"You can't find it. It's in the northwest of my yard, not far away. It seems that it used to be the residence of an old aunt. It was abandoned after the old aunt was gone. What is the name of the place called Hongmei Garden..." Wen Shichu said .
"Hongmei Garden? I know this place." As soon as Qingxing heard about Hongmei Garden, she knew where it was. The place had indeed been abandoned for a long time. It was normal for her to find a pomegranate tree there when she heard about it.
"By the way, be quieter when you go." Wen Shichu reminded with another mysterious smile.
Qingxing was confused, but she finally listened to Wen Shichu's words. When she went to Hongmei Garden, she was very careful and quiet.
Although I don’t know why Wen Shichu insisted on finding the pomegranate tree at this time, Qingxing came to deliver fruits to Wen Shichu at the request of Madam Hou. It was originally intended to give her a chance to show her integrity and go to Hongmei Garden to find the pomegranate tree. It could extend her leisure time longer, so she just went with the flow.
When Qingxing arrived at Hongmei Garden, she found that it was indeed very desolate and quiet, which made her a little scared. But when she thought of the pomegranate tree that she had not yet found, she took courage again. After all, finding the pomegranate tree would help her She showed her face in front of Mrs. Hou...
It's just that I don't know where the pomegranate tree grew. Qing Xing searched many places but couldn't find it. If I had known it earlier, I should have asked Wen Shichu in more detail... Qing Xing was a little annoyed.
Finally, she came to the corner of the backyard of Hongmei Garden. Suddenly her ears moved and she seemed to hear someone speaking.
Did any other servants also discover the pomegranate tree? Qing Xing suddenly became a little anxious. This pomegranate is a good omen fruit, which means many children and good fortune. If she reports this discovery to Madam Hou, she will get a lot of rewards. She can't let others get there first!
So she anxiously went to the place where someone was talking. However, when she saw the person speaking clearly, she was shocked and stunned. It was actually the eldest lady and a young man!
How could the eldest lady meet a foreigner in such a remote place? After Qingxing was shocked, thinking of this, she suddenly realized that the eldest lady was having an affair with a man! Qingxing was shocked and horrified when she encountered such a shocking thing. This was a scandal!
At this time, she also realized why Wen Shichu had ordered her to come to this place. What pomegranate tree? That must be a cover. In fact, Wen Shichu wanted her to discover the secret meeting between the eldest lady and her foreigner, right?
When Qingxing thought of this, she felt a little resentful when she heard that Shichu had deliberately let her run into the eldest lady's scandal. Wasn't this embarrassing a slave like her? Should she pretend not to know, or tell Madam directly?
Qingxing was extremely panicked, but she knew she couldn't go out to expose this scandal right now, so she quietly hid behind a bush and watched Li Minghui and Zhou Shaowen.
She recognized that the man who had a secret meeting with the eldest lady was actually the son of the cousin of the third sister-in-law of the Marquis of Wuyang. This relationship was extremely distant, but the third sister-in-law had a very good relationship with her cousin, and her cousin's family was all dead. With only Zhou Shaowen left, the third sister-in-law begged Marquis Wuyang to bring her cousin's only son to the Marquis's mansion, and also allowed him to study in a clan school.
Unexpectedly, this actually led to the wolf entering the house. This week, Shaowen not only did not appreciate the training given to him by the Hou family, but also had evil intentions and lured the eldest lady into the house.
Qingxing is Mrs. Hou's eldest maid, so she naturally knows Zhou Shaowen. Now that she sees clearly that it is him, Qingxing can't pretend not to know about this. She is very angry. Mrs. Hou and the eldest lady are both good-tempered. People are very lenient to servants like them. Qingxing cannot just watch the eldest lady being deceived by such a man.
Qing Xing was so angry that she couldn't care about anything else and hurried back to Madam Hou's main courtyard with a very ugly face. Then she said to Madam Hou seriously: "Madam, I have something important to report."
"What's important? By the way, does Aunt Wen like the fruits you sent?" Mrs. Hou asked.
"I like it...but that's not what I'm talking about." Qing Xing said quickly, "It's very important. I can only tell it to you."
Seeing that Qingxing was very serious, Mrs. Hou knew that she really had something important to do, so she waved her hand and asked the other maids around her to go down.
Seeing that everyone had left, Qingxing walked to Mrs. Hou, lowered her voice, and said to her quickly: "Madam, I just discovered that the eldest lady and Zhou Shaowen are having a private meeting in Hongmei Garden!"
"What?!" Mrs. Hou asked again as if she didn't hear her clearly.
"My slave found out that the eldest lady and Zhou Shaowen had a secret relationship!" Qing Xing said through gritted teeth, her clothes soaked with sweat on her back. She knew that she would be in danger of losing her life if she told this, but she bet on the character of the lady. Mrs. Gambling has a kind nature and will not kill her to silence her. Instead, she will reward her as the hero who discovered the scandal of the eldest lady in advance and allowed the scandal to be covered up.
Qing Xing's words were like a thunderbolt hitting Mrs. Hou's head, making her head buzz, as if she had lost her perception of the world around her. After a while, she recovered and stared at Qing Xing with an extremely ugly face. He gritted his teeth and said, "If you dare to slander the eldest lady, you know what the consequences will be!"
"Madam! I don't dare. I really saw the eldest lady and Zhou Shaowen having a private meeting in Hongmei Garden. Maybe they are still there at this moment! If you don't believe it, you can go and see for yourself..." Qing Xing With a trembling voice, he hurriedly explained.
In fact, Mrs. Hou already believed Qingxing's words. Qingxing was her eldest maid, always smart and steady, and an honest person. If it were not true, she would not have said it.
"Tell me more carefully..." Mrs. Hou said to Qing Xing with a livid face.
Qingxing carefully told Mrs. Hou how she found out about this matter. Although Mrs. Hou was also worried that her daughter had been deceived, she knew that this matter was not urgent. She had to investigate it carefully and then find a solution. Handle it properly and never let any information leak out, otherwise all the girls in Wuyanghou's family, whether they are married or not, will suffer.
"You said it was Aunt Wen who told you there was a pomegranate tree in Hongmei Garden and asked you to go and see it right away?" Mrs. Hou keenly grasped the key point.
"Yes, I suspected that Aunt Wen also knew about the eldest lady and Zhou Shaowen, so she deliberately sent her to Hongmei Garden so that she could discover the matter in person and then come back to report to the madam." Qingxing said her guess, and then she suddenly realized , "No wonder Aunt Wen reminded me to search quietly before I went and don't make a big noise. Isn't this just because she's afraid that I'll alarm the eldest lady and the others?"
After hearing this, Mrs. Hou sighed in her heart, knowing that Wen Shichu had deliberately revealed her daughter's affairs to herself. She accepted her favor and could only repay her later.
