C57

The angry shout of the Old Madame Ye caused the silence in the room to subside. Jin Lan stuck closely to the old lady, the smile on his face gradually turning into shock. The old lady had actually disregarded everything and embarrassed her mother in front of her daughter.

Not to mention the others, her mother had at least cut off her flesh as a guide, saving the old lady's life. How could she insult her mother like this the moment she returned home?

Could it be that something happened while the old lady was on her way home?

Jin Lan's thoughts raced, but the more he thought about it, the more shocked he became. She looked at Ye Lin who was seated at the side, seeing that he did not say a word, his face was gloomy, obviously knowing the reason behind the Old Granny's actions.

Her heart slowly sank to the bottom. Although she was anxious, she couldn't casually interrupt because she was a junior. Furthermore, she didn't know the current situation, so she could only suppress her emotions.

Madame SHen slowly stood up. Although there was no smile on her face, there was not the slightest bit of panic. She walked up to the old lady and bent her knees deeply. However, she crouched down and did not kneel down. I don't know what mistake the daughter-in-law made to make the old lady so angry, but the daughter-in-law will apologize to you. "

Old Madame Ye squinted her eyes. She had purposely brought out her thunder and lightning fury from the start just to suppress Madame SHen's aura. She did not expect that after not seeing her for half a year, Madame SHen's calm personality had grown even more.

Thinking up to here, Old Madame Ye's narrowed eyes flashed with an ice-cold light, "You still know that you are my Ye Family's daughter-in-law? You have completely lost face for the Ye Family! "

Madame SHen frowned, her beautiful eyebrows knitted together, a trace of seriousness on her face. Even though the old lady didn't like her in the past, she had only used the words of the childless as a reason to oppress her. She had never used such a heavy explanation to suppress her. Old lady, ever since I married into the Ye Family, I have taken care of everything in a neat and orderly manner, and have never done anything that would damage my Ye Family 'face, no matter what.

"Mother, could there be a misunderstanding …" Ye Lin suddenly opened his mouth, but for the first time, he spoke up for Madame SHen. Not only because he needed the help of the Shen Family, but all these years, although Madame SHen did not have any direct sons, but everything else was as she said. He had done very well in all aspects, especially things that were beneficial to him.

"Misunderstanding?" Old Madame Ye immediately glared at Ye Lin, sneered and took out a square piece of white paper from her sleeves, then slammed it onto the table, "Has everyone already written out the paper, and is ready to sue us at the yamen, or is it a misunderstanding?"

Jin Lan's gaze moved to that white piece of paper. It was an ordinary writing paper, the sort that was extremely cheap and had a yellow hue with varying depths. The words on it were written with some sort of cinnabar. Although he couldn't see what was written on it, he could see the red marks on the paper.

Ye Lin picked up the sheet of paper, opened it and looked at it a few times with a face that was extremely ugly to behold. He looked up at Madame SHen, his gaze obscure, as if trying to gauge his gains and losses.

No matter how calm Madame SHen was, she could not remain calm under Ye Lin's gaze. She tried her best to stabilize her tone and said calmly: "I don't know what crime I have committed, please enlighten me old lady."

Old Madame Ye snorted coldly, she raised the teacup to her mouth and took a sip, then said coldly: "Let me ask you, did you send a servant girl to the yamen cell a few days ago?"

Could it be that the old lady was talking about Chun Xiao? Madame SHen suspiciously glanced at Ye Lin, only to see his gaze flicker as he subtly lowered his head.

She immediately understood. "That's right, I did send a maid with malicious intentions to the officials."

Seeing that the Madame SHen recognized her quickly, she then asked: "Then let me ask you one more question, how is the maid now?"

How about it? Isn't that obvious? Since the old lady knew about Chun Xiao's matter, how could she not know that she had died? The reason for her asking was to get her to say it out herself. Madame SHen laughed coldly in her heart as she indifferently replied: "Dead."

Old Madame Ye's face became stern, "That girl died in there for no reason, her family wants to sue us for our lives, and even blocked my palanquin from kneeling down, making it known to everyone, if this isn't disgrace to our Ye Family, then what is it!?"

Blocking the old lady's palanquin while she was on her knees, calling for injustice? Jin Lan's eyelids jumped as he could not sit still.

Chun Xiao's mother only found out about her death last night. Based on Ye Lin's personality, he must have come to find her at the first possible moment, so judging from his actions, it was most likely a matter that happened to Chun Xiao just a day ago. Normally, when the yamen would announce someone, they would also report it to the Ye Mansion. After all, Chun Xiao was a servant of the Ye Mansion, so how did her family know about it?

Besides, he was shouting that he was going to sue the bailiff. He didn't want to hand the paper over to the yamen constables, but he wanted to hand it over to the old lady instead. Furthermore, only Ye Family people knew about the Old Granny's return, and how did Chun Xiao's family know about it? He calculated the time and blocked the palanquin on the street.

If these things were a series of coincidences, then there were too many coincidences. Every single one of them headed straight for her mother, clearly indicating that someone was secretly plotting it.

Since he was aware of Chun Xiao's situation, and also understood the matters of the Ye Family like the back of her hand, the mastermind must be someone from the manor!

Who could it be? Was it Ye Lin or Concubine Shao?

However, Ye Lin was wholeheartedly preparing to return to the capital to continue his duties, so it was unlikely that he would take the initiative and smash his own feet with stones.

In that case, only the Concubine Shao remained.

The old lady returned to the residence with Yu Ge'er. Judging from his performance outside the Hangzhou Sect just now, Yu Ge'er clearly valued the old lady very much. Concubine Shao wanted to borrow the old lady's power to pull his mother down when she had just returned to the residence.

Jin Lan went over all the questions in his mind, filtering through them one by one. His mind became clearer and clearer. After thinking for a while, he came up with a solution.

"Grandmother, Chun Xiao wanted to harm her mother. She is a bad person, shouldn't a bad person be sent to the yamen?"

"And how could she have died in a cell?"

"And it was clearly something that happened in the prison. Why would you blame your mother?"

"Also, Lan Er heard from others that Chun Xiao is very clever, she did not expect her family members to be like that, to be able to guess the time her grandmother returned home. If not for the fact that Steward Li had come to report, Lan Er would not even know this. "

Jin Lan pulled Old Madame Ye's sleeves, blinking his bright eyes, and pouted as he asked. The expression on his face was pure and honest, making it hard for others to tell anything from him.

Old Madame Ye and Ye Lin, one was the mistress of Ye Family and had battled with the Old Master's concubines for most of his life; As Jin Lan's childish voice sounded out, the two of them became more and more unsightly.

Madame SHen looked at Jin Lan lovingly, her nose slightly sour. Her daughter was currently thinking of a way to help her escape.

Even though his daughter was so young, he still had to worry about her all day. Madame SHen's cold heart slowly breathed in a warm current. She rubbed her eyes with the handkerchief and her indifferent eyes suddenly turned red. With a look of lingering fear, she said to Old Madame Ye while choking: "Old granny, you don't know that Chun Xiao that girl almost …. I've only hit her a few times, and although it's a bit painful, it's definitely not a threat to my life. "

After saying that, she looked up at Ye Lin, and then said softly: "Originally I was thinking that it would be fine to do this, but if we don't investigate it thoroughly, and if there is some other person who sneaked into the residence without knowing, wouldn't it harm the old master and the old lady? That's why I sent Chun Xiao to the yamen. I wanted to take this opportunity to beat her up so that she could say who the mastermind was. I never thought that she would do something like this! "

The words of the Madame SHen caused the complexions of the Old Madame Ye and Ye Lin to change. In the eyes of many, the glory of Ye Family was like a thorn that they wanted to pull out quickly.

The sternness in Old Madame Ye's eyes slowly faded. Madame SHen was right, since she could even sneak in a forbidden place like the Snow Lirius, then what else would she do next? Especially at such a sensitive time, what was waiting for the Ye Family was probably the disaster of clan extermination.

When their gazes fell into the eyes of the Madame SHen, a smile flew past the corner of her mouth. Then, she softly said: "Besides, Chun Xiao's death, indeed has nothing to do with me.