Mrs. Tao reckons she is in her fifties, but she is well-maintained and looks like she is only in her early forties. The blood relationship between her and Empress Jiang is obvious at a glance, and she looks exactly like Empress Jiang in her later years.
It's just that unlike Queen Jiang's queenly aura, Mrs. Tao has a kind expression and a kind tone. The one thing the mother and daughter have in common is that they are not surprised at all - even if they see the juniors who went to Jinghu Lake to watch the excitement before they arrived, they turned back angrily and brought an unfamiliar little girl with them, Mrs. Tao still smiled. : "Hey, why are you back so early today? Didn't everyone tell the kitchen not to prepare lunch for you?"
He glanced outside and smiled again, "Where are Zheng'er and the others? Why are you the only ones back?" Then he asked Qiu Yilan, "Is this child a stranger to me?"
Jiang Qisheng glared at Qiu Yilan fiercely, and said first: "Grandma, this is the Princess Ningyi next door! Sister Shiba and Sister He kindly invited her to the Haitang Ci Festival, and she turned out to be great! She was just in our room She glanced at the private room and then ran to the 19th brother! Not only that, she also instigated the 19th brother to scold me for not being strict with cousin Tao... "
"Sister Seventeen!" Qiu Yilan had a serious face and was about to speak, but Jiang Yashuang interrupted Jiang Qisheng expressionlessly and said lightly, "I respect you as my cousin, so I asked you to explain the situation first, but I’m not asking you to talk nonsense!”
When Mrs. Tao saw her cousins quarreling in front of her, the smile on her face gradually faded, and she frowned and asked, "What on earth is going on? Didn't you behave so well when you went out? Why did you start pinching her after only a few hours? "
Jiang Qisheng said aggrievedly: "Grandma, look at my nineteenth brother! He has never talked to his family like this before!"
Qiu Yilan secretly scolded her for being despicable and vicious - just look at Empress Jiang's reaction after Jiang Yashuang beat up Gu Yan and Deng Yi, and you can see how protective the Jiang family is! Even if Mrs. Tao had no ill intentions towards her before, after hearing these words, she would feel that she had caused the rift between their siblings!
How to get the siblings back together in this situation? Of course, it’s to deal with outsiders!
She was thinking quickly about how to refute - but no matter how eloquent she was, how could she withstand the favoritism of her elders
Jiang Qisheng made it clear that she wanted to kill her. Seeing that Mrs. Tao's face was slightly stiff, she complained harder and harder: "Not only that, the nineteenth brother is in Yunyi Tower and wants to beat me because of Qiu Yilan!" She choked with sobs. She cried loudly, "Our good siblings have come to this point over an outsider! How can we face our elders in the future?"
As she spoke, she did not forget to give Qiu Yilan a provocative and proud look.
"Jiang Qisheng! If I have a chance someday, I will repay today's slander and insult a hundred times a thousand times!" Qiu Yilan secretly gritted her teeth!
But after much thought, she still felt that it was better not to speak and wait: it would be best if Jiang Yashuang came out to answer the call; if Jiang Yashuang didn't come out, no matter how beautiful and beautiful the words she said as an outsider were, it would be difficult for Jiang Qisheng to catch her and continue. Ruining and messing around - this is the tragedy of the disparity in power!
However, just when Qiu Yilan was resigned to her fate, Mrs. Tao gave her a surprise - Mrs. Tao smiled and said kindly: "Yes, Xiaojiu has been obedient since he was a child and doesn't argue with the family about anything." So you can’t bully him. Now that he wants justice, you feel aggrieved, right?”
After saying this, Mrs. Tao ignored Jiang Qisheng and Tao Peibin's astonishment and waved to Jiang Yashuang, showing her heartfelt love, "Shuang'er, come to grandma soon. My good child, you have always been generous and kind." Sensible, who made you so angry? Tell grandma, grandma makes the decision for you!"
Jiang Yashuang did as he was told and sat down, letting Mrs. Tao hold him in her arms, and said: "My grandson is going to Yunyi Tower with Bage today..." He briefly told what happened, and said lightly He said, "I thought that although this matter was embarrassing, it was not unexplainable. As a result, the Seventeenth Sister and Cousin Tao repeatedly insulted Princess Ningyi, and even wanted to take the initiative to say nothing to Princess Ningyi, and even said something about Sun. My son was deceived by Princess Ning Yi! This is simply nonsense! My grandson couldn't explain it to them, so he had no choice but to come back and ask his grandmother for help. "
He added, "Princess Ningyi also wants to ask my grandmother to make the decision and thoroughly investigate who is the person who locked her grandson and her in the 'Curling Jade'!"
Mrs. Tao then glanced at Qiu Yilan and said with a faint smile: "Of course! How can I, the Jiang family, be allowed to be plotted by others? Princess Ningyi is also a noble daughter of this dynasty, how can I be framed and slandered?!"
Jiang Qisheng said angrily: "Grandma! The matter has not been investigated yet. Who knows whether it is a frame-up or slander, or whether Princess Ningyi did it deliberately to be alone with her nineteenth brother?"
"The servant who called Princess Ningyi downstairs is from Zheng'er?" Mrs. Tao asked slowly.
"Although it is, but..."
Mrs. Tao snorted: "I remember that the servants in front of her have met Princess Ningyi twice at most, and only three times today. Why do you think that the servants of our family who have been in the family for many years will be so confused that they don't even know who the master is?" do not know?!"
Jiang Qisheng heard the knock in her tone and felt unhappy. She just lowered her head and remained silent, but refused to apologize.
Mrs. Tao didn't care about her silent resistance and said leisurely: "Since this matter has come to me, I naturally can't ignore it - Mother Hu, you took Chaohai's post to Yunyi Tower and you must get to the bottom of it! "Chaohai is the character of Qin Guogong.
"Auntie!" Before Mrs. Tao finished speaking, and before Mother Hu behind her could take the order, Tao Peibin suddenly said, "I'm afraid this is inappropriate - we were upstairs just now, and we were also afraid that Brother Nineteen would be deceived. , so it’s urgent. Now that we know what happened, why bother to go to war again? If word spreads, to Brother Nineteen..." At this point, she glanced at Qiu Yilan reluctantly, and then continued, "Yes. Princess Ningyi, it’s all a matter of defamation!”
Mrs. Tao smiled and asked, "What do you two think?"
Jiang Yashuang looked at Qiu Yilan hesitantly - for him, if this kind of thing spread, it would not be either bad or bad. To put it bluntly, the reputation of the Jiang family's children had already been almost ruined by Jiang Yadan and the others. Well, it's really not painful for the Jiang family to have another son who gets along with the princess who is already engaged.
So it’s mainly Qiu Yilan.
Qiu Yilan didn't even blink: "Thank you, madam, for your understanding, but Yilan feels that she has no regrets! In order for Yilan's late father and mother to not be implicated by the unfilial daughter and be humiliated under the Nine Springs, Yilan I also want to ask the old lady to investigate thoroughly!"
Mrs. Tao looked at her with a half-smile: "Since you have brought out your deceased parents, it shows your determination! But you must know: in this investigation, whether you are really innocent or falsely innocent, your reputation will be But it’s inevitable that everyone will talk about it!”
"Things that are pure will become pure, and those that are turbid will become turbid. Now Yilan only seeks justice! She is willing to be broken into pieces for this. I hope that the old lady can make it happen!" Qiu Yilan is determined!
Jiang Qisheng and Tao Peibin had accused her from the beginning of deliberately locking the door so that they could be alone in the room with Jiang Yashuang. If she hadn't decisively demanded a thorough investigation just now, Jiang Yashuang might have suspected her!
Now when I'm in front of Mrs. Tao, if I said it in a few words, I won't check it out. I don't know what it will be like when I look back! How could Qiu Yilan be willing to suffer such a loss!
Besides—were he and Jiang Yashuang really locked up by Jiang Yadan’s enemies? No matter how you look at it, these two cousins are lining up to catch the thief, right? !
After listening to her words, Mrs. Tao looked at her grandniece: "Since they themselves are not worried, let's just leave it as it is."
Tao Peibin suddenly became anxious: "Princess Ningyi! You really want to be innocent! But have you thought about Brother Nineteen? You are a person who is engaged! Who will not say that Brother Nineteen is plotting to steal someone else's unmarried wife? ? ! Do you want Brother Nineteen to bear such a reputation?"
"The old lady said that neither General Jiang nor I are afraid, why are Miss Tao so worried?" Qiu Yilan lowered her eyes and whispered softly, "What's more, whether it is discussed by everyone or pursued by the Deng family, the Deng family will bear the brunt of it. Yes, it should be me!”
Jiang Yashuang said in a deep voice: "Cousin Tao, since grandma has made the decision, I think you should not worry too much."
Tao Peibin was startled, and her delicate face suddenly turned red!
Jiang Yashuang's words were tantamount to telling her that she was not qualified to care about this matter!
Isn't it? After all, Jiang Qisheng still has the identity of a cousin. Not only is Tao Peibin not from the Jiang family, but she is also younger than Jiang Yashuang. How does she have the status to interfere with Jiang Yashuang's personal affairs
"Nineteenth Brother, why do you say such things about Cousin Tao?" Jiang Qisheng couldn't help but said, "She also has good intentions!"
Mrs. Tao asked calmly: "Is there anything else?"
Jiang Qisheng choked, lowered her head and said, "No more."
"Then you all go back, it's almost time for lunch, don't miss it." Mrs. Tao ordered her guests to be kicked out without politeness, and smiled lovingly at Jiang Yashuang, "Shuang'er can you stay with grandma?"
Jiang Yashuang nodded: "My grandson has been craving your roasted eggplant for the past two days."
The granddaughter and grandniece were not able to leave any food, so Qiu Yilan naturally understood the situation and stood up to leave.
She returned to the Xihe Palace with a gloomy face, and when she entered the courtyard, she saw Sheng Shishui and Qiu Mingzhu holding silk fans in the corridor outside the boudoir school, leaning on the railing, talking sweetly with a smile.
The two of them looked very affectionate and affectionate, as if they had been good sisters for many years.
"Now that there are other people coming to study in this boudoir school, it seems that it is inconvenient if we don't build a wall. We are stared at when we come in and out, and they are so free!" Qiu Yilan was unhappy. Seeing this scene, he said to Xia Ran who came out to greet him, "Go back and find the craftsman!"
Xia Ran agreed - Sheng Shishui and Qiu Mingzhu also saw her over there. Qiu Mingzhu looked away and pretended not to see her, but Sheng Shishui bowed and saluted.
However, both of them took her warning seriously and did not dare to go down the corridor and enter the courtyard without permission.
"By the way, I'm going out today. Didn't I tell Mr. Shao that I would close the shop for the day?" Just as he was about to enter the house, Qiu Yilan suddenly thought and her expression changed, "Why did Mr. Shao open the shop anyway?" Even if he had seen it before, Shao Yuemei's connections, at this moment Qiu Yilan also had the idea of driving away this female gentleman: Doesn't this look down on herself too much
Fortunately, Xia Ran quickly explained: "Mr. Shao is on vacation. Today, Miss Sheng and Miss Fourth came to ask for help. Mr. Shao also said he was tired and ignored him. But they decided to stay and serve Mr. Shao..."
"Let them go!" Qiu Yilan said with a gloomy face, "Look at how idle they are, are they waiting for someone?! And Mr. Shao doesn't have any maids to serve him anymore? Or did I not give Mr. Shao a servant to serve?!"
Xia Ran saw that she looked bad, so he quickly agreed and walked towards Sheng Shishui and the others.
Qiu Yilan just entered the room. Because she was in a very bad mood, she didn't even bother to listen to Su He who was following behind her and quietly explained what happened after they were separated. She only said, "I want to be quiet. Call me again at dinner." !" He walked into the inner room and closed the door with a bang!