Chapter 33: Be on Guard
"Miss, Miss, it's bad. I heard that the master no longer blames the lady."
"Tell me, how could the master let the lady off so easily?"
The intrusion of an outsider was no small matter. She had thought that the Madam's power as head of the household was about to be lost. Furthermore, she had even hit the master, and he hadn't even taken it to heart?
Is the master so generous?
However, after she talked for a long time, the lady remained silent.
"Miss, why are you so calm? Could it be that you already knew about this?"
But that's not right. The young lady has been staying in the yard for the past two days and has not gone anywhere. She is the only person in the yard who can find out the news. How did she know?
Lin Qingjun smiled and handed over a cup of tea.
"Don't worry, come, drink some water and breathe easy."
"I didn't go to get any information, but I had expected this result."
Based on her understanding of them in two lifetimes, a mere broken brush could not do anything to them.
Even if a foreign man broke in, as long as they didn't catch the "foreign man", it would be a fabricated story and they could just deny it.
Moreover, her good father Lin Zhi would not allow such a thing to happen in his backyard. He got angry when he first found out about it, but after calming down, he understood what to do to be beneficial.
Let's take a step back and say that even if this matter is true, Lin Zhi will find a way to make it look fake. He cannot afford to lose face, and the reputation of the Lin family cannot afford to lose either. Therefore, in the end, this matter will only be covered up because there is no evidence, and they can push a few servants out to make up a story that accidentally fell there.
Xiao Tao felt very sorry, "But, wouldn't that be too easy for them?"
Lin Qingjun shook his head. "How could it be so easy? Didn't Lin Yingxue get slapped? Didn't Qi Shi get scolded by her father?"
As for Xiao Yuan, all the recent events in the Lin Mansion were related to Xiao Yuan. Even if Lin Zhi likes this student very much, he will probably stay away from him in the future. Xiao Yuan wants to start from the Lin Mansion again and make Lin Zhi his support, but I'm afraid it won't be possible.
This is the most important thing.
In a few days, the prince's concubine selection banquet will be held, and a tutor named Wen will come back from the manor. In the previous life, his father learned about this and secretly arranged for Xiao Yuan to meet with Tutor Wen. As long as he gets Tutor Wen's guidance, Xiao Yuan will benefit for the rest of his life. In addition, with some connections with Tutor Wen, Xiao Yuan also ranks among the many students in the capital and makes a name for himself. This is also his first and important step in his official career.
Thinking of this, the corners of her lips curled up. She wanted to see how he would meet Master Wen and how he would take this step without Lin Zhi's introduction in this life.
However, whether the aunt can come out of Jianjia Courtyard now depends on today.
At this time, Jianjia Courtyard.
Qi sat down angrily and slapped the table.
"This Lin Qingjun is such a nuisance! He caused me to have to punish two servants."
What's even more infuriating is that just for a broken brush, she lost two of her slaves. Slaves are a small matter, but her face is a big matter. She was forced by the concubine to sacrifice two slaves. How could she swallow this?
The outsider broke in to give an explanation to the master. This brush was indeed Xiao Yuan's, but how to get the brush away from them would require a few scapegoats.
Find a servant in the front hall and ask him to carry the pen, which he had picked up and accidentally dropped when passing by the Snow Courtyard.
Then he went to find the cleaning lady of Xueyuan and told her that she had not cleaned up in time, which led to Lin Qingjun accidentally picking it up, which caused such a big misunderstanding.
In this way, the matter was finally exposed.
"...By the way, where is Yingxue now?"
Madam Qi replied, "The young lady has gone to look for Madam Qi's birthday gift."
When Qi heard this, she felt better.
"After all, my love for her was not in vain. I even knew to find a birthday gift for her maternal grandfather."
He is a good boy.
But when it comes to birthday gifts, she thinks of the eight hundred taels of orchids, and she feels distressed. She can't help but curse Lin Zhi as a bastard. That's eight hundred taels. Does he think it's easy for her to earn it?
"He was so good, he just stretched out his hand to ask me for money, but he didn't mention how to weigh it."
Shops and restaurants were the same as his career in officialdom, they all needed to be managed from top to bottom. Don't really think that her fourth-rank mansion was high-ranking. Any shop outside that could sell out was either second-rank or third-rank, and there were even some from major marquisates, princes' families, and even imperial concubines in the palace.
Their shop in the Lin Mansion is nothing, and they have only been in Shangjing for a dozen years. How can their foundation be as solid as that of the old brand?
Furthermore, Lin Zhi kept talking about rules and etiquette, but could these rules and etiquette really be used to make a living? And yet, not only did he not offer any help, he even accused her of being incompetent in managing the household.
"Mammy, tell me, what kind of man did I marry? If I had known this would happen, I would have exchanged my marriage with my sister and married her to a seventh-rank official stationed in a distant place."
"Look at the life my sister is living now. She is the only woman in the backyard. She wanted to take a concubine for her husband, but her brother-in-law refused and even made a scene several times."
Moreover, the brother-in-law of the seventh-rank official now only lives in that county town. The people below respectfully call her the county lady. She is like the king of that place and can live as happily as she wants.
What about her?
Humph, a concubine who is more beautiful than her, a concubine who is more beautiful than her daughter, and a husband who never knows how to care for her. Her life is so miserable, with all the calculations, it is as difficult as it can be.
"By the way, where's Madam Liu? Why hasn't she brought any summer socks yet?"
She is in a bad mood, so the man surnamed Liu can't have an easy time either.
At this moment, the servant came hurriedly to report.
It was said that the master met Concubine Liu in the yard and asked her to return to Qijunyuan to avoid punishment.
What?
Qi stood up suddenly, her face pale and incredulous. She grabbed the servant who had reported back and demanded, "Tell me, what on earth is going on? How could she have met the master out of nowhere?"
She was on high alert.
Concubine Liu was specially placed in a shabby little house in the yard, where she was asked to embroider all day long. She even withheld her three meals a day in order to torture her and prevent the master from seeing her.
Apart from anything else, the way this Liu Jianzi embroidered things was really pitiful. Not to mention the master, even she would feel a little distressed when she saw it.
So, what went wrong?
The little servant was so frightened that she trembled and stammered, "Madam, didn't you ask Concubine Liu to get the embroidery thread?"
After Concubine Liu left the courtyard, she turned two corners and happened to meet the master who was about to leave the house.
Bu.
Qi spat out a mouthful of blood.
In other words, she personally sent that bitch back to the master?
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