It seems to be a natural thing for the master to beat the slave, as long as the slave is not beaten to death, it is not too much to leave it anywhere.

Xiaohui beside Wan'er was beaten to death, and died under Dongmei's nose. Even now, when she recalls the situation of that day, Dongmei still shows a look of fear.

She said: "Madame will not understand, people like us, even if they are killed, they deserve it, and no one will ask about it." ”

Xiaohui died in March.

Dongmei remembers that in March of that year, the peach blossoms had not yet bloomed, and the weather was still cold. It had just rained the day before, and the entire Li family seemed to be immersed in water, looking cold and damp.

Just after the fifth watch, Dongmei got up. She opened the door and looked at the dark courtyard. The lamp hanging under the porch opposite blew out at some point. She stood at the door and dozed off, and the rain came with the drowsiness, falling on her face, and it was cold.

"It's raining again."

She grunted back to the room, took the basin for drawing water, and ran to the well with her hand over her forehead, and was about to start drawing water when she heard someone talking in the shadows of the corner. One of them is Tong Yu, who is waiting beside the old lady.

Tong Yu is not a maid, but a distant relative of the old lady's mother's family. Although they are distant relatives, their appearance and temperament are somewhat similar to the old lady when they were young, and they are very liked by the old lady. According to the people in the house, the old lady originally wanted to give Tong Yu to the lord as a concubine, but the lord himself disagreed. The old lady couldn't wipe her face, so she made the decision to choose another family business for Tong Yu. Tong Yuming agreed on his face, but he kept dragging it out and did not get married. The family that got married was also very strange, and it didn't rush or ask, but it was as if there was no such thing.

The maids often talked about it in private, saying that this Tong Yu was still thinking about the master if he didn't get married.

Once, two idle little maids were hiding behind the rockery and talking, and they talked about Tong Yu. When they had finished talking, they looked back and found that Tong Yu had stood behind them at some point, his face was gloomy as if it was drizzling.

The two little maids saw that something was wrong, so they slipped away in a hurry, and after two days, they were punished by the old lady on trumped-up charges and sent to people to sell their teeth. Since then, all the maids in the house can't help but take a detour when they see Tong Yu.

At this moment, hearing Tong Yu's voice, Dongmei subconsciously held the basin and hid aside.

In the shadow of the decimated corner, Tong Yu's voice was faint, with a hint of coldness.

"Is it done?"

"Miss Tong, don't worry." The man who replied seemed to pat his chest, made two muffled "dong dong" sounds in the dark, and then asked another sentence. "Does that one need us to deal with it together?"

"There's no hurry." Tong Yu lowered his voice: "There have been accidents in the house one after another, which is bound to attract attention." Whether it's me or the old lady, we don't want this incident to affect the master's career and future. ”

Hearing Tong Yu mention Li Shen's future, Dongmei couldn't help but be heartbroken, and ducked into the dark again. She thought she would hear some shocking secrets, but she didn't expect that after that sentence, Tong Yu fell silent, and the person who was with her also lowered his head and hid his face and hurried away.

On the second day after Dongmei found out that Tong Yu was secretly meeting outsiders, news spread in the mansion, saying that the old man Li Shen had left and driven him out of the mansion on the grounds that his wife had not given birth. Another day passed, and the news that Li Shen was going to marry Miss Xin also spread in the house. This divorce on the front foot, and the next step is about to marry another newcomer, everyone knows that Li Shen's divorce is not as simple as the maids in the house privately transmit.

"It's not normal!"

"It's not normal, it's just abnormal. Although Mrs. Wan'er has lived in the inner house for a long time, it is impossible for her not to show up for such a big thing. Even if the old man and the old lady feel that there is no need to talk to outsiders about divorce, and they don't want to discuss it with the people in the house, and want to handle it secretly in private, when Mrs. Wan'er left the house and what she brought with her when she left the house, someone must know. ”

"A house has a maximum of three doors, the front door, the side door, and the back door. I see that the front door and the back door of your house are guarded, even if this side door is a little off, there are always people in charge of it every day, this divorced next cousin wife, if you want to get out of the house, you will definitely pass through one of the doors. If you go out, someone will know about it, and if someone knows about it, you will add oil and vinegar to many descriptions. But just after hearing what you said, no one in the Li Mansion seemed to see Mrs. Wan'er leave. ”

"Mrs. Wan'er really didn't leave!" Dongmei looked at the begonia tree: "She has been staying in the mansion, but she has been hidden." ”

"If you divorce your wife, why do you hide it?"

"Because ......" Dongmei's eyes flashed with a hint of coolness, she looked at Xing Ruyi and said word by word: "Because the master is not to divorce his wife but to kill his wife." The living can walk out of this house, but the dead have no choice. ”

"You can't talk nonsense about this kind of thing."

"I'm not talking nonsense." Dongmei bit her lower lip: "If it weren't for the fact that I knew this secret, how could the old lady be willing to help me plan with her heart, and even think about letting the old man raise me as a concubine." ”

"Then ......" Xing Ruyi tapped his chin with his fingers: "Do you know how your wife Wan'er was killed?" ”

"At first I didn't know, but then I did."

"At first? Afterward! ”

"A few days after the news of the lord's divorce from Mrs. Wan'er came out, the old lady took the lord to the Xin family to propose marriage. This so-called proposal is actually a formality, and the marriage between the old lady and the young lady of the Xin family has already been given by the old lady and the master of the Xin family. ”

"It's normal for parents to make decisions about marriage."

"If the old man is a stunned young man who has never been married, it is normal for the old lady to come forward to set a family affair for him. But before that, the lord had been married to Mrs. Wan'er for many years, and the relationship between the husband and wife had always been harmonious. Moreover, the old man is no longer the poor boy who had nothing and only knew how to read and write when he got married for the first time, but an official rewarded by the imperial court and the parents of a common person. To put it mildly, if he really wants to protect Mrs. Wan'er, if he really doesn't want to marry the young lady of the Xin family, the old lady is helpless.

But the old man is a dutiful son who refuses to disobey his mother, but whenever the old lady says something, he will listen to it and do it according to the old lady's thoughts. So it is with a wife, and so it is with a divorce.

But what everyone didn't expect was that Xiaohui wanted to avenge her wife. On the day when the old lady helped the old lady back to the house, she actually stopped the two of them, and accused the old man of betraying his feelings and giving up his wife in front of the old lady.

The old lady is eager to protect the calf, and since the old man was the top student in high school, she has never suffered this kind of grievance of being accused in person, or even pointing fingers, and in a fit of anger, she asked the housekeeper to tie up Xiaohui and throw her into the firewood room. ”

"You said that Xiaohui was beaten to death by life." Xing Ruyi stared at Dongmei's eyes.

"Yes, Xiaohui was killed, and when she was dying, I was the only one by the old lady's side. It was only then that I understood what the words "human beings are like ants" meant. In the eyes of the old man and the old lady, what is the difference between us maids, these little maids and ants? ”

"To the point."

"The point is that Xiaohui died, and was ordered by the old lady to be beaten to death." Dongmei looked up at the sky: "Xiaohui just asked the master, have you ever been worthy of the lady, and the old lady ordered you to be locked in the firewood room." At night, when there was no one around, she ordered Mama Li next to her to take her to the room, and that night, it was my turn to be on duty.

When the first stick hit Xiaohui, I heard the sound of silk cracking, followed by the old lady's warning to Xiaohui. When the second stick came down, Xiaohui had already turned white, but she still gritted her teeth and stopped. When the third stick came down, Xiaohui raised her head, stared at the old man with hatred, and said word by word: I know that Madame is not leaving, she is in the house, and she will come back.

She refers to Mrs. Wan'er, and at that time, I didn't know that Mrs. Wan'er was no longer there.

Hearing Xiaohui mention Mrs. Wan'er, the old lady's face changed instantly, she pointed at Xiaohui and ordered the thugs to beat to death. Those thugs are all powerful characters raised in the house, how to not leave scars in light fights, and how to save time and effort in heavy fights. Since the old lady gave the order to kill, they no longer showed mercy to their subordinates, and waved the stick a few times, Xiaohui opened her skin and was silent. ”