The maid's road to success

Qi Yangchuan rode his horse to the residence of Princess Fu'an and handed over the invitation, but after the gate guard reported twice, he only received the news that the princess was not at home.

Seeing that the groom who had always been employed by the Grand Princess was still drinking tea in the gatehouse, Qi Yangchuan knew that the Grand Princess refused to see him. He immediately stuffed fifty taels of silver into the guards' pocket and asked to see Master Bai Shoude.

The guard weighed his money bag, thinking that Bai Shoude didn't even have an official position, so he should be able to meet him, and went in to report.

"Master asked you to meet me at the back door."

Qi Yangchuan was a little hesitant. He had given Bai Shoude so much money and women, even his favorite concubine was bought by him at a high price. Yet, he had to go through the back door to meet Bai Shoude. He immediately realized that the Grand Princess's Mansion was avoiding him.

If the woman he sent was not really liked by Bai Shoude, he would not even be able to see her today. Without caring about his face, Qi Yangchuan led the horse to the back door of the Grand Princess. A small blue cloth carriage was parked at the back door. It was the carriage that Bai Shoude specially equipped for the woman.

Qi Yangchuan greeted him from outside, and Bai Shoude told him to get in the carriage.

"Master, please save me. I was working for the Fourth Prince, but I offended the Sixth Prince. Now I have been demoted and exiled to Gongzhou. Master, please talk to the Grand Princess and help me."

Bai Shoude came out still holding the woman in his arms. Looking at the negative and dejected Qi Yangchuan, he felt very sorry. This man understood his preferences very well. Not only did he give him a lot of money, but also women and all the messy things he liked. Bai Shoude was really reluctant to let him leave Kyoto.

"Sir Qi, it's not that my mother doesn't want to help you, but she can't. This time, you not only angered the Sixth Prince, but even the Emperor has remembered you. If it was just the Sixth Prince's methods, I would have helped you even if my mother didn't do anything. But our people heard clearly that the Emperor is afraid of you. You are a censor who just entered the capital, and you attacked the Sixth Prince so hard this time. He saw that you are on my mother's side, and demoted you to warn my mother. How dare we help you?"

Qi Yangchuan suddenly felt like he was about to faint. He held onto the car body and lowered his head to beg Bai Shoude to talk to him and help him.

"Master Qi, we know that you have made great efforts to bring down the Sixth Prince this time. We are not the kind of people without conscience. You can stay in Gongzhou for a year or two. My mother and I will try our best to call you back to Kyoto."

Qi Yangchuan could tell that these were perfunctory words. He just hated that the mother and son had received so many benefits from him but had never helped him.

I worked for them as loyally as a dog, but when I was down and out, not only did I not get any protection, I was only despised and avoided.

However, Qi Yangchuan was also very clear that he could not afford to provoke the hatred of the Grand Princess and her son. Although they were extremely shameless, they were indeed powerful and influential. Such people were unwilling to help him stay in Kyoto, but if he angered them, he would be completely dismissed from his official position and even killed.

Qi Yangchuan barely maintained his good temper and said goodbye to Bai Shoude. Now that he had become a stray dog, the only thing he could do was to settle his family as soon as possible. Because of his negligence, Qi You was in a hurry to marry Li Changan, and would definitely not follow him to Gongzhou. In the past, he might have been able to force Li Changan to go back with him, but now he clearly knew that he no longer had the power to command Li Changan.

Therefore, he had to make proper arrangements for Qi You before leaving Beijing. Mrs. Qi was also clamoring for a divorce. He had been bewitched by Jin Yue for the past two years, which made Mrs. Qi very angry. How could he abandon his wife? But the premise was that he had to prove that he was bewitched by Jin Yue with those bizarre methods in order to win back his wife's heart.

Jin Yue cried for a long time in the study. At first, she was surprised why Qi Yangchuan would hit her. Later, she thought that Qi Yangchuan was probably very angry about being demoted and accidentally hurt her.

No one expected that Qi Yangchuan would cancel the medicinal properties. Deep Love is a rare and powerful medicine. If used successfully, it will make the party who absorbs the sub-medicine and the party who takes the mother medicine fall deeply in love and feel sad and affectionate. This is also the origin of the name of the medicine.

However, there is a huge problem with emotional entanglement, that is, when the person who absorbs the drug touches the things he really cares about, he will not be affected by the drug. If the things he cares about very much are destroyed, the person who takes the drug will regain clarity and will no longer be controlled by the emotional entanglement drug.

This also proves that no matter how much Qi Yangchuan loves his wife as if her life and is a kind father, what he cares about most is his own official career and himself.

He did not get rid of the control of the drugs when Mrs. Qi fainted due to anger, and he did not get rid of the fact that Qi You was caught in the middle and his condition worsened. Now that he has been demoted and returned to the place where he had served as an official for several years in a humiliating identity, he has actually recovered from the effects of the drugs.

Jin Yue didn't know all these things. She was still thinking about asking for something to compensate for the slap she received when Qi Yangchuan felt better.

Mrs. Qi heard the message in the backyard and ate a few more snacks happily. She thought Qi Yangchuan had been bewitched by a goblin and was treating her like a fairy. She didn't expect that he would be beaten.

"Go and keep an eye on the front yard. No matter if it's the master or that bitch, come and tell me everything, big or small."

After all, Madam Qi is the real mistress of the Qi family and has been in control of the backyard for many years. Even though she sold many servants after leaving Gongzhou, she still brought back many elderly people to serve her, and these people are still willing to listen to her.

Moreover, she is in charge of many things in the inner house. Jin Yue just keeps asking for things from Qi Yangchuan and refuses to give even a penny to the servants. Who can be truly loyal to her?

Madam Qi also had her own dowry. Even though Qi Yangchuan gave a lot of money to Jin Yue, Madam Qi's own shop was enough for her own expenses and to win people's hearts.

Although she was controlled by that bitch and restricted in every way, there were many people who helped her to tip off. She had heard too many things and still didn't understand why Qi Yangchuan could be so fascinated by Jin Yue?

You weren't such a fool before, were you? How come you can't tell the good from the bad all of a sudden? Even if Jin Yue said something that everyone would think was ridiculous, and the things she did were not worth a damn, why did Qi Yangchuan still praise her?

Qi Yangchuan had no idea what the two women were thinking. He had just returned to the Qi family and didn't even have time to clean up Jin Yue. He began to count the family property. Fortunately, Mrs. Qi had a tough attitude and kept a firm control over her own dowry and Qi You's dowry.

And more than half of her savings of many years were gone in just two years, all because she had coaxed Jin Yue into buying jewelry, clothes, rouge and powder, and some gifts for Bai Shoude.

Now if I want to go back to Gongzhou and buy back their old house, I’m afraid I’m not rich enough.

What's more, he had to arrange things for Qi You, leave a few trusted servants, buy a better house, and leave enough money for nursing and medical treatment. But it was not enough.

Qi Yangchuan could hear Jin Yue crying next door, and now he felt annoyed and disgusted.

He walked into the study room angrily, pulled up Jin Yue, who was lying on the chaise longue and crying, and slapped her twice.

"Tell me, what did you do to confuse me?"

Jin Yue originally wanted to use her crying to get Qi Yangchuan to coax her so that she could use the money to buy back the new headwear she had taken a fancy to, but who knew that Qi Yangchuan would slap her twice in the face.

This sentence startled Jin Yue to wake up. How did Qi Yangchuan wake up? Hadn't she been letting Qi Yangchuan dote on her for the past two years?

"Bitch, do you really think I'd be interested in a woman like you? Tell me, what did you do to make me love you like crazy?"

Jin Yue was very scared. She had lived too comfortably in the past two years. A florist from a humble background who would be looked down upon even if she went out to buy gouache, suddenly became the treasure of the prefect. She lived a more comfortable life than that of a rich lady, which made her forget how cold-blooded and ruthless Qi Yangchuan was.

"I didn't, sir, what's wrong with you?"

Jin Yue didn't dare to tell the truth. If it were to be discovered that she had given Qi Yangchuan a secret medicine, she would not live for more than a few days.

Relying on the properties of the medicine, he bullies Madam Qi, squeezes out Qi You, and instigates Qi Yangchuan's official duties.

Qi Yangchuan would have to skin him alive for any of the things that happened, not to mention that vicious woman Madam Qi, who had bullied him in various ways in the past. If she knew that he had used a secret medicine to confuse Qi Yangchuan and made Madam Qi suffer so much, she would have to eat him alive.

Therefore, he absolutely could not admit that Qi Yangchuan had been demoted and was unable to take care of himself. He would not kill himself immediately and add another stain to his reputation.

Yes, it must be one. Jin Yue was crying so hard that her tears and snot were running all over the place. Qi Yangchuan was touched by her snot and he immediately threw her to the ground in disgust. He felt that such a lowly woman had fooled him so much.

Thinking about how hard he had worked to attack the Sixth Prince, it was this woman who persuaded him, otherwise he would not be so foolish as to do everything he could to bring down the Sixth Prince. Qi Yangchuan kept kicking and hitting Jin Yue, but she refused to say what method she had used. Now she had to discuss with her wife to collect the property in her hands as soon as possible, and return to Gongzhou, perhaps there would be a chance to avoid being suppressed.

Jin Yue was tied up and strictly guarded by Qi Yangchuan's men. Looking at the locked door and the tight ropes, Jin Yue's hair was disheveled, her body was covered with footprints and wrinkles, and her abdomen and ribs were aching slightly. Qi Yangchuan, this man, was so cruel without the control of the medicine.

Jin Yue looked around the house. The front door was locked and there were windows at the back. Someone was probably watching. She couldn't stay here forever. Qi Yangchuan would not take her to Gongzhou alive. Although she thought that Qi Yangchuan didn't dare to kill people at will now, it would be easy for her to die without being suspected given Qi Yangchuan's viciousness. Besides, she had no other friends except Simian. After arriving in Kyoto, she kept her distance from Simian. She was afraid that no one would know if she died here.

Jin Yue shook her head vigorously, and the hairpin on her head fell to the ground. Jin Yue picked up the broken jade hairpin and rubbed the rope on her wrist vigorously. Her fingers were sore before she finally broke the rope on her wrist. After that, it was much easier to operate. The people outside were still talking at first, but later they all dozed off. Jin Yue knew that they would not rush in casually. After breaking free from all the ropes, she looked at the structure of the house. There were people guarding the front window and the front door, but there was no one at the back window. There was just a small house in the yard at the back, where servants who didn't need to be served were resting.

Jin Yue tore off the curtain hanging on the bed, tied a paperweight on it and threw it onto the beam. The paperweight fell down again and Jin Yue tied a knot at both ends of the curtain. She used to be a carefully trained prostitute in a brothel. Her dancing skills were excellent, needless to say. Although she had not practiced later, her skills were still there. Jin Yue tore off her cumbersome outer clothes, put away all the jewelry on her body and put them in her arms. Although it was a pity to lose the jewelry she had collected in the past two years, her life was at stake.

Jin Yue used both hands to climb up onto the beam little by little. The most popular dance that she and Simian had performed was the Dancing Fairy, which required the dancers to dance in the air while climbing on a rope.

Jin Yue stood carefully on the beam, and slowly pushed open the heavy tiles. In order to prevent people outside from hearing, she carefully held the tiles in her hands and placed them on the beam. After working for a long time, she finally made a bigger hole. However, there was no place to attach or support the tiles. If she climbed up like this, the tiles would definitely fall to the ground. Jin Yue saw a beam two or three feet ahead, supporting the tiles. She kept lifting the tiles and moving forward, and finally climbed up the beam.

Jin Yue didn't dare to stand too high for fear of being seen, so she crouched and carefully moved to the far right. Qi Yangchuan had imprisoned her in a room next to the study. If she kept walking that way, she would reach Qi Yangchuan's study. Jin Yue walked to the end of the far right, looked down, gritted her teeth, closed her eyes and jumped onto the grass. Fortunately, the moist soil protected her so that she didn't break her legs.

Jin Yue's ribs hurt even more. She turned her head and saw Qi Yangchuan's study behind her. All her jewelry was kept in there. When she was hesitating whether to go in, she saw someone enter the study. Jin Yue didn't dare to delay any longer. She went to a secluded corner, moved three flower pots together, and climbed over the wall.

After falling heavily to the ground, Jin Yue covered her mouth and dared not cry out in pain. It took her a long time to recover before she could stand up and walked towards Zhiyuxuan while holding onto the wall.

Jin Yue went around the main road in front and walked through the alley. She finally arrived at the alley across the street from Zhiyuxuan. The pain from her injuries made it impossible for her to walk any further. She sat on the ground, holding her chest and gasping for breath. Seeing two young women coming over, Jin Yue wanted to grab their skirts and ask them to help her go to Zhiyuxuan to find Simian.

Who knew that before she could open her mouth, someone threw a fragrant powder in her face, and then she lost consciousness. When Jin Yue opened her eyes, she was placed in a carriage, tied up and powerless. There was no one in the carriage. Jin Yue wanted to call for help, but her mouth was blocked and she could only make a whimpering sound.

The carriage was moving very fast, and Jin Yue suddenly had a bad feeling. Could it be that Qi Yangchuan's men had discovered her, or that they still hadn't escaped? The speeding carriage crashed heavily into the cliff in front, and it kept bumping into other things until the body of the carriage fell apart. Finally, Jin Yue was thrown out of the carriage, which was only half left, and fell into the cliff.

The people who followed behind mounted their horses and took a look from above. They saw that Jin Yue was indeed thrown down before they left. Jin Yue would never know that when Qi Yangchuan came back, he indeed saw her running away, and sent people to look for her privately, but her death was not caused by Qi Yangchuan.