Red Mansion and Crimson Pearl

Chapter 481 Lips and Teeth

"I am the real aunt!" Madam Wang Ziteng hurriedly pushed Madam Xiao Shihou aside and rushed forward to grab the bars of the prison door, "Let me go and talk to my niece too!"

Princess Xining and the Crown Prince's wife had already lost heart. They returned to their original places without saying a word and sat down again, supporting each other.

Madam Xiao Shihou glanced at the two of them, and forced herself to put on a kind smile. She gently helped Madam Wang Ziteng and said to the jailer:

“It’s true that the mother and daughter have private conversations, but we relatives also want to find out about the family’s situation.

"There is an unmarried girl in my in-laws' family. We have no news now and don't know what's going on with her.

"As a mother, she is naturally worried. If you can ask our niece about the child's current situation, you will be doing a good deed!"

As he said this, he supported Mrs. Wang Ziteng, who was crying, and knelt down in front of the female prisoner.

The female prisoner hesitated for a moment, then turned to look at her colleague: "What do you think?"

The colleague took a half step back and waved his hands repeatedly: "I don't care! I don't know and I didn't see it!" Then he turned and walked away to "check" the prisoners in other cells.

The female jailer gritted her teeth, put the shackles back on her waist, and shouted in a low voice: "Shut up first!"

Become!

Madam Xiao Shihou was secretly delighted. She quickly covered Madam Wang Ziteng's mouth and urged her: "Good sister! Shut up!"

Mrs. Wang Ziteng whimpered twice, nodded vigorously, covered her mouth with her hands, and tried hard to stop crying.

Madam Xiao Shihou then let go of her hand and deliberately stepped back: "Then sister, hurry up and follow!"

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Wang Ziteng was so excited that her legs were so weak that she could not even stand, let alone walk over by herself.

The female jailer looked at her sympathetically and pointed at Madam Xiao Shihou impatiently: "Hurry up and support her!"

Mrs. Xiao Shihou could not hide her joy, and kept thanking him. She supported Mrs. Wang Ziteng and followed the female jailer, slowly moving towards the cell over there.

the other side.

Xue Baochai watched the jailer leave and then stopped crying. She choked up and asked Aunt Xue in a low voice, "Did the divine monk interrogate me? What did mother say?"

"Of course we have tried them, but Madam Shihou and the others...we have agreed in private that no one is allowed to say anything."

Aunt Xue whispered in her daughter's ear, "Your uncle and his friends have already colluded with each other, and no one will give in!"

Xue Baochai sneered, hugged her mother's shoulders, and whispered in her ear: "The women of Rongfu and Baoyu have been pardoned and will be able to return to their hometown next month!"

Aunt Xue was horrified and grabbed her daughter's hand: "Why? Your aunt was involved in everything that happened back then!

"She was a wife of the Jia family at that time, how could the Jia family escape unscathed while none of us could escape?

"And there's the young Marquis Shi's family. They have more face in front of the King of the West than your uncle! Shouldn't the old lady of the Shi family be punished as well?!"

Her voice became louder uncontrollably.

Xue Baochai continued to sneer and asked her, "Yes! Our family is far away in Jinling, how much can we participate?

"On the contrary, it was the Jia family. The Western King was hanging around through the Shi family, and the palace even offered a daughter to be a concubine!

"Everything from prosperity to wealth is inseparable from them!

"Not only did our family not gain any benefits, but we were also ordered around by them and used as a tool!

"In the end, even my niece was sold to our long-time enemy, Prince Zhongshun's Mansion, as a token of our loyalty!

"Why?

“Mother, don’t be silly and listen to those nonsense stories made up by Madam Xiao Shihou and my aunt about being in the same boat!

"As soon as Wang Xifeng went to the palace, everyone's house was surrounded and ransacked the next morning! Unfortunately, only the second master of the Jia family died, and the others were all saved!

"Don't you understand yet?!"

Aunt Xue opened her eyes wide in horror: "You, how do you know all this? And when did you know it?!"

Xue Baochai lowered her eyes and said, "On the day Wang Xifeng entered the palace, I also followed the prince and the prince into the palace to visit the emperor and the queen mother."

After a slight hesitation, he told his mother half-truthfully, "I was left in a small Buddhist hall in the side hall of the Yanjia Palace to copy Buddhist scriptures.

"Someone didn't notice I was there, and said a lot of things, and I heard them all."

Aunt Xue's face turned pale: "So you knew about it a long time ago, but you didn't tell the family?!"

The look in his eyes when he looked at his daughter was full of disbelief, suspicion and disappointment.

Xue Baochai gave a bitter smile, hugged her mother, and cried, "My dear mother! Who said I didn't tell her?

"When I returned to the palace that day, I asked Ying'er to go home.

"But it was already late, and I had to tell the truth if I went out again. How could I dare to tell the prince that I overheard such an important matter?

"So I waited until the next morning and found an excuse to let Ying'er return home. But I never expected that the emperor would take action the next day!

"Ying'er came back crying and told me that not only our house was surrounded, but also the four kings and eight dukes could not escape!

"She even heard people say that our old house in Jiangnan had been confiscated!"

Speaking of the old house in Jiangnan, Aunt Xue suddenly felt guilty.

Xue Baochai looked at her mother's expression and understood a little more. She became more anxious and pulled her mother hard:

"Mom! Don't be confused at this critical moment!

"It was because of Wang Xifeng that the Jia family only held the men responsible and spared all the women in the mansion!

"The Wang family refused to say anything. But now, their sons, daughters, and servants are all locked up in the Yushen Temple outside the capital because the Dali Temple can no longer hold them!

"Mom, do you also want my brother and I to be locked up in the Prison Temple?!"

Aunt Xue was speechless and then bit her lip.

Baochai looked at her mother with a complex expression, and after a few breaths, she decided to add fuel to the fire:

"So many things happened to the Jia and Wang families, all of which were handled by my aunt and Wang Xifeng!

"After my aunt died, Wang Xifeng went to the court again, and no one made things difficult for her!

"Even when Second Brother Lian was being escorted back from a faraway place, she was still the head of the Rongguo Mansion, bossing people around!

“This is the credit for being the first!

"Mom, you too!"

Having said that, Aunt Xue’s heart was pounding!

yes……

If he turned himself in, he could gain his freedom. Even if he lost the huge fortune of the Xue family, at least he still had his son and daughter to rely on!

“When those things happened, you and your brother were still young, you didn’t know anything, you were all innocent!

"Not to mention you, even your father and your uncle were kept in the dark by me!

“In fact, even I didn’t quite know what to do beforehand, it was your uncle who wrote to me and sent people!

"I just care about what they want, and I will quietly give it out from the Xue family!"

Aunt Xue finally spoke.

Xue Baochai's eyes lit up frighteningly: "What did they want?!"

"Some...medicine..." Aunt Xue said with difficulty.

Just when Xue Baochai was about to strike while the iron was hot and ask further questions, the sinister voice of Mrs. Xiao Shihou rang out:

“Sister Wang, is this how you harm your mother’s family?

"Don't forget that the lives of your brother, nephews and nieces are between your lips and teeth!"