Shen Baitang still couldn't believe it: "Shen Yulou committed suicide in the prison...?"
Shen Baitang was of no rank, so on the night of the New Year's Eve banquet, he was in Dongningbo's house, and only after Shen Fengxu came back did he hear the news that Shen Yulou had become a witch who had brought disaster to the country and then committed suicide.
Naturally, I also heard that Ming Jin originally wanted to marry her, but in the end because of Hu Hui's death, she ended up marrying Shen Qing, the eldest son of the Dongning Bo Mansion, and Zhao Jinyu, the second girl of the Pingyuan Hou Mansion.
She felt complicated at the moment: "How could Shen Yulou be a witch who brought disaster to the country?" Even if she disliked Shen Yulou in every possible way, they were sisters who grew up together after all. Among the girls in the mansion, Shen Yulou and Shen Baitang were the closest in age. When I suddenly heard the news of Shen Yulou's death, I naturally felt compassion.
However, Shen Fengxu sighed softly and said: "Maybe... Shen Yulou may not be dead, but the fact that she is a witch who brought disaster to the country should not change."
Even though Shen Fengxu personally inspected Shen Yulou's body and confirmed that Shen Yulou was not breathing or having a heartbeat, he still felt something was fishy. With Shen Yulou's temperament, unless he was killed by someone else, it was definitely impossible for him to die. In the prison.
Thinking about that day when the prince Ming Cheng ordered people to take away Shen Yulou's body for no reason, Shen Fengxu vaguely felt that this matter might have something to do with the prince. However, she had not yet thought of the connection between the prince Ming Cheng and Shen Yulou. What connection.
At this time, the maid Caihe suddenly ran in from outside, panting and trotting all the way to Chen Fengxu, saying: "Girl, I have something important to report!"
Seeing that it was Cai He, Chen Fengxu raised his eyebrows slightly. If Cai He had something important to report, it would most likely be related to the eldest lady, so Chen Fengxu said, "Just tell me."
Cai He glanced hesitantly at the other maids around him, and Chen Fengxu waved his hand, signaling the rest of the people to leave.
Seeing that all the maids were gone, Cai He no longer had any worries and said: "Miss, the eldest lady and Qing Zhi are planning to deal with you, miss."
Hearing this, a layer of frost suddenly appeared on Shen Baitang's face: "Shen Yulou has already died in the palace, how can she still think about harming others!"
Shen Fengxu was also a little confused: "Could it be that the eldest lady suspects that I harmed Shen Yulou?"
Otherwise, at this time, how could the eldest lady still think about dealing with Shen Fengxu? Moreover, Qing Zhi is Shen Yulou's personal maid, so Qing Zhi must have said something to the eldest lady.
Caihe nodded repeatedly: "Yes, Hongqu and Qingzhi were in the eldest lady's bedroom at that time. The maid was outside at the time. She didn't hear clearly, but she heard something vaguely. Qingzhi was crying and talking to the eldest lady. He said, it was you who killed the eldest lady, so now the eldest lady and Qing Zhi want to murder you together."
"What are the details?" Shen Fengxu asked, "Do they have any plans?"
Caihe shook his head at first, but then he seemed to think of something again. After recalling it for a while, he hurriedly said: "The eldest lady wrote a letter to Yi'an Bofu, saying that she wanted to hand red yeast rice to Yi'an. Uncle, my maid saw Hongqu carrying the letter and hurried out, and I don’t know the rest."
"Okay, I understand." Chen Fengxu smiled slightly and said, "You did a good job. You can go out now."
Caihe then retreated.
When Ji Caihe went out, Shen Baitang pursed his lips, with a little anger in his eyes, and said: "What do you mean, madam? Why does Shen Yulou's death bring suspicion to you? Shen Yulou was clearly killed by Qin Tian The prisoner thinks she is a witch who is causing harm to the country!"
Shen Fengxu just sighed softly and said: "Since it was Qing Zhitong who said it to the First Lady, it is easy to understand. Shen Yulou's original intention was to deal with me, but in the end he was used against me and he died. No wonder Qing Zhi will suspect me."
Qingzhi has been with Shen Yulou since she was a child, and her friendship for Shen Yulou is naturally true. In her opinion, except Shen Fengxu, no one else can deal with Shen Yulou, let alone Shen Yulou. Something went wrong in Feng Xu's plan, so it's no wonder Qing Zhi made such assumptions.
However, what is the purpose of the eldest lady compiling a letter and sending it to Yi'an Bo Mansion?
Shen Baitang couldn't help but said worriedly: "Feng Xu, you have to be more careful. The eldest lady alone is already difficult enough, not to mention she doesn't know what she has discussed with Yi'an Bo Mansion. Although Yi'an Bo Mansion is also ours My maternal grandfather’s family is different from the eldest lady.”
Chen Fengxu nodded and said, "I know."
Even if there is no such thing, Shen Fengxu has always been wary of the eldest lady.
…
For many days after that, everything was calm in Uncle Dong Ning's house. Although Shen Fengxu heard from Cai He that the eldest lady and Qing Zhi wanted to deal with her, there was no wind or waves in Uncle Dong Ning's house for many days, except for Shen Fengxu in the second room. Yanping scolded Shen Cangwai from time to time, but nothing happened anymore.
The eldest lady was bedridden, so the affairs of running the house were naturally handed over to the second lady. However, for many years in the past, the eldest lady was in charge of the Dongning Mansion alone, and the eldest lady had always been arbitrary and never handed over the general affairs of the house. He left it to others to ask questions, so since the second lady took charge of the house, there have been many problems in the house.
The house of Uncle Dong Ning, who has always been orderly, has encountered numerous problems since the second lady took charge.
In Guiyun Courtyard, Dansha walked in from the outside with a pile of clothes and said angrily: "I don't know what happened to those embroiderers in the house. They even got the patterns wrong. It's really annoying!"
Cinsha on the side couldn't help but put down what she was doing, turned to look at Cinsha, and asked in a warm voice: "Why are you so angry? What happened?"
Cinsha threw down the clothes in her hands, picked one at random, pointed to the pattern on it and showed it to Cinsha, and said angrily: "Look, these are clothes for our girl, and our girl doesn't like it. Begonia flowers are never embroidered on clothes. I don’t know what happened to those embroiderers, but they embroidered begonia flowers on girls’ clothes. Normally, it would be fine, but this is a color only due to the New Year. Brocade is very rare, there is only one piece per year, and it is ruined, how do you want a girl to wear it?"
Because of the New Year, every master in the house bought new clothes, and each of them got a piece of rarely seen colorful brocade. Naturally, they were handed over to tailors to make them, but now they were embroidered with begonia flowers by the embroiderer. , naturally makes Dansha angry.
"You need to calm down first." Chensha reassured, then asked: "Did those embroiderers say anything?"
It was okay not to mention this, but as soon as she mentioned this, Dansha was furious again. She immediately said angrily: "This is the most irritating thing. Originally, they just apologized. The girl has always been good-natured and will not do this. To investigate a trivial matter, I asked them at that time why the girl's pattern was wrong, but who would have thought that the embroiderers actually refused to know and said that the steward ordered them to embroider these patterns."
Chensha was silent for a moment, thinking that the second lady was in charge recently, and said: "...it makes sense."
"What sense does this make?" But Dansha has always had a bad temper. She said angrily, "Only the eldest girl in our family has always liked Begonia flowers. Now that the eldest girl is gone, she still embroiders some Begonia flowers on our girls' clothes.
, What bad luck! My servant asked the embroiderers, but the embroiderers would just refuse, saying that the pattern given to them by the steward was like this. I was so angry that I went to the steward, but the steward said that he was not responsible for these things.
Yes, it’s just like this back and forth, but if they admit a mistake, I won’t be so angry!”
Chensha said in a gentle voice: "These are just trivial matters. The girl will not be angry about such things. The girl is now the Lord of Minhe County, and her monthly salary is naturally not comparable to that of other girls. It doesn't matter if you don't want these clothes, although colorful brocades are rare
, but it’s not something that’s absolutely necessary.”
With Cinsha's gentle words beside her, Cinsha naturally lost a lot of her anger, but she still complained: "Girls won't be angry, but we can't let others do such nonsense. We can't just indulge them like this."
While Chensha comforted Dansha, she looked through the clothes that Dansha had just brought in, and saw that without exception, they were all embroidered with begonia flowers. The steward must have given the embroiderers the patterns commonly used by Shen Yulou in the past by mistake.
She glanced at it and frowned, but she still comforted Cinsha in a soft voice. Just as she was about to put the clothes back, she suddenly saw something in it that was not a begonia pattern.
clothes.
Chen Sha couldn't help but say "Hey", then reached out and took out this piece of clothing and said, "Which embroiderer embroidered this piece of clothing?"
Cinsha was still angry, but when she suddenly saw the clothes in Cinsha's hand, she couldn't help but stopped. After taking a look, she asked in surprise: "Did I just bring this clothes back?"
Chensha nodded: "Aren't you the ones you brought back?"
However, Dan Sha remembered that she was angry because she saw all the colorful brocades being ruined by the embroiderers. But now when she saw this piece of clothing embroidered with pear blossoms, she couldn't help but knock her head.
, puzzled: "Did I remember it wrong?"
Chen Sha smiled and said gently: "There are so many clothes here, no wonder you thought they were from the Begonia pattern. Give this one to the girl first, and throw away the others first."
"Those embroiderers all embroider according to the patterns sent by the stewards. I don't know which embroiderer embroidered this piece of clothing. It's so beautiful. It's the pear blossom that the girl likes." Dan Sha picked up the dress.
After looking back and forth at that piece of clothing for a long time, he said, "I'm going to ask the embroiderer first who embroidered it."
With that said, he hugged his clothes and ran out in a hurry.
Looking at Cinsha's hurried away figure, Cinsha could only sigh helplessly and continue to do the work at hand.
When they arrived at the embroidery courtyard of the residence, Dansha ordered the steward of the embroidery courtyard to summon all the embroidery girls in the embroidery courtyard. Since Shen Fengxu was now the Lord of Minhe County, Dansha was Chen Fengxu's personal maid.
My son, in front of all the servants, is also very majestic.
Dansha held this piece of clothing embroidered with pear blossoms in her hand, walked to the embroidery courtyard, inspected the embroiderers, and said, "Look carefully, who among you embroidered this dress?"
The embroiderers looked at the clothes in Dansha's hands and immediately looked at each other. No one claimed it. Dansha couldn't help but frowned and said loudly: "Look carefully, this dress is well embroidered, no matter who among you is it."
Those who embroider will be rewarded heavily!"
When Cinsha said this, some people started to move, but after all, they did not embroider it themselves and did not dare to claim it. In the end, a thin and small girl stood up. She looked only eleven or twelve years old and skinny.
At this time, he walked out of the crowd and timidly said: "I embroidered it."
Seeing such a little girl, Dansha couldn't help but be surprised and asked: "Did you embroider this?"
She had just looked carefully and saw that the patterns on this dress were very delicate and the flower shapes were lifelike. It would have been impossible to embroider such a good pattern with just a few years of skills, but now a little girl of only a few years old could embroider it so beautifully?
Everyone in Dansha couldn't help but secretly admire this little girl.
The little girl nodded, looked up at Cinsha, and said in a low voice, as if she was a little scared, "I embroidered it."
"The pattern the steward gave you before wasn't crabapple flowers? How could you embroider pear flowers?" Dansha couldn't help but ask.
The little girl bit her lip and said: "I heard that the clothes this time were embroidered for Miss Six, and Miss Six has always liked pear flowers and not crabapple flowers, so she didn't embroider them according to the pattern given by the steward.
So I embroidered pear flowers."
I didn't claim it immediately just now, probably because I was afraid of being punished for embroidering the wrong pattern.
Hearing this, Dansha couldn't help but glance at the steward aside, his eyes cold.
The steward couldn't help but feel a chill in his back, and hurriedly said with a smile: "Miss Dansha, don't be angry, it's all the villain's fault. The villain is also a newbie here and doesn't know much about this. It turns out that the steward in charge of the embroidery courtyard gave all the patterns to the villain.
It was he who said that Miss Six likes Begonia Flowers, so I just obeyed him and had no other intentions. If Miss Dansha doesn't believe it, you can ask the former steward."
Dansha glared at the steward fiercely.
Why ask now? The former steward has returned home a long time ago. How can she go all the way to pursue the case? Besides, who knows if the former steward will continue to shirk? This group of people
It's really annoying to blame each other!
Therefore, Dansha did not blame the steward, but just snorted coldly, then turned to look at the little girl and said: "You did a good job, and the embroidery on this dress is also good. Come with me, and I will reward you with some money."
After saying that, he turned to look at the embroiderers and said: "You should pay more attention in the future. Our girls are now the lords of Minhe County. Naturally, there is no shortage of money. If you do well, the benefits will be great.
"
After saying that, he took the little girl out and made all the embroiderers very envious.
Dansha then led the little girl outside.
Just after walking a short distance, he saw the little girl's steps were sloppy and she was stumbling as she walked, as if she was about to fall. Dansha helped her up and asked, "What's wrong with you?"