One hundred and seventieth chapters, the thread hidden in the bamboo
Yu Lanxue reached out and grabbed Ning's sleeve.
"I have met Marquis Xuanping." Ning reacted and saluted sideways, sweating faintly on her vest, and hurriedly apologized: "I just made a mistake, because there was an accident in Xue'er's marriage, and I was speechless for a moment. I hope Marquis Xuanping can forgive me.
"
Yu Lanxue followed behind Ning and bowed her head in salute.
"A gaffe? What a gaffe. Can Mrs. Ning's one gaffe destroy the royal bloodline and destroy the Xie family's century-old reputation?"
Yu Ruiwen looked at Mrs. Ning with cold eyes and said coldly, not intending to give Mrs. Ning any face.
In the past, it was for the sake of Marquis Zhengyuan that people in Zhengyuan Marquis' Mansion were treated with courtesy. If they were just the second room in Zhengyuan Marquis' Mansion, what would they be?
"I...I was so angry just now..." How could Ning be able to wear such a big hat? Knowing that she had offended Marquis Xuanping quite a lot, she immediately said with a smile, "This matter is all my fault. I will accompany the third girl."
That’s what etiquette is.”
She is an elder, and giving Yu Xijiao a gift is already considered a big step. After saying this, she must bow to Yu Xijiao. Nowadays, the Zhengyuan Marquis Mansion really does not dare to make trouble with the Xuanping Marquis Mansion.
.
"No need! This matter will be settled soon." Yu Ruiwen said coldly. When he came over, he heard Ning scolding his little daughter, and his face was livid at that time. He couldn't bear to scold his little daughter.
Ning Shi actually called her a "cheap girl", and the fire in Yu Ruiwen's heart burned brightly, as she could not let Ning go like this.
Are you not planning to be kind? Ning's face was startled, and she winked at a woman beside her, asking her to go to the side door to find Qian.
"What's going on with the sachet?" Yu Ruiwen ignored Ning's little move and looked at Xing Qi.
Xing Qi has already bowed and will present the sachet: "When I was a guest at the Marquis Zhengyuan's Mansion, the maid in the mansion accidentally wet the sachet hanging around my waist when serving tea. Then I presented this
New accomplice, I didn’t expect that all this was planned in advance, and now it is said that this sachet belongs to the eldest girl of your house."
Xing Qi explained the matter clearly in a few words.
Yu Ruiwen reached out and took the sachet, looked through it and passed it to several clan elders on the side. After several clan elders read it, they passed it back.
"Is this a bamboo embroidered sachet?" Yu Ruiwen asked Ning.
"Marquis Xuanping, you can take a look at the sachet hanging on her waist." Ning laughed dryly. She didn't dare to be as presumptuous as before, and even her sentences were much more reserved.
Following her words, everyone looked at Yu Zhuqing's waist, and there was actually a sachet very similar to the one in Yu Ruiwen's hand hanging on her waist.
"Zhuqing, is this the sachet you embroidered?"
Yu Zhuqing shook her head, "The clan sister of Zhengyuan Hou Mansion asked her daughter for a sachet. She said that she was interested in the green bamboo sachet that her daughter had embroidered the most in the past. However, her daughter never gave it to outsiders. This style was only embroidered.
Wear it on yourself."
"But that day, my daughter just returned home, and the clan sister sent someone to talk about this matter. She also said it when she left the capital to go to the nunnery, but now she can't shirk it, so she embroidered one later, but..."
Yu Zhuqing paused here and looked a little hesitant, "Father, can you let me see this sachet?"
Yu Ruiwen handed it over, and Yu Zhuqing reached out to take it. The more he looked at it, the tighter his eyebrows became...
"Master Marquis, it's really not someone we want to frame. Look at this sachet and this place. Someone brought Mr. Xing here before and said that some young lady wanted to see him. Mr. Xing didn't even ask.
He came over clearly and hurriedly, as if he knew who it was. My daughter was obviously with the third girl in the house, but he came here. When we came over just now, Yu Zhuqing was at the fish viewing platform outside the back door.
The young master is outside the front door."
"It's so close. It's impossible for anyone to say that the two of them have never seen each other before. Look at this sachet again. It was changed by the maid in our house after it got wet. It was clearly brought by Mr. Xing himself.
I knocked the maid's tea cup, and then tied a sachet again. My uncle is gone, and now we have orphans and widows in our house. I know many people look down on us. This marriage... If you have other ideas, don't worry.
What kind of……"
Ning started crying when she said this.
"Mother!" Yu Lanxue also had red eyes, gently stepped forward to hug Ning, and shed tears.
It looked as if Yu Ruiwen was going to force the orphans and widowers to do something. Some clan elders were already sighing, looking at Yu Ruiwen with a bit of opposition.
No matter what, this is also the Zhengyuan Marquis Mansion of the Yu clan. The former Zhengyuan Marquis Mansion was the pride of the Yu clan.
Looking at this scene, Yu Xijiao sneered in her heart. Ning was used to doing this kind of thing. When her father passed away in an accident, Ning cried more sadly than her mother. Everyone in the second room felt like they had lost their closest relatives.
Like other relatives, my mother fainted, and they also fainted one by one.
Everyone thinks that the second room is sincere to their family. Who knows that the people who really stab the people and kill people without blood are all the people of the second room.
"Master Hou..." A clan elder couldn't help but want to speak.
Yu Ruiwen interrupted the clan elder with a sullen face: "Am I wrong to blame you?"
"Mr. Marquis, it's true that we all made mistakes today. I was really angry before, and saw the third girl stopping us and saying something too much. Those words were indeed our fault, but in this situation... several of you
Uncle Clan, look at it, is it necessary to continue this marriage?"
Ning cried, feeling very weak. Compared with the strong and tyrannical person before, she seemed to be a different person. She was so sad that she couldn't breathe, and she felt extremely wronged.
"Come on, we don't want this marriage now. It doesn't matter if the prison government doesn't like us. I just want my daughter to be well. I... don't ask for anything else."
Ning stomped her foot hard, looking like she was furious.
Yu Lanxue didn't say a word, she just cried. She was originally gentle, but now she cries even more pitifully. Thinking of the situation in the Zhengyuan Hou Mansion, and then thinking of the two father and son still lying on the bed, even though they are
People with a hard heart can't help but lament that even if Ning went too far before, she was really talking too much.
"Master Marquis, let's just do this!" Another clan elder stood up to speak for Ning. The mother and daughter in front of them were crying sadly, which was really heartbreaking.
When did such a thing happen in the former Zhengyuanhou Mansion? Not to mention the noble status of Mrs. Zhengyuanhou at that time, there was also Anguo Duke's Mansion behind her. Who would peep into it, let alone be forced to do so in her own house?
to this point.
No matter how you look at it, Yu Ruiwen looks a bit like a bully.
"Yes, let's forget it like this. Since we don't like our Yu family, let's break off the marriage!" A clan elder glared at Xing Qi dissatisfied and suggested.
There are also those who are friendly: "If the marriage is not successful, since we have this sachet... let's break it off!" They don't say that they will investigate, and they don't say that they won't investigate. The clan elders feel that the matter is already very clear, and it is clearly Xing Qi and Yu Zhuqing.
The two have an affair. As for the explanation they just said, it is just a dodge. Compared with what everyone said, this sachet must be the proof. This sachet is very similar to the one hung by Yu Zhuqing on her waist.
It's just that Yu Ruiwen is here, so don't offend everyone too much and don't make your words clear.
Unexpectedly, the adopted daughter of the Marquis of Xuanping actually did not abide by the nurturing rules. She had to get married early, so as not to bring down the reputation of the Yu family's daughter again. One Yu Lanyan was born, but another one, Yu.
I'm afraid my daughter won't be able to get a good marriage.
"Wait a minute." A clear voice sounded in everyone's ears, interrupting the actions of several clan elders and Xi Ni.
Yu Xijiao took the sachet from Yu Zhuqing's hand, checked it and said with certainty: "This sachet does not belong to eldest sister."
"This... how is it possible? This is clearly your eldest sister's. What's the difference between these two sachets? In the past, when Yu Zhuqing came to our house, she always wore such a sachet." Ning said, wiping her tears.
, "Third Miss, even if you have a problem with me, you can't deliberately turn black into white and white into black."
"You have to decide what is right and wrong." Yu Xijiao said calmly, "This sachet does not belong to my eldest sister. The clan sister asked her to embroider a sachet for her, but I replaced it in the end."
Yu Xijiao said, taking out a sachet from her arms. It looked similar to the sachet, but the silk ribbon on it was different.
"This is the eldest sister's sachet. It is also the sachet that the clan sister asked the eldest sister to embroider. Originally, the eldest sister asked the maid to deliver this sachet from the side door. I cut it off. I liked it, so I asked someone to buy it outside.
I got one, and my people sent it to the side door, and a maid next to the clan sister came to pick it up."
Yu Lanxue opened her mouth silently before she wanted to speak, but was stopped by Yu Xijiao shaking her hand: "Sister Clan, I don't want to hear you say that you don't know about this. Even if you don't know, there must be something."
The other people in your house who took the sachet, the mother-in-law at the back door, the maid next to me, and my father... can testify."
Yu Lanxue had a bad premonition, her expression collapsed for a moment, her hands trembled slightly, and she swallowed hard what she was going to say. After what Yu Xijiao said, there were many loopholes.
"This matter was caused by my temper and what I did was not right. I was afraid that my eldest sister would be angry when she found out, so I went to my father and told him about it. My father also saw it at the time. He still remembers what I said at that time.
What are the characteristics of eldest sister’s embroidery needles?”
Yu Ruiwen nodded and said without hesitation: "The bottom bamboo branch is the deepest and has the most protruding bamboo joints. This is also the easiest place to hide threads. The threads of green bamboo embroidery are all hidden there."
In a word, Ning shook her body and almost fainted. She looked at the sachet in Yu Xijiao's hand in disbelief. How could Yu Ruiwen be someone who pays attention to embroidery? He can speak so expertly now, so he must have done it recently.
Someone told him about it, otherwise he is a man and would not care about such a trivial matter.
"Sister, give me the sachet hanging on your waist, too." Yu Xijiao stretched out her hand again.
Yu Zhuqing silently took off the sachet.
Yu Xijiao handed two of Yu Zhuqing's sachets to Mingyue, and then handed another sachet that Xing Qi took out to Qingyue. The two maids took the sachets, understood what Yu Xijiao meant, and immediately started moving together.