"Miss, please drink some porridge. You haven't eaten or drunk anything for two days. How can your body bear it if you continue like this? Sob~".
The head maid Qinghong led two younger maids to kneel in front of Zhou Lanqing's bed and sob, half because they were worried that something might happen to Zhou Lanqing, and half because they were afraid of the punishment that might come at any time.
When Tian was about to enter the room, she saw her daughter lying on the bed with a pale face, unconscious and in a trance.
Tian was anxious, in pain, and angry. She kicked Qinghong and said, "What's the point of keeping you little bitches around? Get the hell out of here as far as you can!"
The kick hit Qinghong's heart, and she felt a sharp pain instantly. She fell to the ground with the force. The little maid next to her wanted to help her but didn't dare to.
Qinghong placed one hand on her chest, gritted her teeth, and slowly got up from the ground. She hunched over and followed the little maid out of Zhou Lanqing's boudoir step by step.
A few people walked out of the yard with sad faces, ready to wait outside for orders, but Qinghong suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground again.
"ah!?"
Xu, along with her mother and maid, were heading to her sister-in-law's yard to visit her, but unexpectedly they saw this horrifying scene before they even entered.
The mother went forward and helped Qinghong sit against the wall, took out a handkerchief to wipe the blood off her, and asked the two maids with a smile, and she knew what was going on.
The mother returned to Xu and whispered a few words to her. Xu thought about it, asked her trusted maid to help Qinghong go to her own courtyard, and she took the mother in to visit Zhou Lanqing.
When Xu returned to her own courtyard, Qinghong was lying in the maid's room recuperating. The doctor had come and left quietly.
Seeing Xu walk into the room, Qinghong's eyes became hot and she was about to get out of bed and kowtow to Xu. Her mother, who was following behind Xu, hurried forward and held her down.
"Miss Qinghong, lie down. You are still injured!"
"Thank you, Madam and Madam Chen, for your care. I am not the kind of person who doesn't know what is good for me. I will repay your kindness someday. But now I have to go back. Miss will be without someone to serve her. I am afraid that Madam..."
Qinghong's voice became lower and lower, and finally her voice trembled with fear involuntarily. Xu frowned. Her sister-in-law had been lying in bed for two days, and the lady had punished the maid to the point of scaring her like this.
"Your name is Qinghong, right? I'll ask Mother Chen to take you back. You can take the remaining medicine and boil it yourself. But be sure to take it on time."
The young mistress of the Zhou mansion has no sense of existence in the outside world, but she has a natural authority in the hearts of the servants in the mansion, even if this authority is not as important as that of the master, the mistress, and the young master.
Therefore, Xu's thoughtful and kind words warmed Qinghong's heart. She bowed to Xu again and again with tears in her eyes, then slowly left with the medicine.
Returning to her room, Xu called the maid who had been accompanying Qinghong, "Yu'er, did you find out anything?"
Yu'er stepped forward alertly and whispered, "Young Madam, two days ago, Miss secretly changed into men's clothes and went out with the young master. Unexpectedly, she ran into the prince. Miss was very disrespectful at the time, so she was extremely frightened."
Xu was very surprised when she heard this. How could such a coincidence happen? But then Xu noticed another important point.
"The prince is so noble, how can you meet him whenever you want? What was the situation at that time? Where did they meet and why?"
Yu'er didn't know everything, so she could only tell the fragmentary information she heard one by one.
Xu listened carefully and pieced together the situation of the day in her mind. After letting Yu'er leave, she asked Chen Mama, "Do you know about buying a maid and sending it to the Cao Gang?"
Mother Chen nodded, "According to what the steward said after drinking, I went to the brokerage to inquire. Madam did ask someone to buy a maid, but we didn't hire anyone in our house. I think it should be true."
After combining this information, Xu wrote a secret note and rolled it up. That night, Mother Chen took the secret note and quietly went to Gongsun Yan's home.
(End of this chapter)