}I heard that it was because of a "plague" in the Shi Mansion.
The "plague" does not make people fall down, but makes them irritable and chaotic. Those people make strange noises when they speak and eat people.
When the door opened again, Master Shi appeared in front of everyone and said that he wanted to hire a servant for three taels of silver a month, which was a huge fortune for some people.
There are many rules here and the master is mysterious, but many people still come here because of the high monthly salary.
The servants were quite frightened at first, but they didn't feel relieved until the first month's salary was paid and the silver was in their hands.
The servants secretly burned it with fire, and it turned out to be real silver, but it didn't have much luster.
They thought of working in the Shi Mansion for a few more years, then redeem their indentures, return to their hometown with the silver, convert their mud houses into blue brick houses, and then live a good life with their parents without going hungry.
The days passed one by one.
They would start out chatting with each other, gossiping about the masters.
As time went on, they found the people around them more and more unfamiliar.
So, some people remembered the "plague" of that year.
This "plague" has always been there.
These servants are different from Shen Sinian. They live in the outer courtyard. Even if they enter the inner courtyard, it is only to complete their work. They will leave the inner courtyard quickly after the work is completed.
They knew that the only way to avoid getting sick was to obey what Master Shi said, not go to certain places, not do certain things, and pretend not to hear certain words.
In this stone mansion, "plague" is everywhere.
After the servants took the silver, they left one after another.
"Shuangxi, this is yours." The lady took out two silver ingots and put them in Su Qingyu's hand.
"Thank you, madam, for the reward."
After Su Qingyu said goodbye to his wife, he stopped a servant who was in a hurry to return to the outer courtyard, trying to get from him information about the situation in the Shi Mansion two years ago.
The servant looked slightly withdrawn and lowered his head, unwilling to talk more with Su Qingyu.
Until Su Qingyu took out the silver ingot that the lady had just given her as a reward.
The servant softened his attitude, took the silver, pulled Su Qingyu aside, and told her about the crying and the "plague".
Plague should be pollution.
The speed of time flowing inside the copy is different from that in the real world.
The crying occurred two years ago, and the Shi Mansion opened its doors again more than a year ago.
There was a gap of several months in between.
what happened
It doesn’t take long for death to turn from human to weird.
It took several months for the crying to become strange, which means that when the crying sound was heard two years ago, Mr. Shi, his wife, the eldest son and the second daughter were not dead.
They died a year ago.
As for the eldest daughter, she did not starve to death after being locked up in the woodshed for so long, which means she must have had something to eat. The second daughter insisted on delivering meat soup to her every day. Although the eldest daughter resisted, she did not knock over the bowl every time.
When humans eat human flesh, they will slowly become polluted as their spirits gradually collapse. This kind of pollution requires a process.
After the servant finished telling these things, he fled in a hurry.
He himself was already slightly contaminated. When he saw Su Qingyu, he discovered that both of her eyes were white. For fear of being infected himself, the servant did not dare to say much.