"Don't think that everyone can just go there casually. Life will be much easier if you go to the front. But if you don't work seriously and behave improperly, you will die faster in the front than in the back."
Du Xiang, wearing a pomegranate red dress, stood in front of the crowd and shouted crisply.
Hearing the sound coming from the yard in the distance, Qian Qianqian stopped and didn't want to go there.
When Mrs. Liang saw her stop, she turned around and said, "Are you afraid?"
Qian Qianqian shook his head.
"Then I'll let you choose. Do you want to be elected away, or do you want to stay here?" Liang asked again.
Qian Qianqian raised his head and looked at Mr. Liang, thought for a moment, and said, "I don't know."
"It's not that I don't know, it's that you have no choice." Mrs. Liang smiled and patted Qian Qianqian on the shoulder, "You, it's better to stay in the backyard. At least we can help you if something happens.
Unlike those poor devils, they have no one to help them even if they stay in the backyard."
"Can't you help them too?"
"Everyone is so busy. Everyone has a lot of things to do. Who do you think will be so free?" Ms. Liang walked forward and continued, "And if they are living like this, it is better to end it as soon as possible."
Several servant girls passed by Qian Qianqian and followed Mr. Liang.
Qian Qianqian held the empty basin and stood still, looking at the yard over there.
She understood everything Liang said, but she just felt uncomfortable listening to it.
The girls stood in three rows in the yard, most of them with their sleeves rolled up. Some of the exposed forearms were covered in flour, and some were stained with mud.
Caiming stood in front of the crowd, Aunt Feng and Aunt Fang stood next to her, looking at Du Xiang's back expressionlessly.
Mrs. Bian originally wanted Aunt Feng to choose, but she was afraid that she would be too busy, so she just called Caiming.
"Three people died before, but now I'm going to pick two. If you think you won't go wrong in doing things, and want to go to the front mountain to see the scene, just raise your hand." Du Xiang said.
No one raised their hands, and the girls all lowered their heads quietly.
"Don't want to go?"
Several girls raised their heads and glanced at her, then hurriedly avoided her gaze.
Du Xiang twitched his lips and said in a funny way: "You are now the most bullied people in the whole mountain. When you get to the front yard, although you are still a servant, the servants and women behind you who can beat and scold you will not dare to attack you again."
You're having a bad temper, have you ever heard that the wind and water turn around?"
The servants working on the other side paused, and their hearts suddenly became angry.
"Look at them." Du Xiang said again, "This life is just like this. What else can you do at this age? But you are different."
Yes, we are different.
Xiao Wu had been listening to Du Xiang's words carefully, and his expression became increasingly unbearable. He wanted to raise his hand several times, but was interrupted by Xiao Rong standing next to him.
After waiting for a while, several older girls finally took the lead in raising their hands. Gradually, more and more people raised their hands.
"Sister!" Xiao Wu was a little annoyed and shouted in a low voice in confusion.
"You're not allowed to go." Xiao Rong glared.
"I wanna go."
"No."
"sister!"
Xiao Rong looked back at Du Xiang, still holding Xiao Wu's arm tightly.
"It's so lively."
Lian Ping's voice came from the other side of the stone bridge. She walked down the small steps, looked at the crowd with a smile, and then looked at Aunt Fang: "The second young master's ginseng soup is here."
"It's ready," Aunt Fang replied, "keep warm over there."
"Okay, why don't you send someone to deliver it? Do you want me to come in person to urge you?"
"There are not enough people in the backyard." Du Xiang said coldly.
"I see there are quite a lot of people there, not enough to see you showing off and showing off, right?" Liping mocked.
Caiming frowned: "Lianping, it's already a mess here. Let's take the ginseng soup and leave."
"Oh, it's so messy."
Lian Ping sneered, took the ginseng soup from a servant girl, turned to leave, but stopped for a moment, then looked at Aunt Feng: "Who was the slave boy Liu Sanniang wanted to teach you before?"
Aunt Feng looked towards the girls, looking for Ah Li in the crowd.
"She went to bury the three maids with her." Yu's mother, who was marinating pork over there, raised her head and said.
"Oh, I heard her name seems to be A Li, right?"
Yu Ma looked at Lian Ping and nodded.
"I won't come here to pick up the ginseng soup from the second young master in the future," Liping said, "I'll just let this Ah Li deliver it to me."
"Okay." Aunt Feng responded.
"Remember to make sure she is on time, otherwise she will make the second young master unhappy and there will be no good consequences."
Aunt Feng sneered in her heart and nodded: "Yeah."
Reihei left with the ginseng soup.
Yu Ma withdrew her gaze and looked at the bacon in the basin. The more she thought about it, the more uneasy she felt. She said to the maid beside her, "I'll go get something from the back."
Taking the bamboo hat from the corner next to her, Yu Ma walked out of the yard and washed the salt stains on her hands by the river. When she got up, she saw Qian Qianqian and the tall servant girl coming down together.
Qian Qianqian was holding a wooden basin in his hand, looking anxious and worried.
"Qianqian." Yu's mother shouted, "Why are you with them?"
Qian Qianqian followed the voice and looked over, quickly walking down the mountain to her: "Mom Yu."
"Where's Ah Li?"
Qian Qianqian didn't dare to speak and avoided Yu's mother's eyes.
"She is walking ahead of us," several servant girls came down and said, "As we walk, we can no longer see her figure."
"Ah Li is missing?" Yu Ma was stunned.
Qian Qianqian was even more panicked. She knew that Ah Li had always wanted to escape. What would happen if she really escaped.
"As soon as I lowered my head to look at the road, she disappeared," the tall maid said. "Maybe she went back first, but when I looked down there just now, I didn't see her figure."
"It couldn't be that he slipped down some muddy slope and fell, right?" another maid guessed.
"That's great," Yu Ma frowned, "I have to go take a look, you guys should go back first."
"No," Qian Qianqian hurriedly grabbed her, "The road up here is difficult and the rain is so heavy, so don't go."
If Ah Li has escaped from the path now, Yu's mother will not be able to find her, which will increase the risk.
What makes Qian Qianqian even more uneasy is that when Yu's mother finds Ah Li, it's the time when Ah Li runs away. What will Yu's mother do?
If you bring Ah Li back, you will be punished for not supervising her well. After all, if the three servants next to you open their mouths, it will definitely be blamed on Yu Ma.
If you don't bring it back, you will be punished even more severely, and you may even be beaten to death.
It's better to let Ah Li escape. After all, Ah Li went to bury Chen Tang with these servants, so she and Yu Ma can't be blamed anyway.
"It's okay, I've been walking on mountain roads since I was a child," Yu's mother said, "I'll go look for her. If she's really in danger, I'll help her."
"No," Qian Qianqian was about to cry, holding Yu's mother tightly, "Don't go."
Yu's mother frowned, and several women on the side also looked at Qian Qianqian strangely.
She has always been honest and timid, even a little dull. What happened today.
Qian Qianqian was panicked by their stares. She pursed her lower lip and said, "I, I probably know where Ah Li is. I'll go find her. Mother Yu, don't go."
