Chapter 2338 The County Princess's Identity?
As Shu Yu spoke, she looked at Wei Qin and asked, "Did you board the wrong ship last May? It happened to be the ship that the Cheng siblings were on, so you became their servant?"
Wei Qin was still a little dazed. What had she just heard? Shu Yu said... she was a county princess??
She's a county princess?!
And what about Master Cheng? Aren't they just ordinary wealthy families? How come they have such noble status?
“…Sister-in-law?” Shu Yu looked at her with some concern. “Are you feeling unwell? Why don’t you rest first, and we’ll come back later.”
Wei Qin snapped back to reality. "No, I'm fine."
She swallowed hard. "Are you really a county princess?"
Shu Yu, "..."
She couldn't help but exchange glances with the others in the room, then chuckled, "I am indeed a county princess, but that has nothing to do with our relationship. You'll understand later."
"Oh, oh, oh," Wei Qin quickly replied. "By the way, what did you ask me just now?"
Shu Yu repeated the question, and Wei Qin replied, "Yes, I did get on the wrong ship. After boarding, I hid on the second floor. The third floor is usually for VIPs, but the second floor is where the VIPs' servants live."
Those servants had to serve their masters during the day and weren't in the room, so she was relatively freer.
In particular, the servant in the room where she was hiding happened to be Cheng Jiatong's maid. Cheng Jiatong was unwilling to go to the southwest in the first place, and she had suffered a lot along the way. The maid had to be by her side almost all day to take orders.
She bought some steamed buns and sesame cakes before boarding the ship, and survived on these for three days.
Later, she could only look for food in other parts of the ship. The first two times were fine, but the third time she was caught red-handed by the two maids living in the house.
The maid brought her before the Cheng siblings. Upon hearing that she had been hiding in the maid's cabin, Cheng Wenbao immediately ordered her to be thrown into the water. Previously, Wei Qin hadn't understood why he would kill her without even asking her anything upon their first meeting. After this incident, she understood. Cheng Wenbao must have committed some heinous crime; he probably thought she was hiding on the boat intentionally, so he wanted to silence her.
Although Cheng Jiatong was both stupid and wicked, he didn't dare to take people's lives directly.
She asked Wei Qin about her background and learned that she was going north. She laughed until tears streamed down her face and then told her that this was a ship heading south.
Wei Qin realized at this moment that she had boarded the wrong ship in her panic and immediately wanted to disembark.
But Cheng Jiatong didn't agree. She treated Wei Qin as a joke, not only forbidding her from disembarking and heading north, but also claiming that she had secretly stolen her things.
Wei Qin either had to sign a contract to become her servant, or she would be handed over to the authorities when they docked at the next port.
Wei Qin dared not go to see the officials. She was still nominally the wealthy merchant's wife. If she went to see the officials, she would definitely be sent back to the wealthy merchant's mansion in Huajiang Prefecture and continue to live a dark and hopeless life locked in the backyard.
She had finally escaped, but if she went back, they would surely keep a closer watch on her, and she might never be able to leave the house again or see her son one last time.
She didn't want to sign a contract of servitude and become a servant in the Cheng family, which would also leave her with no freedom.
But she had no choice at the time, and she understood from Cheng Jiatong's implied meaning that signing a contract to sell herself into servitude was probably her only option. If she were sent to the authorities, she might... suffer the same fate.
(End of this chapter)
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