After her fate was taken away, she was favored by her five brothers.

"Third Master, wait for me."

After Pumpkin caught up with Xie Mingcong, he returned the hairpin to Xie Mingcong.

Xie Mingcong thought he had given the hairpin away and was happy about it, but unexpectedly the hairpin came back to him.

Pumpkin didn't wait for Xie Mingcong to get angry and explained, "Third Master, your hairpin is not suitable for little girls."

Xie Mingcong looked at Pumpkin and asked in confusion: "What kind of clothes does she wear?"

"Anyway, this kind of thing is only suitable for women to wear, not for little girls."

This made Xie Mingcong worried for a while.

Thinking about it, what Pumpkin said seems to make sense. My mother is old, but she is not old yet. My mother's hairpin is indeed not good-looking.

Yes, Third Sister has the hairpin.

Thinking of this, Xie Mingcong took the hairpin and walked faster.

"Third Master, don't leave so fast. You haven't told me why you want to give someone a hairpin. Others give hairpins to women, why are you giving a hairpin to a little girl?"

Xie Mingcong stopped and said, "You...you are stupid. You can't hold a woman...you can't hold her."

"Then why did you only give it to the little girl from Yunji? There are so many maids in our house, you can also hold her."

Nangua’s words stunned Xie Mingcong for a moment. He stood there thinking for a long time but couldn’t figure out why he only wanted to give it to her and not to anyone else.

He only remembered Yun Fu's words, "Brother will buy it for me."

"I…I want to be her…her brother."

Shuiqin, the maidservant beside Aunt Lin, couldn't find Aunt Lin's favorite jade hairpin inlaid with rubies after combing her hair, so she inserted a gold hairpin into her bun.

Aunt Lin looked at herself in the bronze mirror again and again. She was almost forty years old, but she still had green hair and rosy cheeks.

She has always been most satisfied with her face, otherwise the master would not have been obsessed with her for so many years.

Suddenly, she saw the golden hairpin on her head and couldn't help asking, "Shuiqin, where is my ruby ​​hairpin?"

This jade and ruby ​​hairpin was bought by the head of the Xie family from the capital as a gift to Aunt Lin. Even Lady Wang didn't have one, and she always liked to wear this hairpin to show off in front of Lady Wang.

So what if she is the principal wife? The master loves her, Lin Pianpian, the most.

"Madam, didn't you take the jade hairpin?"

Aunt Lin looked at Shuiqin and said, "Why should I take the hairpin? Aren't you keeping the makeup box?"

Shuiqin's head buzzed. Oh no! Her aunt's favorite hairpin was lost.

Seeing Shuiqin like this, Aunt Lin still had something to understand: "What are you still standing here for? Why don't you order someone to go look for her?"

Shuiqin and her men searched the entire yard but couldn't find the hairpin.

Aunt Lin had no choice but to lead people to search the entire Xie Mansion, including Wang's yard, but she still couldn't find the hairpin.

She looked at Shuiqin and said, "Who has been to my room today? Go check, go check quickly."

Shuiqin knew that she was finished. If she couldn't find the hairpin, she would die.

The crabapple tree is a precedent.

Until now, she still doesn't know what mistake Haitang made, but she just disappeared like that. This shows the methods of Aunt Lin.

Soon, maids and servants were kneeling on the ground in Aunt Lin's courtyard.

Even Xie Yuhe and her wet nurse, who had just returned from studying in the Plum Garden, knelt in the yard together.

"Grandma, I didn't take it."

Xie Yuhe always called Aunt Lin "grandmother", and the head of the Xie family turned a blind eye to these so-called titles.

He always felt that he was sorry for Aunt Lin by not giving her the position of wife, so he would not care about these titles.

Aunt Lin said, "Yuhe is so well behaved, it must not have been taken by our Yuhe, it must have been taken by these cunning servants to exchange for money. Yuhe, come to grandma, grandma will teach you how to manage the household."

When Xie Mingcong came back, as soon as he entered Aunt Lin's courtyard, he heard screams all over the yard.

Two of the maids were beaten to pieces, and Xie Yuhe was still clapping and cheering:

"Grandma is so awesome, Grandma is so awesome, even more awesome than my great-grandma."

The great-grandmother she mentioned was the principal wife, Wang.

Shuiqin, who was being held down and beaten by the maid, saw Xie Mingcong and said through gritted teeth, "Auntie, the Third Master also came to your room today."

Aunt Lin glared at Shuiqin. How could it be Cong'er? What was her son doing with her hairpin?

However, in order to convince everyone, she still had to pretend to ask.

"Cong'er, come here and let me ask you, did you take anything from mom's room?"

Xie Mingcong took out a hairpin and asked, "Is...is this it?"

Shuiqin saw that it was indeed Xie Mingcong who took it, and said, "Third Master, you have caused us so much suffering. You took away my aunt's hairpin without saying a word, but we were beaten one by one."

Xie Mingcong was already angry, and he got even angrier after hearing Shuiqin's words. He threw the hairpin to the ground and said, "What a broken...broken hairpin. It doesn't look good at all."

The hairpin rolled to the ground and broke into three pieces.

Aunt Lin's heart was bleeding with pain, but she couldn't do anything about her son.

She felt that the only person she felt sorry for was her son Xie Mingcong. Xie Mingcong had been mentally retarded since childhood. Although she had educated him much better when he grew up, he was still not as good as a normal child.

"Cong'er, tell me why you took my hairpin."

Without even thinking, Xie Mingcong replied, "Send...send a woman."