Even the maidservant who served her personally was sent by her mother to monitor her.
Yu Xunmei sat by the lake in the backyard, hugging her knees, staring blankly at the dark water until it absorbed the last glimmer of light from her eyes.
"Young Miss, Young Miss."
A voice called her name several times before Yu Xunmei came to her senses.
Turning around, she saw that the person who came was her childhood playmate, the son of her wet nurse—Asheng.
Ah Sheng had dark skin, but his teeth looked exceptionally white in the darkness, and his eyes gleamed with a dark light that only she could understand.
"Young Miss, why are you sitting here all alone?"
Ah Sheng looked around but couldn't see the maidservant who was with Yu Xunmei.
Yu Xunmei looked away. Ah Sheng didn't see the maid, so he simply sat down next to her.
"You..." Ah Sheng was about to speak when Yu Xunmei suddenly pushed him to the ground, and then a heavy object pressed down on him.
Smelling the faint scent of soap emanating from Ah Sheng, Yu Xunmei completely lost her mind and began tearing at his clothes.
Ah Sheng had already had an affair with her, so how could he resist such a sudden embrace? He was tall and strong, and quickly restrained Yu Xunmei's unruly hands, taking the initiative and pinning her down.
Without any extraneous emotions, they instinctively explored the pleasure deep within each other's bodies.
After a cathartic release, Yu Xunmei gradually regained her senses.
"Brother Asheng, please help me." Yu Xunmei's seductive voice rang in the man's ear.
Ah Sheng's young body couldn't withstand such temptation. His whole body tensed, and he said in a hoarse voice, "Tell me, how can I help?"
Yu Xunmei leaned close to his ear and whispered.
"What do you need these things for?" Ah Sheng stared at her in surprise, his eyes wide.
Yu Xunmei smiled charmingly, raised her fair arm, and gently stroked his firm and taut abdomen.
"I've heard this thing is really fun. If you bring it back, I'll definitely give you a reward. So, do you agree or not?"
Seeing her innocent smile, Ah Sheng swallowed hard and said, "Since it is Miss's order, how could Ah Sheng disobey?"
"Brother Asheng is so nice!" Yu Xunmei smiled and kissed him on the cheek.
With a slightly out-of-control passion, Ah Sheng could no longer hold back. He forcefully suppressed the troublemaker, and suppressed breathing echoed again from the dark lakeside.
In the darkness before dawn, Yu Xunmei dragged her weary body through the night shrouded in invisible black mist, quietly returning to her room where candles were still lit.
After changing out of her filthy clothes, she woke up the maid with a gloomy face.
"Go boil some water, I want to take a bath!"
The maid was so frightened that she jumped up, put on her shoes, and ran outside.
Yu Xunmei sat in the bathtub, letting the hot water gradually submerge her.
She emerged from the water, her head still wet, and gazed at the sudden glimmer of light that appeared in the room.
It's dawn!
Nanman Prefecture.
Longtan County.
A general store and a fabric store opened in the county town, and the business was naturally run by Wu Xingwang's family.
Wu Yuan was in charge of the general store, while Zhao and her concubine Qian jointly managed the fabric shop.
Since she could no longer rely on Yu Suqin, Madam Qian completely gave up any thoughts of competing with Madam Zhao. Since she couldn't have children anyway, she might as well obediently follow Madam Zhao. In the future, all of the Wu family's property would belong to Yuan-ge'er, and she believed that he would treat this concubine poorly.
Now, she and Zhao are not just sisters, but closer than sisters.
Wu Xingwang's grocery store opened at the perfect time. The first batch of houses in the county town had just been allocated, and the houses were empty. He was quick to help people in need and ordered all kinds of daily necessities for them.
Everyone is very generous with their food and drink, and they don't have to spend money on food and drinks. They even have a small income every month.
Wu Xingwang thus made a small profit.
For larger items, Lin Yinan hired some skilled carpenters to make them to order, charging only the cost of the wood and the carpenters' labor.
The rice in the paddy fields is almost all harvested. The first season of rice planting in the first year has yielded a bumper harvest, which has greatly boosted the enthusiasm of the people in the entire Longtan County.
During the day, on the threshing ground, without any special arrangements, the old men and women of the county town would conscientiously take out their tattered clothes that they couldn't bear to throw away, tie them to tree branches, and tirelessly drive away those hateful birds that steal grain.
They hadn't even tasted a single bite of the new grain they had painstakingly grown, and they absolutely wouldn't allow the birds to eat it.
In this peaceful atmosphere, more than 10,000 refugees from Nanzhou Prefecture finally arrived in Longtan County.
Looking at the tall and sturdy city walls, the refugees wept bitterly.
They finally arrived at the legendary paradise amidst the chaos of war—Dragon Pool.
"Good heavens! We've arrived!"
"Mother! Mother! Open your eyes and look! We've arrived at a place where we don't have to sell ourselves to have food to eat!"
"Waaah, God bless you! Father! Mother! Your son has reached the place you couldn't reach, now you can rest in peace!"
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The guards, watching the people kneeling below, wailing and crying, each held a bow and arrow, not daring to slacken their guard in the slightest.
"Who goes there? State your name at once!"
The guard shouted loudly, and the people below the city wall stopped crying and dared not make any more noise.
A cultured man who had received an education stepped forward and bowed to the guards on the city wall.
"Reporting to you gentlemen, we are refugees who have come from the north to the south. We have come here specifically to request that Longtan take us in. Please inform us!" the scholar said neither humbly nor arrogantly.
"Please wait a moment, and everyone please refrain from making noise."
One of the guards fired a signal flare into the sky.
The crowd below the city wall looked at each other, not daring to utter another word, and quietly waited for the arrival of the officials from inside the city.
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