Life seems to be getting better, but Ji Man always feels uneasy in her heart. She doesn't know what will happen in the future, but a sense of danger always lingers around.
After staying in the room for a long time, when he looked up, he saw that Clover was not there. Ji Man came back to his senses, stretched his waist and went out to have a look.
There was no one in the yard, and she sent a few maids to Shuiji to see if the business was going well, and bought two boxes of cream on the way back. Clover usually stands outside the house, but today she didn't see anyone for some reason.
Walking two steps towards her wing, the door of her room was not closed, Ji Man suddenly became playful and wanted to scare her, so he tiptoed into her room.
Clover was holding the door behind her back, stuffing something in the closet. Ji Man suddenly jumped over and patted her on the shoulder: "Clover."
"Ah!" Clover's whole body jumped up, as if he had been greatly frightened, his eyes were wide open, he couldn't catch his breath, and passed out directly.
Ji Man was also taken aback, and secretly blamed himself for not playing like this, because sometimes people are really scary to death when they scare people. Hugging Clover to the bed quickly, she went out to find a passing servant and asked him to bring Dr. Li.
Back in the room, Ji Man saw that the wardrobe door was still open, so he wanted to close it. Unexpectedly, when I walked over, I saw a cloth bag, small and bulging, as if it was filled with silver ingots.
Where did Clover come from for such a burden of money? She gave her fifty taels last time, and it shouldn't be so much in silver ingots.
Ji Man frowned, glanced at the person on the bed who hadn't woken up, and stretched out his hand to open the bundle.
Ten ingots and ten taels of silver, with a bank note under it, the denomination is very large, Ji Man looked at it, two hundred and sixty taels, with the stamp of Fenghui Bank on it, exactly the same as the one that Shui Niangzi sent her every month.
Ji Man looked at it for a while, carefully wrapped the silver back, put it in its original position, and then closed the wardrobe door.
Dr. Li came soon, with a very thin face, but not much sadness, only a little anxious when he saw the fainted Clover.
"It's fine, why are you dizzy?" Dr. Li sat down and felt her pulse.
Ji Man said in a low voice: "I called her, but I didn't expect to frighten her, and she passed out."
Dr. Li was stunned for a moment, and said helplessly, "She's also a little too timid, she doesn't know what's going on, she's always trembling."
Clover is timid, according to what Mu Shuiqing said last time, she was abused by Nie Sangyu before. Ji Man felt that Nie Sangyu owed Alfalfa a little, so now he doubled the compensation to her.
It's just how she forgot, the heart of guarding against others is indispensable, this girl who is closest to her and knows her most secrets is equivalent to a fatal wound of hers, if someone handles it, then she will also be finished.
Ji Man lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then said: "How is the mother in Dr. Li's family recently?"
Dr. Li was prescribing a prescription, when he heard the words, he paused, and said, "Thank you, Master Sang, for your concern. My mother's health has improved a lot recently, and she has finally recovered."
Ji Man nodded. It is said that Dr. Li's mother was paralyzed in bed, had asthma, and kept hanging herself with ginseng. With Dr. Li's meager income, it is really not easy to support his mother.
"Please trouble Dr. Li to look after Clover for me first, I have a headache, go back to the room and lie down for a while." Ji Man got up.
"This..." Dr. Li stood up hesitantly, and secretly looked at Ji Man's expression. It's not good for him to be alone in a room with a maid. It's just that Ji Man is the master after all, so we can't ask her to stay here.
"Why don't you and Clover be so far apart? If you really think it's damaging to Clover's reputation, then you can welcome her in eight sedan chairs, and I'm willing to let her go." Ji Man said jokingly, and left.
Dr. Li's face turned red, seeing that he couldn't keep anyone, he just sat down by the bed.
When Jiman returned to the house, she opened her closet. In the dark compartment at the bottom was her bank notes. Since the cream and mask were selling well, the water lady sent her more than 800 taels of silver notes. I didn't count them in detail, and handed them over to Clover's bookkeeping.
Taking out a stack of bank notes, Ji Man counted, and there were five hundred taels left.
Did Clover think she didn't know numbers at all, or did she think she was stupid? Ji Man held the bank note and didn't want to understand. If you want to treat Dr. Li's mother, ask her how much you want, and it's not like she won't give it. Why would you take such a big risk to steal it
Moreover, three hundred and sixty taels of silver were placed in the room of one of her maids. If this thing is found out, it is likely that not only Clover will suffer, but she will also be implicated, right? It is not a happy thing for a woman to have business outside. If it was pierced through, even the old lady couldn't protect her.
Ji Man suddenly felt cold behind him, quickly put all the bank notes in his hand into a sheepskin bag, walked lightly to the backyard, saw no one was around, dug a hole and buried the sheepskin bag. In order to prevent people from seeing the traces of the soil turning, the flower pot next to it was moved over to block it.
Then she pretended nothing had happened, and went back to the house to sleep.
"Master, I bought the cream." The two little maids came back, both of them were rough envoys, they were fourteen or fifteen years old, fresh and lively. One is called wick and the other is called licorice.
Usually, the only person who enters her room is Clover, and Ji Man doesn't pay attention to these little girls. Looking carefully now, the lamp core has clear eyes and is lively and active. Licorice is quiet, well-behaved and sensible, but they are all good seedlings.
"Yeah." Ji Man smiled: "Go and see if your aunt Clover is awake, she was frightened by me."
Five boxes of cream, Jiman sent one big box and two small boxes to the old lady's yard, and the remaining two boxes were given to Wen Wan and Qian Lianxue.
Originally, the cream was sold now, so it was not her turn to be a good person. It's a pity that she had told Lady Shui that other maids in the Hou's mansion went to ask, and they all said that they were out of stock, and only the maids around her could buy it.
She originally planned to keep doing such a flattering thing, but now it seems that it is no longer possible, and she has to pull it out before the bomb explodes.
When Clover woke up, she leaned against the head of the bed and gasped for breath for a while. Seeing that the two rough maids and Dr. Li were still in the room, but she couldn't see the master who had just scared her, she felt tight, and hurriedly stumbled out of bed, opened the The closet looked.
The baggage is in its original position and there is no trace of turning over.
"Does the master have any orders?" Clover turned to ask the people in the room.
The two little girls and Dr. Li shook their heads.
"Madam said that she accidentally scared you, and she was very worried, so she asked me to stay here." Dr. Li raised the medicine box and said, "You are overly frightened, nothing else, just sleep and you will be fine."
Clover breathed a sigh of relief, tidied up his clothes, sent Dr. Li out, and then went to look for Ji Man in the house.
"Are you awake?" Ji Man's face was a bit sad, and when she saw her come in, she just asked.
Clover raised his heart again, walked to her side and asked, "Master, why are you so lethargic?"
"Oh, I mistrusted the wrong person." Ji Man rested his chin on the table, and said in great frustration: "How can this be good."
Alfalfa's knees softened, and she almost knelt down, and her face became paler and paler.
"Tell me, I'm so good to Mrs. Shui, why would she abandon me at the expense of others?" Ji Man asked softly.
Water Lady? Clover paused, then muttered a few words: "Why her?"
"Who else could it be if it wasn't her?" Ji Man said angrily: "It was agreed that the profit would be four or four. Now that she has money, she turned her face and denied anyone. She gave me five hundred taels of silver and said it was to buy out the copyright of the cream. Then she went into business on her own, taking all my ideas."
"How could this be?" Clover's eyes widened, "Water Lady looks pretty nice."
Ji Man shook his head and sighed: "You know people, you know faces, you don't know your heart. I put the banknotes in the dark compartment of the closet. Don't touch them. Keep them for your retirement."
"Yes." Alfalfa drooped her eyes, with a look of struggle in her eyes.
The master and servant were silent for a while, and Clover couldn't help asking: "Isn't the master planning to sue her? Didn't he write a contract?"
"It's not good for me to get this out." Ji Man shook his head: "Let Lord Hou and the old lady know that the cream is actually made by me, so I definitely can't eat it and walk around."
Clover nodded, and quietly stood aside.
Ji Man lowered his head and drank his tea without saying a word.
That night, the mansion was met with thieves, and it was said that Qi Siling's yard had broken into the Xiao Xiaoxiao, who was fine, but lost one hundred taels of private money.
The Hou Mansion suddenly became lively, and even the people in Nanyuan were alarmed. Ning Errong came to Ji Man to watch the fun with a curious expression on his face: "Your aunt is really rich, and she saved a hundred taels of private money."
Ji Man was doing her makeup in front of the mirror. Hearing this, he smiled lightly and said, "It's strange if you have no background. Someone should search them one by one later. You don't need to go to other places to watch the excitement, just here The liveliest."
Ning Errong didn't understand what she meant, but after a while, Qi Siling and Mo Yuhou brought his servants to the gate of Feiwan Pavilion.
"Let's look here too." Ning Yuxuan saw Ji Man as soon as she entered the door. When she turned her head, her face seemed to be more beautiful than the one she saw a few days ago. Looking at it for a while, it will make people feel excited.
Mo Yuhou averted his gaze indifferently, and waved his hand at the servant.
Qi Siling came in, took Ji Man's hand affectionately and said, "I'm sorry to bother you, my lord and I have searched the Rose Garden just now, you should be fine here, right?"
Ji Man smiled generously: "My sister just search for it."
Qi Siling nodded, turned around to see a few maidservants coming in, and opened Jiman's wardrobe. A few servants outside rushed into Clover's room, rummaged through it for a while, and shouted, "Found it!"
A lot of Ji Man's clothes were thrown out, but the maids who went through the closet found nothing. They stood up blushing and said, "Master Sang doesn't have any here."
Qi Siling looked at Mo Yuhou, several servants twisted Clover into the house, put a package of things on the ground, and just about to open it, they heard Ji Man yell softly: "Wait a minute."