"Stop being silly, tell me what you've been doing with the adults?"
“Serving the master? Cooking, washing dishes, driving the carriage and stuff like that. But the master gave me quite a bit of reward money, so wait for me.” Mu Run put the melon aside and then opened the bundle she had brought back.
Inside were a few changes of coarse cloth clothes, leftover dry food, fruit, and snacks... Qiaoyu looked at her bundle, "That's it?"
"Then what should we do?"
"You didn't...you know...with the adults, did you?" Qiaoyu winked at her suggestively.
Mu Run pretended not to understand and asked in return, "What...what?"
Qiaoyu twisted and turned her two fingers back and forth, making them intertwine like two snakes.
Mu Run couldn't help but laugh. "What are you comparing that to?"
"It's about men and women having sex," Qiaoyu said, abandoning her hints and asking directly.
Mu Run teased her, "Knowing so much, have you already... um?"
"Don't insult my innocence, I'm still a virgin." Her pretty cheeks were flushed.
Mu Run stopped teasing her and laughed, "No, my relationship with you is completely innocent, there is no affair between us, we are just master and maid."
After hearing this, Qiaoyu sighed with some disappointment, "Even someone as beautiful as you can't seduce the master, let alone me and Xiaoxing."
Mu Run was quite surprised. "You and Xiao Xing are trying to seduce him?"
"What maid doesn't want to rise to the top and become a phoenix?"
“Me.” Mu Run immediately raised her hand.
"..." Qiaoyu sighed in exasperation, "Look at you, such a good opportunity, yet you failed to seduce the master. You're destined to be a maid."
"Hehe, I think it's pretty good. Being a maid is a lucrative career." Mu Run took out a purse from her bundle and pulled out four silver notes, each worth five taels.
He handed two bills to Qiaoyu, saying, "You have three younger brothers and two younger sisters to take care of, so these two are for you. Give the remaining two to Xiaoxing."
Qiaoyu was surprised that Murun would give her so much money. "You...no, no, how can I take your money? This is all the money you worked so hard to earn, and there's so much of it."
“I’m an orphan, so whatever I have is money, and I can always earn more. But your family is struggling financially, and without these, your mother would have to sell your sister again. Take these.” As he spoke, he stuffed the silver notes into her pocket.
Qiaoyu and Xiaoxing were both sold into the Grand Commandant's mansion, earning only a few dozen coins a month, serving as slaves for life, and making very little money. But even with that little money, their families would still come to ask them to leave. It wasn't that they had to beg them, but rather that the fields had suffered from drought and poor harvests for years, and they didn't even have enough food to eat, let alone meet other needs.
Mu Run wanted to give them more, but as the saying goes, small favors breed sycophants, while large favors breed enemies. Too much money might attract disloyalty. She was giving money to help people, not to cause trouble for herself.
Qiaoyu's eyes reddened. "Thank you, Hualing. I'll make you something delicious. What would you like to eat?"
"I want to eat roasted sweet potatoes, they're fragrant, sweet, and chewy. I really wanted to eat them on the way here."
"Okay, you wait for me, I'm going now." Qiaoyu gave her melon to Murun and then disappeared like the wind.
Mu Run smiled, picked up the melon, took a bite, and found it very sweet.
Xiao Xing also received two silver notes, and she was so grateful that she almost kowtowed to Mu Run. It turned out that her brother was getting married and was short of money. Her parents had even asked her to beg the steward to see if they could take out next year's wages in advance, and this was a great help.
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