"Who on earth is so bold as to hit me?" Mrs. Jin rubbed her aching forehead and roared at the surrounding high walls.
Lu Qingyan bowed and said, "Mother Jin, please wait. I can go back by myself." After leaving the courtyard, Lu Qingyan carried the magpie on her shoulder and disappeared in a flash.
As soon as Mrs. Jin turned around in the courtyard, she saw the man standing behind her with a dark face.
The man gritted his teeth and said, "Mother Jin, let's have a proper talk. Why am I not worth 100,000 taels?"
"Young Master." Madam Jin called out to the man. She was about ten years older than him and had practically watched him grow up. She had also taken care of him for a period of time.
Therefore, this person was not only her master, but also a family member to her.
“Young Master, the Ghostly Demon is now on par with you. He earns at least 20,000 taels per mission.”
"That's because he doesn't know how to make money and doesn't know how to raise prices." The man hugged the sheathed sword to his chest, his arms wrapped around it.
"That's why Master Nu says the young master is clueless." Madam Jin said with exasperation, "She is, after all, a girl, and you don't even know how to be flexible and marry her sooner."
The man nearly collapsed to the ground: "Mrs. Jin, you... you said it was a woman?"
He really didn't realize it. He hadn't paid much attention to the servant, but the way the person he was doing business with exuded the dashing air of a chivalrous man from the martial arts world. How could she possibly be a woman?
He thought the man was trying to embarrass him by not wanting to pay so much money, and he almost attacked him with a knife. But then, Mrs. Jin told him that "he" was actually "she." For a moment, the man panicked and blushed. Luckily, the moon wasn't very bright that night, so Mrs. Jin couldn't see his face clearly. If she had known, who knows how she would have teased him?
“You,” Madam Jin shook her head and said, “Such a good opportunity, and you don’t even know how to seize it. Although we don’t know her true identity, she is still the daughter of a respectable family, unlike the women in our Yichun Courtyard. As long as you two are willing to do this, Madam Jin will definitely find a way to bring you together. No matter what the girl’s family situation is, at worst, you two can elope and spend your lives together, which is better than you living such a miserable life.”
The man picked at his ear with his two little fingers: "Mrs. Jin, I think what you're saying is all bad ideas. You know they are daughters from good families, so you should cherish their reputation, instead of letting them follow me around without any status or recognition for the rest of their lives."
Mrs. Jin rolled her eyes at him: "I'm only doing this for your own good. Your father entrusted you to me, so I have to take good care of you. Otherwise, how could I face him—"
"Mrs. Jin!" The man's expression changed instantly: "Don't mention this to me again."
Mrs. Jin didn't dare to say anything more.
"What? He entrusted me to your care? This is just your wishful thinking of repaying a debt of gratitude, and he's just going along with it." The man's face was dark and sullen, as if it could drip water. "If he truly cared about me as his son, he wouldn't have driven my mother to her death and eloped with a woman who knew nothing. I know he doesn't care about me, and you don't need to tell me about his hardships. I don't know where he is now, what he's doing, and I don't want to know, nor do I care to know. Even if he were to appear before me one day, I would not acknowledge him as my father."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
