Madam Xie exhibited her typical peacemaking behavior again, "Xuexue, don't worry about what Chuner is saying, it's all nonsense. Your mother hasn't been mistreated. It's just cooking, and your mother can handle that. Besides, suffering is a blessing."
Confused, Xuexue turned her head and asked, "Chuner, tell me, what exactly happened?"
Chuner didn't care about the warning look Madam Xie was giving her, the one telling her not to speak.
She blurted everything out...
It turned out that after Xuexue had gone to sleep, several maids, reportedly personal maids of Lady Tang, had come to the courtyard. They were arrogant and demanded that Madam Xie and the others go to the kitchen to work, declaring that the General's Mansion did not keep idle people and that if they wanted to eat, they needed to work.
They had just come back from working in the kitchen, utterly exhausted.
