Maid's Counterattack

Chapter 22
Ziluo would go to Yifuxuan to clean for three days in a row, and the new furniture was finally placed on the fourth day.

"I can move here in the afternoon."

Su Die is following today.

"Yes."

Zi Luo looked at the completely new Yi Fuxuan and let out a deep breath.

She was standing in front of a field of flowers sprinkling water. This field of flowers was specially planted by Ziluo. It was a square flower bed made of small stones. There were small red, pink, white, and purple wild flowers in it, and she couldn't call out these flowers. name, but Fang Xin likes these flowers, and she likes them too. I don't know when she will learn to please her master.In the past, she would never be able to do such things as walking around and fearing horses.

"I hope she likes it."

Ziluo said to himself.

It was almost lunch time when Zi Luo left Yifuxuan, Su Die went back a little earlier than her, and now Zi Luo was the only one walking back to Yuexiu Xuan.

"Sister Zhui'er."

Suddenly Ziluo's eyes lit up, it was the first time she saw Zhui'er in so many days.

I saw Zhui'er carrying a basket, looking left and right, with a mysterious look.

"Ah, it's Ziluo."

Zhui'er was also taken aback when she saw Zi Luo.

"Sister Zhui'er, what are you up to?"

Ziluo moves closer to Zhui'er in two steps.

"Oh, the third lady asked me to do something."

Zhui'er said perfunctorily, with a visibly disturbed expression.

"Are you going to deliver something to the third son?"

Ziluo glanced at the basket and said in a low voice.

"Shh, don't talk nonsense."

Zhui'er hurriedly looked around.

Zi Luo knew that the confinement room was relatively close to the Yuexiu Pavilion, in a remote corner, in a separate small room, which was originally a confinement room for punishing slaves and maidservants, and now the third son has been locked in for several days, and Master Zhao has been in the confinement room for a long time. There was no intention of letting him out.

"You go, I'm going back to Yuexiuxuan, we can still walk for a while."

Zi Luo originally wanted to go with Zhui'er, she wanted to ask the third young master some questions, but after thinking about it, she had to investigate this matter secretly by herself, and she couldn't tell Zhui'er and Shuangyue, in case someone slipped her mouth, My life was lost.

"Are you okay in Yuexiuxuan?"

Zhui'er asked, and the two began to move forward simultaneously.

"It's pretty good. As a servant, you can work wherever you are, but sister, you are about to redeem yourself and leave the house. It's really enviable."

Ziluo heard that a lot of silver taels will be given out on the day of redemption and leaving the mansion. At that time, he will start a small business and have freedom again. It is really exciting.

"So what if you redeem yourself, you still have to marry someone. If you don't marry well, you might as well stay in the house."

Zhui'er was rather sad.Now that the third lady no longer favors her exclusively, her situation is getting worse and worse. If she wants to live a better life, she still has to find a way to please Mr. Zhao.

"How is the third lady now?"

Zi Luo asked cautiously, although the third wife was a bit stricter, Zi Luo was soft-hearted, even if her life was unsatisfactory, she would not see her being wronged.

"It's not very good. I go to the master all day to intercede for the young master, even if the master refuses to see her."

Zhui'er said worriedly.

"Miss didn't go to comfort and comfort?"

Ziluo continued.

"Go, it doesn't work, I persuade you every day, alas, Madam loves you very much!"

Zhui'er looked at the road ahead, and there was a fork ahead.

"I'm going back, be careful yourself."

Ziluo bid farewell to Zhui'er, turned into another road and walked towards Yuexiuxuan.

"I'm back, I heard from Su Die that I can move in this afternoon."

Fang Xin was sitting in front of the dressing table arranging her things.

"Yes, ma'am, it's never too late to clean up after dinner."

Ziluo replied.

"After eating, I went to find two men to help. I haven't worked for a long time, and my back hurts after doing a little work."

Fang Xin rubbed her waist after tidying up the dressing table.

Fang Xin looks more and more like a beautiful girl who doesn't touch the spring water, but in fact, there are always moments every day when she folds the clothes and waters the flowers by herself, and she really just lets her smell the fragrance of the flowers If you close your eyes and rest your mind, arranging flowers and writing, you will not be happy.It is a good thing to love to work in the bones, but when others see it, they will always think of the fact that she used to be a slave, but she never cares.

After lunch, Zi Luo found the butler Cui who was in charge of male maids and maidservants. He looked slick, with big yellow teeth when he smiled.

"Fourth madam, what a blessing, the girl has also gained a lot of fame!"

Butler Cui's words didn't sound tactful at all, he just wanted to gain some benefits.

"I'm sorry, Steward Cui."

Zi Luo had already prepared an emerald ring in his palm.

"Oh, why are you being polite, you go back first, someone will report to you soon."

Steward Cui swiftly put the jade ring into his arms.

Zi Luo bowed to Steward Cui and left. Yue Xiuxuan still had some things to tidy up, including her own.

When she reached the forked intersection, she looked in the direction that she had always wanted to go but had no courage to go. The big tree with luxuriant branches blocked the sunlight, which should make people feel cool, but unexpectedly made Ziluo feel spooky.

"It will be a long way to come here after leaving Yuexiuxuan."

Ziluo murmured, as if there was some magical power there, leading her to the depths of the woods.

Yuexiuxuan is a relatively remote courtyard, so it is very close to the confinement room. The so-called confinement room is a very small room in a place where almost no one will come. There is a door and a small window. It's a weed that makes your scalp tingle.

Ziluo saw that there was a lock on the door, and there was a bad smell coming out of the room, presumably because eating, drinking and lazing had to be done inside the room.While approaching the hut, he took out a handkerchief to cover his mouth and nose.

The door was locked, and the window was open. It was a very small window, so small that only a person's head could stick out, so she stretched her neck and looked into the window. There was a bed and a table in the dark. , a spittoon, and nothing left.

"Where is the third son, isn't he inside?"

Zi Luo muttered, at the first sight he only saw the three items, but did not see the third young master.

Zi Luo lightly stood on tiptoe, stretched her head inward, and suddenly pulled it back, her face changed drastically, and her body trembled involuntarily.

She saw a man with disheveled hair, sunken and empty eyes, pale skin, and chapped lips curled up in the corner of the wall with the window. When Ziluo looked inside, he was also looking up to the window. It was on the line of sight.

"You, Ziluo?"

Just when Ziluo was still in shock, the man had already come to the window to talk to her.

"Yes, you, you are..."

Zi Luo hesitated and wanted to ask if he was the third son.

"I'm Qingjun."

The third son saw through what she wanted to ask, and replied directly.

"Did mother send you here? No, you're not there anymore, so what are you doing here, to see me make a fool of myself?"

The third son continued without waiting for Ziluo to speak.

"I, I want to ask if you did it?"

Zi Luo took a deep breath and asked straight to the point.

"Hmph, what do you say, if you say yes, then you don't."

The third son suddenly sneered and said.

"If I say I don't believe you did it, do you have anything to say to me?"

Ziluo was no longer afraid and looked at him with firm eyes.

The third young master just looked at her with a frown, and there was a little light in his eyes.

"Since I trust you so much, do you want to tell me what you know?"

Ziluo asked.

"It's not me, I didn't do it, you are the second person besides my mother who thinks I didn't do it."

The third son tried his best to keep calm, but his trembling voice revealed the turmoil in his heart.

"I was drunk that day, and I was in a daze. Later, I met my sister-in-law. At that time, she was already lying on the ground, just like what you saw. Not long after, someone rushed out."

The third son was breathing faster and faster, speaking faster, recalling what happened that day.

"Okay, I get it. I should go back. Madam will blame you if it's too late. You must come out of the confinement room alive to have a chance to prove your innocence."

Although Zi Luo still wanted to ask some more questions, the people sent by Steward Cui might arrive, so she had to go back quickly.

"I saw her a few days before the accident. She seemed to have cried, and she smelled of trauma ointment."

When Zi Luo walked out not far away, the third young master said this sentence again.

"Wound ointment, yes, she smelled it when she passed me the other day, didn't it?"

Ziluo thought as she walked, unknowingly even the clothes she wore were a little damp, it was obviously the end of summer, and the cool breeze was blowing under the big tree.

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