"Don't make a fuss, haven't there been many incidents in the past few months?" Yuan Xi rubbed his eyebrows and walked towards the house: "Say, what's the matter? Aunt Zheng is making trouble again?"

Ling'er's face was not good-looking, as if she was angry: "What Aunt Zheng, it's the second miss." The old lady didn't know what to think today, and suddenly asked the second lady to learn to take care of things, and asked Aunt You to take the second miss to the treasury to learn bookkeeping. ”

Yuan Xi stopped, and said in his heart that Yuan Yue was really a good means, and he had only lived with the old lady for a long time, and he had such a good impression from the old lady. Yuan Xi smiled faintly: "This is a good thing, the second sister has finally come out." As you said, I thought something was wrong. ”

Seeing Yuanxi's indifferent look, Ling'er couldn't help frowning: "Second Miss and Aunt You went to the treasury to keep accounts, Aunt You went out for something and came back, this account is not right." Later, they searched out the three sets of satin mattresses that had been lost in Aunt Zheng's grandmother's room, and now the second lady is kneeling. ”

"How can the lost things be in Aunt Zheng's grandmother's room?" Yuan Xi's first reaction when he heard this was that Yuan Yue was framed by the You family. But it is really not easy to frame Yuan Yue and hide things quietly in the Zheng family's room.

Ling'er didn't care, and said: "You also think that Aunt You framed the second miss, don't you?" Let me tell you, this thing was secretly given to Aunt Zheng by the second miss, and asked her to send it to the four girls in the Buddhist temple, and the second miss herself admitted it." ”

Yuan Yue would steal something? Beat her to death, and she didn't believe it. Yuan Xi shook his head, I'm afraid this matter is not so simple: "Where is the second sister, let's go and see." ”

"Just kneeling in the old lady's courtyard, the clan elder and the old lady are there. Ling'er glanced at her: "I'm really blind, I never thought that she would do such a bad thing." ”

The old lady's room was lit with a warm earth dragon, and the snow in the yard was no longer up to her feet. As soon as she stepped into the courtyard, you could hear the sound of You Shi talking and laughing in the flower hall, so timely and filial piety! With such a clever pistachio like her, the people in the room may have forgotten the two unlucky ghosts who were punished for kneeling in the courtyard.

"Second sister. Yuan Xi called her and quietly squatted beside Yuan Yue.

Aunt Zheng turned her face away and muttered, "Let's watch the joke again." ”

Yuan Yue's face was embarrassed, and she took Yuan Xi's hand and said, "Third sister, it's cold, you go in quickly, don't get frozen here." ”

"Second sister, what happened? They said that you stole the satin bedding for Aunt Zheng, but how could you steal something?" Yuan Xi reached out and swept off the snowflakes that had accumulated between Yuan Yue's sideburns, and used his warm hand to heat Yuan Yue's frozen red ears.

Yuan Yue glanced at Aunt Zheng and sighed: "Third sister, you better not get involved in this matter, anyway, you have already admitted it in front of the clan elders, and it is too late to say anything." Third sister, if you are determined to help me, please intercede for my mother, let her go back, and let me kneel alone. ”

As soon as these words came out, Aunt Zheng couldn't help but be moved, although she usually didn't care much about this daughter, but Yuan Yue was so affectionate and righteous to herself. Aunt Zheng held Yuan Yue's hand and looked at her with soft eyes.

Yuan Yue is a person with a good face, and Yuan Xi also knows that he can't ask a reason from her mouth, so he turned his head and asked Aunt Zheng.

Aunt Zheng was asked by Yuan Xi, her face turned red in an instant, and she said in a slurred voice: "It's not to blame Yue'er for this, I took the thing." Yuan Jie was starving and freezing alone in the Buddhist temple, and I remembered in my heart that I wanted to buy her two sets of good bedding and send them, but I didn't have enough money. I heard that the old lady asked Yuan Yue to go into the warehouse to learn to manage the accounts, so I wanted to ask Yuan Yue to take two sets for Yuan Jie. But Yue'er refused, I couldn't be angry, I thought she was fake, so I wanted to take it secretly, and I might not find out anyway......"

Yuan Xi looked at Yuan Yue's face like ashes, and suddenly understood: "So, when You Shi searched for stolen evidence from her aunt, the second sister didn't know what happened. She deliberately admitted that she was the thief in order to apologize for her aunt's guilt?"

Yuan Yue lowered her head and did not answer, and Aunt Zheng nodded embarrassedly: "That's the case, Third Miss, Aunt knows that she has no face, but for the sake of you and Yuan Yue, you can say a few words for Yuan Yue." With a mother like me, it is enough to wronged her. ”

Yuan Xi didn't say anything, but Yuan Yue's nose was sour by Aunt Zheng's words, and she choked up in her throat and said, "Mother, don't say it." ”

In the room, You Shi's hearty laughter penetrated everyone's ears. No wonder she is so happy today, she thinks about how to calculate others every day, she must be tired, but now it's good, someone actually sent it to the door by herself, it was really unintentional.

Yuan Xi dusted off the falling snowflakes on his body, and said easily: "What kind of big deal should I do, aunt, don't worry, even if others don't help in the second sister's affairs, I will definitely interfere." Later, when I went back to the old lady, I told my aunt to take the things. If the old lady asks you, you just push it on me. ”

"Third Miss...... Is this okay? I can't bother you too. Aunt Zheng glanced at Yuan Yue, as if asking for her daughter's opinion.

Yuan Yue also shook her head: "Third sister, this is not appropriate, You Shi is already a bone in the egg for you, you are like this for us to break the siege, wouldn't you fall into her trap yourself." Besides, the clan elder is here, and he has always been ...... to you."

"It's okay, you're waiting for me here. Yuan Xi wrapped his cloak tightly and entered the flower hall as if nothing had happened. There was a warmth on his face, and people's spirits were lazy, and You Shi was dancing between the old lady and the clan elder, and when he saw Yuan Xi coming in, he suddenly smiled.

Yuan Xi saluted the clan elder and the old lady, and said with a smile: "The granddaughter is late to come back." ”

As soon as the old lady stretched out her hand, she motioned for Yuan Xi to come to her side, and Yuan Xi smiled and said, "Grandmother, I just saw the second sister and Aunt Zheng kneeling in the courtyard, did they do something wrong?"

The clan elder Yuan was coaxed by the You clan to smile, and when he heard Yuan Xi mention Yuan Yue, he suddenly became serious: "Don't you learn from them, it's really a misfortune for the family." ”

"The family is unlucky, the old man of the clan, you are serious, the second sister is naturally timid, how dare she do bad things?" Yuan Xi did not wait for the clan elder to answer, and hurriedly diverted the topic. took out a silver ticket worth twenty taels from her purse, and said to the old lady: "Grandmother, Aunt Zheng told me in the morning that the fourth sister was outside alone, afraid that the weather would be cold and there would be no good bedding. I thought that there was a ready-made tribute satin bedding in the treasury of the house, so I asked her to get it herself. The granddaughter wanted to send the silver ticket to the treasury steward earlier, but who knew that there were many things today, so she forgot about it, it shouldn't be too late, right?"

The old lady hesitantly took the twenty taels of silver tickets and glanced at You Shi. The clan elder sneered: "If the silver ticket of the three girls comes an hour earlier, it will be called timely." ”

The clan elder was just sarcastic about Yuan Xi's afterthought, but Yuan Xi pretended not to understand, and said in surprise: "The clan grandfather said this, the granddaughter doesn't understand, isn't it too late for the twenty taels of silver?"

You pretended to be virtuous and pulled Yuan Xi aside and said: "Third Miss, they steal things and are punished for kneeling, that is the rule of the house, don't listen to them beg you a few words, just be soft-hearted and carry things for them." ”

Yuan Xi's careful thinking, You Shi could see at a glance, and what he said hit the nail on the head. Yuan Xi's face froze, and then he smiled: "What did my aunt say? What kind of soft words? I don't understand." My aunt just said that the second sister stole something, what did she steal?"

Aunt You glanced at the clan elder: "It's not the three-bed satin futon yet." Just now, your second sister admitted that she stole it from her mother, third miss, what are you going to do for them!"

You Shi's words of hiding needles in the cotton pushed Yuan Xi into a corner step by step. Yuan Xi smiled reluctantly: "Auntie, this is what you are making a fuss. Aunt Zheng whispered to me about the bedding, and she didn't know about the second sister. Second sister, she has always been cautious, how can she steal things? In the meantime, there is no misunderstanding, right?"

The old lady listened for a while, and asked solemnly, "Xi'er, are you really telling the truth?" Yuan Xi nodded, and the old lady immediately ordered You Shi to call in the two people who were kneeling in the courtyard.

"Zheng, let me ask you, who asked you to take those tribute satin bedding?" Although the old lady didn't speak harshly, it was enough to make Aunt Zheng's heart tremble.

Zheng Shi shivered and glanced at Yuan Xi, and said in a low voice, "The third lady asked me to get it." ”

"Really?" the old lady looked at and asked, "Then why didn't you say that?"

"That's it, didn't Fang Cai Yuanyue also admit that he secretly gave it to the Zheng family? Why did he suddenly change his words?" When You Shi saw that the old lady was not protecting the Zheng family, he also became powerful.

Aunt Zheng was speechless for a while, Yuan Yue kowtowed, and said gently: "Back to the old lady, at first, Yue'er also thought that my mother had stolen something, and Yue'er was afraid that her mother would be punished, so she admitted it and wanted to be punished for my mother." But I just met the third sister, and my mother told me that the thing was called by the third sister, and said that she misunderstood the third sister. ”

"Misunderstanding?" The old lady picked up the twenty taels silver ticket from the table and asked sharply, "Misunderstanding is this thing worth twenty taels?"

Although Zheng was stupid, she could also hear the old lady sarcastically calculating other people's money, and hurriedly kowtowed: "That's not what my daughter-in-law meant." ”

"Grandmother, I am to blame for this, I obviously promised others, but I forgot about the silver. No wonder my aunt misunderstood, if it were me, I would also misunderstand that I was being teased by others. Yuan Xi also got up and knelt down: "Grandmother, this silver has been delivered, you can spare your confused granddaughter for the sake of my honest aunt and filial second sister." ”

When the old lady saw that Yuan Xi also knelt down, she finally showed a smile: "That's it, you all go back, Yuan Xi stays." This matter ends here, Yue'er is a filial child, and I won't pursue it. ”

When everyone dispersed, the old lady folded the silver ticket in two and said, "Xi'er, why did you lie for them?"