Mama Zeng and the seven people in the kitchen were the first batch to be imprisoned, and the first meal was actually delivered by Danzhu, the big girl next to Jintong.

Naturally, the slave who committed the crime had nothing good to eat, so Dan Zhu carried a bamboo basket of coarse cakes and a bucket of soup, walked up to Mama Zeng first, and happily told her: "Mama! The bread is rough, but the water used in this soup is excellent! The mountain spring water specially transported from Qifeng Mountain soaked in banana leaves for a day! Cool and relieve heat, moisten the intestines and laxative, and the taste is excellent! Enjoy it slowly, and don't waste it! ”

The secret is out!

No matter how serious the crime of embezzlement is, it can't be more serious than murdering the master's mother! Everyone was frightened, and Mama Zeng knelt at Danzhu's feet: "Miss Danzhu, please, please help the old slave to say a few kind words in front of Mrs., these are all instructed by Aunt Shen!" ”

Chef Hai got out and went straight to Danzhu: "Miss Danzhu, Aunt Shen is a femme fatale, even the death of the first lady has nothing to do with her, the little ones are forced!" Then he slipped into telling Aunt Shen how to order him, and secretly added appetizing herbs to Mrs. Xian's daily meal, so that Mrs. Xian's appetite was so great that the fetus was too large and had a difficult birth. He thought about saying more crimes and putting the blame on Aunt Shen, maybe he would be fine as an errand runner!

Mama Zeng didn't have time to stop her, she was so anxious and angry that she almost fainted! This idiot! I have always confessed that only sin is added to the first degree, and not opening my mouth is the best way to save my life!

Zhou, who was in charge of the granary, also knelt down to testify: "The little one can also testify, what Chef Hai said is true!" It's Aunt Shen's force, and the little ones can't do it! ”

Seeing this, several other people knelt on the ground one after another, some echoed Chef Zeng Mahai and pushed the responsibility onto Shen Miaolian, some begged, some shouted grievances, and there was an uproar.

A guard in the torture room burst into a shout: "The torture room is heavy, don't make noise, otherwise the crime will be increased by one degree." ”

Suddenly there was silence!

"Aunt Shen took a knife to your neck? She's just a slave, and she's in charge of your life and death? Danzhu suppressed the shock in his heart, and then shook off Mama Zeng's hand, patted her skirt and left.

Mama Zeng pointed at Chef Hai and lowered her voice and scolded angrily: "You idiot! The one who is a slave is the one who bears the sin for the master! Since we don't expect Aunt Shen to save us, just put the responsibility for these ladies on her head! But what are you doing when you tell the story of the first lady? Now our dining room is even more sinful! Idiot! Idiot! ”

Everyone was even more panicked, and surrounded Mama Zeng and whispered to ask for countermeasures, Mama Zeng sighed: "You can return as much money as you can!" Anyway, I can reduce the guilt a little, and I don't have to hope for anything else! ”

Mama Zeng can collude with Shen Miaolian under Zheng Qiyan's nose for so many years without being discovered, so naturally she is not stupid.

It's just that Zheng Qiyan went to southern Xinjiang to fight, and Wu'an deliberately indulged, and they felt that Jintong was just an arrogant and arrogant embroidered pillow, not favored, and couldn't afford any turmoil, and they were slack for a while, and it reached such a point!

Mama Zeng wondered if his only son would be implicated? If they take the initiative to hand over some of the stolen money, will they be able to reduce their guilt?

Thinking about the hard work over the years, the income is more than 10,000 taels of silver, if you want to disperse all at once, how can you not feel distressed? My heart turned a thousand times, and in the end I had to cry and faint in the cell!

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On the eighth day of the first month, Jintong asked Wu An to prepare forty dumb pills and handed them over to him at the right time.

Before he was hit, Jin Tong ordered Wu Ping to set up Li Manniu, a miscellaneous servant who had a private relationship with Zheng Yu's big girl Huan Sakura, and showed her the evidence that they secretly stole items and sold them for money.

Ying'er only pulled Zheng Yu to cry out loudly, and Zheng Zhen did not hesitate to protect her behind her: "My grandmother came to my daughter to arrest people without asking questions, aren't you afraid that your father will know that she will be angry?" ”

With a wave of Jintong's hand, Mama Cai slipped Sakura over, slapped the bow left and right ten times, and then gaged her mouth and tied it up for Wu Ping to take to the torture room.

The entire Yaxinxuan's maid trembled and knelt on the ground, and Mama Shi grabbed the angry sister with a face full of anger: "The old slave reminded Miss several times, that Sakura misbehaved Miss didn't believe it, and now the evidence is ironclad, Miss must control her temper and don't stand up for her." Maids fornicating with miscellaneous workers are not a nice thing. ”

Jin Tong said a sharp lesson: "Sister Fang, as the eldest daughter of the Hou Mansion, you don't know people clearly, and you were deceived by your subordinates to do such ugly things!" Isn't it a joke to spread it? Now Mrs. Ben is dealing with it in private, just to save you some face! You don't have to show Mrs. Ben a face! Now that you are nine years old, knitting female red, medium feeding, female commandments and women's virtues, it's time to learn hard! Mrs. Ben is going to send you to the house of Lord Zuo, the attendant of the Ministry of Rites, to study with a few young ladies of his family. Mama Shi, you prepare things for Sister Fang, and I will order someone to take you over on the twelfth! ”

Zheng Yu glared at Jintong angrily: "Mother, do you dare to be so lawless?" ”

Jintong sneered, and the bear child had to be treated well: "Is it Mrs. Ben's lawlessness?" Don't you know how to read the evidence? Did Mrs. Ben lie to you? Are you illiterate? If you don't know how to read, go to the girls' school, if you dare to pretend to be sick again, hum! Your mother has a lot of means, and Mrs. Ben will learn to use them back on her one by one, how about it? ”

"A woman is virtuous if she is not talented! I don't want to read anything! I just don't go, I just don't go, I don't go! ”

"Ouch hey! Do you still have virtue? Don't talk about your father's absence, let's talk about the four virtues! Women's morality, women's words, women's appearance, women's skills. What do you do? Women's virtue, your personal maid fornication gardener, but you still cover her up, this is your virtue? Adultery is the first of all evils, you know, right? The woman said, roaring and talking back to her mother-in-law, but she has the demeanor of everyone's ladies? Woman, Mama Shi, take her to look in the mirror, her face is white, her clothes are disheveled, and she is gray, so you are embarrassed to stand in front of me! Women's work, don't say anything else, go and embroider a handkerchief for your mother-in-law so that I can see and understand! ”

"You ......" Zheng Yu was young, she really couldn't say Jintong, she was so angry that she gasped, and finally thought of the words: "What about yourself?" What will you be? You have made the whole Hou Mansion jump, this is your four virtues? ”

"What about Mrs. Ben's three obedience and four virtues, judging by your father, you are a concubine, you don't respect your mother, do you plan to commit the following crimes?"

After Jintong scolded Zheng Fang, he knocked on Mama Shi: "Mama Shi, on the morning of the tenth day of the first lunar month, take Sister Fang to Jiqing Hall to accompany me to take care of housework, if you dare to be half an hour late, you master and servant will also go to the family temple to cultivate your self!" ”

Mama Shi gritted her teeth, covered Zheng Yu's mouth, and forced her to kneel down to thank Jintong.

"Mama Shi, serve a good lady, don't learn from other people's crooked thoughts, you will naturally be good in the future!" Jintong walked up to Zheng Fang: "Sister Fang, the personal maid and the handyman have fornication!" Spread the word, what is the reputation of your father who sweated and bled for the country while fighting abroad? What is your reputation as the eldest lady of the Hou Mansion? What is the reputation of the mother who brought you up? You've thought about it! ”

Then he didn't even look at the group of people kneeling on the ground, and turned around and left.

Zheng Yu looked at Sakura, who was dragged away by a housekeeper, and couldn't help crying.

Mama Shi hurriedly helped her up: "Miss, how many powerful families in Beijing want to send their daughters to study in the women's school in Zuo's house!" ”

"Who is rare!" Sister Fang slammed the teacup to the ground.

Mama Shi raised her hand to let a few maids clean up and leave, she broke the matter and kneaded it into it for a detailed analysis, weighed the pros and cons with Sister Fang'er, and exhausted her tongue to persuade Sister Fang to go to the women's school to study.

"Miss, no matter how dissatisfied you are, you can't bear to wait for the seventh master to come back and make the decision for you! Lord Zuo is the father of the third lady, and you will definitely not neglect you in the past school! Madame is also the mother-in-law of Miss, and this move is also for your sake! But don't fight her against her reputation for unfilial piety! Sister Fang tearfully agreed.

At that time, Jintong only took Mama Cai and Wu An to the torture room.

Seven or eighty percent of the more than 50 slaves held in the torture room shouted that they were wronged, and Jintong slowly read the names of the seventeen people, and the family of the torture room led the seventeen people out of the torture hall in turn.

Wu Qiuyun squeezed in front of Wu An and cried: "Second Brother Wu, help!" I was wronged! Suddenly, nearly ten people shouted loudly.

Jintong gave a look, Zhang He raised a leather whip in his hand, and dragged the person back to warn: "The torture room is heavy, don't make noise!" ”

Zhang He's leather whip is sandwiched with iron wire, and if he whips it down, he will definitely see blood. Zhang He danced the leather whip and whipped it a few times, and the torture room immediately returned to quiet, and the prisoners knelt down obediently in turn.

Jin Tong glanced at Wu An: "Butler Wu, is it uncomfortable to hurt your legs?" Mrs. Ben, you seem to be shaking a little? ”

"Mrs. Xie remembers, the little one is fine, just let the little one be called." Wu An is a pig who knows what Jintong is going to do, and it's strange if he doesn't shake!

"Butler Wuda, if Mrs. Ben breaks your right leg too, both legs are broken, symmetrical left and right, maybe you won't tremble, and you can walk normally!" Jin Tong looked at Wu An's intact leg with a malicious expression.

"Madame, why are you naughty again! The butler of Wuda did nothing wrong, and he was punished for not being able to convince the public! Mama Cai was "kind" to persuade Jintong.

Jintong said "oh": "Then I will make up a crime, such as colluding with Mama Zeng to murder Mrs. Xian, causing her to die in childbirth." He asked Wu An's opinion sincerely: "Butler Wuda, what do you think?" Is the charge of murdering the mistress enough to break your legs? ”

Wu An shook violently and fell to his knees: "Madam, don't make a small joke!" ”

Jintong shook his head and sighed: "Tut-tut! Mrs. Ben is really bullied in this Hou Mansion, and she is trampled on by flowers! The director of Wuda is so majestic, Mrs. Ben can't even make a joke! ”

Poor Wu An was sweating all over his head and was in a hurry, and Mama Cai hurriedly continued to persuade Jintong "kindly": "Oh, little miss, it's important to get down to business, let's not joke!" ”

Jin Tong let out an "oh" again, glanced at Wu An with a smile, and then looked back at the guilty slave who knelt on the ground.

"You all have a good relationship with Aunt Shen, Aunt Shen is the heart of the Seventh Master, and Mrs. Ben is timid and dare not move! But everyone...... Jintong looked sideways at Wu An: "Butler Wu, don't lie on your stomach!" Take out the dumb medicine and give it to you to taste and appreciate, so as not to shout something tomorrow and hurt the face of the seventh master. ”

Wu An felt as if he had eaten ten catties of Coptis chinensis, and his face was almost yellow, so he led the execution and poured the seventeen people into dumb medicine one by one.

"Butler Wuda, you have to guarantee the effectiveness of the medicine, if there is any deviation tomorrow, maybe you just happened to accidentally fall, and then your right foot will be broken!" Jintong happily intimidated Wu An, and then took Mama Cai away.

Wu An looked sluggish, and looked back and poured one more dumb medicine into each of the seventeen people, leaving six copies, and simply poured them all into the leaders of Mama Zeng's dining room!

Looking at the 17 people who were dragged back and coughing desperately by their necks, the torture room was filled with gloomy clouds, and many people cried in low voices.