The True Winner of the Red Chamber

This news shocked Mother Zhen almost fell off the step, she pointed at Zhilan in disbelief, "What did you say!"

Zhen Yingjia pressed mother Zhen with one hand, stood up and looked around at the maids and women who were all stunned in the room, and said first: "If there is even a little bit of news about this matter today, all of you present, I will People and their families are all sold to Qiongzhou!"

The servants hurriedly narrowed their eyes, and each of them held their breath and said yes.

Zhen's mother came back to her senses a little bit, looked at Zhilan and gritted her teeth and said, "You two! Good! Good!"

However, Zhen Yingjia became more and more calm and relaxed. He pulled Zhen's mother to stay still, and ordered: "Go and invite the eldest girl here first." Looking at Zhilan again, his eyes became a little stern now, "Bring the second girl to the The back room looks good."

Seeing the mother-in-law go out, Zhen Yingjia gave another order, "Be happy on your face, there is still the third girl, don't let her see anything!"

The mother-in-law smiled again, rubbed her hands on her face a few times, and it finally became more natural, so Zhen Yingjia told her to leave.

Not long after, Zhiyin hurried over with her mother-in-law, and when she came in, she saw her grandmother blushing with anger, and there were two servant girls behind her beating her back, she asked in fright, "What happened again?"

Zhen Yingjia said: "Just now your second sister said that not only did she have an affair with the Xue family boy, but your third sister also had something with Jia Baoyu when she went to Jia's mansion!"

Now that Zhen Yingjia's speech is not so calm and composed, there is a bit of anger in her words. After all, others have good intentions to strike first, but the two girls in his family are too undisciplined.

There are so many people in this world, for example, Zhiyin in her family has stayed in the palace, and she has met many men, and there are also princes in the palace, who is not better than the Xue family and the Jia family? Didn't they do things like they did?

Zhiyin panicked when she heard this. Apart from worrying about her younger sister, she was even a little worried about herself. After all, she had patted her chest and promised Zhen Yingjia that she would take care of the family well. Now her younger sister died under her nose. She is also to blame for such things.

Thinking of this, Zhiyin burst into tears. Without saying a word, she knelt on the ground and cried, "It's all my daughter's fault, please father punish me."

"It's none of your business!" It was Mother Zhen who spoke, and she said sharply, "Get up!"

Zhen Yingjia also said: "Is it your fault? I'll talk about it later, let's get this over with first."

Only then did Zhiyin hesitate, but she still lowered her head and wept secretly.

Zhen Yingjia said: "I'll send someone to bring the two of them over to talk in a while. You take your maid and your two younger sister's maids to clean up the things in their two rooms and see if there is anything strange about it. , those whose origins are unknown, brought them to me!"

Mother Zhen must have said this, and hurriedly said: "I have to go and have a look together. Her little girl's family, although she is sensible, but there are many things here that I don't know, maybe she will be wrong, I will go together .”

Zhen Yingjia nodded, and Zhiyin also asked her grandmother to have eyes, and Zhen Yingjia said again: "What about the maids who accompanied me to Jia's mansion? Ask them carefully, this matter will not be explained today. , no one should think about passing this night!"

It was dark outside.

Immediately, everyone nodded their heads one by one, and hurriedly followed Zhen Yingjia's instructions.Zhen Yingjia was sitting in Zhen's mother's room. Zhen's mother's bedroom was five rooms in a row with two ear rooms on the left and right. Zhilan was taken to the east room, and Zhiqi also came after a while. Zhen Yingjia took her to the west room to talk .

Zhiqi didn't know what happened yet, seeing Zhen Yingjia greeted him first, and then said: "Father came back so late today, did you have dinner?"

Zhen Yingjia barely nodded calmly and said, "Eat outside."

Zhi Qi asked again: "Why don't you see grandma? Just now I saw that the maid next to grandma came to invite elder sister, and I heard that second elder sister is also in grandma's house, why is none of them gone?"

To be honest, Zhen Yingjia was more angry towards Zhiqi than towards Zhilan.

Among the four children, the eldest daughter entered the palace early and is very sensible, and it makes people feel very distressed when they get along with each other. The younger daughter has a lively personality and is very relaxed when getting along with her. For doing such things behind his back, he would definitely be more angry than at Zhilan.

It's just that Zhen Yingjia was still thinking about what to say, and Zhilan in the east quit. She suddenly broke free from the maid who was looking at her, and ran to this side in two steps.

If you say you didn't keep an eye on her, you can't blame the servant girl. After all, both the grandmother and the master have spoken to ask her to stay in the east room. Who would have thought that she would have the courage to do so?It would have been better if it had been watched by a woman, but when the maid saw that the lady had run away, she didn't dare to catch her, and she couldn't catch her, so she ran over with her.

Zhilan's current image is definitely not good.

In the afternoon, the two of Xue's family left, Mother Zhen slapped her directly, then reprimanded her, and then called Zhiyin to look at her, while Mother Zhen was angry sitting on the soft couch alone.Now Zhilan's hair is messed up, she lost a hairpin, and there are slap marks on her face, her whole face is stained from crying.

When Zhiqi saw it, she took two steps back in fright, subconsciously trying to hide behind her father, and asked in a low voice, "Sister, what's wrong?"

Zhilan sneered, thinking that today has already become such a scene anyway, and remembering what her father said nicely in front of her just now, but secretly said to her grandmother that "send her to be an aunt and not let her into Xue's house" Come, more and more angry, looking at Zhiqi can't help sneering.

Zhiqi had never seen her sister like this before, and there was no one around her like this, so she was so frightened that she hid behind Zhen Yingjia again.

Now Zhilan just looked at Zhen Yingjia and sneered, "Why is my father so cruel to me?" Then she moved closer to Zhiqi, pointed at her face and said, "Look, this is what grandma slapped."

Zhen Yingjia frowned and pulled the two away, then looked at the maid who was a little stunned by the side, and said, "What do you eat!"

Only then did the two maids suddenly realize that one of them stepped forward and pulled Zhilan's arm, leading her outside, but Zhilan struggled and refused to leave.

Zhen Yingjia frowned, and said: "Let her go, since she's here, speak clearly."

As she said that, Zhen Yingjia found a place to sit down by herself, regardless of her two daughters, Zhilan was so angry that she became more and more aggrieved, so naturally she refused to sit down.Although Zhiqi didn't understand what was going on, but judging by the posture, it was obvious that something serious had happened, and she was a little frightened, so she honestly found a place a little far away from Zhilan and stood still.

Zhilan sneered when she saw this, and stopped talking.

Zhen Yingjia looked at the two daughters, one was thirteen and the other was fourteen, they were exactly the age of Hua Guduo, but...he coughed and said, "You went to Jia's mansion, did you take anything from them?"

Zhi Qi was taken aback, Zhi Lan sneered again, and said, "What are you doing so euphemistically? Why are you asking like me?" She turned her head to look at Zhi Qi, and said, "You take Jia Baoyu purse, show it to father."

"What did I do with Jia Baoyu?" Zhi Qi was a little annoyed by Zhi Lan's sly question, and said directly: "Besides, you don't stay with me every time you go, how do you know I took something from someone else?"

After listening to the quarrel between the two of them, Zhen Yingjia understood a little bit what was going on.It's just that such noise is really a headache, he patted the table hard, and first said to Zhi Qi: "Is this how you talk to your sister?"

Zhiqi fell silent, and Zhen Yingjia said to Zhilan again, "How dare you contradict your grandmother like this in front of your father?"

Zhilan muttered a few words, but Zhen Yingjia's face was serious, she had never spoken in such a serious manner, and she didn't even have the slightest smile on her face.

Zhen Yingjia looked at the two daughters and said, "Zhiqi sit down well." Then she looked at the servant girl, "Take the second girl to wash and comb her hair. Even if you are in your own home, no one will dislike you in the grandmother's house. You What is this look like!"

After all, the daughter's family still loves beauty, even if her father said such disgusting words, Zhilan was still a little shy, so she followed the maid obediently.

It wasn't long before Zhilan came back, but Zhen Yingjia didn't ask them to sit down or talk, but just held a teacup and drank tea with half-closed eyes, which made the two daughters even more nervous.

The room was so quiet that only the breathing of a few people could be heard, and even the sound of breathing was deliberately suppressed.

About half an hour later, Zhilan and Zhiqi stood there with sore backs and weak legs, and mother Zhen and Zhiyin, followed by a few women and maids, came in with things in their hands.

As soon as Mother Zhen came in, she seemed to have lost all her strength, and her legs went limp as soon as she stepped over the threshold. If it wasn't for Zhiyin's sharp eyesight and quick hands to catch her, she might have fallen down.

Zhiyin, who was originally kind to her two younger sisters, also had a cold face after entering the door. After her grandmother was about to fall, she saw the two younger sisters standing there with a helpless face and just looked at her, and she couldn't help but angrily reprimanded, "It's not enough. Come and help, what's the use of raising you!"

Zhiqi shuddered all over, but first gave Zhilan a hard look, and then walked over.From her point of view, what happened today was all caused by Zhilan, it's not too late, she actually wanted to make a backstop, and involved herself in it.

It's just that Zhi Qi walked over to reach out to her grandmother, but she was slapped away by Zhen's mother without thinking. The crisp sound was particularly vivid in the quiet room, and Zhi Qi's face turned red all of a sudden.

"Don't touch me!" Zhen's mother said, "I've never seen a girl like you!" She moved away in disgust as she spoke, "Be careful to make me mad."

Zhi Qi was embarrassed and stood there not knowing what to do.Seeing this, Zhilan smiled.

Zhen Yingjia saw it, and stepped forward to support Zhen's mother. He glanced at the things carried by the maidservants behind him. In fact, when Zhiyin came in, Zhiyin, who had been very friendly to the two younger sisters, could come out. With a sound of reprimand, he knew that something was indeed found in the room of the two of them.

Zhen Yingjia supported Zhen's mother, walked up to the front and sat down, then glanced at Zhiyin again, and said: "What did you find, tell me one by one."

Zhen's mother persuaded: "Let me tell you, she is a little girl, although she is mature and sensible, she has seen a lot in the palace, but after all, it is her own family, with her father and grandmother above, how can she really let her go?" Say something like this? I'm afraid I'll spoil her mouth."

Unexpectedly, Zhiyin took a deep breath, her eyes were red, and she said firmly: "This thing was committed under my hands, even if I was in the palace, I would be punished for a crime of negligence, even if I was in the palace In my own family, even if my grandmother and father don't blame me, I can't shirk the blame in my heart, so let me say it."

Mother Zhen sighed, but Zhen Yingjia gave her a faint smile and encouraged her, "There's nothing wrong with it. Since someone dares to do it, don't you dare to say it?"

This encouragement gave Zhiyin great strength, she took another deep breath, and when she breathed it out, there was no trace of helplessness on her face, and her tone became extremely firm, without any hesitation.

She turned her head and took a handkerchief from the woman behind her, and said, "This was found in Zhilan's house. This thing..." Zhiyin pursed her lips, and said, "It was just delivered a few days ago." , I also met, if grandma didn't go with a few women today, I'm afraid I would have missed it."

She handed the things to Zhen Yingjia, and Zhen Yingjia took a look. It was a handkerchief embroidered with wild geese. It was very clean, and the size was larger than that of ordinary girls. glance.