When Su Man heard the news, she immediately followed the maid to the servants' room.
Si Xi was Su Man's personal maid. She didn't have to squeeze together with the old women and maids. She had her own room, but it wasn't very big. Apart from the bed, there were two chairs and a small square wooden table.
At this moment, Xu Yuan was giving her acupuncture.
Because of Xu Yuan's special status, no one was left in his room when he was practicing medicine. Su Man asked Liu Ma to wait at the door and went in alone.
After these few days of tossing and turning, Si Xi lost a lot of weight and his face looked a little pale.
When she saw Su Man, she wanted to get out of bed and greet her, but Su Man stopped her, "Don't move."
After Xu Yuan removed the silver needles one by one, Su Man sat down beside the bed and held Si Xi's hand. "How is it? Where does it hurt?"
Si Xi's eyes were filled with tears. "Miss, please, save my cousin, save him."
Su Man patted her hands and said, "It's okay, just talk slowly."
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Si Xi took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and then began to recount what had happened that day.
That day, she arrived at the place she had agreed to meet with her cousin and waited there.
Time passed by minute by minute, but his cousin still didn't come. Si Xi was afraid that Su Man would be anxious waiting for him, so he planned to go back and look for his cousin the next day.
"...Who knew that when I was walking back, someone would follow me."
Si Xi still felt a lingering fear when she talked about this. It seemed as if she was back to that night when it was dark and there was no one around, and she was running wildly on the village road alone.
She was so panicked that she didn't know where to run. She saw a haystack in front of a house and hid behind it.
In extreme panic, her shoulders shrugged to her ears and she dared not breathe.
After finally waiting until the footsteps behind him disappeared, Si Xi breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed to the ground.
But at this moment, a shadow that did not belong to her suddenly appeared on the ground.
Si Xi opened her mouth to scream, but was hit on the back of her head by a heavy object, and the next second, she lost consciousness.
Thinking of that night, Si Xi couldn't help but tremble. She said with trembling lips, "My cousin must have had an accident. Something must have happened."
Su Man comforted him, "Don't worry, your cousin disappeared because he was doing something for me. I will do my best to find him."
"Thank you, Miss."
Si Xi's heart finally settled down and he looked tired.
Considering that she had just woken up, Su Man didn't ask any further questions. She just told her to have a good rest and left.
Outside the house, Su Man put her hands into her sleeves and stared at the sparrows on the eaves in a daze.
As Si Xi said, she was ambushed in the village, but the servants clearly found her in the back mountain. Could it be that it was the "she" who possessed Liu Luoyi who did it?
This seems to be the only explanation, but Su Man always feels something is strange.
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In the afternoon, Su Man went to pay her respects to Mrs. Liu.
From a distance, I saw several servants carrying a stretcher covered with a white cloth walking out along the path.
Su Man asked loudly, "Who's there?"
A few people saw that Su Man actually walked faster, until Liu Ma said loudly, "The lady is calling you, why don't you come over."
The leader was the steward of the Liu Mansion. He turned around and gave a few instructions. The two servants waited where they were, and only he came to pay his respects.
"Meet the lady."
Su Man went straight to the point, "What are you doing?"
The housekeeper's eyes evaded, "There's a servant who's critically ill. He suddenly passed away last night and is being sent back to the family for burial."
Su Man noticed that he was hiding something and said directly, "Bring it here, let me see it."
The housekeeper was shocked. "Isn't this inappropriate?"
Aunt Liu also advised, "Miss, it's an unclean thing after all, you'd better not look at it."
"No need to say more, just bring it over."
Since Su Man insisted, the housekeeper couldn't disobey. With a gesture, the person was carried over.
Seeing the face under the white cloth, Su Man understood why the housekeeper hid it from her.
The deceased's face seemed to have been dried by the wind, tightly attached to the skeleton, looking very scary.
Su Man frowned. "Did he die of illness?"
The housekeeper fell to his knees with a thud, "Miss, spare me, please don't tell the master and his wife."
New Year's Day is coming soon. It is unlucky if someone dies in the family at this time, especially if the death is in this way. It is really unlucky.
Su Man didn't bother him, waved her hand, and asked them to carry the person away first.
"I can keep it secret, but you have to tell me the truth."
At this point, the housekeeper could no longer hide the truth and told it.
It turned out that this was not the first one. Since Su Man and Liu Luoyi came back, a maid and two servants had passed away in the house, and all of them died in the same way.
The housekeeper had not been in charge of the Liu family for long, and was very troubled by this kind of thing. In order to keep his position, he had to keep it secret for the time being.
Su Man quickly understood the ins and outs of the matter and said calmly, "Mother is not in good health, and father is busy with government affairs. Don't tell them about this for now. You should go down first."
"yes."
The butler wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve and went downstairs with his back hunched.
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After the housekeeper left, Aunt Liu asked worriedly, "Miss, such a big thing has happened, don't you really need to tell Madam?"
Su Man shook her head. "No, let's not go to pay respects to mother first. Let's go to Yuediexuan."
"Going to the Second Miss?"
Aunt Liu was puzzled as to when the eldest and second daughters became so close.
Yuediexuan
Su Man asked the maids and old women to wait outside and went in alone.
"...So all the vibrant flowers are left to the broken well and dilapidated wall."
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