The person was also very cautious. Every few steps, she would look back or stop to listen for footsteps behind her.
Despite being so cautious, she still went around three or four times before knocking on the back door of a house.
Although it wasn't too late, it was pitch-black inside.
The old maid was patient enough. She kept knocking at the door unhurriedly for seven or eight times, and then a sound came from the crack of the door.
"Who is it?"
The voice inside was also very cautious. It was basically impossible to tell whether the person was a man or a woman, old or young, just by listening to the voice.
She looked around, and then quickly took something out of her sleeve and stuffed it into the crack of the door.
The person inside roughly checked the token, and then opened the crack of the door a little wider. However, he still did not let the old maid in, and continued to ask in a low voice, "Didn't I say that this matter has been settled, and you don't need to come to me anymore?"
Hearing this, the old maid couldn't help but explain anxiously, "Misunderstandings are all misunderstandings. We didn't recognize Mount Tai before. This time, we really saw your ability, so I want to ask you to help me with some ideas this time!"
The old maid rolled her eyes and said with a smile, "But this time, I want you to help me only."
After a moment of silence, the person inside sneered and said, "It seems that I underestimated you. Well, since you want to ask me, come in."
The old maid was overjoyed and hurriedly got in through the crack of the door. She was as flexible as a slippery fish. If she was a little slower, she would delay her future.
After that, the central room inside was lit by a faint candlelight. After about an hour, the old maid came out with an irrepressible surprise.
The person inside seemed to really not want to be discovered. From beginning to end, he had been hiding in the dark.
Even his voice was deliberately faked. It could be seen that he was a very careful person.
"If I can succeed this time, you will definitely benefit from it. But if other people also ask you for help … "
"Since I promised you, I will never go back on my word. You don't have to test me with words. After it's done, we will go our separate ways. The money and the goods are settled, and we don't owe each other anything."
What the man said was exactly what the old maid wanted, but she still needed him now, so she wouldn't make it too clear.
"What are you talking about? You've helped me so much, so of course I'm grateful to you.
Don't worry, if I'm able to take charge of the main kitchen in the future, you'll definitely benefit from it. "
He had already learned how to use empty promises to buy people's hearts even before he was promoted.
In a sense, this old maid was definitely a shrewd person, but she didn't know that what she was facing was not an ordinary means of fighting for power in the backyard.
She thought that she had found a good helper, but in fact, it was a helper who could make him fall into the abyss of eternal damnation.
"There's no need to be grateful. I will leave this place as soon as possible. How far you can go in the future depends on your own ability. It has nothing to do with me. Remember, don't come looking for me again!"
There was a hint of warning in his voice.
Although the old maid was a little dissatisfied with the other party's attitude, if the other party really left, it would be more in line with her desire to be the first.
She only felt that all of this was really the right time, the right place, and the right people. It was probably the Heavens that allowed her to prosper. It was really an unstoppable good fortune!
She took off a silver bracelet from her wrist in a natural manner.
"After all, you and I have known each other for a long time, and you have helped me so much. Now that you are leaving, I can't let you leave empty-handed.
This silver bracelet is for your travel expenses. If you have time in the future, you can use it too.
Come and see us often. "
The people inside did not care about her broken bracelet at all.
However, he remembered that he still had a use for it, so he took it.
"I won't come back here, and you won't see me again. No matter who asks you, just say that the idea was yours."
The old maid narrowed her eyes and smiled with more satisfaction.
"Look at you, I'm not that kind of ungrateful person.
To tell the truth, if you were not in such a hurry to leave, I would have gone to Madam to ask for a favor for you. Since you don't want it, I'll keep the credit for you for now. I'll compensate you when you return. "
The person inside did not make a sound. What he wanted was not a reward.
What's more, with the old maid's greed, he would feel pain even if he had to part with her, let alone give her the credit.
However, he didn't care about him at all. He hoped that the old maid would take all the responsibility. Then, even if something happened, he would have left here, and no one would suspect him.
"Well, you should leave."
Even if the person inside unceremoniously asked her to leave, the old maid was not displeased at all.
As soon as she left, the person behind her hurried to pack up his luggage.
Originally, his family told him to leave quickly. Now the old maid did not listen to his advice and took the initiative to come to him, which also brought him a great risk of being exposed.
He couldn't stay here. He had to meet with the people who came to pick him up before the people of Zhao's Mansion found out.
"Who is it?"
He seemed to hear a sound outside and immediately rushed out.
But in the dark night, there was not even a stray cat. However, he still cautiously opened the door and looked around many times.
In addition, he also checked the small traps he had made.
Fortunately, there were no strange footprints or traces of people moving.
The person walked back suspiciously, thinking that it was probably because of the old maid's sudden visit that he felt unsafe.
But his men packed up faster.
Except for some things that had to be taken away, he even deliberately kept everything in the house in a state of being lived in.
At least if someone really tracked him here, they would only think that he went out instead of running away.
He struggled to wait until dawn.
As soon as the city gate opened, he went out of the city.
When he walked to a small corner where there was no one around, he immediately opened his cotton-padded jacket, took out the small bag inside, and carried it on his back.
After rushing for a while, they finally arrived at another safe place to rest before the sky turned dark.
But he didn't know that although he was hidden enough and careful enough, his whereabouts were still exposed.
Lin Mengya asked someone to keep an eye on those old maids.
As a result, God rewarded those who worked hard. Finally, she caught the clues of the old maid.
But what she didn't expect was that the other party was like a little mouse, immediately running away at the slightest sign of trouble.
Moreover, from the series of actions of the other party, it was clear that he was a professional spy.
No wonder Auntie Fang couldn't find the mole even after putting in so much effort.
It turned out that he was not a member of the manor.
When her people sent back basic information about this person, Aunt Fang thought hard for a long time and said that she had never met this person.
However, this person was also very powerful.
Not only did he have everything in the mansion under his control,
He even used instigation and bewitchment to make people work for him.
This method was simply too mature, it was impossible to guard against.
After all, people's hearts were unpredictable. Except for people like Baisu and Cai Ru who were especially loyal to her, anyone with a bit of selfishness could be used.
But the hardest thing was to control his own selfishness.
Humans were born with desires, and no one was a saint. Naturally, it was impossible to have no desires.
"I didn't expect them to be willing to use such a person to plot against us!"
Aunt Fang had been angry all morning.
Even until now, she had never thought of harming people.
However, each and every one of these incidents was a pain in her heart.
She was, after all, a member of the aboriginals, but she had been completely plotted against by her own people. She had been kept in the dark for half of her life.
This kind of aboriginals chilled her heart.
Although it was always said that it was difficult to leave one's homeland, right now, she couldn't wait to leave this place and never return.
Lin Mengya patted Aunt Fang's hand.
She could roughly understand this feeling.
Just like in the past, when she already had a strong sense of belonging to the Gong family, she would feel even more furious when other members of the Gong family wanted to plot against her.
Homesickness was the same as familial ties. They were inseparable and indescribable emotional bonds.
But now, Aunt Fang completely hated everything about the aboriginals.
A tribe that only knew how to fight among themselves, no matter how glorious it was in the past, would eventually weaken the cohesion of the tribe.
The decline of the aboriginals wasn't just because of those inherited family diseases. More importantly, it was because they had lost the most important thing to the tribe.
It was the determination to unite against external enemies.
Only in this way could they maintain their last hope in the face of the onslaught of natural and man-made disasters.
Unfortunately, they still couldn't see reality clearly.
Lin Mengya felt a little regretful.
She just didn't want to see a tribe that had struggled to pass down its legacy for so long fall apart and disappear in the long river of history.
But if the aboriginals continued like this, then she felt that it would be better for them to just collapse and not hinder the path of those clans that truly had the will to survive.
The people she had sent to follow the aboriginals were all experts.
Even so, they had almost fallen into that person's trap.
It could only be said that this fellow was too cunning. He had made a feint in the east and replaced the beam in the west with a pillar in the west. He had played a really good trick.
The people she had sent to follow the aboriginals had no choice but to be extremely careful and play this kind of cat and mouse game with the aboriginals.
Fortunately, her people had won.
Not only did they not expose their whereabouts, but they even made the aboriginals gradually relax their vigilance because of their smooth escape.
After walking for two days and one night, the aboriginals finally saw the person who had come to pick him up.
That person had also changed his appearance and smoothly assumed another identity.
But when the news reached Lin Mengya, she and Aunt Fang were still a little surprised.
"The person who came to pick him up is also from the Pei family?"
Lin Mengya had originally thought that this person might have been sent by the Zhao family.
After all, the Zhao family had schemed against Uncle Huo and Aunt Fang countless times before.
But she didn't expect that the nail that had been buried for a long time was actually related to the Pei family!
But she had never heard Aunt Fang mention that she and Uncle Huo had any grudges with the Pei family.
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