In Qian's courtyard, there were more than a dozen maids, big and small, and her mother. At this moment, they all stood in a long row in front of Qian.
Thinking that there were only three people in her room, including Mother Qin, Qing Wan couldn't help but sneer in her heart.
Qian glanced at everyone sternly, "Let me ask you, has anyone seen the banquet gift given to the eldest lady by Prince Heng's Mansion? If you take the initiative to come forward about this matter, I can consider that you are a first offender and forget about it. But
If you don't admit it now, I will find out later, but don't blame me for being ruthless, as soon as anyone is discovered, they will be dragged out and beaten to death."
When all the maids and wives heard the word "kill with a stick," their faces turned pale with fright. They all shook their heads and said, "Slaves don't dare!"
Seeing that no one came forward to admit it, Mrs. Qian added, "Then let me ask you again, has anyone entered my room this morning?"
After all the maids and ladies looked at each other in confusion, Liu Xu, the eldest maid beside Qian, stood up and replied: "Back to Madam, in the morning, apart from the second and third ladies who came to pay their respects to Madam, there were only servants, Nan Shuang, and others.
Nanny Xu has entered Madam's room and served Madam to wash and have meals."
As soon as Liu Xu finished speaking, an emerald green figure stood up: "Sister Liu Xu is right, we and Aunt Xu were the only ones who entered Madam's room this morning." This Nan Shuang is the Qian family.
There is another big maid beside me.
Qian said again: "Then have you two seen the eldest lady's banquet sticker?"
The two maids shook their heads in unison.
Mrs. Qian then ordered the other two maids and said, "Go and search their houses to see if there are any banquet invitations from the eldest lady."
Then he looked around at the crowd again, then frowned and said, "Where is Nanny Xu?"
Liu Xu, who was still responsible for answering before, said: "I went to inform the eldest lady about the loss of the banquet invitation at the request of the madam, but she has not come back since. The slaves don't know where she went. But they heard from the maids who came back from the outer courtyard.
, I saw Nanny Xu going outside, I guess she left the house."
Mr. Qian frowned, obviously unhappy: "She is not around to serve her at this time, so what are you doing outside? Ask the housekeeper to bring someone to look for me immediately. You must find her as soon as possible."
It happened that the housekeeper heard the commotion in the house and rushed over. Upon hearing this, he immediately led people to look for Nanny Xu.
Soon, the two maids who were sent to search for Liuxu and Nanshuang came back and said they found nothing. After waiting for another half an hour, they saw the housekeeper bringing Nanny Xu back. Nanny Xu didn't know what happened.
, seeing so many people standing in the room, he couldn't help but approached Qian with doubts and said: "Madam, what happened?"
After waiting for a long time, Mrs. Qian was already a little impatient. When she saw the other party, she vented all her dissatisfaction on her. She stared at the other party coldly and said, "Let me ask you, did you see Heng Heng this morning?"
A banquet gift from the prince’s palace to the eldest lady?”
"This..." A trace of hesitation flashed across Nanny Xu's eyes.
Seeing her look, Mrs. Qian felt confident and immediately shouted coldly, "Tell the truth!"
Seeing this, Aunt Xu immediately took out a plain white post with Qionghua reflected on it from her arms, knelt down in front of Qian and said: "Madam, it's none of my business. This post was given to me by Miss Third in the morning.
The third lady said that this post was worth ten taels of silver, so she asked my slave to secretly take it out of the house and sell it. My slave, I was confused for a while, so... I begged Madam to forgive me!"