"Oh! Pick up the pearls quickly, don't let them break." Caiping pretended to be surprised.
The maid was also frightened.
Cai Ping grabbed the maid's hand and said anxiously, "Good sister, let's look separately. You go to the east floor to pick up, and I'll go to the west wall to pick up. Look carefully. If we miss one, we won't be able to compensate even if we sell ourselves!"
The maid was also new to the mansion and was timid and cowardly. She followed Caiping's advice and lay on the floor to start searching.
Caiping ran to the corner, squatted on the ground and pretended to search. Caiping had sharp eyes and quickly found the brick with the problem.
She quickly and skillfully removed the brick, felt into the crack in the wall, and pulled out an old parchment book.
Caiping served Chen Wei for a long time. Chen Wei focused on "eliminating illiteracy", and all the maids and eunuchs in the courtyard had to learn to read and write. Under the influence of Shen Wei, Caiping also learned a lot of words.
She quickly scanned the cover of the parchment book, identified the words on the cover, flipped through a few pages at random, and tried hard to remember the thickness and structure of the parchment book.
"Sister, how many pearls did you pick up?" the maid asked softly from the other side of the room.
Cai Ping stuffed the parchment book into the wall, put the brick back, and answered loudly: "I picked up five."
Cai Ping remembered Chen Wei's instructions. Now was not the right time and she couldn't steal things from the wall, otherwise Zhao Qing would immediately suspect Chen Wei.
Caiping squatted on the ground and picked up the pearls. After a while, the two of them finally found all the pearls. Caiping wiped the dust off the pearl with a handkerchief and placed it carefully in the box.
After putting the pearl away, Cai Ping held the maid's hand, with a look of sympathy on her face: "My dear sister, we must not let the master know that the pearl has fallen. Otherwise, if the master blames us, we will be in big trouble."
The maid's face was pale. She had not served Zhao Qing for a long time, but she knew that Zhao Qing was not an easy master to serve.
Zhao Qing had a bad temper and loved gold and silver jewelry the most, and would not allow her maids to touch them casually. If a maid touched her jewelry, Zhao Qing would either beat or scold her.
The maid nodded timidly, keeping the fact that the pearl had fallen to the ground to herself.
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