The past life is cold and the present life is warm

Chapter 5 Punishment
Outside the door, in the courtyard.

Suzhu walked in front, followed by Danmei and Bixi, each of them came with three or four futons in their hands.Followed by two nuns with big arms and round waists, they also helped hold a few futons in their hands.

Mozhan has also gathered all the servants in the courtyard together, and they are standing neatly under the steps.There is a small square table with tall black lacquer stands under the porch directly in front of the team.There is a small carved copper censer on the side table, and a long unlit long stick of incense is inserted in the censer.And Mozhan stood quietly on the steps on the left side of Fangji, looking at the bustling people under the steps.

Su Zhu also stood on the steps under the corridor with a serious expression.She looked at the maidservants standing below, then turned her head and ordered Danmei and Bixi to distribute the futons.Then let the other two women from the outer courtyard guard behind the courtyard gate.

These women and maids are not afraid of Su Zhu.After all, they are thirteen or fourteen-year-old dolls, so it is impossible to do anything to them.

When distributing futons, several women and maids asked Danmei, who was used to being a man, to find out what was going on.This makes Dan Mei send futons much slower than Tourmaline.Tourmaline didn't care about these and quickly distributed all the remaining futons.Mozhan saw all this.

After the futons were distributed, Suzhu asked Danqing and Bixi to stand in the front row with their own futons.Then he gave Mozhan one of the two futons in his hand.

Su Zhu looked at the crowd, cleared her throat, and said in a rough voice with her face straightened on purpose: "I think everyone is curious about what we are going to do. Just now I saw that someone had asked Dan Mei about it. I didn't have time to follow here." Those who inquire also explain.”

Suzhu glanced at everyone, looked at Danmei for a while, and then said: "Because the old lady said that so many people can't take care of a girl like her, she punished everyone to kneel for an hour. I begged for mercy and shortened it to half an hour."

"Girl thinks it's getting colder today, and I'm afraid that everyone's knees are broken and it's not easy to work, so it's more comfortable to give each of us a futon to kneel like this." After speaking, Su Zhu's eyes slid over everyone again.

Tourmaline standing in front raised her eyebrows and thought: It turns out that the four of us were not just fined.I felt a lot better in my heart.I just remembered what Danmei said about deducting the fee, so I raised my head and frowned and said: "Suzhu, isn't it just that the miss is sick? Who doesn't have a minor illness or disaster. Besides kneeling If you have already fined the three-month fee, let the lady not deduct it."

As soon as they heard that the deductible money would be deducted, the people standing below started whispering.Su Wanqiu in the room took a deep breath when he heard Bixi's words, then let it out slowly, then shook his head helplessly.

Su Zhu frowned when she heard the words and continued to press her voice: "What do you mean 'isn't it just that the lady is sick'? Think about what we are doing. Don't you want to be punished? You can go to the old man now if you don't want to be punished. Go to the room to beg for mercy. If the old lady says no fine, you don’t have to come back to receive the fine.” After speaking, he put down the futon in his hand and knelt down on the porch with his head bowed facing everyone.

Someone in the team squeezed his throat and said, "What kind of dress does a little girl with no hair grow out of? Miss Tourmaline is asking about money."

Hearing this, Suzhu secretly gritted her teeth and stood up again expressionlessly, squinting at Tourmaline: "Tourmaise, who told you that the girl wants to deduct our extra money? You dare to make a girl's Yaoyao."

Tourmaline was taken aback by the question, and pouted, "I...I didn't spread rumors. It's..."

"Hey, don't be mean to Tourmaline." Danmei interrupted before Tourmaline finished speaking, "I told her. You were in the room at the time. What the old lady said to Miss Both of them listened too. I didn’t know when Tourmaline would go in, so I told her so that she could be mentally prepared.”

"Hmph, it's your turn to discuss the matter between the young lady and the old lady. You two, as the young lady's personal servants, have brought the matter in the young lady's room to the public for everyone to discuss. What's your intention?" Su Zhu snorted coldly.

Danmei stroked her hair by her ears and said softly with a smile: "Hey, Suzhu, you are exaggerating. Why is this a matter in the room. Since the old lady sent a message to punish us, it must be punished .So it’s the same if you say it sooner or later. There’s no need to hide it. Sister Tourmaline is just too impatient and can’t help it. You don’t have to blame her.”

After hearing Danmei's words, the originally quiet person began to whisper again.

Suzhu looked at Danmei with a smile on her lips, but said to Bixi: "Bixi, the old lady will definitely punish us. And I will tell you today. As a personal servant girl, you and Danmei did not take good care of Miss and made Miss sick. The old lady is planning to sell all the people in our yard."

Speaking of this, Suzhu couldn't help raising her voice: "But Miss is kind, she thought that our friendship between master and servant for so many years can be sold as soon as it is sold. So I begged the old lady to use fine money to sell it instead. But the old lady I feel that just fines are not enough, so I plan to make you kneel for an hour. It was the lady who kindly pleaded for you, so it was reduced to half an hour. These ladies didn’t let me talk about it. Because of the money deducted, Miss She intends to fill it in with her own monthly record. Send it to you, but let's see your virtue."

Su Wanqiu in the room quietly heard this and couldn't help but smile.She cleared her throat on purpose.Su Zhu outside the house immediately stopped talking.Turning around and walking quickly to the door, the day before yesterday: "Miss, do you want us to go in and serve?"

Su Wanqiu covered her mouth with her sleeve to make her voice less real, and said: "No need, just let them be quiet. It's too noisy."

Su Zhu replied yes, then went back to her futon, glared at Tourmaline, then continued to lower her voice and said: "Okay, it's the same sentence, if you don't want to be punished, go to the old lady's house now." Say more, and knelt down again.

Seeing that Suzhu took the lead to kneel down again, everyone shut their mouths and knelt down in twos and threes.After all, after knowing the reason, they really didn't dare to make mistakes.

Tourmaline held her mouth shut, frowning and standing there in a reluctance.She was not feeling well, and always felt that all the faults fell on herself.But Suzhu and Danmei seemed to be right, she felt blocked.

Seeing this, Danmei, who was already kneeling on one side, tugged on Tourmaline's sleeve.Tourmaline regained her composure and squeezed out a wronged smile at Danmei, then quickly knelt down too.Mo Zhan glanced at Danmei without saying anything, walked to Fang Ji, took out a fire pocket from his arms and lit the incense, then walked to Su Zhu's side and also placed the futon and knelt down.

For a while, the courtyard fell silent.

Su Wanqiu in the room shook her head and smiled while holding a pen.In her previous life, she often wondered whether Tourmaline was really stupid or just pretending to be stupid.It is always easy to be used by Danmei again and again, and finally take his own life.

She was actually very curious, did Tourmaline think about what she did or what others did in the dead of night.In this life, I don't know if Tourmaline is worth keeping her by my side.

It's just that Danmei must never stay with her.But he couldn't get rid of her easily.Judging from her previous life, there are too many unusual things about her.And how many things I did in the previous life were influenced by her.

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