Chapter 121: A Moth (10)

Han Jianming never showed up, just waiting for Han Jianye to come to him. With Yuxi's reminder last time, Han Jianming also realized that he was too protective of his younger brother, so he let Han Jianye solve many things by himself. Even if things were messed up by Han Jianye, he would not show up.

Hearing that Han Jianye had returned to his yard, Han Jianming ordered his entourage: "If the second master comes, let the second master wait for me in the study." After speaking, Han Jianming returned to the Songxiang courtyard.

When Han Jianming arrived at Songxiangyuan, Mrs. Ye was playing with the child in her arms. The child has no real name until now, only a nickname, Qiqi. It's not that Han Jianming doesn't pay attention to his eldest daughter, but that the child is too young, and he plans to wait for the child to be one year old before taking a name.

Seeing Han Jianming approaching, Mrs. Ye smiled and said, "Master is back." Then he waved the child in his arms, and said with a smile, "Qiqi, look, this is Daddy."

Looking at his daughter, Han Jianming's expression softened a lot. However, he came here to find Mrs. Ye on business, not to see the child on purpose. He motioned to Mrs. Hua to take the child down, then looked at Mrs. Ye and said, "Didn't you notice anything unusual about Qiu Yanfu during this time?" As the mistress of the house, she should know everything about the mansion well. Of course, if it's his mother, there may be omissions. But Mrs. Ye, there is absolutely no problem of omissions. When Han Jianming asked this, he was actually asking why Qiu Yanfu knew that Qiu Yanfu was plotting against Han Jianye, but she stood by and did nothing.

Mrs. Ye also said frankly: "At that time, I thought there was something wrong with Qiu Yanfu, but after I found out that the maid next to Qiu Yanfu, Xiaotong, belonged to the fourth sister, I stopped investigating. Fourth sister and Qiu Yanfu Fu doesn't deal with it, since she let her go by Qiu Yanfu's side, Fourth Sister will definitely know what Qiu Yanfu wants to do." This means that Yuxi knew that Qiu Yanfu wanted to plot against Han Jianye, but she didn't stop her.

Seeing Han Jianming's expressionless face, Mrs. Ye bit the bullet and explained: "Master, there were too many things going on in the mansion at that time. I had to take the children to do the housework and help my mother Zhang Luo's second brother's marriage. It's lack of skills. So I didn't care if my fourth sister was with Qiu Yanfu. If I knew that such a thing would happen, I would definitely stop it at that time." Although the words did not say anything, the meaning was very clear. The main responsibility lies on Yuxi, she is only responsible for neglecting to monitor.

Ever since this incident happened, Han Jianming has suspected that he fell in love with Mrs. Ye. In order to confirm his suspicion, he had Ah Zhao and several other people interrogated. It turned out to be obvious that Mrs. Ye knew something was wrong with Qiu Yanfu, but she just kept doing nothing. Han Jianming believed that Ye's inaction was intentional, and the purpose was to create trouble for Lu Xiu. If this is the case, he will have to change his attitude towards Mrs. Ye. After all, Mrs. Ye will be the mistress of the Han family. If Mrs. Ye is so short-sighted and narrow-minded, he has to prepare in advance. Han Jianming said with a sullen face: "Are you sure Qiu Yanfu has Yuxi's people?" If Yuxi let this matter go, then he has to talk to Yuxi to see what this girl is planning.

This is the difference in position. Ye's laissez-faire will make Han Jianming have bad intentions. And Yuxi let this matter go, Han Jianming felt that she had ulterior motives. Because Han Jianming believes that Yuxi will not harm Han Jianye.

Mrs. Ye nodded and said, "Xiao Tong was specially placed by the fourth sister in Shuixiangyuan. Besides Xiao Tong, there are two other maids. But Xiao Tong is taking care of Qiu Yanfu personally, and she is more trusted by Qiu Yanfu." In fact, what Qiu Yanfu trusts most is the two maids she brought from Hebei, but the two maids are not enough, so she has to use the people allocated to her in the Duke's mansion. Xiaotong is more honest and responsible. After observing her for more than half a year, Qiu Yanfu felt that she was useful, so she mentioned it to her side.

Yuxi had told Xiaotong a long time ago that unless it was a major event, she should not pass on information about small matters, so Xiaotong didn't reveal it until this time.

Han Jianming nodded after hearing this. After asking Mrs. Ye some more things, he left Songxiangyuan.

Looking at Han Jianming's back,

Ye Shi let out a sigh of relief. It was the first time she had lied in front of her master, but fortunately Yuxi was in front of her, otherwise this matter would not be good.

Before entering the study, his entourage, Han Hao, came out and said, "Master, the second master is here and is waiting for you in the study."

Han Jianming nodded, and said to Han Hao: "Go and invite the fourth girl over, just say that I have something to ask her, and tell her to come over."

Han Hao responded, "I'll go right away."

After entering the study, Han Jianming shook his head slightly as he looked at his brother with his head drooping. When he was a child, he was always busy with his studies and making friends to broaden his network, so he didn't have much time to pay attention to this younger brother. When he wanted to pay attention, he found that his mother had already formed Jianye into such a character: "It's just a woman climbing on the bed, so I made you look like this, let's see how promising you are."

Han Jianye thought that Han Jianming would scold him, but he didn't expect Han Jianming to tell the matter so calmly: "Brother, I'm just, after all, I ruined Qiu Yanfu's innocence..."

Han Jianming smiled: "According to what you mean, if you accidentally sleep with an innocent brothel woman, you have to take it home?" In Han Jianming's mind, brothel women are better than Qiu Yanfu. At least it costs money to sleep with a woman in a brothel. Qiu Yanfu is rushing to let a man sleep.

Han Jianye shook his head immediately and said, "Brother, where are you going? Qiu Yanfu is the niece of the third aunt. If I don't accept her as a concubine, it will not sound good to spread the word."

Han Jianming looked at the desk with his fingers, and made a clacking sound: "I didn't stop you from taking Qiu Yanfu as a concubine, I was just talking about your performance in handling this matter. Qiu Yanfu is a girl from a good family, even if you are taken by her Calculated, but in the end, her innocence has been ruined. If you let her commit suicide, it will be bad for your reputation and affect your official career, so it is imperative to take her as a concubine. But you can't talk about these reasons After listening to your explanation, will mother still object? Or do you think mother will not care about your future?"

Han Jianye lowered his head and didn't dare to speak: "It's because I didn't handle things properly." He didn't know what happened at that time, seeing Qiu Yanfu who had hanged himself, and seeing his mother's indifferent attitude, his brain started to bump into heat. Looking back now, he was too much of an asshole.

Han Jianming didn't scold him, let alone reprimanded him. He just said, "Jianye! You're seventeen this year, and you're going to start a family soon. Maybe you'll be a father next year. But you're like this, you can afford it." Husband and father's responsibility?"

Han Jianye said confidently, "I can afford it."

Han Jianming smiled lightly: "Second brother, you can't afford these two responsibilities. Otherwise, you wouldn't have handled the matter as it is now. Tell me, how do you explain to the Lu family? Do you think you should go to Lu now? What will happen if you tell them that you want to take Third Aunt's niece as a concubine?"

Han Jianye sank after hearing this: "Brother, I have no other ideas. I just don't want her to die, and she died because of me."

Han Jianming knocked on the desk again: "I am your eldest brother, even if you do something wrong, I will forgive you. But the Lu family is different. They are willing to marry their daughter to you because they think you can treat Lu Xiuhao. But what do you think they would think if they knew that you were a woman who plotted against you for a woman, and even disobeyed your own mother?" Having said this, Han Jianming stabbed Han Jianye in the heart again: "What do you think is the difference between your behavior and Ye Er's?"

Han Jianye was dumbfounded, and after a while, Han Jianye said: "Brother, I don't have any thoughts about Qiu Yanfu. I don't want her to die because of me, and I ruined her innocence, so I accept her Concubine, I really didn't think much about the rest."

At this time, Han Hao raised his voice outside and said, "Second Master, Second Master, Fourth Miss is here."

Han Jianye raised his head and asked Han Jianming: "Brother, what did you ask Fourth Sister to come over?" When he came here, he deliberately didn't let anyone tell Yuxi.

Han Jianming said lightly, "Call Fourth Sister over to let you know how stupid you are." It was really hard to endure, and Han Jianming still cursed. It was really hard to face such a stupid younger brother. up.

Yuxi entered the study and greeted the two of them first. He handed the small heater in his hand to Han Jianye who was next to him, then took off his green emerald-pattern brocade Yuanhu fur cloak and put it on the chair, and took back the hand stove in Han Jianye's hand. Even if Han Jianming didn't get someone to call her, she was ready to come.

There was a smile on the corner of Han Jianming's mouth, but he quickly suppressed it, and asked expressionlessly: "I heard that the maid Xiaotong next to Qiu Yanfu belongs to you?"

Yuxi nodded and said: "Yes! When they came back last year, I arranged for them to go in. Including Xiaotong, I arranged for a total of four people to go in. But only Xiaotong is closer to Qiu Yanfu." There were only eight of them, and she arranged for four of them. Those who didn't know thought that the two had a deep hatred.

Han Jianye looked at Yuxi with some doubts in his eyes.

Han Jianming asked directly: "Since this girl belongs to you, did she realize that Qiu Yanfu wanted to plot against your second brother? Did she tell you?"

Yu Xi said briskly: "From Qiu Yanfu's thoughts to the time Qiu Yanfu brought the sour plum soup with spring and medicine to the second brother's yard, I knew it all."

Hearing this, Han Jianye seemed not to know Yuxi, and asked, "Yuxi, since you know, why didn't you tell me?" If Yuxi told him, there would be nothing about last night. But Yuxi didn't tell him a word.

Han Jianming looked at Yu Xi and asked, "Tell me, why didn't you tell this matter?"

Before Yuxi could speak, Han Jianye looked at Yuxi with deep disappointment in his eyes: "Fourth sister, why didn't you tell me about such a big matter? Even if you didn't tell me, you can tell mother. But you How can you just look at me..." The next words were swallowed under his elder brother's cold eyes. It's not that he's timid, it's that his elder brother's eyes are too scary.

ps: I was so excited yesterday that I sent out the morning draft, and then struggled until after twelve o'clock to finish coding this chapter. O(∩_∩)O~, when you are reading the article, June must still be meeting Duke Zhou. (to be continued)