Oh no! Seven kids at the start, all yellow and skinny.

Chapter 393 3 ring

"Huh?" Fang Xiao was taken aback. "You..."

“Although we haven’t been in the Earl’s mansion for long, it’s been two years. We’ve seen everything that’s happened. If it were the young lady from before, I certainly wouldn’t say this. Back then, she wouldn’t have looked down on us either. Didn’t you notice that she didn’t even recognize us? But now, I think… following the young lady will lead to a bright future.” Wu Qiusheng glanced around warily. “I even had a dream that if I continued to oppose the Earl and the young lady, I might end up dead.”

Fang Xiao's lips twitched: "Your dream was rather frightening."

"Yeah, they scared me awake." Wu Qiusheng nodded. "I just wanted to ask you, do you want to work for the young lady together?"

"Even if we wanted to, would the young lady want her? If she's really that capable, would she lack people to do her jobs?"

“If Miss wants to do big things, she will definitely need people. We can’t do big things, but we can do small things, right?”

“Old Wu, even if what you say is all true, have you ever thought about it? We are not employed by the Earl’s mansion, we were bought. Our indentures are in the Earl’s hands, so he can control us too easily.”

"Don't worry, as long as we remain loyal to Miss, she'll always find a way. Besides, I think Miss is interested in us too, otherwise why would she have bothered with us on the ship? Don't you think so?"

Fang Xiao had no rebuttal and could only remain silent.

"I've told you what I'm thinking, but don't tell anyone else."

"Do you think I'm stupid? Alright, just do your job properly. The Earl is still angry, and who knows who will suffer later." As for whether he can go to the young lady's side, that will have to be seen step by step.

Wu Qiusheng then stopped talking and began to do his job obediently.

However, what the two didn't know was that although they were speaking very quietly, Su Mu still heard them. He had just come out of the house to wait for orders when he heard two people whispering in the corner. He originally just wanted to see who was slacking off, but when he used his internal energy to listen carefully, he heard something that shocked him.

But on second thought, he wasn't too surprised, because he also thought it was the young lady who did it, but he had no evidence.

As for seeking refuge with the young lady...

Although he was the Earl's bodyguard, he wasn't trained by the old Earl. He later followed the Earl, but over the years, the Earl hasn't made any progress.

He wasn't the kind of person who was blindly loyal or filial, nor was he someone who couldn't distinguish right from wrong. So, over the years, most of the time, he simply protected the Earl's safety. As for the things the Earl asked him to do, he often secretly complied with them but secretly disobeyed them.

What most people don't know is that when Sun Qingli drugged the young lady and sent her to the slave trader, she intended for the slave trader to sell her to a brothel. It was Sun Qingli who intervened; otherwise, the young lady wouldn't have left the capital and would have been confined to a brothel to serve customers.

After leaving the capital, it will be up to Miss herself to decide her fate.

Later, when the Earl was looking for the eldest young lady, he found the slave trader from back then and learned that the eldest young lady had gone to Longxi Prefecture, which is why he was able to find her so quickly.

Of course, he did this to repay his ex-wife for the medicine she had given him.

Now, he also wants to pledge his loyalty to the young lady, because he feels from the bottom of his heart that the young lady is very capable and that there is a future for him if he follows her. As for whether the young lady will accept them... well, let's wait until the young lady comes back to find out.

Yunyi, who was being targeted, got up and went out again after everyone had gone to sleep that night. She glanced at Yunlu waiting there, said nothing, and left directly.

Yunlu followed them to the outside of the Earl's mansion and, as always, tacitly kept watch.

Yunyi headed straight for the Wonderful Pavilion, the place where the original owner's mother, Qi Miao'er, lived. Since Qi Miao'er jumped into the river, the place has been sealed off.

This is a two-courtyard house. The main building is a two-story building with carved beams and painted rafters, which is very beautiful. However, it looks quite dilapidated now. The courtyard is full of weeds and fallen leaves. After all, no one has been here for more than a year, which is normal.

Following the original owner's memories, Yun Yiyi entered the courtyard and then went into the small building.

The furniture inside was much less; obviously, the valuable decorative pieces had all been moved away, and what remained were either too large or looked quite ordinary.

As for those valuable clothes and jewelry, they're long gone.

Later, when the original owner was sold, she was carrying that disguised jade pendant and black bracelet. Qi Miao'er had insisted that her daughter wear them, so they were kept.

Therefore, the original owner of this body blamed her mother for not leaving her anything more valuable to take with her.

She never considered that if she had actually been carrying gold and silver, it would have been taken by human traffickers long ago, and she wouldn't have had any chance of getting it.

Yunyi walked around upstairs and downstairs but found no hidden mechanisms or secret compartments, so she went to the quiet hall in the backyard.

This quiet hall was built after the original owner's full moon celebration. At that time, Qi Miao'er missed home after giving birth, so she personally found craftsmen to build such a small house in the backyard. There were not many things inside, just a screen and an altar table on the north side with a statue of a god on it.

The original owner didn't recognize it, only knowing that it was a strange-looking bird.

However, Yunyi recognized it at a glance; it was indeed a hawk. She then took out the jade pendant carved with three colors of fortune, prosperity, and longevity that Jinghan had given her, which also featured a hawk.

The harrier is not a phoenix, and not everyone knows it. It is a niche mythical creature, and it is only recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. It rarely appears in many mythological stories.

But now the original owner's mother worships it, and Jing Han's jade pendant is also carved with it. Is this really a coincidence?

If you can't figure it out, then stop thinking about it. You'll understand eventually. Let's just kowtow first.

Qi Miao'er had once instructed the original owner that if she encountered any problems in the future and couldn't figure them out, she could come and kowtow three times to the divine bird, and she must kowtow loudly.

The original owner of this body never came to kowtow after her mother jumped into the river.

Now that she's here, let's make up for it with three kowtows.

After kowtowing three times, he was about to get up when he noticed something strange about the floor tiles in front of him. They seemed to have sunk a little. He reached out and pressed down on them, and heard a soft cracking sound as the tiles were pressed down. Suddenly, he felt a sense of weightlessness, and before he could react, he and his prayer mat fell to the ground.

Fortunately, it wasn't very deep, and the cushion provided cushioning, so no one was injured.

I was just startled.

The floor tiles closed up after she came down.

The basement walls were inlaid with several egg-sized luminous pearls, allowing one to see the surroundings clearly at a glance. Even Yun Yi, who was well-informed, couldn't help but gasp in surprise.