Qianru quickly took out King Luo's token. Those people did not dare to touch her, so they captured An Qianwen.
Banmian Taohua also had a thug. Seeing this situation, Sima Jiuniang hurriedly called for help.
But the other party came prepared.
There were only a few shouts in the house before the official barged in.
"Master Chai, we are servants of the Ninghou Mansion. We are here to catch the thief on the orders of our master."
"Who is the thief and what did he steal?"
After a while, a middle-aged woman came forward and took off a fine jade pendant from An Qianwen's neck.
"This thing is a personal belonging of my young lady, and it was stolen by this charming boy and made it his own."
"I didn't steal it. Prince Ninghou gave it to me."
When Sima Jiuniang saw that the officials were about to kidnap An Qianwen away, she hurried forward and begged the middle-aged woman, "Mommy, please be kind and considerate. We have something to discuss."
The woman then gave Sima Jiuniang a prepared list and said, "My master is kind-hearted. As long as the lost items are recovered, if you can return them immediately, this lawsuit will be fine!"
Seeing that most of the things listed above were of great value, Sima Jiuniang quickly ordered people to move all the valuable things from An Qianwen's house and gave them to the woman. She also paid a thousand taels of silver notes in order to put an end to the matter.
Unexpectedly, the woman was indifferent and only wanted the items on the list.
An Qianwen saw that the person who came was just a servant, and she did not realize the seriousness of the problem at all. She argued with the woman at the top of her lungs, and asked her maid to ask Ning Zhiyuan, the prince of Ninghou, to come and comment.
Ning Zhiyuan was already henpecked, and those precious jewels were indeed obtained by him from Xu Huihui. Now that the scandal was unfolding, how could he still have any dignity?
The little maid made a hard trip and only got one sentence: let her return the things.
I thought I had climbed up a high branch, but now my efforts were in vain. Looking at the items on the list, An Qianwen shed tears of disappointment, but still refused to return them, and even clamored to go to court for judgment.
Sima Jiuniang didn't expect her to be so stupid, so she had to rummage through the list herself and hand it back in detail.
Unexpectedly, after looking for more than twenty items, I couldn't find any.
What should I do?
There are still a dozen pieces left. If I can't find them, the money tree I have cultivated so hard will be gone.
Snapped!
A slap burned on An Qianwen's face.
Sima Jiuniang pressed her for a while, and An Qianwen confessed that except for one white jade phoenix bracelet that broke, she had pawned the rest.
There was no other way. Offending Xu Huihui was tantamount to offending both the Rongguo Palace and the Ninghou Palace. Sima Jiuniang had no choice but to grit her teeth and take the pawn tickets to redeem them herself. After working for most of the day, she only recovered eight pieces.
Several others were dead stock and had been resold.
She sincerely offered to compensate according to the price, but the woman dismissed it.
"The jewelry on the side are all ordinary items in my wife's box. Only the white jade phoenix bracelet was a gift from the Queen. It is extremely precious. So, Shopkeeper Sima, it's not that my wife refuses to be noble, it's this person under your command.
The girl really doesn’t know how high the sky is!”
Seeing that the official came to tie her with chains, and even Sima Jiuniang could not do anything, An Qianwen panicked completely and hurriedly put the blame on Qianru.
"She broke the bracelet. The prince can testify, and my maid can testify too!"
Qianru was horrified, thinking she was going to suffer again.
Unexpectedly, at the critical moment, An Qianwen's maid actually told the truth.
"Miss Qianwen deliberately broke the bracelet and blamed it on Miss Qianru. Prince Ninghou was in the carriage at the time and didn't see anything."
The woman originally wanted to kill two birds with one stone for her master, but at this point, Qianru had King Luo's token in her hand, so she made too much fuss, which was harmful to her master.
So, she let Qianru go and only asked the officers to capture An Qianwen.
After a busy day, she was played like a monkey. Sima Jiuniang was furious and grabbed the two maids who were cheating on her master to vent her anger.
The two maids cried and begged Qianru for help.
Qianru couldn't bear it and wanted to step forward to help, but her reason stopped her from rushing in.
Not long ago, these two maids were the accomplices of the tiger and bullied me. Now that their master has fallen, they abandoned him and joined the Ming Master. They are really not loyal people and do not deserve to be like this.
But if you don’t even say a word of help, how can you live with your conscience?
After thinking for a moment, she walked up to Sima Jiuniang and said a few words of comfort.
"Without Qianwen, Jiuniang and Qianya, we can still make up the 'three beauties'. But if I am also taken away, Banmian Taohua will never be able to find a second person to replace me. Therefore, the behavior of these two maids
, it may not be disloyal to you, Jiuniang."
Sima Jiuniang calmed down and thought about it, and she stopped punishing the two of them.
Being disturbed by official officials and people from Ninghou Mansion for a day, there was no business for half-faced peach blossoms.
Sima Jiuniang simply discussed with several shopkeepers and put up closing signs and gathered together to discuss countermeasures.
Sima Jiuniang guessed that An Qianwen was going to be useless and wanted to replace An Qianya in her place.
There were a lot of things to measure this time, and shopkeeper Tao moved the abacus beads loudly.
After a moment, he shook his head and said, "Although Qianya is more beautiful, she also has more stains. She is not worthy of praise no matter what. It would be better to hold a beauty pageant with great fanfare and choose someone from the capital who has a clean background and is both talented and beautiful.
It's a good thing that the dancer joins the gang."
"I have read countless beauties in Jiuniang. It is really difficult to find a woman as beautiful as Qianya in the capital."
Sima Jiuniang started arguing with Shopkeeper Tao. Shopkeepers Wen and Xia were undecided, just waiting for Zhao Xianer to come back and cast the crucial vote.
However, Zhao Xian'er didn't return home for some unknown reason.
The next day, the official sent Sima Jiuniang to the Yamen.
I don’t know what she went through, but Sima Jiuniang paid a huge fine of 30,000 taels and finally settled the matter.
Later, An Qianwen was also released.
But she was tortured, beaten beyond recognition, and had a tattoo on her forehead.
He seems to have become a useless person.
When Sima Jiuniang heard that the doctor said that her face might not be curable, she was resentful and annoyed, so she simply did a favor and sent her to the Ninghou Mansion with her body and body deed, and handed her over to Xu Huihui for disposal.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Xianer actually intercepted him halfway.
"Jiuniang is so confused! This move will not only fail to please Xu Huihui, but will also make our peers laugh at us for being half-hearted and unkind!"
"I paid a fine of 30,000 taels for her, how could I be unkind to her?" Sima Jiuniang angrily told the story of An Qianwen biting her in the court in order to get out of crime, and let everyone comment, "She
She is usually greedy and cunning, but how did I know she had hidden so many precious jewelry? What an absolute disaster!"
"Since Jiuniang hates her so much, why not sell her to me? I just want to vent my anger on Qianru and let her serve Qianru as a slave from now on!"
So he gave Sima Jiuniang one thousand taels according to the price on the deed.
At this point, it was lucky to get some compensation, so Sima Jiuniang gave An Qianwen to Zhao Xianer.
After the limelight passed, Qianru finally moved back to her own house.
This was originally a happy thing, but looking at An Qianwen lying in her home every day, her heart was filled with panic.
Zhao Xianer comforted her in a confidential manner, "Be patient for now, the day is not far when we can turn around."
Qianru didn't understand it at first, but it wasn't until Zhao Xianer found a skilled master to design tattoos and makeup on the scar on An Qianwen's forehead that she finally understood.
She found Zhao Xian'er privately and asked her if she had long planned to take An Qianwen for herself.
Zhao Xianer smiled and nodded, telling her the truth behind it.
Only then did Qianru realize that it was Zhao Xianer who was behind the scenes, causing Sima Jiuniang and An Qianwen to suffer a big loss. The so-called tattoo punishment was done by her bribery with official officials, in order to make Sima Jiuniang happily abandon An Qianwen.
Broken shoes.
Such a superb resource, even the shrewd Sima Jiuniang did not react after being deceived for more than half a month.
Qianru secretly admired him and tried to learn from it in her heart.