boudoir

Chapter 305
Liuli arched her body and sat up, "This is what a woman should do. In the future, we will live in separate residences. I can't arrange these things? And when our restaurant opens, I have more things to do. It's rare that the prince trusts me this time, and I also want to take this opportunity to practice and be your good wife in the future. We have to go to the ancestral hall on the fifth watch, so we can't get up now?"

Qi Yunhao put his arms around her shoulders and sat up, "It seems that I have to find some capable men for you."

Liuli smiled while dressing: "If there is, it would be the best!"

Qi Yunhao also got up.After grooming and washing, it was the fourth watch, and then went to the main courtyard.You can't eat before going to the ancestral hall. When everyone arrives at the fifth watch, the people of the whole house will go to Laoqi's mansion together in sedan chairs, horseback riding horses, and carriages.

Speaking of the Old Qi Mansion, Liuli's memory of it is too deep, and her life was sent here in her previous life.After entering the gate of Qi Mansion, she unconsciously looked towards the second room. Qi Yunhao pointed to the other side and said, "This is the long room." Liu Li smiled and said, "I know. If only I met you in my previous life." gone."

Qi Yunhao couldn't understand, but when she held her hand, she also felt her heart.

After worshiping the ancestral hall and returning to the palace, the sky was already bright, and Liuli had to prepare breakfast non-stop. Fortunately, everyone at the dinner table was complete, and there was no problem in the big kitchen with Liu Wei guarding the gate.The first meal of the year was finally passed as lively as King Dingbei expected. Qi Yunke was summoned by his colleagues for lunch, and everyone except him was at the house.In the next afternoon, King Dingbei summoned Brother Qi Yunhao to the study to speak back.Seeing them coming out, Liuli also took the pass card and handed it in.

Because of this matter of making arrangements for the Chinese New Year, Liuli had several conflicts with the Mei family, and even those who abandoned the main courtyard did not use it, and all used the ones in his own courtyard. The king of Dingbei saw it yesterday, and did not say anything at the time. He asked Mei Shi during the theater, and he said a few more words to Mei Shi, so he asked her to reward the opera singer with money, and she immediately got up and left.

Liuli came this time with the intention of being asked about these things, but he didn't know that he didn't say anything, she just looked at the card on the table for a moment, and suddenly said: "Why is there a stone in the second room's backyard?"

Liuli really didn't expect that his mind would suddenly turn to this topic, even he was thinking about Aunt Mo's sudden injury?Thinking that he is the generalissimo who has led hundreds of thousands of soldiers, how could he hide this matter in the back yard from him?So he also felt a little guilty, for fear that Liu Wei's throwing of the stone yesterday would also be seen as a flaw.

"There shouldn't be stones in the yard." Just as he was about to say something, King Dingbei suddenly turned his fingers and said, "It's not easy for people to guard against stones hidden in the snow, and they are placed on the stone steps." In this way, as long as people fall there, they will bump into it no matter what.”

The king of Dingbei had obviously never been to the second room, nor had he obviously asked about this matter. After Qi Yunjing interrogated his servants last night to no avail, he also died down. It is impossible to report this matter to him again.Then how could he know so clearly?Could it be that, after she sent Liu Wei to secretly follow Aunt Mo, King Dingbei also had someone secretly go to the second room to investigate?Or is there someone from him in the second room?
Liuli couldn't figure him out, and didn't know what to say, but she couldn't say nothing, "What does the prince mean, that he suspects that someone put the stone on purpose?"

King Dingbei hummed, "Other than that, there is no other possibility."

It turned out that it was just a guess, Liuli was a little relieved, as long as she hadn't seen Liu Wei put the stone with her own eyes, she would have been able to cope with it.

"Who could it be?" She settled down and questioned.On the one hand, he turned sideways again, half facing the door.

Only Yuegui and Ye Tong and Liu Wei stood outside the door, Haitang didn't come.

King Dingbei said: "No matter who it is, don't go into it. Whether you know it or not, whether you suspect it or not, just be on guard in the future." He stood up, went to the bookshelf, picked up a book and flipped through it.

Liuli's heart trembled, cooperating with the old man, this is to remind her to pay attention to precautions, instead of catching Liu Wei.
Immediately, the stone settled down in his heart, but there was still a warm feeling, Dingbei Wang and Mei Shi are still different after all.

"Is grandma still in there?"

Suddenly Haitang's moderate voice sounded outside the door, Liuli heard it, and King Dingbei also heard it.

Liuli walked to the door and reprimanded: "What's the matter of yelling? Are there any rules?"

Haitang said: "Going back to grandma, the matte gold eight-treasure big phoenix hairpin you put in the room yesterday is gone, it is the one that the empress gave to you when you entered the palace last time!"

The color on the glazed face also changed, and he said, "Where else can I go? Most likely you accidentally put it somewhere, look for it quickly!"

Haitang knelt down: "I don't dare, servant girl, I was planning to wear it for my grandma tomorrow, so I put it in the jewelry box on the dressing table, but it just happened to disappear this morning. The people in our yard have been working in the Nuan Pavilion for the past two days. , the slaves and servants also came out, and I don’t know where to find them.”

Liuli said anxiously: "Then has anyone been to our courtyard?"

Haitang thought for a while and said, "My servant heard from Chunxiang that the servant girl next to Aunt Mo in the second room came to look for grandma once. Seeing that grandma is not here, she left."

After hearing this, Liuli was silent for a while, and then said after a long time: "Since you are from the second room, forget it. If you lose it, you lose it."

There was a bang in the study room behind him, Liuli turned her head, and King Dingbei stood behind the desk with a sullen face, and said: "If you lose something in the mansion, you can't escape from this mansion. All the things that are rewarded in the palace are there. If it is recorded and archived, if it is reported to the outside world, then it is a crime! You are not ignorant, why are you so cowardly in this matter?"

Liuli said in embarrassment: "My lord, you heard it too. It's not easy to find anyone for this matter, so in my lord's opinion, what should my daughter-in-law do?"

King Dingbei squinted at her, picked up a pair of pass cards on the table and threw them over: "Let someone search! First search your own courtyard, and then search the backyard of the second room!"

Liuli respectfully said: "Thank you, my lord, for your suggestion!" Handed the sign to Liu Wei: "Why don't you take someone there soon?" Turning around, she said to King Dingbei: "My daughter-in-law will go back to her room now, and I will give it to you when I finish my business later." Bring the sign."

After returning to Chaoqing Hall, Yuegui Haitang jumped up: "Grandma's idea! With the order of the prince to search Ruoshui's house, no one has the courage to say anything! When she gets the stolen money, let's see if she dares to surrender He Yuhua." come out?"

Liuli walked all the way into the room before pondering: "Do you think the prince is really so easy to fool?" Looking back, King Dingbei's glance just now seemed to imply something. This old man has experienced many battles. There are so many tricks, but to be able to successfully defeat the barbarians, there must be a lot of twists and turns in the stomach.If I use him like this, he doesn't know now, how can he never know?

However, he was able to take the initiative to give her the pass card to search, which naturally showed his attitude. You must know that it is a rare thing to get the support of King Dingbei, let alone now that he personally ordered the house search?This is enough for Liuli.

Liu Wei quickly took people to search every servant's room in Chaoqingtang, and found that there was nothing in the evening, so he transferred to the second room smoothly.In the second room, He Yuhua saw that Liu Wei was leading people to search the house with a pass card, but he couldn't say it even if he was angry, so he let him search the front yard and then the back yard.

Ruoshui panicked when she heard that someone came to search the yard, and immediately used the excuse that she wanted to go back to her room to get her things. Liu Wei Haitang didn't stop her, and after she entered, she began to search her room. First, she looked around, and finally He managed to find a heavy baggage on Ruo Shui's closet, opened it, and found that it was six big ingots in five taels.

Ruoshui's legs went limp on the spot, so why would he have the energy to go to the kitchen to make a fuss?Naturally, she has to argue, but no one would believe that a maid whose monthly payment is only two taels of silver would have so many and such a neat pile of ingots, and the ingots were still engraved with a seal on the bottom, so she could argue as she wanted, Liu Wei just Without making a sound, he took her directly to Chaoqingtang, then turned back and continued to act.

When Liuli saw Ruoshui, she didn't say anything, and when Liu Wei came back from the search, she led her to Rongxitang.

"My lord, my daughter-in-law is here to bring you a sign." She asked Ruoshui to stand under the door, and passed the sign when she entered.

King Dingbei hummed and asked, "Where did you find it?"

Liu Li said: "Going back to the prince, Feng Chai didn't find it, but found something in Aunt Mo's yard." After speaking, Ye Tong walked in and handed her the package containing six Da Yuan orders.She passed it on again: "This is 30 taels of silver found in Ruoshui's house, the maid next to Aunt Mo. My daughter-in-law thought that there shouldn't be so much silver in a servant's house, and it was all silver, and the origin was very suspicious, so she brought it here. Give the prince a look."

King Dingbei frowned when he saw the silver: "Where is the person?"

Liuli said: "It's outside the door!" As he spoke, he said towards the door: "Bring people in!"

Ye Tong escorted Ruoshui in.

When Ruoshui saw King Dingbei, he fell to the ground in fright.

King Dingbei said, "Where did this money come from?"

If Ruoshui sifted chaff all over his body, how could he speak?King Dingbei is not like the female relatives in the mansion. If he doesn't say anything else, just sitting there, his aura is enough to scare people away. She doesn't even see him often, and now she is being interrogated by him. , naturally broke my nerves.

Liu Li said: "If you don't tell me, you will be dealt with as the crime of theft. Let's recruit."

Ruoshui raised his head, looked at King Dingbei in horror, then lowered down trembling again. "My servant, my servant did not steal it, yes, it was given to me by the second grandma." If it was treated as a theft, then she would have to be sent to an official, but if He Yuhua was recruited, although she could not escape the guilt, she was not the mastermind. Share, at least don't have to take full responsibility.

(End of this chapter)