Mrs. Mei's Survival Diary - Chapter 11.1

Chapter 11.1 – Negotiations

Uncle Bao was about to lock the door when he saw Rong Yinshuang. He looked surprised and quickly took her to the nearby alley and said, “Madam, why are you here? Don’t let the second lady see you.”

Rong Yinshuang smiled at Uncle Bao and said, “Don’t worry, I’m fine, Uncle Bao. Zhao Qian is treating you very poorly. After I leave, she might start getting rid of people in the mansion. I’m worried that your life will be harder in the future.”

Uncle Bao let out a big breath and said, “Unfortunately, it’s not good. I’m tired of serving the master and the lady in the other room, and I can’t do it anymore. After you left, the people in the big house were taken care of by someone else. I used to work in Mei Mansion, but now I’m just stuck in this faraway courtyard.”

Rong Yinshuang heard him talk about the mansion and couldn’t resist asking. “Does the Mei family own this house?”

Uncle Bao said no. “The house belongs to the second master, who used money from the mansion to buy it. I got to know that he hid a maid in that house, but now no one lives there, and the second lady found out about it. So the house is about to be sold.”

Rong Yinshuanghu asked with doubt, “Who lived here?”

Uncle Bao used to work as the housekeeper at the Mei Mansion, so he knew a lot of secrets. When Rong Yinshuang asked him about it, he didn’t hide anything, and he told her everything. “I heard that the second lady’s maid, Qiurong, was very pretty, and the second master liked her. At first, Qiurong didn’t want to be with him, but the second master bought her a house and brought her parents to live with her. She agreed to be with him after that.”

Rong Yinshuang quickly asked again, “Where is Qiurong right now?”

Uncle Bao was curious why Rong Yinshuang was interested in a maid, but he didn’t show it. “I heard she went back to the countryside with her parents. How can the second lady tolerate such a thing?”

Rong Yinshuang suddenly had a feeling that Qiurong must have been killed, and she was that ghost who was following Zhao Qian.

Uncle Bao saw that Madam was thinking carefully and couldn’t resist asking, “Madam, why are you asking about these things?”

Rong Yinshuang squinted her eyes, didn’t reply to Uncle Bao’s question, and asked it again. “Why does Zhao Qian want to sell this house? How much does she want?”

Uncle Bao told Rong Yinshuang that Zhao Qian wanted eight hundred taels.

“Eight?” Rong Yinshuang thought for a moment and asked, “With your experience, do you think you can sell this house for eight hundred taels?”

Uncle Bao looked at the house and thought for a while. He said, “The house is nice, with many rooms and gardens. I think it’s worth more—maybe even 2,000 taels. But the person selling it is in a hurry, so I can’t do anything about it.”

Rong Yinshuang asked again, “Why is she in a hurry to do something?”

Uncle Bao looked around secretly, then went near Rong Yinshuang and said, “This house is haunted.”

“Oh,” Rong Yinshuang looked surprised, and then Uncle Bao said, “Madam, trust me, this house is spooky at night, and the creepy door is over there. I work as a janitor here, and I have noticed that after three o’clock at night, I hear women crying in the house, and I see tables and chairs moving on their own. Sometimes, even the stones in the garden start flying suddenly.”

Rong Yinshuang thought deeply for a while, then asked Uncle Bao to come closer and said, “Hey Uncle Bao, can you help me with something?”

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