Tang Baozhu was sitting on a stool, about to eat, when she suddenly remembered something and looked up to ask Chunxue, "Chunxue, have you eaten? Don't worry about me, once I bought you, I'll make sure you're well-fed and clothed."
"Thank you for thinking of me, Miss. Qingliu and I have our food in the kitchen. Please eat quickly, Miss. We'll eat after you've finished."
"Then you guys go to the kitchen to eat. You don't need to stay with me. I feel a little uncomfortable about it."
Anyone would lose their appetite if two people stood next to them staring at them while they were eating.
Chunxue and Qingliu bowed and then withdrew. It was their first time working as maids. They had been sold by their families and trained by slave traders for half a year. The first rule the slave traders taught them was to obey their masters.
Go down to eat by yourself and don't serve the host. Although this is a bit against the rules they learned, just follow the first rule of obedience.
After the two people left, Tang Baozhu felt less nervous. Having two people watching her made her feel a little uncomfortable.
As I ate my meal, I kept thinking about Li Jun. I wondered how things were going. It was so late, so even if he came back, he probably wouldn't come over. It seemed I'd have to wait until tomorrow to find out what happened.
After finishing her meal, she took a shower and then went back to her room. Chunxue and Qingliu also told her to go back and rest. She took her embroidery, blew out the candles, and instantly entered the space.
I can't sleep this early anyway, and the room is always lit up, so I might as well embroider some flowers for a while. The sooner I finish embroidering, the sooner I can complete the task.
When you concentrate on doing something, it's easy to become completely absorbed. By the time she came to her senses, Guanyin's hair was already embroidered.
My eyes felt like they were about to close, and I didn't know how long I had been embroidering. I put the embroidery away, came out of the space, put the embroidery aside, and lay down on the bed to go to sleep.
When I woke up that day, it was already bright outside. I knew I had overslept. I didn't know how late I had gone to bed last night, or why I was still in bed.
Just as there was a slight movement, there was a knock on the door. "Come in." Without even hearing a word, one knew it must be Chunxue and Qingliu.
The two people came in and helped her get dressed. Tang Baozhu didn't feel uncomfortable at all. On the contrary, she adapted very well. Finally, someone was taking care of her, unlike in her previous life when she had to do everything herself.
"Are you hungry, Miss? Breakfast is already set out in the living room outside."
Okay, have you eaten yet?
"No, Miss hasn't eaten yet. How can we eat beforehand? That's not proper."
"You don't have to wait for me anymore, because I'm not sure when I'll get up. You can eat breakfast in advance before you come to serve me. When I don't need you, you can find something to do on your own."
"Yes, Miss."
After breakfast, she sent the two maids away and sat in her bedroom embroidering. She didn't like having other people around when she wanted to be alone, and she also wanted to observe them to see if they were the kind of people who could see people alive.
While I was embroidering, I sat by the window and could see what was happening outside with just a glance.
Chunxue and Qingliu were unaware of their young mistress's thoughts. Seeing that their mistress didn't need two people to serve her, they looked around the house and then noticed a large empty space in the backyard where two fruit trees had been planted, which they felt was a bit of a waste.
Both of them came from farming families and couldn't stand seeing the land wasted. They discussed it and decided to dig out the soil and plant some vegetables.
That way we don't have to buy vegetables, and since it's only for three people, we don't need much. Girls have small appetites anyway, so just enough is fine.
They went to the storeroom in the front yard to find a hoe, and then went back to the back yard to start digging. One person dug in the front while the other picked up weeds in the back, clearing all the weeds away.
Seeing how diligent they were, Tang Baozhu nodded in satisfaction. It seemed she should still pay them a wage. 500 coins a month should be quite good, considering that people in the countryside sometimes couldn't even earn 500 coins a month.
She found their indentures and took a look. Fortunately, the characters she could recognize were their indentures. She quickly put them into her spatial storage; there was no safer place than her spatial storage.
Li Jun arrived in the afternoon. He had stayed in the county town the night before because this incident had a significant impact. Fortunately, the county magistrate was quite wise, and the situation was eventually brought under control.
When Tang Baozhu saw Li Jun coming over, she quickly called him in, eager to ask him about what happened yesterday. "Brother Li, how did things go yesterday?"
Li Jun noticed that this was the first time Baozhu was looking at him with such anticipation. Although it was a long way from his goal, he was still quite happy.
So he didn't keep them in suspense and said it directly, "Baozi, don't be impatient. I'll tell you now. The old couple who sell wontons are not from our Great Xia Kingdom. They are foreigners from hundreds of kilometers away. They came to our Great Xia Kingdom decades ago. I don't know where they got the poppy seeds from, but they planted a large patch of them in their yard."
Seeing that he looked thirsty, Tang Baozhu quickly poured him a glass of water to quench his thirst before he could continue talking.
Li Jun didn't stand on ceremony. As soon as he returned from the county town, he came straight to Baozhu's place without even going home, let alone having a drink of water.
After finishing his drink, he continued, "They grind poppies into powder and cook them in wontons, hoping to make everyone addicted. When foreign tribes attack our Great Xia Kingdom, they will cut off their poppy supply, make them addicted, and force them to open the city gates. If it weren't for Sister Baozhu discovering this in advance, our village might have faced a great calamity."
Li Jun was still terrified when he said this. Fortunately, they had found out. According to their confessions, they planned to attack the outermost city gate of the Great Xia Kingdom during the autumn harvest and head south to plunder grain.
For those fierce and ruthless foreigners, food was not the most important thing; the key was to take women back so that they could reproduce. Because their grasslands were particularly backward, most women died in childbirth, so women were extremely scarce.
This kind of robbery happens every few years, and this time it's a large-scale attack that has been in preparation for decades.
"Most of the people in the county are addicted now, and they're worried about getting into trouble. The county officials sent an official document to the higher authorities early this morning, so it shouldn't be long before it reaches the top."
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