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Just when Ruo Qiu was at a loss, she vaguely heard a sound coming from outside the door. When she listened carefully, it seemed that someone was knocking on the door. Now it's midnight, who else would come?She walked towards the yard in amazement, but as soon as the yard door opened, by the dim candlelight, she found that she didn't know that person at all, and immediately said vigilantly: "Who are you?"

The man who came was about 40 or [-] years old, with white temples and kind eyes, he didn't look like a bad guy. Now he looked into the yard with his head and said with a smile: "You are the fifth girl, right?"

Fifth girl?Ruo Qiu only felt that this name was very familiar, but after thinking about it carefully, she realized that it was what other people called her when she was in the Gu Mansion. She immediately felt that it was very ironic, and even said angrily: "Hmph, I'm not you The fifth girl in your mouth, you have found the wrong person."

As she said that, she even made a gesture to close the door. Although she had promised Mrs. Bai to go back to the mansion just now, she never planned to do so for a moment in her heart. She hated everyone in the mansion to the bone, so what Will go back?

It's just that Ruo Qiu is only a 12-year-old girl. Due to malnutrition these years, she is even shorter than the sixth girl in Gu's mansion. You know, the sixth girl is a few months younger than her!So the visitor stopped her movement with just a light button, but the smile on his face was puzzled, "Fifth girl, I know I am late, don't be angry, it's all because the carriage broke down halfway." gone."

"I'm not the fifth girl you mentioned." Ruo Qiu persistently repeated what she said just now, and pushed the door again, but found that her strength was too weak, and she was far from being a match for the visitor. Seeing this, she didn't intend to continue After entanglement, he turned around and walked towards the house.

The visitor followed closely behind her, and said relentlessly, "Fifth Miss, don't play with me, see if you are almost carved out of the same mold as Aunt Bai, can it be fake? "

Aunt Bai is Ruo Qiu's mother Bai Shi, when she heard this familiar yet unfamiliar address, her steps couldn't help but pause.

The person who came was Manager Xing of the Gu residence. He was ordered by Gu Yunhai to pick up the fifth girl ten days ago. What to do, but it is rare to see the master get angry, and leave after saying "she is not from our Gu family".

It's just that Guanshi Xing and Aunt Bai are both the sons of Gu's family. They grew up together. He has always regarded Aunt Bai as his own sister. Although Gu Yunhai said that before, he still couldn't help asking: "Fifth girl, where's Aunt Bai?"

As soon as the three words of Aunt Bai were mentioned, Ruo Qiu felt sore nose, the tears streaming down her face immediately, she said with sobs: "My mother, she has already gone."

"What?" Steward Xing was also stunned for a while, and it took him a while to react, and he ran towards the house, and sure enough, he saw Mrs. Bai lying on the bed, with residual warmth on his body. Originally, he still had a little fantasy Yes, but when he put his hand between Bai's nose, his face suddenly became ugly.

Ruo Qiu also came in at this time, and through the flickering candlelight, she recognized that the person who came was Guanshi Xing, who loved her very much when she was young, and now she let go of her guard, and said heartbrokenly: "I My mother has been ill for almost a year. The doctor said that it was not easy to survive the winter of last year, but my mother has endured until today because of me. If I could have found a good doctor for my mother earlier, such a thing would not have happened!"

Steward Xing was already feeling very uncomfortable, but now that he heard this, he felt even more uncomfortable. None of the girls in Gu's mansion were well-dressed, but the fifth girl was obviously 12 years old, but she was born younger than her peers. The six-year-old girl is much shorter, and she is wearing a patched shirt. Looking at it makes people feel sore, "Fifth girl, am I here? After we bury your mother, we will take you back. take you back!"

Ruo Qiu was silent, just staring straight at Bai Shi's pale face. Originally, she planned to live alone in this small village. After all, she knew how to wash and cook, and Bai Shi gave her embroidery before he was alive. So it is not difficult for her to live on her own.

It's just that when she thought of the money owed to the villagers, and thought that everyone's life is not well-off now, she couldn't say anything to refuse. When the villagers saw that their mother and daughter were from wealthy families They came out and took good care of them. Even when Wen Shi was ill at first, everyone was generous to help them, and they also hoped that the Gu family would pay back the money for them, but gradually, everyone seemed to find that the Gu family had no Regardless of what they mean, their attitude gradually cooled down.

But Bai's illness couldn't be dragged on like this. At that time, Ruoqiu, who had nowhere to go, had no choice but to beg her father to sue her grandma, and even moved out of Gu's mansion, saying that Gu's mansion would pay back the money they owed, if she didn't go back now, How to repay the silver owed?

Steward Xing acted resolutely, even if he took out the money, he not only paid back the money owed by Ruo Qiu's mother and daughter, but also immediately sent a fellow servant to buy a coffin, invite a guard of honor, and hold Aunt Bai's funeral in a splendid manner , attracted countless tsk-tsks in this small village. It was the first time they knew that an aunt's funeral in the Zhumen compound could be held so beautifully, but they didn't know that this little money was nothing to the Gu family. It's a drop in the bucket.

They are from the countryside, so naturally they don't know about it, but Ruoqiu does know that any reward given to a maid in Gu's mansion can be a few taels of silver. I'm afraid that the villagers have worked so hard in the fields to pick up the money. The money earned throughout the year is only two or thirty taels of silver for such a funeral for mother, so what is it to the Gu family?

Thinking of this, Ruo Qiu became even more reticent in the following days, kowtowed, kept watch at night, and thanked the folks at the behest of Steward Xing, but she was unwilling to say a single word of extraneous words.

After working like this for dozens of days, Steward Xing finally took Ruo Qiu into the carriage and drove towards Yangzhou. Not to mention a smile on the way, Ruo Qiu didn't even want to say a word, just sat in the carriage alone In the house, sometimes weeping and sometimes in a daze, the accompanying mother couldn't help muttering: "At first I thought Miss Wu was dumb, but now I look at it, she looks like a fool! Could it be that she really suffered a few years outside, so she just Are you getting silly?"