Chapter 63: Showing off in Tingfeng Pavilion
When the maids and servants in Old Madam Song's yard broke into Tingfeng Pavilion, Liu Qingyin was still recuperating in bed.
The two maids who usually treated Liu Qingyin with respect started rummaging through the drawers as soon as they came in.
Liu Qingyin's maid Xue'er immediately stopped them with red eyes, "What are you doing!"
"The girl is still recovering from her illness, what are you doing rummaging through her things?"
Could it be that the Song family is so shameless that they want to take advantage of the girl's serious illness to seize all of her family wealth?
Aunt Gao beside Old Madam Song smiled, but her words lacked much respect, and she even acted a bit pretentiously. "Miss Xue'er, we are only following the Old Madam's orders to ask Miss Qingyin to borrow a bracelet."
Grandma Gao thought simply.
After all, Miss Qingyin will marry her own general in the future.
Aren’t these things belonging to Miss Qingyin the general’s things?
Normally, Miss Qingyin is very respectful and filial to the old lady. It is impossible for Miss Qingyin to ignore her just now when the old lady needs her to help her out of an urgent need!
Xue'er spat at Grandma Gao, "Bah! How could the old lady let you, an old hag, do such a robbery? You must have acted on your own!"
"You think our girl is sick, so you want to come to our Tingfeng Pavilion to do some petty theft? What are you still standing there for? Drive out this old woman who is using the old lady's name to bully others!"
The servants of Tingfeng Pavilion were the ones who had followed Liu Qingyin to the General's Mansion, and they were not servants of the Song family.
How could they allow this group of people to bully their master like this?
He immediately pushed and tried to throw Grandma Gao out.
Grandma Gao immediately lost her patience. Humph, Liu Qingyin is just a parasite living in the Song family with both her parents dead. How dare her maid give her such a hard time?
She slapped Xue'er in the face, "Bah! Little hoof!"
"How dare you ruin the reputation of the girl and the old lady?"
"Search them all! I'm here on the old lady's orders! I'll take responsibility for anything that happens!"
Normally, the servants of the Song family never treated Liu Qingyin as a proper master, but recently Liu Qingyin was either disfigured or beaten by the emperor.
Even the old lady didn't like her very much anymore.
After receiving the order from Grandma Gao, they acted like dogs and began to search things in Liu Qingyin's room in a brazen manner, and even started to push and bully Liu Qingyin's maid.
"cough……"
Liu Qingyin's face was pale. She was awakened by the chaotic noise. She opened her eyelids with difficulty and looked at everything in front of her in confusion. "What...what's going on?"
"Oh, the girl is awake? The girl in Tingfeng Pavilion has no manners. She has to wake the girl up for such a small matter."
Grandma Gao started to shirk responsibility, completely ignoring the fact that she and a group of people had woken Liu Qingyin up by making a lot of noise.
"Don't be afraid, young lady. I'm just here to borrow something from you on the old lady's orders. Since you're seriously ill, you should just go back to sleep."
As she spoke, she sat down beside Liu Qingyin's bed and perfunctorily pulled the quilt over her.
However, it would not have been a big deal if she had not pulled the quilt. But when Liu Qingyin stretched out her hand to grab it, she unexpectedly let Madam Gao see the jade bracelet that she had searched all the boxes and cabinets for but could not find.
"Oh, this bracelet is actually here! I've been searching for it for ages!"
Grandma Gao grinned with joy and was about to take the jade bracelet off Liu Qingyin's wrist.
"Don't worry, young lady. I'm just borrowing this jade bracelet. I'll return ten or eight of the same to you tomorrow!"
This attitude is not borrowing, it is clearly robbery.
Liu Qingyin pulled her hand back with force, and with strength from somewhere, she pushed Grandma Gao away.
"No!"
"This jade bracelet is mine, no one can take it away!"
This jade bracelet carries the past of Su Tan being humiliated by Song Tingchen in front of her. It is a symbolic token of Song Tingchen's choice of her over Su Tan.
It has witnessed so many moments that she is reluctant to forget, how can she give it to others so easily!
Grandma Gao's eyes immediately turned cold. "Young lady, you have always been sensible, unlike the previous lady!"
"The old lady is in trouble right now and needs your jade bracelet to help her out of an emergency. What's wrong with you borrowing it?"
Liu Qingyin bit her lips tightly and kept coughing while being supported by the maid, but she didn't dare to get angry at the moment, and just forced a smile.
"Aunt Song, if you encounter any difficulties, please tell me. If it can be solved with money, I will raise the money for Aunt Song even if I have to eat coarse grains and vegetables."
Grandma Gao thought that there would be a tough battle to fight in Tingfeng Pavilion today, but she didn't expect Liu Qingyin to say this.
She frowned and told Liu Qingyin about the shameless beggars from the Su family who were asking for her dowry. "The old lady really likes that set of screens, but they are asking for 68,000 taels, and we are still short of 4,000 taels."
Liu Qingyin suddenly felt a pain in her flesh, as if someone had cut her with a knife, but she still closed her eyes, bit her lip, and ordered her maid Xue'er: "Go to my private storehouse and get four thousand taels for Madam."
Xue'er was stunned for a moment, "Miss!"
The Song family is clearly a huge hole, and Old Lady Song is an ungrateful person. The young lady has invested so much money, but Song Tingchen has not shown any intention of marrying her.
Why should Miss...
"Xue'er, be obedient!"
Liu Qingyin frowned tightly, but after a moment, her brows relaxed and she smiled at Grandma Gao.
"The maids in my yard are ignorant and have made Madam laugh."
She ordered Xue'er to reluctantly grab a handful of reward money and give it to Grandma Gao.
Grandma Gao took the silver with a smile on her face, but her heart was filled with more contempt.
She had said long ago that Miss Liu and that Su guy were both profiteers.
At least the surname Su is of noble status.
Miss Liu is the daughter of a merchant. If her father had not saved the general by chance, she would never have been able to climb up the ladder of the general's mansion in her life.
Grandma Gao took the silver note worth four thousand taels and left.
Xue'er's eyes turned red with anger.
"Miss, why are you encouraging their arrogance?"
"How much silver has been poured into the pond over the years? If this were thrown into the pond, it would still make a sound!"
Liu Qingyin's eyes were sinister. She took a deep breath and asked Xue'er, "Have you prepared what I asked you to prepare?"
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