Chapter 174: While the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman benefits?
Qiu Shui looked at the words on the note and remembered that when he was being affectionate with Jiang Si during the day, he said that the uncle had something important to tell him and he just had to wait for his news.
It seems that the servant was sent by Jiang Si.
The Xu family's villa is crowded with people and eyes, so it is definitely not a place to discuss things. Even in one's own room, it is too risky.
Qiu Shui calmed down and immediately stuffed the note into the candlelight.
The paper ashes fell, and the candlelight illuminated her flickering eyes.
When she was young, Qiu Shui was begging on the street. It was Wenchangbo who gave her a meal and saved her life.
It was Jiang Si who again asked a doctor to take care of her and arranged for her to be on the way back home from the eldest daughter of the Xu family, so that the eldest daughter could buy her to a villa.
Xu Susu, the eldest daughter of the Xu family, was raised with great care by her father and brother. She is a kind and simple girl. Although she is very knowledgeable in business and accounting, she is a complete blank in terms of emotions.
Perhaps in her heart, she has never thought that a lot of malice in the world is unreasonable.
The reason why Wenchang Bo was able to win her heart was because she was the one who passed on the message and told the Bo Bo her likes and dislikes.
It was also because of me that I created the opportunity for Wenchang Bo to be alone with the eldest lady, which led to her getting pregnant before marriage.
However, after the eldest daughter of the Xu family married the Earl of Wenchang, she was not taken to the Earl's mansion, so the Earl had no plans for her.
Apart from the time seven years ago when the uncle asked her what other men the eldest lady had been in close contact with before she married into the uncle's house, only Jiang Si in the uncle's house would occasionally contact her.
In a flash, eighteen years have passed.
Over the years, Mr. Xu has treated her very well, almost like his own daughter.
I will help my uncle one last time to repay his kindness.
Night falls quickly.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Qiu Shui put on a dark cloak, covering most of his face.
Before going out, she straightened her clothes in front of the bronze mirror, changed her lip balm to a brighter color, and couldn't help but touch the green jade hairpin on her temples.
This was the gift Jiang Si gave her during the day.
Jiang Si said that this jade hairpin suited her very well, and he took it as a token of his love. After this, he would free her from slavery and marry her.
Qiu Shui was a little scared, wondering if the note was a trap.
But then she thought again, Mr. Xu trusted her very much, and she had worked diligently in the Xu family over the years.
Even if Xie Yao suspected her, she had no evidence, and Princess Jingbei had already left the villa.
Qiu Shui felt relieved and took advantage of the night to cross several streets and soon arrived at the back door of Bo's house.
She knocked gently on the door.
The doorman poked his head out, frowned, and asked, "Who are you, and what are you doing here at the Wenchang Earl's Mansion in the middle of the night?"
Qiu Shui lowered his voice: "I'm looking for Guardian Jiang."
The concierge raised an eyebrow, looked her up and down, and said jokingly, "Oh, it's another woman looking for Jiang Si. She's quite beautiful."
Qiu Shui's heart skipped a beat. She and Jiang Si sometimes didn't see each other for a year or two, and their meetings were always in inns outside. This was her first time to come to the uncle's house to see him.
"Again? Are there often women coming to see him?" she asked in a trembling voice.
"Not often..."
The doorman looked at Qiu Shui's expression and deliberately prolonged his tone: "They are all young maids from the Bo family, only about three or five."
Qiu Shui's face turned pale.
The doorman sneered, "He went to the clinic to change his medicine in the evening and hasn't come back yet. What do you want from him? Why don't you go to his room and wait?"
Hearing this, Qiu Shui had no time to feel sad, his heart was beating wildly.
Jiang Si went to change the medicine. Who sent the note?
"Why, don't you want to come in and wait?"
Amid the doorman's teasing voice, Qiu Shui bowed and turned to leave.
She had already realized in her heart that she had been tricked!
The cold night wind blew into Qiu Shui's collar, making him shiver all over and he couldn't help but quicken his pace.
Finally, she returned to the Xu family villa.
After sneaking back to the backyard through the back door and pushing open the door, Qiu Shui stopped.
I saw Mr. Xu standing on the steps, his face ashen and his brows furrowed.
A group of servants held torches, lighting up the yard as bright as day.
Beside Mr. Xu, Princess Xie Yao of Jingbei, who had left the villa long ago, came back with a hand warmer in her bare hands and a look as cold as ice.
But this is not what makes Qiu Shui most nervous.
Beside Xie Yao, a woman in a green cloud cloak was staring at her coldly!
This woman was her former master, the eldest daughter of the Xu family, Xu Susu, whom she had not seen for many years!
The mother and daughter look different, but their eyes at this moment are equally cold and sinister!
"Qiu Shui, who did you go out to meet in the middle of the night?"
Mr. Xu's voice was filled with anger and his eyes were full of disappointment.
Qiu Shui's legs went limp and he fell to his knees, his back soaked with cold sweat.
"Your servant, I just felt stuffy in the room, so I went out for some fresh air. I didn't go to see anyone."
"Really?" Xie Yao slowly walked down the steps and stopped in front of her. He glanced at her face and said sarcastically, "You have to wear a shameful cloak to breathe, and even paint your eyebrows and put on makeup?"
Qiu Shui's face was already pale and bloodless. Just as she was about to explain, Xu Susu walked straight up to her, lifted the hood of her cloak, and without waiting for her to react, she slapped her hard in the face with a "slap"!
The slap was so powerful that Qiu Shui's head tilted to the side. Blood instantly flowed from the corner of his mouth and his cheek was burning with pain.
She was stunned and looked up at Xu Susu with disbelief in her eyes.
The eldest daughter in the past was the most generous and kind-hearted. She even discovered that a maid secretly took her jewelry to sell. When she learned that the maid was buying medicine for her granddaughter, she just laughed it off and said that she had plenty of money.
Everyone in the Xu family is grateful for the eldest lady's kindness.
Xu Susu stared at her, her hands trembling slightly, not because of fear, but because of anger.
"I bought you from the street, taught you to read, and gave you respect, not to help others scheme against my father and my daughter!"
A young man in shorts came out from among the servants.
"Master, I was ordered by the princess to keep an eye on Qiu Shui tonight. I saw her go to the back door of the Wenchang Marquis's mansion with my own eyes."
Qiu Shui recognized this young man and his eyes widened: "Awu?"
"Not only that, she also told the doorman of Bo's Mansion that she was here to look for Jiang Si, the chief of the guards at Bo's Mansion." A clear voice sounded.
Bai Xi flashed out from behind Xie Yao, dressed in tight clothes, lightly pressing his sword, his handsome face had a half-smile on it, and a pair of dimples appeared on his cheeks.
Qiu Shui fell into complete despair because she recognized the voice as the servant who delivered the note to her during the day!
It turns out that the note was meant to lure the snake out of its hole, and everything was Xie Yao's plan.
She knew that she was deeply trusted by Mr. Xu, so she set a trap and got caught in front of Mr. Xu.
"Okay," Old Master Xu pointed at Qiu Shui, his voice trembling, "I treat you like my own daughter. Don't you know the relationship between the Xie family and my Xu family? How dare you work for Earl Wenchang?"
Xu Susu smiled coldly, but her tone calmed down: "Come here, give this traitorous slave fifty lashes and send him away from the mansion."
Qiu Shui finally broke down, crying and begging for mercy, "I dare not...I did not dare. I did go to the Wenchang Marquis's residence, but I only went to see Jiang Si. I would never dare to betray the Xu family."
One was a maid who had been in charge of the other courtyard for more than ten years, and the other was the real eldest daughter of the Xu family. When the servants heard what Xu Susu said, they immediately reacted and stepped forward to hold her down.
Xie Yao looked down at Qiu Shui, her voice flat but with a biting chill.
"As someone from the Xu family's branch, why did you go to see Jiang Si? Did you want to be affectionate with him again like you did during the day? Or did you want to tell him how to take care of Grandfather's health? Unfortunately, Jiang Si went to the clinic to change the medicine tonight and didn't see you, so you made a wasted trip."
Qiu Shui suddenly raised her head, her eyes full of horror. Princess Jingbei actually knew about her and Jiang Si?
Butler Yu, who was standing beside her, also walked over to her and sighed.
"Qiu Shui, don't hide it anymore. When Jiang Si came to the villa today, I felt that the way he looked at you was not right. Now I understand what happened. You thought you did it perfectly, but the eldest lady and the princess have been keeping an eye on you for a long time!"
"No wonder Jiang Si deliberately held me tightly before leaving, asking about the master's health. He must be trying to murder the master and put the blame on me."
Xie Yao looked at Butler Yu, a hint of understanding flashing in her eyes.
Butler Yu was just a scapegoat designed by Qiu Shui and Jiang Si.
In her previous life, my mother had never separated from Xie Ming'an, and Awu was still my uncle's bodyguard.
My grandfather passed away suddenly. If Qiu Shui, the head maid of the other courtyard, came forward and identified the housekeeper Yu as the murderer, it would inevitably implicate A Wu, and then make the Xu family suspect my uncle.
When the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman benefits.
Since my uncle was framed, Wenchang Bo can take over the Xu family's property as a son-in-law!
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