Creak~~
The door to the shanty area opened, and a musty smell hit them in the face.
The lady boss didn’t get out of the carriage outside, and Li Yuan supported Lady Yan over the threshold and entered the house where Brother Xiong and Feng’Er had once briefly stayed.
The house was clean, and the things were neatly arranged,
with a few patched clothes still neatly folded in the cabinet.
Behind the courtyard, in the corner was a small flowerbed surrounded by pebbles, with a stick from an unknown tree stuck in it.
Lady Yan said, "Feng’Er wanted to live here forever."
Li Yuan recalled and said, "After she left with Brother Xiong, I didn’t see her again. General Qing Xiang left in two batches, I followed the first group, so I didn’t pay attention to the latter. Brother Xiong left later, so maybe he settled her somewhere?"
But after saying this, he suddenly thought of another possibility, an extremely bad, extremely dark possibility, but only thought about it and suppressed it.
Lady Yan was happy, and he would not talk about such things at this time.
But how intelligent was Lady Yan?
When Li Yuan thought of that bad possibility, she also immediately thought of it.
But she didn’t say anything, just walked around the room, came to a Copper Mirror, picked up a wooden comb with hair on it from the table, and said softly, "Feng’Er forgot to take it."
Li Yuan embraced his lady from behind, gently saying, "Perhaps she’ll have a better comb."
Lady Yan turned her head, and the two exchanged a smile.
Lady Yan said, "Husband, help me grind the ink, I’ll leave a letter and then we can go."
"Alright..."
Li Yuan said as he went back to the carriage to get Xuan Paper and a brush set.
Only then did Lady Yan sigh lightly and say, "Silly sister," but could not say anything beyond that.
She put the comb back in its place, but suddenly, a chill wind blew in from outside, closing the wooden door of the inner hall with a "creak."
Lady Yan shivered and looked again, seeing that the Copper Mirror in front of her was a bit blurry.
She rubbed her eyes, and the blur disappeared.
And at this moment, Li Yuan reopened the door and came in, sitting at the table like a Scholar’s Attendant, spreading paper and grinding ink.
Lady Yan then picked up the brush to write a letter, stating, "I’ve moved to Baihua Manor. Here’s where Baihua Manor is, if you return and have nowhere to go, you can come to the manor to find me, etc."
After finishing, she put a weight on the paper, thought for a while, and asked Li Yuan to get a few large coins to place on the table, then wrote a small note: If you’re here to steal, take the money and go, do not move this letter, thank you.
"Let’s go back."
"Alright..."
Li Yuan supported Lady Yan as they slowly walked out of the house and helped her onto the carriage.
In the distance, a man looking like a Steward of the shanty area hurried over, nodding and bowing to Li Yuan, speaking with great respect.
Lady Yan lifted the curtain to take a look, then put it down again.
Li Yuan got into the carriage, while the man who looked like a Steward locked the door.
The clash of iron chains made a sharp, piercing sound, and yet, in the house just over ten meters from the main door, it was dark, as that old Copper Mirror became fuzzy again, then suddenly, it revealed a pale face of a woman with bleeding eyes and black hair.
If looked at closely, there were numerous cracks on this pale woman’s face.
With closer inspection, each crack was actually a crawling pale woman.
The imagery was eerie and frightening.
But within moments, it disappeared as if it never existed, like a phantom.
...
After a small half Hour, the carriage stopped in front of a beautiful manor.
The overall structure of the manor was similar to the previous house in the Inner City, divided into an outer courtyard, inner courtyard, and inner residence, but magnified several times, and inside there were many pavilions, terraces, exotic flowers, and rare plants, a manor obviously maintained by servants and maids, hence it was tidy and clean.
Li Yuan moved in with his two ladies into the inner residence.
Aunt Wang and the four maids started organizing the luggage.
Xiaosheng and Niuniu were giggling and running around everywhere.
Niuniu muttered, "It would be nice if Niannian was also here."
Xiaosheng said, "Master will bring her over, Master quite likes children. You know, we... are soon going to have a young master."
Niuniu put her hands on her hips and said, "Why not a young lady?"
Xiaosheng replied, "Then Grandma Yan will have the young master, and Grandma Xue will have the young lady, better that way, right? At that time, I can be the Scholar’s Attendant to the young master and you... can also be a Scholar’s Attendant to the young lady."
The two children kept talking and started playing.
No lie, this manor with its rockery water streams, small hills, and the exquisite scenic pavilions at the hilltops, with winding corridors, was indeed a perfect place for children to play hide and seek.
Niuniu and Xiaosheng ran around everywhere, playing joyously.
Meanwhile, Aunt Wang and the four maids, Xiaomei, Xiaolan, Xiaozhu, and Xiaojie were a bit dumbfounded.
"The place is too big..." Aunt Wang lamented.
Xiaomei agreed, "It was okay back in the inner residence, but now... we could each live in several courtyards and still have room."
Xiaolan said distressedly, "But Master doesn’t really want to hire more maids."
Xiaojie said, "Master is a good person, I heard that in other places, the masters sometimes frolic with more than ten maids in the inner residence."
Xiaozhu blushed and said, "Don’t talk nonsense, even if Master comes to play with us, Master is still a good person."
"What kind of good person?" Xiaomei asked with a giggle.
Xiaozhu’s face turned red immediately.
Xiaojie pretended to walk away, laughing, "I’ll go tell Master."
Xiaozhu hurriedly went to pull her, but after thinking about it, she let go and stomped her foot, "I’m originally Master’s person, my heart is with Master, I’m not afraid of others knowing."
Xiaomei came to smooth things over and said, "Alright, alright, aren’t we all Master’s maids? But now the issue is, this house is too big, and there are too few maids, it’s spookily empty to live in."