CHAPTER 378: CHAPTER 347: THE WOMAN QING’ER MENTIONED WAS THE ONE THEY HELPED DELIVER THAT DAY

Early the next morning, an aunt took fresh mare’s milk from Yun Xiu’s hands and delivered it to the Ye Family’s quarters.

Hearing it was mare’s milk, Zhang Rong’er, who had just gotten up outside the courtyard, quickly ran over with a big smile, eagerly poured it into a bowl, and drank one bowl after another.

No one knew how they had cooked it, but the taste of this mare’s milk was far better than the others!

Moreover, it had been a long time since she had such delicacies; during the journey from Youyang to Wuheng, she mainly consumed dry food.

As a result, greedily, she drank five or six bowls in one go.

On the other side, Zhang Xingzhi’s angry scolding could be heard as he hurriedly ran out of the side latrine with his pants held up awkwardly.

"Mother! Mother! What kind of broken place is this, the latrine is overflowing!!"

He ran out looking disgusted. For some reason, the side latrine was completely filled with waste, and it was all flowing out.

A considerable amount had already flowed down the slope into the house.

By the time Ye Family realized what was happening, it was obviously too late.

She exclaimed that it was terrible, and when she went back inside, she saw that the inner room where they slept had been flooded by the overflowing liquid from the latrine.

Immediately, the acrid stench hit them.

"Ah!" Ye Family couldn’t help but scream and jump up. Zhang Rong’er and Zhang Xingzhi ran over, discovering that their inner room was flooded with waste water, with no place to step.

Zhang Rong’er, who had just consumed a lot of mare’s milk, felt an intense nausea and suddenly was overwhelmed, throwing up on the spot.

Zhang Xingzhi, standing next to her, was so disgusted that he scolded her.

"Are you trying to kill me here? You vomited on my shoes!! This shoe material can’t be bought in this broken place!"

The Ye Family saw he had the time to whine and quickly urged them: "Why are you standing there? Hurry up and clean up!"

Hearing that they had to clean up themselves, both Zhang Xingzhi and Zhang Rong’er jumped in frustration.

They began to complain: "Mother! This is the servant’s job, why should we have to clean it ourselves?"

"I refuse to do such disgusting work. We are, after all, dignified relief envoys sent here by order. That Magistrate is so audacious to assign us to such a house! Do you think he did it on purpose?"

"We didn’t notice yesterday that there was such a big latrine nearby, now look, the weather is still nice, there shouldn’t be a backflow issue, but the waste overflowed as soon as it wanted, surely someone is behind this, trying to screw us over!"

"Mother! We must not endure this in silence. We have to report this to that Magistrate, and he has to give us an explanation.

As for this filth, let the people from the government office clean it. We shouldn’t have to get involved at all!"

Seeing her son and daughter standing with hands on their hips, spouting a bunch of logic, Ye Family nearly got infuriated by them. She dragged both of them to the stinky room and said.

"Can’t you see the current situation? Do you really think we can just move whenever we want? And look, do we even have any servants anymore?"

"Your father said before coming, that we shouldn’t bring any servants! This is purely a mission, if a relief envoy still has servants to serve him, how do you think other officials will see your father?"

Seeing Zhang Xingzhi’s bewildered look, Ye Family, exasperatedly, gave him a hard slap.

"You used to be an official, after all, how can you not understand these social niceties? Even if there is a conspiracy behind this mess, we must solve the problem first."

"If we don’t clean it ourselves, are we going to wait for your father to come back and clean it? Aren’t you afraid that your Aunt Qiu will whisper bad things to your father, making him scold you?"

Just the mention of Aunt Qiu, and her mind was filled with anger, feeling that bad things were piling up one after another.

"Get moving already!!"

It turns out that besides Ye Family, Zhang Hexsong also had three concubines.

The most favored one being Aunt Qiu, who was just pregnant, and even on this mission, she had to accompany him.

Fortunately, Aunt Qiu seemed to understand the rules on the surface, unlike the other two concubines, who always liked to act arrogantly in front of Ye Family.

Therefore, Ye Family was more tolerant of her compared to the other concubines.

However, there was still a hint of hostility.

But she feared Zhang Hexsong, so she dared not make any big moves.

Zhang Xingzhi and Zhang Rong’er were always afraid of their father. Now, with Ye Family saying this, they didn’t dare to say much more.