Chapter 279 The incident happened


Chapter 279 The incident

After a cup of tea, Xia Zihan's flower shape was finished.

Zhuo fell in love with her as soon as she saw her, "Ayu is really smart and has a pair of skillful hands."

Then he handed it to Yue Jin, "Yue Jin, look at it. It will definitely look good to embroider a quilt for a child like this."

Yue Jin put down what she was doing, holding the pattern, her eyes lit up, and she was full of praise, "Slave, if you look at it, use light green cloth as the background, use a piece of sky blue cloth to set a pond, and then embroider ducks on it. , add a few fish ”

In my mind, I was thinking about how to make the quilt.

Ms. Zhuo nodded repeatedly and asked Xia Zihan to draw a tent for the child. Xia Zihan smiled and said, "Okay, how about tracing a picture of children flying kites?"

A group of children playing and playing were embroidered around the tent. In the distance, there were a few old cattle grazing with their heads down, and a group of swans flew across the sky.

The other ends of the long strings in the children's hands stretched out to the curtains, on which were various kites.

Well, it should look good.

Xia Zihan thought about it, and a picture appeared in her mind. Then she laid out a piece of paper and quickly drew the picture with her hands.

In the middle of the painting, a little maid hurriedly came in from the front yard and reported, "County Master, Housekeeper Cui has something to see the County Master. He is waiting in the front hall."

Xia Zihan had to put down her pen and said to Mrs. Zeng and Zhuo, "Grandma, aunt, Butler Cui has something to do with me. I'll go over and have a look."

Zeng said, "Well, go quickly."

There must be something urgent at the porridge shed, otherwise Cui Er Butler would not bother Yu Niang for any trivial matter.

In the front hall, Butler Cui was walking around waiting anxiously. When he saw Xia Zihan coming, he hurriedly dismissed the maids in the hall and ordered two boys to guard the door.

Then he anxiously told Xia Zihan, "County Lord, there is something wrong with the Xia family's rice."

"All the rice sent by the Xia family is moldy."

"The Xia family sent five thousand kilograms of rice today. After the rice was unloaded, the carriage went back. Later the carriage came again. The Xia family said that the people below moved it by mistake and sent the flour and coarse grains from home. .”

"At first, the old slave didn't care. If he sent it to the wrong person, he would just move it back."

"The Xia family's carriage loaded another cart of grain and went back, but the old slave didn't even check it."

"In the afternoon, Gangzi went to the toilet. When he came back, he secretly told the old slave that he saw the rice-washing woman washing a large basin of moldy rice, and the water that came out smelled bad. ”

"After hearing this, the old slave didn't know why, but he remembered the Xia family's delivery of food in the morning, and his heart trembled."

"Lao Nu and Gangzi quietly went to the corner where the grain was piled, opened a bag of rice, took it out and saw that it was full of moldy rice."

"County Master, you can't eat that moldy rice. If something goes wrong, the Xia family and the Chu family will be in big trouble."

If the matter wasn't serious and urgent, he wouldn't have come to report it to the county magistrate and would have handled it himself.

Xia Zihan's face was gloomy, and his heart ached with anger.

She asked, "How much moldy rice is there now?"

"Quite a few, five or six thousand catties." It happened to be the amount delivered by the Xia family's carriage in the past two days. "But the three thousand catties of grain that Gangzi sent yesterday evening is gone."

So, when the Xia family said they sent the wrong grain, they were actually using moldy rice in exchange for the good rice sent by the Chu family?

How bold.

It was simply audacious.

If something happens to the moldy rice, not even one Xia family, not even ten Xia families, can bear the consequences.

Is Mrs. Xu going crazy for money?

Xia Zihan gritted her teeth angrily, wishing she could rush to Xia's house and scold Mr. Xu.

But she calmed down and ordered. "This should not be done in advance."

Once the quarrel breaks out, not only will her father be in trouble and be impeached, but even the Chu family will be implicated.

She told Butler Cui, "First send someone to transport a new batch of rice from the house, and send the moldy rice over there to the Xia family. The woman who washed the rice was also tied up and sent to the Xia family." Go, remember, it must be delivered to the master.”

Only by asking her father to handle this matter can those people be punished.

If it falls into Xu's hands, the thunder may be loud and the raindrops may be light, and her father may not even know about it in the end.

Butler Cui nodded.

Xia Zihan then ordered, "Send a few more women from the mansion to help, and the servants of the Xia family will arrange some fire-burning work for them."

"Understood, County Lord, I'll go right now." I left late because I was afraid that the Xia family would find out about it, and they would alert others, which would cause a big fuss and cause big trouble.

After the second housekeeper Cui left, Xia Zihan's heart was still unable to calm down for a long time. He always felt that there was a fire burning in his heart, but he could not vent it.

Butler Cui sent two carts full of new rice and delivered it to the porridge shed. Then, while no one was paying attention, he knocked out and tied up the two women who were responsible for washing the rice, and then sent someone to quietly Silently, he loaded the rice into the carriage.

Qin's mother happened to catch this scene, and when she saw the Chu family loading the Xia family's grain into the carriage, her head clicked, and she understood that the story of moldy rice had been exposed.

Her face was pale, her back was dripping with cold sweat, and her eyes were full of panic.

By the time she came to her senses, the Chu family's carriage had been loaded with more than five thousand kilograms of moldy rice and was speeding away.

Qin's mother was anxious and quickly prepared a carriage to go back to Xia's house.

As soon as he entered the gate of Xia's house, he saw servants kneeling all over the yard. On the long wooden bench in the center, there were two women whose backs had been beaten to pieces, and they fainted. .

Smelling the smell of blood in the air, Qin's mother moved forward tremblingly. Xia Shiming stared at her with a livid face, "What a treacherous slave, how dare you come back."

Qin's mother was shaken all over, and she threw herself at Xia Shiming's feet with a cry, kowtowed and begged for mercy, "Master, please spare my life. I was also deceived by people outside, and I didn't know anything about it."

Mrs. Xu stood behind Xia Shiming, her body trembling, and she did not dare to plead for Qin's mother.

Xia Shiming sneered, "Why did I lie to you? It's not like you, a naughty slave, wanted to buy cheap rice. Fortunately, Butler Cui found out early and didn't cause a big disaster. Otherwise, the entire Xia family would be in trouble." Ruined by you, such a naughty slave.”

Xia Shiming's chest was beating with anger.

In the end, Mother Qin was also beaten twenty times, and Ren Yazi was called, who took Mother Qin away with the other two women.

The 10,000 kilograms of moldy rice that Xu had bought cheaply were all taken to the village by the Chu family's carriage, ready to be washed and fed to the pheasants.

As for the three thousand kilograms of good rice from the Chu family that had been pulled back by Qin's mother, they were also pulled back to the porridge shed by the Chu family's carriage.

This time, Xu's scheme turned out to be a waste of time and yielded no benefits at all, and it cost him seventy taels of silver in vain.

Originally, she only wanted to buy Chen Mi for ten taels of silver.

But the rice seller saw that Qin's mother was easy to cheat, so he asked her to buy more, and the price was three cents cheaper.

Mrs. Xu thought to herself that although it was old rice, it was cheap. If she could buy more, pile it up at home, and wait for a while before finding someone to sell it to.

She can buy it for seven cents and sell it for fifteen cents, and she can still make a fortune.

So, Xu bought 10,000 catties.

Unexpectedly, it was ten thousand kilograms of moldy rice.

Now, seventy taels of silver are gone, ten thousand catties of rice are gone, and Xia Shiming even scolded him.

Xia Shiming angrily wanted her to pack her things and go back to Jiangning.

Mrs. Xu cried and wiped away tears and said that she had also been deceived by Qin's mother. She also swore to God that she would be more careful in the future and not do anything to embarrass the Xia family. Only then did Xia Shiming nod and let her stay.

Less than three months after entering Beijing, Xu's two capable mothers were gone.

Nanny Lu failed to get a good deal from Xia Zihan and was thrown into the kitchen by Xia Shiming to do menial work. Mother Qin, who was half-dead from hiccups, was sent away and sold out.

Mrs. Xu was also extremely sad.

She calmed down and thought about it carefully, and found that these things were closely related to the Chu family.

If it were not for Xia Zihan and the Chu family, nothing would have happened to her two capable mothers. She had already obtained the power of housekeeper beside Xia Shiming, and there would be no need for the power to fall into the hands of an aunt like now.

She also had to look at her aunt's face to eat.

This was what she couldn't tolerate the most.

No, she can't live like this. She is the legitimate wife of a Hanlin bachelor. How can she live a life of being penniless and being taken advantage of by her aunt?

She had to find a way to turn around.

But... what should I do?

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In the lobby of the Chu family, Butler Cui was reporting to Xia Zihan, "The musty rice has been sent to the village. The head of the farm said that he would send someone to wash it first and dry it to feed the pheasants."

"The pheasant ate the moldy rice, will it be okay?" Xia Zihan asked worriedly.

"No, let alone washing the moldy rice, even if you don't wash it, the pheasant will be fine if you eat it. The belly of the pheasant is not like our human belly. It is easy to get a bad stomach after eating something."
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Butler Cui said with a smile.

Xia Zihan frowned, "I don't know how much moldy rice is out there. What if the refugees eat it..."

"Fortunately, the two women in the Xia family are good at handling things. They also know that moldy rice and new rice are mixed together and cooked together. This not only masks the moldy smell of moldy rice, but also minimizes the damage."


"According to the accounts of the two women, the moldy rice was cooked since yesterday afternoon. The old slave discovered it this morning, and the refugees did not eat much."

Fortunately, he found it early.

This time, the Xia family transported five thousand kilograms of moldy rice, and exchanged it for three thousand kilograms of good rice from the Chu family. It seemed that they planned to cook moldy rice in the future.

Just for the few dozen taels of silver, Mother Qin had no intention of caring about the lives of the refugees.

He doesn't even care about human life.

No wonder Xia Shiming was so angry that he sold Mother Qin without saying a word.

If such a cruel person doesn't sell, he may cause big trouble for the Xia family in the future.

Although Xia Zihan stopped the Xia family's moldy rice in time, some people who were deceived still bought the moldy rice.

I spent money to buy rice, but I didn't want to throw it away, so I secretly cooked it for the refugees to eat.

In the eyes of rich and powerful people, the lives of refugees are as worthless as a swarm of ants. Perhaps, their lives are not as valuable as those bags of moldy rice.

(End of chapter)

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