The sudden noise coming from outside made Mrs. Jiang very dissatisfied. Several housekeepers and mothers were giving her some advice. She frowned. Seeing this, Mrs. Jia turned around and raised the curtain to go out to have a look. Who knows?
By chance, a maid ran past in a panic and bumped into her.
She grabbed the maid, slapped her in the face, and yelled:
"Damn girl! You're in a hurry and don't look where you are. Is this where you ran like a girl?"
The maid held a bundle in her arms that was shaken out and scattered on the ground, revealing a pair of white jade bracelets inside. When Mama Jia saw it, she immediately raised her eyes, picked up the things on the ground, and said:
"Okay, look at this prodigal, he can steal things! Whoever is here, catch him and beat him to death!"
The maid was so frightened that she knelt down and cried:
"Mom misunderstood, I didn't steal this, my mother gave it to me last time she came to see me! The house was looted outside, and I only have this little possessions. Mom, please be merciful and allow me to hide it!"
Searching the house? Could this girl be crazy? She talks nonsense when she opens her mouth! Mother Jia pursed her lips and shouted outside again:
"Where are the people? Are they all dead? Pick up this lunatic!"
No one came in outside, but it became even noisier. There were chaotic footsteps getting louder and louder, and there were sounds of crying and cursing. What's going on? Why does it really look like a house raid?
Mother Jia was a little confused, so she left the kneeling maid alone and walked out of the yard.
The gatekeeper's wife disappeared somewhere, the courtyard door was wide open and no one was guarding it, and the girls who used to sweep the house and chase the sparrows away were also missing. It was really going against the grain one by one!
Mother Jia angrily stepped out of the threshold and saw a group of forbidden soldiers approaching with swords drawn from their waists.
The house was ransacked!
There was a loud bang in her mind. This thought scared her so much that she almost lost her balance. She was stunned for a moment, then turned around and ran inside in a panic, shouting as she ran:
"Madam, it's bad, it's bad, the house raiders are here!"
The maid who was kneeling on the ground had already gotten up and ran away. People inside had long heard their conversation outside. Mrs. Jiang opened the curtain with a swipe and scolded with an angry look on her face:
"What nonsense are you talking about! There must be a crime for confiscating your home. Our Duke's office is innocent, so why should our home be confiscated?"
But the next moment, the Imperial Guards surged into the courtyard with knives in hand, completely surrounding Deyiju inside and outside.
Mrs. Jiang raised her voice in one breath, and the hand holding the door frame began to tremble a little. The women around her were so frightened that they trembled and tried to find a place to hide in panic.
Mrs. Jiang tried to calm herself down, stepped out of the door, pointed at the forbidden troops and said:
"Whose order did you take and dare to come to the Duke's mansion to act wild? What crime have we committed? Is there an imperial edict?"
No one paid attention to her, and groups of forbidden soldiers rushed to each house. The forbidden soldiers who stayed in the yard began to look around.
Mrs. Jiang was stunned for a moment, and immediately shouted outside:
"Come on, come on, come on!"
It suddenly became very quiet outside, and even the chirping of birds disappeared for a while.
A huge fear suppressed Mrs. Jiang. She rushed towards one of the Imperial Guards who was turning over the flower bed, shouting, "You are thieves, come and catch the thieves!" She wanted to stop him, but she didn't know that he was still there.
As soon as he touched it, he was thrown away and fell heavily to the ground.
Mother Jia hurriedly ran to help her, but there was a terrible pain in her waist and she could not stand up!
Shen Junzhuo! It must be Shen Junzhuo! Mrs. Jiang gritted her teeth. She didn't expect that he really dared to let the Imperial Army surround the Duke's Mansion. Did he even ignore his own foundation?