The queen of the last days became a maid and just wanted to lie down

Xu Yao nodded with a smile and asked her, "Do you have a rabbit in your kitchen?"

Mei Shuangwei was stunned for a moment, not understanding why he was looking for a rabbit, and then she thought: "You want to eat roasted rabbit meat, then please wait a moment, I'll ask the kitchen to prepare it."

Xu Yao shook his head: "Madam Mei, can you please go to the kitchen and bring me a live rabbit?"

Mei Shuangwei didn't understand what he wanted to do, but in order to kill Jia Mingzhu, she nodded and agreed to go to the kitchen.

It just so happened that there were indeed a few rabbits in the kitchen today. They were sent from the farm outside, and they wanted the masters in the mansion to have a taste of them.

Mei Shuangwei saw that the white rabbit was very plump, had a pair of long ears, and red eyes. It was eating grass obediently in the cage. She wanted the rabbit and happily carried the cage to see Xu Yao.

Xu Yao looked at the rabbit in the cage, smiled, and handed Mei Shuangwei a short dagger.

"Master Xu, what are you doing?"

"Kill it."

Mei Shuangwei opened her innocent eyes and looked at him in disbelief: "Master Xu asked me to help you kill this rabbit?"

Xu Yao shook his head, "You didn't kill it for me, you killed it for yourself."

"But I don't want to eat rabbit."

Xu Yao smiled but said nothing. Pei Shuo had already wiped his sword and put it back into the scabbard. He looked at the rabbit and said thoughtfully, "Didn't Madam Mei want to kill Jia Mingzhu? In that case, let's try to kill this rabbit first."

Mei Shuangwei held the dagger in her hand and looked at the cute rabbit, not daring to step forward. "Master Xu, what does my desire to kill Jia Mingzhu have to do with killing this rabbit?"

She looked puzzled, and her eyes were full of confusion. Xu Yao sighed in his heart, but did not forgive her: "If you can kill this rabbit without any psychological burden and will not have nightmares at night, I will kill Jia Mingzhu for you."

Mei Shuangwei gritted her teeth and tried to reach into the cage and pick up the rabbit.

The rabbit seemed to sense danger and avoided her hand. Mei Shuangwei was flustered by the rabbit's movements and pulled her hand back in fear.

"Is it going to bite me?"

Pei Shuo: "When a rabbit is anxious, it will bite you. If you want to kill it, isn't it normal for it to bite you?"

Mei Shuangwei became even more nervous and frightened. Pei Shuo continued to stimulate her: "Madam Mei, why don't you think about it? The sufferings your mother and you have endured along the way are all because of Jia Mingzhu. Such a person really deserves to be cut into pieces. Why can't you regard the rabbit as Jia Mingzhu and cut off its flesh piece by piece to relieve the hatred in your heart?"

Encouraged by him, Mei Shuangwei reached into the cage again with hatred for Jia Mingzhu.

This time she grabbed the rabbit's ears and lifted it up.

The rabbit flapped its limbs and struggled, trying to escape from her hands.

Mei Shuangwei tried to grab the rabbit with both hands, so naturally she couldn't hold the dagger in her hand.

When Xu Yao saw this, he reached out to help her hold the rabbit and handed the dagger over again.

"Madam Mei, you have to stab it accurately. If you stab it wrong, the rabbit won't die for a while and you will be covered in blood."

As she spoke, she gestured at the rabbit's neck.

The rabbit stared at Mei Shuangwei with its scarlet eyes.

Mei Shuangwei seemed to hear a rabbit making strange noises and glaring at herself fiercely.

She couldn't help but think of those eyes as human eyes, gritted her teeth, and tried to kill the rabbit.

But the dagger hit nothing and only cut off some of the rabbit's fur, causing the rabbit to struggle even harder.

Mei Shuangwei suddenly lost all her courage and fell to the ground, staring at Xu Yao with tears in her eyes.

"If Master Xu doesn't want to help me kill someone, you can just say so. Why bother me in this way? I... I'm not a cook. I've never done this kind of work. I can't... kill anyone."

She cried in grievance. Pei Shuo took the rabbit from Xu Yao and put it back into the cage.

Xu Yao sighed, but did not help the man up. Instead, he looked down at him and said, "You don't even dare to kill a rabbit. If you really killed someone and someone died because of you, can you be sure that you won't have nightmares at night and won't feel burdened by your conscience? When you wake up in the middle of the night, won't you be afraid that there will be a female ghost standing in front of your bed, demanding your life?"

Mei Shuangwei was stunned by her words. Thinking about the scene, she suddenly got goose bumps.

"But I didn't kill him."

"I killed the person, but she died because of you. There is a grudge and a debt. Even if she turns into a ghost, she can only come after you. I am just a knife. I did the dirty work for you and took the money. It's okay. But Madam Mei is really so cruel as to do such a murderous business?"

Mei Shuangwei thought for a long time and then burst into tears.

She couldn't do it. No matter how much hatred she had in her heart, she couldn't kill someone without any psychological burden.

But she felt really wronged if she let Jia Mingzhu go like this.

Xu Yao sighed, and when she had cried enough, he persuaded her to stand up.

"You are still young, and your hands are clean and have never been stained with blood. This is something that many people envy. People like us, with bloody hands, will probably fall into the Avici Hell after death. You have the opportunity to be a kind person, why did you step into the swamp because of anger and impulse?"

Mei Shuangwei cried, "But I really hate Jia Mingzhu. Why did she do this to us? Just because she likes my father, she wants to kill me and my mother. Have we done anything wrong? Today, my father is still concerned about the power of the Jia family and is unwilling to take action. If the Jia family really gains power in the future, I am afraid that Jia Mingzhu will blatantly kill my mother. What can my father do then?"

It seems that what the Marquis of Danyang did made his daughter lose confidence, so she tried every possible means to get rid of Jia Mingzhu as soon as possible.

However, Xu Yao could see that this little girl had a simple heart and was not a cruel or vicious person.

But Xu Yao didn't want her to become a murderer at such a young age, as she was only twelve or thirteen years old.

Xu Yao concluded that this child would not think of killing people for no reason. After some indirect questioning, he heard the name of a maid from her, Hongzhu.

The name sounded familiar to her, and Xu Yao asked Zhao Xi in her heart, "Do you know this person?"

"Do you still remember the second lady of the Zhang family, the maidservant Honglian who was beside her daughter?"

The Red Lotus of Yuan Qingzong?

"Could this red bead also belong to Yuan Qingzong?"

"I'm not sure, but you can check it out. She is definitely not an ordinary girl who instigated her young lady to use you to kill people without any reason."

Xu Yao agreed with this and advised Madam Mei to concentrate on her studies, embroidery and housekeeping.

Jia Mingzhu's mother will take care of her affairs, so she should trust her parents.

After thanking him, Madam Mei left with red eyes.

Pei Shuo took the initiative to ask: "Master, do you want me to check the red bead?"

When Xu Yao heard him say this, he initially refused, but then he changed his mind and agreed, "You should act in secret and don't expose yourself."

Pei Shuo nodded and took his clothes to change.

Zhao Xi couldn't help but ask, "Why did you suddenly change your mind? Aren't you afraid that he will attract attention and cause you trouble?"