Mei Xuanqi glanced at her and said, "She is quite virtuous. You take care of this matter. All the people from the second house should go."
After saying that, he walked away.
Yuan Zhixi was furious, but she had to put on a resigned front. Weng Hui was favored, so she and her son were arranged to ride in the largest carriage with Mei Xuanqi.
This was originally a qualification that Yuan Zhixi had as the mistress, but she didn't want to fight for it now. It was a pity that the qualification to ride in a carriage could not be exchanged for money.
Another concubine, Shuxin, and her daughter, Mei Ruolan, rode in the same carriage.
I have two daughters and two sons, so let's split the carriages among the five of us.
After all, the Plum Garden was their own garden, and the farm had servants. So, there was no need to bring too many servants from the master's side. Besides the groom, each female member of the family would have a maid, and Mei Xuanqi and the boys would each have a servant. This meant that the servants alone would require four carriages.
Yuan Zhixi thought about it and asked someone to harness another carriage. A lot of things were loaded on the ninth carriage.
Today, all the people from the second house stayed to test the five elements, so it was already late to go out. However, when I asked the second master, he still insisted on leaving. I heard that it was Weng Hui next to him who said that she wanted to get to the Plum Garden earlier.
There was no other way Yuan Zhixi could do but to pass on the Second Master's instructions to each courtyard of the Second House.
Before leaving, Mei Ruolan's mother Shu Xin quietly found a copper basin and burned some paper money. Today is Ruyi's death anniversary, but Erye may not have remembered it.
At first, the four of them were maids in the Second Master's courtyard, but Ruyi was the most special. Their names suggested that they were Shuxin, Kexin, and Chengxin.
When Erye was trying to name Ruyi, she nearly slipped on the bluestone slab. Erye reached out to catch her and called out "Be careful." Erye smiled and said, "Let's call you Dancing."
Ruyi raised her face, and Erye smiled again: "She is so pretty, that's why I feel wronged. I'll just call her Ruyi. Finally, I have found someone pretty enough to satisfy my taste."
Now Shuxin, Kexin, and Chengxin's faces all turned black. It turned out that the three of us were not good-looking. The Second Master laughed again. These three silly girls of mine are all good-looking. All good-looking, okay? Go down.
In fact, after working in the yard for a long time, I know that the second master only likes to make fun of others with his words, but he is a very well-behaved person. The first master looks serious, but his hands are not honest. The maids in the master's yard all say that the master's hands are full of oil, and he always touches and pinches the maids.
Shuxin, Kexin, Chengxin and Ruyi are as close as a piece of iron. When good things happen, the four of them are happy together. When encountering difficulties, the four of them will think about them together.
Ruyi has always been Mei Xuanqi's favorite among the four, because Ruyi is smart and knows how to read and write, unlike the other three who started learning after entering the Second Master's courtyard. However, such a good Ruyi committed suicide after returning from a business trip with the Second Master.
The Second Master usually took a servant with him when he went out. That time, he hurried back with some women's clothes and shoes he had bought, and he also asked Ruyi to go out with him.
Later I heard that something happened to Miss Wu Shuangshuang, the childhood sweetheart whom the Second Master cherished dearly, and Mei Xuanqi brought people and clothes to help her.
But for some reason, after returning, Mei Xuanqi punished Ruyi by making her kneel in the yard. There were two obvious slap marks on Ruyi's face, one on the left and one on the right, which were red and swollen. Ruyi said, "I really didn't take it. I was just helping to change clothes. I didn't take it..."
But the Second Master got angry and said, "How could Shuangshuang frame you? Besides her, you were the only one in that room. She's already in trouble, so why would she want to frame you? What's wrong with what Shuangshuang said? You're really taking advantage of the situation and taking advantage of the situation."
Ruyi's face turned pale when she heard this. Because she refused to admit her mistake, she was punished by kneeling all night. The next morning, the Second Master ordered her, "Get up. Since you don't admit your mistake, you don't have to serve me anymore."
Ruyi couldn't stand up at all, so the three of them asked a servant to carry her back on a rattan chair.
When they arrived at the maid's room, the three of them refused to leave until they had understood the situation. Ruyi said, "That Miss Wu Shuangshuang said I took something from her and slapped me. I didn't even know what was missing.
I just asked, "What is it?" I helped you look for it, but I didn't take it.
She rushed towards the Second Master, who was waiting outside. He held her in his arms and tried to comfort her. She scolded me, a mere maid, for thinking I was nothing, for questioning and contradicting my master. She cried as she spoke.
The second master slapped me again and told her that he would punish me severely when he got back.
That's all, you all go back to your duties, don't worry, I just want to have a good sleep."
Shuxin still couldn't figure out why Ruyi was so angry. Ruyi hanged herself, leaving behind only a will that read, "I didn't take it. After I die, please ask the coroner to open my body and cut it into small pieces. I don't know what's missing, but I didn't take it. I'm not a big deal, but I didn't take it."
Later, Chengxin married into the farm, and Kexin married a servant, leaving her alone to take care of the second master.
The second master was very silent at that time, and sometimes he would say that we are tired and relieved, and after a while, there were new maids in the master's yard.
Whenever Shu Xin returned to the maid's room where the four of them had lived, she would sit there in a daze for a long time. Because in the past, there were always two people who took turns to keep watch on the small couch outside the second young master's bedroom, so this room was usually occupied by only two people.
Someone was hanged in this house, and many little girls dared not enter it, but Shuxin was not afraid at all. Sometimes she even hoped that Ruyi would show up or something. But the dead are dead, and she would never see him again.
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