Chapter 12: The Enemy of Enemies Is Friends
The news of Mama Song's murder of the third lady spread all over the Houfu the next morning.
Everyone's thoughts were tied to the hall in the front yard, and they wanted to see how the old lady would punish this bold Mama Song.
The party Yun Yu sat casually in the hall, holding a teacup and drinking tea casually.
The old lady glanced at the overly heavy cotton cushion under Yun Wei, and the expression on her face was a little complicated.
Yun Yan was beaten unjustly, and she was doing this today to remind the old lady that she would not let people be wronged in vain, and if she didn't give an explanation or compensation today, she couldn't turn the page on this matter.
"Although you didn't do this arson and burned down the ancestral hall, but it was also because of you, thinking that you have already suffered from flesh and skin, I will not pursue this matter, forget your words and deeds in the future, and don't get into trouble. ”
Old Madam Yun felt that Yun Yu was wronged, and it was impossible for her to admit that she had done wrong.
But in Yun Wei's ears, this attack sounded particularly harsh!
Obviously she is a victim, but she insists on saying that he is the party at fault.
The clay man also has a three-point temperament, and it is impossible for Yun Yu to suffer this loss in vain.
"This ancestral ancestral hall can be burned down, and the granddaughter is indeed at fault. Yun Yan, who had been sitting silently for a long time, suddenly opened her mouth to admit her mistake.
"My mistake was that in those two days, in order to sincerely repent, I knelt in front of the tablets of my ancestors day and night without eating, drinking, and losing my body, which made people take advantage of the loophole and drugged in eating. ”
After speaking, Yun Yu pretended to take the handkerchief to wipe her tears.
"What excuse do you have to make, even if you are asked to kneel in the ancestral hall, I have never asked anyone to cut off your food!"
The crutches in the old lady's hand fell heavily to the ground, and she accused Yun Wei very angrily.
Yun Yu was stunned, the old lady didn't seem to be telling a lie like this, but in those days, she couldn't eat enough porridge every day, and she almost couldn't survive.
"For the past three days, my granddaughter only had a bowl of porridge every day, but I don't know where the food my grandmother said went? If my grandmother didn't believe me, I could send someone to ask the girl who brought me food every day what she gave me every day!"
Yun Yu said with a pitiful face, and a look of grievance made people feel distressed.
The second-room lady Qin, who was sitting on the side and listening, made a scene: "Old lady, you have to check carefully, someone dares to disobey your will to give our young lady of the Hou Mansion a clear porridge every day, this is also too hateful!"
The second room of the Hou Mansion is not a kind person who came out to talk at this time, the second room wanted to divide the family and make some benefits when Zhong Yi Hou was alive, but seeing that Zhong Yi Hou was dead, he changed his mind and refused to leave the Hou Mansion, so he naturally was the title of the big house.
There has always been something going on in the big house, and the second room will come to mix one or two, and now it is no exception.
The old lady glanced at the Qin clan angrily, and secretly blamed her for being too talkative and troublesome.
"Who is the one who brought the meal to the third lady? Find out the person, I will personally interrogate it. ”
Su Xian, who was standing beside Old Madam Yun, was a little nervous at this time, and she still grabbed the handkerchief in her hand from time to time and stirred around.
The maid who brought food to Yun Yu was quickly brought up, and she looked around in fear, a little puzzled by what she had done wrong.
"Did you give her a meal when the third lady received the punishment in the ancestral hall?" the old lady lowered her voice, very majestic.
The maid couldn't stand the aura and was so frightened that she crawled on the ground and replied, "Old lady, those days were the meals that the slave maid brought to the third lady. ”
"Then what did you send to the third lady?" asked the old lady.
The maid was so frightened that her legs were weak, and she replied honestly: "I send a bowl of porridge every day, and there is no more than enough!"
This question undoubtedly slapped the old lady in the face.
At this time, the old lady's face was blue and red, she was anxious and angry, for fear that the Qin family in the second room would see the joke here, so she immediately reprimanded this maid.
"You, who gave you the audacity to do this?"
The maid was dumbfounded, wasn't this what the old lady ordered? She was just a slave, and she just did what her master told her, why was it her fault now?
"Isn't this what you ordered? Sister Su Xian told me that you can send a bowl of porridge every day......
Before the maid could finish speaking, Su Xian, who was standing on the side, couldn't help it, she quickly knelt on the ground and confessed her mistake to the old lady.
"It's all the slaves and maids who are not good, and it is the slaves and maids who let her deliver porridge every day. ”
The Qin family is a master who doesn't think it's a big deal to see the excitement, and when he saw Su Xian kneeling down and admitting his mistake, he wanted to get involved in this matter to the end.
"Isn't this the one who saved my niece Wanwan that day? Unexpectedly, the old lady took pity on her, and even kept her by her side as a personal maid. ”
The Qin clan looked at Su Xian for a while, shaking his head and snorting while watching.
"From a low-level slave girl doing odd jobs to a personal maid beside the old lady, it is a bit of a sparrow to become a phoenix, but this is sometimes, once people are too proud, the previous efforts can be in vain!"
The most taboo thing for big families is that the slave Yue master is the master of the robe for the master, even if Su Xian is liked by the old lady, she can't make the decision for the old lady privately, so the Qin family feels that Su Xian's bright future in the Hou Mansion is over because of his own momentary pride.
Su Xian was sweating on her forehead, she did this matter behind the old lady's back with selfish intentions, but she didn't expect it to be exposed in public today, if Mama Song's matter was disclosed again and had something to do with her, she wouldn't dare to think about the consequences.
"Why do you want to do that!" the old lady was anxious and angry, but she was reluctant to blame Su Xian.
Su Xian knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately, and explained in her mouth: "It's all the slaves who think they have misunderstood the meaning of the old lady." In the slave's hometown, it is necessary to fast to punish kneeling in the ancestral hall, and it is not allowed to eat fish and meat in front of the ancestors, which is a great disrespectful crime, and the slave and maid are afraid that the third lady will offend the ancestors, so ......"
Yun Yu sneered in her heart, this excuse is really good!
"This three-day fasting will not be enough for a bowl of porridge every day, right?" Qin Shi grasped the key point very strongly.
The annoying second lady in the original book was so cute in Yun Yu's eyes at this time!
Sure enough, the enemy of the enemy is the friend, and this sentence is not wrong at all!
"Enough is the Qin family! This is the matter of the big house, you don't have to worry about it! If you have the heart to care about this, it is better to take a good look at the second child, don't embarrass Jing Yuan by spending all day long, and let the Hou Mansion be ashamed. The old lady was displeased.
The old lady said that it was naturally Yun Yan, the old man of the second room, who was thrown out of the street a few days ago when he had no money to pay for flowers and wine, which really embarrassed the Hou Mansion.
Qin Shi was a little embarrassed by what he said, and immediately fought back: "There are a few of you who don't eat flower wine, at least the second master still knows that it is better to come home than to see the wild flowers outside and forget to return." ”
The word 'lingering and forgetting to return' is used well, didn't this Qin clan just grasp the old lady's sore spot and say? Everyone knows that this loyal and righteous hou eloped for a woman outside, and also took his life.
What is the meaning of sprinkling salt on the wound, the Qin family is very good at this aspect.
"Old lady, don't be annoyed that I'm messing around, there have always been some crazy words in the house recently, and people are uneasy, how can I also be the second lady of this Zhongyi Hou Mansion, the honor and disgrace of this Hou Mansion is still related to our second room. ”
When Qin said this, she was not afraid that others would laugh at her for being thick-skinned, she had come today for other purposes.
"What crazy talk, don't talk nonsense there!" the old lady scolded angrily.
"How can it be my nonsense?"
Qin Shi first had a surprised expression, and then said slowly: "As soon as I came here today, I saw the grievances suffered by our third lady of the Hou Mansion, and I understood how the crazy words spread, after all, she is also a Miss Hou Mansion, and she only has one bowl of porridge every day, how can this not make people suspicious!"