A Girl Traveling Through Troubled Times

After looking at the houses, Gui'er and Sha Yanyao walked back to the Sha Mansion where they were currently renting.

As soon as they entered the courtyard, the doorman said to Sha Yanyao anxiously: "Master, Miss, you are back. Something happened."

Sha Yanyao frowned and asked, "What happened again?"

The doorman took a look and whispered outside, "Yan'er in the eldest young lady's room has hanged herself."

Both of them were shocked. Sha Yanyao walked in quickly, followed closely by Gui'er.

We came to the two small rooms next to the kitchen on the first floor. Each room had several long beds, which were specially used for the maids, servants, and old women. The male servants lived in the two bungalows in the yard.

At this time, the corridor was crowded with people, all of them servants. The lady was sitting in the living room, looking very uneasy.

Seeing Sha Yanyao coming, the servants consciously made way for him. Gui'er was behind Sha Yanyao. Just as she approached the door, she saw a woman with her back to the door, her body limply resting on the bed, with a hemp rope wrapped around her neck. Sha Yanyao strode in. Just as Gui'er was about to follow him in, Dingxiang pulled her out from behind.

"Miss, don't go in. They just checked and found that the man is dead. It's unlucky. Don't let him bump into you later."

Gui'er was still a little worried. What if the person was not dead yet? At least she knew some medical skills and could save him. So she stood at the door and looked inside.

Sha Yanyao reached out his hand to the woman's neck, shook his head, walked out with a grim expression, and asked, "What's going on?"

Some servants backed away, while others rushed to speak, saying, "Yan'er was supposed to bring tea and snacks to the eldest young lady this afternoon, but she didn't show up at the appointed time. She sent someone to fetch her, and when she came back, her eyes were all wet with tears. Everyone thought she was just crying like she usually does, so they all went about their business. But when they came back, they suddenly found her hanging from the door frame."

Guier took a look at the door frame. There was a window pane where a rope could be passed through, and there were traces left on it, so it must have been hanged.

"Yan Yao, haven't you finished dealing with it yet? Hurry up and ask someone to take the body away so we can have dinner. It's really unlucky. How many days will it take before we can move into the new house over there?" The lady came over from the living room and said.

"Don't we need to report this to the police?" an old maid sent from Miss Tian's family said timidly.

"Call the police? What police should we call? She hanged herself and no one harmed her. Now she has made the place dirty. Maybe when we hand over the house, the landlord will ask us for compensation. This is unreasonable." The lady glared at the old woman fiercely.

The old woman lowered her head.

Sha Yanyao asked the old maid, "Is this Yan'er your master and mistress's servant?"

"What do you mean by a house-born servant? She was sent to the Tian family by her mother to work as a maid last month. The master and his wife saw that she was pretty, so they sent her to serve the young lady."

This is difficult to deal with. This is the capital of Nanjing, and Yan'er is not a family-born slave. Unlike the Marshal's Mansion or the former Song family, when they die, they are taken to a mass grave and buried without anyone knowing. This is just a helper, and her family will definitely come to ask for an explanation.

Sha Yanyao sighed and called over a few servants. "Move Yan'er and the bed to the courtyard and cover her with a sheet. You two are the young lady's bridesmaids. Hurry and report to the Tian family. Ask the master, the mistress, and the uncle how this matter should be handled."

The two servants of the Tian family nodded, turned around and left. The other servants hurriedly moved Yan'er to the bed, picked up a quilt next to it, covered her head with it, and lifted the bed board directly to the yard.

"The young mistress is coming down." A little maid suddenly said.

Guier turned her head and saw Miss Tian walking down from upstairs carefully with the support of two old maids.

She frowned and asked, "I heard something happened to Yan'er?"

Sha Yanyao quickly went over and helped her to the sofa, sat down and said, "Don't get down if you're pregnant, or you might get bumped into something."

But the bed board was placed just next to the front door, so it was hard not to see it.

Miss Tian frowned and said, "Why would she suddenly hang herself?"

A little maid said, "On weekdays, after Sister Yan'er has served afternoon tea to the young lady, she'll go back to her room and chat with Sister Dingxiang for a while. But today, Sister Dingxiang was making water chestnut cake for Miss Gui'er, so she stayed in the kitchen the whole time. When we finished, we went back to the room and found that the door wouldn't open. We called the housekeeper to push it open, and only then did we find Sister Yan'er hanging behind it."

"You are the same. You didn't do anything before and why did you make water chestnut cake at this time? You didn't even notice that someone died in the room. Now her parents will come to blackmail us." The lady squinted her triangular eyes and blamed Dingxiang.

"That's right. We were such close sisters in normal times, but you let her hang herself in this room without paying attention. It's all your fault for not taking good care of her." Miss Tian also shamelessly followed the lady's wishes and scolded Dingxiang.

Gui'er saw something was wrong. Wasn't this just a sign of something bad happening? She quickly said, "What does this have to do with Dingxiang? Who would have thought someone would suddenly hang themselves? Besides, the maids and the old women all have their own things to do. Dingxiang is the only one I can order around in my room. She's already too busy to handle everything, so why would I ask her to look after the other maids?"

Sha Yanyao frowned and said, "Alright, alright, the person is dead, let's not argue about this anymore. Let's wait for the people from the Tian family to come and see what they say. After all, we don't know what the situation is like at Yan'er's home."

Several people sat silently on the sofa, while the maids, old women and servants stood around, at a loss as to what to do.

After a while, the two servants sent to the Tian family came back, and a man who looked like a manager followed them.

After entering the yard, the manager first lifted the cover of Yan'er who was lying on the bed in the yard and took a look at her, then covered it again before walking into the hall.

As soon as he came in, he walked up to Miss Tian, ​​bowed, and said, "Miss, Director Tian, ​​and the master and the lady sent me to see if there is anything wrong with the young lady?"

Miss Tian seemed to have seen her backing, and her confidence suddenly grew. She adjusted her sitting position and said calmly, "I'm fine, but I didn't expect Yan'er to be so blind and go hang herself for no apparent reason. How unlucky!"

The housekeeper took a quick look at Miss Tian and, seeing that she was indeed alright, said to his wife and Sha Yanyao, "Madam, son-in-law, Director Tian, ​​and Master Tian, ​​Madam Tian feels that the young lady is pregnant and someone has died in this house, which is not auspicious. She asked me to take the young lady home to nurse the baby."