"Quick, my lady wants you to kowtow to her!" Sang Ye twisted Caizhu's arm and said viciously.
"Sang Ye, you are so brave, our fifth lady will not let you go! Let me go!" Caizhu said hard.
"Stop talking nonsense, if I ask you to kowtow, then kowtow." Sang Ye put more strength on his hand, and Caizhu grimaced in pain.
"That's right, kowtow quickly and see if you still dare to be arrogant." A Cai walked up to Caizhu and pointed at her.
Sang Ye became even more unhappy when he heard this, "You still dare to be arrogant to my lady? Are you the onion or the garlic? Kowtow quickly, or you won't be able to leave today!"
Caizhu couldn't bear the pain, and finally had to kowtow on the ground in humiliation.
"Yes... I'm sorry, Miss Seven, but... I also ask Miss Seven for forgiveness."
Changyue nodded and said: "Well, okay, I keep my word, Sang Ye, let her go."
Sang Ye snorted coldly, let go of the hand that was holding down Caizhu and pushed forward hard. Caizhu couldn't hold himself steady and fell directly, with his face on the ground.
"Sang Ye, Ah Cai, let's go back."
After saying that, Chang Yue took Sang Ye and A Cai and walked slowly and leisurely towards the direction of their yard.
Caizhu had tears in her eyes and looked humiliated as she picked up something somewhere.
Many servants in the mansion saw the scene in the garden, and within a short time, the incident spread throughout the mansion.
Miss Seven, who has always had no sense of presence, actually punished the maid next to Miss Fifth in the garden today, but the sun was really shining in the west.
The servants couldn't help but weigh in their hearts how much they weighed. If they dared to be disrespectful to Miss Seventh, they would be able to withstand a beating from Sang Ye.
On the way back, Changyue looked at Sang Ye and asked, "Just now I saw Caizhu holding a box of gold and silver. What is she going to do?"
"I don't know!" Sangye replied without thinking, but then she patted her head and said, "Ah, I remembered it. When I came back, I seemed to have heard that the Fourth Miss and the Fifth Miss were going to raise money. The money is used to help the people affected by the disaster."
"So that's it..." Chang Yue thought for a few seconds and then said to Sang Ye, "You can also send me some money later."
"Hey, this slave knows that our lady is kind-hearted." Sang Ye responded happily.
Changyue shook her head and said nothing. Was she kindhearted...
On the other side, Caizhu returned to Li Changyun crying with something in her hands. Li Changyun's other maid, Caixia, asked doubtfully:
"Cai Zhu, what's wrong with you? Why is your face so dirty?"
"Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..." Caizhu didn't say anything, she just kept crying. After crying twice, she turned around and ran back to her room.
After a while, Caixia knocked on Caizhu's door and said, "Caizhu, the lady is calling you."
The door opened with a creak, and Caizhu walked out with red eyes, with tears hanging from the corners of her eyes, looking pitiful.
Arriving in front of Li Changyun, Caizhu knelt on the ground with a plop.
"Miss, Miss Seven is really going too far. This slave just bumped into her accidentally, but she forced her to kneel down and kowtow to her to apologize, without caring about your face at all!"
Li Changyun looked confused after hearing this: "Who do you think forced you to kneel down?"
"It's Miss Seven." Caizhu replied.
Li Changyun felt that he must have heard wrongly, "Who are you saying again?"
"Miss Qi...Miss Qi..." Why did my young lady's hearing become so bad? Caizhu even forgot to sob.
"Are you kidding me? Would Li Changyue's boring gourd do such a thing?" Li Changyun looked at Caizhu as if he were a fool.
Caizhu was confused when she heard this. How could I be joking? Look at my little white rabbit-like red eyes, haven’t I cried sad enough?
But what Li Changyun said next gave Caizhu a critical blow.
"Besides, since you bumped into Li Changyue, isn't it right to kowtow to her and apologize? She is the master and you are the maid! Don't you understand these rules?"
Why did Caizhu dare to treat Chang Yue like that? Li Changyun didn't always look down on Chang Yue, but Caizhu followed suit, and now he didn't take Chang Yue seriously at all.
However, what she didn't know was that although Li Changyun looked down on Li Changyue, in her eyes, the master was the master and the servants were servants. Even the maid who had been serving her personally was not nobler than any other master in the house. .
She was born into a noble family, and she had been taught since childhood that the Li family was superior to others. She was a member of the Li family, and so was Li Changyue.
At this time, a little maid hurried in and said a few words in Li Changyun's ear. Li Changyun glanced at Caizhu lightly, and then said:
"From today on, Caizhu will be renamed Lanzhu and demoted to the second-class maid. Lan Ling will be renamed Cailing and promoted to the first-class maid. From now on, let Cailing serve you closely.
As for Lanzhu... let's go take care of the warehouse. "
After all, she was the maid who had served him for several years, and Li Changyun was not willing to punish her too harshly. If she had been someone who didn't know how to advance or retreat, she would have started beating her long ago.
As for the Lan Ling in her mouth, the current Cai Ling is the little maid who just ran in.
Hearing Li Changyun's words, Caizhu... It should be Lanzhu was struck by lightning. She said calmly: "Miss... Miss... why are you..." She wanted to know why the lady wanted to punish herself for Miss Seven.
But at this moment, Cailing walked over and picked up Lanzhu and said: "Okay, sister Lanzhu... ah no... sister Lanzhu, you'd better go down and don't disturb the young lady's practice here!"
Cailing also specially emphasized the pronunciation of the word "sister", which made Lan Zhu's face turn red.
Li Changyun could naturally hear the overt and covert fighting between the two maids, but she didn't care. Competition only leads to progress, as long as it doesn't delay business.
After Cailing dragged Lanzhu outside, she said in a sinister tone: "Sister Lanzhu, it's better to pay attention to her identity. We are servants after all. Don't just rely on your master's identity to show off your authority outside. One day, if You really caused trouble for the master, and you will definitely be blamed for your death!"
Thinking that when she was just a little rough maid, Lan Zhu secretly wore small shoes because of her good behavior a few times, Cai Ling hated Lan Zhu so much in her heart.
If it weren't for his outstanding abilities, I might not be able to get ahead at all now.
Seeing Lanzhu stumble, Cailing is happier than anyone else.
Li Changyun's place is not as simple as Changyue's place. It is normal for the servants here to have conflicts and competition with each other for profit and to win the favor of their master.
"You!!!" Lan Zhu was so angry at Cailing that she said with red eyes, "You are a villain!" After saying that, she ran away angrily.
"Bah!" Cailing snorted disdainfully, and then proudly went back to the house to serve Li Changyun.
Chang Yue had just returned to the courtyard when she suddenly remembered her promise to Li Gui, so she went to the eldest lady's place again.
The fact that Chang Yue went to Zhuangzi was reported to the carriage house, so the eldest lady knew about it early on.
The eldest lady was very talkative and not only exempted Li Gui from being punished, but also told Chang Yue that the purple cloud wheat in the field did not need to be handed over to the government after harvesting, Chang Yue could just keep it for herself.
A small village to begin with, the harvest was not much at all. Instead of going through all the trouble of harvesting those purple cloud wheat and then recording it in the account, it would be better to leave it all to Chang Yue to save trouble.
Of course Chang Yue was very grateful that the eldest lady was willing to give her face, so she thanked her profusely before leaving.
After Chang Yue came back from the eldest lady, heavy snow began to fall in the sky again. She looked up at the gloomy sky and sighed helplessly.
The snow won't stop for a while.
At this time, the steward of the mansion came to Chang Yue's yard with a few boys. They walked over carrying several baskets. It turned out that they were delivering this month's charcoal fire to Chang Yue.
Changyue is in poor health (apparently), and she is the only one among the masters of the Li Mansion who needs to use a lot of charcoal fires in winter. In addition, she "showed off" her power in the garden today, so the servants did not dare to neglect it. The charcoal fires were delivered early, and the charcoal fires sent were all high quality.
Sure enough, as the old saying goes, good people will be bullied!
(End of chapter)
