Chapter 409 Her younger sister regretted it
Tao Meiyu was taken aback for a moment, "But..."
Master He stood up and interrupted her, "You want to say that this money should be given to you, but you are just my concubine! The Zhou family gave five hundred taels of silver to buy it for their rightful sister-in-law, not for a lowly concubine like you!"
Tao Meiyu stood there in shock, stammering, "I...I..."
Master He looked at her coldly and said, "Don't you realize your place yet? You are just a concubine bought by my He family. If I like you today, I will keep you here. If I don't like you, I can sell you elsewhere."
Tao Meiyu trembled as she knelt down and said, "Master, I know I was wrong. I will never do it again."
Old Master He looked down at her with cold eyes, "Do you know what you did wrong?"
Tao Meiyu stammered, "I...I shouldn't have asked you for money..."
Master He gently stroked her hair and said slowly, "My He family has plenty of money. I don't mind if you spend a little."
Tao Meiyu trembled and lowered her head, not daring to speak.
Suddenly, Mr. He grabbed her by the neck and said sternly, "You shouldn't have said that our He family is not as good as the Zhou family."
Tao Meiyu was being choked and struggling to breathe, her face turning blue and purple as she cried out in pain, "Master...Master..."
As he watched her near death, Master He grew increasingly excited, laughing as he said, "Now you know how to beg for mercy? When I asked you earlier if you knew where you went wrong, why couldn't you answer?"
Tao Meiyu gripped Master He's hands tightly with both hands, her eyes bulging, and her legs kicking laboriously.
Seeing that she was about to die, Master He finally released her.
Tao Meiyu fell to the ground, clutching her bruised neck and gasping for breath.
Master He took out a long whip from his waist, then untied his belt and looked at her coldly, saying, "My dear concubine, it's time for you to serve me."
As soon as he finished speaking, he lashed out with a whip at Tao Meiyu.
Tao Meiyu backed away while crying.
Not long after, pitiful screams came from her room.
The maids and servants in the mansion glanced slightly in the direction of her courtyard, then quickly went back to their work as usual.
After one night, Tao Meiyu was unable to get out of bed. She endured the pain, dressed herself, and secretly escaped back home when no one in the mansion was paying attention.
Aunt Tao was just about to go out to do farm work when she saw her daughter as soon as she stepped outside.
"Meiyu, what's wrong?"
In the past few days, Tao Meiyu had only reported good news and not bad news. Although Aunt Tao was unwilling for her daughter to become a concubine, she felt much more at ease after hearing that Master He treated her well.
But now, her beloved daughter lies injured at her doorstep.
Tao Meiyu knelt before Aunt Tao, weeping bitterly, and said, "Mother, I was wrong, I really know I was wrong. Please return the money to the He family and bring me back, okay, Mother!"
After she finished speaking, her vision went black and she fainted.
Aunt Tao picked her up and carried her home.
While changing Tao Meiyu's clothes, Aunt Tao discovered that not only did she have bruises on her neck, but her body was also covered in whip marks.
There were also several earrings placed in places where earrings shouldn't be worn.
Aunt Tao burst into tears, heartbroken, "My daughter, how could you have been beaten like this?!"
"Is it Master He?"
"That's a beast!"
Actually, Tao Meiyu's injuries are not nearly as severe as Tao Yaofang's injuries last time.
Tao Meiyu's injury was to her skin and flesh, while Tao Yaofang's injury was to her internal organs.
Both daughters were born of the same mother, and she was heartbroken at this moment, but when Tao Yaofang was beaten last time, she didn't even blink.
She kept cursing Master He as a beast, but she was no different from him, and even worse than a beast.
Tao Meiyu slowly woke up and hugged her mother, still pleading with her to take her back.
Aunt Tao nodded emphatically, "Don't worry, Mother won't let you go back to the He family!"
Not long after, the He family sent people to look for him.
Aunt Tao handed them the thirty taels of silver she had earned from selling the house last time, intending to redeem her daughter.
However, Steward He shook his head, took out his abacus, calculated and said, "Miss Tao has spent a total of seventy taels of silver at our residence these past few days. Adding this thirty taels, you owe us a total of one hundred taels of silver."
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