The Daily Life of a Concubine's Daughter After Transmigrating

Zhilan shook her head and said seriously.

"Although the young lady is young, she is not childish at all. She is usually tolerant and humble, and treats us servants very well. If I tell the old lady everything, wouldn't I be wasting the young lady's good intentions?"

Li Anqi remained silent.

Zhilan continued.

"If the old lady asks me something, I will naturally say what I should say, and I know nothing about what I shouldn't say, because my true master is you, Second Miss."

Li Anqi looked at Zhilan and said.

"Madam Zhao said that the affairs of the inner courtyard are not difficult, and that I can learn them by myself by going around to different places... Of course I cannot go."

Zhilan remained calm and composed, and asked, "Then what does Miss plan to do?"

Li Anqi put down his needlework, came to Zhilan, and held her hands.

"Why don't you teach me, Auntie?"

Zhilan quickly replied, "No, no, this servant only knows a little bit about such trivial matters, how could I dare to teach you, Miss!"

“My aunt has been by the old lady’s side since she was a child. She knows everything about the affairs of the household. There is no principle that my aunt cannot teach.”

Seeing the extraordinary composure and determination in Li Anqi's eyes, Zhilan was surprised, but also felt inexplicably at ease.

Zhilan bowed and replied, "Second Miss is exceptionally intelligent; this servant will certainly do her utmost."

The 24th day of the twelfth lunar month is the day for cleaning the house.

The servants of Jingguo Mansion were all busy, giving the entire mansion a thorough cleaning, even cleaning the dust from the cracks in the artificial rocks.

Li Anqi wasn't idle either; he started wiping down the desk and bookshelves in the room.

Soon after, she was drenched in sweat and found it difficult to catch her breath.

"Miss, let me do it."

Seeing her like this, Liu Yun chuckled and took the rag from Li Anqi's hand.

Qiu Yue, her face full of anxiety, rushed into the room, knelt before Li Anqi, and took her hand.

"Second Miss! Second Miss, please save my mother!"

Qiuyue let go of his hand and kowtowed several times on the ground.

"Please, Second Miss, save my mother!"

Li Anqi reached out to help Qiuyue.

"What happened? Get up quickly."

Qiuyue knelt on the ground, unwilling to get up, wiping away tears as she spoke.

"Today, while cleaning the house, my own mother was assigned to work in the eldest young lady's courtyard. She accidentally sent some of the eldest young lady's wood to the kitchen to burn as firewood. The eldest young lady is very angry about this and said... said she would beat my mother to death!"

"Quick, take me to see it."

Li Anqi hurriedly walked outside, with Liu Yun Qiuyue following closely behind.

"Second Miss! It's cold outside, be careful not to catch a cold!"

Zhilan took the fox fur cloak and hurriedly fastened it on Li Anqi.

The courtyard outside the kitchen of the Jingguo Mansion was now in complete chaos.

The kitchen maids and Li Baoqin's maids surrounded Gan Xiu.

Li Baoqin picked up a very tough twig from somewhere and started whipping Gan Xiu, who was kneeling on the ground, wildly.

"You damned lackey! You dog of a lackey! I told you to burn my things! I spent months of hard work making them!"

Li Anqi noticed several fire pokers under the kitchen stove and vaguely guessed that they were assembly parts for a wooden bicycle.

It turns out that Li Baoqin didn't attend the family school because she wanted to make these imitations of modern items.

Unable to bear seeing her mother like this, Qiu Yue immediately knelt before Li Baoqin and pleaded for Gan Xiu's life.

"Please, young lady, spare her! She definitely didn't do it on purpose! Please, young lady, spare her!"

Qiuyue hurriedly kowtowed several times.

Li Baoqin recognized Qiuyue and a question arose in her mind.

"What is your relationship with her, and why are you pleading for her?!"

“Ganxiu is my biological mother, and I am a servant born into this household,” Qiuyue said, crying.

"Is she your biological mother?"

Li Baoqin's anger intensified as she thought of something.

"So, you lot! Did Li Anqi send you to deliberately burn my things?! How could you be so malicious! You all can't stand to see me doing well, so you're always trying to make things difficult for me, right?!"

Zhilan whispered in Li Anqi's ear.

"Qiuyue's parents are servants in the mansion's watchman's quarters. They suffer a lot in the mansion and are treated poorly. As far as I know, they have been in the mansion for more than ten years. They are honest people. There must be a misunderstanding in this matter."

"Second Miss, please go and help them!" Liu Yun said urgently.

Li Anqi comforted Liu Yun by squeezing her arm and then walked over to Li Baoqin's side.

"Sister, sister, what's the matter that you're making such a fuss about?"

"What is it? Why are you asking me what's wrong?!"

Li Baoqin retorted angrily.

"I'm asking you, did you send this lackey to burn my things?!"

Li Anqi glanced at Gan Xiu and said sincerely.

"This is the first time I've met her today. I heard from Qiuyue that she is her biological mother."

"That's right, your personal maid's own mother burned my things, and she still says you didn't order it?!"

Li Anqi said calmly, "Today's house cleaning was ordered by Madam Zhao, and the steward's office sent people to clean all parts of the mansion. Since elder sister's courtyard is large, it is only right that the steward's office send more people to help clean elder sister's courtyard. There is no reason for younger sister to interfere."

"You... that dog of a servant also burned my things!"

Li Baoqin was speechless for a moment, unable to find any fault in her words. She turned her head, raised the thin branch, and lashed out twice more.

"I'll kill you! I'll kill you!"

Out of concern for her mother, Qiuyue hugged Ganxiu and took the fall for her.

“My sister was saying yesterday that they are human beings, not pigs or dogs,” Li Anqi frowned.

Li Baoqin paused.

"Those who treat me well, I will protect them well. But this bastard is no relative to me, and she ruined months of my hard work! How can I let her off so easily?!"

"So, what does your sister want to do?"

"Give him fifty lashes, or just take him out and sell him!"

Qiuyue hurriedly grabbed Li Baoqin's skirt and burst into tears.

"Young Miss! My mother is old and can't take a beating, so she won't fetch much money!"

Seeing Qiu Yue's humiliated and pleading appearance, Li Anqi's usually calm and composed heart felt as if someone had pinched it.

“Our Jingguo Mansion is a family of great wealth and honor. Since the first generation of the Jingguo family established the mansion, we have always had a family tradition of being considerate of our servants and being generous and courteous. Sister, aren’t you afraid that your harsh treatment of others will alienate the hundreds of servants in the mansion?”

The maids and servants around immediately began to whisper among themselves, all agreeing that Li Anqi was right.

Aunt Zhilan nodded with even greater satisfaction.

Gan Xiu had been beaten up and was already exhausted, so he didn't have time to explain.

Taking a moment to catch his breath, he mustered his strength and explained.

“Those pieces of wood… I didn’t burn them on purpose. It was… Miss Cuihong said that they were probably scrap materials left behind by the eldest young lady, which is why she told me to take them away.”

"You damned bastard, you're talking nonsense! Don't even think about framing an innocent person!"

Cuihong's eyes darted away as she hurriedly finished speaking and immediately said to Li Baoqin.

"Young Miss, please understand! I really didn't say those things. I only asked her to clean up the sawdust in the side room!"

Li Baoqin stared blankly at Cuihong.

She had become good friends with Cuihong and Caixia. They often acted like masters, ordering around the other servants and sometimes making decisions for themselves without their consent.

Could it be that I really typed the wrong thing?