Forced to be a concubine, I went to my husband's place to become a wealthy merchant

Chapter 163

As another month passed and the weather turned colder, she realized something was wrong.

First of all, no matter how she explained it, her bedding was still not warm enough. In the past winters, she used to burn silver charcoal in her house.

Secondly, let alone the carbon, even her food was cold and sometimes even rotten.

In the end, not only could the servants no longer be ordered around, some even dared to speak ill of her in front of her.

She didn't know whether these changes were due to Wei Jue's instructions or the servants were simply trying to curry favor with the powerful, but she couldn't change the situation anyway.

That day, she felt cold all over and wanted to find some thick clothes to wear. She found that many of her thick clothes from last year were missing from the closet, especially those that were very warm.

She asked Xia Mu, and Xia Mu hesitated for a long time before saying that after she disappeared last time, Wei Jue found someone on the street picking up her discarded clothes and became furious.

He said that since she didn't want the silk and brocade he gave her, he would burn them all, so he asked Liusu to burn all the valuable clothes in her room.

Ye Xi remained silent, quietly putting on all the clothes she could to keep warm, which seemed a bit out of place at first glance.

She thought it was better to rely on herself than on others. She had no money on her. Since the day she came back, Wei Jue said that she had enough money for food and drink in the mansion, so she didn't need to keep any money on her, so he took it all away.

In fact, she knew that Wei Jue did this because he was afraid that she would repeat the same trick again.

Now that she had been bullied to this extent, she couldn't just sit there and wait to die, so she wanted to go out to Huilong Money House. She still had some silver in it, which she could take out to buy some daily necessities.

But she didn't expect that the servants would not let her go out. Wei Jue forbade her to go out alone because of the previous incident, but he would accompany her out every once in a while. Now that he didn't show up, she couldn't count on that.

She couldn't go out, so she could only rely on Xia Mu to go out and help.

Today's money houses do not have advanced technology to verify whether a customer is a real person, and generally only recognize the receipts left by the customers.

She didn't have much money left, so it wasn't a big problem to give the things to Xia Mu. Even if he embezzled the money, she wouldn't lose much. It was better than freezing to death here.

Xia Mu went to the bank to withdraw silver as she instructed, and bought some thick, roughly made clothes and a lot of hot water bottles.

Because Xia Mu was a slave, she was allocated uniform clothing and wore warmer clothes than Ye Xi, the so-called master, so Ye Xi didn't have to worry about her food and clothing, he just had to take care of herself.

With these ready-made clothes and hot water bottles, Ye Xi finally didn't have to suffer from the cold. However, she didn't have much money left, and this expenditure basically used up all her money.

But she underestimated how hard it would be to live in winter without charcoal fire. When she was at Ye's house and with Pei Zhu, they used to burn charcoal to keep warm in the house in winter.

There was no charcoal fire this year. She was dressed so warmly and lay in bed but still couldn't stand the cold. She thought that either this year was unusually cold or there was something wrong with her body. How could she be so unable to stand the cold?

Soon she fell ill and developed frostbite on her hands, which became swollen and itchy.

Seeing that she was sick, Liusu didn't care but didn't dare to be too negligent. If someone really died in her hands, it would be fine if Wei Jue didn't care about it. If he really cared about it, she would probably be buried with him.

It was almost the end of the year, and if anything unexpected happened, it would be unlucky during the New Year, so we called a doctor.

The person who came this time was not Doctor Wang, but just a doctor from an ordinary clinic in the city.

The doctor said that it was mainly caused by frostbite and prescribed medicine for treatment. However, the frostbite on the hands would not heal in a short time, and the delay lasted until New Year's Eve.