"Slave...slave..."
The girl hesitated, Guo Qing frowned, "If you have anything to say, just tell the truth."
"yes……"
The girl glanced at Qin Zeng, then immediately lowered her head, not daring to look again, and said tremblingly: "I have a family, and I have to go home to visit every holiday, but it's only for one day. I don't want to leave my family, so I miss them all the time. After Sister Xiangrui found out, she gave me her own regular holidays, so I always have two regular holidays."
The little girl's face was full of fear, and her voice was like a mosquito or a fly. Fortunately, everyone could still hear her clearly.
"But, but... just starting from last month, Sister Xiangrui often goes out during the holidays... so I remember it very clearly, but I don't know where Sister Xiangrui went..."
Chen Yan said: "Liu Sheng, what do you have to say?"
Liu Sheng glanced at Pang, with a hint of guilt on his face: "It's a long story, but our family can't bear Xiaoxiang..."
The sun's rays fell everywhere and then turned into the room, illuminating everyone's expressions.
Liu Sheng didn't know that her daughter had died tragically at this time. There was still a hint of hope in her eyes as she said: "Ten years ago, there was a famine in Yuzhou. Many people starved to death due to lack of food and clothing. When spring comes, Those who froze to death in the cold winter, and those who were lucky enough not to be eaten, began to rot. I heard that after the famine, the entire village might be infected by the disease and eventually die, and I felt very uneasy. I ate what little was left at home. Before it was all exhausted, he took his wife and children and fled Yuzhou."
Liu Sheng touched Liu Xiaobao's little head and said, "Xiaobao was only two years old at that time, and Xiaoxiang was already six years old. My mother died of illness on the way, leaving us as a family of four. Xiaobao was so hungry that he just cried every day, but We have nothing to eat. We can only walk all the way to the capital, hoping to meet a noble person on the way to give us a bite to eat. But that is not a long-term solution after all, so... so I sold my daughter Xiaoxiang..."
"Hmph, after ten years, what evidence do you have to prove that Xiaoxiang is your daughter?" Guo Qing narrowed his eyes and looked majestically at Liu Sheng who was kneeling on the ground.
Liu Sheng's eyes were sad, and his face was full of guilt. "Children from poor families become sensible early. Xiaoxiang had already remembered things at that time and was very obedient. Knowing that I wanted to sell her to Na Po, she also said that if she were sold to the whole family, She was willing to be sold if she wasn't hungry. Listening to her milky words, I felt even more guilty, so I wanted to ask Ya Po where to take Xiaoxiang. I thought it would be nice to be in the same place with Xiaoxiang. , When you have money in the future, you can redeem Xiaoxiang back... But the Yapo said that these upright-looking little girls are all going to be sent to serve the nobles, and it is best not to have any contact with them in the future..."
Liu Sheng's slightly cloudy eyes shed two lines of tears, "So, I had to secretly follow Xiaoxiang and the others, but after all, my feet were not as strong as the carriage and horses, so I lost them in the end. I only vaguely felt that Xiaoxiang might have been taken to Shangjing. . So I used the money to start a small business in a small town near Shangjing. We were very lucky. At first, we just bought some small things on the street because of the good reputation. Later, I met a noble person. Life gradually improved, and the business Until the year before last, when my family was relatively well off, my mother-in-law mentioned Xiaoxiang, so the family came to Shangjing and asked around."
"Because I was in the fur and fabric business, I gradually started to interact with the servants of various houses, so I asked people to inquire in each house if there was a girl named Xiaoxiang who was sixteen or seventeen years old, but there was no news. , I almost gave up, but at this moment..."
There was a hint of excitement in Liu Sheng's voice, "Probably last summer, once on the way home, a girl suddenly stopped me. When I saw her, I recognized her as my daughter Xiaoxiang at a glance. Although She had grown into a big girl, but her features were almost the same as when she was a child. I was so happy that I told her that I wanted to redeem her body and take her home, but I didn't expect that she refused..."
Of course Qin Zeng knew why Xiaoxiang refused, because Xiaoxiang was Guo Qian's spy next to Mrs. Guo. She knew too much and it was impossible for her to leave.
Although Xiaoxiang found her family, she didn't want Guo Qian to know, lest Guo Qian threaten her family. Otherwise, not only would she be unable to escape, but even her family would be killed.
Unexpectedly, it was such a coincidence that Mrs. Guo Er actually sent her to Guo Qian for marriage. Guo Qian didn't know if Mrs. Guo Er was suspicious. To be on the safe side, he would definitely find an opportunity to deal with Xiaoxiang.
Xiaoxiang, also known as Xiangrui, had a premonition, so she secretly left the house for the past month to go back to see her family, and left them money.
But other people in the room who listened to Liu Sheng's story didn't know the inside story. Chen Yan asked Liu Sheng, "Why doesn't she leave with you?"
"Yeah, I asked her that too."
Liu Sheng's eyes were full of expectation, "I told her, now that my father is rich and can support the whole family, wouldn't it be good to reunite with my father, mother, brother and family? But Xiaoxiang said...she has found her destination, that He is very kind to her, and she wants to be by his side and take care of him..."
This is a lie.
Except for Liu Sheng's family, everyone present could tell the difference.
Xiang Rui is a third-class girl in the Guo Mansion. The rules in the manor are strict and no girl or servant is allowed to have an affair in private. Moreover, at that time, Xiangrui was not Guo Qian's roommate and was still working as an errand in the yard of Mrs. Guo. The so-called "taking care of him" was absolutely untrue.
While everyone was thinking about it, Liu Sheng continued: "I thought to myself that her maid, Guo Mansion, could only be a concubine in such a family, so I advised her to give up. But she said that she had been with Master Guo for several years. Years..."
Mrs. Guo Er's face showed anger when she heard this, "Xiangrui was still working in my yard at that time, how could he have been with Qian'er for several years!"
But others in the room were silent.
Even Guo Qing frowned deeply.
He has been in and out of official circles for many years, so he can't help but see that Liu Sheng is an honest and honest citizen. What the other party said should not be lies. In this way, the meaning of Xiangrui's words is very intriguing.
Mrs. Guo Er gradually came to her senses as she looked at everyone's expressions, "What...what does this mean??"
Chen Yan said: "I'm afraid Xiang Rui is in Cao's camp but her heart is in the Han Dynasty. Although she works in the second lady's yard, she is actually following the instructions of the second young master Guo."
Mrs. Guo Er's face looked a little ugly when she heard this.
Of course, all the masters in the house have their own connections. The servants seem to be paid to work, but in private the complexity is far beyond imagination, especially when a family has children. Over time, there will be friends or enemies in each house. It will be divided into different factions. If the masters have competing interests, it is not surprising that they will find ways to insert spies into other people's yards.
What Chen Yan meant was that Xiang Rui was Guo Qian's spy next to Mrs. Guo.
Mrs. Guo Er frowned. They were mother and son, so what was the conflict of interests? Why does Guo Qian need to keep an eye on her?
