It was rare for the Lin Hai family to be unable to hold back their emotions. They sneered angrily, showing no mercy at all, and said bluntly: "Then all the people you served are dead? If you don't know when the master gets hurt, what's the use of you?!"
Mother Qi was scolded so harshly that she didn't know how to refute for a moment. A servant was supposed to serve the master. Although Lin Hai's words were harsh, they were not wrong. She could only sneer and said, "The Third Madam herself didn't ask anyone to follow her. She is a lunatic. How do you talk to a lunatic?"
Wei Yuyou was constantly being called a lunatic. Lin Hai's family could no longer tolerate this and said sarcastically, "Mom is such a stickler for rules, and the Li family is such a stickler for rules too. Our aunt is the third wife of your family, married in a formal ceremony. How come mom can't even tell the difference between a master and a servant, and keeps calling him a lunatic? I really want to ask, who taught you these rules?!"
As she spoke, she skillfully instructed Zihe, the maid who came with the Third Madam, to go up and clean up Wei Yuyou.
Zi He's tears were streaming down her face. She pursed her lips and quickly put up Wei Yuyou's hair. She also changed her dress that was stained with vomit. She looked at Lin Hai's family and said, "Mammy, why aren't all the maids and old women who used to serve our aunt here?"
Lin Hai's family looked at Qi's mother and raised their eyebrows and asked, "Mom, I wonder where the servants who serve our fifth aunt are? The fifth aunt is so sick, could it be that these servants can't be used anymore?"
Why would Li San ask those people to continue to serve Wei Yuyou? Mother Qi didn't care, and didn't even bother to cover it up. She said bluntly: "Who dares to serve the Third Madam, who is always pinching, hitting and biting people? In addition, our family is not like yours, and we can't afford to support so many idle people. Since the Third Madam doesn't need so many people here, and those people are unwilling to continue serving, we have already called the matchmaker to sell them all."
Lin Hai's family immediately frowned, this time they were really a little surprised, and couldn't help but laugh in anger: "Sold?! You really are, excuse me for asking, which official are you from? Official slaves are all slaves, they are not comparable to servants who have signed a contract for a few years. These people are our family children, they have worked in our family for generations, and you just sold them like that?!"
Families like the Li family don't have such things as children born at home. Except for Qi Mama, who is Li San's wet nurse and has worked in the Li family for a long time, the rest can be sold.
Mother Qi herself didn't have much experience, so when she heard Lin Hai's question, she said, "The Third Madam also agreed to sell it."
Wei Yuyou glanced at her and said nothing.
Lin Hai's family sneered, "What mom said is simple. Even if our fifth aunt wants to sell them, the deeds of these servants are not all in her hands. How can you have the final say? Tell me, which matchmaker is so ignorant that she actually took so many people away? Isn't she afraid of being sued and imprisoned?!"
Mother Qi was speechless when asked.
Those servants were taken away by Li San. She didn't know where they went. She said they were sold. Now she heard Lin Hai's questioning, she looked at Wei Yuyou and coughed to remind her: "Madam San, please say something. How can we servants know these things? Please don't embarrass us."
Lin Haijia stepped forward and sat on the edge of Wei Yuyou's bed. Seeing that she looked pale and haggard, and that although her wounds had scabbed over, some of them were still not healed, he could not help but ask angrily, "I wonder if our Fifth Aunt has seen a doctor since she was injured like this? Which doctor did she see? What medicine did she take? Did the doctor have any advice?"
Madam Wei San has been so worried about Wei Yuyou that she has been sick for a while and can't get out of bed. Old Madam Wei has also reached the limit of her patience. This time she is determined to take the person back. The Lin Hai family knows that they will fall out sooner or later, so they simply take the opportunity to get angry.
Mother Qi was indifferent and didn't reply to her at all, just pretending she didn't hear her. She turned around and looked at Wei Yuyou impatiently and said, "For these matters, the Third Master and the Third Madam always have their own rules. We are just servants. How can we ask too much?" The implication was that Lin Hai's family were also servants, but they were too servile for interfering so much.
The people in the Li family are really unreasonable. They are completely different from before.
Lin Hai's family couldn't stand their expressions, so they snorted and said, "Since you don't know anything, we have to worry about it. We can't rest assured that Fifth Aunt is injured like this. The old lady and the masters have told us to take Fifth Aunt back. Please ask mom to pack some underwear for our Fifth Aunt. We will take her back now."
Mother Qi just looked at Wei Yuyou, coughed, and shook her head as if she was about to laugh: "Is that a bad idea? Our little boy is still young, how can he leave his mother? He is only two years old. If he is separated from his biological mother, I don't know if we can take good care of him."
Wei Yuyou was trembling, and after a while she mustered up the courage to shake her head towards Lin Hai's family: "Mom, please tell my mother that I'm fine, don't worry too much, I'll go back to see her after a while."
Having said that, I couldn't help but burst into tears.
Lin Hai's family is very smart. How could they not know that Mama Qi was threatening people with her child? They immediately said, "It's nothing. We also know that the young master can't live without someone. It just so happens that our old lady and the third master and the third lady haven't seen the young master for a long time and miss him very much. So we took him back to stay for a few more days. When Fifth Aunt recovers, we can ask the son-in-law to come back and pick him up. That's it."
How could it be possible? How could Mother Qi not hear that the Lin Hai family was talking nonsense and deliberately making empty promises? How could the person who left come back? She immediately said, "That's impossible. Our little master is our old lady's sweetheart. We can't leave him for even a day, right, Third Madam?"
Wei Yuyou was forced into a corner. After hesitating for a long time, she closed her eyes and nodded resignedly: "Yes, Mom, thank you for taking this trip..." She held Lin Hai's hand, and seeing that Mother Qi was coming forward as if to take someone away, she hurriedly said: "Mom, when you go back and see An An, tell her for me... Ask her to take care of Gu Zhao'er." (To be continued)