Xie Qionghua's voice suddenly came to mind, "Why does it feel familiar?"
Xie Li's face suddenly panicked, and he immediately knelt down and kowtowed to the old lady, "Grandma, my aunt doesn't know anything. When my granddaughter went out to offer incense with her, she accidentally heard that Chengnan
You can buy valuable jewelry cheaply on the black market at night.
I thought that my granddaughter was going to get married soon, and the Su family is like that. I was afraid that if I went back to the Su family, I would not be able to hold my head high in my husband's family, so... I used my personal money to buy these things for my granddaughter."
She quickly picked up a Huasheng and said, "Grandma, look, this thing is still old! My aunt is ignorant, but she wholeheartedly cares for her granddaughter. Please don't be angry, grandma. No matter what mistakes she makes, she will always do it."
It’s not intentional.”
She said as if she had remembered something, "Oh, don't worry, grandma, even though my aunt went out to pick the ones herself, she didn't let anyone know her identity at all, and it won't damage our family's reputation."
"Private money?" Xie Yuncang looked at Aunt Huang who was already kneeling with her daughter, with some doubt in his tone, "Where did you get your private money? How can you buy so many things?"
"Concubine..." Aunt Huang was speechless for a moment. These things were not hers at all. She heard the news and ran to her daughter's room to find them. At that time, she felt something was inappropriate, so she took them to her own house.
Now that I'm being questioned like this, I don't know how to answer.
Xie Li once again got ahead of her, "It's me... my wife was careless and didn't care about purchasing a dowry for me, so she directly gave me money and asked my aunt and I to watch the purchase by ourselves. This money is from
Came from here."
Even though most of the people present did not believe this rhetoric, it seemed logically acceptable.
The old lady snorted coldly, "I really don't know what to say. I just mentioned one, but there is still one hidden here. I dare you to buy it from the same black market, and you dare to show off the things in the palace."
Do you know that the internal funds have their own account books, not to mention such expensive jewelry, even bowls and dishes are registered in the books? The group of people in the palace who don’t know life and death dare to lick the blood with their swords and secretly sell it, you guys
Can it still withstand investigation?"
What Mrs. Xie said made Aunt Huang, mother and daughter, accuse each other again.
"Send these things to my study. No matter how much you spend, I will replenish them for you. I won't be so stingy about the dowry money."
As soon as Xie Yuncang said these words, Aunt Huang immediately relaxed and quickly took her daughter to thank her again and again.
"The fourth girl is about to get married. Everything has been prepared for the Su family. After all, she will soon be a member of someone else's family. Moreover, she is young and has never been out much before. She just doesn't understand many things!
But you, you are the personal maid of the Qi family. Not to mention that after I came to the Xie family, you should not have been so ignorant of the world even in the Qi family before. You dared to do such a thing. It is really a bit audacious.
From today on, you will reflect on your mistakes in your own room, and leave Xie Li’s dowry arrangements directly to the front yard, and you will come out when Xie Li gets married.”
This is to punish Aunt Huang.
Aunt Huang didn't dare to disobey her at all, and she was even grateful from the bottom of her heart. Comparatively speaking, such a punishment was nothing.
Only Xie Li felt that such a result was humiliating her mother and daughter in public.
Aunt Huang tugged at the corner of her clothes. When she saw her mother's begging eyes, she pursed her lips and lowered her head in response.
"Old madam, the things that happen to the masters are all trivial, but they found something extraordinary in the houses of several slaves."
In fact, when the housekeeper brought the people here, everyone had already noticed that many people were being escorted in the courtyard of Shou'an Hall.
No matter how embarrassed he is in front of his master, in the end he is still a slave.
For slaves, there is not so much face to consider.
Mrs. Xie took the lead and took the others to sit in the Baoxia building, watching the housekeeper and the people examine them one by one.
There are those who steal people, those who steal things, and those who pass on information to the outside world, and some who are so bold that they secretly hide "evidence" that is extremely detrimental to the Xie family.
Normally, I think the Xie family is peaceful, but it wasn't until this thorough investigation that I was able to see clearly the hidden turmoil underneath this tranquility.
Two men who did menial work were actually found to be Lian Jiazi, but we didn't know which force sent them to lurk in the Xie family.
There was also a corpse lying outside the door of Shouan Hall.
Xie Yuncang glanced at him and said, "Death warrior?"
The housekeeper was an old man who had served the Xie family for many years. He followed the old Mr. Xie and now Xie Yuncang. His words were not so round and round. When Xie Yuncang asked, he nodded directly and said: "Yes! Nothing was found.
, but we found that his behavior seemed a bit inappropriate, so we asked the two people in front of the master to help. Unexpectedly, this man was very alert, and seeing that he could not escape, he committed suicide very simply. "
Such things are still very rare in the Xie family. Mrs. Xie was so frightened that she quickly said: "Then... then this person... when did this person enter the house?"
"Back to the old lady, I have just checked. This man's name is Ergen, and his parents are both old people in the mansion. However, they died one after another eight years ago, and he is the only one left in the mansion.
On weekdays, he is withdrawn and rarely interacts with others. He only does some menial work in the house, so no one has noticed..."
"So, he lurked in many years ago and replaced the original two?"
Xie Yuncang's words surprised others, but then they realized that this was the most likely situation. Even Ergen's parents did not die of natural causes. Otherwise, it was such a coincidence that they happened to be in the same year.
What about dead?
Xie Yuncang's face looked extremely ugly, as did everyone else's.
If it hadn't been for today's thorough investigation, who would have thought that a home that seemed safe on weekdays would actually hide such dangers.
Anshi was so frightened that she immediately hid behind Xie Changqing, "Husband, would such a person... be able to..."
Her fearful eyes swept over the other servants in the yard, "Will there be more?"
In fact, she is not the only one who has such worries, others are also extremely nervous. Since there is one, how do you know there is not the second one?
"Check again! Later, check twice more. Everyone must be scrutinized strictly. As for these people..."
Mrs. Xie pointed at those found to have problems and said coldly: "No one is allowed to stay. If the circumstances are serious, all will be escorted to the government and let the Yamen deal with them."
Today, all the masters in the mansion are here. Seeing that the situation is not good, those who have committed crimes do not even dare to beg for mercy. They are all taken away with faces ashen as death.
There was only one maid in front of Xie Qionghua and another person who I didn't expect at all.
Shaoyao was different from the others. When the people in front of her had dispersed, she rushed over and knelt down at the feet of Mrs.
Madam, you know best what kind of person this slave is! This slave has been wronged, and you must believe in me, madam!"
Mrs. Xie also did not expect that the maid she usually trusted the most would be found guilty of something wrong at this moment.
On normal days, she would definitely protect the people in front of her, but today...
With so many things revealed today, how could she still say words of defense?
just in case……
What if this is another wolf in sheep's clothing?
Therefore, the expression on her face did not change much, and she did not look at Shaoyao who was crying on the ground. Instead, she turned directly to the housekeeper, "What's the matter with her?"