Soft and crispy waist

How dare you use these seductive tricks right under her nose!

Zhou was instantly enraged, but Tao Yurong beside her grabbed her sleeve and spoke first, "This maid has nowhere else to turn to, so she has come to you for help. Please send someone to ask the court doctor to see her sister."

Zhou looked at Tao Yurong doubtfully, but it was not easy to refute her in front of the servants, so she just followed the instructions: "Do as Rong'er said."

Mother Zhao responded, but did not leave in a hurry. Instead, she looked at Xia Zheng, waiting for her wife's next arrangements.

"It's late at night, and the keys are locked everywhere. You don't have to go back. Just spend the night with the maids in the courtyard." Tao Yurong spoke softly and was particularly considerate.

"Thank you, Miss Er, thank you, Madam!" Xia Zheng kowtowed loudly again.

Before she could get up, Tao Yurong had already taken Zhou's hand and returned to the main house. They had sent everyone except their closest confidants to the outer room. Zhou then asked, "Rong'er, what are you doing? You saw what that maid looked like. How could such a demon be allowed to stay in the mansion? You should have found an excuse to kill her."

Tao Yurong handed Zhou a cup of tea and said, "She's just a maid. Why should mother care so much about her?"

"Don't you know what your father is like? If he were to meet this demon, he would never give up easily. Yu Shi is an example!"

"Why don't you just not stay at home?"

"Let her go? No way. They say your father has been keeping an eye on her..." Seeing Tao Yurong calmly sipping her tea, Zhou finally understood her daughter's intentions. "You want to take her back to the Duke's Mansion?"

Tao Yurong sipped her tea in silence, but her meaning was clear.

……

The old woman took Xia Zheng to the servants' quarters in the backyard, where she lived with the other servant girls in the courtyard.

The maids were all young, and they had been huddled together since Xia Zheng came in. No one dared to approach her. No one was sure how the mistress would arrange her in the end, and they were afraid of getting themselves into trouble.

Xia Zheng didn't care about those who were afraid and rejected her, and chose a seat in the corner to lie down.

Touching the prickly straw mat beneath her, Xia Zheng finally felt the reality.

She was truly reborn and truly changed the dead end of her previous life.

At this moment, she was extremely grateful that she had managed to hold on and endure the first round of torture in her previous life.

In her previous life, she was captured by Zhou and locked up in a woodshed further back where she was tortured by the maids. Those maids were very powerful and she nearly fainted several times. However, she gritted her teeth and held on because she was worried about Tuan'er. She chatted with them for a while until the next morning when the maids were tired and the one who was on duty came to relieve her.

In her daze, she heard that the second young lady had set off to return home, taking three maids with her, and the most beautiful one, Qiuying, was also taken away.

There is a maid from outside the courtyard. Someone asked if there is no maid in the Duke's Mansion and the second young lady has to bring her back from her parents' home?

Several maids began to joke, saying that they were not bringing maids at all, but were specially selecting concubines for the young master, and that was why they chose so many gorgeous ones.

At that time, she was in a difficult situation and was only thinking about Tuan'er's illness. She didn't think much about the matter of her master who was far away from her. It was not until she returned to this point and could not find a way to survive that she suddenly remembered.

And this isn't the first time.

Half a year ago, the second young lady came back to visit her relatives. Later, the vegetable delivery girl who was on good terms with her mother said that the second young lady had selected a few maids aged fifteen or sixteen from the lady's farm, and presumably brought them back to the Duke's Mansion.

She had no idea why the maids on the farm didn't become concubines, and why they chose a beautiful one from the marquis's mansion this time.

But since the second young lady has been the concubine of the young master many times, it is obvious that this matter is serious. Then her face may be able to buy a glimmer of hope for her and her family.

Although everything was rushed, fortunately, we succeeded.

As for whether the Duke Zhenguo's Mansion was a bigger den of tigers and wolves, she didn't know, but she knew the young master Gu Yizi.

Now he is the undisputed number one young master in the capital.

He has a jade-like face, a figure as slender as a bamboo, and is well-read. He has been the top scorer in the imperial examinations every year since he entered the Imperial College. At the age of fourteen, he followed the Duke of Zhenguo to fight in the army. At the age of seventeen, he took the head of an enemy soldier among thousands of troops. Now, at the age of twenty-three, he has already made many military achievements, and his future is immeasurable.

She had only seen Gu Yizi from a distance once, when the second young lady came back home.

The maid who served the dishes accidentally spilled some soup, and he came to the rescue. He was not as overbearing as the master of the Marquis' Mansion, so he seemed not to be a difficult person to serve.

As long as she could cling on, she should be able to survive.

Only by surviving and living well can we have the qualifications to stand up and comment on others and make certain people pay the price they deserve.

She will never allow herself to be bullied again!

Xia Zheng did not sleep well that night.

She was summoned to the outer room early the next morning.

"The court doctor examined your sister last night, and her fever has subsided this morning."

Xia Zheng immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "Thank you, Second Miss."

After Xia Zheng kowtowed three times, Tao Yurong said quietly, "You are also smart. You should know that your father has taken a fancy to you. Although I can protect you temporarily, I can't protect you forever."

Xia Zheng was stunned for a moment, her back bent even lower, her voice trembling, "I... I don't deserve death. I beg the Second Miss to have mercy on me and not harm my mother and my younger sister."

Before she finished speaking, the maid Caiwei beside her reached out and pulled her up from the ground. "The young lady knows that you are helpless and does not blame you. The young lady means that you can't stay in this mansion. Why don't you return to the Duke's Mansion with the young lady and serve him? Are you willing?"

Xia Zheng opened her eyes wide, her eyes filled with tears, a mixture of surprise and gratitude. She immediately knelt down again: "I do."

"You have to call me Young Madam once you leave this mansion." Tao Yurong reminded patiently, "The Duke's Mansion has everything you need, so you don't have to pack. Just go with Caiwei."

Without any further delay, Xia Zheng hurriedly got up from the ground and followed Caiwei out.

After this trip, I don’t know when I will see my mother and Tuan’er again.

But as long as we are alive, there will always be a day when we meet again.

I walked all the way to the east corner gate. Through the open door, I could see a carriage parked outside. Three maids as pretty as flowers stood around it, forming a sharp contrast with the dusty old women around them.

Among the three, one of them is the most prominent.

Her skin was whiter than snow, her peach eyes were upturned, and she wore a pink pipa-collared short-sleeved dress with a lotus-pink floral pattern with two butterflies. She looked like a peach blossom in full bloom, her chin slightly raised, and the arrogance and disdain in her eyes were not concealed at all.

This must be the most beautiful Qiuying mentioned by the old woman in the previous life.

Although she had never seen her, she had heard that she was the lady's daughter who came with her as a dowry and had a high status among the maids.

Although the other two are a little worse, they also have their own characteristics.

He had smiling eyes and would lean over to meet people when he saw them from a distance. It was obvious that he was someone who knew how to deal with people.

The other one has a round face, lowers her head and clasps her hands, and looks cute and innocent.

Caiwei stopped at the door and said to Xia Zheng, "This is Chunzhi, Qiuying, and Donglin. You wait here with them. Be quiet, don't be clever, and don't act on your own."

At the end of her words, Caiwei glanced at Qiuying warningly.

Qiu Ying stammered twice in dissatisfaction, but didn't say anything in the end. She just glanced at Xia Zheng who was following behind like the other two, and her eyes suddenly became angry.

Caiwei turned around and walked back, as if she hadn't seen anything. Before she was completely out of the way, Qiuying snorted disdainfully, "You've been playing dumb, waiting for this day. You're just a lowly servant who works as a fireman, but you're quite scheming. Did those old scoundrels in your kitchen teach you that?"

It turned out to be the face next to Zhou. I think her mother had already told Qiuying about it last night.

But she said this so carelessly in front of other people, which shows that Qiu Ying is not a smart person. She is just relying on the reputation of her parents in the Marquis' Mansion.

But now they were still in the Marquis' Mansion, Xia Zheng ignored him and just walked to the last position and stood there.

"Are you deaf? I'm talking to you!" Seeing that she ignored her, Qiu Ying became even more angry and reached out to pull her.

Dong Lin, who was standing beside her with a smile on his face, hurriedly pulled her back and said, "Sister Caiwei just told us not to make any noise. The Second Young Lady will be coming out soon."

"Stop pretending to be a peacemaker. Who the hell are you?" He shook Dong Lin off in disgust and wiped his held hand with a handkerchief. But he didn't reach out again. He just gave Xia Zheng a stern look. "Don't think you can get anything done just by following him to the Duke's Mansion. You're dreaming. We'll see if you don't believe me."

With a wave of her hand, Qiu Ying raised her head high and stopped looking at her.

Donglin smiled at Xia Zheng and returned to his seat.

Chunzhi kept her head down from beginning to end, like a quail.

Xia Zheng still acted as if she heard nothing, but in her heart she was going over Qiu Ying's previous words again in her mind.

Can't we get things done just by going to the Duke's Mansion?

It was too many to cram four maids of different ages into the young master's room at once.

Could it be that... I have to choose?