Chang Ning covered his head, "I almost made you faint!"
Chang Lan looked at Li Qingyi and said, "This slave also fainted."
Li Qingyi pursed his lips and said, "You can never guess accurately, so we can only eliminate them one by one."
Chang Ning said: "There are two girls and a mother and a daughter in the outer room. There are six masters and servants in total. Who should we exclude first?"
Li Qingyi thought for a while: "The best thing to exclude is definitely the outer room. She is the third master's pillow, but she has to sleep with the third master. In order to make up for her these days, the third master has been sleeping in her room."
"..." Chang Lan looked at Chang Ning: "You are the best at listening to corners!"
Chang Ning's eyes flashed, "Madam, just wait for the good news from this slave!"
Li Qingyi nodded and added: "It is too slow to eliminate them one by one, so the mother and daughter have to do it at the same time."
"How do girls test it?"
"There is no good way to test them, so we have to find a way to get them to leave the Chen Mansion. They leave happily, and their identity is 80% okay. If they don't leave, we will make other plans."
"But, we are not their masters, nor are we from the Chen family, so how can we drive them out of the house?"
Li Qingyi said: "As a servant, the biggest wish of following the master is to get the master's favor and have a good future. I think the two girls around Liang are quite old and should be old enough to get married. "
"Their master is just a concubine. Do they want to climb into the third master's bed and be concubines with their master? I don't think Mrs. Liang will agree. I'm afraid these two are also worried about their future."
"How about we lend the third wife's hand and find them a solid, honest family to marry. For the third wife, this is equivalent to breaking Liang's right and left arm, and she is happy to see it happen."
"For the two girls, this result is already the best for them, and they will not refuse to agree. If they are killed and want to stay and serve Liang, we will keep a close eye on her."
Changlan asked: "What if Ye Lanyue is really some girl, pretending to agree to leave the Chen Mansion, and then come back with a different identity?"
Li Qingyi smiled and said: "Ye Lanyue is not that stupid and would not do such an obvious thing. If I were her and was forced to leave the house, I would not come back with another identity. Instead, I would quietly kill that cinnabar mole beauty Chen Shuling. Use her identity to stay in the Chen Mansion, rather than using another identity to attract attention. Even if Chen Shuling wants to stay as a cover-up, it would be better to pick a random girl in this mansion than to come back with a different identity."
"Then...where are Chen Shuling's two maids?"
"Easy to handle, find a place to make mistakes and keep them under good guard. If someone disobeys the rules and secretly wants to run out and do something, we will always find out."
The three masters and servants thought about it and found no better way, so they decided to act according to this plan.
Chen Shuling’s mother, Liang, was eliminated that night.
Chang Ning listened to the moaning outside the window for a long time, but still felt uneasy, so he sneaked into the house and watched a live erotic show before returning to report to Li Qingyi with peace of mind.
"Hehe, I have never seen such a slutty girl before, those two big white legs..."
"cough……"
Chang Lan glared at her: "You can say any dirty words in front of Madam!"
Chang Ning was startled by her and choked out a burp, "Um...how are you doing over there?"
"In the afternoon, two women were arguing in the corridor, saying that the third wife had not yet given birth and would most likely get sick from anger. I bribed a little girl and went up to talk to them. The two women listened. Wan’s eyes are so bright that he most likely wants to ask the third wife for advice and take credit for it.”
"Then let's wait."
*****
The third wife had an idea and couldn't wait for a moment, so she still moved very quickly.
First, Chen Shuling's two girls didn't understand the rules and bumped into the guests, so they were put under guard.
As we approached Liang's courtyard, we saw a lot of maids and women.
The third wife said that the Liang family's girls were already so old and could not serve them for a few years, so they simply let them go and retrained them, so that they would not be disgraced and embarrass the third master when the time came.
There was Chen Shuling's girl rushing in front of the guest, so the third master couldn't find anything wrong with his words, so he didn't stop him.
But Liang's two girls had a good place to go, so they happily agreed.
Liang secretly gritted her teeth, but pretended to be reluctant to give up on the surface.
After Liang's two girls left the house, the third wife chose a few more girls for Chen Shuling for the same reason and released the original two.
That was it.
All four girls left the house smoothly.
The Liang family had been eliminated previously, and the most suspicious person left was Chen Shuling.
Li Qingyi said: "Let's see if any of the four girls will come back."
If Ye Lanyue was one of them, she would definitely find a way to return to the Chen Mansion. The most covert method would be to kill Chen Shuling and replace her.
"Chang Lan Changning asked the secret guards to keep an eye on Chen Shuling. No matter what happens elsewhere in the Chen Mansion, they don't have to worry about it. They can't let Chen Shuling out of sight for a moment."
"Yes, ma'am!"
It's quiet at night.
Everyone in the Chen family has taken a rest.
Child's time is when people are most sleepy. The boy who watches the night in the outer courtyard and the woman who watches the night in the inner courtyard are so sleepy that they kowtow and take a nap.
The third wife has taken care of Mr. Liang these days, feels refreshed, and sleeps soundly at night.
She lay down early that day, but was woken up by some sound outside the window in the middle of the night.
She stood up and listened carefully, it was a faint whimpering sound.
The third wife frowned and called the girl who was keeping watch over her, "Wen'er, go out and take a look. What's going on outside?"
Wen'er said: "I heard this too. It's probably some little girl who was wronged and secretly hid and cried!"
The third wife raised her eyebrows after hearing this, "Go and ask if you have been bullied by Mrs. Liang. If so, I will make the decision for you, madam!"
Wen'er smiled after hearing this and said, "Yes, I will go and ask you now."
Wen'er opened the door and went out with a silk lantern. She stretched her arms to look around the yard and asked, "Who's there?"
No one responded.
The wind in the corridor was dry and cold. Wen'er shivered and asked again: "Who is hiding there crying and why don't you come out quickly?"
Still no one responded.
Wen'er stood in the dark courtyard, feeling a little scared, so she thought about going back quickly, but unexpectedly she saw a white shadow on the other side of the courtyard door, moving in a daze in the darkness of the night.
Wen'er shivered so hard that she suddenly broke out in cold sweat. She was blown by the wind and her whole body was cold.
She bit the bullet and took a closer look, and saw a woman in white, with her hair disheveled, walking around the door...
After the deathly silence, a scream was forced out of Wen'er's chest, "Someone is coming! Someone is coming!"
*****
Li Qingyi suddenly sat up from the bed.
Chen's mansion is not big, so in order for her to live comfortably, the courtyard where she lives is not far from the upper room, and the third room is to the west. In such a quiet night, Wen'er's screams could easily reach her.
"Changlan, did you hear anything?"
"I heard it. It was the sound coming from the main courtyard of the third room. Madam, do we want to go and have a look?"
"Yes! But not to the main courtyard, but to Chen Shuling's residence!"
