Chapter 11 What kind of power or prestige does she possess that makes her so formidable?
Yu Pan'er asked, "Young Madam, aren't we going to teach that woman a lesson?"
Yu Zhiyi looked up at her.
Yu Pan'er was a servant born into the Yu family and was quite beautiful.
The term "household child" refers to a child born to a servant in a household.
Such is the way of the times: the children of slaves are born slaves.
This girl is very ambitious. When she was in the Yu family, she angered Yu Jiaojiao by trying to seduce Yu Mengqin, the eldest son of the Yu family. Yu Jiaojiao took it upon herself to send her to the outhouse to clean the toilet and scrub the chamber pots.
When Yu Zhiyi was about to get married, Yu Jiaojiao found the girl again and persuaded Madam Yu to give her to Yu Zhiyi as a dowry maid.
Besides Ziyuan and Yu Pan'er, Yu Zhiyi also had two maids who came with her as part of her dowry. They were both lowly maids in the Yu household and were not very clever.
These were also carefully selected by Yu Jiaojiao for Yu Zhiyi.
Yu Zhiyi knew what Yu Jiaojiao was thinking, but she had been bound by the debt of gratitude she owed her parents in the past, and she was too lazy to pay attention to such petty calculations of young women.
Besides, she could see right through these people's intentions, and she wasn't worried at all that they would cause her trouble.
In her past life, she didn't want to raise a good sister for herself, so she sent Yu Pan'er away early.
The remaining two, though a bit slow-witted, were loyal enough, so she kept them.
Now...
Perhaps she can be of some use.
"What's so impressive about her?" Yu Zhiyi retorted.
Yu Pan'er's eyes widened: "She left the manor without permission and didn't even inform you. She completely disregards you, her mistress!"
Yu Zhiyi chuckled: "She is neither a concubine nor a servant, so she has no reason to report to me."
“But…” Yu Pan’er wanted to say something more.
Yu Zhiyi waved her hand: "Alright, don't worry about these trivial matters. From now on, you only need to keep an eye on the movements in the manor. As for other things, no matter how absurd they are, don't get involved. Let's just live our own lives."
That night.
Yu Zhiyi suddenly opened her eyes.
Her defensive formation has been compromised!
She got up and dressed.
Ziyuan also entered the room: "Miss, someone tried to climb over the wall to leave the mansion, but slipped and fell, making a commotion that attracted the guards. Now the Prime Minister and his wife are going there to interrogate that person!"
Yu Zhiyi casually tied up her dark hair and arrived at the scene of the incident wearing a red gauze cloak.
A short man dressed in a gray servant's uniform was kneeling on the ground. Prime Minister Du and his wife both had their hair down and were only wearing cloaks.
Yu Zhiyi stepped forward and greeted them: "Greetings, Father and Mother."
Then she looked at the man on the ground.
Before she could ask, Madam Yao said, "The dew is heavy at night, you should wear more clothes before going out."
He then pointed at the man and said, "He's just a thief who tried to steal from the mansion. We've already found out what happened. It's not a big deal. We'll have someone take him to the yamen in a bit."
When Yao said "escort him to the yamen," the man flinched, as if frightened, and kept begging for mercy.
Yu Zhiyi stared at him for a while, then said coldly, "Stop pretending. You're probably secretly laughing to yourself right now."
The man's pleading voice paused, and his expression stiffened.
Prime Minister Du and his wife, along with the guards and servants around them, all looked over in confusion.
The man reacted after a moment: "I don't know what you're talking about, young mistress. I'm truly afraid and remorseful!"
To prove his claim of repentance, he crawled on his knees before Prime Minister Du, wailing, "My lord, I truly know I was wrong. Please forgive me this time!"
Yu Zhiyi interrupted his wailing and looked at Prime Minister Du with a smile, saying, "Father, your jade thumb ring is very unique. May I have it?"
Everyone: ?
Is the young mistress somehow mentally unstable?
What kind of occasion is this for her to ask for things like this?
Besides, she's only been married for four days. Her relationship with the master isn't good enough for her to ask for expensive items, is it?
Prime Minister Du was somewhat displeased.
However, Madam Yao thought of her own mother's situation. She remembered that she had given Yu Zhiyi a thousand taels of silver before Yu Zhiyi reminded her to go back to her mother's home.
She advised, "Master, since Yi'er likes it, just give it to her. It's just a thumb ring anyway."
Prime Minister Du: "..."
The servants: "..."
Madam, would you like to hear what you are saying?
Of course, Madam Yao knew what she was talking about. Seeing that Prime Minister Du did not respond, she actually stepped forward and tried to take off the thumb ring.
Prime Minister Du: "...I'll do it myself."
Yu Zhiyi took the ring and weighed it in her hand, her eyes crinkling with satisfaction: "The jade is translucent, warm to the touch, and has excellent luster. It's a fine piece of jade!"
Prime Minister Du remained silent.
That's definitely a fine jade. He bought it at an auction house for a full eight thousand taels of silver!
Yu Zhiyi seemed oblivious to how unpleasant Prime Minister Du's expression was. She put the ring into her purse, dismissed the guards and other servants from Ziyuan's residence, and then said to the short man, "Your original name was Liu Ergou. You entered the Prime Minister's residence five years ago and changed your name to Du Ping."
"My father and mother were very kind to their servants, except in one situation: when a person made a mistake."
“Three years ago, you were punished by your father for breaking a paperweight. Although your father was kind-hearted and did not make you pay for the paperweight, you still held a grudge.”
"A few days ago, you met a fellow villager while on vacation. You confided in him. He said he had a way to help you get revenge, so you hit it off and finalized today's plan."
Madam Yao was shocked: "What plan? Does he think he can steal something and then blame us?"
A scroll lay quietly beside the short man.
That was "Traveling to Huai Mountain" painted by Qi Bai, a master of landscape painting from the previous dynasty, and it is priceless.
No matter what Yao thought, she couldn't understand why they, who should have been the victims, were ultimately framed.
Not to mention the Yao family, even the seasoned Prime Minister Du was quite puzzled.
Yu Zhiyi sighed: "This painting is just a decoy. The real killer is something that this person secretly put at the bottom of the drawer in my father's study!"
Prime Minister Du's expression changed, and he quickly walked back to his study.
Liu Ergou tried to break free, but Zi Yuan, who looked petite, was surprisingly strong. He couldn't move an inch and was carried out of the study by Zi Yuan like a chick.
At that time, Prime Minister Du had already arrived at the table.
There are two drawers under his desk, both of which are locked.
At that time, both locks were properly hung on the drawer holes.
But Prime Minister Du dared not be careless. After unlocking the drawer, he pulled it out and held it up in the air. He immediately broke out in a cold sweat.
There was a cloth bag that had somehow appeared at the bottom of the drawer, nailed horizontally to the top!
A piece of white paper peeked out.
He didn't know what was written on the paper, but he was still terrified.
There were some things in the study that he had never seen before, and he knew they were definitely not good things!
He forced back his fear and pulled out the paper from the cloth bag. When he unfolded it, he almost fainted.
This was actually a reply from the Great Luo Empire!
The letter contained only a few words, but if it were discovered, it would be enough to bring down the entire Prime Minister's residence.
Even his entire family will be implicated!
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