The handkerchief in Yang's hand was wet with sweat, her facial expression was a little strained, and her lips were slightly pale.
She looked at Yu Jiao standing beside Madam Liu, talking to people with a smile on her face. She had an elegant and graceful demeanor, and her natural bearing was a natural gift that must have come from a noble family.
Both she and the master were too short-sighted that day. The image of Yu Jiao, who was neither humble nor arrogant, but calm and composed when she was seeing patients at the Yang family, emerged in Yang's mind. Yang felt very regretful. How could a country family raise such a girl? Yan Jie'er had been well brought up by them since she was a child, and they even invited famous masters to teach her needlework, but her cultivation was not even as good as that of a country girl. Why didn't she think deeply about it at that time?
After Madam Liu took Yu Jiao to meet the female guests, the banquet came to an end and the guests all stood up to leave. The same thing happened in the flower hall.
Yu Jiao took the opportunity to walk over to Chen Wan and spoke to her in a low voice.
"Miss Shen, I have something I would like you to find out for me."
Chen Wan and Yu Jiao walked to the side and stood under a hazelnut tree, avoiding the crowd. She asked curiously, "What's the matter?"
Yu Jiao looked at the ladies chatting and laughing not far away, and said softly, "I know you are good friends with Miss Yang Jiyan of the Yang family. Can you help me find out whether the two maids who served her personally before were really beaten to death because of making mistakes?" Yu Jiao emphasized the words a little, "If they were really beaten to death, please help me find out where their bodies were thrown."
Ever since Chen Guan and Yang Jiyan had a rift over Yu Qizhe's matter, they have rarely met each other. Yang Jiyan has never taken the initiative to look for her in the mansion, and Chen Guan has a bad impression of Yang Jiyan's willful mischief. Suddenly, she understood what she really is like and was reluctant to have a close relationship with her anymore.
When she heard Yu Jiao asking her to inquire about Yang Jiyan's personal maid, Chen Wan said, "You know Yan Jie'er's personal maid? Okay, I'll go to Yang's house tomorrow."
Chen Guan remembered that Yan Jie'er was very good to the maids around her. On the day when the Yang family moved into the original Yang Mansion in Beijing, she and Yan Jie'er were swinging on the swings in the garden. Yan Jie'er said that she felt sorry for the maids who followed them to the capital, and didn't know when they could return to Qingzhou, so she let her personal maid go home to see her parents.
That day, she also reminded Yan Jie'er not to be too kind to the servants. Some servants who bully the good and fear the evil, and who pretend to obey but actually disobey, will be spoiled by their masters' soft nature and easy to bully, and will deceive their superiors and subordinates in an unruly manner.
Given Yan Jie'er's kind attitude towards servants, she wouldn't beat her personal maid to death just because she made a mistake.
"The two maids are sisters. The elder one is Chunhong and the younger one is Daibi." Although Daibi did not have time to work for Yu Jiao, it was two lives after all, and Yu Jiao still cared about it. She had promised Daibi to redeem them, but now it was too late. She could only ask Chen Wan to find out where the sisters were thrown in the mass grave. Burying the bodies of the two sisters so that they would not be left without a place to be buried after death would be considered as fulfilling the promise of not helping to redeem them.
When Chen Guan heard the names, she was stunned. She remembered the names of the two maids. The reason she remembered them was because the names of the two sisters were very antithetical, one was about red flowers all over the fields in spring, and the other was about green fields all over the ground.
Although she only heard Sister Yan say it once at Yang's residence that day, Chen Guan never forgot it.
"Sister Yan was very kind to these two maids. I remember Chunhong followed Sister Yan to Beijing. Daibi said she wanted to go home to see her parents, so Sister Yan let her go home and asked her to come to Beijing later." Chen Wan was not speaking well of Yang Jiyan, but just based on what she saw. "I also heard Sister Yan say that she asked Chunhong to go to the post station to see if there was any letter from her sister. She was very lenient to these two maids. She would not beat them to death for making a mistake. Where did you hear this news?"
Yu Jiao pursed her lips, "Yang Jiyan told me that herself." She looked at Chen Wan and sneered, "She told you that Dai Bi didn't go to Beijing with her because she was going home to see her parents?"
Shen Wan nodded.
"Daibi didn't go to Beijing with her because Yang Jiyan asked her to go to Danzhou to pay money to bribe bandits who wanted to kill me. Later, when I caught Daibi, she told the truth." Yu Jiao explained slowly, "Later, I asked Daibi to return to Beijing and told her that she had succeeded. You may not believe these things, but what I said is all true."
Shen Guan could not hide her surprise, but seeing that Yu Jiao looked calm, she had to believe what Yu Jiao said.
She was a little stunned and found it hard to accept for a while.
Yu Jiao continued, "Not long ago, I ran into Yang Jiyan in a teahouse on Chang'an Street. She said that Daibi and Chunhong were beaten to death by her. She even turned the tables and said that Daibi went behind her master's back to kill someone and wanted to frame her. Such a vicious maid should be beaten to death."
Based on Yu Jiao's description, Chen Guan could even imagine the arrogant look on Yan Jie'er's face when she said these words. It was just that her mother and Madam Yang were close friends, and she and Yan Jie'er were playmates in childhood. They had been exchanging letters over the years. She had been to Qingzhou several times, and every time she would go to the Yang Mansion to pay a visit to Aunt Yang. Such a relationship made Chen Guan emotionally biased towards Yang Jiyan.
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