Yunniang only learned the power of Madam Huo, but lost her kindness. To control subordinates, one must use both power and kindness. She acted arrogantly in the mansion as a concubine, which made many people below her uncomfortable. However, everyone dared not speak out their anger and had hated her behind her back for a long time.
Now that everyone is pushing the woman down, it is impossible for her to turn the tables by murdering the mistress of the house. Those who have been offended by her in the past are seeking revenge. In just half a day, she has tasted what it feels like to go from heaven to hell.
In addition, Huo Jincheng had the door to the inner room nailed shut and wooden boards were added to the windows, leaving only a small square hole. After being imprisoned in the closed space for a long time, panic came over her like a tide. This situation actually aroused her desire to survive. She took off the pendant on her ear and begged the old woman guarding outside to give her a full bowl of water to drink.
The old woman started to curse at her, then took her pendant, and after a while she brought her half a bowl of her own urine in a wooden bowl, which made her so angry that she started to curse the old woman.
At first she tried to control her voice, but as she cursed, she became overwhelmed with grief and could not help but open her voice to curse the old woman, then the servants in the mansion, and finally Huo Jincheng.
Seeing that the guards were frightened by her reckless behavior and showed fear, she cursed even more fiercely and louder. How could Huo Jincheng hold back? He rushed over in two steps. The servants guarding Yunniang were so frightened that they fell to their knees, fearing that Huo Jincheng would punish them.
But it didn't.
Huo Jincheng just said coldly to Yunniang who was locked in the room: "If you don't shut up, I will cut off your tongue."
Yunniang finally calmed down.
The next morning, after Jian Ning escorted Ah Man and the others to the Grand Tutor's residence, Huo Jincheng ordered the wooden planks nailed to the door removed. When the door opened, Yunniang, her hair disheveled, rushed over and knelt before him, kowtowed and sobbing, "Master, I was wrong. I must have been blinded by greed to insult you yesterday. Please forgive me this time. I won't do it again. Please!"
Huo Jincheng raised his foot to kick her, paused, and then put his foot down. "You don't deserve to be beaten by me. Get out of here!"
He ordered his men to pack up Yunniang's clothes and the jewelry she was wearing, and then drove her out.
Yunniang thought she was going to die, but she didn't expect to escape death. Now she had the wrong idea again. She thought that Huo Jincheng probably still had some feelings for her, so she stayed in front of the mansion and banged on the door, hoping to return to the Huo Mansion even as a maid, as long as she could stay and serve Huo Jincheng.
She was full of confidence that as long as she could stay, she would be able to regain favor. However, after knocking for a long time, there was no response from inside the door. She was still unwilling to give up and thought it would be better to go to the other courtyard and knock on the door, and ask Jian Ning for help.
Having made up her mind, Yunniang carried her bag and headed towards the villa.
"Hey, Sister Yun, what's wrong with you...oh my god, why are you like this?"
Yunniang ran into Meixiang in the alley while she was out buying groceries. She quickly turned aside to adjust her hair, avoiding Meixiang's gaze as she mumbled, "What's wrong? I was so busy getting up early that I didn't have time to put on my makeup."
As she finished speaking, Yunniang suddenly remembered that Meixiang's attire seemed quite different from before. She glanced at Meixiang and asked, "Are you the one the old lady asked to serve the family in the other courtyard?"
"What? I'm already a free man. Not only that, my father is also of great importance. My uncle is the seventh prince of Dayue Kingdom, and my grandmother is the imperial concubine. I'm not just a little maid anymore." Meixiang was very proud and looked like a proud peacock.
Meixiang's family and Yunniang's family lived in the same Cat Ear Lane in the west. Meixiang was able to work as a maid in the Taifu Mansion because her mother asked Yunniang's mother for help, and it was with Yunniang's introduction that she was able to enter the Taifu Mansion.
Looking at Meixiang's beaming eyes, Yunniang thought that she had now become a phoenix, while she had ended up being expelled from the house. She was so sad and angry that she couldn't help crying.
"Ah, what's going on? Who else in the Huo family would dare to make you angry besides me?" Meixiang said as she looked her up and down. Only then did she notice the bag on her arm. She raised her eyebrows and said hesitantly, "You, won't be chased away by me, will you?"
Yunniang shook her head at first, then nodded. Then she remembered that Meixiang and Ah Man were staying at Jian Ning's place in the countryside, so she quickly took her hand and said, "My dear sister, I'm counting on you now. As long as you can meet Master, and if we can show some affection, Master will definitely accept me back."
"Good sister, please help me, please, okay?"
Meixiang blinked a few times and said, "No, I don't understand what you are saying. How can I help you?"
"Didn't you live with your daughter at Madam Jane's for a while? You're familiar with her, and Master holds her family in high regard. Please ask Madam Jane to intercede for me in front of Master. I will be grateful for your kindness for the rest of my life. In the next life, I will serve you like a slave, and I will never break my promise."
"So you came here intending to go to the other courtyard to beg her? Luckily you met me. I say, aren't you stupid?" Meixiang poked her forehead unceremoniously. "Maybe you were kicked out because of her. You still want to beg her? If you go directly to beg me, you might still have a chance. If you beg her, you won't have a chance at all. Give up this idea as soon as possible."
It was like a basin of cold water poured over her head, extinguishing the only hope in Yunniang's heart.
"Are you sure it will come true? Don't bluff me. This is not something to be laughed at."
She still didn't give up and pulled Meixiang to ask.
"Why would I scare you? Am I bored? Think about it carefully. You've been living in the master's house for these years. There's no old lady to constrain you, nor is there the mistress of the house to put pressure on you. It's as glorious as you want."
"Except for the master and the young lady, you are the one who has the final say in this house. Did you get kicked out as soon as she arrived?"
Yunniang thought carefully, isn't it? Yesterday, she took people to the other courtyard to invite Huo Jincheng back for dinner. At that time, Huo Jincheng treated her very well, but it was when he returned from the other courtyard that he flew into a rage.
When she thought about it carefully, she couldn't help but gasp.
Seeing her like this, Meixiang knew that she believed what she said. After all, she was not wrong. Madam Jian was not a good person. "I'm telling you, I'm only telling you this. Madam Jian is the most cruel. Her husband doesn't like her at all. In fact... I can feel that Brother Ding is interested in me. It's all that evil woman's fault!"
Meixiang's eyes flashed with deep hatred. "She must be jealous of me because I'm younger and prettier than her. She's guarding me and Brother Ding like thieves. And her two twin daughters are just as bad as her! She's constantly instigating Ah Man, causing Ah Man and me to become increasingly estranged. I don't know what tricks she used to make Ah Man call her mother!"
"Bah! How can she, a country woman, be worthy of such a thing?"
"Just wait and see. With them around, who knows what Ah Man will become. Poor old man is still in the dark and treats them like treasures!"
When Yunniang heard this, she thought it was unacceptable. No wonder Ah Man was sent back to learn the rules last time. She seemed to have found a way to revive herself, leaving Meixiang behind and hurried back the same way.
She didn't believe that Huo Jincheng would never step out of the house for the rest of his life, so she found a place to sit down and decided to stay with Huo Jincheng until the end.
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