The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

443: Disguised as Servants

Nigusu was so infatuated with his new wife that he couldn’t bear to be apart from her.
His mother couldn’t even have a private conversation with him without him saying extremely callous things to her just because she requested his wife leave the room.

How could a mother not know her own child? Nigusu had always treated her with utmost respect.
She had raised him after his father died when he was a young child so she knew he wouldn’t disregard her the way he had just because he loved another woman.

His behavior toward her, when combined with what his deputy mayor said about his strange behavior, made her wonder if Nigusu was plotting something.

The old lady began to suspect it all started with the new countess, her daughter-in-law.

She had initially been quite satisfied with the woman her son had chosen.
He had been unmarried for so long, and as a mother, she had been worried.
Her son finally fell in love so of course she wasn’t going to stop him from marrying the woman.

This was one of the things the old lady regretted the most.
Everything would have been different if she had just investigated the woman’s background a little bit.

The old lady’s hair had turned completely white and she was exhausted from all the pressure from the problems involving her son.

Feng Wu’s group was not the first to be invited by the old lady.
Several other groups had investigated previously, but all their results were the same: there was nothing wrong with the countess; she was human.

They all said the same things but the old lady couldn’t accept it.
Her mind was firm; she was not the type to give up easily.
How could she have raised her eldest son into such a fine man by herself if she was?

She began looking for other adventurers to take up the task.
There had to be people with real skills who could see through to the heart of the problem.

So ultimately, the task wasn’t just to investigate her daughter-in-law, but also to explain the reason for how her daughter-in-law was related to her son’s change in personality.

If the problem with her son could be resolved, she would increase the reward by no small amount.

It was such a big reward, of course the group accepted.
All the previous adventurers had entered the castle as guests, but this time Pei Qing took the initiative to request they enter as servants.
What better role to snoop through a master’s household affairs than that of a servant? Guests would be observed, but servants were practically invisible.
After all, what master would be so bored as to pay attention to the movements of servants in his house?

And thus, were they were arranged to enter the castle as servants in order to investigate.

It just so happened the castle was in need of additional help.
There were vacant positions because several young servant girls had gone missing, so the castle needed to hire additional help to make up for the staff shortage.
The disappearances had been kept hush hush and few outside the castle knew about it.

The count was bedridden while servants went missing one after another.
It was no wonder the old lady suspected the daughter-in-law.
The new countess really was suspicious.

A total of six servants were recruited: four females, two males.
Naturally Rain and Feng Wu took two of the female servant positions while Pei Qing and Wind took the two male servant positions.

The four recently hired girls were assigned a shared room.
The other two girls, formerly a fish monger and a farmer, were local girls.
They were hired because they were fresh, young looking girls with good moral character.

Aside from having good appearance and moral character, servants needed to be quick workers.
Many girls dreamt of getting the job because the stringent requirements meant they were treated very well.

The girls began organizing their personal belongings inside the room.
They wouldn’t need to wear their own clothes because uniforms would be supplied.
Each girl had been given four sets of uniforms, two identical ones for spring and two identical ones for autumn.

They had just finished sorting their clothes when a female servant arrived to usher them to dinner.

Servants ate in the dining hall after the family ate.
They were assigned their own personal bowls, which they labeled with their names.
Rice was the staple food, so every person was allotted a bowlful of rice at every meal.

Stir fry the rice with some vegetables and meat, then add in some seasonings, and the meal was ready.

A group of men and women, who were attired differently, sat at the opposite end of the table from them.
They looked arrogantly at Feng Wu’s group of servants while her group looked back at them enviously.

“Who are those people?” Rain asked quietly.

“You don’t know them?!” One of the new maids who joined at the same time as Rain was surprised.

“They’re servants one rank above us.
They serve the master and mistress directly as lady’s maids and valets, so their identities are much different from ours.”

“If only I could be promoted to a lady’s maid.
Their salary is several times higher than us lower ranked servants.”

“Yeah, my life would be so worth it if I could get their jobs.”

The maids replied in unison.
Moving up from a house maid to a lady’s maid was a goal many of the girls shared, but with their backgrounds and talents, they were destined to remain as ordinary house maids.
Being ordinary as they were, just having such desires was already aspiring high.

Rain’s background was good so she failed to understand why being a lady’s maid was such a lofty goal.
A lady’s maid was still a servant.
Weren’t they all the same?

Rain noticed the other servants glaring at her upon exiting her reverie.

“What happened?” Rain asked Feng Wu nervously.

“You said it.” Feng Wu replied.

Rain had inadvertently spoken her thoughts out loud.

“No. . . ” Rain wailed.
They entered the castle as servants in order to keep a low profile.
Wind and Pei Qing would scold her to death if they knew she had attracted attention on the very first day!