boudoir

Chapter 142 Who wrote the letter?

When the old man returned to the room, the old lady hadn't fallen asleep yet. Seeing him coming in, the old lady sat up on the edge of the bed and said, "Boss is gone?"

The old man nodded, and stuffed a pillow behind her waist. Looking at her face, a bit of sadness suddenly appeared in his expression.

The old lady put her hand on the back of his hand and said slowly: "You don't have to do this, it's fate, I will go before you sooner or later."

The old man turned his head away, sighed and got up to leave, with his back to her.The old lady was silent for a moment, and asked, "How did Mrs. Yu deal with it?"

He lowered his head and still turned his back to her: "I'm closed to the Buddhist hall, and I will never think about it again in this life. I will ask the supervisor of the third elder's family to assist me, and the two relatives will assist me."

The old lady was silent for a long time, then nodded and said: "That's fine. If we divorce her, the long room will be in chaos from now on, and we owe Meiyin a lot. If we continue to marry, it will be unfair to her. But if we leave her Fuzheng, how will the three children of the Yu family be treated? Let the Yu family occupy the position of the wife of the wife, and there will be no confusion in this regard."

She sighed to herself, and said again: "She and Jiu Yatou just left my place. Seeing them rely on each other for life, I feel more at ease. She is not in good health, and Jiu Yatou is by her side. Always better."

The old man nodded, then turned around suddenly, walked to the bed and sat down, and said: "Speaking of Jiu girl, do you know what letter Mr. Guo gave me today?"

The old lady frowned and looked at him questioningly.The old man said solemnly: "It was actually written by the young son of the Marquis of Huaining! The letter said that the nine girls of your mansion cannot be taken to the government because, because he intends to come to propose marriage!"

"Propose marriage?" The old lady opened her eyes wide, "With Jiu'er?"

The old lady nodded, "That's right! I was wondering at the time, isn't it rumored everywhere in the house that the eldest princess has chosen Yu'er as her grandson-in-law? Why is this little prince going to propose marriage to Jiu'er again? Could it be a mistake? But I thought about it again, if Yu'er was the one in their family, how could Xiao Shizi not hesitate to write this letter in violation of the etiquette to stand up for her? Er Guiyu, let alone let Jiuer know so as not to cause misunderstanding, the heart of love and love in the middle is beyond words. Dare to feel that everyone would have misunderstood it at the beginning!"

The old lady was stunned for a long time, before she came back to her senses and said, "You mean, Xiao Shizi fell in love with Jiu'er, and wrote this letter specially to protect her?" She looked forward in disbelief, as if it was difficult to separate the two people. pulled together.One of them is the son of a prince, and the other is a concubine with a low status. What kind of marriage is this? "No wonder the little prince came to visit me when he came to the mansion last time. I thought he was so polite. Now that I think about it, he probably came to see Jiu'er! But he has never seen her before, so how did he come up with such a thing?" What are you thinking about?"

The old man stroked his beard and sighed, "I can't figure it out. I think it's probably because Mr. Guo loves Jiu'er's character so much, so he intends to tie the knot."

When the old lady thought about it, she also took it seriously, "Just now I was worrying about who will decide for her about Jiu Yatou's marriage in the future, and now that this little prince is here, it is her blessing—what do you think?"

The old man thought for a while, then hummed and said, "Let's see the facts and facts."

After two days and nights of transition, the shock of Yu's being defeated finally calmed down a little, but the head of the house was newly appointed, and there was unavoidable commotion in each house, and those who had been attached to Yu began to run around looking for a relationship. In other words, even the main courtyard will inevitably be affected.

Mincui was buried on the mountain the next day, He Xiuyuan treated her kindly, and spent 150 taels of silver to buy a nanmu coffin, although it was made of ordinary nanmu, it was very thick.He found a piece of blessed land on the Nanshan Mountain on the outskirts of the city and buried him, and built a tombstone.Nie didn't object to this, on the contrary, she took two sets of new clothes to wrap up Mincui.

Because she has no family or nephew, Chunxiang temporarily takes the place of her dutiful daughter and guards her spirit for three days.After three days, when she came back to the mansion, she naturally had to arrange another place for her to go.

Liuli knew that she wanted to return to the main courtyard wholeheartedly, but there was no vacancy, so she asked her opinion and temporarily kept her by Nie's side.Now Mrs. Nie obeys Liuli's words, but why would she refuse to keep a maid?Immediately, she was promoted to the second class, with the same treatment as Qi Luo.

But when he got out of the house, he couldn't help showing embarrassment: "I did what I promised the girl, and the confession in the girl's hand..."

Liuli smiled: "Fourth Madam, do you believe me?"

Nie was speechless for a moment.Seeing her appearance, Liuli smiled again, and said: "Well, I have one more thing to ask for your help. You have seen Ruier, she is in the mansion now, I never thought of a name for her Come back to me openly. As long as you help me get this matter settled, you can ask me to get the confession at any time. Now that the Fourth Madam has already assisted in the management of the Central Committee, it must be easy to do this little thing."

Nie immediately said: "It's a deal?"

Liuli nodded: "It's a deal."

Nie's actions were quick, Liuli got up the next day and went to Anxi Hall, and Qian Changsheng's family was waiting for her in the corridor.

Ever since he was implicated by Mrs. Yu once, Qian Changsheng and his wife were severely reprimanded by the old man. Now that they saw Liuli, their waists were bent like shrimps.

"The fourth madam told the younger one yesterday that Rui Er, who went out by your side, returned to the mansion two days ago under her orders. Now let the younger one come and ask the young lady, is this person still useful? If you use it, you can keep it, girl, if you can't use it, let the little one transfer her to another place, so as not to worry the girl when she sees her."

Liuli frowned and looked at the sky for a while, and said: "It happens that I am short of manpower, so let her stay." So logically, Rui'er was brought to the front.

As for Shuangxi, she was tied up by Yuegui for two days. Liuli remembered that they said her whereabouts were suspicious, and she still felt that there was something strange about this person, so she let her go again, and let her take care of her daily life as if nothing happened.

Mrs. Liang saw that there were only four people serving her, so she came to ask the old lady if she wanted to add someone to her.Liuli happened to be by her side, and said, "I don't have much time in the house now, four people are enough." It's not that I don't want two more people to share the burden for Rui'er and the others, because it takes a lot of money to sew her clothes, shoes and socks all year round No spirit, but who knows what kind of people will come in again?Now she doesn't have the heart to take care of the maids' affairs, it's better to have four of them for the time being.

The Changfang, which has always been regarded as the center of power, became desolate due to the downfall of the Yu family in the gradually strong autumn atmosphere, because it took only half a day from criticizing Liuli to exposing Yu's family, and all of them were carried out in the closed main courtyard. At that time, even the Xie family and the Ruan family didn't know about it, just like Yu Hua, they rushed to investigate in shock until Mrs. Yu was escorted to the Buddhist hall, but it was obviously too late, the old lady had already ordered people to strictly guard her , Don't talk about going in and meeting, it's even difficult to say a word.

Brothers He Tingyu returned to the mansion and heard all this, they were very excited at first, and then they broke into He Yuli's study and heard that Yu's embezzled the public bank and poisoned the old lady, they were speechless immediately.Xie's and Ruan's heard that Yu's family should not think of going out of the Buddhist hall for the rest of their lives, so they suddenly became quiet, and they stopped making noise, and they often went to Qi's and Liang's place a lot.

Mrs. Yu was imprisoned in the Buddhist hall, and Aunt Su was in charge of the internal affairs of the long room temporarily.There was supposed to be someone in the Buddhist hall to serve Mrs Yu, Aunt Su wanted to ask Caiqin to go, but Caiqin refused in every possible way, Aunt Su had no choice but to call Cao'er, a little girl next to Mrs Yu, to go , and transferred Caiqin to Mrs. Xie to take care of Xiao Ruixi. Unexpectedly, only three days later, somehow she fell into the back garden and drowned.Aunt Su sighed in every possible way, so she had to call her parents to take her back to bury her, and gave the pension money as usual.

Liuli felt that Caiqin's death was very suspicious, so when Aunt Su came to the long room one day, she asked her: "Caiqin is not a child, she will never fall into the lake for no reason. Did you do it?"

Aunt Su shook her head, "Now that the Yu family is down, why should I be in trouble with a maid?"

"Who could it be?" Liuli was puzzled.

Aunt Su smiled meaningfully, looked at her and said, "You really can't guess?"

Liuli didn't move for a long time, she turned her face away.

Aunt Su sighed: "You just wait, there is still noise in the long room."

When these things were sorted out, Yanhua's wedding day was about to come, Liuli went to the fourth room with the confession she promised to Nie's in hand.

Yan Hua was able to move without hindrance, but one face was ruined, leaving two deep red welts on the left and right sides of the face, even after a long time, there will be marks.Now Mrs. Nie is afraid that the news of her disfigurement will spread, not only does not let Yanhua step out of the room, but also tells everyone in the room that this is a marriage appointed by the Holy Majesty. It's up to Uncle Feng Yuan to make a fuss.

Although she never went out, Yanhua kept hearing about Liuli all day long. Even if she didn't ask, the people around her would talk about it.So when she saw her coming, she pulled her face down and said: "You are beautiful now, what are you doing here? Are you watching a joke?! Don't think that you are so great when you turn over now. When I get married, I will be Feng Yuan Mrs. Uncle, you have to salute me when you see me!"

Liuli smiled and said: "Naturally, even if you don't want to be Mrs. Yuanbo, I have to pay a big gift when I see you. Who are you? You are a legitimate daughter of the He family."

Yan Hua snorted, turned her head and ignored her.

Liuli came here today to save He Xiuyuan's face, and didn't necessarily want to talk to her, so she also turned to talk to Shuhua Huanhua.Huanhua looked around and said, "The third sister and the seventh sister didn't come?" Shuhua glanced at her, seemingly intentionally or unintentionally, and said, "On the day that the eldest aunt entered the Buddhist hall, your third sister rushed into Aunt Su's house. There was an upheaval at the place, and even Aunt Chen and your seventh sister were not spared. For the past two days, Su'er is recuperating in the house. Your third sister has been crying outside the Buddhist hall for the past few days. It's over."

(End of this chapter)