Chapter 117 The Madam is Jealous
She is going to be beaten to death!
Hua Zhi was so scared that her face turned pale. She knelt on the ground and kowtowed like crazy, "Mother Li, spare me, Mother Li, spare me, maid, maid..."
Then she gritted her teeth and said, "It was Miss Zhao who gave me 100 taels of silver and asked me to do something for her."
It turned out to be that Zhao Yunchu!
Mother Li's face was gloomy. "Tell us everything you have done!"
Huazhi shuddered.
Madam Li had been in charge of the backyard for Wang for many years, and Huazhi knew her methods very well. She did not dare to hide them anymore, "Yes, I said, I said..."
"It was Miss Zhao. Oh no, Zhao Yunchu asked me to deliberately put the handkerchief she gave to the master in the lady's room, pretending that the master had accidentally dropped it."
"It was Zhao Yunchu who asked me to put the drug into the tea she drank when she came to visit Madam, so as to frame Madam for deliberately making things difficult for Zhao Yunchu and make Master dislike Madam."
"Zhao Yunchu also asked me to bring Madam over when the Master was having a tryst with her, so that Madam could see them having a secret meeting."
"When Madam left home, Zhao Yunchu told me to wait for the right opportunity on the road and not to let Madam give birth safely..."
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The more Mother Li listened, the uglier her expression became.
Zhao Yunchu was originally the cousin of Master Qin Zhishang. When Qin Zhishang was still a poor scholar, the two of them often interacted with each other. Although the two families had not formally discussed marriage, in everyone's eyes, it was only a matter of time for the two to get married.
However, Qin Zhishang was very talented and had smooth success in the imperial examinations. After the spring palace selection, he got the eighth place in the Jinshi examination. In addition, he was handsome and a talented young man, so he became a candidate for son-in-law of many wealthy families in the capital.
The Wang family is one of them.
Seeing that Wang was fond of Qin Zhishang, Old Master Wang personally decided on the marriage between Wang and Qin Zhishang. Thanks to the support of the Wang family, Qin Zhishang has been promoted rapidly in recent years and is now a prefect.
Qin Zhishang and Wang Shi also treated each other as equals and lived in harmony, making others envious.
But, Zhao Yunchu came.
She claimed that she came to live with her aunt because her family was poor, hoping to find a husband of her dreams. She also claimed that she had benefited a lot from her aunt's care since she was a child, so she wanted to be filial to her.
Qin Zhishang's mother, Zhao, was overjoyed and decided to keep Zhao Yunchu. She loved her very much, even more than Wang.
Wang was the daughter of a noble family, so she didn't care about these things. Her relationship with Zhao was polite and justifiable. As long as someone could make Zhao happy, Wang was happy and at ease.
But gradually, things started to go wrong.
Zhao always mentioned the past of Qin Zhishang and Zhao Yunchu intentionally or unintentionally, and often mentioned how attentive and considerate Zhao Yunchu was to Qin Zhishang.
Wang felt depressed, but she thought that this was just the wishful thinking of her mother-in-law Zhao, and that Qin Zhishang was always loyal to her, so it would not matter.
But soon, Wang discovered that Qin Zhishang's eyes when looking at Zhao Yunchu were becoming more and more gentle. Not only did he often mention it, but even when he got something from outside, in addition to Zhao and Wang's, a portion of it also belonged to Zhao Yunchu.
Whenever Wang asked Qin Zhishang, Qin Zhishang always had only one answer.
Don't be suspicious, she's just my cousin.
If you ask too many questions, Qin Zhishang will become a little impatient.
Wang was aware that there must be some hidden story that she didn't know. She was worried and gradually discovered many clues. Finally, she saw the scene of Qin Zhishang and Zhao Yunchu having a tryst in the back garden in the middle of the night in dishevel.
Wang's questioning resulted in Zhao Yunchu crying and asking her to agree to it, Qin Zhishang taking it for granted, and Zhao's persuasion for her to agree to Qin Zhishang taking Zhao Yunchu as a concubine.
As the eldest daughter of the Wang family, Wang was proud and arrogant. She could not accept this. That night, she ordered the servants in the courtyard to pack up her dowry and return to her parents' home in the capital.
At that time, Wang was more than eight months pregnant.
After a long and tiring journey, and with Wang being depressed because of the affairs between Zhao Yunchu and Qin Zhishang, her water broke prematurely when she was passing through Hedong Prefecture, and she suddenly went into labor and encountered a difficult delivery.
Wang Shi was on the verge of death, and Zhao Yunchu played an indispensable role in this.
Mother Li gritted her teeth, her eyes almost bursting with anger, "You have always been following Madam, and Madam has always been kind to you all, and you have all been treated well. How could you do such a thing just for a hundred taels of silver?"
"How can you be worthy of my lady!"
"Madam usually treats me well, but she is jealous, how can she tolerate me?" Huazhi cried with tears in her eyes, but her tone was angry, "Maidens who come as dowry in other mistresses' families are required to get married when the mistress is pregnant, but Madam is so strict that she won't let us do anything even for the master. What's the reason?"
"I am a slave. Madam, if you don't want me to be your concubine, you can only marry me to a servant boy. The child you give birth to will still be a slave and serve others for the rest of my life. How can you be so cruel, Madam?"
"Zhao Yunchu promised me that as long as she can successfully marry the master as a concubine, given the old relationship between her and the master, the master will definitely love her very much. Madam is jealous and has a temper like a spoiled daughter. She will definitely be disliked by the master in the future. Sooner or later, she will have the final say in the whole family. When the time comes, she will definitely recommend the maid to serve the master and get a proper status..."
So he took the risk and betrayed his master!
"I really underestimated your ambition!"
Mother Li almost bit her teeth and said, "Since you are treacherous and still want to climb into a man's bed, I will help you!"
"First tie up this little whore, then find a human trafficker to sell this ignorant, black-hearted, rotten-bellied whore! Also tell the human trafficker clearly that it doesn't matter how much she's sold for, as long as he can sell this little whore to the dirtiest brothel and settle her down, I'll give him fifty taels of silver!"
Since you are such a greedy man, then I will let you enjoy it to your heart's content!
Hua Zhi was so frightened when she heard this that she kowtowed and begged for mercy, "Mother Li, please forgive me! I don't want to be sold to such a dirty place!"
"Oh, ma'am, ma'am, I want to see you. I have served you for so many years. Even if I have no merit, I have worked hard. I just made a small mistake. You will definitely forgive me, ma'am, ma'am..."
The old women and maids came forward and tied Huazhi up tightly. They even stuffed a piece of rag into her mouth because she was noisy.
Huazhi struggled for a while, but in the end, she was tied up like a dumpling and couldn't make a sound. She watched herself being thrown into the woodshed, waiting for the human trafficker to come and take her away.
Madam is really a jealous person, she can't even tolerate such thoughts as hers.
Cousins... humph!
(End of this chapter)
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