Chapter 4 Two Scapegoats

The second lady's hand on Jin Xi's arm visibly tightened, Jin Xi took a deep breath in pain, but did not dare to move rashly.A master of fighting skills, she doesn't want to be a pond fish!
"Sister-in-law said that I was in a hurry to deal with the slaves on my behalf. I was really impatient!" In an instant, the second lady let go of her fingers, and looked at the eldest lady with a shame on her face.Jin Xi secretly called out high, really high!The eldest lady clearly disagreed with the second wife's treatment of Zhou Xiang's family, but the second lady took the step of retreating. In one sentence, the eldest lady relied on herself as the wife to bully her younger siblings!
The second lady just snorted softly, ignored it, and stared at Mama Ai while stroking the flat round hand stove with golden lotus grass pattern in her hand, "How did you think of going to Qinhuai Lane to find Miss Six?"

Mama Ai was taken aback for a moment, she dared not turn back after being stared at by the eldest lady, and said in a murmur, "I didn't know about it at first, but later... Sister-in-law Zhou said to look over there, and at the entrance of the alley, I saw Miss Six!"

"I didn't say that, it's obviously Xie..." Zhou Xiang's family, who was lying on the ground pretending to be dead, jumped up as if someone had stepped on his tail, and subconsciously looked in the direction of Xie Mama's kneeling.Carrying the girl through the flower street at night has already ended up being sold, and if there is another crime, she will be beaten to death with a random stick!

Looking up and meeting Xie Momo's eyes, Bing Bingbing was full of warning.Her body softened, and the remaining half of the words were swallowed back into her stomach.The eldest lady is right in charge of the family, but... the second lady is not a vegetarian either!

The eldest lady glanced in the direction Zhou Xiang's family was looking at, and asked, "Thank you for what?"

"My maidservant heard from Xie Mama a few days ago that many girls from good families in the city were kidnapped and sold, so..." Zhou Xiang's family grabbed the Gebu sweater around his waist and bit him to death. "The servant girl is also thinking of trying her luck!"

The eldest lady looked at her coldly, and hit the nail on the head, "Walk with the girl from Huajie and Liuxiang in the middle of the night, what luck do you want to try? To be honest, there is still a way out. I have been in charge of the family for so many years, and I haven't had a slave who can fool me in front of me." In the past, you think about it before you talk back!"

The eldest lady's voice is not high, and when she speaks, her long and narrow phoenix eyes are half-closed, which invisibly gives people a gloomy feeling.The enamel-embellished armor inlaid with rice beads in his left hand gently scraped the cover of the hand stove, the sound of 'hissing, hissing' and the whistling wind outside the window, as if a giant python was hidden in the dark, staring at everyone and spitting out letters one after another... …

"Slave... Slave..." The pockmarked face of Zhou Xiang's family was as pale as a piece of yellow mounting paper, and his body was trembling into a ball.He yelled twice inarticulately, suddenly a piece of wetness appeared on the Chu Shi-colored Gebu horse-faced skirt, and his nose smelled bad.Everyone took out their handkerchiefs to cover their mouths and noses, and Jin Xi didn't expect that the first lady's words would scare the woman in charge of the second room into the urine.

"Shut up in the firewood room first, and when you figure it out, come back and talk!" The servant who gave birth to a child, can't figure out who is holding the lives of the family's dozens of lives, what an idiot!A trace of disgust flashed in the eyes of the eldest lady, and she immediately returned to her previous calm, she got up and said: "It's late at night, let's all go back and rest!" Without giving the second lady a chance to speak.

Lifting it up high and gently putting it down, letting Zhou Xiang's family go just like that, it seems that her treatment just now was too mean!It seems that there is no room for relatives in the concubine's room.

The second lady held her breath in her heart but she couldn't refute, whoever made the eldest lady the head wife, even if she didn't give her face, she couldn't say anything.Glancing at Nanny Xie from the corner of her eye, she pursed her lips, lowered her eyelids, and asked Jin Xi softly if she was hungry or cold, without any intention of getting up.

"Wait a minute!" The eldest lady was almost at the door, and the second aunt suddenly stood up, twisting Jiu Yiniang, who was ignored by everyone, to hold the cloud in front of the eldest lady, and said angrily: "Zhou Xiang's family is just confused for a while, and they don't know the importance of doing things. But in his heart, it was for the good of the master. But Jiu Yiniang’s brother, instead of coming back to report the loss of the master, ran away and became a fugitive slave. If Da Furen only punishes one, I’m afraid the servants will not accept it!”

Da furen raised her eyebrows sharply, "I have always paid attention to clear rewards and punishments when doing things, so you don't need to worry about this matter!"

Second Yiniang was stubborn and refused to give in, she pushed Jiu Yiniang to the ground, "Then please tell Da Furen how to punish her!"

The eldest lady snorted coldly, "Jiu Yiniang stays in the inner room every day, and her brother's crimes cannot be blamed on her. Besides, it is still unclear whether Niu Shuanzhu is a fugitive slave, Second Yiniang should be more careful in what she says!"

Jin Xi was secretly surprised, the second aunt had eaten leopard guts or drank ecstasy soup, the eldest lady had given her sister-in-law a light sentence, and she kept hiding, yet she jumped out to make trouble?

Second Yiniang looked desperate, "Ma'am, I don't understand the servant girl. When Miss Six was about to go out, Jiu Yiniang stopped her with one excuse on the left and the other on the right, and something happened. Could it be that she had already Knowing that Miss Six is ​​going to have an accident? Niu Shuanzhu had a stomachache two days ago and hasn’t come to work. Why did he suddenly recover and just happened to take Miss Six out? Said the horse was shocked, but all the maids and women in the car escaped. Lost? If there is no ghost here, the servants will not believe it!"

The words were urgent and fast, but they were clear and to the point. It was not something Second Auntie could think of in a firecracker like this.Jin Xi took a peek at Madam Xie, who muttered a few words beside Second Aunt and then hid behind the crowd, and secretly sighed that Second Aunt is such a good gun!

Arranging errands is decided by the women in charge under the eldest lady. If Jiu Yiniang can make the decisions, Niu Shuanzhu can still work in the stable all the time, dirty, tired and without oil?

This reason is really untenable, everyone shook their heads, hating Second Aunt for biting like a mad dog and delaying them going back to rest.

However, Jin Xi suddenly remembered that Jiu Yiniang had found many excuses to stop her from going out, and felt a little uneasy.Does Jiu Yiniang know something?If she knew something, did Niu Shuanzhu also participate in what happened tonight?
"Is what Second Yiniang said is true?" The eldest lady sat back in her seat and looked at Jiu Yiniang coldly, her expression of sternness was completely different from the attitude she had just defended. "What did you say? Don't rely on you being the second uncle's concubine, I can't do anything to you. If you dare to betray the Lord with a black heart, I will also be able to deal with you according to the family law!"

There was killing intent in the cold words, and the room fell silent for an instant, only the sound of everyone's beating hearts beating wildly.

The eldest lady is from a rich family in Shandong, she has an aloof personality and only respects the rules, but even Zhou Boshan can't refute her decision.She has presided over the Zhongfu for many years, decisively killing and accumulating a lot of power. She personally led the drowning of the second wife's aunt Liu a few years ago.She also forced more than a dozen aunts from the two rooms to watch it, scaring one to the point of fainting and scaring the other crazy, and by the way even scared the stupid one who peeped!

She said that it should be dealt with according to the family law, so she was definitely not pretending to scare people!

The second aunt saw with her own eyes that Mrs. Liu was bound hand and foot and stuffed into a bamboo cage filled with stones, and then thrown into the middle of the river.Liu's mouth was stuffed with a veil, so she couldn't scream, but those eyes that were almost bleeding were burned in her heart.To this day, those eyes still frequently appear in her nightmares.At this time, the expression of the eldest lady was exactly the same as that at that time, and the second aunt involuntarily took a few steps back, wishing to find a crack in the ground to hide, so that the eldest lady could not see her.

Jiu Yiniang lowered her head halfway, and her long eyelashes covered her eyes. From Jinxi's angle, she couldn't see her expression clearly. She could only see her fine white teeth biting her lips desperately. Her lips, which were usually as soft as petals, had already bitten the skin. Yes, bleeding streaks.

"Your servant has nothing to say! I don't know anything!" Jiu Yiniang's thin and weak words floated into the ears of the breath-holding crowd, very clearly.

What is the difference between saying this and not saying it?Jin Xi was secretly anxious, wishing she could rush over to defend Jiu Yiniang.Before she could think of a good word, the eldest lady said coldly: "Are you admitting to colluding with Niu Shuanzhu inside and outside, trying to kidnap and sell the young master?"

This is the crime of beheading!

Jiu Yiniang seemed to be hit on the head with a stick, she swayed her body and turned her eyes upwards, she passed out directly.

The eldest lady took her appearance as acquiescing, "In that case, lock him up in the ancestral hall first, and if Niu Shuanzhu hasn't returned after ten days, he will be dealt with according to family law."

Disposing of slaves who betray their masters according to family law is also a dead end!What's more, with Jiu Yiniang's small body like a beauty lamp, whether she can survive ten days in the ancestral hall is a matter of debate. I didn't expect that it would be so easy except for Jiu Yiniang who was always pushing her down. Second Yiniang immediately became proud.

With one hand on her hip, she spat at the fainted Jiu Yiniang, "Who are you showing this coquettish look to? You said you didn't do it, you said nothing, and you just want Da Furen to believe you, and you are Da Madam You are a fool! You murdered the sixth girl today, and dare to murder the second and third girls tomorrow! The day after tomorrow, you may even plot against your brothers!"

Jin Xi yelled inwardly, the words went too far but they hit everyone's heart.A man's love is not long-lived like Sanchunxue, and the decency of a housewife depends on her children in the final analysis.Jiu Yiniang's son, Xi Yi, is only three years old, but she is clever and clever, which wins Zhou Bohai's favor the most.It has been proposed many times that it should be recorded under the name of the second wife and raised as a legitimate son.The second wife cried and made noises, but in the end it was Zhou Boshan who came forward.It was only because of the difference between concubine and concubine that he was overwhelmed.Although things didn't work out, the second wife fell into a heart disease.

The second aunt's provocation was blatant, but it was an opportunity for the second lady.The eldest lady punished Jiu Yiniang severely, as long as she said a few words that were neither painful nor itchy, other than Jiu Yiniang, she would not get a bad name.If Zhou Bohai wanted to hate him, he would only hate the eldest lady for bullying others too much, he can't blame her, she can kill three birds with one stone!
Contrary to everyone's expectations, the Second Madam suddenly said: "Jiu Yiniang has served the Second Master for many years and has never made a mistake. I believe she will not do such a black hearted thing. Besides, people like us can't back up with someone who kills slaves indiscriminately." Charge! I'll take her back first, since no one can run away anyway, I just need to find out slowly!"

The eldest lady put the golden lotus grass-patterned stove in her hand heavily on the coffee table beside her, and said with a serious tone, "Brother and sister are saying that I am unfair?"

"I don't dare..." The second lady smiled cleverly, before she could finish speaking, an old man shouted suddenly from outside the door, "You don't dare, I dare!"

When the words reached people, the gray-haired and tall Mrs. Zhou didn't need anyone to help her, she walked in with a breeze on her feet, and said sharply as she walked: "I decided to award Wanyun to the second child. Is she the seed of black heart?" , I understand in my heart." Punishment for the concubine of the second child is to slap the second child in the face, Mrs. Zhou's logic has always been simple and straightforward, she can't just sit back and watch her precious son be bullied by her brother and sister-in-law!

The second lady almost laughed out loud when she saw Mrs. Zhou wearing a dark brown thick brocade horse-face skirt under the long-length gown with red fur and red fur. ...Those who didn't know thought it was a date essence coming in... The ridicule was only for a moment, she immediately put Jin Xi down, looked at her nose, nose and mouth, and stood up respectfully to salute.

Madam Zhou, who held her head up high, ignored the second lady, and knocked the decorative nanmu crutches on the red felt carpet. Although there was only a muffled 'poof' sound, she was full of momentum.Jin Xi secretly called out to the Buddha to bless you, the old ancestor, you are here!

Jin Xi called grandma softly, and rushed forward to hug Mrs. Zhou's thigh.Mrs. Zhou was startled, she bent down and held her small face for a closer look, and said repeatedly: "Call again, Liu girl called someone just now? Call again!"

"Grandmother!" Jin Xi yelled again, almost crying out Mrs. Zhou's tears.Not to mention that the child has recovered his life, he is not stupid, the ancestors bless the Buddha, the Taishang Laojun is in a hurry, and the Emperor Zhenwu has appeared!

Mrs. Zhou was busy thanking all the gods, but the man who came in behind her looked indifferent as if he hadn't seen Jin Xi.

Looking up, he saw Jiu Yiniang fainted on the ground, he let out an exclamation and rushed over. "What's wrong with Yun'er?" Turning his head, he shouted angrily at the second lady again, "What's wrong with Yun'er, call the doctor quickly! If something happens to Yun'er, I'll never end with you!"

Jin Xi knew that the man in front of him, who was wearing a beautiful blue satin gown and a sable cape with lilac flowers, was his cheap father, Zhou Bohai.He is well-proportioned and tall, with delicate features and elegant appearance. He is known as Xiao Pan An. He is not a fool no matter how he looks. How can he ask his wife for his concubine's room in front of everyone?

Are you trying to spoil your concubine and kill your wife, or to spread hatred for Jiu Yiniang?Even if it's neither, you can't step on Mrs. Zhou's sore feet!
Sure enough, when he said this, Mrs. Zhou and the first middle-aged man who had been silent all the time shouted angrily at the same time, "Shut up!"

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