Daily Life of Jiang Liuniang

   Chapter 195 Bamboo Nine

   "Where did this thing come from?" Mrs. Jiang personally interrogated Li Qiao.

  Li Qiao was locked in the firewood room for a day and a night without dripping water, her lips were chapped, and her speech was hoarse.

   "Nonsense!" Mrs. Jiang's voice was quiet, but Concubine Li shuddered, "Where is the Jinxian Temple that you can enter?"

Fuxingfang is the first street in the west of the imperial city. The full name of Jinxianguan is Jinxianguanguan. It was built by the princess who became a female crown in the previous dynasty. Although the dynasty has changed, it is still owned by the royal family and dignitaries. Only women can go.

Li Qiao kowtowed, "The slaves are waiting outside the west gate of Jinxian Temple, and the Taoist nuns inside gave them to the slaves. Old lady, this Tongren is the slaves who miss the four girls and used to evoke the souls of the four girls. You are giving the slaves a hundred How dare you, slaves don't dare to harm people!"

   Dare to hurt people? Nanny Zhao clenched her fists, wishing she could go up and slap her a few times. You exchange the life of your relatives for the four girls to summon the soul and rebirth, isn't it called harm!

   Mrs. Jiang asked gloomily, "What is the name of that aunt?"

  Li Qiao said quickly, "The Daoist Dharma name is the first disciple of the Jinxian Guanzhu. The servant gave her one hundred taels of silver to ask for the Tongmu conjurer."

   Mrs. Jiang frowned, "How old is she and what did she look like?"

  Li Qiao was quite impressed by this person, "The Taoist priest should be around forty, with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, and a plump face that looks like a fairy."

Mrs. Jiang was even more angry, "The Daoist Guiyuan is thin and tall, with a cold face, taciturn, and rarely steps out of the Golden Immortal Temple. The person who saw you, I don't know where the wild way came from! She gave it to you. It's the evil thing that keeps my Jiang family from living in peace! Who led you there?"

  Isn’t the Taoist Master of Returning Destiny? Li Qiao was dumbfounded, "It's Tao Ye, please be kind to the old lady, the slaves really don't know, you just give them a hundred..."

"Crack!" Madam Jiang was so angry that she didn't call Mrs. Liu, she stepped forward and slapped Li Qiao down, "You don't know, don't you dare? Secretly worship evil things, trying to exchange one life for another life, it's not you. What are you doing? You still have the face to beg for mercy! Since you think about the fourth girl so much, I will do it for you and drag it out!"

   After dragging Li Qiao away, Mrs. Jiang ordered someone to call in her little maid Taoye. Tao Ye was only fifteen this year, and the fourth maid was only ten years old when she died. Li Qiao was coaxed around by such a maid! With a gloomy face, Mrs. Jiang looked at the little maid, "Pull out the white cloth from her mouth."

   Nanny Zhao said, "Old Madam, Taoye tried to kill herself by hitting the wall several times last night. She pulled out the cloth from her mouth. She was afraid she would bite her tongue and kill herself."

Mrs. Jiang sneered, "Thinking of dying? Let her bite. After she dies, ask a Taoist priest to lock her soul in her body, and then find a poor ghost who died of illness and bury her in marriage and let her taste it. Look at the taste of your corpse rotting!"

   "Yes." Mrs. Liu responded immediately.

   Mrs. Jiang asked Nanny Zhao to let go of the white cloth in her mouth again, and Taoye really didn't want to live or die. Madam Jiang asked, "Tell me, who asked you to send the wooden man into the mansion."

   Mrs. Jiang asked three times, but Taoye still didn't say a word. Mrs. Jiang asked Mrs. Liu to take her down for a strict interrogation. Who knew that this little girl had very hard bones and wouldn't spit out.

  It is forbidden to kill people during the first month, so Mrs. Jiang thought for a moment, and asked her to be taken away for strict supervision, and then ordered to call Xue Hui in.

   This concubine was given to her son by Mrs. Tai, but since she entered the West Court, accidents have occurred one after another, and she has never served her son. Mrs. Jiang saw her duty and praised her a lot, but how she looked at her today was not pleasing to the eye.

   "Do you know about Li Qiao burning incense and paper in the room?" Madam Jiang asked in a deep voice.

   Last night, the second master set fire to the West Crossing Courtyard, and also burned all the things in her room. Xue Hui knew that to make the second master so angry, there must be something unclean in Li Qiao's room, and she had been waiting for the old lady to ask questions, "This servant knows that she has the habit of burning incense, but the servant did not enter. through her room, I don't know what she's doing, and I don't know if she's burning paper."

   Mrs. Jiang stared at her for a while, and ordered her to stay, leaving only the little maid Peach Branch. Taozhi was stared at by the old lady, and she shivered and begged for mercy, "Old lady, spare your life, this slave is to serve Aunt Xue, and the slave does not know anything about the affairs in Aunt Li's room."

   Mrs. Jiang asked, "If you want to survive, you can say as much as you know about Taoye, and if you dare to hide it..."

   Before the old lady could finish her question, Taozhi hurriedly said, "Yes. The maid and Taoye entered the house at the same time. She doesn't like to talk on weekdays, and she rarely comes out to play..."

Taozhi talked a lot, and then she came to a point that interested Mrs. Jiang, "When she went out to help Concubine Li buy fat powder, she always went alone. She stared at Zhu Jiu next to the eldest young master of the Meng family. When she came back, the servant asked her if she liked Zhu Jiu, and she pretended not to know him. But the servant could see that she must recognize Zhu Jiu..."

   Zhujiu was Meng Tingwan's book boy, and Mrs. Jiang also had an impression of him. She didn't interrupt the peach branch, and after listening to her ramble for half an hour, she was taken away. Does Zhu Jiu have anything to do with this matter? Mrs. Jiang frowned, thinking about how to figure it out.

After Jiang Erye came back in the second half, he heard his mother say these things, and said, "It's not difficult to do. Ling'er and Zhujiu are similar in body shape, Huyan Tushan imitates people and speaks. Meng Tingwan's study is in us. On the west side of the garden, let Huyantu go there to observe Zhu Jiu for two days, and then pick a late night, let Linger go to the room where Taoye is imprisoned, and you will know after a test."

   can only do so. Mrs. Jiang nodded and asked again, "Li Qiao can't stay anymore, there is no more hospital, so let Xue Hui live in the penthouse next to you for a few days?"

   Jiang Erye frowned, "Mother sent her out of the house, I don't want to see her again in the future."

   Mrs. Jiang reassured, "Mother knows what you are feeling, but Xue Hui is not wrong. It was given to you by your grandmother, so you should keep it. If you send it out, how should you arrange it?"

   Jiang Erye refused to obey, "I just don't want to see anyone in the courtyard again, I feel uncomfortable when I see them!"

   Mrs. Jiang tried to persuade her son that she would not listen, so she had to answer him.

  Huyantu took the errand and went to the garden wall to squat to guard Zhujiu. Who knew that he waited for two days, only to see Meng Ting going in and out late, but not his book boy. The Jiang family sent someone to inquire and found out that Zhu Jiu contracted an emergency and died.

   Zhujiu didn't die early or late, but he died at this time, which made the Jiang family suspect that the matter of Yansheng had something to do with the Meng family. Zhu Jiu was gone, Jiang Erye had another way. He asked Jiang Hou'er to speak in Zhujiu's tone, and after letting Huyan try for a day, Huyantu finally imitated Zhujiu's voice vividly.

   That night, when the Jiang family guard Li Qiao and Taoye's wife were changing shifts, Taozhi appeared in front of the firewood room window with "Zhu Jiu" and asked in a low voice, "Sister Taoye, are you asleep?"

   (end of this chapter)