Chapter 426 Confrontation
As soon as Nanzhi was dressed, she heard someone talking in the yard.
Because there were not many maids in the mansion itself, and Nanzhi and Shen Wenchen didn't like too many people to take care of them, only two servants were left to guard the door of the main courtyard. At this moment, they heard some movement outside the courtyard, and Mapo just Stopping Nanzhi, he quickly went to the entrance of the courtyard.
"What's wrong?"
Mapo had a very high status in the mansion. The servant guarding the door was originally blocking Cheng Yue from entering. When they heard Mapo's voice, their faces were immediately filled with smiles.
"Ma Po, why are you out?"
"What do you think?"
Mapo only glanced at the two servants, raised her chin, and motioned for them to let Cheng Yue go.
The little girl was slapped yesterday, and there are still some marks on her face. She was stopped by the servant for a while, and now she looks a little embarrassed.
"Ma, Ma Po, the two food delivery people are here. Aunt Zhao is keeping people at this moment. She asked me to talk to Madam."
Cheng Yue lowered her head, not daring to meet Mapo's eyes, and only stammered out her purpose.
"Okay, I understand. Just wait here while I go ask Madam to come out."
Mapo glanced at her and then returned to the yard.
"Madam, it's a little girl from the kitchen. She said that the food delivery person is here, and she is tripped by Mrs. Zhao at the moment."
Nanzhi nodded and gathered the cloak on his shoulders: "Then let's go."
The sky was gloomy, and a cool breeze would blow from time to time. Lanterns hung everywhere in the city lord's mansion were swaying slightly.
The group of people walked slowly towards the kitchen. The servant and Mapo only protected Nanzhi, fearing that someone would bump into her later.
"Let us fucking go!"
As soon as the group arrived outside the kitchen, they heard a man yelling and cursing from inside.
Nanzhi raised his eyebrows slightly, feeling that the voice was somewhat familiar.
As soon as they entered the yard, several servants stepped forward and surrounded the people in the yard. Mapo also stood diagonally in front of Nanzhi, protecting her behind her.
"Who made trouble in the City Lord's Mansion?"
When Mapo was young, she stayed in the royal palace in Kyoto for fifteen years before returning to Yancheng.
After returning to Yancheng, I only took care of pregnant matrons in various large families, so my aura was naturally different.
Just this sentence silenced the man.
Mrs. Zhao already felt that her bad mouth had caused trouble for her, and she was so worried that she didn't sleep all night last night. As soon as the rooster crowed today, she had already gotten up with two huge black circles under her eyes.
I just stared at the small door of the backyard, hoping that the food delivery person would come quickly.
If someone stops her, she might be able to atone for her sins, but if they don't come, her job will be ruined.
Fortunately, God opened his eyes and allowed her to wait for these two people.
Ms. Zhao's oily hair was messy, her face was red, her ears were red, and she was breathing heavily.
The man looked at Xu, but he didn't expect that he still had enough strength.
Looking at the servants surrounding them again, Ms. Zhao straightened her back immediately. What a joke, she is from the City Lord's Mansion!
"You, what are you doing!" Qian Er's face was ugly. At this moment, he just pulled He Xiang and asked the group of servants.
Hexiang's face didn't look any better.
After leaving Nazhi, she followed Qian Er and lived in that shabby house. However, her husband-in-law was badly injured and he was a gambling addict. In less than ten days, the little money in her hand was gone. It took a while to get clean.
Although Qian Er said that the thing was cured, because he didn't have enough money, he only found a wild man to take a look. This time, things were ruined.
Although it can be used, it is probably very difficult to have children in this life.
She originally thought that after treating Qian Er's illness, he could go to the county government office to deregister her, but when she asked him, he only said that he had lost the deed of sale.
Although she is now free on the surface, if someone picks up the deed of sale one day, she will become someone else's slave again.
But besides following Qian Er, where else could she go?
In order to have food to eat and Qian Er's injury recovered, she took over the chore of doing laundry for others.
She could get one penny for washing two pieces of clothes. Even if her hands were worn out, she could earn at most twenty pence a day.
Just like this, her father-in-law had to ask for ten coins to go to the gambling house.
The remaining ten cents became food money for the two of them.
They lived like this for a month. Finally, Qian Er couldn't stand eating potatoes and porridge all day, so he ran out to steal other people's eggs, but was discovered by others. In a moment of panic, he stepped on the wrong place and was injured. leg.
Now Qian Er was completely inseparable from He Xiang, so he became a little nicer to her.
At first he coaxed Hexiang to tell him the recipe for the jam so that he could sell it for money.
But Hexiang was worried about the contract he signed and refused to agree.
If you can't get the prescription, you can't make money, so Qian Er's attitude towards her is naturally bad, but since he injured his leg and became a loser, he seemed to understand.
His father is unreliable. If his wife runs away again, he will only be afraid of dying in the house.
Hexiang had no choice but to grit her teeth and take the fifty coppers she had finally saved to go outside the city to collect some vegetables and sell them back.
After going back and forth, I was able to eat enough in half a month.
Qian Er found out that he could eat meat every few days, so he became more honest. Even if his father came back to ask for money, he would help Hexiang drive people away.
Later, when she met the kid from the Mao family, something happened at home. He Xiang thought about taking a gamble, and then she took the job of delivering food to the city lord's mansion.
Who knows how many times this was done, Qian Erhui would talk nonsense and make things like this.
"Qian Er, you are so brave."
Looking at He Xiang, who now had a sallow complexion and rough skin, Nanzhi sneered inwardly.
This is the free life He Xiang tries his best to live.
Qian Er never thought that what he said a few days ago would cause such trouble.
He knew that Nanzhi was the wife of the city lord, and the complaints he made were just after he came to the city lord's house and saw that the servants here were better fed and clothed than him, so he became jealous and gossiped with Zhao.
But he never expected that just a piece of gossip would spread from the kitchen to Nanzhi.
"You, what are you talking about, I can't understand." There was no color on Qian Er's face, and a trace of panic flashed in his eyes.
The last time he went there and spilled a basin of blood, he was thrown into jail and suffered a lot.
this time……
Thinking of the feeling of being hit on the buttocks with a stick, Qian Er felt that his legs were a little unruly.
He was afraid.
"Madam of the City Lord, please have enough money to spare us this time."
He Xiang was angry in her heart, but she still said begging for mercy.
She knew very well what Qian Er had done, and if she didn't stop him, she just wanted to secretly ruin Nanzhi's reputation.
Why is it that she is still the wife of a high-ranking city lord, and she has to wake up earlier than chickens and go to bed later than dogs every day just to fill her stomach?
Even, even the people who said they would always be good sisters have refused to save them...