Upon hearing this, Wei Jianjia threw down her paintbrush and raised her hand, half-angrily and half-punishing her on the head. "Since it's confirmed good news, why don't you hurry up and tell us? What are you doing, keeping us in suspense! Are you itching for a beating?"
Qiu Shuang didn't dodge; instead, she took the hit squarely and then covered her head, pleading softly, "Please forgive me, Miss. It was Qiu Shuang's fault. Please don't hit me anymore, Miss."
After saying that, he looked around for a while before mysteriously pulling a piece of cloth out of his sleeve.
His voice was lowered to a whisper, "Miss, take a look. Do you recognize this?"
Wei Jianjia lowered her head and stared intently at the small piece of cloth in Qiu Shuang's palm. The piece of cloth was about the size of two fingers, sky blue, made of fine cotton. The two sides of the cloth were neat, while the other two sides were scattered with uneven fine threads, as if it had been torn off from the hem or cuff by someone.
She looked at the piece of cloth, her eyes flickering for a moment before finally managing a smile.
"Is it hers?"
Although it is a question, the tone is very certain.
She remembered very clearly that the first time she met Su Hua on the street, she was wearing a sky-blue cotton dress. At that time, Su Hua was still a chubby country bumpkin.
In the four subsequent meetings, apart from the time when the Su siblings visited the Qin family, Su Hua always wore a sky-blue long dress.
Qiu Shuang smiled, "Miss has a keen eye indeed. This scrap of cloth belongs to that person. It was found by me outside the Qin residence..."
"Wait, be careful, walls have ears." Wei Jianjia raised her hand to stop her. "Let's talk inside."
"Yes," Qiu Shuang replied with a smile.
The master and servant went inside and closed all the doors and windows tightly.
Wei Jianjia casually sat down beside the desk, placed the scraps of cloth on it, and her beautiful face relaxed as if after a rainstorm. "Tell me quickly, what exactly happened?"
"Actually, today is just a coincidence."
Qiu Shuang smiled demurely, "This servant went to the main kitchen to get some white fungus and lotus seed soup for Miss. However, as soon as I reached the corridor, I saw the gatekeeper rushing to find Ah Cai."
It is said that Su Hua has come to the residence.
Wei Jianjia raised an eyebrow. "Aunt, Yu Cheng, and Ying Xian are all away today. What brings Su Hua to the manor?"
"I was curious at the time too, but Su Hua had finally come out of the mountain valley, so of course I had to go out and see what was going on." Qiu Shuang smiled, her smile deepening.
"Upon looking, they saw that Su Hua had come to the entrance of the Qin residence alone, saying that she was delivering some crabapple saplings to the young master."
With the young master absent, she handed Lin Qinmiao over to Ah Cai and then went alone to a secluded alley at the other end of the Qin residence.
Just as the servant was about to follow to see what was going on, a small carriage suddenly stopped at the entrance of the alley where Su Hua was.
Five or six fat, burly men got off the carriage and immediately blocked Su Hua's path in the alley.
Wei Jianjia swallowed hard, looking at Qiu Shuang uncertainly, "Those people in the carriage, are they the bandits from Daheishan that we've been waiting for?"
"It's pretty much true." Qiu Shuang nodded, gesturing excitedly with both hands. "They're all incredibly tall and strong, each one as thick as twice the size of a servant girl. And their heads are even bigger than a football! When they walk, their flesh jiggles around, it's absolutely terrifying!"
Qiu Shuang didn't dare to get too close, so she waited until they were all inside, and then went around to an empty house next to the dead-end alley from the other end.
As soon as they entered the empty house, they heard the bandits say that they would take Su Hua directly in the alley.
Moreover, they even said... they even said they would all attack together, and put Su Hua on top of something...
"What?!" Wei Jianjia was shocked. After all, she was a fifteen-year-old girl, and her cheeks even turned slightly red when she heard these shameless words.
She clutched the handkerchief, her voice a mixture of surprise and anticipation, "And then? What happened next? Could it be that Su Hua really was...?"
He couldn't finish his sentence.
Qiu Shuang had followed Wei Jianjia since childhood, so she naturally understood what she meant. She didn't dare to keep her in suspense and shook her head directly. "Speaking of which, Su Hua is indeed quite capable. She actually fought with those tall, burly men."
Moreover, at the beginning, the tall, burly man was the one being suppressed and beaten; even the maids in the empty room next door could hear their shouts.
It was like slaughtering a pig, incredibly gruesome.
Wei Jianjia disliked hearing any praise for Su Hua, and immediately waved her hand to interrupt, "Get to the point, what happened to Su Hua in the end?"
Qiu Shuang responded softly, a sinister smile slowly creeping onto her face. "No matter how flexible your arm is, it can't outmaneuver your thigh."
Although I didn't hear clearly what happened after that, I did see with my own eyes Su Hua being tied up and put into the carriage by those people.
She fainted at that moment.
After saying that, she pointed to the small strip of cloth on the table, "This piece of cloth was found in the corner of the dead-end alley after we and the others left."
Su Hua is cunning by nature. This piece of cloth may have been left behind before she lost consciousness, in an attempt to leave some so-called clues for her brothers.
The maidservant then helped her pick up the strips of cloth, so that she wouldn't have to worry about them while she was in the bandits' den.
Wei Jianjia was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter, "Hahahaha... Good! Well done! Absolutely excellent!"
"As expected of someone from my household, Wei Jianjia. I haven't raised you for nothing."
The girl's face was no longer gloomy at all.
His smug expression made it seem as if he had finally achieved his goal after enduring humiliation and hardship.
The bandits in the Black Mountain are all skilled in martial arts. What good can come of Su Hua, a weak woman, if she enters the Black Mountain?
Even if they were lucky enough to survive, they would be nothing more than withered flowers and fallen willows that dogs and cats would disdain.
Qiu Shuang glanced at the girl and obediently chimed in, "Actually, it's all because Miss is so clever. I was just following Miss's orders."
"If Miss hadn't spread the news about Su Hua so widely beforehand, this wouldn't have happened today."
Upon hearing this, Wei Jianjia's lips curled up, and she raised her hand to remove a gold-inlaid kingfisher feather hairpin from her head.
He handed it to Qiu Shuang, his voice gentle as water, "I like a lovely girl like you. As long as you follow me and work loyally, you'll be rich and powerful."
Looking at the light pink pearl and the hairpin handle inlaid with a thumb-sized jade, Qiu Shuang immediately smiled, even revealing the hole in her previously missing front tooth.
"Thank you, Miss. Don't worry, Miss. I will follow you for the rest of my life and will never have any disloyalty."
Wei Jianjia smiled and nodded, picked up the scraps of cloth from the table, and moved the candlestick next to the desk over.
"After all, we've known each other for a while. Let's help Miss Su get rid of these scraps of cloth as a final gift to her."
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