Yuan Zhixi was arranging dinner, and she had to go to Weng Hui's yard to take a look. It had been a long time since she stopped, so it seemed that she had not put it in the wrong place.

After arriving, I heard that a pair of jade bracelets belonging to Weng Hui were missing, and the last person to enter Weng Hui's yard alone was Shu Xin.

They had to invite Shuxin again. It turned out that Weng Hui twisted her ankle when she and Erye were strolling in the garden alone. Erye helped Weng Hui walk back and met Shuxin. Weng Hui asked Shuxin's maid to find a servant and arrange a rattan chair to carry her back.

She then explained that she was in severe pain and had some muscle-strengthening ointment in her yard, asking Shuxin to go get it. She asked Erye to accompany her and wait on a stone bench. Erye nodded to all of Weng Hui's arrangements, and Shuxin had no choice but to comply.

Shu Xin said that she entered Weng Hui's yard, took the Shujin Jiantong ointment from the table and left, without taking anything else.

Weng Hui's maid said this was not true. No one else was in the courtyard when Aunt Shu came in and left, so no one could prove whether she had taken it or not. However, the servants had just returned from the roll call in the mistress's courtyard, and many people saw her coming out from outside the courtyard.

Yuan Zhixi glanced at the girl.

Weng Hui began to cry. The bracelet was a token of love given to her by the Second Master. She must not throw it away. It was the love of her heart.

Finally, the noisy Second Master Mei Xuanqi also came. Originally, Yuan Zhixi's arrangement was to place the Second Master's yard close to Weng Hui's yard.

After he sent Weng Hui back, he went to his own yard. Now, after hearing this, he turned around and looked at Shu Xin.

The Second Master said, "Since he didn't take it, checking it will prove his innocence."

After hearing this, Weng Hui asked her maid to take the servants of Meiyuan to search Shuxin's yard. When they came back, they said that nothing was found.

Weng Hui added, "With such a short time, I'm sure even if I took it, I wouldn't be able to get rid of it in time."

This means that the pair of bracelets are still on Shuxin.

Everyone was silent for a moment. Weng Hui said again, "Let my maid take Aunt Shu to my room to change clothes."

Shuxin was asked to take off all her clothes and let her maid search her body and clothes.

Even if nothing was found, Shu Xin's reputation would be humiliated. She couldn't even hold her head up in front of Weng Hui, not to mention her maid.

Yuan Zhixi said, "If the bracelet is on you, girl, wouldn't it be easy to frame you once you enter the house?"

Weng Hui said, "Since that's the case, why not ask the mistress's maid to go in and watch over it together?"

Wouldn't this make Shuxin even more embarrassed? Two girls watching?

Yuan Zhixi glanced at Weng Hui's maid and said, "My maid wouldn't dare treat her like this. Since your maid has such intentions, why not prove she's innocent first?"

My maid will accompany your servant into the house first and help her change her clothes?"

Yuan Zhixi continued, "There are two sides to every story; there are those who cry thief and stop thief. If Aunt Weng had put the bracelet on me, wouldn't that be uncertain?"

If you want to be fair, treat Aunt Weng the same way you treat Aunt Shu.

If you can really find it, it would be a good idea. I lost a hairpin the other day, and I can use this method to look for it when I return to the main house."

Weng Hui usually saw that Yuan Zhixi and Shu Xin were not close, and they didn't even have much contact with each other, but unexpectedly, she suddenly stood up for Shu Xin.

He thought to himself that he had the best chance of winning in Meiyuan. If he returned to the main house, Yuan Zhixi would have half of the housekeeping power, and the old lady always supported the two legitimate wives.

She then looked at Mei Xuanqi with grievance, "Master, it's my fault that I lost something. Do I have to swallow my anger and accept everything from now on? Do I have to take responsibility for whatever I lost?"

Mei Xuanqi looked at Yuan Zhixi and said, "How dare you threaten someone in front of me? Just because someone's bracelet is missing, your hairpin is missing too?"

Yuan Zhixi said, "That hairpin is indeed missing. I had been patient and submissive, intending to own up to the loss of the hairpin. However, it's hard to say whether Aunt Weng's bracelet is truly missing."

Mei Xuanqi said, "You're still accepting it?! For every word Weng Hui says, you have ten words to say back. Even my words can't suppress yours."

Yuan Zhixi said, "How could Aunt Weng be so submissive? Wasn't it me who endured it all along the way?"

Mei Xuanqi has always been soft-hearted and would never tolerate anyone openly contradicting him, even if the person was telling the truth.

Shu Xin had served him for many years and immediately realized that the Second Master was really angry. She didn't want Yuan Zhixi to suffer because of protecting her, so in a panic she spoke without thinking.

Shu Xin knelt down before the Second Master and said, "Master, how do you want me to prove my innocence? Can I also be sliced ​​and seen?"

There was dead silence.

After hearing this, Mr. Mei was so angry that the veins on his forehead bulged.

In this dead silence, a clear and tender child's voice timidly sounded: "Father, mother, and two aunts, you can go to dinner now."

Everyone turned around and saw a group of children hiding behind the door. Only Mei Yinhua, who had just been pushed out to talk, did not have time to hide.