Continuing the Daily Routine

Though they called it a woodshed, the woodsheds of wealthy households were usually built in remote, isolated places to prevent a fire from spreading from one building to the next. Normally, there was hardly anyone around them.

That might have been fine for confining ordinary servants, but what servant would dare casually throw a maid who had once served the master into such a place?

What if someone slipped inside under cover of darkness in the middle of the night and got up to some unspeakable business?

Thus, places used to confine women of the inner household were also called woodsheds, but they normally did not store much firewood and were often located not far from the inner courtyard, making it easier to station people there to watch them.

Thus, after leaving his own residence, Sun Shaozong reached the vicinity of the "woodshed" in just a few steps.

When the old woman on guard saw that Second Master had arrived, she hurriedly came forward with a lantern.

Sun Shaozong ignored her. Instead, he frowned at the woodshed, tipped his chin toward its interior, and demanded, "Why is there a lamp lit in there?"

Though it was not a real woodshed, since it was meant for confining people, they naturally could not be allowed to live too comfortably. There were no beds, lamps, or washing supplies of any kind.

Yet now a lantern had been lit inside this "woodshed," which clearly violated the rules.

Hearing the ill temper in Second Master's voice, the old woman hastily bent over and explained, "Miss Yuanyang came to see her, so she brought a lantern inside. It was not us who carelessly broke the rules!"

Yuanyang had come?

Sun Shaozong waved for the old woman to step aside, then walked to the door of the