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Chapter 16: The Sad Cui's Daughter (14)

Biqing and Bilan are both Cui Yuying's personal maids. The relationship between the master and the servant is very deep. As long as they leave the house, they will be allowed to leave valuable items as thoughts.

They signed a dead contract and were sent to Wang's dowry farm, not far from Kyoto City.

"Miss, do we have to go out of the house to find it?"

"Yeah, I have to go there."

Meng Hui really wanted to talk face to Biqing who took Ruyijie away. She felt that Biqing must know something.

Every personal maid remembers the master's objects clearly, wherever the things are placed, what color and style are, they can be easily told.

Cui Yuying is as poor as Cui Yuzhen, and there are not many objects. Biqing cannot take away the Ruyi knot that is obviously used to match a good jade pendant as Cui Yuying's thing.

Cui Da casually said that he asked Cui Yuying to beat Ruyijie and had not given it to him, so he was in Cui Yuying's yard. This reason was impossible to be true, because Ruyijie was lost in the bamboo forest on the night of the incident and had long been paired with the jade pendant.

Besides, if Cui Da wants to have a good relationship, he doesn’t look for the maids in his yard, or Aunt Li and Cui Yuwei, why should he find Cui Yuying?

All signs indicate that Cui Da was lying that Ruyi Knot was his own. Because of this, Meng Hui felt that Biqing must have known something and deliberately took the Ruyi Knot away.

At least, Biqing should know where the conflict between Cui Da and Cui Yuying started.

"Then I'll report to my wife now?"

"Okay. You told her that I copied the scriptures and wanted to go to my elder sister's grave to worship tomorrow. The journey is a bit long. I rested at her farm for one night and returned to the mansion the next day."

Tomorrow is the Wenfu Flower Fair. Wang wants to take Cui Da, Cui Er and Cui Yuwei out together. Most of the Master Cui has other social engagements. There are only two concubines and a bunch of maids and mothers left in the mansion. It doesn’t make sense for Meng Hui to stay here, so he just went to the village to find Biqing to ask what happened.

"This room is so boring. The girl is waiting outside. I will clean up the place and come out." Ningzhu asked Meng Hui to leave the house first, and he quickly restored the things.

Meng Hui stood in the yard, feeling that the warm sun could not penetrate the desolation here.

She had no emotional connection with Cui Yuying. She only felt sorry for the death of the young girl, and felt that the murderer and the people in the Cui family were hateful, but those were just superficial bystanders' mentality.

When she saw the old but well-preserved clothes and jewelry in the box, the unfinished needlework in the main room, and the new and old pens, inkstones in the study, she seemed to have a vivid Cui Yuying condensed in her mind.

This Cui Yuying is the image she saw, not the memory from Cui Yuzhen.

Seventeen-year-old Cui Yuying is thin, gentle, kind, sentimental, and a little cowardly. She silently makes clothes and shoes for Mr. Cui and Wang, swallowing all the unfair treatment she suffered as a mouthful of bitterness, and then sheds her tears. She never cares about it and does not hold grudges.

In Meng Hui's opinion, this kind of submissive character is not desirable even in this dynasty. But when she deeply felt that Cui Yuying's gentleness and kindness were integrated into her bones and blood, she had to feel sorry for this girl who was not a few years younger than her from the bottom of her heart.

Meng Hui rarely sympathizes with others because he has been living a miserable life.

Because in most cases, she is the one who is sympathized with, and she never likes to be sympathized with. Therefore, when dealing with people with similar experiences or more difficult conditions, she will give birth to a mentality of "I understand you but I cannot pity you".

Meng Hui also had different sympathy. She was pitiful. She was just able to empathize with this loneliness and helplessness. Her parents also died early, and she was also struggling in a state of "not good to starve to death". She lost her life inexplicably at a young age.

But in comparison, Cui Yuying was unable to resist in ancient times, and was eventually murdered, and her fate was even more bumpy than hers.

"Even though I didn't do bad things, I ended up dying. The murderer who killed someone lived with peace of mind, as if nothing had happened." Meng Hui felt very sarcastic. Who said that good will be rewarded with good and evil will be rewarded with evil?

If she had not accepted this job, or if Cui Yuzhen was not so unwilling to accept it after her death, or if the King of Hell suppressed such a small case and ignored it... Any accident that happened in the underworld could lead to the murderer's peace for the rest of his life and never pay any price.

Because of empathy, Meng Hui can no longer regard this matter as simply as a job of promoting her to immortality. The murderer who killed Cui Yuying must receive the punishment he deserves! Otherwise, she would have no shame to see Cui Yuying's soul.

After packing up the things, Ningzhu saw Meng Hui raising his head, and then walked up and said, "Girl? What are you looking at?"

"Look at the clouds." Meng Hui replied softly.

Ningzhu said with a worried face and said, "Oh, the girl is thinking that the big girl will eventually fade away like a cloud of smoke and gradually disappear, and will never be remembered again."

Meng Hui turned his head to look at her, pointed to the sky and said weakly: "I'm thinking that the more clouds gather, it may rain tomorrow."

Ningzhu: "..."

*

The next morning, Meng Hui took Ningzhu and Ningwei out of the door. The sky was gloomy and a little depressed. The three of them quickly walked towards the carriage and rented a clean carriage.

He lifted the curtain with an honest handlebar and looked down without looking at them. When they got into the car, he sat on and drove forward steadily.

Because of the marriage, Wang saw "Cui Yuzhen" very much. This time, she was very happy to play, and even asked Hongying to take some broken silver for Ningzhu. When there was no such marriage, Wang even said a few more and more sarcastic words when she heard Cui Yuzhen going out.

"In addition to renting a car, the rest of the money given by the lady can also buy some Astragalus Codonopsis pilosula and stew a pot of chicken soup for the girl to replenish it!" Gentre, who was in charge of the money, was very happy. She carefully put the money in a bag and held it close to her body. She wanted to go to which store to buy it all the way.

Meng Hui went out once, chatting and laughing with the two maids, while lifting the curtain to look outside. Kyoto was bustling and bustling, and the city gate was tall and majestic. After leaving the city, the marks rolling out of the wheels in the yellow mud stretched to the distance.

They followed this road and went forward. When they arrived at the Wang family's dowry, Ningzhu asked, "Girl, should we really go to the ancestral grave, or..."

Meng Hui had seen Cui Yuying's soul, so there was no need to worship her. "If you don't go to the ancestral grave, let your master snatch the horse and walk the path, go directly to the village."

"Oh, okay!" Ningzhu lifted the curtain in front and shouted crisply, "Master, please stop the horse!"
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