Chapter 532: A good child has been corrupted in just a few days
After returning from the autumn hunt, life seemed to have returned to its normal course.
However, some changes are growing silently like vines.
In Sister Lan's yard, the sharp sound of porcelain breaking broke the afternoon tranquility.
"Idiot! You can't even hold a cup of tea steadily, what use are you!"
The childish voice was now filled with harshness and hostility that was not in line with his age.
A little maidservant of the third rank, with a double-ring bun, about seven or eight years old, was kneeling on the ground trembling, with broken pieces of teacup porcelain scattered in front of her knees.
Lan Jie'er was wearing a brand new embroidered skirt, her face flushed red, she put her hands on her hips, and pointed at the little maid condescendingly.
"Kneel on the porcelain! Reflect on your actions!"
The little maidservant was so frightened that her face turned pale and tears welled up in her eyes, but she didn't dare cry out loud and just kept kowtowing.
"Miss, please spare me. I will never dare to do it again. Please spare me!"
"Let you go?" Lan Jie'er sneered, "I'm the master, you're the dog! Do you think you can touch my things?"
As soon as these words were spoken, not only the kneeling maid, but also the several maids standing beside her changed their expressions.
The maid beside her stepped forward, holding a handkerchief in her hand, and gently wiped the non-existent sweat beads from Lan Jie'er.
She said softly, "Miss, don't be angry. It's not worth getting yourself hurt by these despicable things."
This maid was Cuihuan, whom Madam Gu San specially transferred from her own room to serve Lan Jie'er.
She was about sixteen or seventeen years old, with a cleverness in her eyes and brows, but that cleverness was also a bit calculating.
Cuihuan glanced at the little maid kneeling on the ground. Her voice was still gentle, but her words were like a poisoned needle.
"Miss, you are right. This slave is just a worthless person. If you don't beat her or scold her, she will never become a useful person. Miss, you made her kneel down, which is a compliment to her."
"Sister Cuihuan is right!" Lan Jie'er was immediately coaxed into smiling, as if the violent outburst just now was not hers.
She raised her chin proudly and said, "Just let her kneel down. I want to see when she realizes her mistake!"
Lu Ge'er originally wanted to come and see Lan Jie'er. He hadn't seen his sister since Lan Jie'er ran out of his room last time.
Hearing the noise in the yard from afar, he frowned and quickened his pace.
As soon as I stepped into the courtyard, I saw this shocking scene.
He took a few steps forward and glanced at the little maid who was kneeling on the porcelain tiles with blood oozing from her knees.
He looked at Lan Jie'er again and lowered his voice: "Lan'er, what are you doing?"
When Lan Jie'er saw Lu Ge'er, she felt a little guilty at first.
But when she saw Cuihuan beside her, she became a little bolder and said with a pout, "Brother, she spilled my tea! She's clumsy and she deserves to be punished!"
"There's no reason to make her kneel on porcelain shards as a punishment!"
Lu Ge'er's voice was cold, "Hurry up and get a doctor to come and take a look."
Cui Huan quickly bowed and said with a smile, "Master, calm down."
"The young lady was just angry for a moment. She's just a little girl, so how could she have any bad intentions?"
"Besides, my skin is thick and tough, so kneeling for a while won't hurt anything."
Her words seemed to be an attempt to smooth things over, but in fact, every word she said was adding fuel to the fire.
"Shut up!" Lu Ge'er glanced coldly at Cui Huan, "When have you ever had the right to speak here?"
The smile on Cuihuan's face froze, she lowered her head, but a hint of indignation flashed in her eyes.
Lu Ge'er ignored her and squatted down, wanting to help the little maid, and said softly, "You get up first."
The little maidservant shrank back in fear, not daring to move.
Lan Jie'er saw that Lu Ge'er did not help her, but instead went to take care of a servant.
She immediately became unhappy and stamped her feet and yelled, "Brother, you are so bad! You don't love Lan'er anymore! She is just a servant, why does she need your support!"
"Lan'er!" Lu Ge'er stood up, his face livid. "Who taught you to say such nonsense? There are differences between the noble and the humble, but kindness is the foundation of life!"
"When have you ever been so mean?"
He tried to reason with Lan Jie'er, but these days, he found it increasingly difficult.
Lan Jie'er's eyes turned red after being scolded by him, and she pouted in grievance: "Brother, you are too soft-hearted! Grandmother said that people in our Gu family should have the dignity of a master!"
"That's what Sister Cuihuan said too. She said that this is how I look like a lady from a noble family!"
She followed the words of Madam Gu San and Cui Huan to the letter, and her self-righteous look made Lu Ge'er feel cold in his heart.
His sister was being turned into a domineering and arrogant fool at a speed visible to the naked eye.
“What they say may not be entirely true.”
Lu Ge'er patiently tried to guide her, "A truly distinguished lady from a noble family is kindhearted, well-educated and well-mannered, and does not mistreat servants at will."
"I don't want to listen!" Lan Jie'er covered her ears. "Brother is biased! You only know how to lecture me!"
Cui Huan saw this and hurried forward to gently caress Lan Jie'er's back, coaxing her softly, "Don't cry, young lady. The young master is doing this for your own good. It's just that the young master is too soft-hearted to bear this."
"Let's punish people more quietly next time so that the young master won't see us."
Lu Ge'er was furious when he saw Cuihuan's hypocritical behavior.
He knew that the problem lay with this maid.
He took a deep breath and said to Lan Jie'er, "From today on, copy the Three Character Classic ten times a day. Stop when you understand the path to goodness."
He turned to Cuihuan and said coldly, "You, as the head maid, not only did you fail to guide the young lady to be good, but instead instigated her to do perverse things..."
"From now on, you are confined to your room. You are not allowed to come out without my permission!"
When Lan Jie'er heard that she had to copy books and Cuihuan would be punished, she immediately got furious.
"I won't copy! Why should I care about this, brother? Sister Cuihuan was given to me by my grandmother, you can't punish her!"
Cui Huan also knelt down with a plop, crying, "Master, please spare me! This servant is doing this for the young lady's own good. The old lady entrusted the young lady to me, and I dare not neglect my care!"
"If the young master punishes me and the old lady blames me, how can I bear the consequences?"
Looking at the two people singing in unison, Lu Ge'er felt a splitting headache.
"Come here," Lu Ge'er solemnly ordered the maidservant standing by with her hands hanging down, "Take Cuihuan away! Send Lan Jie'er's daily copy to my study for inspection!"
The old woman was an elder in the mansion. She looked at Lu Ge'er, then at the crying Lan Jie'er and the kneeling Cui Huan, feeling a little embarrassed.
But in the end he responded and went forward to pull Cuihuan.
Cuihuan, however, held onto Lan Jie'er's legs tightly: "Miss, save me! Miss!"
Lan Jie'er cried and made a fuss: "Don't take Sister Cuihuan away! Brother is a bad man! I hate you!"
At this moment, Aunt Zhang, who was beside Madam Gu San, came in with a few maids. When they saw the situation in the courtyard,
Then he said loudly: "The old lady heard that the young lady was unhappy here, so she asked this old servant to come and take a look."
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