This question was half amusing and half cold.
Qingxing's body couldn't help but tremble, and her knees on the ground couldn't help but want to move back.
Taoye knew it well and just stood aside silently. Only Qingmei was unaware.
"This slave didn't witness Sister Taoye giving the powder to Qingmei. What she just said was just... just a guess!"
Qingxing secretly glanced at Qingmei next to her, then glanced at Taoye's calm face, and made up her mind.
"Qingxing, what are you talking about!"
Qingmei turned her head in disbelief.
"Qingmei, although you and I have a deep love for each other as sisters, we cannot tolerate lies in front of our master!"
Qing Xing's face was full of embarrassment.
"Okay, don't regret it!"
Qingmei said bitterly, then turned and kowtowed to the top: "If this fragrant powder was given by Sister Taoye, just go and search the house!"
"Since Sister Taoye categorically denies it, she must not be afraid of being searched by others!"
Qingmei stood up straight, with a determined look on her face, and her confident look made Qingxing on the side regret whether her words just now were too decisive.
"No need to search!"
Taoye coughed a few times in the cool breeze, then looked to the side: "Nanyun, help me get the handkerchief from under the goose-yellow dress on the first layer of the wardrobe and the things inside, be careful not to scatter it. Got it!"
She kept these things and asked Nanyun to go to Huicao to get another flower hairpin. She originally wanted to find out who was behind it, but the behavior of Qingmei in the bronze mirror in the afternoon gave her the answer.
I had no intention of hiding it from the fifth young master.
There is no need to hide it anymore.
Nanyun glanced upwards and saw Rong Jiu nodded lightly before walking towards the west wing.
It was a late autumn night, and the cool wind was already strong. Tao Ye had just gotten up from the bed, and she already felt a little cold. In addition, the wind poured into the sleeves of her wide shirt, seeping into the wounds that had not yet completely healed, and she couldn't help but close her sleeves.
A few strands of hair hung down from her loosely pulled bun, making her face look even paler.
Fortunately, Nayun only went there for a while and came back with the things.
"Fifth Young Master, when I returned home yesterday, I found that the jewelry box had been tampered with, so I took out all the jewelry inside and checked it carefully. There was nothing missing. When I put the things back, I accidentally put them The flower hairpin fell, and when I went to pick it up, I found that there was a live buckle between the head and body of the hairpin, and there was pink powder inside!"
Tao Ye took the handkerchief from Nan Yun's hand, unfolded it, and held it in front of Rong Jiu's eyes.
Hearing Taoye's words, Qingxing couldn't help but feel happy, while Qingmei's eyes widened and she almost got up from the ground to take a closer look to see if the hairpin in Taoye's hand was the one she had replaced.
"You're talking nonsense. I saw this flower hairpin in your jewelry box after lunch. Why did it move somewhere now?"
"It's obvious that you did this on purpose... Yes, you meant to frame me... You secretly used this thing to seduce the fifth young master, and then used this thing to harm me. You are so vicious!"
Qingmei was anxious, remembering what that person said a few days ago, her originally hazy mind seemed to be enlightened.
Faced with such accusations, Taoye looked very calm.
It turns out that the powder here is mixed with that kind of medicine.
No wonder the expression on the fifth young master's face is so terrifying.
But the Fifth Young Master naturally knows whether she has ever used this medicine.
"Fifth Young Master, don't be deceived by her. You don't know that when Qingxing and I were in the room at noon, she actually mentioned...the pleasure she had with the Young Master on the bed. You can see that she is a coquettish girl!"
Qingmei pointed at Taoye and shouted loudly.
"Xingyun, lock the person in the room at the back. He will return to his mother tomorrow and send him to Zhuangzi in the North!"
Rong Jiu glanced at Tao Ye's cold, bloodless face and her hands secretly holding her sleeves.
"Master, spare your life! I really didn't lie. It was Taoye who framed me, wuwu..."
As soon as she heard that she was going to be sent to that extremely cold place, Qingmei was frightened and wanted to get up and grab the corners of Rong Jiu's robe to beg for mercy.
Xingyun would not give her this chance, so he blocked her mouth with a handkerchief and ordered the two boys next to him to take her away.
"Fifth Young Master!"
The person had been dragged to the backyard. Just as Rong Jiu turned around to enter the house, Zhao Jin shouted anxiously from behind.
"Fifth Young Master, after all, this Qingmei is a person given by the Queen in the palace. If we deal with it like this, wouldn't it be... inappropriate?"
Zhao Jin advised.
"Please, Fifth Young Master, spare Qingmei this time!"
Qingxing also begged for mercy.
What he said just now cannot completely prove Tao Ye's innocence.
It depends on how the master judges.
But Taoye didn't look panicked from beginning to end, he must have felt that he had something to rely on.
And the fifth young master actually dealt with Qingmei so neatly.
This peach leaf actually has such a big weight in the fifth young master's heart. As a result, what the master tells me will be even more difficult.
"Manager Zhao still knows the word inappropriate?"
"This is not the first time that Dong Palace has sent something. The Duan Inkstone is valuable, but there is no need for Manager Zhao to ask Gui Yun to pick it up from your room late at night!"
Rong Jiu first glanced at Gui Yun, who looked ashamed, and then his eyes fell on Zhao Jin.
"Today the young master returned home, and I arranged things in the yard. I didn't think of this Duan Inkstone until night. I was afraid that something so precious might go wrong with me, so..."
"Are my yard full of people with unclean hands and feet?"
Rong Jiu interrupted Zhao Jin coldly.
"Little people don't dare!"
The few boys nearby knelt down in fear.
"You are a little overthinker. Please punish me, Fifth Young Master!"
Zhao Jin's face turned red and he immediately apologized.
"If Manager Zhao has to think too much about even this trivial matter, why not stop doing this!"
Rong Jiu rolled down his sleeves and walked into the house with an unhappy look on his face, as if he was very angry at Qingmei's behavior today.
Xingyun hurriedly followed him to serve.
The three people kneeling on the ground didn't get permission and didn't dare to get up. Taoye saw that the matter was over and didn't want to freeze in the cold wind, nor did he have the energy to go to the back room to show his courtesy, so he wanted to go back to his room.
"Master, please invite Miss Taoye in!"
But as soon as he walked down the steps, he was stopped by Xingyun coming out of the house.
Taoye sighed and turned around.
"Young Master has something to say, you all should go down and have a rest. Miss Qingmei should go back too!"
Xingyun waited for Taoye to enter the house and closed the door before speaking to the people below.
Several boys stood up with happy faces.
After Qingmei stood up, she glanced at the closed door casually, thanked Xingyun again, and then went back.
After these people left, Gui Yun glanced at Xing Yun expectantly, but was glared at by Xing Yun and lowered his head in disbelief.
inside the house.
As soon as the door closed, Taoye was picked up by Rong Jiu.
Remembering that there was someone outside, she didn't dare to make a sound.
But my heart was pounding non-stop.
