Chapter 287: Following the Vine to Find the Melon

Mrs. Cheng was a little hexed, but after a short while, she regained her composure and instructed the maid beside her, “Have the housekeeper gather everyone to the front yard!” After saying that, she stared at the maid for a moment, and then whirled around to turn to Cheng Xiaoyun, who was following her, “Go and give the order! Call all the people over, to the flower name thingy, not a single one should be missing!”

Cheng Xiaoyun immediately lifted her skirt and left.

Mrs. Cheng looked down at Zhao Su before she remembered, “Miss Su, sit inside!”

As soon as the words fell, there were noises coming from the other side of the room, a few grannies escorted a terrified looking maid, and when they arrived, the grannies said, “Mrs. Cheng, the person has been arrested! This little hoof even wanted to run away!”

The maid was pushed and shoved to the ground, she still wanted to run, Zhao Su stretched out her feet to block her way: “Where are you going?”

Mrs. Cheng also came up, first swept a slap down: “You white-eyed wolf! ……”

Before she finished her sentence, she didn’t catch her breath, and immediately rolled her eyes and fell back!

Zhao Su was startled, and hurriedly held her up, the servants on all sides followed and surrounded her, but their reaction was much calmer, two of them looked like the sisters beside Mrs. Cheng, one side of them took over and held her up, one side of them ordered people to get medicine!

The courtyard was in chaos for a while, Mrs. Cheng collapsed in the arms of the sisters, panting like a bellows, but someone quickly and neatly brought medicine and fed it to Mrs. Cheng, and in a short while, her breath gradually stabilized, and then she was helped by the sisters to sit down on the chairs that were brought to her.

Zhao Su was worried about her body, went up to inquire.

The corners of Mrs. Cheng’s eyes were wet, and she choked up: “I’m sorry to make you laugh, but I’ve been negligent in my house since I fell ill. These years of effort to take care of, is for fear of leakage, I did not expect or accident, I counted a thousand times, just did not count is the family out of the mole! It is my uselessness, the children are all to the disaster!”

Zhao Su in the original before coming is also some dark blame Cheng family governance is not strict, see at this time Mrs. Cheng, but she did not know what else to say. Ancient family house, internal affairs are managed by the mother of the house, do not look at some of the daily chores, but can not manage, there is pressure.

Cheng family accident after accident, Mrs. Cheng must be self-blame, but she is sick, let a person exploited, what can be done?

“Mother!”

At this time, a pale young girl came in from outside the crowd, slightly resembling Cheng Xiaoru. When she arrived, she fell on Mrs. Cheng’s knees, “It’s my daughter who is unfilial!”

Needless to say, this must be Cheng Zhuyun.

Zhao Su turned to the other side and stared coldly at Ju Ying on the ground.

Ju Ying Thurso.

“What are you hiding for?” Zhao Su walked forward, “Who ordered you to betray your master?”

“I, I don’t know what you’re talking about? ……”

“You don’t know? If you don’t know, give me a beating!” Mrs. Cheng became angry and pointed at Ju Ying, “Beat her to death, let her know the consequences of betraying her master!”

Immediately, someone dragged a stick to the side, swung it up high, and then dropped it down heavily. Ju Ying’s screams rose in waves.

Zhao Su had never seen such a gruesome scene, but at the moment, she had no feeling of intolerance in her heart.

Seven or eight big stick hit down, Ju Ying screams gradually weak, finally she raised an arm, Mrs. Cheng waved her hand to stop, walked to her: “willing to confess?”

Ju Ying jerked and raised her face: “Mrs. mercy, slave girl, slave girl is coerced!”

“Coerced by whom?”

“I don’t know him either. That day, the second girl’s order slave girl went out to fetch a hairpin from the jade store, and accidentally touched and broke a bracelet of the customer next to her, claiming that the bracelet was worth hundreds of taels of silver.

“The slave girl was so scared that she cried and passed out, and then a merchant-like person came to the rescue of the slave girl and told her that the bracelet was not worth the price, and was only worth a few tens of taels of silver. But dozens of taels of silver slave girl can not come out, the merchant for me to pay for the compensation.

“Later ……”

Mrs. Cheng chest violently undulate, looked around the subordinates, waved his hand to let people all bring down. Then in the empty courtyard glared at Ju Ying: “Later how? Speak up!”

“Then he told the slave girl where he lives, said the slave girl looks like his sister, let the slave girl have something to go to him.”

“And then you went?”

Ju Ying nodded with a shaky voice: “I didn’t go out for some days, but then one day, when I was on my way back from incense with the girl, I saw him across the street looking this way. After all, he was my benefactor, so I thought he had something for me, so I went to find him again. He told me that he had fallen in love with our girl and asked me to introduce him.

“I said that our girl was already married and that this was not a good move. He was very persuasive and said he would never do anything rude, but just wanted to get close and say a few words, and also mentioned the dozens of taels of silver that he had paid for me that day, so I couldn’t help but agree with him.

“That day I knew that the girl was going to respond to the invitation of several Tang girls to swim in the lake, so I informed him. He gave me some money, in order to get this done, I told Tiesheng to go and get some masked sweat medicine, thinking that the girl would finish her tea and find a secluded place to take a nap, so that he could have a good look at it. Who knew that later–”

Ju Ying said here and cried.

Mrs. Cheng is going to be sick again, where to allow her to cry? She slapped her and said, “Help the girl inside! You continue! Where’s that lecherous thief?

The people next to her went away. Ju Ying cried: “The slave girl guarded the girl to go ashore to toilet, rested under the corridor, everything went well. But just as I was waiting for the man to come, the man came, but called me to the side and told me that he thought about it, but he still couldn’t do such shady things, that he wanted to be honorable and whatnot, I was actually relieved to hear him say that he was going to leave the capital, so I talked to him a little more, and I didn’t think that by the time I got back to the girl’s body, the girl would already be- ”

The courtyard fell into silence, with only the sound of Mrs. Cheng’s gasps. Her eyes that were still furious earlier had now revealed shock and disbelief. Zhao Su’s gaze was also firmly fixed on Ju Ying’s face for fear of missing a single piece of information, “Are you saying that the one who laid hands on the second girl was not this person?”

“It wasn’t him!”

“Then he leased a boat with someone that night?”

“Yes.”

“What was his name?”

“I don’t know, I only know that people around him call him Third Master.”

“What does he look like? Which boat did he lease? How many of them were there that night? Also, the man who hurt the second girl, did you see him?”

“He, in his twenties, leased a boat near the Tang family’s one, I don’t know exactly which one. Anyway, when I disembarked with the girl, I broke a willow branch as a mark, and he could certainly see it from the boat.

“Because folding willow branches as a mark is what he explained to me. How many of them there were I wasn’t sure, and didn’t ask that much. As for the person who hurt the second girl-the lecherous thief was gone by the time I got there.”

“How can you prove that what you say is true? And not to harbor that person?”