The old lady is reborn

Song Ying felt that Shisan's younger brother Xiao Shitou performed very well this time. He was smart and courageous. He chose a very good time to report to the police, got the message across, got the matter done, and escaped unscathed.

When Thirteen saw that Song Ying liked Xiao Shitou, he suggested that Xiao Shitou come into the mansion to be a servant.

Song Ying said, "It might be better for Xiao Shitou to stay outside and work."

Song Ying took out two taels of silver every month to subsidize Xiao Shitou. Xiao Shitou was now a servant in Song Ying's courtyard, and he only worked outside the mansion.

Of the two taels of silver, one tael was the monthly allowance, and the other was for tuition. Song Ying told Xiao Shitou to go to the academy on weekdays, and to run errands when there was something to do.

Shisan's family was overjoyed. Now there were two people in the family who received monthly allowance. Their lives became much better, and little Shitou could even go to school on weekdays.

Rong Yunfeng and Wu Siyu mentioned the matter of marrying the eldest daughter of the Jiang family. Wu Siyu was much more satisfied with the Jiang family, which was also a marquisate.

He hurried to find Rong Huaishan to discuss the matter, and they both thought it was a good idea. There had been many embarrassing things happening in the mansion recently, one after another, so it would be good to have a happy event.

So this matter was carried out in full swing. Although Song Ying knew that Jiang Nianchen had never had her period and was most likely infertile, she did not intend to do anything about it.

But on the day of the wedding, Song Ying had just come out to drink two glasses of wedding wine to marry his grandson's wife when Aunt Zhang came to report: "There is something that you may need to go and see."

Song Ying left the table on the pretext of changing clothes.

On the way, Aunt Zhang said, "It's Jiang Muwan's maid named Yunxiang who came to ask you for help.

Now the people are in our yard.”

Seeing that Yunxiang was dressed like a third-class maid, Song Ying asked, "Are you a maid in Xiaoyao Marquis's mansion?"

Yunxiang said, "Greetings, old lady. I am Yunxiang, a third-class maid in the courtyard of the second young lady of the Jiang family in the Marquis Xiaoyao's mansion."

Song Ying asked: "What difficulties have you encountered?"

Yunxiang knelt down and said, "Please, old lady, save our young lady!"

Song Ying said: "You get up first and explain the matter clearly."

Yunxiang said, "Madam, our young lady was brought here as a dowry by the eldest young lady as if she were a concubine."

Song Ying was surprised and asked, "Are you saying that your second daughter Jiang Muwan married here at the same time?"

Yunxiang said, "Yes. Our young lady was drugged, tied up, and stuffed into one of the eldest young lady's dowry boxes. She was also carried to the Nan'an Marquis's Mansion."

Song Ying ordered Wu Er, "Go and see where Jiang Nianchen's dowry is now?"

Then he said to the girl, "This sounds incredible. How can she be a young lady from a marquis's mansion?

Do you know why? "

Yunxiang said: "I don't know why.

But our young lady has always had a hard time in the mansion. The Marquis and his wife don’t like our young lady. Only the eldest young lady is loved.

If the eldest lady wants to do anything to us, we can only endure it.

Today, the maids in our young lady's yard, including two personal maids, were also tied up and someone was watching them.

I was originally a third-class maid in the young lady's courtyard, doing odd jobs. Everyday I just carried water, took care of flowers and trees, made fire, and did some moving and running errands.

Because my mother had a serious illness last year, I was afraid. I was worried that my mother would get sick, and I was also afraid that I would be kicked out. "

Song Ying heard this and asked, "What's the reason?"

Yunxiang said: "It is a custom in the Xiaoyao Marquis's mansion. Our Marquis's wife and the eldest daughter's courtyard have had second- and third-class maids in their families fall ill.

When our marquis's wife and eldest daughter found out about it, they beat and scolded the girl and then kicked her out.

Qinxiang, a third-class maid in the eldest lady's courtyard, was originally good friends with the rest of us. However, her father was ill and bedridden, and the eldest lady beat her up and kicked her out when she found out.

Her father fell ill, and the breadwinner of the family was gone, and he had to spend money on medicine on a daily basis.

Qinxiang was driven out again. The monthly salary of a third-class maid was not much, but it was the biggest income of his family. Now it is gone.

After Qinxiang returned home, she saw that her younger brothers and sisters were still young and her mother had to take care of the whole family.

She gritted her teeth and found a matchmaker, and sold herself to a man who was almost fifty years old as a concubine, just in exchange for sixty taels of silver and the betrothal gifts of rice, flour, meat, oil and cloth from that family.

So when my mother was sick, I didn’t dare tell anyone, for fear that Qinxiang would be like this.

But my family was waiting for my monthly allowance to buy medicine, so they were waiting at the gatehouse. When I went to deliver the money, they said a few words to me, which was heard by our young lady's personal maid.

I was so scared that I cried.

But after our young lady found out, she not only helped me keep the secret, but also gave me fifty taels of silver so that I could hire a doctor and buy medicine.

The servants in our yard all know that our young lady has no money except the two taels of silver she receives every month.

Every year, we have to prepare birthday and festival gifts for our parents and sister. Our young lady is very poor.

These fifty taels of silver may seem like a lot to a young lady, but our lady saved the money bit by bit by selling her own embroidered handkerchiefs and taking on embroidery jobs.

Since then, I have always been grateful for the lady's kindness, but I have no way to repay her.

Our eldest daughter is discussing marriage with the young master of the mansion.

This had nothing to do with our second young lady, but somehow the eldest young lady wanted the second young lady to marry in as well, and from what she said, she wanted her to be a maid.

Our young lady didn't want to do that, so she thought of a reason and drove me out of her yard and sent me to work in the laundry room.

Following our young lady's previous instructions, I found an excuse and asked for leave early on the day of our eldest young lady's wedding.

I didn't have to go on duty today, so I took a leave and stayed at home. I quietly went to the small door in the backyard of the marquis's mansion. That corner door was usually where the big kitchen came in to buy vegetables and rice.

The little girl guarding the corner gate is also a third-class girl. On weekdays, we little girls have a good relationship with each other.

She told me that the second young lady's yard was sealed tightly, and all the maids inside were tied up and gagged. The second young lady was also tied up, drugged, and stuffed into the dowry box.

After hearing this, I followed our young lady's original instructions and went directly to Nan'an Marquis's Mansion to ask for an audience with you, the old lady, hoping that you would save our young lady."

After hearing this, Song Ying felt surprised and said: I am Rong Yunfeng's grandmother on the surface, Jiang Nianchen is my granddaughter-in-law, and the Xiaoyao Marquis Mansion and the Nan'an Marquis Mansion will be in-laws in the future.

But Jiang Muwan, the second daughter of the Jiang family, placed her last hope for help on me.

Is it true that I have no relatives or friends and no one to help me, an old lady, can only take a chance?

At this moment, Wu Er came back and said, "Part of the Jiang family's eldest daughter's dowry has been placed in the wedding room, and the rest has been sent to her yard.

I found an excuse and said it was the old lady. If you were afraid that something was wrong, let me take a walk around her yard and take a look. If there was anything wrong, tell me and I would come back and report to the old lady directly.

I walked around her yard, and then followed the same excuse to walk around the bridal chamber.

I asked the person who was decorating the room if there was anything else needed, and when I looked inside, I saw a large camphorwood box outside the bridal chamber. It looked a bit strange to place the box there.

And there was always a maid standing by to watch over him.

Whenever someone passed by, the girl would be very alert. "