Red Mansion and Crimson Pearl

Chapter 430 Xiao Hong vs. Situ Sheng

Caixia also fainted.

Situ Sheng looked at the dead and unconscious person and rubbed his temples with a headache.

Even if he failed to complete his task - the Dali Temple was still hoping to get some useful new information out of Jia Zheng's mouth!

What a mess!

"Get a doctor to take a look." Situ Sheng raised his hand angrily, pointed at Caixia, and glanced at Jia Zheng's body with disdain, "Carry it out. It's unlucky!"

The soldiers knew that they had failed to hold the man down and had caused trouble, so they behaved themselves. Two of them came up and carried Jia Zheng's body out.

Just at this time, someone from outside came to report to Situ Sheng that Princess Zhaoqing in the palace had sent a maid from the Jia family and her parents to help identify the guilty servant.

Situ Sheng suddenly felt guilty. He groaned for a while and asked the soldiers to clean up the room. He then went out and followed Xiaohong and her family.

Lin Zhixiao and his wife were of course extremely cautious, and with fearful and flattering smiles on their faces, they pointed out one by one the servants who had done dirty things with She, Zheng, Zhen and Lian.

In front of everyone, he revealed who was being forced to do the work and was kind and considerate in private, who was the one who was always coming up with bad ideas and was afraid that things wouldn't get out of hand, and who was relying on the power of his master to oppress the good people.

He knelt down and kowtowed to Situ Sheng, readily admitting his guilt.

We are together every day, how can we not know each other?

In the end, they both denied and blamed each other, and all the bad things were revealed, and Situ Sheng saved himself a lot of trouble.

Situ Shengyin took the opportunity to show his generosity and released Lin Zhixiao's family: "It can be considered as a way to atone for the crime. Go back and wait for the general's order to be issued, and then we will talk about it."

He called Xiaohong again in a serious tone, saying, "Such a big thing has happened, and the people serving in the palace are not worried enough, so why are you running out?

"Hurry back to the palace and serve the master! You are telling the master about family ties, merits and sins!

"What rules did the maids in the palace teach you? Go away!"

Xiaohong was a person who kept her eyes and ears open, so she had heard everything that had happened on her way into the mansion.

Seeing Situ Sheng pretending to be so pretentious, he did not bother to explain, but just lowered his head and asked softly:

"If I return to the palace now, I'm afraid the master will ask about the situation in the mansion. I know only a little bit, so it's inevitable that I will speak nonsense.

"Since the county lord is the general in charge, would you like me to take a few words in and let the masters know first?"

What an amazing girl!

Situ Sheng was pushed against the wall by her gentle words.

Even if the crime is extremely heinous and there are hundreds of soldiers watching, they will not let the "prisoner" be killed in front of you, not to mention that there is also a concubine who has died.

No matter how serious this matter is, you can't escape the blame for not keeping a close watch on it!

So, have you figured out how to edit it?!

Scratching his face, Situ Sheng became more annoyed: "In this case, Miss, please stop for a moment and wait for me to find out the whole story before you speak."

Xiaohong curled her lips slightly, bowed and asked, "Then can I go to the main courtyard to meet the women of the Jia family?"

Situ Sheng had no choice but to wave his hand and let her go.

Lin Zhixiao and his wife, and Lin Zhijie were also temporarily detained together with the slaves.

Xiaohong hurried into the main courtyard.

Although there was charcoal, firewood and rice, no one in the room could use it smoothly.

Nanny Geng and Sheyue Ruhua were lighting a fire in the corridor, and the whole yard was filled with smoke, with the faces of the three people all smeared into the shape of tabby cats.

Xiaohong came in just in time and hurried forward to take Ruhua's place, blowing the fire to make it brighter.

The three people then saw clearly that it was Xiaohong, and they all took a breath of cold air!

Musk Moon grabbed her and was horrified: "Why are you here too? The palace won't even let you go!?"

"Don't think too much, sister. The princess asked me to bring my parents along, using the excuse of helping to identify the guilty slaves, and taking the opportunity to come and see you."

Xiaohong hurriedly smiled and comforted her.

Musk Moon turned from shock to sadness, choking with sobs and shedding tears: "What is there to see? It's already like this."

But Madam Geng was very good at reading people's expressions, and she quickly interrupted with a smile: "We are all stupid. We can't even light a fire, but how come Miss Xiaohong has to do more rough work than us?"

"I didn't know how to do it either." Xiao Hong said calmly, "I just followed the princess to Jiangnan.

"During this journey, I realized that I was called a servant, but I couldn't serve others. I even wanted others to serve me. I was really ashamed. I learned this on purpose."

Musk Moon and Ruhua were suddenly embarrassed and lowered their heads in embarrassment.

Nanny Geng gave a few irrelevant compliments, then stood up with a smile. She left Sheyue and Ruhua to prepare medicine for Lady Jia, while she attentively accompanied Xiaohong into the house.

When he reached the door, he hurriedly opened the curtain two steps ahead and whispered to the inside: "Little Red Girl is here!"

Wang Xifeng, who had the sharpest ears, stood up and walked out quickly: "Who? Which Xiaohong!?"

Xiaohong greeted him with a smile.

Wang Xifeng smiled and personally took her hand and led her inside.

Mrs. Xing, Li Wan, Xichun and Baoyu also stood up hurriedly.

Xiaohong bowed first, then went to see the drowsy Jia Mu and asked quietly, "The princess asked me to come and see, is the old lady okay?"

Several people breathed a sigh of relief at this moment, let her take a look, then surrounded her and went to the outer room, and forced her to sit down and talk to her in every possible way.

Li Wan was the first to wipe her tears and said, "It's impossible to get well. Such a devastating disaster came from nowhere."

Xiaohong said nothing.

Wang Xifeng looked at Li Wan's behavior, turned away and rolled her eyes.

Madam Xing ignored this topic and finally spoke sadly, "We are all fine. Your Majesty is willing to pardon the women of the mansion and let them return to their ancestral home. This is already a favor from heaven.

"Go back and tell the princess, we all know that this is the princess and the county lady's face, thank them both for us!"

He called Wang Xifeng and Xichun, "I'm afraid the princess won't accept our gift. You two, please kowtow here for us!"

Wang Xifeng and Xichun took the order, stood up immediately, and knelt down and kowtowed solemnly in the direction of Taiji Palace.

Baoyu followed silently behind.

Li Wan was stunned for a moment before she realized that she should kowtow as well, and she knelt down in panic.

Xiao Hong did not stop them at all, but stood up and watched respectfully. After they finished kneeling, she said, "Madam, you are too kind.

“Although the princess and the county lady could not disobey the emperor’s order, it was still their blood nature and they were still worried and frightened.

"This morning, after hearing the strict order that all nine mansions would be confiscated and punished, they were all terrified and waited in the palace to be punished.

"My parents have been stewards in the mansion for many years. How can they stay out of this? So we came back to wait for your punishment along with everyone else."

Everyone's heart suddenly tightened and their scalps went numb!

Baoyu was so frightened that his hands and feet were shaking. He asked, "Are the two sisters also waiting for punishment? Didn't the emperor say that they would not be punished?"