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  Yun Ting thought of this and shouted loudly: "Nian Er?"

  The boy came in from outside and asked with a smile: "What are your orders, miss?"

  "Go and call Lotus Leaf over, I want to ask her about Third Sister's situation."

  Niang'er hastily responded and left. As soon as she was gone, Chu Yunting immediately stood up and walked to her dresser, where a small box was placed. She opened the box, revealing a hidden compartment with eight treasures, which was where she kept her silver ingots. The loose change was all outside.

  Chu Yun Ting took out a silver ingot of about five taels, wrapped it in a handkerchief and put it in her sleeve. She turned around and sat quietly on the chair, waiting silently.

  Lotus Leaf followed Nian'er in and immediately knelt down: "Slave greets Second Young Mistress."

  "Get up," Chu Yun Ting said lightly.

  Lotus stood up, hanging her hands and standing there, slightly leaning forward, raising her eyes to look at her.

  "How is Sanmei? Has she still not woken up?"

  Lotus stood there, mumbled something, and didn't speak.

  Chu Yun Ting looked at her and smiled: "What? Are you already awake?"

  "Actually, I woke up early, but didn't want to get up..."

  Chu Yun Ting's heart almost jumped out of her throat, sitting there forcing herself to suppress the sudden surge of shock and fear, it wasn't until after a while that she managed to calm down, and smiled faintly.

  Chu Yun Ting smiled calmly and said: "What's wrong? Since you're awake, why don't you get up?"

  Lotus leaf carefully looked at Chu Yun Ting's face and cautiously said: "Third Miss was quite agitated when she first woke up..."

  Chu Yun Ting's heart skipped a beat, her voice slightly trembling: "What... happened?"

  "She suddenly became frantic and insisted on leaving the house, no one could stop her." Yuhe said: "Madam Liu is waiting for you over there."

  "Going out? Not to settle accounts with herself, but going out? Chu Yun Ting was somewhat puzzled, and after a pause, she understood that Yuhe's words were as good as unsaid. She said to Nian'er standing beside her: "Nian'er, go make me a cup of tea."

  The boy nodded silently and softly replied as he went out.

  Chu Yun Ting smiled and said to Ou He: "Ou He, on San Mei's side, it has always been serving, right?"

  Lotus nodded and smiled: "Yes, it's always been a slave."

  "How many years has it been?"

  "Ten years." Lotus said with her head down.

  Chu Yun Ting looked up and down, and immediately had a plan in mind. On Sanmei's side, the monthly allowance was less, and the fabric and clothing she received were also less. Sanmei usually dressed worse than her own sisters, not to mention their maids. This senior maid had been by Sanmei's side for ten years, but after a cold glance, Chu Yun Ting saw that she was dressed no better than the third or fourth-grade maids on her own side.

  She looked at him with a bright and upright gaze, but Lotus suddenly became flustered and turned bright red all over her face. She grasped the two corners of her clothes with both hands and rubbed them anxiously, while her feet shifted back and forth on the ground.

  Chu Yun Ting took one look at the scene and understood that she was a person who attached great importance to her dignity, and was also very particular about everything not being inferior to others. She sighed and said: "It's been tough for Sanmei too. Originally, she was just like us, there was nothing that made her inferior to others. These past few years, the mistress has been in poor health and couldn't take care of things properly. If one thing wasn't taken care of, it was understandable... especially with the funeral at home these days..." She shook her head, stretched out her hand and rummaged through the bedding for a moment before pulling out some silver from her sleeve, as if she hadn't intentionally prepared it, but had simply picked it up from the bed. She handed it over, saying: "This five taels of silver was just sent over to me to buy mourning clothes. I've always had plenty of mourning clothes and didn't need to specially prepare any more. Take it, consider it a gift, and use it to buy some clothes for yourself. These days, take good care of Sanmei."

  Lotus' monthly allowance was only eight taels, and these five taels of silver were equivalent to half a year's worth. She was so shocked that she immediately knelt down: "Serving Third Young Miss is a servant's duty, how dare I mention hardship? A servant like me dares not accept such a generous reward from Second Young Miss."

  "Just take it then." Chu Yun Ting said calmly, Ou He's face was anxious and restless, her hands and feet were uncertain, and she couldn't let Er Niang keep stretching out her hand, so in a flurry, she took it with both hands.

  She was also clever, and after receiving the gift, she hastily knocked her head: "The slave thanks the second young lady for her generosity. Does the second young lady have any orders? Please give them to the slave."

  Chu Yun Ting nodded and said: "Right, just now Sanmei was going out, did she go in the end?"

  Lotus lifted her head, nodded slightly mysteriously: "When we went out that time, it was already midnight, and the door was about to be closed. Who knew that neither I nor Madame Liu noticed, and Third Young Lady ran out."

  "Where did you go? How long will it take to come back? Did you say anything?"

  "I don't know where she went... nor do I know if she's left the house." Lotus Leaf rubbed her face in distress: "I saw that Third Miss wasn't in the room, so I was going to report it to Madame. But Lady Liu stopped me and wouldn't let me go. I said this is such a big matter, neither I nor Lady Liu can take responsibility for it. I still wanted to go, but Lady Liu slapped me."

  Chu Yun Ting stared at her intently.

  Lotus Leaf was still resentful about being slapped, and with a hint of anger said: "If you say we are slaves, she... can't be considered a mistress either. I'm still the senior maid in Miss's room, and when it comes down to it, there's not much difference between us... yet she dared to hit me."

  "What's next?" Chu Yun Ting said coldly.

  Lotus was dazed, seeing Chu Yunting's face not looking well, she quickly lowered her head: "Later, Madame Liu told me to wait in the house and couldn't go out, and also told her maid to watch me in the house. She went out, after more than an hour, she and Third Miss came back. After returning, Third Miss didn't say anything and just lay down on the bed and fell asleep, then Madame Liu said... Third Miss was frightened and sat in the garden. In the end, she admitted her mistake to me, saying that I shouldn't have been beaten."

  Chu Yun Ting didn't have time to think about whether Liu Niang had given silver to Ou He to shut her up, all her attention was on Chu Ke Qi, who just woke up and wanted to leave the mansion? Why is that? Did she know what was going to happen later and want to escape? Escape from herself?

  She sat still for a while, then asked: "After the young lady woke up, her temper and personality... were they still the same as before?"

  Lotus Leaf lowered her head and thought for a moment, saying: "I didn't feel anything different... These past few days I've been lying in bed and not getting up, not responding to calls, and ignoring people. I think... there's nothing different."

  Chu Yun Ting nodded, her mind racing with thoughts. She sighed and said: "At this time, she's acting like this again, it's really frustrating." She stood up and went to the dresser, took out two taels of silver from inside, turned around and handed them to Ou He: "Take this silver, if there's anything unusual on Sanmei's side in the future, come and report... During Mother's funeral, there are so many people coming and going to pay their respects, keep a close eye on her, don't let her cause any trouble, or people will say that our family's young lady is unruly and bring shame to us."

  "The slave has already received the generous reward from Second Miss, and Second Miss's instructions are etched in my mind. It's just that I dare not accept this reward again."

  "Just take it then." Chu Yun Ting's tone was still light, but not to be refused. Ou He stretched out her hand timidly, and the silver fell into her palm, her heart also falling with these few taels of silver.

  Although she had entrusted Yuhe, Chu Yunting was still uneasy. The next morning, she only brought Nian'er to visit Sanmei Chukui. When entering the courtyard, she heard that the maid said that Liu Niangniang was also here. So she ordered the maid not to disturb others and find Yuhe. Yuhe came out, Chu Yunting ordered her not to make a sound and led herself to Bishazhao to sit for a while.

  The green silk screen was a partition between the bedroom and the dressing room, sometimes the maid would listen to the master's service inside. Lotus leaf very clearly understood the meaning of the second girl, drove away the maids in the outer house, led Chu Yuntian and Nian'er into the green silk screen without making any noise.

  Chu Yun Ting sat down inside the green silk room, and she herself quickly came out to stand at the inner chamber door.

  "......Has the young lady gotten up?" came a soft and cautious voice from the inner room.

  "Please sit down, Aunt Liu. Lotus, go and pour a cup of tea for Aunt Liu." Listening to Chu Ke's voice, it seemed that nothing was different, very calm.

  Lotus caltrop seemed to have been stunned for a moment, and then Chu Ke's voice rose slightly: "Still not going?"

  Lotus responded with an "oh" and went to the adjacent tea room.

  Chu Yun's eyebrows jumped again, she had never heard Sanmei speak so loudly before. Her voice was clear and crisp, usually it was soft and low, like a mosquito humming, even when scolding her maid, she had never spoken in such a loud tone.

  Inside, the voice of Liu Yiniang came again: "Third sister... is your body better? Are you still feeling uncomfortable? Does your head still hurt?" The worry in Liu Yiniang's voice was full, yet extremely cautious.

  "It's all right now, Auntie doesn't need to worry." Sanmei's tone was very relaxed, seemingly with a smile: "These past few days, Auntie has been busy to the point of exhaustion, right? You also need to take care of yourself, especially at this time, don't overexert yourself."

  Chu Yun Ting's astonishment in her heart was like wave after wave of surging seawater. San Mei... how could she possibly care about Liu Niang so much? This is impossible!

  "It's... thank you for your concern, miss..." Madam Liu's voice was filled with surprise.

  Lotus entered and then her voice came: "Auntie, if there's nothing else, you can go back, we'll take care of the young lady here."

  Chu Yun's eyebrows jumped again at this lotus leaf... How could someone so unstable be trusted to use it?

  "Oh, okay, I just came to see San Guniang... then I'll go back first." Liu Yiniang hastily replied.

  "Alright... Auntie, take care and come back often. Chu Ke seemed to be deliberately teasing Yuhe again, saying: "Auntie, when you come over tomorrow, bring me some soup."

  "...is" A surprised tone came from Liu Yiniang: "Miss, please lie down, quickly lie down."

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