When Tao Yaoyao stood up and moved her position, Aunt Liu thought she suddenly became sensible, but now after watching her finish two plates of meat in just a moment, she realized how wrong she was.
The sentimental person had eaten up all the meat in front of the master, so he was willing to move his seat.
But is it really okay for a woman like her to be able to eat like this?
Snapped!
When Tao Shi'an was about to scold her a few more words, Tao Yaoyao put down his chopsticks and stood up, "I'm full, you eat slowly."
After saying that, he turned around and left the front hall with Qiu Gui.
"Miss, isn't it good for us to just leave like this? The master is very strict about rules, and he must be blaming the young lady for not following the rules." Although Qiu Gui likes this young lady who has clear grievances, he is also afraid that she will suffer a disadvantage.
"He only allowed the officers and soldiers to set fires, and the people were not allowed to light lamps. I don't care about what happened in the past, but if he wants to cheat on me in the future, I won't do it."
pua? what is that?
"Come on, the temperature has cooled down again. When you get back, you can help me get a basin of water and soak my feet. I'll feel refreshed."
After nightfall, when Tao Yaoyao was sleeping deeply, there was movement at the door. When she stood up, a dagger stuck out from the crack of the door, and then she tried to open the door little by little.
Are all the guards at the Yong'an Marquis Mansion dead?
How could a thief sneak in so easily.
While thinking about it, the door bolt was opened with a dagger, and then the door was opened from the outside, and a figure walked in.
Tao Yaoyao still maintained her previous sitting position, but now she had a silver needle in her hand. Between the curtains, she held her breath and waited for the thief to approach.
After the thief came in, he saw that there was no movement at all in the house. He thought that the eldest lady was sleeping deeply and did not notice him at all, so he happily moved his hands and feet faster.
However, when he reached out to pull the curtain, a hand touched his neck, and then a familiar voice came into his ears.
"Liu Quan, you are so naughty. You stayed up all night. Are you dressing like this to put on a show for me?"
"Let me think about it, Miss Li Hentian's play is about entering a women's boudoir..."
Seeing that his identity was revealed, Liu Quan was so frightened that he knelt down in front of her and said, "The eldest lady, please forgive me. The younger one is also forced to have no choice."
Liu Quan didn't know why, but when he saw Tao Yaoyao now, he couldn't help but feel afraid, so he told her everything without waiting for her to ask.
It turned out that Tao Yanyan couldn't swallow the grievance of kneeling in the ancestral hall, so someone asked Liu Quan to scare her.
Liu Quan was a member of the original owner's courtyard, but because of the original owner's weakness and easy bullying, there were not many loyal people in her courtyard over the years.
Liu Quan is one of the traitors.
He said he was helpless, but in fact it was just that he was greedy for money and was afraid of taking responsibility after the incident came to light, so he found such an excuse for himself.
"How much money did my good sister give you?" Tao Yaoyao was obviously smiling, but Liu Quan was so frightened that he was covered in cold sweat, "No... not much."
Tao Yaoyao smiled and stretched out her hand, and Liu Quan unconsciously handed over his wallet.
Tao Yaoyao took the purse, weighed the contents, and put the purse on the table beside her with a smile.
"How much money do you earn each month?"
“It used to be three liang, but now it’s one liang.”
Since Aunt Zhao took charge of the family, except for the master and the servants in her own yard, the money of everyone else has declined. Everyone was miserable and cried out that they had no choice but to think of other ways to make money.
"Miss, please spare the little one this time. There are seniors and juniors above me. They are all counting on me to survive. If little happens to me, they won't survive."
"I don't want the little ones who have money. I just ask the eldest lady to let the little ones go this time."
"Why don't you want the money you earned with your skills?" Tao Yaoyao smiled and came to the window. When she opened the window, a cold wind blew in immediately. The howling north wind blew away the last trace of her sleepiness. Looking up again, there was a hint of calculation and smile in her eyes.
When Liu Quan saw this, his body trembled even more.
"Miss... the younger one really doesn't want to die..."
"Don't worry, I don't kill people." She turned around with a smile. Under the moonlight, her sparkling eyes were full of calculations. "You only need to do what you just wanted to do to me and go to the ancestral hall to do it to the second lady again. If I am satisfied, and I will forget about what happened tonight.
But if you don't scare the second lady in the end, then... keep the money and get out. "
He got the Tao family job after a lot of work. Even if his current monthly income is not as good as before, he still earns more than his fellow villagers outside, so he doesn't want to leave.
But to scare the second lady...
Aunt Zhao is the housekeeper. If Aunt Zhao finds out...
Liu Quan was a smart man. He only struggled for a moment before making his choice.
"Wait a minute, I'll go with you."
Now that I'm not sleepy anymore, I might as well go see a play.
Tao family ancestral hall
Tao Yanyan sat on the futon, moving her head a little bit, and fell to the ground several times. She also woke up. At this time, a gust of wind blew open the window next to her, and the window creaked in the cold wind.
Tao Yanyan didn't want to move at first, but the howling cold wind made her tremble all over. After she couldn't hold on any longer, she had no choice but to get up and close the window.
However, the windows of the ancestral hall had not been replaced for several years, which was particularly difficult. She tried several times to close the windows.
Just when she breathed a sigh of relief and was about to sit on the futon to sleep, she accidentally looked up and found a person sitting on the futon she had made before. If she looked carefully, the person was dressed exactly like her.
ah……
After the ear-piercing scream, Tao Yanyan fainted.
"It's boring."
Tao Yaoyao pushed her hair behind her eyes and stood up in disgust, "You should know what to do next."
"Yes, I will definitely handle this matter well." After saying that, he was afraid that Tao Yaoyao wouldn't believe it, so he added, "I will never let the eldest lady down."
Such a terrifying scream came from the ancestral hall. Tao Qianqian, who was closest to the ancestral hall, woke up first, "What happened?"
"Reporting to Miss Fourth, something happened at the ancestral hall."
The second sister was punished by her father to kneel in the ancestral hall today. Could it be...
"Change my clothes."
At this time, Liu Quan had arrived at Aunt Zhao's yard, where Tao Shi'an was resting tonight. After hearing the noise outside, he also got up.
"Master, Aunt Zhao, it's not good, the second lady fainted."
When Aunt Zhao heard that something had happened to Tao Yanyan, she turned pale with fright. "Please tell me carefully, why did Yanyan faint from fright when he was kneeling in the ancestral hall?"
"Youngster, I don't know." Liu Quan lowered his head pretending to be guilty. Tao Shi'an noticed something was wrong and was about to ask him. Aunt Zhao hurried out of the door, calling Tao Yanyan's name as she ran. .
"Mom, you are such a sweetheart. If you have any shortcomings, my mother will not be able to live anymore."
When Aunt Zhao was holding Tao Yanyan and howling in the ancestral hall, almost all the masters of the house came over. Tao Yaoyao was sitting on a stool nearby, closing her eyes and falling asleep.
Tao Qianqian stood next to her. Seeing this, a strange thought flashed in her eyes.
"Fourth sister, what do you think happened to the second sister? She couldn't be really frightened and fainted, right?" Tao Yun'er, the third daughter of the Tao family, looked at the mother and daughter not far away with disdain, "Every time The second sister even kneels in the ancestral hall and makes a fuss. Do you think such a coincidence is really possible in this world?"
Tao Qianqian smiled but said nothing.
Tao Yun'er was unhappy when she saw this, "It's that lukewarm face again. It's really boring. No wonder the second sister doesn't like you. But that's right. Even if your father recognizes you as an illegitimate son, he is destined to be with you." We are different.”
Tao Qianqian's hand hanging in her sleeve clenched quickly and hard, but her face remained calm, as if Tao Yun'er was not talking about her just now.
Tao Yaoyao opened her eyes and glanced at the two of them, then continued to sleep with her eyes closed.
"Okay, don't cry. Wake her up first. It's too late to cry again after you find out what's going on." Tao Shi'an doesn't believe in ghosts and gods. Compared with this rhetoric, he believes that Tao Yanyan just doesn't want to I knelt down in the ancestral hall, so I made such a fuss on purpose.
The servants brought in cold water, poured a basin of cold water in, and immediately woke up Tao Yanyan from the cold.
"Ghost...Mom, there is a ghost..." Tao Yanyan shouted and fainted again.
This time, everyone watched her faint with their own eyes, so those who had suspected her of faking things stopped saying anything, but Tao Shi'an still didn't believe it, "Keep splashing."
"Master, you can't splash anymore, Yan Yan is weak..."
"Stop Aunt Zhao." After Tao Shi'an finished speaking, a guard immediately went over to stop her, and then someone poured a basin of water on Tao Yanyan. This time Tao Yanyan woke up and saw Aunt Zhao first, so he was not as excited as before. .
"Mom, I don't want to kneel in the ancestral hall. Can you please help me beg my father? There is a ghost in the ancestral hall. It's true. I saw it with my own eyes. The ghost looks exactly like me. Even the clothes are exactly the same as mine. .”
"But mother, didn't you say that the clothes I'm wearing are unique in Kyoto? What else could it be besides a ghost?"
When Aunt Liu, who was wrongly accused during dinner, heard this, she said angrily, "Aunt Zhao always said that money is tight in the house and deducts our monthly money every month, but it is really expensive to buy clothes for the second lady."
"Shut up." Aunt Zhao didn't dare to provoke Tao Yaoyao, so why didn't she dare to provoke Aunt Liu? Aunt Liu didn't dare to speak out after seeing her look at her.
Aunt Liu stomped her feet unwillingly. When she glanced at Tao Yaoyao from the corner of her eye, a flash of calculation quickly flashed in her eyes.
"Stop arguing, Yan Yan, tell me carefully, besides what you saw just now, what else did you see?"
Tao Yanyan shook his head, "I fainted when I saw that person who looked exactly like me."
"Does she really look exactly like you?" Tao Shi'an asked again, "Have you seen her appearance clearly?"
This time Tao Yanyan thought for a while before shaking her head, "She had her hair down at the time. I didn't see her face clearly, but her sitting posture and her clothes were exactly the same as mine. I couldn't have seen her wrong." , Mom, she is a ghost, I just saw a ghost."
