The Rebirth of the Firstborn Daughter: The Head of the Family

Chapter 231
Unexpectedly, despite all precautions, something went wrong.

The raging fire in front of us dyed half the sky in the west red.

The fire burned for a full hour, but fortunately everyone put out the rescue in time, the fire only burned Song Jinxi's courtyard, and the courtyards on both sides were slightly damaged.

This fire started extremely strangely.

Except for the disappearance of Mrs. Shen, there were no casualties.

When Song Guogong heard about this, his brows were furrowed, and he asked Guanshi Song to find out the matter.

"Second Miss, why don't you go back and rest first? Over there at the government—"

Steward Song stood behind the second lady, and was interrupted by the second lady in the middle of his sentence.

"Song Guanshi, there is no need to report to the officials. Who is on duty in this yard today? I found them together. I have something to ask."

Qiu Yun was moving a chair from another place to put it down, and helped her own lady to do it.

Ming Zhuxuan left Nanny Tian and Jiaoming to watch over it, and the rest of the people came here naturally.

Song Guanshi agreed and withdrew.

In Song Jinxi's yard, apart from the tables and chairs, she would not have kept anything valuable here, after all, she is now in the Fifth Prince's Mansion.

Not long after, Song Guanshi brought a woman and three maidservants.

These people were originally responsible for some cleaning work here, after all, the women and maids in front of Song Jinxi were all taken out of the house to be married.

The rest of these are things that Song Jinxi doesn't like very much on weekdays.

The woman's surname is Xu, and the three maidservants are Xiaochan, Xiaocui, and Xiaowu.

"Where were you all before the fire?"

Song Jinyue stared at the people kneeling on the ground and asked.

The three maidservants knelt behind the old woman, their bodies trembling non-stop.

Only the old woman was a little better, she boldly raised her head, looked at the second young lady, and replied: "Back to the second young lady, the eldest lady left a table of rice noodles, saying that it was for the rest of us, when the fire broke out, we They all eat in the kitchen."

"Oh? What about Mrs. Shen?" Song Jinyue asked, looking at Nanny Xu.

Mother Xu moved her eyeballs, thought for a while, and then replied: "Madam Shen didn't want to eat with us, so she didn't go, but the old slave locked the doors of the courtyard and the room before leaving. "

Song Jinyue looked at Guanshi Song, who hurriedly bowed and replied, "Second Miss, when the fire happened just now, the courtyard door and the door to the room were locked."

Speaking of which, Guanshi Song found two copper locks from the dilapidated door of the house that had already been burned.

"Then when you went to eat, did anything strange happen?"

Song Jinyue was half-truthful about Xu Nanny's words.

Nanny Xu thought about it carefully, but there was still no useful information in her mind.

She shook her head helplessly, "Second Miss, nothing strange happened here."

Song Jinyue stared at Nanny Xu without making a sound. Seeing that Nanny Xu was still open-minded, she waved her hand to signal them to back down.

The dilapidated courtyard in front of her made Song Jinyue seem to think of something. Looking at Guanshi Song, she ordered, "The courtyard won't be repaired for a while, so let them go to Yinsi Building to serve Aunt Muyun first."

Guanshi Song was stunned for a moment, there is no shortage of waiters in the Yinsi Building.

The second lady had already spoken, so he didn't say any more, and took his leave.

Just now Song Jinyue ordered Sanming to invite Song Qing.

After Song Guanshi left with his people, Song Qing came.

Song Qing was about to salute when he was stopped by Song Jinyue.

She cut straight to the point and asked directly, "The yard was locked before the fire broke out. Are there any strangers walking around in the mansion?"

"Second miss, the little one is negligent."

Song Qing was full of guilt.

Song Jinyue frowned, secretly thinking that something might happen, and signaled Song Qing to speak directly.

Only then did Song Qing speak slowly, and said, "Just now the young one was in charge of patrolling here, but... but just now the young one suddenly had a stomachache, so..."

That's why Song Qing delayed coming until now.

In fact, for no reason, he suddenly suffered from continuous diarrhea, a thin layer of sweat had formed on his forehead, and his face was full of exhaustion.

"What did you eat today?"

Song Jinyue's first reaction was that Song Qing's food might be tampered with.

"Today, I ate the same as everyone else, but the guard on duty from the kitchen specially sent some green tea, saying that the food I ate today was greasy, so it would inevitably be difficult to digest at night."

The clear tea delivered by the kitchen is made from winter melon and bitter gourd mixed with clear tea. In this winter, after eating a lot of meat for a day, eating this special tea at night will inevitably make people feel refreshed.

Therefore, the guards on duty ate them together.

But others were no different, only he had diarrhea.

With the help of the weak light, Song Jinyue saw that Song Qing's complexion was pale.

Tell him to step back and rest first.

She called San Ming again and said: "Go to the kitchen and check the tea for today, and then see who made the tea."

If it was Song Qing's diarrhea, someone had really tampered with it, and the diarrhea could be delayed until this time.

It must be that there was something wrong with the tea that was used last.

The fire was completely extinguished, Song Jinyue ordered people to be on duty here, and don't touch the rest, and will order people to investigate carefully when it dawns tomorrow.

She also ordered someone to deliver a letter to her father, telling him not to worry, the fire has been extinguished now.

After returning to Ming Zhuxuan, Qiu Yun took care of her lady to wash up, and then helped her onto the soft couch.

She untied the curtain and asked, "Miss, why did you tell Nanny Xu and others to go to the Yinsi Building?"

There was a suspicious smile on the corner of Song Jinyue's lips, "If these people really have problems, they will show their feet, and the queen mother herself is not normal to Shen's mother and daughter, so it's better for us to send people to the queen mother's eyeliner now Are you in control?"

Only then did Qiu Yun understand, her eyes were full of admiration.

Song Jinyue's expression darkened suddenly, and she couldn't help but sigh secretly: "Counting the days, Song Zhi should have brought Qin Wan back long ago, but there are still letters from outside?"

Qiu Yun also had a sad face, sitting on the edge of the couch, looking at the young lady, and shaking her head.

There has been no news from outside recently, and there has been no letter from Brother Xiang's family.

"Miss, maybe in two days, Song Zhi will be able to bring Miss Qin back." Qiu Yun persuaded.

Song Jinyue let out an "um" before lying down.

It wasn't until the second day that Song Jinyue woke up, and Song Jinyue received an imperial edict from the palace before she could take someone to inspect the scene of the fire that broke out last night.

The queen called her into the palace to have dinner together.

Song Jinxi is just a side concubine, but after all, she is a lady from the Duke's mansion.

The emperor specially ordered the fifth prince to bring the concubine Song into the palace for an audience today, and also specifically asked the queen to have Song Jinyue and Miss Zhang's family called to the palace together.

Everyone gathered together to eat, and it was more lively.

And the prince has returned to the East Palace, the emperor intends to want Zhang Dingzhi to come to the palace to have dinner with him.

Song Jinyue asked Nanny Yuan to go to the scene where the fire broke out last night and search carefully.

She entered the palace with Qiu Yun.

Just after leaving the Duke's Mansion, she saw the carriage of the Duke's Mansion, and she signaled Qiu Yun to get the carriage of the Duke's Mansion back.

It seems that today he is going to enter the palace with cousin Zhi.

(End of this chapter)