Yijuan cloud

Chapter 6 Wronged
No wonder I smelled of alcohol as soon as I woke up.

I wiped my face casually, stood up dizzily, and said, "Thank you, I'm fine. Goodbye."

As he said that, he turned around, took a few steps, and then stepped back.

I raised my head and asked him, "Can I ask for a sip of wine?"

Since morning, I haven't had a drop of water or a grain of rice. I don't feel hungry at all, but I feel like there is a fire in my throat and my whole body is terribly cold.

A flash of surprise flashed in his eyes, and then a smile oozed out from inside, and he said: "Of course."

As soon as he stretched out his hand, the boy behind him put a wine bottle in his hand. He pulled out the stopper and handed it to me.

I raised my head and took a long sip, then raised my arm to cover my lips, coughed a few times, and then returned it with tears in my eyes.

He said with concern: "In normal times, this pot of wine would be given to the girl, but you are sick and it is not suitable to drink. Are you okay? Where are you going? I will ask the servant to take you there."

I shook my head repeatedly, whispered "No, thank you" in a low voice, and walked away hastily.

The boy driving the carriage went somewhere to gamble and talk about the mountains.

I got into the carriage and fell asleep.

Until I heard a burst of noisy laughter.

As soon as I opened my eyes, the curtain door was suddenly opened, and dazzling sunlight came in. I wanted to move, but I didn't have any strength in my body.

The eldest maid Cui Duo scolded: "I thought you had gone somewhere, but it turned out that you were hiding here and being lazy! You are a dead person. You didn't hear the young lady coming, and you still sat in the car like a Buddha!"

I struggled to get up and let Cao Yingshan put my shoulder on the carriage.

After the carriage had gone a while, Cui Duo looked at me suspiciously, looking disgusted, and said, "You are not sick, are you? Don't let me get over your illness."

Cao Yingshan glanced at me sideways and said, "Get out."

I sat outside the carriage, and together with the driver, we returned to Cao Mansion in the cold wind.

The little maid who lived in the same room gave me a pair of leftover herbs she had eaten. I boiled them on the stove and drank them, then fell asleep and felt better the next day.

On the third day, I had just served Cao Yingshan for breakfast, and I walked out carrying the removed bowls.

A middle-aged servant woman walked in, saw me, and said with a straight face: "You should put down what you are doing first. Madam has an order to pass on."

I followed her into Cao Yingshan's boudoir.

The servant woman said: "Third Miss, I have something to tell you. The house has been unclean recently. Madam heard that someone was fighting and causing trouble, so she wanted to punish her severely. Everyone tried to persuade her, so the big thing was reduced to a trivial matter. However, for troublemakers, But you can't just let it go, what Madam means is to fine you one month's money."

I stood numbly, looking at the floor beneath my feet.

Cao Yingshan was dressing up and turned around and asked: "Did everyone be punished? Or just the people in my house? When it comes to the cause of the fight, it's not my people's fault. It's someone who takes advantage of others and sees us as easy to bully!"

The servant girl smiled and said, "That's natural. Qingyun in the eldest lady's room and Aunt Wei in the kitchen are both punished."

"That's pretty much it." Cao Yingshan turned her head to draw her eyebrows and said lazily, "I know."

After the servant girl left, I was about to leave, but Cao Yingshan suddenly turned around and waved me over.

She picked up a box of used lead powder from the makeup package and gave it to me: "I'll just say that they knew they were in the wrong. If you are brave enough, this is your reward."

Cao Yingshan went out. After washing a few sheets, I returned to my room exhausted and took out the lead powder that Cao Yingshan had rewarded.

Looking at the porcelain box that took a sigh of relief, I sighed in my heart, Buddhism said: The way of heaven is reincarnation. Although I have never treated the maids who served me harshly in the past, I have never taken them seriously. Occasionally, I reward them and I no longer like them. Little things, I thought they would be happy.

I sighed wryly and tossed the thing aside casually.

On this day, it started raining in the morning, and it was misty all day long. It was really an autumn rain and a cold. In the evening, it was so cold that people shivered.

I just hope that Cao Yingshan will rest early so that I can go back to the house.

While stamping her feet and breathing in the outer room, Cui Duo lifted the curtain from the inner room and came out.

She was holding a lunch box in her hand, glanced at the three rough girls, and walked towards me.

"The third lady bought the lotus root cake outside. After eating it, the third lady agreed to send it to Aunt You. You can send it there quickly while the meal is on."

Caofu is huge, with sparse flowers and trees, and it is still lush in autumn. The scenery is still pleasant during the day, but at night, the wind blows on the tree trunks, which are dark and indescribably cold.

I was wearing a bamboo hat, holding a lantern in one hand and a lunch box in the other, walking with my shoulders hunched.

The dark garden was desolate and silent, except for the rustling sound of rain.

The ground was slippery, and I couldn't walk fast even if I wanted to. As I was walking carefully, I saw a light approaching, and I soon arrived.

Just looking at the formation of people holding umbrellas and holding lanterns, I knew which courtyard the master was, and I consciously stood aside to give way.

"Is that you?" Those people had obviously passed by, and a man in a raincoat walked up to me again.

I quickly looked up, and when I was about to lower my head, I was stunned when I looked at him.

On such a desolate rainy night, his eyes were still warm and bright, making people look at him and their mood could not help but become brighter.

It's him.The man I met in the governor’s mansion that day!Why is he at Cao's house?

The Cao family has four rooms and a total of three daughters and two sons.

The young master is only five years old.

Could it be that he is the second son of the Cao family?

Recalling the circumstances of our encounter that day, my face heated up, and I hurriedly saluted and said, "My slave, please give my regards to the Second Young Master."

He laughed and said: "So you are from our family. This is strange. The last time I saw you, you didn't seem to recognize me. How come I know you again? Have you seen me again at home?"

"No. I just made a guess. I didn't expect that I guessed correctly."

"Hahahaha, interesting."

After he laughed loudly, the Cao family mansion, which had just returned to the rustling wind and rustling rain, suddenly had the artistic conception of "catching bananas in the middle of the night". I breathed in the fresh rain air and pursed my lips and smiled.

He saw me smiling, was startled for a moment, then chuckled again, and asked in an easy-going tone: "It's so late and it's raining, why are you going?"

I raised the lunch box and said, "The third lady has eaten some delicious cakes. She is very filial and ordered me to deliver them while they are still hot."

He laughed again: "Sending cakes on a rainy night, this filial piety is very warm." He shook his head with a smile and said, "Why didn't I know that there is a person like you in the third sister's house, you are new, right?"

As he said that, he looked towards the dark courtyard and told the boy holding the umbrella: "You go and see her off. You don't have to send her to Aunt You's courtyard. Just wait outside the door. When she comes out, you can send her back. "

I quickly said: "I appreciate the kindness of the Second Young Master. It's cold outside, so be careful if you catch a cold. Please come back quickly."

"My yard is just ahead. Besides, I'm wearing a raincoat and I'm a big man. How can I be so weak? Go and deliver the cakes quickly. Third sister has a bad temper. If I'm delayed, I'm afraid she'll curse again."

I still wanted to refuse, but the boy had already raised the umbrella above my head and said, "Girl, let's go."

Unconsciously, it has been a month since I came to Cao Mansion.

At first, he gave five taels of silver to the wandering doctor and asked him to devote himself to treating Xing'er.

I promised him that after Xing'er recovered from his injury, I would give him the remaining five taels of silver.

We also agreed that when Xing'er could leave, they would come to Cao Mansion to find me.

Although I can't go out, it would be nice to meet him at the door.

But for so long, no one has come to see me.

Just when I had adapted to the life of slavery and secretly lamented that life was boring and depressing, another thing happened, and I realized that under the calm conditions, there was an undercurrent flowing!
The aunts and young ladies in the family, as well as the female relatives from other families, would often get together at the Cao family to play leaf cards.

That day, after playing cards, the second aunt lost a bracelet.

In addition to the master, all the remaining servants present and waiting will be investigated.

I am also here.

When my room was searched, I stood aside and watched several servants rummaging through my bed and boxes.

Thinking it was just a formality, they unexpectedly found a gold bracelet in the mezzanine of my suitcase.

Mrs. Cao found out and ordered me to be punished with a rod of thirty.

When I was taken to be whipped, I did not realize the seriousness of the situation. When the bullwhip as thick as a thumb was whipped hard on my back, I realized the consequences of offending those in power in the Cao Mansion. It was not just a monthly fine. It can pass.

Mrs. Cao couldn't do anything to Aunt You and Cao Yingshan, but it was easy to find a way to deal with an eyesore slave.

Every time the whip hit my body, I felt like I couldn't hold on any longer, but then there was another burst of severe pain.

A whip.

Two whips.

Three whips.

……

Ten whips.

I could no longer scream, nor could I feel any pain, and my body no longer felt like my own. In my daze, I seemed to hear someone shouting: "Stop!"

(End of this chapter)