Xia Tian and the second wife arrived at Huarui Hall. Before they even entered the door, they heard a series of pleas for mercy and the "pa pa" sound of boards hitting people in the yard.
When I walked in, wow! The yard was full of people kneeling!
Qiu Han and Qiu Mei, the maids beside Liu, were being pressed on stools and beaten with a stick.
The second wife frowned. She didn't expect to come at such an inappropriate time and happened to run into Liu punishing the servants.
But now that I've come here and seen it, it wouldn't be a good idea to just turn around and leave.
I could only bite the bullet and go forward, "Sister-in-law, you're not well yet, why are you sitting here in the cold wind?"
"It's just a punishment for a few servants who didn't do their job well." Liu said calmly.
Xia Tian stepped forward and said flatteringly, "Madam, Second Aunt is right. You are still sick, how can you sit here and get some fresh air? If you have any questions, please tell me and your daughter-in-law will do it for you."
"Hmph, I dare not use you." Liu glanced at her and snorted.
"Oh, madam, please don't be polite with me. It's just a punishment for a servant. Please go into the room and I'll keep an eye on it." Xia Tian stepped forward generously and tried to help Liu up.
Qiuyue, who was standing behind Liu, quickly stood in front of Liu and asked, "Madam, what are you doing?"
"What can I do? You are becoming more and more ignorant, girl?" Xia Tian pushed Qiu Yue away and said, "I'm talking to your wife. What do you have to do with me?"
"Just talk if you want to. Why are you standing so close to me?" Qiuyue said unhappily with a cold face.
"Pa!" Xia Tian slapped Qiuyue in the face.
She had wanted to teach Qiuyue a lesson for a long time. She relied on Liu's support and didn't take her seriously at all.
"You!" Qiuyue covered her face in disbelief, "You dare to hit me?"
Although she was a servant, in this marquis's mansion, except for Liu, no one dared to slap her.
Xia Tian's voice also turned cold. "How can you, a servant, talk to your master like that? There are no rules. Do I need to report to you for everything I do?"
Don't you see that Madam is so ill? As the head maid, do you want Madam to continue to be exposed to the cold wind here and make her condition worse? What are you thinking?
"Me, you!" Qiuyue knelt down in front of Liu. "Madam, I absolutely do not have such intentions. Madam, hitting me without any reason, aren't you too arrogant and domineering?"
After saying that, he glared at Xia Tian angrily.
Xia Tian didn't tolerate her bad habits and slapped her again. "Don't look at me like that. You didn't admit your mistakes and even dared to slander your master. Whose influence are you relying on?"
Liu was stunned by Xia Tian's actions for a moment. When she reacted, her face turned pale with anger. "Xia, what are you doing? How dare you touch the maid beside me?"
"Madam, how can you not tell inside from outside? I am helping you teach your unruly slave a lesson!"
Xia Tian hurried forward and comforted Liu, "You are still sick. She ignored your health and made you sit at the door in the cold wind in the middle of winter. It was wrong in the first place.
The master was talking to her, but she didn't know the difference between high and low and was talking back. Do you think she should be beaten?"
"No matter how wrong she is, it's not your turn to teach her a lesson." Liu angrily waved Xia Tian's hand away, "You came here today to piss me off, right?"
"Madam, you are really wronging me." Xia Tian picked up the earthenware pot in his hand and said aggrievedly, "My daughter-in-law heard that you were sick, so she made some nourishing soup for you to drink."
"Hmph, stop being so hypocritical." Liu rolled her eyes at her and turned away.
"Madam, you are really disappointing my daughter-in-law by saying that." Tears welled up in Xia Tian's eyes, and he looked like he had suffered a great injustice.
"Sister-in-law, this Xia girl is also kind-hearted. She insisted on dragging me to see you today because she was afraid that you would not like her."
The Second Madam quickly spoke up to help, "Besides, you are too rude, girl. Not only did you not greet us, but you even dared to question us. You don't even take the master seriously."
When she entered the room just now, Qiuyue didn't even greet the two of them and just stood there standing behind Liu.
Do you have opinions about yourself?
"Second sister-in-law, there's no need to be hypocritical. You are in charge of the entire mansion now, so naturally you don't like me." Liu said sarcastically in a cold voice.
"Sister-in-law, how can you talk like that?" The second wife's voice became more and more angry. "Do you think I want to run this family so much? If the old lady didn't ask me to run it, I wouldn't care!"
Really! What kind of person is this? He can't manage the household well, was deprived of his housekeeping authority, and now he blames her?
Does she think that everyone wants the hard-working housekeeper Quan?
"If sister-in-law is not satisfied with anything, she can go directly to the old lady. There is no need to be sarcastic with me here." The second lady was so angry that she threw her sleeves and left.
I came to see her with good intentions, but I can see that she is not right? Do you really think that everyone has to flatter her stinky feet!
Seeing the Second Madam leave in anger, Liu turned to look at Xia Tian, "What are you still doing here?"
"Of course, your daughter-in-law is here to visit you, Madam!" Xia Tian smiled. "Come on, Madam, I'll help you into the house. Your daughter-in-law brought you some nourishing soup to replenish your Qi and blood. Please try it."
She pretended to help Liu, but Liu waved her arm and the earthenware jar in Xia Tian's hand fell to the ground with a "bang".
"Ma'am, don't be angry, your daughter-in-law just wants to come and see you, there is no other intention.
If you don't want to drink the soup your daughter-in-law made, you can just not drink it. How could you break it?" Xia Tian said distressedly, looking at the broken pieces of the earthenware pot and the soup on the ground.
"Go away, are you so kind?" Liu yelled at her impatiently.
Xia Tian was about to cry, "Madam, this soup was made by my daughter-in-law before dawn. I wanted to show my filial piety to you, but I didn't expect you to think of me like this. It really makes me sad."
Liu snorted. There were no outsiders here, so she didn't need to pretend. "Stop pretending to be kind. Tell me, was it you and Shen Nian who stole my private vault?"
"Madam, you can't just accuse others of such a big thing with nothing to show for it. How could the prince and I be able to move so many things right under your noses and not let anyone in your yard notice?" Xia Tian asked back angrily.
Liu choked and said stubbornly, "If not you, who else could it be?"
"Then I would say that it was Madam who stole the money herself?"
"I stole my own things. Am I crazy?"
Liu was so angry at Xia Tian's words that she stood up from her chair, her body swaying a bit.
"Then the prince and I are not crazy, so why would we need your private vault? I can't even spend all the money I earn." Xia Tian felt even more aggrieved. "I came to see Madam with good intentions, but I didn't expect Madam to put such a big accusation on me."
"Liu, I never thought you would become like this now? You are becoming less and less like a lady from a marquisate."
The sudden scolding startled both Liu and Xia Tian.
When she saw who it was, Liu's already pale face turned even paler!
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