The daily life of a concubine's daughter

"Songlan! What are you doing?" another maid was stunned.

"She brought bad luck to the young lady, causing her to fall into the water and catch a cold. I'm just teaching her a lesson." The maid named Songlan picked up the medicine bowl, came to the kang, and sneered, "Shannai, I told you to feed her medicine, why don't you come and pry open the young lady's mouth?"

Shannai frowned, staring at the medicine bowl, hesitating: "This won't do..."

"How about you ask Manager Wang to make another one? It will take at least an hour to boil the medicine. Can the young lady wait? Who will be responsible if the young lady's illness is delayed? Hurry up, the poison won't kill her."

Steward Wang is the confidant of the Duke's wife. When the Duke's wife's precious baby caught a cold, Steward Wang was inevitably angry at the Second Miss. If I throw away this medicine and ask him for it again, I'm afraid I'll be subjected to many difficulties.

Song Lan was right, it was just a mouthful of saliva, it wouldn't kill anyone. It was common for a personal maid to taste soup and medicine for the master, and I've never seen a master dislike the maid's saliva.

Adhering to the principle of less trouble is better, Shannai suppressed his nausea, stepped forward to support Shi Yao's upper body, and was about to pry open her mouth with chopsticks, when he saw the pale and beautiful girl on the kang slowly open her eyes.

Shanna's hands trembled and he almost knelt down and begged for mercy.

Song Lan was so startled that the medicine in the bowl almost spilled out.

"The girl is awake? When did she wake up?" Shannai tested cautiously.

Song Lan avoided the gaze, was he afraid he would be caught red-handed?

Shi Yao asked in confusion: "Who are you? Where is this? Where is Banxia?"

Shannai heaved a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "The young lady must have fallen into a trance after sleeping. My name is Shannai, and she is Songlan. We were sent by the eldest lady to Guanju Courtyard to serve the young lady personally. This is the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, and the young lady is in her own courtyard. Sister Banxia gave the young lady her coat yesterday, but she caught a cold in the cold wind and is now lying down. When she gets better, she will come back to serve the young lady."

Seeing that Shi Yao was unaware, Song Lan became bolder and coaxed her softly, "Girl, take the medicine quickly. If you take the medicine, the cold will go away sooner."

She handed the medicine bowl to Shi Yao, with malice flashing in her eyes.

Shannai wanted to stop it, but she hesitated and was afraid that if she said it out loud she would be implicated, so she kept her mouth shut.

Indigofera... Yamna... The contents of the novel flashed through Shi Yao’s mind.

No wonder the original owner abused these two girls so much, pinching their arms, twisting their thighs, slapping them, poking them with needles, and forcing them to kneel at every turn. In the end, they gained a bad reputation for being cruel and cold-hearted, and mistreating their servants.

Shi Yao moved her fingers and suddenly felt that it was too difficult to be a good person!

Just because of a small matter like spitting, she actually wanted to reach out and slap the maid hard, and then give up and become a vicious female supporting role, and follow the old path of the original owner!

"Girl, take your medicine!" Song Lan reminded again with a smile.

Shi Yao came back to her senses and said in a hoarse voice, "Your name is Songlan? This medicine looks very hot. Can you help me taste it?"

Song Lan's face trembled: "This... How can a lowly servant like me be worthy of soiling the young lady's medicine?"

Shi Yao smiled faintly: "Aren't you serving me personally? You take a bite, and when I use it, I can just change the spoon."

"Girl, I..." Song Lan suspected that Shi Yao heard what she said. Her arrogance just now disappeared in an instant, and she looked at Shi Yao in fear.

Shi Yao looked at her and asked jokingly, "Why, you didn't poison the medicine and you don't dare to taste it?"

"No, no! How dare I poison you!" Song Lan's face turned pale and she began to tremble.

Shi Yao pointed at the medicine bowl with her chin, signaling her to taste it quickly.

Songlan scooped a spoonful of the medicine, closed his eyes, and fed it into his mouth. An intense feeling of nausea rose from his stomach and rushed straight to the top of his head.

Shi Yao said calmly: "Since it's not poisonous, just swallow it."

Isatis swallowed it down with great force, and his expression looked like he was eating shit.

The bitter taste of the medicine and another strange, disgusting smell fermented in the body. Without time to say nonchalantly, "The temperature of the medicine is just right," he stumbled into the bathroom with the bowl of medicine and vomited violently until he vomited bile.

Shi Yao was shocked and asked, "Is the medicine really poisonous? Shan Nai, go and tell the Duke's wife that someone in the mansion is trying to murder the master. Be careful. It's okay if I, a country girl, is poisoned to death, but don't harm the precious master next to the mansion."

With a thud, Shannai knelt on the ground, tears streaming down her face. She kowtowed and said, "Miss, please spare me! I and Wool and Lard were foolish and made a mistake. Please, Miss, please spare us this time!"

In the Lanpei Courtyard next door, a precious young lady was lying. When Shi Yao's words spread to Guanju Courtyard, how could the masters of the Duke's Mansion not conduct a serious investigation?

No matter what the results are, neither she nor Songlan will end up in trouble.

"How can you say that..." Shi Yao was just teaching vicious passers-by A and B how to mend their ways when suddenly someone pushed the door, making a creaking sound, and then the curtains were lifted, and a gust of cold wind blew in.

Shi Yao couldn't help but shiver.

Sister-in-law Fu Nanjun came in, looked at Shi Yao, looked at Shan Nai who was kneeling on the ground with tears streaming down her face, and then looked at Song Lan who crawled out of the bathroom on her knees and begged for mercy. Her smiling face froze slightly, and she asked in surprise, "Second sister, what happened?"

"Hello, sister-in-law." Shi Yao coughed and trembled as she tried to climb down from the kang to pay her respects.

Fu Nanjun's maid hurried forward and held Shi Yao down: "Second Miss, please take a rest. Our eldest grandmother is here to visit the sick. How can we trouble the second young lady to pay respects?"

Shi Yao leaned forward on the kang, and then, while coughing, she slowly told the truth: "I was confused too. I don't know why the two of them kept begging me to spare their lives. It frightened me so much that I felt uneasy and dizzy."

Fu Nanjun sat half of his body on the kang, stroking Shi Yao's chest to relieve his breath. Seeing the two maids crying and begging for their lives, he rolled his eyes and said softly:

"Sister, please speak slowly. What terrible mistake did they make that made them cry and make a scene like this? If I don't explain it to you, won't it ruin your reputation? There are many people in the house, and it is often difficult to discipline them. The servants see that their masters are weak and have poor words, so they bully them. Don't be afraid, sister. I will take care of it for you."

There are traps everywhere in these words, as if they are waiting for Shi Yao to prove that she is wrong and want to find fault with her.

If he made the right point, he would offend the wife of the Duke who was in charge of selecting the maids.

Shi Yao sighed sadly, "I feel much more relieved with what my sister-in-law said. I was just afraid of bitterness. Seeing that the medicine was steaming, I lied and said I was afraid of the heat, and asked Songlan to taste it for me. After she tasted it, she went to the toilet and vomited it all out. I panicked and told Shannai to report to my aunt as soon as possible, fearing that there was something unclean in the medicine. But I didn't know that I could control Shannai. She kept kowtowing to me and asked me to spare their lives.

I grew up in the countryside and don't know the rules of Beijing. I'm confused. Sister-in-law, please help me find out what happened? What happened to them?"

Fu Nanjun stood up suddenly, and seeing the two maids lowering their heads and not defending themselves, he asked sternly, "Indigo, Kaempferia! Tell me, what was put in the medicine?"

Shannai was shaking like a sieve, hesitating and not daring to say anything.

Song Lan almost fainted. She secretly hated Shi Yao for being so ruthless, but she didn't dare to tell the truth.

Fu Nanjun was so angry that he didn't have time to interrogate her carefully. He kicked Shannai and cursed, "Two girls seeking death." Then he left Shi Yao behind and rushed out of Guanju Courtyard in a hurry, going to Lanpei Courtyard to report the news in a panic.