The maid's road to success

Chen Luoxi told Zhushan not to kill Qi Dalong as he was still of great use.

Zhu Hai reluctantly let go of Qi Dalong, who was only half dead.

He took off the blood-stained purse from his body, put it in a small box, and asked Zhuhai to deliver it to the wet nurse's room overnight.

In the early morning, the nurse got up to go to the toilet. When she was done and drinking some water, she found an exquisite box on the table.

She lit a candle, took a look by the flame, and immediately let out a scream.

For a moment, the whole yard was alarmed. Miss Wu San's personal maid came over with a sleepy face and a sullen look.

"Nanny, why are you yelling so late at night? You woke up the young lady."

The nurse got up from the ground in a panic, wearing only her middle clothes, and rushed towards the main house.

"I want to see the lady, I want to see the lady."

Seeing how crazy she was, the maid dared not let her go over and offend the young lady.

Then he ran to the main house and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw two little girls who had been woken up and rushed to the main house and stopped the wet nurse.

"Nurse, you are too presumptuous. You scared the young lady with your appearance. If you want to die, don't let us get hurt."

The wet nurse struggled frantically to break free, but the little girls couldn't hold her back and let her break in.

Miss Wu San had already had a headache because of the noise, so she put on her coat and sat on the bed.

"Miss, please save my son. He is in trouble. Please save him."

Miss Wu San originally thought that the wet nurse's roar was because she was annoying, and was about to scold her, but then she heard the wet nurse become confused and only knew how to ask for help.

Others didn't know where Qi Dalong was going, but Miss Wu San knew it very well. She didn't dare to let her shout out anything, so she quickly asked everyone to leave, leaving only the wet nurse and herself in the room.

The wet nurse kept kowtowing and muttering to save Qi Dalong.

Miss Wu San observed her words and actions and knew that she was not in a conscious state. She picked up the cold tea on the table and poured it on her head to calm the wet nurse down.

"Stand up and tell me what's wrong."

The wet nurse cried for a long time, her face was covered with tears and snot. She was wearing a thin undergarment and was shivering from the cold. She was covered in dirt and there was a faint trace of blood.

"Da Long and his friends went to do that today. I thought there wouldn't be any problems with so many people. But when I got up to drink some water, I saw a box on the table. Inside was the purse I embroidered for Da Long. He had been carrying it with him, and it was soaked with blood. Something must have happened to him."

Miss Wu San sat on the couch wrapped in her clothes, looking at the purse held by her wet nurse.

"Not necessarily. Don't worry. Those women are just ordinary people. How can they deal with so many men? Maybe those people have turned against us and are here to threaten us."

The wet nurse has become much more sober now, and after thinking about what the Third Miss said, she feels that it is possible.

Although his son is a good-for-nothing, his friends are all hooligans and gangsters who have prepared so many drugs and tools.

How could he not be able to handle a group of children and women?

Those people might have succeeded, but knowing that the young lady of the prefecture was plotting behind the scenes, it is also possible that they wanted to get some benefits from both sides.

"In this case, the big dragon may not be safe."

Miss Wu San looked at the wet nurse. She was quite dependent on her, but the wet nurse could not support her family. The wet nurse was also old and was always a little panicked when something happened.

"Those people have committed a crime, yet they dare to speak out. Nanny, go find the steward, and I'll ask father to send you some guards with good martial arts skills to arrest those people and rescue my brother."

The nurse hesitated, not knowing whether this method would work.

"They are not fools. My father is the prefect. They still want to betray me. That will only make them die faster. Let's take the soldiers to look for them. They are afraid that they will release my brother."

Although the nanny thought it made sense, she was still very worried.

"What about those ladies at Yufuzhai?"

When the third young lady of the Wu family mentioned those women, her anger surged up again.

"Let's see how they are. If they are safe and sound, then it's just as we guessed. That group of people didn't attack those women at all. They mainly wanted to threaten me."

"If there is something wrong, that would be great. Those people are too greedy. They have obviously taken the benefits and enjoyed themselves with those women, but they still want to get some benefits from me. People like this are easier to deal with."

The wet nurse looked at the Third Young Lady sitting on the couch in the candlelight. She felt more and more unfamiliar with her. She asked Dalong to find someone to defile the innocence of those women.

But the words spoken were so cruel, involving innocent lives, and it was so satisfying to just say a few words to those women!

The Third Miss is also a girl, and those women were innocent and started fighting. Dalong was her uncle, and he looked at the bloody purse calmly and without fear.

The wet nurse suddenly felt that she was wrong, very wrong. She was thinking that if the girl married into the Bai family, she would get benefits.

But the girl is so crazy now that she doesn't even care about human life. This is also because the young master of the Bai family is too handsome.

What’s more important is that the third girl’s own personality is different from before.

Although she was naive in the past, she would not do anything too bad. But now she is becoming more and more outrageous. In the mansion, she is under the control of the master and the mistress, so she can still restrain herself a little, but outside she is lawless.

When the master gets promoted, if the girl really marries into the Bai family and stays here, without the lady's suppression, no one will dare to criticize her. I'm afraid she will become even more vicious.

But the wet nurse didn't dare to say anything more now, as she was still worried about her son's safety.

I hurried to the front yard to find the manager.

The steward didn't want to get involved in these trivial matters, but he had to give some face to the third young lady's wet nurse.

What's more, the Third Miss's maid came with him and said that the Third Miss had asked him to look for Qi Dalong, so he sent a team of guards to investigate.

After searching for four or five days, there was no trace of Qi Dalong. Nothing happened to Yu Fu Zhai, and it was still open for business every day, unaffected at all.

Miss Wu San became more and more certain that the group of people were coming for her.

These people, Xinzhi, have bad intentions and will not give in unless they get some benefits.

Qi Dalong’s matter was minor, but I couldn’t let my reputation be ruined by him.

The group of people did not take any action for a long time, and the third young lady could no longer sit still. She went to find the manager in person and asked him to look carefully and send more people to look for it.

On the fifth day, Miss Wu San did not wait for the steward's reply, but waited for the prefect first.

"Snapped"

Miss Wu San looked at her father and her panicked mother behind her in disbelief.

“Why did my father beat me?”

Miss Wu San covered her face and questioned Wu Guang.

"Why should I hit you? Don't you know? What good have you done to ruin everything I worked so hard for?"

Miss Wu San felt that her father was just finding fault.

"I am a daughter of a concubine. What can I do to affect my father's career? My father doesn't want his political affairs to go wrong and he takes it out on his daughter."

Seeing that she was still trying to argue, Wu Guang threw a piece of letter written in tiny calligraphy in front of her.

"I have done so much, just waiting for this opportunity to be promoted and return to Kyoto. I sent people to Kyoto to investigate the news early on, but I didn't expect that my name was not included in the memorial submitted by the inspector for merit."

Miss Wu San seemed to have heard that the inspector gave the greatest credit to a woman.

"What does that have to do with me? The inspector shamelessly seized the credit for a woman and took away my father's share. Why blame me?"

Mrs. Liu looked at her husband's livid face and quickly slapped her daughter, fearing that she would say something irritating.

"You fool, what did you do to deserve the inspection officer to cross out your father's name and tell him that he was a bad parent?"

Miss Wu San did not think that the matter of her arranging Qi Dalong had been exposed, and she was still stubborn and refused to admit it.

"I asked the steward when I came here. Have you been urging him to find Qi Dalong recently?"

Miss Wu San explained.

"Qi Dalong is my grandma's brother. If he disappears, I will definitely help find him. Is that not possible?"

Mrs. Liu saw that she was still being stubborn.

"Then why did your nurse take Qi Dalong's bloody purse to ask the steward for help in finding him? And what about the nurse's scream in your courtyard that day?"

Miss Wu San said with her neck stiffened.

"The nanny had a nightmare. The next day, she found out that her brother was missing and asked me for help. I asked the steward to help look for him."

Wu Guang kicked her on the shoulder and Miss Wu San fell heavily to the ground. Fortunately, the maid helped her up in time and prevented her from falling headfirst to the ground, thus avoiding the pain of the hair accessories digging into her flesh.

"Do you think I would come to you if I didn't find out the truth? I have so many children, why did I come to you?"

Mrs. Liu didn't dare to help her daughter up. She took out a handkerchief, covered her face and cried.

Only then did Miss Wu San notice that her wet nurse was gone.

"Your wet nurse has confessed. You asked her to find Qi Dalong to defile a few women. But she didn't do what you asked. Instead, she came back to threaten you with Qi Dalong's things."

Miss Wu San then began to gather the crowd, got up, and pulled Wu Guang's clothes.

"Dad, Dad, I didn't do it on purpose. Those women bumped into me, but Qi Dalong and the others didn't succeed."

Wu Guang fiercely pulled out his collar and pointed at Miss Wu San's nose and cursed.

"Idiot, do you really think it's because of Qi Dalong and his gang? I've sent secret guards to search Yuzhou, but I can't find any trace of those people. I'm afraid they've already died. Do you still think those people are using this incident to threaten my career?"

Miss Wu San was puzzled, isn't it?

Mrs. Liu still couldn't bear it and helped her daughter up.

"How could you be so confused? Your father went to investigate, and those people were basically dealt with. You have harmed our family."

Wu Guang felt a little dizzy and his eyes went dark. The guards around him quickly helped him sit down.

"The inspection team said they were leaving, but the inspector did not leave. When the inspection team left, I noticed that I didn't see the stewards who had been serving us. No matter how arrogant the inspector was, he would not hide in the carriage and not see us."

"I'm afraid the inspector has never left Yuzhou and is secretly investigating us officials."

Miss Wu San said anxiously.

"How is it possible? The inspector suppressed my father in order to grab the first credit for that woman. Even the imperial envoy of the court took a step back. How could he be so shameless as to investigate you in private?"

Wu Guang looked at his stupidest daughter and saw that she was still saying such things.

"The duty of the inspector is to supervise all officials. He has the right to execute first and report later, and to purge the court officials of unhealthy practices. His job is to investigate me."

Miss Wu San wanted to say something, but Madam Liu covered her mouth and refused to let her utter any disobedient words.

"It depends on whether the inspector can let us off even if he finds out something because I gave the first credit to the An family lady."

Madam Liu also felt very miserable. She had finally waited until her husband no longer valued his concubine and now had hope of promotion.

She was ready to go to Kyoto to become the wife of an official. Many good families wanted to propose marriage to her second daughter, but she declined them all.

When I returned to Kyoto, I found many good men and good in-laws.

Why should you suffer in Yuzhou?

Who knew that the inspector did not leave and his daughter caused trouble at this time.

"Master, what should we do?"

Wu Guang pondered for a while and then spoke slowly.

"Put these things on hold first. Arrange the wedding of our eldest daughter as soon as possible, and arrange marriages for all the children of appropriate age. We can't go to Kyoto, and I'm afraid we'll even have to be demoted."

Madam Liu was horrified. Is it that serious? Didn't the Duke of the Protectorate owe her husband a favor?

"Over the years, you have eaten bird's nests and shark's fins, worn silk and satin, and a gold hairpin on your head costs 180 taels. You live in a big house, and you prepared a dowry of tens of thousands of taels for your eldest daughter. Where do you think it all came from? You can't afford it."

"If they investigate openly, I'm not afraid, but the inspector is hiding in the dark and I don't know how much of his private life will be exposed. I can only complete the marriages of the children as soon as possible. If they investigate in the future, I can still preserve a lot of power."

When Mrs. Liu heard this, she collapsed to the ground, unable to control her emotions any longer, and burst into tears.

"Why did I give birth to such a fool like you? For your own pleasure, you implicated the whole family. What will happen to your sisters and brothers? Our whole family will be ruined because of you."

Miss Wu San looked at her parents and realized the seriousness of the matter, so she immediately begged for mercy.

"My daughter knows she was wrong, my daughter knows she was wrong, but father, those women were just snack makers. How could the inspector cross out your name because of those women?"

Wu Guang closed his eyes and thought. He was also puzzled by this brief summary. The letter sent by the inspector only mentioned that he had failed to educate his daughter, but did not point out that he had accepted money and was involved in a murder.

On the contrary, it seems that he attaches more importance to what the third daughter did this time?

"Go check the backgrounds of those women and see if there's anything we don't know."

The guard immediately took his men out and did not return until evening.

"Those women just moved in recently and took over the dim sum shop. People from the Tongpanfu often go there to buy dim sum."

Mrs. Liu sat aside and asked.

"Is it the house where we are staying to take shelter from the rain?"

Madam Liu remembered that the wife of the magistrate had said that the owner of Chunyuan was the owner of Yufuzhai, and that the daughter of the magistrate liked the cakes there very much.

The guard shook his head.

"No, the owner of Spring Garden has moved away, and this family moved here later."

Mrs. Lou looked at Wu Guang and asked nervously.

"Could it be that those women are from the Tongpan Mansion, and this matter was planned by the Tongpan Mansion in order to bring you down and promote themselves?"

Wu Guang shook his head.

"Tongpanfu is not that kind of person. He is smart. If I can be promoted smoothly this time, he will most likely succeed me as the governor of Yuzhou. But if I don't leave, even if he is promoted, it will be difficult for him to find a better place than Yuzhou."

"He has been an official here for many years and knows all the big and small things in Yuzhou. This place is the most suitable for him. What's more, the Tongpan Mansion is smart and will not be my enemy. He naturally knows that this matter cannot bring me down. If I force him, I will not let him off easily. These women were not arranged by the Tongpan Mansion."

Wu Guang looked at Madam Liu.

"Go and find out why the third lady had to attack those women. But if she offended you, you could just teach her a lesson. Why would you resort to such a sinister method to destroy her? She didn't tell the truth. Only after I figure out everything, can I see how to deal with her."

Mrs. Liu nodded and went out. As soon as she left, Wu Guang winked at a maid behind Mrs. Liu.

This person had always been his spy placed in front of Madam Liu, originally to monitor whether Madam Liu was plotting to murder her illegitimate child for her own selfish reasons.

Now it is being used to monitor her and her daughter.

But it is also necessary. Mrs. Liu is not smart enough and is very likely to feel sorry for her daughter. She will not tell the truth no matter what she finds out.

This time he must find out what happened.