"Are you questioning me?"
Ms. Cao's face turned livid with anger from her daughter-in-law and she said angrily.
"Daughter-in-law doesn't dare. It's just that the matter is unclear. If you have doubts, you should ask for clarification. My daughter-in-law is stupid, so please ask mother to teach you!"
Gu Yunqing said with lowered eyelids.
Ms. Cao choked at the lukewarm words.
Suffocated, the hand held by Luo Shi exerted force violently, which was extremely painful.
Luo Shi stood with his head lowered, not moving at all, but there was a flash of disgust and hatred in his lowered eyes.
"Madam, my servant Xiu Yin, please tell me clearly. I was careless and took the lake silk by mistake. Miss Taoye knew nothing about it. Please punish me alone..."
Xiuyin broke away from the maid's support and fell to the ground, crying and begging.
Although the madam and the fifth young master stopped the execution of the old lady, the old madam is the highest-ranking person in the house after all. If she insists on pursuing the case, I am afraid that she and Tao Ye will not be able to escape punishment in the end.
It's better for her to admit this crime.
"Madam, although Xiuyin took the lake silk by mistake, she was still making new clothes for the slave. In the final analysis, the fault still lies with the slave!"
Naturally, Taoye couldn't watch Xiuyin take the blame on herself.
"But it is a serious matter for the old lady to enshrine in front of the Buddha. These fabrics used for tailoring should be kept strictly, but now they were mistakenly taken by a little embroiderer in Xiuyin. The slave girl thinks that the cause of this matter is that someone in the sewing room was slacking on me. If you are a human being, please be careful, Madam!"
Taoye knelt in front of Gu Yunqing and begged respectfully.
"The sewing room dares to neglect the things that my grandmother used to worship in front of the Buddha. It seems that my mother should take good care of this matter to prevent my grandmother from getting angry and hurting her body in the future!"
Rong Jiu lazily said.
Hearing this, a strange look flashed in Luo Shi's eyes. Madam has been too lazy to take care of the house's internal affairs these years. Several important places in the house are occupied by the eldest young master and her people.
The steward in charge of disbursing fabrics is her person.
"Biyun, go call Mother Qin and go to the sewing room to find out about this matter!"
Seeing Biyun follow the order and walk out, a trace of eagerness flashed in Luo Shi's lowered eyes.
"Old madam, you might as well ask me to check it out. This sewing room has been managed by my concubine for the past two years. I'm very humble, so I'm afraid the people underneath are really up to something!"
Gu Yunqing never paid attention to her, and the only person who could stop this was the old lady beside him.
"It was my idea to let you take charge of the sewing room. If you act cautiously, how can you do anything wrong!"
After this reminder, Mrs. Cao remembered that she had asked Luo to take charge of the sewing room.
The Gu family must be dissatisfied when they act like this today and want to take advantage of this to gain control of the back house.
I'm afraid that even if nothing happens, a few mistakes will happen.
"Pearl, you two are coming too!"
"It's really ridiculous. The affairs of the back house of our Duke's residence are decided by an unworthy housekeeper!"
Thinking of the person who made the conversation, Cao's disgusted and sharp eyes fell on Tao Ye on the ground.
"Xiangyan, help me in!"
After Mrs. Cao finished speaking, she held Luo's hand and turned around to enter the house.
He didn't say anything to let Gu Yunqing and Rong Jiu in, making it clear that he wanted to leave them alone.
"Wait a moment, mother, my daughter-in-law has something important to tell you!"
Gu Yunqing stopped the person with words.
"What's important?"
Mr. Cao looked dissatisfied.
"I came to my mother today not because of this maid, but because people from the Mao Kingdom Palace came to my daughter-in-law this morning. They said that yesterday the eldest girl ordered the maid next to her to push the pregnant woman into the lake and wait for someone else. When he was rescued, the child in his belly could no longer be saved!"
"Prince Mao Guo Gong threatened to divorce his wife, and our eldest daughter also has a bad temper. Now the two of them have started to quarrel in the palace. Madam Mao Guo Gong invites my daughter-in-law to come over!"
Gu Yunqing's expression was indifferent, as if he was talking about an insignificant person.
But Cao's expression changed.
"The Duke Mao's government has gone too far to deceive others. Hui'er suffered a lot of grievances the last time he entered the outer chamber. Now, Hui'er has to be blamed for the miscarriage of the outer chamber!"
"Then if you don't hurry over, are you going to watch Hui'er being tortured by Mao Guo's palace?"
Mrs. Cao thought that when the foreign concubine entered the house, Gu Yunqing said that she was ill and even lost her face.
"Mom, don't worry, my daughter-in-law hasn't finished speaking yet!"
Gu Yunqing is getting more and more free.
"The mother-in-law of Maoguo Duke's Mansion also mentioned something. The person who pushed people into the water was Chunhua, the personal maid next to the eldest girl, and she has been locked up now!"
As soon as these words came out, others were still okay, but Mrs. Wang's feet softened and she fell to the ground.
When Mrs. Cao heard this, she remembered that the spring flower next to her eldest granddaughter was Mama Wang's daughter.
"My daughter-in-law thinks that this spring flower is also her mother's favorite, the daughter of Mother Wang, so she still wants to tell her mother!"
Gu Yunqing continued.
"Old Madam, you have watched Chunhua grow up, and she is the one who understands the rules the most. It is impossible for her to do such a thing!"
After Mrs. Wang was shocked, she stumbled and fell in front of Mr. Cao, crying.
"This must be someone from Duke Mao's palace who is confusing right and wrong, or it's the outside chamber who deliberately framed it! You must seek justice for Hui'er this time. If Mrs. Xu, Duke of Mao's family, doesn't comply, she will go to the palace and ask the queen to make the decision. !”
Taoye thought that the eagerness in the old lady's words was true. It seemed that the old lady really loved the children left behind by the late madam.
"My daughter-in-law also wants to go there earlier, but the things in her house haven't been sorted out yet, so she'd better wait a little longer!"
"If mother is worried about the eldest daughter, why not go to Mao Guogong's mansion in person? You have great prestige and I think it will be much more effective than my daughter-in-law!"
After hearing this, Taoye felt relieved. The madam threatened to go to Maoguo Duke's mansion, so the old madam could only take a step back.
After all, the old lady values face, and even if she truly loves the eldest girl, she will not go to the Duke Mao's mansion to reason with her.
"It's just that some people in the sewing room are slacking off. We will find out later and deal with them one by one!"
Mrs. Cao was angry, but compared with the incident in the sewing room, the importance of her eldest granddaughter's matter was obvious.
After some time, she would find a reason to give Luo Shi some housekeeping rights.
After hearing this, Gu Yunqing still did not move.
Mrs. Cao knew in her heart that she wanted to speak out and spare the two maids, but she was angry. These two maids were the ones she had decided to punish. If she spoke now, it would be like bowing to her daughter-in-law.
It was about the majesty of her mother-in-law. Ms. Cao's heart was ups and downs, but she didn't say a word.
"Old Madam, the Xiu Niang and Taoye Girl have also been punished and learned a lesson. The Old Madam is kind-hearted, and the Buddha has a good life, so why not just let them go!"
Under the stalemate, Luo Shimansheng spoke.
"It's just that you are kind-hearted. For your sake, I will spare these two maids today!"
Ms. Cao walked down the steps angrily.
"Slave, thank you, madam, for your forgiveness!"
Taoye and Xiuyin knelt down to express their gratitude.
