After hearing this, Nala raised her eyelids, put down the tea cup in her hand and signaled for her to come in. Under the gaze of everyone, Lu Yi, who was wearing autumn-colored clothes, walked in. After receiving her courtesy, that
La Shi asked kindly: "Why can't you see your master?"
Hearing this, Lu Yi said with neither humility nor sarcasm: "As for me, when I got up early this morning, my master suddenly felt sleepy and couldn't get up, so I couldn't come to pay my respects to my son Fujin. I specially ordered my slave to come and apologize to my son Fujin."
Feeling sleepy and having trouble getting up? After hearing these eight words, everyone below showed a bit of strange expression. Nian's body was always tired early and late, but she chose to be tired on the first day of the Lunar New Year when she was about to come to greet her. Isn't it a coincidence?
It was obvious that he was trying to avoid it and didn't want to come to greet me.
In fact, not all those present came willingly to pay their respects, but no one except the Nian family dared to shame the Nala family so unscrupulously. She was always the direct descendant of the family, and she also raised the prince's eldest son.
Nala's face was gloomy for a moment, but before others noticed it, he had returned to his kind look and said, "Fupei is still young. It is naturally harder for my younger sister to take care of him than for ordinary people. He is tired.
It is unavoidable. There is no need for my sister to apologize so seriously. Go back and tell your mistress and let her rest well. I will go see her later."
"My slave, I obey." The corners of Luyi's mouth raised slightly. Although Nala's answer was generous and decent, with no flaws, she still smelled a hint of displeasure in it.
After Lu Yi retreated, Nala thought of Jade's words just now, saying that Nian didn't come here on purpose. So what about Tong Jia, in the past, even if it wasn't the first or fifteenth day of the lunar month, she would always come here to pay her respects, so why is she here today?
Why don't you see her coming?
Suddenly, Tong Jia arrived. She lowered her eyebrows and bowed to Nala to say hello, "I'm late, please forgive me."
"It's okay, let's get up." Nala just wanted Tong Jia to sit down, but unexpectedly discovered that Tong Jia only had a magnolia flower in her bun, and the pearl flower next to it was actually a hairpin.
No, I couldn't help but wonder: "Sister, you are so neat and tidy today. Is there something wrong?"
Tong Jia bit her red lips and hesitated to speak, as if she had some unspeakable addiction. After a while, she said in a low voice: "When I go back to Fujin, I... I was robbed there."
As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked. The pavilion, which was quiet at first, suddenly burst into whispers. You must know that this is the Imperial Palace of Old Summer Palace, which is heavily guarded. It is not the kind of private house where ordinary people live. How could a thief sneak in?
If this is the case, wouldn't the Old Summer Palace be very dangerous?
The doubts that had been lingering in Ling Ruo's mind were finally solved. Tong Jia was indeed a good calculator. She could not only push herself away, but also explain why Fu Congzhi disappeared.
On the other side, Mrs. Tong Jia had already slowly told the story. It turned out that when she got up to wash up this morning, she found that the jewelry box was empty. The jewelry box that had been filled with it was missing, and there was not a single one.
Stay. Her first reaction at that time was
Someone in Diyunju had unclean hands and stole her things by surprise. However, they searched Diyunju for the entire month and found nothing, and during this period, no one left the garden. After thinking about it,
Go, it's just possible that a thief came into the park and stole something.
Seeing the hours passing by, she had no choice but to tie a flower on her hair and hurried over. It was precisely because of this incident that she arrived late.
"What do those guards do for food? They don't even know that a thief has come in, so they let everyone in and out!" The person who spoke was Mrs. Liu. She entered the mansion in the 47th year of Kangxi's reign. She had a beautiful face and a plump figure. She had just entered the mansion.
She was registered as a concubine of Fujin, and she was also present when Ling Ruo returned home.
Chen Gege looked flustered and said: "Then... what should we do? Once he steals, there will be another. If he comes again and we fall asleep again, wouldn't we just let him do whatever he wants?" There is another sentence.
She didn't say that if they just stole some jewelry, if the thief became lustful and ruined people's innocence, wouldn't it mean that they would be harmed for the rest of their lives?
In fact, she was not the only one who thought this way. As long as they thought of such a possibility, everyone would feel frightened, panicked and scared, not knowing what to do.
Guarjia was a little worried at first, but when she saw Ling Ruo sitting there drinking tea with a calm expression, she vaguely realized something, calmed down and asked, "Aren't you worried, sister?"
Ling Ruo glanced at her and whispered: "None of the guards guarding the garden were carefully selected, so I don't know how they could have fallen into the trap. It's just a show, sister, even if you continue to watch it,
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Hearing Ling Ruo's tone, it was clear that he knew something, but unfortunately there were too many people here to ask questions. Guarjia could only suppress his doubts in his heart and wait and see how the situation develops.
"We need to tell the prince about this as soon as possible and ask him to replace all these guards, otherwise we won't even be able to sleep." Mrs. Song said this, and others responded in succession.
When Nala saw everyone was in a mess, she hurriedly spoke to comfort her, "Sisters, don't worry, it's just a guess now. It won't be too late to report it to the prince after we have a final conclusion."
After everyone calmed down, she turned to Tong Jiashi and said: "If something is lost, outsiders may not come in. Sister, think about it carefully. Apart from the people who were already inside, did anyone else go in yesterday?"
This was what Tong Jia was waiting for. She pretended to think back and said: "There is one thing. After listening to the "Palace of Eternal Life" the night before, I felt that the person who played Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty sang very well. She also remembered that the prince likes to go to the theater.
, wanted to learn a few words, so I called him to
Yuediyunju, after studying for a while, I went out for a while to have something to do, and when I came back, Xianggong Fu had already left." At this point, Tong Jia seemed to have thought of something, and she opened her eyes wide and said in shock:
"Fu Jin, my direct descendant, could be doubting Xianggong Fu..."
Nala glanced at her and said nothing, only asking Sanfu to tell Fu Congzhi. After waiting for a cup of tea, Sanfu walked in quickly and said, "Master, Fu Congzhi is not the courtyard where the troupe lives.
There, and my servant asked everyone in the troupe, they all said that no one had seen him since last night. Someone also saw him coming back from Tong Fujin yesterday, carrying a small bulging bundle in his hand."
"No need to ask, it must have been the actor who stole it, and it gave us a false alarm." Mrs. Liu patted her chest, as long as it wasn't a thief who came in through the guards, "That actor is so hateful, we can't let him go like this."
Pass him."
Tong Jiashi said hesitantly: "Is there any misunderstanding? Judging from me, Xianggong Fu does not seem like a person who would do such a thing."
"You know people well but don't know their hearts. Don't let Fujin be deceived by his appearance." Seeing that Tong Jia still looked doubtful, Ms. Liu added, "If he hadn't stolen anything, how could he have disappeared?"
, it was clear that there was something wrong in his heart, so he escaped at night."
[Author's digression]: I'm really sleepy and can't write anymore, so there are only two chapters today.