The Virtuous Wife

Chapter 26: Walking into a Trap

Gu and Jingyi hurried back to the yard, but found nothing unusual in the yard. The servants looked at Gu with surprise, obviously not expecting the lady to come back at this time.

Su Wei followed. Under the guidance of Madam Liu, they went around all the rooms and found nothing unusual, so they returned to the main house.

The old lady and Bai were waiting in the hall. When they saw them enter the door, the old lady asked hurriedly: "How is it? Have you found anything?"

This question made Gu confused. The old lady asked "What have you found?" instead of "Have you lost anything?" or "Have you caught the bad guy?"

Gu replied to the old lady calmly and turned to look at Bai. Sure enough, Bai's face was full of disappointment, but after a while, it turned into a panic.

Gu had already figured it out by now, and said to Su Wei: "Lord! I'm afraid the thief is still in the mansion. It's better to let the guards in the mansion search it thoroughly. In this way, everyone can feel at ease."

Su Wei nodded, stood up and said: "Mother, let's go to the flower hall and wait, let the servants check it thoroughly first, so as not to scare people again."

The old lady nodded in agreement, and Su Wei supported her, and the group returned to the flower hall.

The old lady sat quietly in her seat, seemingly with her eyes closed, but she was holding the Buddhist beads in her hands and turning them lightly. Bai's face flashed a trace of panic, but she still forced herself to be calm.

All this was naturally seen by Jingyi. She leaned towards Jingwei without leaving any trace and whispered, "Sister, what do you think the thief looks like? Is he scary?"

Jingwei didn't know what happened. Seeing Jingyi asking her, she was helpless, but she didn't dare to be rude in public, so she said softly, "Don't be afraid, sister, the guards will naturally catch the villain."

Jingyi jumped down from her seat with a look of fear, ran to the old man, grabbed the old man's collar and said, "Grandfather, what if the thief is still in the mansion?"

The old man frowned, but looked at Su Wei.

Su Wei understood and said to Gu, "Madam, this inner courtyard is not like the outer courtyard. What do you think?"

Gu thought for a moment and said to the old lady, "Madam, why don't you borrow two capable maids from your side and transfer two maids from my side, and let these four lead the maids in charge of the mansion to each courtyard and check it carefully. What do you think?"

The old lady nodded and said, "Just do as my daughter-in-law wants."

Gu turned around and told Madam Liu to pick two maids from her side and lead the maids to the backyard to search together with the old lady's people.

Su Wei ordered the housekeeper to follow closely, but not to enter the house, only to search in the courtyard.

Bai was calm at first. After all, she had nothing to hide. But she thought that the man was supposed to put some men's old clothes in Gu's bedroom, but now he didn't find it? That means that the man didn't succeed. Thinking of this, Bai was a little panicked. Where did the man hide? Could he hide in his own yard?

Bai's head began to sweat, and she wiped her forehead with a handkerchief with a slight tremor. If that person really hid in her own yard, she would not be able to explain it even if she had ten thousand mouths.

Jingyi noticed that Bai's expression was not right, and said loudly: "What's wrong with Aunt Bai? Are you not feeling well?"

Bai raised her eyes and saw that everyone was looking at her. She couldn't help but smile awkwardly, "No, maybe the weather is too hot." After saying that, she glanced at the old lady inconspicuously. Seeing that the old lady looked like an old monk in meditation and couldn't see herself at all, she couldn't help but panic.

After a while, two maids came back to report. Everyone looked and saw that it was one by the old lady and one by the lady.

One of them said, "My lords, we have not found any trace of the thief. The items in the courtyards are intact and there is no sign of intrusion."

Bai was relieved when she heard this, but she didn't expect that the next words of another maid almost scared her to death!

"My lords, it's just that we found some situations in Aunt Bai's courtyard, and we really don't know how to report it. So we discussed it and left someone there to guard it. I specially come to ask the masters to go over and take a look."

Bai looked at the maid fiercely: "Nonsense! What situation can there be in my courtyard?"

The maid glanced at Bai and didn't say anything. She still bowed her head respectfully and waited for the orders of Su Wei and others.

Su Wei and the old master looked at each other, and the old master said, "In that case, let's go over and take a look. If the third brother is tired, go back to his own yard and rest first."

When Su Cheng heard that there was something wrong with Su Wei's concubine, he didn't have the mood to sleep, and he was thinking about Su Wei's excitement. So he said, "Since there is something wrong, let's go and take a look. If there is anything that needs help, it's also good to lend a hand."

The old master glanced at him, ignored him, and got up and went to Bai's yard under the guidance of two maids.

Entering the yard, I saw that the lights were on and the yard was full of torches. Bai was shocked. Since there was no thief, what could go wrong here?

The two maids who led the way did not lead everyone to the main house, but went to the small warehouse. Bai saw that she had entered her own warehouse and thought it was not good. Unfortunately, it was too late!

As soon as they entered the warehouse, the faces of the old master and others became ugly?

Why? Because a concubine's storehouse was full of all kinds of treasures! The Bai family fell into decline, and their ancestors had been minor officials before, but by the time of Bai's grandfather, they gradually declined, and their family was no different from ordinary people. When Bai entered the family, she only brought two boxes as a dowry. Now, where did all these treasures in the house come from?

Bai was sweating profusely, her face was pale, and her lips were trembling and she couldn't speak. She didn't understand, these things, she had clearly asked someone to hide them, why did they appear in her storehouse?

Liu Ma, who was following Gu, was surprised and said, "Madam, isn't this the 'Youxian Pillow' that you brought as a dowry? Remember last summer, you gave it to the Lord Hou to use for summer? How come it is here?"

Su Wei was also surprised, "Yes, this was originally given to me by the Madam. Later, after the summer, I ordered people to collect it and put it in the warehouse. I never thought of it this summer. How did it get here?"

When he said the second half of the sentence, he had already looked at Bai.

Bai was so scared that she trembled and knelt on the ground and said, "Master, I am innocent! Someone must have deliberately framed me! Old Madam, please say something for me!"

The old lady frowned slightly, and the loose skin on her face trembled slightly. Just when she was about to say something, she heard Jingyi exclaimed, "Glass flower vase! It's the pair of glass flower vases that my mother gave me!"

After that, she ran over and touched it gently with her hand, with joy in her eyes!

The old man and others saw it. Gu asked with a puzzled look: "Yiyi, why is your glass vase here?" Jingyi reluctantly moved her eyes away from the vase and said to Gu: "Mother, I don't know. A few months ago, I went to play with my second brother. When I came back, Aunt Bai was sitting in the room. She said that she broke my glass vase and asked me if I wanted compensation. I didn't think much about it. I just thought it was just a dead object, so I didn't say anything. Who knew it was here?" As soon as Jingyi finished speaking, Su Jingwei stepped forward and pointed at Jingyi and shouted angrily: "You are talking nonsense! It was obviously you who gave this thing to my aunt, but now you are accusing my aunt like this! What are you thinking?" After the words fell, the room was silent! Jingyi was so scared that she stood away from the glass vase, with a timid look in her eyes, and a layer of mist in her eyes. Jingyi sniffed lightly and whispered, "Yes, I gave it to Aunt Bai." After that, she ran behind Gu and refused to come out again.

Everyone took in Jingyi's reaction and looked at Jingwei unkindly, but Jingwei still didn't notice: "Father, you heard it. She admitted that she gave it to my aunt."

The anger on Su Wei's face had reached its peak. In front of him, this concubine dared to yell at Jingyi. What if it was in private? Suddenly thinking of the last time Jingyi fell from the rockery inexplicably, and afterwards, her fear of this concubine sister and aunt, and the murder of Gu, all of these things, I'm afraid any of them are related to Bai!

Su Wei thought of this, stepped forward a few steps, and with a "pop", he knocked Su Jingwei to the ground! Su Jingwei covered her face with her left hand and looked at Su Wei aggrievedly.

Su Wei pointed at her and said angrily, "How dare you be so rude to your sister in front of so many elders! Who knows how arrogant you will be in private!"