Yu Shuya had only taken a few steps when she felt her heart ached terribly. Her eyelids were heavy, and she felt herself blacking out.
But she could not fall. Yu Niang was waiting for her. No one could find her body if she gave up and died here.
She bit her lower lip and dug her nails into her flesh at this thought. She took a few deep breaths and continued to push herself forward when she saw the light again.
Yu Shuya heard Yu Niang's voice before she reached the vegetable patch.
"Where did you go, young mistress?"
Yu Shuya could tell that Yu Niang was sobbing. She kept her silence for a while before she clenched the branch she used as crutches and mustered all her strength to shout for her wet nurse.
"Yu Niang, I'm here. Yu Niang, I'm here..."
Yu Niang immediately rushed to her when she heard her voice.
"Young mistress, you worried me to death. Where did you go, young mistress? You should make it so easy for me to find you."
Yu Niang pulled her into an embrace. After checking that she did not get hurt, she questioned her whereabouts.
"I saw a rabbit when I was picking flowers. The rabbit was adorable. I ran and chased after the rabbit. But in the end, I failed to catch the rabbit and lost my way."
Yu Shuya pretended to be upset and miserably looked at Yu Niang. All the scolding Yu Niang was about to let out from her mouth remained at her throat.
She swept the dirt away from Yu Shuya's body with her hand.
"Let's go back, young mistress. I've completed the chores on the vegetable patches. We still have to do laundry now."
Yu Shuya, who was proud of herself to have tricked Yu Niang again, was immediately saddened by her wet nurse's disappointed tone.
Yu Niang's clothes were covered with dirt too. She knew Yu Niang must have tripped when she was frantically looking for her. Her grip around Yu Niang's hand tightened when she saw the hunched back of her wet nurse.
"I'm sorry for making you worried. I made you worried. I'm so sorry for making you worried about me."
Yu Niang immediately turned to face her young mistress when she heard her apologize.
"Young mistress. You're a noble lady. How could you thank and apologize to a servant? You..."
Yu Shuya listened to her wet nurse's teaching quietly.
She turned after waking for a while. There was no sign of the young man in white.
He had probably left long ago.
"Where are you? Where did you go? Yu Niang, where did you disappear to?"
They could hear the hoarse, crude voice spewing curse words from afar before they entered the small courtyard.
Yu Shuya knew it must be the evil nun, Miao Jun, seeking trouble with them again.
Miao Jun immediately pulled a long face and began mocking them the moment she caught sight of them.
"Hey, you're finally back. Where did you go? We feed you in our nunnery, and you did nothing to repay us. You two useless bit*hes."
Yu Niang immediately shrank when she heard of Miao Jun's words and kept quiet. She knew what she would have to endure if she went against Master Miao Jun. She couldn't help trembling when she recalled the suffering she endured from Master Miao Jun's torture.
Yu Shuya wrapped her hand around Yu Niang's palm.
Although her hand was too small to cover Yu Niang's palm completely, her wet nurse would stop trembling every time she did that.
Although Master Miao June was happy to see the fear shown by the two bit*hes, she was still not satisfied. The evil mouth of her opened when she glimpsed at the broom near the door.
How dare Miao An and the other bit*hes call her a crude servant girl and remarked that she looked nothing like a Taoist nun. Since she couldn't fight them, she could only release her anger on Yu Niang and the wretched girl of her.