Twilight falls.
The yard lights came on one by one.
After Aunt Tao's accident here, the Xie family came over except for Xie Jingyu, Aunt Jiang and Aunt Yu, Xie Shi'an and Xie Ping, and the small courtyard was full of people.
Everyone's eyes fell on Yun Chou's face.
Yun Chu stood blandly, "In that case, the old madam suspects that I wanted to drop Aunt Tao's fetus?"
"It's not that I suspect you, but the evidence points to you." The old lady spoke, "Chou Er, you know how much I trust you, or else I wouldn't have put all the power of stewardship in your hands, is this how you repay my trust?"
"This ..." Aunt Jiang spoke carefully, "Concubine is trying to say a fair word, madam has no motive to do this at all."
If the lady has her own flesh and blood, it is understandable that she is jealous of the birth of a concubine's son.
But the lady has nothing to produce, will not have their own children, and the adults said, no matter which aunts born of the child, must be credited in the name of the lady, the lady to raise a is also to raise, to raise a group of is also to raise, intentionally aborted Aunt Tao abdomen fetus is really not any meaning.
Yuan nodded her head, "Chu'er has always been forgiving and generous, it's impossible for him to do this kind of mutilation of the heir."
The old lady sneered.
Yunchu was indeed tolerant in the past, but in recent days, it had become increasingly harsh and difficult, and it was not impossible to do something like this.
At this time, Aunt Tao shouted in the room, "Old madam, I know why madam wants to lay hands on the child in my belly ..."
The old madam had the door pushed open, and Aunt Tao's voice became a little clearer, "These days the lord always sends things to me, sending a pot of flowers, a few cloths, and jewelry and headgear, the madam is seeing that the lord is too attached to me as an aunt, and is afraid that the lord is spoiling his concubines to destroy his wives, and so this is why she is doing it to the child in my belly... ..."
Gen sighed.
When Chor was pregnant four or five years ago, Jingyu really wasn't this attentive, and I don't blame Chor for being jealous and doing this kind of thing.
Listening to the rain pursed her lips.
When she first became pregnant, she kept it hidden from the lady for fear that she would not be able to think of doing anything to the child in her womb, and as it turned out, she didn't think much ...
"Being jealous is one of the seven things in a woman." The old lady opens her mouth with a face full of disappointment, "Chu'er, you're the Yun family's first born young miss, the head mother of my Xie residence, how could you be so confused!"
Yun Chou looked around the courtyard at everyone, taking in everyone's expressions.
She brushed her ebony hair and spoke, "The Xie Mansion is also a family of books, is it that simple to convict someone in a book?"
Her clouded look made the old lady feel a little prickly.
She preferred the Yunchu that she had been after losing her child, the supple and silent lady of the house, the granddaughter-in-law that she had been allowed to pinch and roll.
She had to hold Yunchu at fault this time in order to make this granddaughter-in-law change back to being obedient.
Thinking about this, she spoke, "Someone come, go to the Yusheng Residence and search."
Mother Zhou blessed herself towards Yun Chou, "Madam, the old slave is offended."
When the words fell, he brought along the seven or eight grannies and maids in the courtyard and walked towards Yusheng Residence.
It wasn't too far away, and within a short time, Mother Zhou returned, shaking her head and saying, "Old madam, nothing was found."
The old lady frowned, "How come, did the treasury look for it?"
Zhou mother bowed her head and said, "That is the lady's dowry treasury, without the lady's permission, the old slave does not dare ... to do so."
The old lady's face was heavy.
Maybe, Yunchu has already disposed of the evidence long ago ...
"Even if I entered my dowry storeroom, I wouldn't be able to search for what the old lady wants because-" Yun Chu paused, "the search was in the wrong place."
The old lady's eyes narrowed, "What do you mean?"
Yun Chu raised her eyes and looked outside the courtyard, "Since Mother He is here, why are you standing outside?"
He was startled.
She stood in the shadows, and it was impossible for the average person to see her at a glance.
Madame was being cross-examined and was surprised to find her there.
She walked in with her head bowed and said, "The slave girl is afraid that when Your Excellency returns to the mansion and asks, the slave girl won't know anything about it, that's why ..."
Without waiting for her to finish, Yun Chu clapped her hands.
Hearing Frost, who was guarding the entrance to the courtyard, walked in with two men.
A man dressed like a shopkeeper and a small beggar of seven or eight years old.
Once the duo walked in, they looked around at everyone present, and then, their eyes stopped on He.
In that instant, He's breath stopped.
"She's the one who gave me twenty coppers to buy medicine from Good Virtue Hall." The little beggar pointed at He and said, "I'm very good at recognizing people, I'll never be wrong."
The shopkeeper-like man spoke, "Half an hour ago, this little beggar came to me to grab some medicine, without a prescription, he only said the names of a few herbs, I grabbed a little of each and gave it to him, and among them was saffron."
The moment these two men's words came out, unbelief appeared on the faces of everyone in the courtyard.
"It's not the slave girl, he recognized the wrong person!" He struggled to remain calm, "The slave girl went out of the mansion to purchase an inkstone for His Excellency, please ask the old lady to be clear."
The old lady gripped her cane tightly, "He's an inferior, it's impossible for her to plot against her master, it's impossible."
Yunchu's voice was light: "Of course I won't follow the old lady's example of convicting people without evidence, now that the human evidence is there, it's just a matter of physical evidence, listen to the frost, you take a few people to go to mother He's house to search properly."
"Mother!" Xie Ping couldn't help but speak up, "Mother He was loyal to father, it's impossible to mutilate father's heir, and a search won't turn up anything."
Xie Shi'an stepped forward and said, "Mother He is father's person, if mother rashly searches Mother He's house, I'm afraid that I'll draw father's wrath."
Yun Chu's lips hooked up a smile, "I am your father's explicitly married wife, how come searching my courtyard won't make your father angry, or is it that in your father's mind, an underling who manages the courtyard is more important than me, the rightful wife?"
Xie Shian was dumbfounded.
Yunchu shook her head, "Ange'er, you'd rather trust an underling than me as your mother, you're breaking my heart too much."
She made a gesture.
Hearing Frost immediately led the way towards the house where He was staying.
Not a single person in the yard spoke.
The old woman squeezed her cane in a death grip, she already knew what was going on even though the evidence hadn't been found yet.
Her cloudy eyes scraped over He like a sharp blade.
She really didn't think that He would dare to plot against the heir and plant the evidence on the main mother!
She shouldn't have let He stay in the Xie Mansion in the first place for the sake of An Ge'er's three siblings.
Listening to Frost's quick movements, in less than a quarter of an hour she returned with someone, and a few medicinal herbs were presented, "This was found from underneath Mother He's bed."
The shopkeeper of the pharmacy went up and took a look and said, "Yes, the little beggar just grabbed these herbs and saffron, I won't remember wrongly."
"It's hard for you two to make this trip." Yun Chou took two money bags and gave them to the two, "Today this matter, the two of you just pretend it never happened, thank you very much."
The money was tantamount to hush money, and that shopkeeper and the little beggar understood that.
Just out of the Xie House, after the two opened the money bag to see, but only a few dozen copper plate, that shopkeeper's face changed, would not have wanted to discuss the private affairs of people's backyard, but take this money to send people off, it is too insulting ...