Chapter 484, accident, jewelry in the rockery cave
A heavy rain came suddenly, which was beyond everyone's expectation, and they did not expect that the rain would be so heavy. In a heavy downpour, all the leaves and flowers were scattered and fell to the ground.
Aunt Xu led several women to clean up the fallen leaves near Yaoshui Pavilion. The rain has stopped now, but it seems that the day is not completely clear. It seems that rain will come again. Even though everyone is dry.
Yes, I also feel wet and uncomfortable. When encountering this kind of weather, I just hope that the sun will come out.
"Pick up the leaves over there first, wait for the ground to dry, and then come back and clean again."
"Look by the river to see if there are any broken dead leaves. If you see them, pull them over first. Otherwise, if they all rot in the lake, they will be unclean."
"Check the rockery to see if there is any flying garbage. After a storm in this kind of place, the most dirty things are accumulated, and it cannot be cleaned at one time."
Aunt Xu ordered a few women to clean up a part of it first.
Look at the weather, it may rain soon. Just deal with as much as you can handle first, so as not to pile it all up, which is even more difficult to deal with.
The rockery is just outside the courtyard wall next to Yaoshui Pavilion. There are two tall trees at the courtyard wall. The trees are very tall and thick, and many of their leaves have been knocked off.
Compared to places with a wide view, this rockery is the place most likely to accumulate leaves and garbage.
Several women came here with iron clamps for picking trees.
Some people are picking up outside, some want to go up to the rockery to have a look, and some want to get into the belly of the rockery to have a look. The belly of the rockery accumulates the most garbage. The wind blows the garbage in, so it is not easy to get out.
"Aunt Xu, there is such a piece of jewelry here, who accidentally dropped it here?" A woman said loudly in the rockery cave.
Aunt Xu quickly stepped in and saw the woman inside holding a hairpin in her hand.
Seeing Nanny Xu coming over, the mother-in-law hurriedly handed over the hairpin in her hand. Nanny Xu took it. It was just an ordinary hairpin. It looked very simple, but it was a silver hairpin.
Ordinary maids don't have this thing in their hands, and the maids who have this thing are basically not ordinary maids who work hard. Aunt Xu looked around and saw that the rockery was indeed messy, with some garbage and leaves accumulated.
"Where did you pick it up?"
"It's in this pile of garbage." The rough lady nodded at the sticky and dirty garbage.
Aunt Xu squatted down, ignoring the mess inside. She stretched out her hand and pulled it twice, and unexpectedly found another pair of broken earrings. They were also very ordinary, just a ring, but there were break marks. They were all silver.
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His expression changed immediately.
"You guys are cleaning up here again. If you see something different like this, just bring it back and check it out." After giving the instructions, Grandma Xu went back with the hairpin and earrings.
In the room, Yu Xijiao looked at the items held by Nanny Xu with a handkerchief, picked up the earrings and looked through them, frowning slightly.
"Girl, that rockery has always been cleaned. It was also swept this morning. There was nothing there at that time. Now when we are cleaning it again, this thing actually appears. I just asked about it. When it rains heavily, what is there in the yard?
The maids and mothers are all here, no one goes outside, and this thing is not something ordinary servants can have."
Aunt Xu pointed at the pair of earrings and hairpin.
"This pair of earrings was broken by a sharp object, and the cross section is very smooth." Mingyue also came over to take a look and came to the conclusion.
"Did you use a sharp weapon?" Nanny Xu's expression changed greatly, and her hands shook. "Whose earrings are these... you need to make such a break? How can you wear them if they are broken?"
A broken ring cannot be worn properly.
Yu Xijiao looked at the earrings in her hand thoughtfully. If she appeared outside her Yaoshui Pavilion only after it rained, there were earrings and a hairpin, so that meant there was a woman.
Did a well-known maid or mother-in-law in the house drop it while taking shelter from the rain? This kind of thing cannot be blown away by the wind.
This pair of broken earrings looks even more strange.
He fiddled with the ring a few times and said, "I can wear it!"
"Girl...how do you wear this...?" Nanny Xu said in shock, looking at the ring in Yu Xijiao's hand in astonishment, she really didn't understand.
"You can wear it by clipping it." Yu Xijiao gently pulled the silver earrings to create a small gap.
"This... Why do you wear it so long that it will fall off after a while?" Aunt Xu was stunned, "Who would cut off their own earrings and then wear them again? Isn't that stupid?"
Yu Xijiao couldn't understand this question for a while. She raised her hand and put down her earrings, then looked at the hairpin. The silver hairpin was very ordinary, not a delicate piece of jewelry. Apart from the fact that it was made of silver, the rest of it was really eye-catching.
It's nothing.
"Girl, there must have been someone at the rockery who was wearing these things at the time." Ming Yue affirmed.
"But... there is no one. The old slave went in to see it, and a few women saw it together." Aunt Xu said hurriedly. She even walked around the rockery at that time, but she didn't find any problem.
, and I didn’t see any human footprints.
"Mommy, let's assume there were people here at the time. Can it withstand such a heavy rain?" Yu Xijiao put down the hairpin and asked with a smile.
"I can't stand it. If it was in the past, maybe it would be possible. You can also take shelter from the rain in the rockery for a while, but today's heavy rain is really unavoidable. The rain is like a basin falling down. If there are people inside, it will definitely
We have to find another place to hide." Aunt Xu thought for a moment and said with certainty.
"If this person can't hide, where will he go?" Yu Xijiao continued to ask.
Nanny Xu's eyes lit up, she looked at Mingyue and said, "Lanshui Pavilion?"
Qian Lizhen almost moved into Lanshui Pavilion. At that time, Lanshui Pavilion was almost sorted out, but then something happened to Qian Lizhen, and Lanshui Pavilion was closed again.
Mrs. Qian was later imprisoned, and Mrs. Zhou returned Lanshui Pavilion to Yaoshui Pavilion. It was regarded as Yu Xijiao's deputy courtyard. Usually no one went there, just some simple sundries were placed. Of course, there were several rooms in the main room.
It has always been empty, because it is near Yaoshui Pavilion, and the courtyard door of Lanshui Pavilion is almost always ajar.
It is also very convenient to find something in Yaoshui Pavilion that was placed in Lanshui Pavilion.
"Girl, there is someone in Lanshui Pavilion." Mingyue's face changed.
Yu Xijiao looked thoughtfully at the pieces of jewelry in front of her. Her long eyelashes trembled slightly. Someone was hiding. There seemed to be an invisible thread pulling on these pieces of jewelry, but she couldn't catch it for the moment.
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"Girl, no way. Who would hide in Lanshui Pavilion without any problem? The rain has stopped now. Even if you had escaped the rain in Lanshui Pavilion before, you have already left by now. Who could hide there all the time without any problem? Is it possible?
What else do you want to do?" Nanny Xu looked at the bright moon, then at Yu Xijiao, and asked in confusion.
Yu Xijiao reached out and picked up the earrings again, playing with them in her hands. She seemed to be asking them, and seemed to be talking to herself, "How should I wear these earrings?"
"If you must wear it, just clip it to your earlobe. But who would wear it like this? Not only will their ears hurt, but they can't wear it anymore. They're not men. Anyone who doesn't have a pierced earlobe needs to wear it like this."
Aunt Xu still doesn't understand. She thinks that the person who wears it like this is probably a fool!
There is no need for normal girls to wear earrings like this, especially since these earrings were broken by a sharp object and not by accident. In other words, the person wearing them knows what these earrings look like.
No matter how ordinary they are, they are just a pair of silver earrings. Who would be willing to give up such a fine pair of earrings?
"Male?" Mingyue's face changed drastically.
After being stunned for a moment, Nanny Xu's face immediately turned ugly: "Gu... girl... what should I do?"
It is impossible for a woman to wear such a pair of earrings, but as for a man, if he is a man sneaking in, it is appropriate to wear such a pair of earrings.
Yu Xijiao's hand suddenly froze, and she suddenly understood...
In a utility room at the corner of Lanyue Pavilion, there was a pile of messy tables and chairs. The ones Qian Lizhen moved here that day were not arranged yet, so she randomly packed them into one place and put them away temporarily.
In this utility room, this utility room is at the far end, but it used to be locked. Today, the lock looks the same as before, and the chain of the lock is still on it.
But if you look carefully, you will find that the lock on this side has been broken by someone. In fact, it is only a virtual lock and is not really locked.
In the corner of the room, there sat a water-stained person. He was not tall and was wearing the clothes of a maid. However, now the clothes were almost completely torn apart and were very messy, revealing a black suit underneath.
Clothes, the rain was too heavy, the maid's clothes were all wet, and the clothes underneath were almost as wet now.
It's really uncomfortable to wear.
He was a short man, with his hair pulled up like a maid's ring. Now it was all loose and hanging on his body. He tugged at the wet clothes on his body. Finally he couldn't sit still anymore and simply pulled off all his clothes.
The upper body is exposed and the clothes are sticky on the body, which is really uncomfortable.
Fortunately, the key things were wrapped in oil paper and were not wet, otherwise they would have been in vain.
My eyes looked around, and finally landed on a place in the corner. There were a few pieces of cloth there. I pulled it over and saw that it was a curtain or a gauze curtain. But it was better than nothing. I wiped it on my body randomly.
After a few times, he wiped the water stains on his body and sat down on the ground again.
Just look outside the window. The weather will be nice now and it won't rain anymore.
But just now, it was raining so hard. Where could he hide in the rockery? The rain was like pouring in, and the rockery was like a big hole. There was no way he could hide in that place.
If he hadn't been lucky enough to find such a yard, everyone would have been soaked to death.
Just running over like this, I became a drowned rat.
In this state, I don’t know if anyone will find out, but it doesn’t matter if someone finds out, as long as Miss Yu San asked me to bite her to death. Anyway, I’m like this, I can say whatever I want, just say it’s Yu San.
The girl asked herself to pretend to be a maid and let her enter the house for a secret meeting.
No matter which thing is done, as long as it can be done, it will be a lot of money.
After thinking about it, I stopped panicking and stretched out my hand to pinch my ears. I felt a dull pain in my earlobe. I don’t know where the pair of earrings went. It was really painful to pinch them before. I just threw them away. Anyway, they sneaked in.
It doesn't matter if he loses it later. Even if he didn't lose it then, he still wants to lose it now.
After holding it like this for a while, my ears almost hurt.
He leaned back and leaned on the back of a chair, thinking carefully about what he was going to do next. Stealing something was already in the inner courtyard, so it really wasn't a big deal.
Outside the window, the wind blew, and a gentle sound came, like the sound of branches breaking...