Chapter 31

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"That's what you said." Xue Yao laughed coldly, not showing any weakness, "You should go and invite the old lady here right now, you just snuck into my house and smashed the lock but failed to do so, and then falsely accused me of hiding something unseemly."

The food he redeemed was kept in the Gap Mall, and there were no bags left in the box.

In fact, the bags could also be placed in the Gap Mall, but with a total of one cubic meter of storage space, Xue Yao was a bit of an organizing addict and couldn't bear to see the mess, so she secretly burned the bags that she couldn't use and disposed of them.

Packaging garbage is not much, the five emperors do not love sweets, the six emperors eat small, but also the little fat cub usually eat a little more, a day at most need to deal with five or six small bags.

Xue Qiong stared at him, wanting to bluff Xue Yao with harsh words, but he was abashed at the thought of going to the old lady.

At her age, the old lady has seen a lot of things, and after a few times together, she saw Xue Qiong's greedy nature.

She hates such dolls, and usually in front of Xue Qiong, she intentionally puts up the elder's face and doesn't give a good face, but she loves Xue Yao from the bottom of her heart.

The old lady's favoritism was something Xue Yao could afford.

Xue Yao grew up as an orphan in his last life, and when he was given a little sunshine, he could not wait to return the favor.

Even if the cluelessness and naiveté is feigned, his good heart, filial piety, and understanding of gratitude are all true.

Moreover, he was sweet-talking and good at talking, and he took care of other people's faces, so even the old master, who was never intimate with his grandchildren, liked him more and more.

Especially last time, Xue Yao "accidentally" enlightened the old master on the matter of the farm, the old master subconsciously regarded Xue Yao as a little blessing, and as soon as he saw him, he was in a good mood.

The two top figures in the Xue Mansion favored Xue Yao, and Xue Qiong didn't dare to alarm the old madam, but she wasn't willing to leave just like that.

Chen suspected that Xue Yao had been blessed with some kind of witchcraft, and her personality and mind were like a new person, so she privately asked her subordinates to keep an eye on Xue Yao.

Xue Qiong was the one who was the most active in staking out the area, and over the past half month, he often smelled a strange burnt smell in the courtyard, and followed the smell to find it-it was coming from Xue Yao's room.

He had been staring for half a month, and finally realized that in the dead of night, Xue Yao's house occasionally flickered with a burst of firelight, and that strange smell faintly penetrated the window cracks.

He tried to peek in to see what Xue Yao was up to, but the doors and windows were shut tightly by Xue Yao, so he couldn't see at all.

Xue Qiong s boy thought of a way to dig a neat wooden hole in the Xue Yao wooden window frame, and the top of the dug out wood knocked a thin nail.

When you peeked in the middle of the night, you could see what Xue Yao was doing through the holes by hooking a nail with a piece of thread and pulling out the block of wood.

It's hard to notice a little trick like that.

The night before, when Xue Qiong and his followers witnessed Xue Yao burning strange things in a copper basin, they assumed that it was really as Mother had said - that Xue Yao was engaging in some kind of witchcraft and evil magic.

No wonder the old lady favors him so much! Must have been possessed!

"You must be hiding something unseemly!" Xue Qiong was worried that Xue Yao was transferring the stolen goods, so she shouted towards the door, "Ask Mistress to come over! Call Aunt Zhou as well, call everyone you can, so that everyone can see what kind of evil this brat is secretly doing in the house!"

A few moments later, a group of masters and servants from the third house all came and surrounded Xue Yao's bedroom.

"Mistress, I saw with my own eyes Xue Yao burning so many evil things in the copper basin, Little Douzi saw it too!" Xue Qiong pointed to the box under the bed, "There are many more evil things hidden in that box!"

The practice of witchcraft is not only a taboo in the palace, but also a matter of life and death when caught in the mansion.

Xue Yao looked at Xue Qiong and Chen with a cold face and didn't say anything, just to see if they dared to search with their hands.

Chen stared at Xue Yao for a while and faintly said, "A child's home, what evil things can there be? Xue Yao, open the box yourself and let your brother take a look, he's also afraid that you'll be fooled by someone outside and involve the people in the house."

Although she didn't know what was going on, Aunt Zhou was afraid that her son really had some kind of handle on them, so she hurriedly stepped forward to stop them: "Without any evidence, why are you searching Yao Ge'er's suitcase? Who in the house has been possessed and testified that Yao Ge'er is a ghost, or who is missing property and saw Yao Ge'er take it? He's the master's son, and you're really not giving him any face by searching his personal belongings in front of all these people! If you want to make a scene, let's go to the Old Madame and let the whole house watch you search Yao's personal belongings!"

Chen's face turned blue as she said in a cold voice, "Do you really think that I won't dare to search if you move out the old lady?"

She turned her head to look sternly at Xue Qiong, "You did see your brother hiding evil things?"

Xue Qiong assured, "I saw it with my own eyes!"

"Good." Chen turned her head and ordered her maid, "Invite the old lady here and watch the search of the box together, if you don't find anything extraordinary, let me and Xue Qiong be subjected to the family law!"

The maid led the order to go, Aunt Zhou was so scared that she hurriedly blocked the way, and first took the pot to her own head: "The things in that box, most of them are the things I gave to Yao Geer, some of them are the dirt things from the old family ......."

"Shut up!" Chen's see her heart is weak, the heart is even more certain that there is a ghost in this box, immediately with the maid to go to ask the old lady to come to testify.

She was going to expose this bitch mother and son's unseemly and evil ways today!

"Mistress!" Aunt Zhou was so scared that her legs went weak.

"Let her go, go and ask the old madam to come over." Xue Yao remained expressionless, but when she saw the tears in Aunt Zhou's eyes, her heart softened again and she whispered to her, "Don't be afraid, it's fine."

So the old lady who was listening to the singing was invited to the side yard.

After hearing what happened, the old lady scolded Chen for picking a fight and throwing dirty water.

Chen was scolded, but did not retreat, said the yard recently too many strange things, there is always a strange smell from the house of Yao Ge'er, people are afraid, even if I offended the old lady, but also want to seek peace of mind, if she wronged Yao Ge'er, voluntarily with his son to receive the family law.

The old lady actually does not want to search Xue Yao's fine soft, this kind of thing out of anyone's heart are not sure, for fear that the box is hidden in the head of a monster like.

But without saying a word, Xue Yao walked over to the bed, bent down and dragged out the wooden box, and opened it in front of everyone.

The two-foot-square wooden box was empty, with only a few delicate silver ingots neatly placed in the upper right corner, a silver ticket with a few small muppets pressed against it, and small wooden carved toys next to it, and no other objects.

At a glance, there are no evil things.

Xue Yao picked the things out one by one: ''I work for the seventh prince as a companion, the prince is young and loves these gadgets, these are all for him, when he gets tired of playing with them, he'll change them.

These two silver ingots were rewarded to me by the old lady a few days ago.

This silver ticket is the Queen Shi Fei long ago reward, I take to the candy store to buy food, the shopkeeper said the cabinet can not find, let me go to cash broken silver, I'm too lazy to go to cash, it has been shelved did not spend out."

Chen's face was pale, her eyes darted around in a pile of small toys, and then reluctantly looked into the box again, itching to dismantle the box to see if there were any secret compartments.

Xue Qiong, however, had not yet realized his sin of wrongly accusing his brother, and when he hit his eyes to look at the silver ticket, he was scared and screamed by the fifty taels face value on it!

"Fifty taels! Where did you get fifty taels of silver! I've been by the side of the Grand Prince for so many years, and I've never been rewarded with more than five coins of silver, so how is it possible that Auntie Shio rewarded you with so much silver!"

Xue Yao looked up at Xue Qiong nonchalantly, "I just accompanied the Seventh Prince to the Yangxin Palace to meet the Emperor this day, how come I didn't see you following the Grand Prince around?"

"Nonsense!" Xue Qiong said sharply, "Can your three year old master be compared to our Grand Prince? I was grinding ink and laying paper for His Highness in the study, my learning is still far from satisfactory, it's not my turn to follow around the Grand Prince!"

Without waiting for Xue Yao to speak, Chen slapped Xue Qiong on the mouth, forbidding him to babble.

Xue Qiong's words obviously offended the Seventh Prince, offending the Seventh Prince is offending Consort Shih, but Consort Shih is the most favored consort, blowing two pillow winds in front of the Emperor, Master Xue's life will be over!

Xue Yao smiled faintly, "Why can't brother serve along? The Seventh Prince can't be away from me every moment, and Empress Shi Fei is extremely kind to me, and I didn't ask for many of the rewards."

Xue Qiong a moment can not care about his mockery, eye red that fifty silver, anxious to forget the old lady in the side watching, directly open the mouth to play rogue said: "master reward silver, you do not know filial piety to the master and wife, so much silver, on their own a person to hide? I have to half a penny will tell the master and wife!"

"Joke!" The old lady on the side couldn't hear it anymore, "Yao's reward money, why should I give it to others? There are still things I gave him here, is it possible that you all enjoy them on weekdays?"

Xue Qiong was bluffed and hurriedly lowered his head, not daring to speak.

Chen was just about to explain, when Aunt Zhou opened her mouth to make up for it, "Old Madame's rewards, Yao'er is precious to them, and Qiong'er only enjoys the food you send to the courtyard on weekdays for him."

The old lady sniffed and glared, and Chen's face instantly turned pale!

New scores and old scores were settled together, slandering Xue Yao and hijacking the rewards.

Chen was punished to go to the shrine, copy the scriptures and eat fasting for half a month.

Xue Qiong was disposed of by the family law, twenty strokes of the board, it is estimated that it will take a month to get out of bed.

This is going to take a lot of time off for mother and son.

Xue Yao was glad that he chose to open the gap space in the first place, or else there would have been a bottle of Want Want, three bottles of Mengniu yogurt, half a kilogram of Milk Fritter candies, and a kilogram of Hershey's chocolates in the wooden box today.

This time he intentionally made a big deal out of it, because he could see that Xue Qiong was not prepared, and the lock of the box did not have signs of smashing open, or else wait until the next time, when the mother and son intentionally stuffed things to plant evidence, and he would have a hard time defending himself.

It was also fortunate that Aunt Zhou was timid and weak-minded enough to want to take the blame for him, which allowed Chen to bite the bullet and say that there were unseemly things hidden in the box, so she lifted a stone and smashed her own foot.

In the middle of the night, you can hear Xue Qiong lying on the bed next door, sobbing in pain.

Xue Yao sipped her yogurt and knocked back her chocolate, and listened beautifully.

*

The imperial sons are tested monthly on their martial arts, in addition to their academic studies.

The martial arts training ground is far away from the Palace of Nourishing Heart, the emperor did not have time to personally come to inspect, are handed over to the eldest prince to inspect his younger brothers.

Daqi's litter of royal cubs are all pretty good at martial arts, and even the straw bag third prince isn't afraid of the riding test.

Early in the morning, the royal sons were all there.

The older princes and companions were dressed in valiant riding attire, but among them was a handsome boy of fifteen or sixteen who looked different.

He was dressed in a dashing and suave moonlight-white straightjacket, waving his folding fan gently, sitting in the corner without even a follower behind him.

This young man's eyebrows and eyes look three times like the Emperor's, but also very strange.

Xue Yao guessed that this young man should be the "God of Geeks" Second Prince.

Several older princes were warming up, preparing for the next archery competition, only this green-shirted teenager was still shaking his fan, with only a pair of fox-like smiling eyes showing behind the fan.

When the Grand Prince and the Fourth Prince passed in front of them, the green-shirted teenager steeply stretched out his arm and spread out his folding fan to stop the two in their path.

The Grand Emperor looked down with an expressionless face and realized that there was a piece of talisman paper lying horizontally on the fan, with two words written vertically on the paper - "Brother Ao".

The Grand Emperor expressionlessly ignored the talismanic paper, and with an eye blade, slanted towards the Second Emperor who had handed over the note.

Yesterday let father's emperor's pigeon, today are going to race and still do not change clothes, this younger brother is really not beaten up!

Seeing that a dynamic education was about to begin, the Fourth Prince immediately stepped forward to relieve himself, picked up the talismanic paper on the fan, stared at the symbol and smacked it for a long time, turned his head to look at the mysterious Second Prince, and asked, "What is the meaning of the word brother ao? Do I need to take it apart to understand it?"

The eldest prince only glanced at it and gave the standard answer with a cold face, "He wants his brother to be the only one to win, this is wishing me to win."

The Second Prince's eyes lit up at his words.

Once again, the heart is in the right place with Big Brother!

The Fourth Prince exclaimed, "Big Brother is truly talented!"

The second prince sniffed and withdrew his arm, flung his folding fan to block a pair of fox-like laughing eyes, and hid behind the fan laughing so hard that his shoulders trembled!

Xue Yao, who was watching from afar, was shocked.

Originally thought that this "otaku god" is a fairy style big brother, now it looks, how there is an unstoppable taste of brother control ......