Use a substitute on your wedding night to scatter the ashes of your entire family

Aunt Tong was sobered up a little by the slap: "Looking for the second, the second lady?"

"Yes, this matter is so serious that we can't hide it from the Second Madam any longer. We don't even know when the person disappeared! Go find the Second Madam quickly and send everyone in the mansion out to look for him!"

"Yes, yes, yes, find the second lady, find the second lady." Aunt Tong wiped away her tears and staggered towards the gatehouse.

But as soon as he walked out of the room, he saw Xu and a few others coming towards him.

The two maids each held a tray in their hands, on which was placed a set of head ornaments and a pink dress.

Xu is in a very good mood today. The master has hope of promotion, and Lord Lu has already hinted at it.

As long as Xier serves him well and helps the master get promoted, it will only take a word from him.

When he saw Aunt Tong coming out of Li Shuangxi's room, he didn't notice her pale face and red and swollen eyes.

She smiled and said, "Tong, Xi'er is in the room, right? Ask her to take the clothes and try them out to see if they fit her. She will be entering the Lu Mansion tomorrow."

Aunt Tong knelt down in front of Xu with a plop, grabbed her legs and shook her head at her desperately.

When Xu saw Aunt Tong's look, she immediately became unhappy. Without waiting for her to say anything, she kicked Aunt Tong away in disgust, her face darkening.

He shouted coldly, "Tong, you asked the master to let you enter the Lu Mansion. The betrothal gifts have been delivered, and you will enter the house tomorrow. How dare you cry here!"

"Hurry up and get the things to Xier, and teach her how to serve a man!"

"She must always remember that no matter where she goes in the future, she will always be the daughter of the second branch of the Li family, and she must always put the protection of the interests of the Li family first!"

Aunt Tong cried so hard that she couldn't even speak. She could only kowtow to Xu.

Her forehead hit the bluestone slab with a "thump, thump, thump" sound, and even the two maids behind Xu felt pain for her.

I feel sorry for Aunt Tong, her biological mother. It's just a pity...

Seeing Aunt Tong like this, Xu became even more annoyed.

"Someone from the Lu residence will come to carry Xier away tomorrow. If you still look like this and ruin everything, I'll show you how I'll deal with you!"

If you can keep a concubine's daughter alive and well without paving the way for the man in the family to have a career, then what's the point of raising her? Isn't it a waste of food?

Xu's good mood was completely ruined by Aunt Tong's behavior.

He shouted loudly, "Come here, take Tong away and lock her up. Don't let her out before the third lady goes out tomorrow!"

Two sturdy women came immediately, picked up the man from the ground, and started to drag him out.

Aunt Tong didn't know where she got the strength from, but she broke free from the hands of the two and finally said, "Second Madam, the third girl is missing!"

When Xu heard this, she was shocked: "Tong, what did you say?"

"Xier, Xier is missing..." After saying this, she burst into tears again and fell limply to the ground.

"Cry, cry, cry, all you do is cry, what's going on, why don't you explain it clearly!"

"I, I don't know either. Three days ago, Xi'er went to ask the master to let her enter the Lu Mansion as soon as possible. I couldn't bear to let her go, so I said a few words to her, but she was determined and coaxed me out. From that day on, I haven't seen Xi'er again."

"What did you say? Three days!"

Xu was so angry that her face turned blue: "Tong, this is how you act as a mother! I haven't seen you for three days, and you just discovered it now!"

Aunt Tong cried and kowtowed to Xu: "Second Madam, please, I beg you, please send someone to look for her quickly..."

Xu was so angry that she was shaking all over. Now that her two daughters were dead, she had been hoping to use Li Shuangxi's marriage to secure a future for her husband and son.

If the Lu family came to ask for someone tomorrow, she would not be able to hand him over at all. Given Lu Ziqi's character, how would the master survive in the Ministry of Works in the future?

Although Li Shuangxi is a concubine's daughter, she inherited 80% of Aunt Tong's beauty. With the addition of the good looks of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, she is even prettier than Aunt Tong.

She is charming but not vulgar, and her eyes can captivate men with just a flicker of hers.

That's why she caught Lu Ziqi's eye.

I haven't seen her these past few days, and since she came to the master to ask for help herself, I thought she was waiting to get married in the backyard.

Who would have thought that he had been missing for three days!

Li Shuangxi, this little bitch, is very good at paralyzing them.

Xu's eyes were filled with poison as she stared at Aunt Tong: "Bitch, you are still acting here! Was it planned by you two, mother and daughter? You helped Li Shuangxi escape, right?"

Aunt Tong kowtowed desperately: "No, I don't have it. Please, Madam, send someone to look for her. I don't know when Xi'er left. What if she was kidnapped by a bad guy?"

Xu snorted coldly: "Do you think that the hundreds of guards in our Zhenguo Mansion are just for show? What kind of villain can avoid their eyes and easily kidnap people without alerting anyone!"

"Tong, it's obvious that you two colluded with each other, and you still dare to quibble here!"

"Come here, drag her away and beat her until she reveals Li Shuangxi's hiding place!"

Even if the master knew about it, for the sake of his own official career, no matter how much he doted on Tong, he would not blame her.

The two old women who had just escorted Aunt Tong stepped forward immediately and were about to hit her.

Mother Lan stepped forward quickly and said, "Second Madam, I think Aunt Tong may not know about the Third Miss's departure."

Xu frowned slightly and looked at Mrs. Lan. She knew that ever since Tong had taken over the power of household finances, both she and her daughter had no money left. It was impossible for the servants in Shulanyuan to speak for her.

"What's going on?"

Mother Lan replied, "These past few days, we have all seen Aunt Tong coming to the Third Miss's room every day to beg her to open the door and let her in. If it was Aunt Tong who really caused the Third Miss to leave the house, shouldn't she divert the attention of us servants?"

Xu looked at the others and said, "You guys can also talk about it."

There were only five servants in Shulan Courtyard. After Li Shuangxi broke her arm at the end of last year, Li Yuanming asked the housekeeper to send three more servants to serve.

Otherwise, there would only be two servants in the whole courtyard, namely, Qiao'er and the maidservant beside Aunt Tong.

After Qiao'er's death, there were only four servants left in the yard. Without the Second Madam's order, Li Shuangxi didn't even have a maid to serve her personally these days.

Three old women and a maidservant beside Aunt Tong, the four of them stood in a neat row and saw the Second Madam asking them questions.

They all replied, "Yes, we did see Aunt Tong come to Third Miss's door every day to talk these few days. She said that she had harmed Third Miss and begged Third Miss to forgive her and open the door."

Only then did Xu believe that Aunt Tong had no involvement in Li Shuangxi's disappearance.

She walked into Li Shuangxi's room.