"Woman, I remember your face. Don't play tricks. This is Bijiang, and there are more ways to kill someone than just nodding your head."
Xiao Nanhui was strangled to the point of being unable to breathe. She tried her best to control her instinct to fight back, and finally the other party let go.
While gasping for breath, she heard the man explain.
"Let them both follow."
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It was late at night, and the Sun family mansion seemed to be peaceful. However, if you listened carefully, you could find that there were some subtle sounds mixed in with the silence, which made people feel vaguely uneasy.
Tian Weiler's face turned pale in an instant, and Xiao Nanhui sighed inwardly.
It was the suppressed sobbing of a woman, accompanied by the sounds of heavy objects falling and blunt objects hitting each other. It was vague and indistinct, but it was comparable to the howling of ghosts in hell.
The nanny who had been leading the way suddenly stopped, slowly turned around, revealing an expressionless face.
"The master has taken in a few beautiful women from the Southern Qiang as his companions today. He is currently teaching them how to drink tea and paint, so he has no time to hire you to serve him."
Tian Weiler breathed a sigh of relief almost without concealing it. The nanny saw it and curled her lips into a sneer.
"But Miss Tian is, after all, the new bride of our Sun family, and she should observe the proper etiquette. The master is unable to complete the ceremony today, so you should just wear your wedding dress and wait. If the master has any instructions, I will send someone to inform you at any time."
After saying that, without waiting for Tian Weiler to react, he cast a knife-like look at Xiao Nanhui and Wu Xiaoliu.
"You two need to learn some manners from me, so as not to embarrass your master in the future."
Wu Xiaoliu's calves began to tremble. Xiao Nanhui squeezed him aside, took a step closer to the nanny, and said timidly in the extremely unfashionable Suyan dialect, "Everything will be arranged by the nanny. But..."
"Just what?"
Xiao Nanhui put his fingers into his hair and scratched it hard, and a few suspicious black spots popped out.
"...Water is too precious in East City. My brother and I haven't bathed in half a month, and our bodies are itchy. But if Madam doesn't mind, we're willing to learn the rules first!"
The nanny took three steps back, disgust written all over her face.
"You filthy thing, go to the stable in the backyard and wash yourself clean before you come back into this yard! If you offend the master by then, I'll skin you alive!"
Xiao Nanhui nodded and responded. The nanny didn't dare to stay for long, for fear of catching lice or fleas, so she quickly left.
The huge yard became quiet again, and the faint whimpering sound once again entered people's ears.
The shock of the day now flooded into Tian Weiler's heart. She could no longer bear it and her eyes rolled back as she fainted.
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After half an hour's effort, they finally got Miss Tian tidied and settled her down. There was only about an hour left before dawn.
Xiao Nanhui took advantage of the night to walk around every possible place in the Sun Mansion, and then slowly returned to Tian Weiler's yard.
There was no light in Tian Weiler's room, and it was pitch black all around.
In the darkness, there was a fat figure sitting on the stone bench in the yard, no different from when Xiao Nanhui left half an hour ago.
"Wu Xiaoliu."
The other person slowly turned around, revealing a fat face with a resentful look.
"Hey, what's that look in your eyes? Is that the right attitude for someone who saved your life?"
Wu Xiaoliu seemed to have just been unleashed, and he spat out angrily: "Bah! If you hadn't dragged me into this hell, would you still be the one to save me? If I had known earlier, I would rather have been gutted by you than have to endure this fear! Anyway, I don't have any parents anymore, so I have no ties in this world. If I really die, it will be a clean death..."
The sweet aroma of cakes drifted into his nostrils, interrupting his anger that had nowhere to vent. His heart, which had been desperate just now, was now drowned in the abundant secretion of saliva, and his stomach immediately made a loud rumbling sound.
Xiao Nanhui raised his eyebrows without surprise and handed over the half piece of warm, milky cake in his hand.
Wu Xiaoliu's self-esteem was making its last struggle.
"Who, who wants to eat what you stole!"
Xiao Nanhui said nothing, put the cakes on the stone table, found a place to sit down, and slowly took out a large bag of steamed buns and sweet potatoes wrapped in coarse cloth from his arms, and finally a teapot filled with water.
"Oh? It seems you've made up your mind and decided to starve to death."
Wu Xiaoliu couldn't take his eyes off the cake, and finally stretched out his fat hand.
"Eat! Even if you're going to die, eat your fill before you go on your journey. Otherwise, you might starve to death and be reborn as a pig in your next life."
Wu Xiaoliu's cheeks were stuffed with cakes and pastries. Perhaps thinking of all the difficulties he had gone through before, tears welled up in his eyes. His mouth remained firm as he mumbled, "You haven't been reincarnated, so how do you know?"
"I haven't been reincarnated, but I have experienced hunger."
Xiao Nanhui said this nonchalantly while stuffing steamed buns into her mouth. Wu Xiaoliu then realized that this woman could eat more than him. She had already eaten three steamed buns in a short while.
"It was so hard to be hungry. Sometimes I thought dying would be easier. But I was too young at the time. Even if I wanted to die, I wouldn't have known how. So I just endured day by day."
Wu Xiaoliu ate so fast that he burped, "What does that have to do with being reborn as a pig?"
Xiao Nanhui grabbed the teapot beside him and poured him a cup of cold tea. "Don't you know? If a person has obsessions before death, they will be carried over to the next life. If you don't have enough to eat before you die, you will only think about having enough to eat in the next life and forget everything else. If the Buddha sees this, he will think it's not easy to deal with. He will directly throw you into the animal realm."
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