matter.

Red Sleeves thought for a while: "I'll go and tell Mrs. Tai, now that Frost's mother and son are safe, Mrs. Tai won't be too frightened if she thinks about it; It's just angry, but it's inevitable. ”

"Second brother, you go to Madame first, and Madame will take you to find those girls first and lock them up." After the red sleeves finished speaking, he saluted Shen Erye and got up to leave.

It's too late to find those people now.

But things are getting more and more complicated, and more and more people are involved; Red Sleeves suddenly had a thought: That person, wouldn't he just want to make the Shen Mansion 'messy'?

She suddenly turned around: "I'd rather not ask the girl than have an ...... with any aunt or sister-in-law."

Second Master Shen and Shen Miaoge both smiled: "We know." Red Sleeves then went out of the room and hurried away.

After listening to the words of the red sleeves, Mrs. Tai immediately sent the girl to the rooms to spread the word, and called the girl who had taken breakfast in the morning to her courtyard: she must ask about this matter clearly.

Although each room is somewhat dissatisfied, asking their girls to ask is not tantamount to suspecting them as masters; But at the same time, they also understand that if they don't ask things clearly, their suspicions will not be cleared away - the person to blame is not Mrs. Shen or Shen Erye and others, but the person who did it is to blame for implicating themselves.

After the girl called, Mrs. Shen and others interrogated; Red Sleeves remembered the mother-in-law who was looking for earrings, so he left Mrs. Shen with Shen Miaoge, and asked Shen Erye's girl to take her to find the mother-in-law.

"Do you know that mother-in-law?"

The two girls shook their heads hesitantly: "I can't say I don't know it, but I'm not very familiar with it, but I can often see it in the house." ”

Shen Miaoge didn't speak, he just accompanied the red sleeves; When he should make a move, he will naturally not be idle.

Red Sleeves thought for a while: "Do you know what kind of errand that mother-in-law receives?" "The mother-in-law who can walk around the house early in the morning naturally has an errand on her body.

"I saw her sprinkler a month ago, but I haven't been paying attention to it lately."

Another girl said, "If you say that, the last time I picked up my clothes, I saw her on the pulp." ”

Redsleeves asked again, but somewhere else did he see the mother-in-law; Both girls shook their heads; Red Sleeves called the other two girls who had seen the mother-in-law to ask, and the answer was the same.

Only then did the red sleeves send someone to call the steward of the sprinkler and the pulp wash, and asked the girls to stay in the yard with the sprinkler and the pulp wash, and they were not allowed to go anywhere without her.

After the sprinkler and the head of the pulp wash came, Red Sleeves asked them how many people in the two courtyards had been transferred in the past two or three months.

The daughter-in-law who sprinkled the sweep smiled: "We only have one Mrs. Chen here, and it was the sister-in-law who came to ask me to go." ”

The daughter-in-law on the pulp wash didn't expect that Red Sleeves would ask about such a small matter, so she was startled and hurriedly explained the matter, so as not to involve herself again: "That's the nephew and wife of the second lady, who begged me to come here; I didn't think it was a big deal, it was all rough work and I opened my mouth for her. ”

Red Sleeves glanced at the housekeeper's daughter-in-law: "What did you let her do?" "It's all rough work, so you don't have to ask for help.

The daughter-in-law of the pulp washing steward did not dare to deceive: "Take four rough girls to collect clothes." ”

Red Sleeves looked at the daughter-in-law and was speechless for a long time, and only after seeing the sweat on her head did she say, "Who is she close to on weekdays?" ”

The daughter-in-law of the pulp washing steward didn't know the meaning of the red sleeves, but she still quickly answered; It's all inconsequential people; And Red Sleeves found that Mrs. Chen was not close to the second lady's room, which should be said to be very estranged.

Red Sleeves asked the washing housekeeper, but he knew why Mrs. Chen didn't get close to the people in the second room; The daughter-in-law shook her head and didn't know: there are so many things all day long, and there are so many interesting things about the master that can be whispered in the house, where would she be interested in the affairs of one of her subordinates.

Red Sleeves sent the housekeeper's daughter-in-law out to wait, and asked people to call Mrs. Chen over. Shen Miaoge tapped his fingers twice in his palm: "This thing is too strange, isn't it?" In the beginning, almost everything pointed to us; And right now, how can everything vaguely be mentioned to the second aunt? ”

What makes Shen Miaoge and Red Sleeves uneasy is that this matter always makes their husband and wife feel a little uneasy; Everything doesn't seem to be as simple as it seems.