The girl then stretched out her fingertips to pick up a piece of cake, put it between her lips and teeth and chewed it carefully. It was really good, she couldn't help but ask in a low voice as if she didn't care.

"Qiu Xiu is also a second-class maid in the main courtyard. If Xia Yue gets married in the future... you will be the head maid. Why are you sent to me?"

She pretended to joke, "I am just a concubine's daughter. I am afraid that in the future I will just marry a minor official's son... I have no hope in my life. If you follow me, how can it be more respectable and glorious than serving the mistress?"

"If not, don't waste your youth. Even being a concubine to a young master would be good..." The girl's eyebrows were calm, and she further tested, "I'd better go and tell the madam to let you go back to serve in the main courtyard, right?"

In her previous life, she did not listen to her wife and make a big deal about Ruan Yuxi pushing her into the water, so naturally she did not get Qiu Xiu to come to her side.

She has a lot of things to do, and she needs to gain a foothold in the Ruan Mansion step by step... As for the people around her, it doesn't matter if they have outstanding abilities, but their loyalty is the most important.

If she had other thoughts, she would naturally become active after hearing these words.

Hearing this, the maid's expression suddenly changed and she quickly leaned over to beg.

"Please have mercy on me, Fifth Lady... and don't send me back to the main courtyard."

"Oh?" This reaction was unusual. Ruan Yuluan frowned slightly and asked in confusion, "You don't want to associate with the rich and powerful?"

"I don't want to." Qiu Xiu explained the reason in a low voice, "I wonder if my lady knows Qiulan, who used to serve the Madam?"

After the words fell, the girl recalled this person.

Qiulan was also a capable maidservant beside the wife in the main courtyard. Later, she was given to serve the second young master, and was considered a respectable maidservant. But for some reason... less than two years later, she died of illness.

Qiu Xiu bit her lips tightly, revealing a deep fear, and told the other party the real cause of death.

"…She was driven mad by the second young master's torture. The wife was afraid that people would say her son was mean, so she had Qiulan… pushed into the ancient well and drowned."

what? !

Such inside information is indeed very chilling. In her previous life, Ruan Yuluan was cowardly and incompetent, and had no intention of inquiring into these secrets. Hearing this for the first time, she was very shocked.

She barely suppressed her surprise and asked in a low voice, "Are you talking about the Second Young Master? But the Second Young Master..."

Isn't he notorious for being cowardly and incompetent, not good at either civil or military affairs?

Qiu Xiu gritted her teeth and whispered, "Because of this... he is inferior to the eldest son in every way, and instead has some perverted thoughts... and likes to torture women privately."

When she said this, Ruan Yuluan recalled that in the Second Young Master's courtyard in the previous life, the maids were always replaced quickly. Now it seems... it must be that Ji was covering up his bad behavior.

The girl couldn't help but sigh in her heart when she heard such secrets. It was really like eating people without leaving any bones...

Qiu Xiu continued, "Qiu Lan is my biological sister... After she passed away, the Madam then trained me, hoping that I would become the eldest son's concubine and disrupt his studies... I knew very well that I didn't have the ability, let alone the ambition, so I didn't dare to get involved with these young masters."

"I specifically asked Madam Liu to remind Madam, and by some strange coincidence... I was assigned to serve Madam."

In this way, she fulfilled her wish and stayed away from the Madam and the Second Young Master, and did not get involved in those dirty things.

Listening to her words, Ruan Yuluan couldn't help but feel a little sad for the sisters.

She sighed softly, and then heard Qiu Xiu say, "Since I have become Fifth Lady's maid, and your temper is good, and you never scold servants, I have no second thoughts... I hope you will keep me."

The girl then stretched out her fingertips, helped her up from the ground, sighed softly, and said, "In that case, I will naturally believe you."

Her fingertips gently held Qiu Xiu's hand. Now that her true feelings were confirmed, she could order him to do something.

The girl's tone couldn't help but lower a little, and she whispered: "...Go and find out about the Third Lady for me."

Although Qiu Xiu was puzzled, she nodded: "Yes."

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