The lake breeze was blowing, and the elders sat in the water pavilion, enjoying the scenery through the window. Lu Mingyu and the other girls stood in front of the railings by the lake, watching the koi in the water waving their heads and tails, swimming under the green lotus leaves.

"Second sister, look at that one, it's so big!" Seeing a koi that was about two feet long, Chu Xiang excitedly pointed it to Chu Ying.

Chu Ying was short and stood on tiptoe and looked into the water.

Lu Mingyu pretended to change positions, walked from the left side of the team to the right, and glanced casually over the hem of the Chu sisters' skirts, and saw that the Nanzhu on Chu Xiang's left foot was missing.

Chu Xiang...

Lu Mingyu couldn't help but sweat for Chen Lianshuang. Chu Ying was weak and would not easily argue with others. Chu Xiang was arrogant and domineering. Who dared to offend her? As long as her status was not as good as Chu Xiang, Chu Xiang would dare to peel off the other party. Although Chu Xiang is only four years old now and can't think of a way to torture her when she is angry, but...

Lu Mingyu looked at the water pavilion, and Chen Lianshuang sat under the head of the eldest lady, with pink face and peach cheeks, quiet and gentle, like a dignified lady.

Lu Mingyu sighed in his heart. If you want to blame, you should blame Chen Lianshuang for his bad intentions. The eldest uncle and his family are kind enough to take in her to take care of her. With Chen Lianshuang's appearance, as long as she is calm and obedient, the eldest lady will arrange a good marriage for her. However, Chen Lianshuang is ungrateful and intends to seduce her second uncle, so the eldest lady cannot blame her for taking the initiative.

Walking to the guardrail, Lu Mingyu looked at the fish silently.

Chu Xiang chattered beside him for a long time, and was thirsty, so he ran to the water pavilion to drink water. Seeing his granddaughter's face flushed, the lady smiled and called Chu Xiang to her side, wiping her sweat to Chu Xiang while joking: "Look at Xiang Xiang, you're so happy that so many sisters have come to play with you?"

Chu Xiang laughed.

Mrs. Chu Er subconsciously looked at her daughter's feet. These Nanzhu are rare. The eldest daughter loves her sisters and makes two pairs of embroidered shoes. She changes her second wife. She is reluctant to put such a precious Nanzhu on the embroidered shoes. What if the children are naughty and lost? In the morning, my daughter changed her clothes, and Mrs. Chu Er repeatedly reminded her daughter to pay attention to shoes at all times.

Unexpectedly, I was afraid of anything, and the Nanzhu on my daughter's left shoe was really gone!

"Xiangxiang, did the Nanzhu on your shoes fall?" Mrs. Chu Er is a lady from a famous family. She has grown up in a pile of gold and jade since she was a child. If a Nanzhu is lost, she will hope to find it, but she will not be too anxious. Seeing that all the female relatives nearby looked over, Mrs. Chu Er explained with a smile: "Xiangxiang is naughty. Her sister brought the shoes over. I knew she would definitely get them off. I didn't expect that she would wear them for a long time..."

After saying that, he teased his daughter like a joke, "It will fall off, and I will turn back and let someone make a necklace for you."

The implication was that she felt that Nanzhu was still in her daughter's hands, otherwise she would ask her daughter directly if she had lost it, which made her look like a Nanzhu, which was not good-looking.

Four-year-old Chu Xiang didn't have the cunning of her mother. When she saw that her most precious Nanzhu was lost, the little girl blushed in anger, "Mom, my Nanzhu is gone!"

Mrs. Chu's second wife changed her face slightly, and her beautiful eyes were slanted toward her daughter Lan Xia. Lan Xia was so scared that her face turned pale and she knelt down, "Madam, I only realized that the girl's Nanzhu is gone. I'll help me calm down. I'll go find her now!"

As early as Chu Xiang shouted loudly, the water pavilion became quiet. Everyone present knew how expensive the southern bead was. The bead was really lost, and it was the best to find it. Once it couldn't be found, the children who had just played with Chu Xiang would become the first person the Chu family doubted.

Several female relatives who brought their daughter to look at each other, then turned to the children who were watching the fish in front of the guardrail. Of course, they believed in their daughter's upbringing, but the adults were moved when they saw the pearl. Maybe the little girl was greedy for a moment, so what should I do if I secretly put it away after picking it up?

Some people were worried about their daughter, the eldest lady and the second lady looked at Chen Lianshuang at the same time. They were both suspicious of the target, but compared to their own family, even the second lady would be the first to suspect Chen Lianshuang, an orphan who had never seen the world.

Chen Lianshuang had some experience in hooking up with men, but she was only fourteen years old and was suspected of being greedy for the first time in her life. Chen Lianshuang clearly didn't take it, but could face this matter with confidence. But when she found that the two ladies of the Lu family suspected her, Chen Lianshuang suddenly panicked. She didn't know what she was afraid of, she just felt that everyone was looking at her and was doubting her. She explained that it was tantamount to being 300 taels of silver here, but continued to remain silent. Will those people feel that she was guilty?

Chen Lianshuang was stunned. She sat there stiffly, not knowing where to look at her eyes, and wanted to be calm and generous, but her physical reaction was not controlled by her at all. Her face became hotter and hotter, so hot that she knew very well that her current appearance must be more suspicious.

Just as everyone noticed Chen Lianshuang's strangeness, Mrs. Chu sent Lan Xia calmly and said, "Don't worry, the third girl is naughty, it must be where it fell. Think carefully about where the third girl has gone to play. As long as it is not located in a too biased place, you can definitely find it."

The lady did not punish her, Lan Xia's heart, which had jumped to her throat, fell back to her stomach, and hurriedly took someone to find Nanzhu.

She walked out, and the little girls such as Lu Mingyu were attracted by the movements in the water pavilion and walked in curiously.

"Xuan'er, the southern pearl on Xiangxiang's shoes fell off. Have you seen it?" Xiao Huan's mother, Yu, the prince's concubine of the Zhuang Prince's Mansion, was the first to call her daughter Xiao Xuan to her side and asked openly.

Chen Lianshuang thought a lot, because she is older and sensible. Xiao Xuan is only seven years old and doesn’t know so many twists and turns. Hearing this, he shook his head blankly, and looked at Chu Xiang and said obediently: “I didn’t see, when did Xiang Xiang fall?”

You Shi also said she didn't know. After asking her daughter, she raised her head and looked like this had nothing to do with my daughter.

The other wives followed suit, and the eldest lady and the second wife also called the four little girls in the family to their side and acted as if they were. In this way, only Chen Lianshuang was not interested. The second wife did not like the sister-in-law who came from a businessman and secretly suggested to the eldest lady to ask Chen Lianshuang. The eldest lady looked at Chen Lianshuang and then asked, "Lianshuang, have you seen it?"

Chen Lian's tears were almost falling, and she slowly got up and said calmly: "Auntie, I..."

Unexpectedly, before she finished speaking, Chu Xiang suddenly ran over and reached out to pull the purse on Chen Lian's waist, "You must have picked it up!"

When the elders asked their friends just now, Chu Xiang had every staring at them. The little girl had her own ideas. She was familiar with these friends. It was easy to believe that only Chen Lianshuang knew her today. Moreover, the grandmother asked who Chen Lianshuang was. Chu Xiang was right beside her, and she could hear that Chen Lianshuang's family was not as good as the Chu family.

A strange poor girl, of course, is most likely to hide her Nanzhu!

The little girl suddenly attacked, but no one expected that when Mrs. Chu Er asked someone to pull her daughter away with a calm face, Chen Lianshuang's purse had been snatched by Chu Xiang. There was a bulge under the purse, and she could not see what was inside. But when Chu Xiang's little hand held the purse out of the shape of a pearl, everyone present changed their faces.

Chen Lianshuang was even more gloomy. How could there be such a roundness in her purse...

At this moment, Chu Xiang pulled the purse's mouth and reached in, and the next moment he took out a Nanzhu!

"Mom, she stole my Nanzhu!"

Chu Xiang was so angry that he ran to his mother and begged her to make a decision.

Mrs. Chu Er had long suspected Chen Lianshuang. Now she really found her daughter's Nanzhu in Chen Lianshuang's purse. Mrs. Chu Er was not too angry. It is predictable that the orphans from small places had a shallow vision and greed for money. In order to show their magnanimity and to give face to the Lu family, Mrs. Chu Er touched her daughter's head and said considerately: "Xiangxiang, you misunderstood. Miss Chen picked up your beads and originally planned to return it to you, but I forgot it just after chatting. Later, you yelled around. Miss Chen was worried that she would be misunderstood, so she didn't say it. Okay, a misunderstanding, Xiangxiang should continue to watch the koi."

Chu Xiang didn't believe it and stared at Chen Lianshuang angrily.

Chen Lianshuang cried, crying so hard that the pear blossoms were raining. She knew that Mrs. Chu Er said that she was coaxing the child. Everyone must have believed that she was deliberately hiding the Nanzhu. Chen Lianshuang didn't want to bear this stigma. She knelt down to Mrs. Chu Er and explained tremblingly, "Mrs. Second, I didn't steal the Nanzhu of the third girl. I was framed..."

"Enough!" The eldest lady with a dark face finally stood up and glared at Chen Lianshuang, "Miss Chen, I think of Lingzun's loyalty to serve the country. I kindly take you in and take you out to see the world, but you... dare not admit your mistakes and want to argue. You are not afraid of embarrassing, I can't afford to lose this face!"

After saying that, he came to the Grandmaster and bowed his knees to apologize. "Madam, I blame me for not knowing people well. I have ruined the happy events in the mansion. I will take people back to teach me first and come to the door to apologize again."

"What is this? A little misunderstanding, don't take it to heart." The lady sighed and tried to keep the guests, "Sit down quickly, the banquet will be started later." Chen Lianshuang has only been in the Lu family for less than half a year. The misconduct is because the Chen family has not taught him well. What does it have to do with the Lu family? But don't affect the harmony between Chu and Lu families because of this.

The eldest lady had no shame to stay any longer. After apologizing again, she led the Lu family to leave the seat early. Chen Lianshuang cried and refused to leave. The eldest lady asked the maid beside her to help her walk, and even blocked her mouth. Lu Mingyu walked next to Lu Jinyu with her head down, feeling the peeping from other women. Lu Mingyu was helpless and tired.

She knew that Chen Lianshuang was wronged. Although Chen Lianshuang was inappropriate in her behavior, Lu Mingyu still felt a little uncomfortable and felt uneasy in her heart when she openly cooperated with her aunt to frame Chen Lianshuang for her innocence. But if she had done it again, Lu Mingyu knew that she would still agree to the aunt, because only in this way could the aunt have a reason to marry the orphan who came to join the Lu family to another place, and would not be discussed in a rash manner.

People have different relatives and distant relatives. Between Chen Lianshuang's innocence and the harmony between the Lu family's back home, Lu Mingyu selfishly chose the latter.
Chapter completed!