At the entrance of the courtyard.
Another day without food...
Thinking of this, a little girl kicked the stone.
Hungry, hungry, hungry...
What to do...? Ughhhhh...
With that, she crunched down and started to draw circles...
Oh god, what kind of troubled place did you bring me to? A heroine must have a Goldfinger or female family background. But what about me? An orphan? And what's up with the psycho? Am I going to die of hunger?
BOOHOO..
Tap tap tap....
Someone coming...
After realizing this, she stood up.
No matter what, this time I have to get some food.
Even if... I have to beg!
I promised the cow that I would get him some food...
Although I don't know where he is now, I will find him. After all, I promised him.
Good children always keep promises.
Pah! Who is a child!?
Whatever...
She patted her face.
This time I must get some food.
Show your drama queen skills!!!
Fighting!
She raised her little fist to show her determination.
Hearing the footsteps coming closer, she lay on the ground in the fetal position and started to cry pitifully.
Boohoo.... boohoo...
"I am...." The words were about to reach the tongue when she remembered that she didn't know their language...
Shocked, she even forgot to cry...
At this time, a girl about 12 or 13 years old entered. She was wearing a white dress that looked worn out and dull. She looked like a perfect example of a mediocre, poor girl.
When the person coming saw the little one on the ground, she was shocked.
Scared, she quickly came to check on her.
"&@_#_&$-#&_@__@__#&#&_" (Little Miss, what happened? Don't scare me.)
This was the new maid who was arranged at the last moment by the Old Butler.
She was chosen as a servant of the mansion last year and used to work in the kitchen. She had two little brothers and a sister outside who depended on her.
She was selected to serve the Little Miss as she is inconspicuous with a clean background and good character and has experience taking care of kids.
The little one looked at the sister, who was hugging and checking her. She looked kind and caring.
Though the little one couldn't understand the language, she could feel the kindness and sincerity.
Knowing this, she started sobbing.
*Acting mode on*
Sob Sob...
She patted the sister with her tiny hands and pressed her hands on her belly to show that she was hungry and made the action of eating with her hands.
Sob..sob...
"@$#&&#_@--#_#&-#." (Oh, Little Miss is hungry! Don't cry. Don't cry. This servant will prepare food for Miss. But Miss, we have to take a bath first.) As she was speaking, the maid wiped the tears off the little face and hugged the little girl up.
Although the little one didn't know what this new sister was going to do, she let her do whatever she wanted. After all, the little one is betting on this new sister to get food.
As long as she could get food, everything could be negotiated.
****
In the main building.
Sister, you liar! I thought you were kind! So kind that you help me clean up and clean my room.
When you gave me new clothes, do you know how happy I was?
I trusted you so much.
But why did you betray me?
You gave me to this scary old man!?
***
A few minutes ago.
After cleaning up the Little Miss, the new maid ordered the newly arrived rank 5 servants to clean up the whole place.
Just when the maid was going to cook, a page boy arrived.
"Sister Su? Are you the new personal servant of Little Miss, Sister Su? The page boy asked with a smile.
"This... This servant's name is indeed Su. But..." The maid was frightened by the title the boy called her.
Usually, only the rank 3 or above servants were called with a name. As a rank 5 maid, she was, she belonged to the lowest rank.
Usually, nobody even cares whether the rank 5 servant is missing, alive, or dead. As they were the ones who volunteered to sell themself, they weren't even considered as a human.
For her to be called by a title or a name is an extremely big honor that she can only dream of.
Now that she was called like this, she began to hesitate.
Was there a misunderstanding?
"Oh, congratulations to sister Su, for getting promoted to personal servant of Rank 2. The promotion order will be here in a while."
"Than....Thank you..."
"Well, I came here by the order of Old Butler to invite Young Miss to the dinner. Please dress up the Young Miss for the dinner in the Main Building."
He emphasized the words main building to let her understand the importance.
"Yes... Please wait..." Flustered she rushed in to help the Little one up.
Although she is not trained as a personal maid, she knows the importance of having dinner at the main building.
Before coming here, she already knew that she was going to serve an unpopular young miss whose life was worse than a servant's.
It doesn't matter to her who she is serving, as she is the lowest maid who cannot even decide her own life and death.
But she didn't expect that a pie would fall on her!
Being a personal servant, even for an illegitimate or unpopular master, has a thousand times better treatment than being a rank 5 servant.
She skipped the ranks and directly became rank 2!
What's more, now that the Young Miss is invited to the main building for dinner means that the Young Miss position in the mansion may have a qualitative leap.
No... I have to get the young miss ready...
I must let the young miss shine today!
Thus, the little one was brought to the main building and was forced to sit face-to-face with a cold-faced, scary old man...