Chapter 138, The Secret in the Broken Branch Plum Vase
"Girl, Miss Qian shouted loudly at the door, saying that you stole her things." Qingyue frowned and reported the report. She stood at the window to watch what happened.
At first glance, this girl Qian Lizhen is not someone to get along with.
"Let her in." Yu Xijiao said calmly.
"Girl... girl, she brought several people with her." Qingyue said uneasily.
"Keep everyone out of the door and allow her to bring in only one maid." Yu Xijiao sneered, the corners of her lips curling up silently. Qian Lizhen was here to show off her power.
This is the Xuanping Hou Mansion, and she really regards this place as her own.
"My slave, go and invite Miss Qian over now." Qingyue calmed down and said, suppressing the panic in her heart. The girl had already guessed that the scene in front of her would happen, so there was nothing to panic about.
Qingyue went out, and there was another commotion outside. It seemed that Qian Lizhen wanted to take everyone with her, but with Nanny Xu here, these were not problems. Most people in Yaoshui Pavilion knew very well who their master was.
If the mother-in-law can't stop even a few maids in Yaoshui Pavilion, Yu Xijiao will have to consider replacing a new group of people.
Sure enough, not long after, Qingyue ran in first and reported: "Girl, Miss Qian is here."
"Let her come in!" Yu Xijiao said calmly, putting down the needlework in her hands and looking at her embroidery. She grew up in Jiangnan and was very good at needlework. She also likes to do embroidery by herself.
Then I embroider it by myself. Although the quantity is not large, fortunately they are all high-quality products.
The same is true for the one in front of me.
"You Yu Xijiao, you stole my things and you dared to stop me." A menacing voice came in immediately. The little maid guarding the door raised the curtain, but Qian Lizhen said nothing.
broke in.
When he raised his hand, several bead curtains had been torn off, and the crystal beads jumped twice and then scattered on the ground.
"Keep her accounts!" Yu Xi said delicately, her eyes falling on Qian Lizhen who came in. In her last life, she had only seen Qian Lizhen from a distance, and she seemed a little timid, but thinking about it, she was
, based on his status as the county king at that time, Qian Lizhen was considered good enough to get ahead of her, so how could she dare to be so arrogant?
Qian Lizhen was also looking at Yu Xijiao. After reading it up and down, she was stunned for a moment. The girl in front of her looked thin and weak. She was wearing a light lotus-colored dress, as elegant as jade.
Her face is becoming more delicate and charming, and her long and thick eyelashes are slightly curled, adding a touch of softness.
However, this softness was a bit chilly because of the coldness in her eyes. Sitting on the chair like this, there was no panic expression at all because she had just deliberately tore off the bead curtain. She was actually a stable person.
Yes, but so what?
It's disgusting when it's long!
After Qian Lizhen looked at her, she asked with a bit of provocation: "Are you Yu Xijiao?"
"I am!" Yu Xijiao said calmly.
"You were the one who robbed my Yaoshui Pavilion?" Qian Lizhen raised her eyebrows.
Yu Xijiao calmly stretched out two fingers, shook them in front of Qian Lizhen, and then put down one: "First of all, this is not your Yaoshui Pavilion, it is my Yaoshui Pavilion. When I was born,
When I was born, my mother had already prepared it for me."
"Second!" She put down her second white finger, "This is the Xuanping Hou Mansion, not your Qian Mansion. How can you, a girl from the Qian Mansion, have the courage to say such a thing?"
Yu Xijiao said calmly, even with a resigned smile on her face.
Qian Lizhen was shocked by what was said, but then she reacted and said loudly: "Everything here is arranged by me, and everything belongs to me. Why do you want to rob my yard? What do you mean, it was you in the first place?" Yes, we can’t say that all these furniture and other things are yours, right? I picked and arranged them bit by bit.”
"These objects...are all yours?" Yu Xijiao pointed.
Yaoshui Pavilion has been re-arranged, and there are basically no original objects. Only a few similar items have been replaced with genuine ones.
"Most of them are mine, Yu Xijiao, and you said you are not a thief. I bought many of them here with money." Qian Lizhen said angrily, "You have used these things now. I don’t want it anymore, someone came and smashed everything here.”
Qian Lizhen said sternly, she came today just to show Yu Xijiao some color.
There was only one personal maid who followed Qian Lizhen in, but even if there was only one, this personal maid looked very fierce. It can be seen that she usually does this kind of thing. She took a few steps forward and walked directly to the Bogu shelf on the side. , reaching out to push.
There are quite a lot of bottles and porcelain on the ancient shelves. If they were pushed over, everything on them would be shattered.
"Dog slave, be brave!" Yu Xijiao's face suddenly turned cold and she said sternly, "Hit me!"
Qingyue stepped forward and grabbed the maid's collar, and slapped her twice hard on the face. After slapping her, she pushed her hand back, retreated behind Yu Xijiao again, and moved Done in one go.
The maid of the Qian Mansion took two steps back, failed to stand firm, and bumped into Qian Lizhen hard. Qian Lizhen was not careful and was stepped on by the maid. She screamed in pain and hit the maid on the back of the head with her backhand. .
The maid couldn't stand it, and fell to the ground with a "plop". Qian Lizhen took two steps back to steady her body, and her face suddenly turned pale.
"Yu Xijiao, this Bogu rack is mine, why can't I smash my own things?" Qian Lizhen was furious and rushed forward to do it herself.
This time I was stopped by Aunt Xu.
"Mother Xu, please ask Miss Qian to speak outside the door." Looking at Qian Lizhen who was showing off her mischief, Yu Xijiao's face sank and she said coldly.
"Yu Xijiao, you are so presumptuous!" Qian Lizhen was furious and raised her voice.
"I'm so arrogant? Do you want me to be beaten to show my arrogance?" Yu Xijiao said coldly, picked up the tea cup on the table, pointed it at Qian Lizhen, and threw it at her. Qian Lizhen took a few steps back in fright. , her face suddenly turned pale. She had never thought that Yu Xijiao, who grew up in the south of the Yangtze River and came from a Confucian family, would behave like this. She was so stunned that she forgot to speak.
Shouldn’t a girl from a Confucian family in the south of the Yangtze River be soft and gentle?
"Miss Qian, please!" Aunt Xu stepped forward and said.
Qian Lizhen looked up at Yu Xijiao, and saw that Yu Xijiao's delicate little face was as cold as water, and her eyes were cold, and she was surprisingly powerful, just like those noble people she had seen from a distance in the past. A wealthy family is worth as much as a daughter.
Even though she is also the granddaughter of the minister's house, she can only watch from a distance and get close to that circle.
Stomping her feet angrily, Qian Lizhen turned around and walked out. There were at least a few maids outside. Madam, she is too weak in this house now.
When I went out, I pulled down a few bead curtains, and the beads that lost their threads fell to the ground with a clanking sound, making a crisp clinking sound.
Yu Xijiao said coldly: "Write it down."
His eyes fell on Qian Mansion's maid who was still lying on the ground. The maid shrank back unsatisfactorily. Even her own girl had gone out. She still dared to be aggressive. She hurriedly stretched out her hand to push her to the ground and got up, chasing after her.
Got out.
Yu Xijiao stood up and whispered to Qingyue: "Check under the Bogu shelf to see if there is anything?"
She suspected that there was something wrong with the Bogu rack.
"Girl?" Qingyue was surprised.
"Check carefully, one by one. If it's not there, move it away and have a look." Yu Xijiao said and walked out the door.
It wasn't that she was overthinking it, but Qian Lizhen had been eyeing the rack after entering the door, which made her feel strange. The rack was actually not close to the door, and the maid pushed it up without even a moment's hesitation. It looked like
I got the order early. The things on the Bogu shelf are valuable, and not one of them will be destroyed with one push.
Where does this maid have the courage to do something in front of so many people? Is she sure that she won't be able to pursue the case later?
As for saying that this ancient book shelf belongs to Qian Lizhen, it is naturally impossible. Yu Xijiao arranged it herself and went to the warehouse to pick it out. Although the previous book shelf looked good, she thought it belonged to Qian Lizhen.
Yes, she changed it, deliberately changing it to a similar one, but it was something from her mother Xie's dowry.
My grandmother once talked about this ancient shelf. The one before Qian Lizhen's was more like an imitation of Xie's ancient shelf in terms of material and style.
Since they were all here for Bogujia, Yu Xijiao took Qian Lizhen out so that Qingyue could check it out.
Seeing her girl go out, Qingyue hurriedly turned around and looked at the book shelf. There were only a few things on it, not many, and it was clear at a glance.
In the morning, it had actually been wiped. It should not have been taken seriously at first, but now Qingyue did not dare to be negligent. She took off every piece of it and looked at it, not just the outside, but also at the mouths of some bottles and cylinders.
After that, it took a lot of time to go from top to bottom. There was movement in the yard, Qingyue began to sweat on her forehead, and her hands trembled slightly.
Finally, there seemed to be something at the mouth of the last plum vase. Qingyue hurriedly reached out to touch it, and then took out a thin piece of folded paper from the belly of the plum vase.
Sure enough there is something!
When she saw the dark red blood spots on the paper, Qingyue breathed a sigh of relief and her face suddenly turned pale. She was familiar with this thing. She had seen it yesterday. The girl had burned it. It was from the cover of a Buddhist scripture.
She took it out of the house. She was watching the girl burn it. How could it still be here now?
This thing costs more than just one person's life. Qingyue held the note with trembling fingers, as if the note in her hand was hot to the touch.
But she was not allowed to think too much at this moment. Qingyue took a deep breath, gritted her teeth to calm down, then decisively picked up the paper, took the fire folding box from the side, squatted there and lit the paper.
The paper was burned to ashes in the fire folding box.
She neatly put away the firecrackers, swept away the ashes on the ground, and opened the window wide to let in the smoke from the fireworks inside. Qingyue closed her eyes, relaxed her tense shoulders, lifted the curtain and walked out.
There was already a commotion in the yard. Several women were blocking Qian Lizhen from coming forward. Several maids from the Qian Mansion and the mother-in-law were also pushed to the ground one by one. It looked like they had already moved their hands.
But the girl suppressed them all.
Seeing Qingyue coming out, Yu Xijiao turned around slightly. Qingyue whispered into Yu Xijiao's ear: "The paper is the same as last time, it has been burned!"
A cold flash flashed in Yu Xijiao's eyes. Qian was actually prepared. If she hadn't discovered the abnormality of Qian Lizhen's master and servant just now, she might have fallen into a trap.
"What...is going on? Why are you making such a fuss? How...is this inappropriate?" Suddenly a voice came from the door, Qian was here!