Then there is no more

When Bian Jingyu returned home with the corn seeds, Baolai was waiting in Heng'an Courtyard.Baolai often helps Bian Jingyu deal with outside affairs.Seeing Baolai's serious expression, Bian Jingyu immediately suppressed the excitement that seemed to be bubbling, led Baolai to the study, and asked, "What's the matter?"

Baolai said with a troubled expression: "It's the incident that someone hired Lai Pisan to pour water on Mr. Shen last year..."

"Finally found a clue?" Bian Jingyu asked thoughtfully, "Look at you, could it be that the person behind the scenes is someone I know?"

Baolai nodded with a painful expression, not daring to talk nonsense, lowered his voice, and said straight to the point: "Someone recognized Miss Yunling next to Mrs. Shizi as the little lady who disguised herself as a man and hired Lai Pisan." Mrs. Shizi refers to Bian Jiayu's wife Liu Shi.

The news was unexpected.

Bian Jingyu frowned slightly and asked, "Is the news reliable?"

It's about the Liu family, how can Baolai dare to draw conclusions easily.So, he recounted the whole thing to Bian Jingyu, trying not to bring his own subjective thoughts, so that Bian Jingyu could make his own judgment.Since Shen Yi was splashed with water last year, Baolai followed Bian Jingyu's wishes and sent people to keep an eye on Lai Pisan and his gang.Although Shen Yi never encountered similar things again, Baolai did not relax.

But Lai Pisan has disappeared since then, and has never been seen. Reminiscent of Lai Pisan's frequent telling of friends that he has a relative who has gone to other places to make a fortune, he probably went to that relative after receiving the reward.Since Lai Pisan was not around, the information his cronies could provide was extremely limited, except that a young woman disguised as a man once approached Lai Pisan.Baolai guessed at that time that this little lady should be a maid in the inner courtyard.

It is very difficult for the maids in the inner courtyard to go out.

Let's take Yunling, the eldest maid of the Liu family, as an example, she who often serves her master is even more delicate than a young lady from a small family, and she has very strict rules!Even if she would go out with Liu Shi, she would often sit in the sedan chair with Liu Shi, so people outside could not easily see her face.

In the past month, Lao Zhen Guogong's health has been a little bad again.Since last year, his body has been in good and bad condition. I heard that the government of Zhen Guo has even prepared a coffin, just to give the old man a good blow.As a result, the old man survived at that time. He survived for half a year, and now he is sick again.As a granddaughter, even though Liu was married and could not serve the old Duke at his bedside, she still wanted to do her best, so she proposed to go to the Imperial Temple to pray for the old Duke.Because of the precedent of Shen Yi being awakened by the amulet that Bian Jingyu begged for, the people of Bian's family now highly respect the Imperial Temple.

It is impossible for Mrs. Liu to go out without her maid.She seemed to trust Yun Ling very much, whenever she went out, Yun Ling would be taken with her in all likelihood.

At the foot of the mountain where the Huangsi is located, Mrs. Liu got out of the carriage, and did not choose to be carried up, but decided to climb the steps by herself.Under normal circumstances, a housewife like her would disdain to show her face in public, but going to the temple to pray for the elders is different. The more you climb the mountain yourself, the more you can prove your sincerity!Naturally, Yunling also climbed along with Mrs. Liu, surrounded by more than a dozen other maids and women.

Besides, one of Lai Pi San's cronies named Chen Si, he has a lot of strength, but he is too lazy, as long as he can live on, he just recruits cats and walks dogs all day long and does nothing serious, only pretending that he really can't afford it After dinner, he will go to the foot of Huangsi Mountain to be a porter for a few days.It was just such a coincidence that Chen Si happened to see Yun Ling disguised as a man to go to Lai Pi San, and this time he saw Yun Ling accompany Liu Shi to climb the mountain.

Chen Si immediately put down his burden and quit, ran to find the people in Baolai, and exchanged this news for a few taels of silver envoys.

"Yunling...Liu family..." Bian Jingyu looked inexplicably thinking about something.He got up and said to Bao: "You have done a good job in this matter. But that's all for now. Don't interfere in eldest brother's Cheng'an courtyard. Just keep our Heng'an courtyard safe." He got up and went to find Lu. Shi.

Mrs. Lu didn't expect Bian Jingyu to come over at this time, and she was taking an aunt in the backyard to look at the fabric together.The aunt was also obedient, and when she saw Bian Jingyu coming, she quickly lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyes, and left first as soon as she bowed.Mrs. Lu called Bian Jingyu to sit in front of her, and asked, "Why did you come back so early?"

When did Bian Jingyu go out to see Shen Er and not talk about it before coming back!

Bian Jingyu ignored Mrs. Lu's joke, and waved her hand to tell all the big maids around Mrs. Lu to retreat. When only he and Mrs. Lu were left in the room, he asked seriously: "Mother, what do you think?" How about the sister-in-law? Did she do anything else to make you angry?"

Mrs. Lu gave Bian Jingyu a strange look.There is a need to avoid suspicion between Liu Shi and Bian Jingyu, they supposedly have no intersection, why did Bian Jingyu ask about Liu Shi?However, Mrs. Lu has always indulged Bian Jingyu, so she frowned and recalled, and said: "Except for the clothes she gave me when she first got married, which made me angry, I really didn't see her do anything disrespectful afterwards. After all, she is a girl raised in the Duke's mansion!"

Bian Jingyu signaled Lu Shi to say more.

Lu said: "Just because she is very measured, I also thought that the clothes should not be given by her on purpose at the beginning, and it must have been tricked by people close to her. I really thought that was what I liked. She later I probably knew that the clothes were sent by mistake, and I was a bit embarrassed when I saw me. But I can't be bothered with a young girl like her, anyway, I never care about the affairs of Cheng'an Yuan, so I just live in peace .”

Bian Jingyu said: "A few days ago, my sister-in-law gave me a piece of Yunhe inkstone. Could it be that she is showing favor to us?"

When Mrs. Liu first married into Bian's family, the gift she gave Bian Jingyu at the recognition ceremony was a set of the Four Treasures of the Study, just the most common Four Treasures of the Study. The four treasures of the study that I usually used are far from good enough, Bian Jingyu didn't need to wrong herself, she accepted Liu's favor, but shelved the gift she gave.But a few days ago was Bian Jingyu's 17th birthday, and the Liu family suddenly gave him a piece of Yunhe inkstone through Bian Jiayu's hand.This kind of inkstone is not damaged and is suitable for printing ink. It is very popular among literati and scholars, and it is a treasure among inkstones!

Yunhe inkstone is not something that can be obtained by money alone!Bian Jingyu believed that this Fang Yunhe inkstone must be a good item in the bottom of Liu's dowry.However, she took it out and gave it to him.What did Bian Jiayu say at the time?Bian Jiayu said: "Your sister-in-law said that you have the most aura when it comes to reading, and you deserve this." When he said this, his tone was very proud, and he was obviously very satisfied with his wife's attitude.

Mrs. Lu said indifferently: "She has been in this mansion for a long time, she should understand that the son is a conservative character, you and the son complement each other, and the uncle's mansion can go further, so she should not treat her poorly as a sister-in-law." Waiting for you. Oh, Auntie Sun thought that she could have some face in front of Mrs. Liu because she served Mrs. Liu, but Mrs. Liu seems to hate her very much, and doesn't like her very much, even the eldest girl."

Uncle Anping had two aunts, one surnamed Sun, who gave birth to the eldest girl, and the other surnamed Zhou, who gave birth to the second girl.Aunt Sun is the dowry maid of the original wife.Aunt Zhou was originally Uncle Anping's housekeeper, but she was brought up slowly later.Aunt Zhou was the one who accompanied Mrs. Lu to look at the fabrics just now.

Mrs. Lu said again: "If you say Mrs. Liu hates Aunt Sun because she doesn't like concubines, but she is good to Aunt Zhou and the second girl. I think it looks like Aunt Sun has done something to offend her. Some People, they are not smart by nature. This auntie Sun wanted to win over the son and me to fight in the ring, but she didn't think about her identity! Can the uncle let the son get close to the servant Yangzi? The uncle can't wait to praise the son to the sky! "

Bian Jingyu listened silently.He usually lives in Taixue, and occasionally lives at home, so he can't meet Liu Shi easily. Even at the moment of family reunion, when the men sit at the same table and the women sit at another table, he will not meet with her. Mrs. Liu has close contact, so he only has a very stereotyped impression of Mrs. Liu, who is calm and steady, and should be a daughter-in-law who can satisfy Uncle Anping and a wife who can satisfy Bian Jiayu.

From Lu Shi's words, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion that Liu Shi is not stupid, nor is he the kind of person who will act recklessly.With such a person, why did she ask her confidant to hire someone to pour water on Shen Yi?She shouldn't even have an intersection with Shen Yi!Bian Jingyu felt that he really couldn't think of a reason.

"Why did you remember to ask these questions today?" Mrs. Lu asked.

Bian Jingyu thought about it, but she didn't hide it, and told Lu Shi everything that Baolai found out.Bian Jingyu asked: "I really can't think of what sister-in-law wants to do... Is it possible that Yunling made her own decision? Could it be that Yunling is a spy who was deliberately placed in front of sister-in-law?"

"Impossible! If Mrs. Liu can't handle even a maidservant, I'll just think of her as an idiot." said Mrs. Lu.

Mrs. Liu may be cheated by her parents, she may be cheated by her cousins, but she will definitely not be cheated by a close servant girl.The deed of prostitution of Yunling's family is held in Liu's hands, and she grew up with Liu since she was a child, so she has neither the courage nor the motivation to betray Liu.

So what went wrong?

Bian Jingyu showed a slightly childish smile at Mrs. Lu.Whenever he smiled at Lu Shi like this, he was actually acting like a baby, and Lu Shi always liked him.Bian Jingyu said: "Mother, it is definitely not convenient for me to interfere with the affairs of the inner courtyard, so I will trouble you to keep an eye on it for me."

Mrs. Lu laughed triumphantly, and said: "Don't look at me, I have already given the power of housekeeping to your sister-in-law, but in this mansion, if I try to do something, she will definitely not find anything." No matter whether Mrs. Liu is For what reason did she want to take action against Shen Er, she will never have such a chance in the future.

Although Mrs. Liu is a girl from the Liu family, but she has already married into Uncle Anping's Mansion to be the eldest son's wife, so she and Uncle Anping's Mansion are both prosperous and ruined.It is not difficult to see from her showing affection to Lu Shi and Bian Jingyu that she probably has no intention of harming Bian Jingyu.Lu Shi just stared at her.

At this time, Bian Jingyu didn't know that this staring was the beginning of picking up the leak!