Chapter Forty-Three: You Know What to Do
After Xin Nianyan left Huilan Courtyard, he went to Jingxin Courtyard to comfort the old lady, and after having lunch with her, he returned to Daoyanyun Courtyard.
Not long after she came back, Chunxiang Chuncao came to see her, looking a little anxious.
"Miss, the lady is letting us pass, what should we do?" Chunxiang asked anxiously.
Xin Nianyan raised her eyebrows and said calmly: "Go if you are told to go, I won't stop you."
The two swallowed and hesitated: "But if Madam asks, what should we say?"
"Well, what is Madam asking about?" Xin Nianyan pretended to be confused.
"Just...just what happened last night." Chuncao said.
Xin Nianyan smiled harmlessly, but his eyes were particularly sharp: "Did anything happen here last night?"
The two of them trembled and shook their heads: "No."
"Nothing happened last night, we don't know anything."
"That's right, go ahead, you should know what to say." Xin Nianyan looked away and waved her hand.
"Yes, I'm retiring." Chunxiang Chuncao left.
Xiao Zhu watched their figures disappear before stepping forward and asking: "Miss, will they betray us?"
Xin Nianyan picked up the teacup, blew on it, took a sip of tea, and then said calmly: "No, even if they betrayed them, someone has to believe them."
Seeing Xin Nianyan swearing so confidently, Xiaozhu slowly felt relieved and said, "Okay."
After Chunxiang Chuncao left Yanyun Courtyard, they walked all the way to Huilan Courtyard, but the pace of the two of them was not very fast, and they even hesitated a little.
"Tell me, what should we say later?" Chuncao asked in a low voice.
Chunxiang took a deep breath: "Didn't Miss say that nothing happened to us last night? You can just say whatever you want, just refuse to admit it."
"But...will madam believe it?" Chun Cao asked again: "Moreover, our family members are still in madam's hands. If madam knows that we did what happened last night, will it implicate them?"
Chunxiang gritted her teeth: "Then what can we do? Haven't you seen clearly what happened last time? To Madam, we are just dogs that can be discarded at any time. Since we have decided to follow the eldest lady, we should follow her honestly from now on.
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"Besides, even if we don't betray the Lord and tell the madam that what happened last night was what the eldest lady asked us to do, can the madam let us go? Don't forget that we put the mouse in with our own hands."
Hearing this, Chun Cao also felt that it made sense.
"It seems that we can only think of a way to hide it for a while longer. I just hope that Madam will find out in the future so that our family will not be harmed."
Even if they walked slowly, they still arrived at Huilan Courtyard.
As soon as he entered Huilan Courtyard, he was brought to Zhang Yunhui, and Xin Rouer was also here.
Zhang Yunhui was half leaning on the bed, looking at the spring fragrance and spring grass below with a sullen face, and asked: "Do you know what happened in the ancestral hall this morning?"
The two of them lowered their heads and admitted truthfully: "I understand."
"Then you should know why I called you here." Zhang Yunhui said, looking at the two of them with sharp eyes for a while, and then continued to ask: "Did the eldest lady release the mouse last night?"
The two of them were already very nervous. When she asked this question, they quickly shook their heads and denied: "Madam, the eldest lady went to bed very early last night. We didn't see her going out, nor did we see anyone else going out in Yanyun Court.
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Zhang Yunhui narrowed her eyes and was very dissatisfied with their answer.
"Don't forget that you are the ones bought by me personally. Your lives are all given by me. If you dare to deceive me, believe it or not, I will kill you right now!"
She never thought that Chunxiang Chuncao would betray her. After all, their families were still in her hands. She threatened Chunxiang Chuncao just to make Chunxiang Chuncao take the initiative to say that Xin Nianyan set the mice.
But Chunxiang Chuncao denied it outright: "Madam, what the servants said is true. The eldest lady did not leave Yanyunyuan last night."
Zhang Yunhui fell back in anger.
Two invisible things!
Taking a deep breath, suppressing the anger in her heart, Zhang Yunhui continued: "Whether this lady is her or not, you must say it is her, do you understand?"
"This..." The two of them looked up in surprise, not expecting Zhang Yunhui to give such a direct order.
"What the hell, didn't you hear what mother said?" Xin Rou'er got impatient and shouted sternly.
The two of them quickly lowered their heads: "I understand."
Zhang Yunhui was satisfied and closed her eyes: "Well, go back, as long as you know what to do."
"Yes, I will leave this servant." Chunxiang Chuncao agreed and left Huilan Courtyard.
"Mom, is it really not Xin Nianyan who did it?" After the others left, Xin Rouer asked with a frown.
Zhang Yunhui was silent for a while and said in a gloomy voice: "There are only a few masters in this mansion. If it's not Xin Nianyan, who else can be there?"
"Is it possible that..." Xin Rouer blurted out, but finally shut up.
But Zhang Yunhui understood. Her eyes suddenly opened, filled with sinisterness, and the nails of her clenched fists almost dug into her flesh.
After a while, she said: "No matter who she is, it must be Xin Nianyan!"
If they have the ability, they will bite the dog and catch each other out themselves!
She can't suffer this loss in vain!
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Chunxiang Chuncao returned to Yanyunyuan, went directly to Xin Nianyan, and told Xin Nianyan what Zhang Yunhui had just said to them.
"Miss, what should we do?" Chuncao asked anxiously.
Xin Nianyan looked at them with a smile and said in a calm voice, "What do you want to do?"
"This..." The two looked at each other and hurriedly lowered their heads: "I don't know, slaves will do whatever the eldest lady tells us to do."
Xin Nianyan smiled with satisfaction, looked away, took a sip of hot tea and said, "In that case, you should know what to do."
The two looked at each other again, then looked at Xin Nianyan's expression, and it took them a while to react.
"The slaves know."
Xiaozhu on the side was confused. After Chunxiang and Chuncao went out, she stepped forward and asked doubtfully: "Miss, what do they know?"
The lady didn’t seem to say anything, right?
"You'll know later." Xin Nianyan had no intention of explaining.
Xiaozhu had no choice but to shut up and stop asking any more questions.
*
Before dinner, Xin Yuanwen came back from work. As soon as he entered the mansion, he was called to Huilan Courtyard by Zhang Yunhui's people.
"Father, you must make the decision for your mother."
Xin Rou'er had been in Zhang Yunhui's room all day. When she saw Xin Yuanwen coming back, she shed tears without saying a word, and started to cry every now and then.
Xin Yuanwen frowned: "What do you mean? Didn't your mother come out?"
A servant from Huilan Court came to tell him that his wife asked him to go to Huilan Court. He was still wondering, wasn't Zhang Yunhui still kneeling in the ancestral hall?
Chapter completed!