Si Ruo was idle and bored, so he went to the lake in the courtyard, raised a bench, and held a painting fan by himself. The whole person sat in the shade of the shadow under the tree, slowly shaking the fan, looking at the lake in front of him.

"You say, this lake is not deep, why did people fall and not get up?" Si Ruo said to himself, as if he was asking himself, and as if he was asking someone. As soon as I closed my eyes, I imagined how my mother, who didn't know how to water, struggled in the water and cried for help, how she gave up hope and slowly sank into the water, with eternal regrets.

"Mother, don't you know why no one came to save you in the first place? Why didn't anyone hear the cries for help? "Every time Si Ruo is in this season, this hot season, he can remember the conversation that his little self once heard. I still remember that it was my mother's first seven, my mother was gone, and my father asked people to seal the Zijuan Courtyard, and I wanted to sneak in and burn some paper money for my mother.

As soon as I entered, I heard someone talking, and in the middle of the night, I was too timid to make a sound, so I squatted in the corner and covered my mouth and listened with my ears pricked up.

"Madam, I have been dreaming recently that the second lady has come back to us." I can't see people clearly in the dark, but Si Ruo still heard this person's voice accurately, this is Mei'er, the personal maid next to her mother, who loves herself the most on weekdays, often when her mother doesn't let her eat more sweet and greasy snacks, this Mei'er sister will quietly stuff herself and let herself secretly go to the yard to eat.

"What are you afraid of, it's not us who pushed her down, it's her own accidental misstep, who is to blame." The eldest lady was a little weak at first, but then this half of the sentence became straightforward, not like it was said to others, but like it was said to herself.

"But...... But if we hadn't sent someone out, there wouldn't have been no one to save her, and besides, ......, and we both didn't save her when we heard Madame's call for help. The more Mei Er spoke, the more she felt that the second lady had been killed by herself. The rest of the words are very quiet.

"Okay, don't mention this matter again in the future, I will arrange for you to leave the mansion as soon as possible, you must forget about this matter in the future, and you are not allowed to set foot in the Du Mansion again." Even if the eldest lady stopped drinking Mei'er, she continued to speak, explained some things and left in a hurry.

Seeing that her wife was gone, Mei'er didn't dare to stay in the Zijuan Courtyard alone, so she trotted all the way away.

Although Si Ruo was relatively young at that time, he also understood the reason, probably because the eldest lady wanted to ask his mother, so he asked his mother's personal maid to retreat from the people, but before he could ask, his mother fell into the lake in the yard, and the eldest lady heard the cry for help before he stepped into the yard, and obviously heard the voice of his mother, and knew that his mother was afraid of water, but he still did not move his steps, so he stood outside the courtyard with the maid Mei'er for a long time, and waited for no sound inside before leaving, pretending not to know.

Even if the mother's Zijuan Courtyard is remote, there are many people who are pampered, and they lost their lives because of this.

Later, my father knew that although he was sad, he didn't investigate it carefully, but he just severely punished a group of subordinates, and finally sealed the Zijuan Courtyard.

Later, the people heard that the maid Mei'er had committed the crime of stealing, and was executed for stealing the famous painting given by the Du Mansion, and she was not able to leave the house as she wished.

Si Ruo opened his eyes, and his thoughts returned to the present. Sometimes some hatred is difficult to fade, as if engraved in the bones, obviously sometimes it is not profound, but the pain in the bones reminds you not to forget. I can't forget the cruelty of the eldest lady, I can't forget the indifference of my father, I used to like my mother so much, and in the end, I went, and I didn't see him find out, and finally my father let people hoe all the purple flowers in the purple juan courtyard. and can't forget the shameless maid who eats inside and out. So the maid died, it doesn't matter how she died, it's right to die.

"Hey~" Si Ruo sighed imperceptibly: "It's good to be alive, and you can feel the pain when you're alive."

There was a sudden quarrel outside, and Si Ruo bent the corners of his mouth, looking gentle and kind.

"I heard that the eldest young master and the maid were cheating on someone and were broken, and the master is angry and wants the family law to serve the cane punishment."

"Why is this so, master, this cane punishment is not a joke, I heard that fifty canes will cost people to live, this matter will not move the family law, right?"

"Hey, you two don't know, the old lady intends to match the young master to the daughter of the right prime minister, this official lady is the most important style, if you know that the young master acts like this, I'm afraid she won't marry her."

Regardless of the gossip coming and going outside this courtyard, these maids like to talk about gossip in this remote courtyard, one is that there are few people here, and the other is that the maids know that even if they hear it, only the eldest lady hears it, and the eldest lady is quiet on weekdays, even if she hears anything, she doesn't care.

A girl walked in and leaned over and whispered something in Si Ruo's ear, only to see Si Ruo nodding and replying: "Got it, wait, wait, it's not time yet, you go." waved his hand and retreated from the maid.

If you take a closer look, you can understand that this maid is a little familiar, it is the one who waits beside the master, and it is also the one who Si Ruo called over after lunch to order.