Madam Liu was also furious when she heard this. She raised her head and retorted, "I did take the silver, but wasn't it the silver you gave me to keep my mouth shut? It was you who connected the flower farmer to your family's head! Now that something's wrong, I naturally have to seek justice from you two!"
Niu Saozi originally accepted five taels of silver, but Madam Liu finally demanded two taels, promising that she would have to take the lion's share next time. She was already upset that the piece of silver she had in her mouth had flown away. She hadn't expected Madam Liu to be the kind of shameless person who would take advantage of every advantage and then let others take the fall when things went wrong. She was immediately furious.
"You shameless bastard! If you have the guts, spit out the silver! You just do dirty things behind people's backs! Everyone knows how you became the manager? Didn't you just give twenty taels to Madam Zhu?" Sister Niu pointed at Madam Liu's nose and cursed.
Madam Liu was furious. "Oh, you, the steward, are you so innocent? Wasn't it your sister-in-law who begged Madam Gui from the old lady's room? And how much money did you give to the people around Concubine Fang, and did you treat them as if they were blind?"
Nanny Zhou, who had been sitting by and watching, glanced out the window. Sister Niu's loud voice had already attracted quite a few people to peek outside.
Seeing that the time was almost right, Nanny Zhou slammed the table and stood up: "How dare you! You even dragged the old lady into this! And what about your Nanny Zhu accepting twenty taels of silver just now!"
Madam Liu's face turned ugly. Since Sister Niu's matter involved the people in the old lady's room, naturally no one dared to say anything. However, her bribe of twenty taels was not a good idea.
Sister Niu sneered, "Everyone in the courtyard knows that the night before you announced the candidate for the Foreign Affairs Nanny, Nanny Liu gave Nanny Zhu twenty taels of silver so that she could follow Fifth Sister's lead and get the job."
Nanny Zhou's face changed. "How dare you bring Fifth Sister into this! The selection of the person in charge of foreign affairs was decided by the Master and the Madam the previous afternoon. What does this have to do with Fifth Sister?"
Aunt Liu was stunned when she heard this and asked in astonishment, "Did you discuss it this afternoon?"
Seeing Aunt Liu's expression, Sister Niu immediately understood something and couldn't help but smile with her hands covering her mouth in gloating delight: "Now I finally understand what it means to be of the same mind!"
Madam Liu's face turned ashen.
Nanny Zhou was also very angry. She ordered the maid to call Nanny Zhu over, then she lifted the curtain and left the ear room to report today's events to Li in the main room.
After Ma Zhou came back from Li's main house, Ma Zhu had already arrived. After a confrontation, Ma Zhu's plan to cheat Ma Liu out of twenty taels of silver by using the information she heard from the fifth sister was completely exposed.
However, Sister Niu and Madam Liu did not end up well for accepting bribes.
Before the specific treatment of these three people was decided, the third master Ren Shimin became angry because he found that the dozen or so pots of dying Clivia did not die of disease, but were scalded to death by someone pouring hot water on their roots.
The Third Master was a refined man, and this "killing of flowers" was something he found extremely intolerable. He immediately ordered Li to conduct a thorough investigation.
The investigation led to the discovery of Nanny Wei.
It turned out that Madam Wei had been brooding over Madam Liu's replacement as the Foreign Affairs Madam. She was also furious when she learned from Sister Niu that Madam Liu had made a killing on her assignment. So, at night, she drowned all the Clivia plants Madam Liu had bought.
When the Third Master learned about it, he immediately ordered that Wei Ma be caned fifty times and expelled from the Ren family. When the Fifth Sister learned about it, she hurried over to the Third Master to plead for mercy, and finally saved Wei Ma's life.
However, things happened to several other maids at the same time, and the third master became impatient. He asked Li to clear out everyone in the yard and drive out those who were not presentable so that they would not get in his way.
Although Li Shi also made a few remarks, she was still happy in her heart, because all these people were brought in by Concubine Fang. This chapter has been read (please click on the next chapter to continue reading!)
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