Jiaohua

Chapter 31 She is Ali
Aunt Feng and the others brought meals to Bian Yuanfeng's small courtyard.

A few maids went to carry several tables of the Eight Immortals, and the servants put the meat and vegetables on the table.

Aunt Feng stood by and watched the servants handing out dishes and chopsticks. When she turned around, she saw Concubine Zhao walking towards her.

"Aunt Feng." Aunt Zhao called.

"Aunt Zhao." Aunt Feng smiled.

Concubine Zhao stood beside her and lowered her voice: "Are you coming up the mountain or coming down the mountain?"

"At the bottom of the mountain, the road is very dark."

"I said, why didn't I see Bian Erlang and the others following along."

"Huh?" Aunt Feng said, "Listening to this, they all went to the mountains."

"That's right. If Erlang was here, this kind of thing wouldn't happen in the yard."

"What happened in the yard?" Aunt Feng was curious, "What happened?"

Aunt Zhao took a step closer, leaned close to Aunt Feng's ear, and muttered a few words in a low voice.

Aunt Feng was taken aback for a moment: "There is still such a thing, so how is Lianping now?"

"What do you care about her," Concubine Zhao said with unabashed contempt, "She is just a lowly servant girl who bullies others with her fangs and claws. It would be best if she died."

Aunt Feng did not answer.

"Hey, look at my quick mouth," Concubine Zhao covered her mouth with a handkerchief, and added, "Aunt Feng, I must be thinking of you as my own before telling you this, I can't keep my mouth shut. ."

"I know." Aunt Feng smiled.

"But this matter is more troublesome now. Lianping and Suxiang insist that it was the people in your backyard who did it."

"What did the people in our backyard do?" Aunt Feng said, "How is this possible."

"That's what they said, and it's not even a little girl." Concubine Zhao gestured, "It's just so tall, she said that this girl was dressed in tatters and beat her like that with a whip."

Aunt Feng smiled and said, "Is this a joke?"

"They will definitely ask about this later, so I will say hello to you in advance." Concubine Zhao said.

Aunt Feng nodded and said seriously: "Well, thank you Aunt Zhao, let me know what you want to eat tomorrow."

While speaking, Cai Ming helped Madam Bian out of the door.

Mrs. Bian glanced at her and said, "Where is Erlang?"

"I haven't come back yet," Concubine Zhao said with a smile on her face, "Aunt Feng and the others came down from the mountain. It's hard to walk at night. They are still carrying the burdens, and they are very tired."

Mrs. Bian nodded and looked at the tables over there. Although it was the door of the house on the maid's side, it was behind the house, but this yard was also Bian Yuanfeng's yard.

"Why do you put it here directly, as a banquet, what is it like?" Mrs. Bian said.

The maids were shocked.

The aunties who had already started eating also woke up.

"It's just a maid who was beaten, do you care so much?" Cai Ming followed closely, "Those who don't know think you're here to keep vigil for your seriously ill parents."

Concubine Shen put down the chopsticks in her hand, got up and muttered, "I'll give an order now, I'll clean it up."

"Okay, don't bother," Madam Bian frowned and said disgustedly, "Since you're all on the hilltop, you don't need to talk about manners, anyway, you are all uneducated rough people captured from the countryside, and these maids are even more so. If you haven’t taught it well, you won’t have any rules if you don’t have rules. Eat fast, pack up early and clean up.”

"Well..." Aunt Shen responded weakly.

The girls all bowed their heads and dared not lift them up.

Mrs. Bian retracted her gaze, walked towards Aunt Feng, and said, "It's hard work for you. The road down the mountain is particularly difficult, right?"

Aunt Feng smiled: "It's really not easy to walk, I almost lost us."

"But you came just in time, and there is just one thing I want to ask you."

After Mrs. Bian finished speaking, she looked at Caiming next to her.

Cai Ming said, "Lian Ping was attacked here just now. She and Su Xiang both said that the attacker was a little girl and should be a child slave in your backyard."

"Tong slaves in our backyard?" Aunt Feng said, "Madam, you can't believe this when you hear it."

"I thought so too, but they insisted that they were people in your backyard." Madam Bian said.

"To be honest, ma'am," Aunt Feng frowned, "it's not that I want to say something about Lian Ping, but that something happened and I had to say something. Lian Ping's temper is really a bit sloppy, every time he goes to our back mountain The girls in the backyard were afraid of seeing her. They couldn't walk on the road with weak legs, not to mention attacking her. Besides, when the girl attacked her, what attack did they use? Our tallest The girls are about the same size as Lian Ping, and with Su Xiang around, how can you beat them?"

"And Madam," Cai Ming said at this time, "the bridge over there is broken."

Madam Bian nodded and said, "You call Suxiang out."

"Well." Cai Ming turned around and shouted, "Suxiang, come out!"

When Su Xiang heard it in the room, she asked Xiaoshu to help Lian Ping, and responded, "Come here!"

Bian Yuanxue looked at her curiously, and said to Lilan next to her, "Let's go, let's go and have a look."

"Aunt Feng is here," Cai Ming said. "You are right with her, and see if there is such a girl."

"Yeah." Su Xiang nodded and looked at Aunt Feng, "This girl is very small, she looks like nine or ten years old, she's thin, she has a strange whip in her hand, and her clothes are tattered, right, She was holding a small box in her hand."

"Small box?" Yu Ma said.

"Yeah, she's holding a box."

Mother Yu was stunned, Aunt Feng turned her head to look at her, and both read a name in each other's eyes.

"What?" Madam Bian looked at them, "Did you think of something?"

Yu's mother looked at Aunt Feng closely, with some sincerity in her eyes.

Aunt Feng calmed down and looked at Mrs. Bian: "No, I was just thinking, there doesn't seem to be any lost girls in our backyard. Isn't the bridge over there broken too?"

The tall maid who stood not far from them overheard their conversation and thought of that Ali.

She wanted to speak, but when she heard Aunt Feng say this, she endured it.

"Is it possible that they came here before the bridge was broken?" Su Xiang asked unwillingly.

"I said it just now," Aunt Feng said, "We don't seem to have lost a girl. The bridge is already broken. How can she come back?"

"Impossible," Su Xiang was annoyed, "I saw a girl with my own eyes."

The tall servant girl looked at them, and the more she thought about it, the more she couldn't help it, and suddenly she shouted, "Madam, I know who it is!"

Everyone looked at her. It was the first time that the tall servant girl was looked at by so many people. She was nervous.

"Who is it?" Cai Ming asked.

"She, she is Ali." The tall servant girl stammered.

(End of this chapter)