Conan's physique? The Crown Princess is involved in a murder case again

Mei Hanrui's inquiring gaze made Xu Xingyin feel very uncomfortable. When he saw Mei Hanrui raise her hand to comb her hair, he suddenly had an idea. He dodged Mei Hanrui's movement like a frightened bird and whimpered.

"Please have mercy on me, Miss Hanrui, and don't punish me."

After hearing Xu Xingyin's words, Mei Hanrui slightly withdrew her inquiring gaze.

It seems that this "Xiao Cui" had served in a wealthy family before, and her good manners were probably brought up during that time.

"Get up. I was poor once too. My status is not much higher than yours, so I won't embarrass you."

Thinking of this, Mei Hanrui smiled and helped Xu Xingyin up, "Which family did you serve in before?"

"To answer Miss, it is the Ren family in Jiangning City. I am serving the Third Miss in the Second House."

The third young lady of the Ren family in Jiangning was notoriously violent, and the maids serving her were often beaten by her.

Xu Xingyin and her were acquainted before, so there wouldn't be any mistakes if he asked her in detail, so Xu Xingyin gave Ren San's name without blushing or beating his heart.

"What do you usually do?"

"I am about the same age as the Third Young Miss. I usually accompany her in her studies and calligraphy, as well as her daily life and other trivial matters."

"Can you read?"

“I can recognize some simple words.”

"Ah."

Mei Hanrui asked Xu Xingyin a few more questions in a gentle voice, and felt relieved when she saw that her answers were flawless.

"Since you can read and write, come into my room and serve me with writing materials in the future."

Xu Xingyin raised his head flattered, then quickly lowered it and thanked him politely.

The maid was knowledgeable and tactful, and Mei Hanrui was happy to accept it. After giving a few instructions, she left the maid to serve her and went to rest.

In order to consolidate his image of being "hard-working", Xu Xingyin deliberately worked very late that day before returning to the servants' room.

The servants' room was located in a remote area with little light along the way. By the time Xu Xingyin returned under the moonlight, it was already past midnight.

Before I opened the door, I heard sad crying coming from inside the house, which was really scary in this secluded and desolate courtyard.

Xu Xingyin nervously clutched her handkerchief, mustered up the courage to push the door open, only to see a figure suddenly jump up from the bed, with disheveled hair, staring at her straight.

"what!"

Xu Xingyin, who was always brave, screamed in fear, took two steps back and tripped over the threshold, fell to the ground with his face pale with fear.

"Xiao Cui, it's...I'm sorry, it's me."

The "female ghost" on the bed probably didn't expect to scare others. She shrank her neck and said softly, "No," then hurriedly got up to help Xu Xingyin.

After hearing this voice, Xu Xingyin also knew who this "female ghost" was.

He heaved a long sigh, then stood up with Chun Xiang's hand. Seeing that the girl's eyes were red from crying, he asked her a few questions with concern.

Originally, Xu Xingyin did not expect Chunxiang, a taciturn person, to be able to answer, but Chunxiang had probably been keeping it in his heart for too long, and in the quiet late night, his defenses finally collapsed, and he poured out all the grievances and sadness that had accumulated for a long time to Xu Xingyin.

Chunxiang was a girl with a miserable life. Because she had a seriously ill father at home, she had to sell herself to work in other villages since she was young, and she did this for eight years.

Although Chunxiang had been there for a long time, she was not a smart girl and was not valued in the villa.

Although the wages were small, they were enough to keep her father alive. For her, this was enough.

A few days ago, she received a letter from home saying that her father's condition had worsened. She asked someone to send all her savings and the money borrowed from the housekeeper back home.

But this time the illness came on suddenly and the money was soon gone.

Now, there was another letter from home, but where could Chunxiang get the money to send home?

Xu Xingyin had experienced the pain of not being able to help her loved ones, and she knew how painful it was.

But she didn't bring anything valuable with her this time. After searching carefully, she gave the only small change she had to Chunxiang.

"Right now, these are all I have on hand. Take them for now."

The amount of change Xu Xingyin gave was not much, just for emergencies, but it was also several months' salary for the maids.

Chun Xiang naturally refused and kept refusing.

"No, how can I take so much silver!"

"I saved a lot of money in my early years serving Miss Ren, so you don't have to worry."

Xu Xingyin patiently comforted him, "Send these back home tomorrow. When your uncle is cured of his illness, you can save up the money and pay me back, okay?"

Xu Xingyin stuffed the silver into Chunxiang's hand, but Chunxiang was still a little hesitant holding the silver in his hand.

"Can……"

"Okay, it's settled!"

Xu Xingyin made the final decision, "It's so late now, don't cry anymore, go to bed early, okay? Otherwise, you will also collapse by then, and your father will be left alone."

Chun Xiang was finally persuaded by Xu Xingyin and nodded in agreement.

Maybe it was because they slept too late the night before or were too tired from work, but they both accidentally overslept the next day.

When the two of them hurried into the yard, they were caught red-handed by Mei Hanrui's personal maid Shuang Yu.

Shuang Yu was already unhappy about Xu Xingyin showing his face in front of Mei Hanrui. Now that he had caught Xu Xingyin's mistake, he naturally scolded him mercilessly.

Fortunately, Xu Xingyin arrived at the right time, just when Mei Hanrui was practicing calligraphy. Shuangyu did not dare to disobey and could only grit her teeth and watch Xu Xingyin go into the house to serve ink.

Xu Xingyin glanced at Shuang Yu's angry expression, paused for a moment as if thinking about something, then walked into the house with a smile.

Shuang Yu is good at dancing with long sleeves and knows a lot about other villages. If we can get some information out of her...

Human jealousy is also a sharp blade.

After making up his mind, Xu Xingyin became more concerned about serving Mei Hanrui.

Seeing that she was smart, Mei Hanrui asked her to serve her more often.

There is a fixed number of maids in the house. Xu Xingyin goes into the house to serve, and Shuangyu can only share some of the work in the yard.

Although the work was not too heavy, Yu Shuangyu, who was used to personal servants, naturally was unwilling to do it, so his resentment towards Xu Xingyin became even greater.

Shuang Yu also secretly put some obstacles in Xu Xingyin's way several times, but Xu Xingyin saw through them all but didn't say anything, and he was able to avoid them with "good luck" every time.

Therefore, Shuang Yu, whose hopes had been shattered countless times, became even more angry when she saw Xu Xingyin, and wished she could fight with her.

Chun Xiang was very happy to know that Xu Xingyin was valued by Mei Hanrui, but he was also afraid that she would be embarrassed by Shuangyu, so he hinted to her several times, but Xu Xingyin pretended not to understand.

During the day's shift, Chun Xiang took the opportunity to pull Xu Xingyin aside and whispered a reminder.

"Sister Shuangyu has always been popular with people, and she is Miss Hanrui's personal attendant. What good can you gain by being at odds with her?"