Chapter: 082 out of 513 – Vigilance must be maintained to avoid being harmed (1)

Although her recent days had been going well, Ji Man still felt a faint uneasiness . She didn’t know what would happen later on, but there was always a sense of danger coiling around her .

When Ji Man returned to her senses and looked up after dazedly staying in her room for a while, she noticed that Muxu was gone . She stretched her waist and walked outside to look for her .

There wasn’t anyone in the courtyard either . She had sent the other servant girls to Shuiji store to see if its business was good and to also buy five boxes of cold cream . Muxu normally stood outside of Nie Sangyu’s room, but for an inexplicable reason, Ji Man didn’t see her today .

Ji Man walked to the side room and notice that Muxu’s door wasn’t closed . She suddenly had a playful impulse and wanted to startle her . And so, she quietly tiptoed into her room .

Muxu’s back was facing the door, and she was stuffing something inside her wardrobe .

Ji Man suddenly jumped over to her and patted her shoulder, “Muxu . ”

“Ah!” Muxu’s entire body sprung up as if she had suffered a great fright . Her eyes were extremely wide . She stopped breathing and fainted straight away .

Ji Man was also startled . She inwardly scolded herself; she shouldn’t play around like this . There

really were incidents when people died from fright . She hurriedly carried Muxu to the bed, went outside, found a servant that was pa.s.sing by, and told him to send Doctor Li over .

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After Ji Man returned to the room, she saw that the wardrobe’s door was still open, so she went over there to close it . But, when she went over, she saw a cloth bag that was bulging with small objects . It seemed as if it was stuffed full of silver ingots .

Where did Muxu get a bagful of money? Last time, she had given her a banknote worth fifty silver taels . Even if it was changed into silver ingots, there shouldn’t be this many, ah .

Ji Man furrowed her brows . She cast a glance at unconscious person on the bed and opened the bag .

There were twenty silver ingots that were worth two hundred silver taels in total . There was also a banknote underneath them . Ji Man looked at it . It had a large value of one hundred sixty silver taels . On the top, it was marked with Feng Hui Union’s stamp . It was exactly the same mark as the ones on the banknotes that Miss Shui brought over every month .

Ji Man looked at it for a while, then she carefully

carefully wrapped up the money, put the bag back in its original position, and closed the wardrobe .

Doctor Li arrived quickly . His face looked very thin, but there wasn’t much worry showing . It was only when he saw that Muxu had fainted that he became somewhat anxious .

“She was perfectly fine before . Why did she faint?” Doctor Li sat down and checked her pulse .

Ji Man quietly said, “I called her name and unexpectedly frightened her into fainting . ”

Doctor Li froze for a moment in surprise, then he helplessly said, “She is a bit too lacking in courage . I don’t know why, but she’s always so jittery . ”

It was true that Muxu didn’t have much courage . Based on what Mu Shuiqing had said last time, she had previously been abused by Nie Sangyu . Ji Man felt that Nie Sangyu had wronged Muxu, so she did her best to make up for it .

But, how could she have forgotten? Vigilance must be maintained to avoid being harmed . This servant girl was her closest confidant and knew more of her secrets than anyone else . She was her Achilles’ heel . If someone could grasp her loyalty, then everything would be all over for her .

Ji Man lowered her eyes for a moment and said, “Doctor Li, how’s your mother’s health?”

Doctor Li was in the middle of writing a prescription . Hearing her words, he paused and said, “Mistress Sang, thank you for your

for your concern . My mother’s health has finally improved recently after a long time of care . ”

Ji Man nodded . She had heard that Doctor Li’s mother was bedridden and also had asthma . She had been regularly eating ginseng as medicine . Doctor Li’s income was meager, so it was definitely difficult for him to support his mother .

“Doctor Li, I’ll have to bother you with watching over Muxu for me . I have a slight headache . I’m going back to my room to rest for a bit . ” Ji Man stood up .

“This…” Doctor Li hesitantly stood up and secretly checked Nie Sangyus expression . It wouldn’t be good for a man to be alone with a servant girl inside her room . However, Nie Sangyu was a master and he couldn’t insist that she stay here .

“There’s no need for you to treat Muxu as an outsider . If you’re concerned that you’re damaging Muxu’s reputation, then marry her in a grand ceremony . I can release her from her servitude,” Ji Man teased . Then, she left without waiting for a reply .

Doctor Li blushed . Seeing that he couldn’t stop her from leaving, he obediently sat back down on the bed .

Ji Man returned to her room and opened her wardrobe . She had placed her banknotes in the bottommost drawer . Since the cold cream and facemasks were both selling well, Miss Shui had sent over eight hundred

over eight hundred silver taels worth of banknotes . She had Muxu keep accounts and hadn’t counted them herself .

Ji Man added up the pile of banknotes . There were still five hundred silver taels worth of banknotes left .

Did Muxu think she didn’t know how much she had earned, or did she think she was very stupid? Ji Man grasped the banknotes and couldn’t figure it out . If she wanted the money to treat Doctor Li’s mother, she could have asked her . It wasn’t like she would say no . Why would she take such a big risk by stealing from her?

Moreover, Muxu probably wouldn’t be the only one in trouble if someone found out there were three hundred sixty silver taels in a servant girl’s room . Would she also become implicated? Other people wouldn’t be happy if they found out that a woman had a business of her own . If she were exposed, even old madame wouldn’t be able to protect her .

Ji Man suddenly felt chills down her spine . She hurriedly packed all of the banknotes in her hand into a cloth bag and quietly walked to the backyard . Seeing that there was no one around, she dug a hole and buried the bag . In order to prevent other people from seeing that the dirt had been s.h.i.+fted, she moved a nearby flowerpot to cover it .

Then, she pretended that nothing had happened and returned to her room to sleep .