Lianying didn't take Qi Lian's warning seriously.
She just replied impatiently, "I know, I know, how many times have you told me."
However, although she agreed to this, she turned around and went to find Chunhua. Chunhua was really devoted to her and told her all Jiang Nianjiao's preferences one by one. If she had any troubles, Chunhua could also take the trouble to explain it to her.
For a while, Lianying was quite favored by Jiang Nianjiao because of her relationship with Chunhua.
On the other hand, the three of them, Qi Lian, did not understand Jiang Nianjiao's temper and habits, so they often angered her when serving Jiang Nianjiao. At first, Jiang Nianjiao would be more tolerant because these people were close to Concubine Yuxian. After a long time, she became too lazy to deal with those three people. Instead, Lianying and Wandong became Jiang Nianjiao's followers. Among them, late winter is the most popular.
Obviously, he was sent to the outer courtyard just this late winter. Now, in just a few days, she returned to the eldest lady's yard. Although she was nominally helping the three of them, judging from the eldest lady's reliance on her. It was only a matter of time before he returned to the inner court to take charge of affairs in late winter.
Naturally, the maids and women in the outer courtyard also took advantage of the situation. They used to laugh at Late Winter and Chunhua, but now they began to please them again.
Although Lianying has a good relationship with Chunhua, her relationship with Late Winter is not very harmonious.
She has always looked down on Wan Dong. After all, Wan Dong came to the inner courtyard using tricks. Now in order to consolidate her position, she often chooses the times when her sisters are being punished to express herself.
And on several occasions, she even saw the black figure who was suing Qi Lian at Jiang Nianjiao's place in late winter.
Thinking that Qi Lian had been punished by Jiang Nianjiao several times because of late winter, she became even more angry.
And the days passed in such a hurry.
In the early summer of June, the temperature difference between day and night is still quite large. As the sun sets, it is already very cool outside the house.
Jiang Nianjiao had just finished her meal. She had originally planned to go outside the courtyard to eat. Unexpectedly, she had just walked outside the courtyard. When she was passing a mugwort bush, a girl suddenly fell in front of her crying.
"Please make the decision for me, Miss!" Seeing the other party suddenly burst out of the flowers, even Jiang Nianjiao was frightened.
After she calmed down, she said, "What happened to you?"
The girl didn't speak immediately. She just glanced at the maids behind Jiang Nianjiao as if she was looking for something.
After deciding on the candidate, she pointed at Qi Lian who was following Jiang Nianjiao and said, "Miss, Miss Qi Lian embezzled and deducted my monthly money. Please make sure to make the decision for me!"
Suddenly hearing such accusations, several people in the courtyard were surprised.
Qi Lian hurriedly knelt down and defended, "Miss, I distributed the monthly money to the maids and ladies in the courtyard according to the booklet. There is absolutely no way that there is any deduction of monthly money. If you don't believe it, you can take my book today. look."..
After hearing Qi Lian's words, the girl burst into tears.
"Miss Lian, it is true that I have not received my monthly money. The women in the outer courtyard are all watching this! Even if you want to steal my monthly silver, you still have to leave one or two cents for the slave, right? You are here How can I survive if I don't get a share?"
Seeing that the two of them only insisted on one word and vowed to each other. Jiang Nianjiao didn't know how to deal with it for a moment.
At this time, seeing the opportunity to add insult to injury, Late Winter naturally helped and said, "The girls in the outer courtyard do more work than the inner courtyard. The money they take is less than half of that in the inner courtyard. That's it." Miss Lian still wants to withhold money, isn't this pushing them to a dead end?"
Seeing Wan Dong speaking on his behalf, the maid from the outer courtyard naturally nodded in agreement.
Qi Lian was suddenly attacked by two people, and she didn't know how to defend herself.
Seeing that Qi Lian was being attacked by the two men, Lian Ying naturally hurriedly offered her help, "Sister Qi Lian has always been fair. When she was in charge of money in the Yuxiu Palace, she never showed any deprivation to the maids below. Now you are talking nonsense." Ya just said that Sister Lian is greedy for your few taels of silver. Is she guilty of losing face for such a few taels of silver? But you guys are not nice to others, and I don’t know if you are just slandering others and making nonsense."
Jiang Nianjiao originally expected these two girls to help her
They came up with an idea, but now they themselves started to argue first.
Seeing that the yard was noisy, she could only rub her temples, and then shouted loudly, "Okay, stop arguing!"
It has to be said that Jiang Nianjiao is somewhat intimidating. As her words fell, although these people were still dissatisfied with each other for a while, they only dared to be angry and dare not speak out.
After her ears were clear for a moment, Jiang Nianjiao ordered a few maids who were not involved in the dispute, "Go and ask the mother-in-law from the outer courtyard who knows about this to come over, and then bring Qi Lian's book. By the way, send another one." Let some people search their house."
After receiving the order, the maids quickly went down.
And Jiang Nianjiao didn't wait long. The ladies from the outer courtyard came in first. They were a little cautious when they came to the inner courtyard.
But after discovering that Jiang Nianjiao was asking about the salary of the maid from the outer courtyard, these ladies naturally couldn't control their burning passion for gossip, and they just added all they wanted. See and hear.
The words did confirm that this maid did not get her own moon silver.
Then the personnel book in charge of Qi Lian was also presented, and almost all the girls in Qinglan Courtyard whose names were recorded were recorded.
She turned over it for a while, but couldn't find anything wrong.
Seeing that this matter was about to turn into an open case, Jiang Nianjiao even thought that it was not possible, so she simply went to her warehouse to get some money to settle the matter.
Unexpectedly, things took a turn for the worse when the maids went to search their respective houses.
The first people to come back were those who searched the maid's house in the outer courtyard. They found almost nothing when they came back.
However, the group of maids who searched Qi Lian's house found more than a dozen taels of broken silver with the Jiang Mansion's mark from Qi Lian's house. Obviously, this was the moon silver that the maid in the outer courtyard was talking about.
And judging from the amount of these moon silvers, Qi Lian might be greedy for more than one portion.
As soon as the Yueyin was found, the courtyard started to talk about it.
"He's from the palace. I thought his hands and feet would be so clean. I didn't expect that he is greedy for money and is even more ruthless than Na Luo Ruo."
"I don't think Miss Lian is such a person."
"This is called knowing people, knowing faces but not knowing hearts."
Qi Lian, who was at the center of the discussion, was also obviously shocked. She really didn't understand why she would be saddled with such guilt when she had done nothing.
"Qilian, do you have anything else to say?" Jiang Nianjiao looked like she was ready to accuse him.
Qi Lian naturally wanted to defend herself, but she soon realized that these maids were probably bribed by others. Right now this is a situation designed for myself.
But the incident happened so suddenly that she had no way to prove her innocence.
So she could only shake her head dejectedly.
Seeing that she didn't argue, Lianying could not sit still. She quickly jumped out and retorted for Qi Lian, "Miss Mingjian, there is no way Sister Lian did this! They must have framed Sister Lian."
It's a pity that she can't provide any evidence at the moment to prove that this matter has nothing to do with Qi Lian.
Therefore, her words were not echoed by Jiang Nianjiao, but instead only aroused strong dissatisfaction from the maid in the outer courtyard: "Miss Lianying, you and Miss Qilian are both from the palace, so naturally you have to stand up for Miss Qilian everywhere! But you and Qi Lian No matter how good we are with Miss Lian, we can’t open our eyes and tell lies!”
Seeing the two people arguing again, Jiang Nianjiao felt a headache.
She first rebuked Lianying, "If your sister Lian is really innocent, you should bring some evidence."
Her words only succeeded in blocking Lingying's mouth.
Then Jiang Nianjiao looked at Qi Lian. She seemed to be very disappointed with Qi Lian, "Qi Lian, go and return their moon silver to them first. Logically speaking, I will usually deprive those who embezzle moon silver." It was sold out because you are a first-time offender. After you have paid out the embezzled money, you can go and receive thirty bucks. I don’t want to see you in the next period of time. You go back and reflect on it.”
After being slandered to this point, Qi Lian could only say that she was innocent, but who would believe this innocence.
Seeing Qi Lian being dragged down by the women to be punished. .
Lianying was also anxious and didn't care to argue with the maid from the outer courtyard. She quickly knelt down to plead for Qi Lian and said, "Miss, wouldn't thirty dollars cost Sister Lian's life? Please spare Sister Lian this time." .”
The other two maids also knelt down.
It's a pity that Jiang Nianjiao didn't take this trick. She only said coldly, "How do you want me to spare her? If I spare her today, everyone in this courtyard will think that I, Qinglan Courtyard, have no rules." place."
Seeing that there was no room left, Qi Lian had no choice but to say to Lianying, "Lianying, you don't have to plead for me. The lady is right."
Seeing that things have reached this point, Qi Lian is still pleading for Jiang Nianjiao.
Lian Ying only felt more and more worthless for Qi Lian.
I don’t know what she thought of, but Lianying finally stopped pleading. She only changed her words and said, "Sister Lian must be innocent. If Miss Lian hadn’t kept these thirty tablets first, give me a few days and I will definitely check it out." Find out the key. If you can't find it out, I will bear these thirty pieces."
"Lianying, you don't have to plead for me like this. I was punished voluntarily." After hearing Lianying's words, Qi Lian naturally didn't want Lianying to get involved.
It's a pity that Jiang Nianjiao thinks that these four people are her aunt's people, so she doesn't really want to deal with them.
Therefore, after Lianying said this, Jiang Nianjiao seemed to be eager to find a way to get down. She frowned and thought for a while, and then said, "It's a bit hasty to confirm this matter. Since you are so sworn in, I will give you three days." Find out the truth, but if you don’t find out, it’s not just Qi Lian who will get thirty blows, but you will also get thirty blows.”
Qi Lian naturally said that it was absolutely impossible, but Lian Ying agreed to the matter, "Okay! Three days is all, and I will definitely restore Sister Lian's innocence!"
