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Chapter 360 Escaping the Huang Mansion 26

"Wu Chou, who has bewitched your young lady?" Madam Wang sighed again. "When I was her age, I was already married and had her older brother. If she doesn't get married now, what will she do when she becomes an old maid and no one wants her?"

“Madam, Miss will understand,” Wuchou said softly.

"If only you could really figure it out," Wang sighed, then asked Wuchou, "You've already spoken to that little maid, haven't you?"

"I've explained everything, and the little maid has agreed," Wuchou replied.

"Is that so? That's good. If she can't be persuaded, then sell her." Wang closed her eyes, letting herself sink into darkness.

“Yes, Madam,” Wuchou replied.

"Achoo!" Lu Renkui sneezed while checking Huang Muyan's belongings. She rubbed her nose, thinking that there must have been some dust on the boxes that got into her nose, making it itchy.

Halfway through the inventory, Lu Renkui heard the system WQBYRZM calling her in her mind. Taking advantage of Huang Muyan's inattention, Lu Renkui continued to collect the valuables while communicating with the system WQBYRZM.

"System, what's wrong?" Lu Renkui gathered all the money in his hand and handed it to Huang Muyan, asking her to put it in a safe place.

"Mu Wanqing said she wants her body back," the system WQBYRZM replied.

"Ah, okay, wait a minute. Huang Muyan is still in the room. We'll return the body after she leaves." Lu Renkui replied to the system WQBYRZM in his mind.

The system WQBYRZM indicated that it understood and relayed Lu Renkui's original words to Mu Wanqing.

Mu Wanqing didn't complain—after all, the two people in front of her had saved her life—and they didn't even need to give her anything else, which was much better than a contract of servitude.

From the moment she woke up until now, Mu Wanqing had completely absorbed all the memories from her semi-conscious state, including the time she was unconscious. With the system WQBYRZM supplementing her information, she knew the escape plan in great detail.

However, Mu Wanqing was still worried—what if they failed to escape? Some servants did manage to sneak out, but most of them were caught and brought back.

The servants who were captured were often subjected to extremely severe beatings and verbal abuse. Moreover, they were not taken to a place specifically for such beatings and verbal abuse, but rather deliberately taken to a busy area of ​​the mansion where they were publicly beaten and verbally abused.

Mu Wanqing had seen those people kneeling on the ground more than once, their bodies covered in wounds.

The wounds were oozing dark red or bright red blood, which flowed down the bodies, making the people look both terrifying and pitiful.

Sometimes, those who ran further away were caught and subjected to even more severe beatings and verbal abuse. The sound of whips whistling through the air came in waves, while those who committed serious offenses were bound hand and foot, forced to kneel and endure the beatings and insults. The whipping was often accompanied by splattering of blood and flesh. Those who were beaten were covered in wounds.

Simply being beaten isn't enough. The leaders of the Huang family know that this threat might not be enough to intimidate some of the servants.

So those who were covered in wounds would be dragged to the tallest tree in the mansion, have a rope tied around their necks, and hang from that tree for one night.

So Mu Wanqing often heard the wails of those people at night. Those wails flew into the evening wind, were diluted by the evening wind, and eventually became fainter and fainter—they did not receive treatment after being beaten, and many of them could not survive and died in one night.

Mu Wanqing sympathized with them, but she would unconsciously project herself into their shoes, which created layers of fear. This caused her to sometimes have dreams about them, in which the people whipping her were sometimes others, and sometimes herself.

If those people being beaten were someone else, Mu Wanqing would have seen their eyes bulging out, blood continuously flowing from their mouths, pooling at her feet to form a small pool of blood.

If she were the one being whipped, Mu Wanqing would hear all the foul language uttered by those responsible for beating and scolding her as she escaped to scare others, then feel the whip lashing her back countless times, see her teeth knocked out, and chunks of flesh falling off, and then see her skeleton tied to a rope and swaying in the wind.

Therefore, Mu Wanqing had tried to run away more than once, but she was worried that she would be beaten to death if she was caught.

Therefore, Mu Wanqing felt both anticipation and fear about escaping the Huang family mansion.