It was late at night and there was no moon. The rustling of the bamboo forest in the wind outside and the strange snoring made Xue Rou'er break out in a cold sweat.

The eldest lady on the bed was awakened by the sound of their voices: "What are you doing?"

"Shh... Mom, listen." Xue Rou'er made a gesture of silence.

The eldest lady listened for a while and then said with a smile: "It's probably a wild cat that came from somewhere. It should be sleeping on the roof."

Xue Rou'er's face felt hot. She had never raised a cat in her previous life and didn't know the nature of cats.

Yu Nu patted her chest and said, "I was scared to death. I thought I was seeing a ghost. Miss, we have to find a way to get a decent house."

Xue Rou'er said: "Then we have to wait until my mother gets better and let everyone know that she is not suffering from an epidemic. Otherwise, it will be useless for me to beg my grandmother."

Yunu thought for a moment and said, "Yes, their blood is cold, so it's useless to ask for help."

Xue Rouer smiled and said: "Go to sleep, there is nothing wrong with us here. Jiu Yiniang thought that if we died, she would live in peace for a while, and then we would take care of them after we have recovered from our illnesses and injuries."

Yunu said: "Fortunately, I hid all the medicine given by the eldest lady, otherwise the eldest lady would have stopped taking the medicine."

Xue Rouer asked: "Why did you hide the medicine?"

Jade slave said: "I received ten days' worth of medicine at a time. I was afraid that someone might tamper with it if I put it in the pharmacy, so I hid it."

Xue Rou'er extended her thumb and said, "Jade slave, good job."

The two laughed for a while before falling asleep, but they didn't want to be woken up by the sound of the pot falling to the ground in the morning.

"What's the sound? Someone is coming?" Jade Slave put on her clothes and rushed out. "Damn cat, you just scared me last night, but you're here to steal meat today."

Xue Rouer put on her coat and walked out to see that Yunu was beating a big tiger-striped civet cat with a broom.

"Don't hit it, it may be hungry." Xue Rou'er stopped him.

She untied one of the roasted bamboo rats tied to the bamboo and put it in an earthen basin. She said, "Cat, you eat it. I'll catch new ones. Yunu, don't forget to make medicine for my mother."

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Yunu glared at the civet cat fiercely, but the civet cat was not afraid of her at all and ate the roasted bamboo rat.

Xue Rou'er used a rope to catch bamboo rats. She was thinking about getting something for Yunu to eat, because she didn't dare to eat bamboo rats. She ate a few bamboo shoots and fell asleep last night.

Just as I was thinking about it, a pheasant got a rope around its neck and died after struggling twice.

Xue Rou'er happily returned with the loot. Yu Nu had already set up a simple cooking stove and she had just finished boiling the medicine.

"Miss, I'll wait for Madam to drink the medicine first." She saw the pheasant and her saliva was about to flow out.

Xue Rouer smiled and said: "Go ahead, it's a pity that we don't have salt, otherwise it would be more delicious." She was talking to herself, but she didn't see the civet cat lying next to her get up and leave.

When Yu Nu came out after serving the eldest lady, Xue Rouer had just cleaned up the two bamboo rats weighing more than a kilogram.

"Uh...slave, go pluck the feathers from the chicken." Jade slave picked up the pheasant and ran away.

Xue Rou'er smiled and put the bamboo rat aside to bake. She couldn't help but sigh. She couldn't eat these things every day. But she had no choice. She had to make her mother's illness recover as soon as possible. It was best to be in the third trimester.

Move out of here before my sister comes home.

"Miss, the pheasants have been cleaned up." Yunu ran over happily.

Xue Rou'er smiled, chopped the pheasant into pieces, put them into an earthen pot, and cooked them with the bamboo shoots. At this moment, she was really grateful to Xue Li for throwing the dagger to her, it really played a big role.

"Meow..." a cat meowed beside her.

Xue Rou'er lowered her head and saw that the big civet cat actually had a bag in its mouth. She opened the bag in confusion and found a bag of snow-white fine salt inside.

"Oh, this cat is really magical. He actually knows that I want salt." Xue Rouer happily held the civet cat in her arms and stroked its fur, and the civet cat purred again.

Yu Nu said: "I haven't heard of any courtyards that have cats. They must be ownerless, or the eldest lady may keep them."

Xue Rou'er thought for a moment and said, "I want to call it Garfield." She felt that the size of this tiger cat was definitely comparable to Garfield in the cartoon.

Yunu smiled and said: "It's a weird name, I hope the young lady likes it."

Xue Rouer smiled and touched Garfield: "You will be called Garfield from now on."

The cat didn't seem to object to the name, and yawned and fell asleep on Xue Rou'er's knees.

Jade Nu looked at Xue Rou'er in the sun and couldn't help but sigh: "Miss, actually among the six girls I gave birth to, you are the most beautiful. If it weren't for the fact that the eldest miss has a hidden illness, how would it be the third miss's turn to enter the palace."

Xue Rou'er quickly searched her memory. The third lady was the second aunt's daughter. Since the second aunt died not long after giving birth to her, she was also the most favored by the master. In the palace audition, the cousin who was a noble concubine chose Xue Lian'er.

When I entered the palace, I didn't expect that I would be granted the title of beauty before I even had hairpins. I'm afraid this cousin worked too hard.

"Ding——" there was a crisp sound, and then the jade slave nervously picked up a piece of jade and looked at it carefully, and finally said with peace of mind: "Fortunately it's not broken."

Xue Rouer stretched out her hand and said, "Show me."

The jade slave handed the jade into her hand. It was half a jade finger, with a neat cut, as if it had been cut off with a sharp weapon. There was a small word "slave" engraved on the inside. This fine mutton-fat jade is not something ordinary people can have.

"Miss, don't you remember? You took the slave with you when you picked it up. Because it was only half, they didn't snatch it away. There is a word "slave" in it, so the slave is called Yunu!" Yunu said with a smile.

Xue Rou'er recalled the scene when she pulled the Jade Slave out from the beggar. The clothes she wore were also very good, but she couldn't remember anything. Thinking about it now, this Jade Slave's life experience was definitely not ordinary.

"Put it away, don't lose it, and don't let outsiders see it." Xue Rou'er returned half of the jade ring to her.

"Yes, I understand." Jade Slave put away half of the jade ring and stared at the earthen pot eagerly.

Xue Rou'er lost her appetite. Garfield in her arms suddenly raised her head and looked forward. Xue Rou'er looked in the direction and saw Ling Muran walking over. This guy is really haunted. Instead of trying to fawn over his second sister, he comes here again to make trouble.

very?

"You are very comfortable." Ling Muran said when he saw them.

Xue Rouer's face darkened and she said, "What are you doing here? My mother has contracted the epidemic, so you are not afraid of being infected."

Ling Muran smiled and said: "If there was an epidemic, the government would have intervened a long time ago. I am here to tell you something. In order to get rid of the predicament, your grandfather spent all his family property to introduce a batch of colored glaze beads, but the quality was not good.

In my hands, I am now heavily in debt, and I am afraid I will go to jail."

"What? You said my father is going to jail?" The eldest lady held on to the door frame with a look of horror on her face. She coughed out a few mouthfuls of blood and fainted.

"Ling Muran, if my mother does anything wrong, I will make you pay with your life." Xue Rouer put down her harsh words and ran to the eldest lady. The fear of death made her tremble all over.
Chapter completed!