Chapter 334 A Trivial Matter at the Door
"You mean your personal maid vomited blood?"
"Mmm, mmm."
The middle-aged man grinned. "Alright, go back and let your girl die a natural death. Tell the old lady that Qiao Qinghe's people killed your maid for no reason on their very first day in Huizhou."
The woman's eyes widened in horror. "Master, Rong'er has been with me for ten years. How can you just kill her like that? Or should we find someone else?"
"Stupid woman!" The middle-aged man angrily raised his hand, wanting to slap the woman again, but after thinking about it, he grabbed the woman's neck instead.
"The old lady entrusted us with a small matter with great difficulty, and you've turned it into this mess."
“If I kill your maid now, I can at least give the old lady an explanation.”
"If you don't do as I say, then it's not like you can't be replaced as the fourth wife!"
In the end, the middle-aged man flung the woman to the ground and walked away without looking back.
After the man left, the woman lay on the ground for a long time without getting up.
***
The house that Wei Jia and A Jiu bought is located in the northeast of Huizhou City.
Min Qiaoshi and her entourage entered the city through the north gate and arrived in less than a quarter of an hour.
The convoy stopped in front of the enormous "Qiao Mansion".
Ah Jiu jumped off the carriage first, placed a footstool, and together with Ah Shuang, helped Min Qiao Shi out of the carriage.
Seeing the imposing gate and the spacious open space in front of it, Madam Min Qiao couldn't help but be somewhat surprised.
Putting everything else aside, the open space in front of this house is more than twice the size of her Qiao Mansion in the capital.
Yes, even the two stone lions at the entrance are ridiculously large.
"How did you find such a big house?"
Sensing the surprise in Madam Min's tone, Ajiu quickly explained, "Sister Weijia said that since the Grand Madam is not short of money, her living quarters naturally cannot be sloppy. The bigger the better."
"At first, we searched all over Huizhou City but couldn't find a suitable mansion. In the end, Sister Weijia bought two adjacent houses at a high price, renovated them, and combined them into one. That's how the Qiao Mansion came to be."
Madam Min nodded, then looked at the more than twenty servants who were waiting at the door.
"These are all people you and Weijia bought? Why did you buy so many?"
She brought more than thirty people from the capital. Apart from Amo and a few others who left the group, there were still more than twenty people.
There are about fifty people on both sides combined.
She was the only master, so she could barely be considered half a master, but given her personality, she probably didn't need anyone to serve her at all.
It seems there are a lot of people.
and……
Min Qiao carefully examined the twenty-odd people she had recently purchased.
Is it just her imagination? Why does she feel like all these people are children?
Moreover, they all looked pale and thin, and their condition was at most slightly better than that of the group of children she first met, such as Zhen Huan and Wen Xiu.
And another thing! Is she seeing things?
Why did she see a three-headed baby in the crowd?
Seemingly sensing Min Qiao's blatantly probing gaze, the baby trembled and instinctively hid behind the little girl beside him.
The little girl looked to be only about ten years old. When she saw Min Qiao looking at them, she turned pale with fright.
The baby seemed to sense the little girl's nervousness and immediately burst into tears.
The little girl's face turned even paler. She reached out to cover the baby's mouth, but couldn't bring herself to do it. She wanted to comfort the baby, but realized the situation was inappropriate. She was flustered and confused.
Therefore, the more anxious they became, the more afraid they were, and the more afraid they were, the more anxious they became.
Finally, the little girl knelt down with a thud, crying and apologizing repeatedly, "I'm sorry, Madam! I'm so sorry! Please don't send us away! I will work hard, and I will keep my little brother in check so he won't cry!"
"Please, please don't send us away! We eat very little; my brother and I only need one steamed bun a day. Please..."
When the baby saw his older sister kneel down and kowtow, he knelt down next to her, looked up, and cried loudly.
When others saw the siblings crying, many of them also had tears in their eyes.
Several other people endured their words, but finally knelt down and kowtowed, pleading, "Madam, please don't send Chunya and Xiaoshu away. Chunya works very hard, and Xiaoshu is a good child."
"Madam, please forgive Chun Ya and Xiao Shu!"
"Madam, I'm willing to share my food with Chun Ya and Xiao Shu. Please don't send them away."
"Madam, I will do more work and eat less, please let them stay!"
...
More and more people pleaded for mercy, and in the end, almost half of them knelt down.
Min Qiao was completely dumbfounded this time.
She hasn't even said anything yet, how did things turn out like this?
Ah Jiu dared not delay any longer and immediately shouted at everyone to shut up.
Upon hearing this, everyone immediately fell silent. Even the wailing baby, Xiaoshu, covered his mouth tightly with his hand, looking at Ajiu with his big, bright eyes brimming with tears.
My older brothers and sisters all say that Sister Ajiu is a good person!
Sister Ajiu and Sister Weijia rescued them. They brought them back, gave them food, a house to live in, warm blankets, and thick new cotton clothes.
My older brothers and sisters all said that without Sister Ajiu and Sister Weijia, they wouldn't have survived last winter.
Although he didn't quite understand, he knew that Sister Ajiu was a good person! A very, very good person to them!
"Madam, these are all orphans that my sister Weijia and I took in."
Ajiu quickly recounted the children's origins before saying somewhat uneasily, "Madam, I'm sorry, it was my presumptuous decision to take them in. Sister Weijia couldn't dissuade me, so she agreed to bring them back."
"Madam, could you please let them stay?"
Min Qiao reached out and touched Ajiu's head, and suddenly realized that Ajiu had grown a lot taller.
Ah Jiu, who was once skinny and small, has now grown into a young woman.
In the past, Ajiu lived a very self-centered life, and the only things she cared about were being an old woman and eating.
But ever since she reunited with Huanzhen and his group, Ajiu has changed.
As she became more concerned about people and things, she became gentler and her heart softened.
Min Qiaoshi knew that because Ajiu was a child who had experienced hardship, after overcoming his difficulties, Ajiu wanted to help others who had suffered similar hardships.
Ah Jiu, who used to care about her wholeheartedly, was a good person.
Although this Ah Jiu no longer sees her as her only one, he is full of kindness and compassion, and he is not bad either.
Madam Min smiled and readily agreed, "Keep them all! Your old lady may not have much else, but she has plenty of money. Feeding a few more mouths is a piece of cake, isn't it?"
"Thank you, Madam!" Ajiu bowed gratefully to Madam Min, then turned to the group of children and said, "Madam has agreed to let you all stay. Hurry up and thank her!"
After saying that, Ajiu walked to the front of the crowd, knelt down, and led everyone to kowtow to Madam Min Qiao.
Those who hadn't knelt down before now all knelt.
Everyone kowtowed together, then shouted in unison, "Thank you, Madam!"
Upon seeing this, the twenty-odd people who had just gotten off the car and had come from Beijing were immediately filled with a sense of crisis.
Good grief, are these people trying to steal their jobs? Or are they trying to compete with them for the old lady's attention?
Or perhaps, both?
no!
They need to work even harder in the future!
We absolutely cannot let ourselves be outdone by these newcomers!
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