Chapter 68 Stone (Part [-])
In the small flower hall, it was eerily quiet at this moment.

Not to mention the servant girls and women who were serving looked at each other, even Mrs. Xue looked puzzled.

Mammy Cao stared at the brocade box dumbfounded, with a look of seeing a ghost on her face.

The maid in Tsing Yi behind her took a few steps forward in disbelief, looking at the things in the brocade box in amazement.

After looking at it for a long while, it seemed that he couldn't believe that what he saw in front of him was not white silver, so he couldn't help but walked a few steps forward until he reached the table where the brocade box was placed, and quickly stretched out his hand, and took the silver in the box. Pick things up and look at them over and over again.

But even though she looked at the contents of the box again and again, she still had an expression of disbelief on her face.

I couldn't help but mutter in my heart, this is impossible.

Maybe it's blinding?

Yes, it must be so.

After the little maid quickly rubbed her eyes with her hands, she reached out to the box again.

Pick up the thing in your hand, put it down, pick up another one, put it down...

The little maid looked at it over and over for a long time before she had to be convinced that the things in the box were really not the 200 taels of vain silver!
But she clearly saw his wife hand over 200 taels of silver to Madam Cao.

She still remembered that Mammy Cao felt that the silver on the tray would be easy to fall off, so she specially asked the maid who was serving the lady to take a brocade box, and put the twenty silver ingots into the box with her own hands.

After leaving the mansion and getting into the carriage, Mammy Cao gave the brocade box to her to take.

When did the contents of the box get swapped?

The little maid frowned, looking suspiciously back and forth between the brocade box and Madam Cao.

I don't know whether it was the little maid's action or the suspicious look in her eyes that stimulated Mammy Cao. She raised her hand, and with a "slap", she slapped the maid hard.

"Mommy, how could you hit me..." The defenseless little maid was stunned by the slap, and after a while she came back to her senses, staring at Cao Nanny accusingly with tearful eyes.

Bai Guo, who was also a servant girl, looked at the maidservant's red and swollen face sympathetically, and said quickly, "That's right, how could Madam Cao hit someone without saying a word? Could it be that she became angry from embarrassment?"

"Who is getting angry from embarrassment, please tell me clearly!" Cao Mama was accused by a maid, and she felt that her face was shameless, and she glared at Bai Guo viciously.

Bai Guo was not afraid of her, put his hands on his hips, and stared back even more fiercely, "Of course it's you, Madam Cao!
Apart from you, is there another person named Cao Mama here? "

Before Cao Mama could answer, Bai Guo continued, "Cao Mama hit someone without saying a word. It's not from embarrassment, what is that?"

"What did you say, try to say it again!"

"Just say it," Bai Guo was not afraid of Cao Mama's cannibalistic eyes at all, and said contemptuously, "Cao Mama stole the money secretly, but used such a box of things as a fake, and tried to get away with it. Let our wife and lady be grateful to you.

Seeing that the matter has been exposed now, and beating people without saying a word, is this trying to put the charge of stealing money on the little girl's head, right?Isn't this irritating? "

The little maid covered her face with her hands and looked at Bai Guo gratefully.

What Bai Guo said was exactly what she thought.

Xiao Jinyue glanced at Bai Guo appreciatively, this maid really won her heart more and more.

Bai Guo was proud of herself, before, Fenxiang served the girl personally, and the girl only took her with her when she went in and out, she didn't know how envious she was.

She also wanted to wait on the girl, but the girl never liked having many people around her. This time, when Fenix ​​was injured, she had the opportunity to serve her closely.

She followed the girl for the past two days, so she naturally knew that the girl wanted to divorce Mr. Li. Today, under the pretense of consulting and nurturing the girl, this nanny came to their house to mock the wife and the girl. She couldn't bear the humiliation.

Now that she finally got the chance, she had to show a good performance in front of the girl, and she was not afraid of Mammy Cao's eyes that wanted to tear her away.

Xiao Jinyue seemed unable to see Cao Mama's fierce eyes, and asked with a smile, "Cao Mama, why don't you speak anymore, could it be that my maid has hit the mark?"

"It's nothing, how can your maid spit blood on people?" Cao Mama gritted her teeth angrily. Although she was greedy for money, she still wouldn't spend the 200 taels ignorantly.

"Oh, is that so?" Xiao Jinyue tapped the brocade box on the table with her chin, "Then, Madam Cao, what's going on with the things in this box? Please explain clearly."

Cao Mama followed her gaze, and when her eyes touched the brocade box, she paused.

What the heck.

The things in the brocade box are neat and tidy, no more, no less, exactly twenty pieces.

The quantity is right.

But the problem is that the twenty silver ingots of ten taels and one ingot that were originally white in the brocade box disappeared.

Now lying in it are twenty neatly arranged stones, about the same size as the previous silver ingots!

That's right.

It is a stone!

Twenty white flowers, stones about the same shape and size as twelve silver ingots.

But what she put in with her own hands was obviously a white silver ingot!
Where did these twenty stones come from?

Could it be that what Madam gave her was a stone, and she was dazzled at the time and saw it as silver?

As soon as this idea came up, she immediately denied it.

Although she is not young anymore, she is not so old that she can't tell the difference between silver and stone.

She was absolutely sure that what she took over from his wife was indeed silver.

As for how the silver turned into stone, it must have been dropped by someone without her knowing.

But she clearly remembered that after receiving the money from the madam, she asked the maid to take a brocade box and put the money in it herself.

After loading the silver, she directly held the box in her arms until she left the house and got into the carriage, then handed the box to the little maid.

She remembered that the box was always under her nose, and the maid should have no chance to drop it.

Besides, she didn't have the guts, after all, the lives of her family were in the hands of the madam, so she wouldn't dare to lose money.

Xiao Jinyue said unhurriedly, "Grandma Cao, you can think about it clearly, what's going on with this box? How did the silver that was clearly agreed to turn into a stone?"

What does this call her?She herself is confused now!

Seeing that Grandma Cao was speechless and her face was as dark as the bottom of a pot, Xiao Jinyue showed no sympathy, "Could it be that Grandma really dropped the bag?"

She can't bear this charge, "No, I swear I didn't lose any money!"

"No, the nanny would like to explain what's going on with this box of stones?" Xiao Jinyue paused, then continued, "Mammy didn't drop the bag, could it be that this maid did it?"

The little maid was so frightened that she plopped down on her knees, "Not a slave, not a slave..."

Xiao Jinyue nodded, "I don't think this little girl has the guts to drop her bag, could it be... your wife actually gave you a box of stones, not some 200 taels of silver in vain?"

 2023

  May all my book friends, luck be with you, good things follow you, money chase you, nobles help you, disasters hide from you, villains surround you, lovers miss you, family cares about you, God prays you.

  I am blessing you!
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(End of this chapter)

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