Chunhua immediately reported everything he saw and heard following Biyu.
"Princess, Biyu went to a house in Ping'an Lane. It was closed and there was no way to go in and investigate. However, the slaves and maids had inquired about the people living in the house from the neighbors..."
Su Nianyun couldn't help but sit up straight.
"There is a young woman who has just moved in the house recently. She said that her husband is away on war, and she is the only one living with her newborn son..."
"This lady, what's your name?" Su Nianyun's voice had an imperceptible tremor.
"That woman doesn't go out often, and the neighbors don't know her name. They just call her Mrs. Zhou!"
"Mrs. Zhou? My son!"
"Haha..." Su Nianyun suddenly burst into laughter.
In the laughter, there is hatred, resentment and madness!
"Princess?"
Seeing Su Nianyun smile like this for the first time, Grandma Liu was worried.
Among the few people, she is the one who knows best what happened to the princess.
After laughing, Su Nianyun suddenly covered his face.
Upon seeing this, Aunt Liu immediately gave Chunhua and Xia Yue a look, "You guys go and rest first, and come back to the princess tomorrow morning to return to your life."
The two girls retreated first.
"Princess, are you okay?" Aunt Liu handed Su Nianyun the veil.
Su Nianyun wiped away her tears with a handkerchief, and then slammed the fine celadon vase in her hand.
The loud cracking noise immediately woke up the drowsy girl on duty in the courtyard.
She hurriedly came to the door of the main house, knocked on the door tentatively and asked, "Princess, what happened?"
Aunt Liu opened the door with a gloomy face, "Xiao Cui, go and call everyone in the courtyard!"
Xiaocui didn't know what happened, but she still followed Grandma Liu's instructions and summoned the girls who were also confused to the courtyard.
Bai He finally came slowly.
Since Princess Bairi returned home, she has been busy working without touching the ground.
She made four or five trips to the kitchen alone.
Either the food was not to the princess's liking, or the bath water was too cold and too hot.
Originally, these jobs were supposed to be done by second- and third-class girls.
She is a first-class girl, here to be the princess's personal maid and to manage the entire Tingfeng Courtyard.
But the princess seemed to regard her as a rough girl. As long as she went to the princess, the princess kept assigning tasks to her, which made her miserable.
She finally waited until dark, and just wanted to go into the house to rest, but before her butt touched the edge of the bed, she was called to the yard again.
Four rough servant girls stood in the back, the first-class girl Bai He, the second-class girl Dangui stood in the middle of the front row, and two third-class girls stood beside them.
"Let me ask you, during the whole day and night that the princess and I went out, who entered the main house?" Mother Liu asked while standing on the steps.
Bai He couldn't help but look at the princess sitting in the middle of the main room, wondering what their master and servant meant by suddenly asking.
Dangui said, "Mother Liu, only Sister Bai He and I are the ones who take care of the main house. No one else is allowed to enter."
"So, between you and Bai He, who took the jade Buddha that the Queen Mother gave to the princess?"
"What?" Dangui's eyes widened, "Mama Liu, what's the Jade Buddha?"
She has never seen any jade Buddha.
However, she was not cleaning the main house these two days, so she subconsciously looked at Bai He.
Bai He glared at her, "What do you think I'm doing?"
"Sister Bai He, you have been in charge of the main house these two days. Could it be that..."
"Don't accuse me wrongly," Bai He turned to Su Nianyun who was sitting in the main room and said, "Princess, I have never seen any emerald Buddha."
"Since you didn't take it and no one else came into the house, where did the princess's jade Buddha go?"
"Mother Liu, I don't know," Bai He knelt down, "Bai He can swear to God, I have never seen any Jade Buddha."
"You don't admit it, do you?"
Grandma Liu looked at the two older rough girls and said, "You two, tie her up and beat her hard until she gives in."
The two rough messenger girls were stunned and didn't dare to make a move.
They are low-class girls, they can only be beaten, but they have never beaten anyone.
Secondly, they were also afraid of beating Bai He and being retaliated against later.
"Why, if you don't take action, why don't you wait for me to do it myself?" Su Nianyun, who had been sitting in the room watching the show, said coolly.
With the princess's order, the two girls had no choice but to walk towards Bai He with a stick and a rope.
Bai He's eyes were about to split. She struggled and shouted, "Princess, Bai He is unjust. This slave really didn't steal any Jade Buddha..."
"Ah!" Before she could scream her injustice again, a strong stick hit her body, causing her to scream repeatedly.
Hearing her screams, Su Nianyun thought of this girl in her previous life... No, Bai He was also old at that time and was the most senior woman in the house.
When she was seriously ill, Bai He broke the legs of the little girl who secretly delivered medicine to her on the order of the old lady.
She accused the little girl of stealing and threw her out of the Chen Mansion to fend for herself.
Now, in the cycle of cause and effect, she also wants her to taste the taste of being slandered.
"Ah, princess, this slave really didn't steal anything..."
"Princess, you have wronged my slave!"
"Old lady, help!"
Bai He's painful screams filled the entire Tingfeng Courtyard.
However, her whining was still useful, because Wen's mother helped the old lady and rushed over in time.
"It's fine, Nianyun, what are you making up about? It's so late at night, and you're not letting me sleep peacefully?"
Although she didn't understand the cause of the matter, the old lady first complained about Su Nianyun.
"Old Madam..." Su Nianyun stood up aggrievedly and came out.
Only then did the old lady notice that her eyes were red and she seemed to have cried.
"You...what's going on?"
When she visited the Empress Dowager's adopted daughter in the palace before, she only thought she was timid and had no independent opinions. Now, looking at her, she seems to be even more squeamish.
I just went to a remote temple to pray, and came back with a lot of complaints.
Just after what happened during the day, she wiped away her tears again at night so pitifully that outsiders who didn't know the truth saw her and thought she, the mother-in-law, had bullied the princess!
"Mother..." Su Nianyun burst into tears again when asked by the old lady.
Seeing that Su Nianyun didn't speak and only shed tears, the old lady had no choice but to look at Aunt Liu.
"Mother Liu, look, how can I explain this to the Queen Mother?"
The old lady is not afraid of Su Nianyun, the adopted daughter of the Queen Mother, but she is a little afraid of Aunt Liu.
After all, this is the Empress Dowager's confidant.
The Queen Mother is smart and perceptive. From being the most inconspicuous among the late emperor's concubines, she was brought all the way to the position of Queen Mother. In addition to her sufficient means, the people around her also contributed a lot.
Therefore, Aunt Liu is the person she should deal with carefully.
"Old Madam, I don't blame the princess for being angry and crying. The Queen Mother has cherished the Jade Buddha very much since she was young..."
"It is said that there were flying rocks falling from the sky, and such a jade Buddha statue appeared naturally among them. It was presented to the late emperor by foreign countries, and the late emperor gave it to the queen mother."
"This time when the princess got married, the Queen Mother gave the precious Jade Buddha as a dowry to the princess. However, the princess just left the palace for one day and the Jade Buddha disappeared!"
Su Nianyun cried and said, "The Queen Mother gave the Jade Buddha to me. If the Jade Buddha is lost, I won't be unable to explain to the Queen Mother. The important thing is that I made a wish to the Jade Buddha."
"I sincerely went to the Buddhas to pray for Shaoan's safety, but everything went wrong. I went to Lingyun Temple, and there was no incense in Lingyun Temple. I made a wish to the Jade Buddha, but the Jade Buddha disappeared again..."
"Mother, these are not good signs. Could it be that somehow..."
Su Nianyun said in despair, "Does God not want Shaoan to be safe?"