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Sure enough, Teresa only gave Pei Xiang a glass of milk, then turned and left.

She wasn't worried about how much trouble a naive, stupid girl who was dying of starvation could cause.Anyway, in her cognition, once these silly little quails were tricked back to this house by Mrs. Vera, they could only choose between obedience and death, and there had never been any accidents.

Not only Teresa thought so, but Monica, who was in charge of giving Pei Xiang simple medicine, also thought so.So, she quickly left the room, took all the food on the plate and locked the door.

After Pei Xiang drank the milk, he lay motionless all the time, silently running his inner skills to accumulate strength.

After about an hour or so, Pei Xiang, who had accumulated some strength, finally started to move.She first checked the general layout and furnishings of the new room, and then checked the drawers and chests everywhere to see what could be used.

Several low-quality cosmetics, a broken wooden comb, a few worn-out shawls of different sizes and a stained nightgown, these are all the things Pei Xiang can find in this room.

After a lot of busy work, Pei Xiang, who was weak, returned to the bed and lay down again, guessing that it was about time for someone to "visit" her.

Sure enough, after she lay down for more than ten minutes, Monica showed up again.

After she unlocked and entered the house, she checked Pei Xiang's physical condition before handing her a cup of warm corn juice.

Pei Xiang gulped and drank very eagerly. After the glass of fragrant corn juice bottomed out, she continued to stare at Monica longingly, hoping to get more food.

"No, Lucy," the fat woman with slack eyes smiled and shook her head. "Until you really obey, you can only drink these things. I won't give you more food."

"I... have already agreed."

"No no, Lucy, you have to prove that you are worthy, so that Mrs. Vera will believe your words and treat you as one of her own."

"I, I want to see Mrs. Vera."

"Oh, Lucy, Mrs. Villar is a busy woman, and a kind lady. She wants the girls in the house to have a good future, and everyone to live comfortably. , you have to socialize with a lot of people every day, but it’s not something you can meet when you say you want to.”

"Then when can I see her?"

"Oh, you rest for a day or two to recover from your injuries. Teresa will lead your first guest to this room. After that, you can see Mrs. Vera. Lucy, if your guest I am satisfied with you, and Mrs. Vera will definitely reward you."

Monica's words made Pei Xiang look disappointed and terrified. She hugged her shoulders and couldn't help shivering.

Seeing this, Monica shook her head helplessly.She was about to leave, but Pei Xiang grabbed her skirt.

"Wait, I have something important to tell Mrs. Vera. Tell her for me, I know..." Pei Xiang choked suddenly, she coughed a few times, and her voice weakened intermittently, "... ...secret... jewelry..."

"What?" Monica couldn't hear Pei Xiang's words clearly, and was aroused by a few vaguely pronounced Spanish words, so she couldn't help bending down and getting closer to Pei Xiang, trying to hear what she was saying clearly.

Pei Xiang raised his arm and held Monica's shoulder tremblingly, as if trying to draw closer to each other.

"You, cough cough, tell Mrs. Vera that I... hide pearls in..."

Monica was anxious to hear Pei Xiang's words clearly, she didn't care about her arm on her shoulders, but bent forward a little more.

"What, what are you talking about? Loudly, Lucy! What jewelry are you talking about? You have hidden pearls..."

The severe pain came suddenly, and Monica, who was concentrating on inquiring about the secret, didn't realize what happened, she lost consciousness for a moment, and fell on Pei Xiang's body.

"Oh—so heavy!"

Monica's muscular body weighed heavily on Pei Xiang's chest and made him short of breath.

She struggled to take a few breaths, struggled to move to the other side, and then pressed a few times on the acupuncture points on Monica's head to ensure that she would not wake up in a short time .

A problem was temporarily solved, and Pei Xiang had to rest for a while again.

After her shortness of breath gradually calmed down, she got up and left the bed.

Pei Xiang walked up to the dressing table, and used illusion to disguise himself to make himself more or less similar to Teresa.Then, she carefully added some hideous scar marks on the exposed skin of the face, neck and wrists.

After dealing with the makeup issue, she took off Monica's skirt with great effort and put it on herself.Fortunately, although this body is very thin, it is tall enough.She had observed before that Lucy was taller than the strong Monica, so it would not cause the skirt to drag the floor.

As for the problem of fat and thin, we can only ignore it as much as possible.

With a long skirt to cover her body, Pei Xiang found a large scarf with several holes in it from the cabinet.Cleverly folded, she wrapped the large scarf around her waist, and using the broken teeth of a wooden comb as thick pins, she caught and held in place long, even folds on the exposed skirt.It both made Monica's baggy dress fit better and adjusted the appearance of that plain dress so that it was not immediately recognizable who it belonged to.

After doing this, Pei Xiang was a little unsteady, and his body was on the verge of falling.She leaned against the wall and closed her eyes for a while, then gritted her teeth and continued to move.

She collected the remaining broken teeth of the wooden comb as a weapon in case of emergencies, and then took a bunch of keys from Monica's body. After careful observation, she left the room wrapped in a scarf and locked it. door.

Pei Xiang knew that there were patrol officers in this house, so he didn't run directly to the gate, but after turning a few corners in the corridor, he took the initiative to find a patrol guard who was smoking at the window in a daze, and asked him in a low voice where is the kitchen.

This person was suspicious and wary of Pei Xiang's identity at first, but when he saw Pei Xiang's appearance clearly at this time, the suspicion in his eyes faded a lot, and when he noticed the scars on Pei Xiang's body, he even showed an expression of disgust.

"What are you doing in the kitchen?"

"I'm here as a kitchen maid. Oh, yes, you know Sister Teresa, right? She asked me to go."

The man takes a drag on his cigarette.He looked at the similar appearance of Pei Xiang and Teresa, and did not doubt Pei Xiang's explanation.

——This should be Teresa's relative.

——so many scars on her body... No wonder she was assigned to do rough work in the kitchen instead of staying with Mrs. Vera to receive guests.

——I don’t know how these scars came from, tsk, it’s so ugly.

"You went to help in the kitchen? Why did you come here alone?"

"Teresa won't let me stay in her room, for fear that I will leave a bad impression on her lover. You, don't mention that I told you, um, that I am a relative of Teresa, Either, or she should be angry. Can you, can you help me? It's too big here, I walked along the route Teresa told me for a long time, but I didn't see what Teresa said, Well, Monica, who was in charge of arranging my work, didn't find out where the kitchen is either."

"Didn't find Monica? I guess I went to drink secretly again."

After listening to Pei Xiang's long-winded explanation, the man complained in a low voice.

Pei Xiang lowered his eyes, pretending he didn't hear anything.She had smelled Monica before, and observed her complexion recently, and guessed that the woman had a bad habit of drinking, which was one of the reasons why she chose to attack Monica.

——An alcoholic suddenly disappears for a period of time without any reason, and everyone will not find it particularly strange.

At the same time, Pei Xiang also deduced from Teresa's behavior of berating several men that in this brothel, the status of these guards and thugs was lower than Teresa's.And, no matter what these men thought in their hearts, they didn't dare to annoy and refute that mean brunette woman in the open.

Sure enough, after Pei Xiang clarified her relationship with Teresa, the man's expression became more serious, and he was no longer casual.He muttered a few obscenities before saying impatiently:

"This is not where you can wander around. You look like this... Tsk, if you are bumped into by a nobleman and scare someone, then you will be in big trouble. Let's go, I will take you to the kitchen, be careful in the future!"

"Oh, thank you very much, and God bless you!"

"Okay, you can stay with your ugly appearance, it's really...forget it, I can't see that Teresa is quite good at taking care of poor relatives."

The "poor relative" cowardly lowered his head and followed the man silently.

With a guide, Pei Xiang was never questioned along the way.

The man led Pei Xiang to the kitchen, and explained a few words to a woman who was blind in one eye. The woman also noticed Pei Xiang's sloppy state, and instantly pulled the corners of her mouth.

The man leading the way snorted and persuaded:

"Teresa asked her to find Monica to arrange work...but, you know, Monica sometimes disappears for a little while. Besides, she's so hideously ugly that it's just right to stay in the kitchen and light the fire." .”

The one-eyed woman was dissatisfied, but she didn't want to offend Teresa, the celebrity next to Mrs. Vera, so she nodded and agreed to let Pei Xiang stay.

While the two were talking, Pei Xiang grabbed the buttered bread on the table and ate it, making no secret of his eagerness to devour it.Her rude manner surprised the one-eyed woman in charge of kitchen affairs, and then her face darkened.

——She ate the extra meal prepared for herself by the one-eyed woman.

However, she stared at Pei Xiang's face similar to Teresa's, and finally endured the scolding.

—— Regardless of whether this country woman can stay in the future, but for the sake of her relationship with Teresa, let's take care of her.

Pei Xiang smiled foolishly, gradually slowed down his chewing speed, and asked quite familiarly:

"Is there soup on the stove? Can you give me a bowl? I haven't eaten all day and night because of my journey. Teresa said there is food in the kitchen, so I can eat whatever I want."

The one-eyed woman took a deep breath, filled Pei Xiang with a bowl of thick soup with a straight face, and took out a small piece of ham from the locked cabinet, roasted it for a while and handed it to Pei Xiang's plate.

Pei Xiang nodded her thanks, but she didn't plan to touch that piece of ham. Her current stomach is not suitable for eating oily roasted ham immediately.

While eating, someone hurried over and asked if Monica was here. She needed to borrow a key to a certain room from Monica.

The one-eyed woman shook her head and said she didn't know, and the man muttered whether he was addicted to alcohol again, and then left with a sad face.

Pei Xiang didn't look up from the beginning to the end.

When she was finally full, she wrapped the piece of ham in paper, and carefully carried it into her bosom, just like any person who is used to being poor, cherishing precious food.

Seeing Pei Xiang's actions, the one-eyed woman twitched her lips in disgust, but didn't say much.

After a while, someone called the one-eyed woman away to discuss matters.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to her, Pei Xiang wandered to the back of the kitchen calmly, opened the door of the storage room with the key on Monica's body, and picked out a basket of not-so-expensive wine and food from it.

Then she left Mrs. Vera's house without haste, carrying her basket, chatting with a gardener and a coachman.

Pei Xiang walked two streets, sold the food in the basket at a discount, and exchanged some emergency living expenses.Afterwards, she found a relatively clean small hotel to live in.

A month later, Pei Xiang finally healed his body and had the power to protect himself. He also found out about Mrs. Vera.

So, she was ready to start to settle accounts.