Immediately, Mu Anxiao followed Feng Qishi's gaze to the direction the young man had run off to and said, "It seems he's early today. If it were in the past, he would definitely be late."
"How old is that girl?" Feng Qishi turned to look at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao smiled down and asked, "How old do you think she is?"
"I think..." Feng Qishi pointed to himself, then thought for a moment before saying, "She should be... fifteen."
"Fifteen... no, only fourteen," Mu Anxiao said from memory.
"Fourteen?" Feng Qishi's expression turned exceptionally surprised.
Over the years, Feng Qishi had been solely focused on Mu Anxiao, never paying attention to the romantic troubles of others, nor had he truly studied the age at which people here typically started dating. Witnessing the scene before him now, he was astonished and found it incredible.
Lin Yan, being a true resident of this place, was long accustomed to such matters. He looked at Feng Qishi's current expression with confusion. "Master, is there that much to be surprised about?"
"Of course, do you know what fourteen years old means?"
"Many girls I know get married at fourteen, but," Lin Yan glanced at the direction the young man had gone, "I've never seen a maid secretly meeting with a servant."
"Magical, isn't it?" Mu Anxiao tilted her chin up.
Lin Yan: "It's not magical, it's just... I'm starting to worry if that girl will be ruined by that man. Judging by appearances, that servant must be many years older than her."
"Many of the maids entered the manor at a very young age, and many also have no parents, so they lack a sense of security. Those men are often eloquent and good at talking, naturally..."
Mid-sentence, a commotion suddenly erupted from the opposite side.
Hearing the sound, Mu Anxiao involuntarily swallowed her unfinished words and looked across. The female housekeeper was approaching with four or five servants carrying sticks and two maids.
Mu Anxiao moved aside, worried they might bump into her.
Seeing the servants' demeanor and recalling Mu Anxiao's earlier words, Feng Qishi said, "You said earlier that the man is usually late." He lowered his head to look at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao nodded. "Yes, but not today." As she spoke, a thought struck her. "I know, he must have sensed something." With that, she followed the group.
Feng Qishi followed Mu Anxiao.
The wolf demon looked at their retreating backs, utterly bewildered, and shook its head. "The consequences of a secret meeting are not good." It couldn't be bothered to watch such a spectacle and remained still.
"You know it's not good too?" Lin Yan was surprised. He wanted to stay with the wolf demon.
The wolf demon glanced at Lin Yan standing beside it and sneered, "Nonsense. I am, after all, a very learned demon. If I can't understand these things, then I've lived in vain."
"What do you think his fate will be?"
"Fate..." The wolf demon crossed its arms and took a deep breath. "Being put in a pig cage, or perhaps bound together and burned. Or... killing the girl and sending the man to the palace to become a eunuch."
"A eunuch is unlikely, he already has a stain."
"True." The wolf demon nodded, then suddenly became curious about what was about to happen over there. "Let's go, we'll find out if we go and see."
"Didn't you not want to go?" Lin Yan asked, confused.
Wolf demon: "When did I say I didn't want to go?" It turned its head to look at Lin Yan.
Lin Yan frowned. "Didn't your tone imply that you didn't want to go?"
"I never said that, don't misinterpret my thoughts," the wolf demon said, then lightly struck Lin Yan's head and walked ahead.
Lin Yan pouted and followed.
The back gate.
Mu Anxiao stopped behind the group and watched as the girl and the young man were forced to kneel by two servants. She frowned deeply. "...."
Feng Qishi walked to Mu Anxiao's side, calmly observing the scene. "What's wrong?" he asked, noticing something amiss in Mu Anxiao's expression.
Mu Anxiao looked at the scene before her, thought for a moment, and then realized, "I... I remember now, they are my benefactors."
So much time had passed, and Mu Anxiao had forgotten many things. She hadn't clearly seen the girl's face when she first came in, only remembering that there was a couple secretly meeting in the manor.
Looking at the girl, she recalled that after her stepmother died, this girl had often taken care of her. She had already considered this girl her benefactor in the past.
At this moment, seeing this scene, she couldn't help but feel anger rising within her.
Feng Qishi's eyes darkened. He realized that this place was also a part of Mu Anxiao's childhood, and the people here would naturally have some connection to her. He just hadn't expected their connection to be of this nature.
"...." He didn't know what else he could say.
"Why did I forget?" Mu Anxiao suddenly asked, lowering her eyelids.
Feng Qishi: "What's wrong?" He saw that Mu Anxiao's condition was not right.
Mu Anxiao: "I..." She sniffled, then looked up towards that direction. "...."
Over there.
The girl and the young man were kneeling at the female housekeeper's feet. The female housekeeper looked down at them coldly and asked, "Do you know what crime you have committed?"
"Why," the girl looked up at the female housekeeper, "why is it not allowed for him and me, but it is for the maids beside you."
The Mu manor had a rule that if a couple was discovered in a secret meeting, they would be beaten to death with sticks.
This was because, in their view, releasing them would only tarnish the reputation of the Mu manor.
The girl was well aware of all this. When the young man first took an interest in her, she had always been very wary, because she didn't want to die. This was until one day, she saw a maid beside the female housekeeper meeting secretly with a man. Not only that, but the female housekeeper was even very supportive. She even said she would give them some money as a blessing after they left.
Therefore, she let down her guard and got together with the young man. Every day, they would come here to chat about their lives and share their inner sorrows.
They had never done anything else.
Combining what she had seen, she had been comforting the young man earlier, telling him not to worry, and not to run away, because she thought the female housekeeper would bless them just as she had blessed her own maids.
Who would have thought... she was wrong. The female housekeeper simply didn't care about them.
Now, the question she asked was merely to seek justice for herself and the young man, to plead for a chance to live.
"Do you think you," the female housekeeper glanced at the maid beside her, then looked at the girl, "can compare to my precious maid?"
"You..."
"Remember this, your life is not a life. Your life, like Mu Anxiao's life, is the life of a beast. Soon," the female housekeeper smiled, "she will suffer the same fate as you."
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