"Sir, I was so angry that I fainted." The housekeeper of Zhou Mansion rushed to the ground to report.
Zhou De is a civil servant who has always been honest and law-abiding. Now his daughter has been killed, and the Zhou family has almost suffered.
Zhou De was forced to stay at home on vacation these days. When he thought about these things alone, he became angrier and angrier. The more he thought about it, the more scared he became. His daughter was in jail, but he, as a father, had no idea what to do.
"Where is father?" Zhou Ziyu asked with a worried look.
In the past few days, in order to save Zhou Jiuer from suffering in prison, he had asked people to take care of him.
However, Liang Yi was solely responsible for Mr. Liang's case. Liang Yi was rigid and stubborn, and he rejected everyone.
In the past few days, Zhou Ziyu had also been dizzy with worry. He looked extremely tired, but he was holding on to the Zhou family.
"Your Excellency is resting in your bedroom at the moment, and the doctor is also treating you."
Hearing this, Zhou Ziyu breathed a sigh of relief and turned to Ye Sili and Gu Liyou to apologize:
"I'm sorry, my father suddenly felt unwell today, so I need to go first."
Gu Liyou lifted up Zhou Zixuan's saluting hands and said in a concerned tone:
"Master Zhou's health is important. If Ziyu doesn't mind, Ah Li and I can get to know each other at home."
"Of course you can. Uncle Zhou, take the princess and Liyou to visit the mansion."
After Zhou Ziyu ordered the steward of the Zhou Mansion, Uncle Zhou, to entertain Ye Sili and Gu Liyou, he quickly went to visit Zhou De.
"Princess, Mr. Liyou, please come this way."
Uncle Zhou is friendly to others and is very easy to get along with. At this time, Uncle Zhou took Ye Sili and Gu Liyou outside Zhou Jiuer's room and said:
"This is the lady's boudoir, and no one would enter it casually on weekdays."
Ye Sili stared at Zhou Jiuer's house, always feeling something strange. After thinking for a long time, she finally remembered to ask:
"Where is Zhou Jiu'er's maid?"
Uncle Zhou replied honestly: "My lady changed several maids earlier. She said they were not satisfied with the use of them, so she kicked them all out."
No maid?
Ye Sili recalled carefully, and indeed she had never seen Zhou Jiuer followed by a maid, most of them were guards or male servants.
"Then who cleans her room on weekdays?"
Hearing this, Uncle Zhou looked a little unnatural on his face. He spent a long time organizing his words before replying hesitantly:
"Of course we can't enter the lady's room. Most of the people on weekdays are..."
"Why?" Ye Sili noticed something unusual about Uncle Zhou.
Uncle Zhou raised his head and glanced, then lowered his head and replied:
"Cleaned by Qingluo."
"But since you took Qingluo away, Wang San has been taking care of the young lady's daily life."
???
Ye Sili and Gu Liyou couldn't help but look back at Qingluo. They saw Qingluo lowering his head and unwilling to raise it, but his ears were flushed.
Zhou Jiuer is a girl who has not yet left the court, how can a man take care of her daily life?
If this spreads out, I'm afraid it will ruin the reputation of the entire Zhou family.
It must be for this reason that Uncle Zhou hesitated and refused to speak.
"Ahem..." Gu Liyou coughed twice, returned to the topic and asked:
"Uncle Zhou, please take us to Wang San's room."
Uncle Zhou reluctantly agreed.
"Uncle Zhou, do you know how Wang San entered the house?" Gu Liyou asked as he walked.
Hearing this, Uncle Zhou raised his hand and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve. Remembering that Young Master Cai had just told him to fully cooperate with the Princess and Young Master Liyou, he still replied:
"Miss often goes to the west market of the city... to buy back some slaves. Wang San bought them from the west of the city."
Ye Sili suddenly thought that Zhou Jiu'er had been spoiled and willful since she was a child, and she was still doing whatever she wanted in the entire Zhou family. I was afraid that Zhou Zizhen was the only one who didn't know what ridiculous things his sister had done.
"Princess Princess, Young Master Liyou, and Wang San's residence is here."
Uncle Zhou led the two of them to a corner behind Zhou Jiuer's house.
In front of it is a shooting range specially built by Zhou De for Zhou Jiuer, while in front of Ye Sili and Gu Liyou is a residence where arrows are casually made of inferior wood and cannot even avoid the wind and rain.
Seeing Ye Sili's surprised expression, Uncle Zhou raised his hand to wipe the thin sweat on his forehead.
Hearing a sound coming from inside the room, Gu Liyou turned around and asked Uncle Zhou:
"Is there anyone else in the room?"
After saying that, Gu Liyou and Ye Sili were about to walk inside.
The Zhou Mansion quickly stopped the two of them and said, "Princess Princess, Young Master Liyou, you are not allowed to go in here."
"If it's too dirty, it will stain your clothes." Uncle Zhou explained.
Uncle Zhou stepped forward and shouted several times outside, shouting all the people in the house to come out.
Immediately afterwards, seven or eight slaves in ragged clothes came out.
"Qingluo, are you not dead?"
Someone spotted Qing Luo with sharp eyes and immediately ran forward with joy.
The rest of the people were still in low spirits, but after hearing this, they all looked up and saw that the person in front of them was Qing Luo, and they were all overjoyed.
"Qingluo, you are still alive!"
"It's good to be alive, it's good to be alive."
Qing Luo also had red eyes and looked at Ye Sili. After getting Ye Sili's permission, she immediately took a few steps forward and reached out to hug them. However, those people pushed him away and looked down at her tattered and dirty clothes.
One body, said:
"Don't dirty your clothes."
Several people carefully drank Qingluo several times.
"It's okay, okay, I'm not missing any arms or legs."
"The injuries on my body are also healed."
"You look a lot more rosy all over. It seems like you're living a good life these days."
"He's still alive and doesn't know how to send a message to our brothers, which makes us sad in vain."
Qingluo's voice trembled, she was inevitably excited to see her old friend.
"The princess saved me that day."
Hearing this, those few people suddenly came back to their senses, turned their heads to look at the people in front of them, and quickly stepped forward and knelt down.
"You deserve to die, I don't see Princess Le'an and Young Master Liyou here."
Ye Sili looked down and saw that they all had injuries of varying severity. Most of them had scars, but some with deeper wounds had not even been treated with medicine and were already bleeding yellow water.
Gu Liyou asked them to get up, "How did you get this injury?"
"This..." A few people hesitated, not daring to speak.
Ye Sili asked tentatively: "But Zhou Jiu'er?"
She remembered that when she rescued Qingluo, Qingluo was covered in injuries just like them.
Sure enough, several people's expressions changed slightly, but they did not dare to answer.
Ye Sili saw Qingluo's eyes were red, her teeth were clenched, and her whole body was trembling slightly. She turned around and asked:
"Uncle Zhou, I, the Princess, don't even want to ask why such a large Zhou Mansion actually provides such shabby accommodation for subordinates."
Uncle Zhou wiped his sweat.
"I don't even want to ask why the Zhou Mansion allowed its subordinates to wear thin clothes and barely cover their bodies on a severe cold day."
Uncle Zhou wiped his sweat again.
"Not to mention why the Zhou Mansion sat idly by and ignored Zhou Jiuer's behavior."
Uncle Zhou wiped his sweat even more.
"My princess just wants to ask...do you like to abuse your subordinates?"
Uncle Zhou was sweating like rain, so he knelt down with a plop and cried bitterly:
"Princess Mingjian...they...this...are all what the lady means."
"oh?"
Seeing that Ye Sili didn't believe it, Uncle Zhou quickly explained:
"They are not slaves arranged by the government. They are all bought by the lady."
"Either he comes from a poor family, or he is a slave that someone else made a mistake and abandoned, or..." Uncle Zhou said this and glanced at Qingluo unconsciously, "Or he is a homeless person from a wealthy family.
My young master brother."
"Miss likes to have some good-looking slaves."
Ye Sili turned around and looked at the appearance of those people. They were indeed well-born, but if you had to think for sure, Qingluo would be better.
Qingluo has delicate features and a handsome face. When Ye Sili first met him, he was as thin as a stick. Now he does not look so sickly. His face is a little moisturized, and his eyes are now
It was reddish with tears and had a rather pitiful feeling.
Gu Liyou calmly took a small step to the right, just blocking Ye Sili's view of Qingluo.
"..." Before Ye Sili could speak, Gu Liyou raised the corner of his mouth and asked Uncle Zhou seriously:
"Then why did the Zhou government deduct their supplies?"
Uncle Zhou kept shouting that he was wronged.
"I pay the servants' monthly money and necessary items according to the rules, but...but these people were brought back by the lady herself, and the lady specifically said...not to give them to them."
Hearing this, Ye Sili felt that Zhou Jiuer's behavior was so ridiculous.
"Then where do their food and clothing expenses come from?"
"This... this servant doesn't know. The young lady usually doesn't allow others to enter the shooting range at the back. Even the young master has never been here."
Seeing the change in Ye Sili's face, those people seemed a little angry, and they quickly knelt down to plead for Uncle Zhou:
"Princess, please don't blame Uncle Zhou. The lady is not in the house these days. Uncle Zhou often secretly sends us some things to keep out the cold and food."
Seeing this, Qingluo also stepped forward and knelt down to plead for them.
"Qingluo, what are you doing? Get up quickly."
Ye Sili felt very sorry for Qingluo. Logically speaking, Qingluo was a few years older than her and was the child of a famous noble family, but she suffered such torture due to family changes.
"Princess, everything they said is true."
Qingluo didn't want to get up and insisted on interceding for her friend:
"Miss Zhou will bring us back and we will live here. She will choose the slaves she likes to serve her..."
Qingluo's voice suppressed her grievances, and she stubbornly refused to cry.
But how can a teenager endure such grievances?
His original life was to put his hands on clothes and open his mouth for food. He didn't have to worry about food and clothing, and he didn't have to look at people's faces.
But those days in the Zhou Mansion were nothing short of a nightmare and a shame.
"When she has nothing to do, she enjoys teasing and torturing us at this shooting range..."
Qing Luo tried his best to keep his voice as calm as possible, but with every word he said, the scene at that time would appear in his mind. Isn't it a kind of torture for him?
"We watched the brothers around us get injured and die, and soon there will be new ones..."
Ye Sili remembered that in the past, Zhou Jiuer would take the slaves of her own mansion to be bullseyes on hunting grounds. Now it seemed that those people were clearly not the slaves of Zhou's mansion who had made mistakes, but people she had bought back from outside without permission!
