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353. Escaping the Huang Mansion 19

"I'll go report to Mother in a bit. You neglected your duties during work hours, attempted to steal Father's belongings, tampered with the crime scene, and obstructed the two detectives' investigation." Huang Muyan was even more furious after hearing what her uncle said.

"Hey, no, why are you..." Huang Muyan's uncle became even more anxious when he heard that Huang Muyan was going to tell Wang Shi about this. He tried to get up, but Zhou Hefang pressed him back down to the ground.

"What do you want to do?" Zhou Hefang asked warily, pressing down on the mill manager a little harder.

The mill manager, who was used to drinking, gambling, and whoring, naturally had no strength to resist Zhou and Fang, and could only be dragged to Wang's presence by the men.

After listening to what Xu Qinying and the others had said, Madam Wang pressed her brow. She had cried for a long time last night because of Master Huang's passing, and her eyes were still a little red. Then Madam Wang turned to the steward and said, "Steward, take the mill manager to the place where the servants are kept at home. We'll report to the authorities later and have them take him away."

“Yes,” the steward replied with his head bowed. Then, glancing towards the door, he saw two strong servants appear, one on each side, grabbing the mill manager and taking him away, completely ignoring his screams.

Ah, the mill manager is offline now, so it should be easier to run away with Mu Baiyuan. Lu Renkui thought to himself, we've been in the study the whole time, and the butler didn't have time to check if he missed anything when he poisoned Master Huang yesterday. I wonder if this will speed up the progress of solving the case.

Watching her uncle being carried away, Huang Muyan greeted the royal family and was about to take her leave to continue investigating why her father had died in the study with Xu Qinying and Zhou Hefang when she heard Wang's voice: "Hua Lu, come here, I have something to tell you."

Huang Muyan sighed inwardly. What would her mother say this time?

Although based on this situation, her mother probably wouldn't urge her to get married—her father hadn't been buried yet, and she should observe three years of mourning after his death and couldn't get married—she was sure her mother wouldn't say anything that would make her happy.

Since Madam Wang wanted to speak with Huang Muyan alone, the servants attending to her withdrew. Lu Renkui also stood with the departing servants in a place where they could not hear Madam Wang and Huang Muyan's conversation.

According to the original text, Wang Shi probably hoped that Huang Muyan could stay by her side to take care of her. Lu Renkui thought to himself.

But Huang Muyan probably wouldn't agree, right? Lu Renkui kicked at the pebbles under her feet, and while she was in a daze, she saw a person who was obviously dressed as a head maid coming.

When Lu Renkui looked up, she realized that the person was none other than Wuchou, the head maidservant of Madam Wang.

"Guixi, come here. I want to talk to you." Wuchou said as she turned and walked away. Lu Renkui followed Wuchou and began to wonder what Wuchou wanted to do with her.

"I am now Huang Muyan's personal maid," Lu Renkui thought. "So Wuchou must want me to stay by the young lady's side and do some things."

The two walked to a secluded place, and Wuchou turned around and looked at Guixi, who was much shorter and thinner than her, and said: "Guixi, during the time you are with the young lady, try to persuade her to stay and accompany the eldest madam."

"Hmm, how can I possibly persuade her?" Lu Renkui said timidly. "The young lady's status is so much higher than mine. Do you think she would listen to a servant who was temporarily assigned to take care of her?"

"What's so hard to persuade her?" Wuchou said nonchalantly, "Miss's temper is relatively good among the young masters and ladies. Besides, she turned down so many servants back then, and you were the only one she took the initiative to come. So, I'm sure she'll listen to what you say."

"Moreover, you must remember—now that the master is dead, all the servants in the mansion should prioritize the wishes of the First Madam." Wuchou then subtly reminded "Guixi" in front of her, "So it is what we should do to obey the First Madam's wishes. The First Madam wants the young lady to stay and keep her company, so you should persuade the young lady to stay and keep the First Madam company and not go to school anymore."

Hearing this, Lu Renkui understood what the First Madam meant—she couldn't persuade Huang Muyan to change her mind, so she tried to have her own maid, whom Huang Muyan had personally chosen, talk to Huang Muyan.

He was still determined to change Huang Muyan's mind. Lu Renkui sighed inwardly, then pretended to agree.