Chapter 11: Young Master
The envelope was addressed to Wang Chang herself.
Wang Chang was Wang's maiden name, and few people knew it, so Wang was extremely surprised.
"Xiao Tao, who has entered my room?"
"Madam, no one has been in the house."
Wang understood: the person who delivered the letter was not an ordinary person, as he was able to deliver it to her room without being discovered by the maid who was guarding it.
For some reason, I had a bad feeling.
Wang opened the letter with trepidation, and her hands trembled after reading its contents.
She covered her chest and gulped down several gulps of tea before she came to her senses.
"Xiao Tao, the master hasn't come back yet?"
"Madam, the master hasn't come back yet."
Wang breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately she was the first one to discover the letter.
If Lin Qingyun saw this, everything would be over.
She once gave Baozhu's biological father a sum of money and sent him away, but unexpectedly, he came back.
He also threatened Baozhu with her identity as her biological father and asked her to hand over seven thousand taels of silver, otherwise he would reveal the truth.
Xiao Tao added, "But the servant next to the master came back and said he asked him to tell the lady that the master went to Cuiying Tower with his colleagues for a social event."
Cuiying Tower is a famous brothel in the capital.
Xiao Tao said this timidly, fearing that the lady would get angry and take it out on her as a maid.
In the past, when the master went to such places, the lady would smash things in the house and the servants would always get hurt. Unexpectedly, today the lady was particularly quiet after hearing that.
"Xiao Tao, go and guard outside the house."
"Yes, ma'am." Xiao Tao was glad that she had escaped.
Wang watched Xiaotao go out and close the door before she took out the portrait enclosed in the letter with trembling hands.
The person painted above is Baozhu's biological father, Zhu Qiang, the former owner of Zuixianlou.
Although he has a good-looking face, he is not very reliable.
Zhu Qiang's face looks exactly like Lin Baozhu's, and even the mole at the corner of their mouth is in the same position.
I believe that if Lin Qingyun saw the letter, he would be sure that Baozhu was Zhu Qiang's daughter without even having to do a blood test.
Only she and Zhu Qiang knew about her affair. Even her biological father, Prime Minister Wang, thought that Baozhu was Lin Qingyun's biological daughter.
So now she completely believes that this letter was definitely written by Zhu Qiang to extort money.
No, the truth must not be revealed.
Wang walked to the window, looked out for a moment, and made sure that there was no one around. She reached out to open the closet and took out the money box.
He took out the key and inserted it into the copper lock. With a click, the coin box opened and was filled with silver bills.
Wang's eyes were filled with reluctance, but she still reluctantly counted out seven bills worth one thousand taels.
The letter said that a Datong Silver Bank silver note with a face value of 7,000 taels was needed and it should be hidden in the tree hole of the third tree behind the Lin Mansion at 11:00 am tomorrow.
Wang thought about it, took out a pen and ink, and wrote an earnest letter to Zhu Qiang, telling him that even a tiger would not eat its own cubs, and that he should take the money and run away, and not stay in the capital to harm his own daughter.
Wang thought about it all night, but was still worried, so she decided to deliver the banknotes in person and also give some advice to the hateful Zhu Qiang, hoping that Zhu Qiang would flee far away and not stay in the capital any longer.
After a sleepless night, Wang had dark circles under her eyes. She called Grandma Sun to accompany her and put the silver bills into the designated tree hole on time at dawn.
She thought she could meet Zhu Qiang, but she didn't see him after waiting for a long time. She ran to the tree hole to check and found that the banknotes and the letter she wrote were all gone.
It’s strange. No one came over, so how could the banknote disappear?
Lin Qianqian got 7,000 taels without any effort, and with the 1,000 taels reward from the government, it was just enough to buy the Jiang house.
Zhang Hanyan came to the Lin Mansion several times but couldn't find anyone.
She is a lively person. Now that the Flying White Fox has been caught, she can go out and play every day.
So I made an appointment with my cousin Feng Shu to go shopping together.
The two sat in the carriage and discussed where to go.
Feng Shu: "It will be the birthday of County Lady Liangping in a few days. I want to buy a box of rouge for her."
Zhang Hanyan: "Since it is for the Princess of Liangping County, of course we have to buy the best and most expensive ones from our Great Yan Kingdom. Let's go to Qingcheng Rouge Shop. It just so happens that I want to buy a box of rouge for my sister Lin."
Zhang Hanyan got off the carriage and found that there were as many people queuing outside the shop as usual.
The two of them waited in line obediently and finally it was their turn, but it turned out that all the supplies for the day were sold out.
I waited in line for the whole morning for nothing.
This Qingcheng Rouge Shop is indeed worthy of its reputation. It is so difficult to buy things here, as difficult as climbing to the sky. If I could get to know the owner here, maybe I could make an exception and buy something.
Those who didn’t buy left dejectedly.
Zhang Hanyan blamed herself a little: "Cousin, it's all my fault for dragging you to chat about this and that. I wasted my time. Otherwise, maybe I could have grabbed a box of beauty powder."
She was about to leave in disappointment, but she found a familiar figure in the shop. It was Lin Daiyu, the girl she had been thinking about day and night.
He immediately ran over and hugged Lin Qianqian: "Sister Lin, I missed you so much. I went to the Lin Mansion to look for you several times, but I couldn't see you."
Zhang Hanyan pulled Feng Shu over and introduced her to her proudly, "Cousin Shu, this is Sister Lin that I told you about earlier. Thanks to her, I didn't have to chop my hair off and become a nun."
Feng Shu bowed and saluted Lin Qianqian. "I am Feng Shu, the daughter of the Dali Temple official. Thank you Miss Lin for saving my cousin. I will treat you to lunch at the Tianxiang Tower next door."
"Sister Feng, you're welcome."
Feng Shu has fair skin, willow-shaped eyebrows, big eyes, and a cherry mouth. She wears a light purple skirt. She looks elegant and dignified. She has a completely different personality from the lively Zhang Hanyan.
Zhang Hanyan: "Sister Lin, are you here to buy rouge and powder as well?"
Lin Qianqian: "Oh, no, this is the shop opened by my adoptive mother. I happened to be free today, so I came here to check the accounts."
The adoptive father and mother have been traveling for several years, and Lin Qianqian has been helping to manage the shop's accounts in the past few years.
"What? Did I hear it right?" Zhang Hanyan opened her mouth in surprise, and she could fit a salted duck egg in her mouth.
"The famous Qingcheng Rouge Shop was actually opened by your adoptive mother. Sister Lin, you are already powerful enough, but I didn't expect that your background is so powerful that you are actually the young master of this shop."
The noble ladies in Beijing all love to patronize Qingcheng Rouge Shop, simply because the rouge and powder here are light in texture, apply naturally on the face, and are better than those sold in other shops.
It can also protect the skin. After using it, the skin becomes smoother day by day.
Unfortunately, the supply is limited to 66 boxes per day, so even if the princess comes, she still has to queue up to buy it.
I heard that many young ladies from the neighboring countries also asked people to come here to buy it for them. This box of Alluring Rouge, which costs twenty taels of silver, can be sold for two hundred taels of silver in the Kingdom of Nanzhao.
Many people are curious about who is the clever person who can make the unique rouge and powder. Unfortunately, the owner of the shop is very mysterious and no one has ever seen him.
Unexpectedly, Lin Daiyu is actually the young master here.
Zhang Hanyan felt that this was enough for her to brag about for many days.
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