Although everyone felt that Zheng Yutang was 99% fake, they dared not bet on that 1% chance.
The pimp sighed helplessly, quickly put the letter away, and then turned and walked out.
A letter from home is worth a fortune; Zheng Yutang had grasped at a straw.
[Errand runner activated...]
[Mother Liu: Investing involves risk; proceed with caution. Let's observe first.]
Seeing the pimp leave, Zheng Yutang felt a surge of hope, but the madam remained the same as before. She stood up and said, "I'm busy outside, so I'll be going now."
Realizing the madam was about to leave, Zheng Yutang grabbed her.
"Water, I'm so thirsty." The madam nodded with a smile. "What do you mean by drinking water? You're a young lady of high birth. Mama will have someone bring you some red bean porridge."
Unexpectedly, a little while later someone brought red bean porridge. Zheng Yutang was already starving, and at that moment she practically wolfed down the red bean porridge.
After eating the red bean porridge, Zheng Yutang finally breathed a sigh of relief. She firmly believed that as long as Minister Zheng turned around and saw her handwritten letter, he would be furious and immediately send someone to rescue her!
If the authorities are alerted, forget about the money; the Hundred Flowers Pavilion will be ruined. She'll also file a complaint with the prefect, saying that the man surnamed Zhou is a villain and that the magistrate must skin him alive and tear him to pieces!
She even began to fantasize about how she would cry and plead with her father to severely punish these villains after returning to the Minister's mansion. However, dreams are often grand, but reality is harsh.
Time passed quickly, and most of the day was gone. Zheng Yutang waited and waited, getting up every now and then to look around. The light in the woodshed was getting dimmer and dimmer, it was pitch black. Was it going to get dark soon?
It's not far from the Minister's residence, isn't it? It's about time to come back, isn't it?
Zheng Yutang was filled with anxiety and restlessness. She looked out the door countless times, wondering when she would finally regain her freedom.
She listened intently, each sound of footsteps outside making Zheng Yutang tense. Before long, the madam, Liu Mama, arrived. "Second Miss, why hasn't that pimp returned yet?"
At this moment, the madam's words were still quite polite, but things would be different later. When she didn't see the pimp return, even the madam, Liu Mama, became a little anxious and kept looking around.
Finally, after an extremely anxious wait, the two heard heavy footsteps outside.
The footsteps approached from afar. A moment later, the pimp forcefully pushed the letter away, still clutching it. The moment he saw it, the pimp's face fell.
Looking at the pimp again, he looked gloomy. Zheng Yutang was the first to reach for the letter in the pimp's hand. At the same time, she looked up and noticed that the man's cheeks seemed to be a little red and swollen.
Zheng Yutang was terrified, knowing the situation was probably unexpected, but she still went over and asked in a shrill voice, "How did you bring the letter back? Sir, did you go to my house or not? What did my father say?"
[Zheng Yutang: Heavens, is Father so heartless? I'm still your daughter, after all. It's just a few hundred taels of silver; you can't just ignore it like this, can you?]
It seems that the man not only failed to get any money, but also got beaten up.
[Mother Liu: What's going on? Are you treating me like a monkey?]
Mother Liu was naturally very anxious as well. "What did the Minister say? Tell me quickly!" Upon hearing this, the pimp glanced at the madam.
"Sister Liu," the pimp spat angrily at Zheng Yutang. Zheng Yutang knew the situation was bad; her father probably hadn't given her any money. She didn't have time to wipe the spittle off her face before looking at the pimp. The pimp muttered irritably, "Sister Liu, this woman is a swindler, trying to cheat us."
The madam was furious.
"How so?"
The pimp glared angrily at Zheng Yutang across from him, "As you said, I wasn't worried that going through the front gate would embarrass the Second Miss, so I went to the back gate of the Minister's mansion. I saw a few servants at the gate, and I told them that the Second Miss had sent a letter from the Hundred Flowers Pavilion!"
Hearing this, Zheng Yutang became anxious, "And then? And then?"
Father couldn't possibly ignore it. It was also because he had a bad temper back then. If he tormented this maid today and didn't teach that servant girl a lesson tomorrow, even the nanny and the household servants would suffer as a result.
At this moment, she feared that no one would help her. Zheng Yutang had just considered having someone see her off, but she hadn't thought of this detail.
At this moment, she became nervous. The pimp gritted his teeth and said, "Before I could even finish speaking, several fierce-looking servants rushed out. Without saying a word, they started scolding me. Look at this huge bump on my head! These servants are very powerful. They came up and started lecturing me, saying I was some kind of filthy person who dared to slander the young lady of the Minister's mansion."
He added, "If you dare to spout nonsense about trivial matters again, I'll break your legs! You son of a bitch, you believed someone without even looking at it, and now you've brought it back."
Upon hearing this, the madam's expression changed, and she slapped Zheng Yutang across the face.
Zheng Yutang was stunned, not expecting this to happen. The pimp approached her angrily, grabbed the slumped Zheng Yutang and lifted her up. The pimp pointed to the injury on his face for Zheng Yutang to see.
Raising his voice to almost a roar, he yelled, "You damned bastard, look at this! I was almost beaten to death! What kind of daughter is she, the daughter of a high-ranking official? It's outrageous! Look at the lesson I got..."
Zheng Yutang was shocked. To be honest, she never dreamed that this would happen. She stared at everything in a daze, tears welling up in her eyes.
[To protect the reputation of the Minister's residence, make him physically disappear.]
[Zheng Yutang: Who am I? Where am I? What's going on? Is Father ignoring me?]
[Running errands is risky, delivering mail is unlucky, tsk tsk tsk, this counts as a work injury!]
[Mother Liu: Great! My investment has failed again! This girl has to pay it back double!]
Zheng Yutang couldn't get up for a long time; the news left her stunned.
Even the blood in her body seemed to freeze. Her last hope vanished with this letter. She had thought that sending this letter to her father would be her only lifeline.
Little did she know that these servants from the Minister's mansion would not allow the pimp to come to their home. They even refused to hear her name. Good heavens, what was Zheng Yutang supposed to do?
She was shocked.
"They didn't ask you to go inside?" Zheng Yutang burst into tears. The pimp fiercely picked up the letter, opened it, and threw it in Zheng Yutang's face.
"I haven't been treated badly in years, but I got lectured for delivering this letter to you. This is outrageous!"
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