"Your dowry?!" Unexpectedly, the middle-aged woman kicked her away upon hearing that.
"You are just a concubine of my family, and you still want a dowry?! I tell you, a concubine is a concubine, a slave! Nothing here belongs to you, including this house, it all belongs to me!!"
There were many people watching the fun gathered around.
"Is this Madam Wu causing trouble again?"
"Isn't it? Miss Zhao is pitiful. This yard was left to her by her father. I have seen the dowry inside. It was all saved by her father for her."
"You can't pity her. It's all her own fault. Why would she become a concubine? She got pregnant before she even got married and was kept as a concubine outside. Madam Wu endured the pregnancy for ten months, and now she has someone come to her house to abort the baby when it's a girl!"
"If her father were still alive, I would want to beat her to death. Not only will all the family property go to that Wu guy as a concubine, but I will also be kicked out."
"He's a poor fellow, too."
"It's your own fault."
Liu listened to the discussions of the people around her and gradually figured out the outline of the matter. Then she looked at the young lady Zhao in the crowd, who had just given birth and was kneeling on the ground, begging them with all her might not to throw away her father's relics...
"Mom, what's wrong?"
Shen Qingqiu waited for Liu for a long time but didn't see her, so he came over and held her hand.
Liu held her daughter's hand and shook her head, "Nothing." She didn't dare to look at Miss Zhao again, and quickly left the street with her daughter. After returning home, Liu locked herself in her room, thinking about what she had seen today.
If she were a concubine, she would not be able to see what the best outcome would be.
But she had experienced bad endings before, and she had seen the worst ending today.
Maybe the Marquis Gu's Mansion was not like the Wu family's Madam Wu who was attracted to a small embroidery tower like hers, but the Marquis Gu's Mansion was a place as deep as the sea. She was simply blinded by love in the past few days. The small Shen family had already made her walk on thin ice. Did Hai want to enter the Marquis Gu's Mansion as a concubine?
It was as if a basin of cold water was poured on her body, and Liu finally woke up.
Why should she continue to be someone's concubine? She has a daughter and an embroidery house, and she can support herself and her daughter with dignity. Why should she live under someone else's roof?
I won't be a concubine anymore! Liu clenched her fists and gradually calmed down.
——
After Gu Yong returned to the capital, he had been dealing with the capital's affairs. He never expected that in just less than two months, the beauty who had already matured into a beautiful woman would fly away again.
He was thinking about Liu, and he never saw any of his concubines again after returning to the mansion. After settling all the affairs in the court, he took his subordinate Li Biao to Liu's house.
"My Lord, my Lord is here!"
As soon as Gu Yong arrived, Mother Chen happily entered the house to tell Liu the good news. Mother Chen was naturally a little worried because there was no news about Gu Yong during this period. Although Liu had made some money these days, she still felt that it was good for a woman to have someone to rely on, not to mention such a big backer as Marquis Gu.
Is there a Marquis Gu who is afraid of jumping up and down from the Jade Tower in the future?
Shen Qingqiu glanced at her mother.
Liu frowned, biting her red lips, as if she was struggling with something. After a moment, she said, "No."
"What?" Mother Chen thought she had heard it wrong.
Liu made up her mind and felt relieved. "Mom, just tell him I'm sick and won't see any visitors." Mother Chen said anxiously, "How do you look sick? Madam, listen to my advice. A man like the Marquis can't just throw tantrums at will..."
Mother Chen just thought that Liu was angry because Gu Yong didn't come to see her during this period.
"Mother Chen, I asked you to go!" Liu said in a heavy voice.
She was always gentle, but her voice suddenly became heavier. Mother Chen stopped talking, knowing that she had made up her mind not to see Gu Yong, and she sighed. She did not go against Liu's wishes, and turned around to go back to Gu Yong.
"Mother?" Shen Qingqiu looked up at her, "Don't you like the Marquis? Have you changed your mind?"
Liu laughed and said, "You are just a kid, who can tell you what you like or don't like?"
Shen Qingqiu thought: I have eyes, I'm not blind.
"Mother has had enough of being a concubine." Liu sighed.
She knew that being a concubine in the Marquis's mansion would not be a hard life, but in a noble family, concubines were all concubines. She was a concubine, and Qiu'er was already a concubine. After all, she had finally left the Shen family, and she was going to degenerate into someone else's concubine, and let her daughter be looked down upon by others? "Are you sick?" Gu Yong frowned at the door.
"What's the disease? Is it serious? I'll go and take a look." Gu Yong said as he was about to go in.
"Madam is just not feeling well. She will be fine after lying down." Mother Chen smiled bitterly and evaded the question. Although Gu Yong was a military commander, he was not a careless person. He knew something was wrong from the look on Mother Chen's face. Although he liked Liu, she changed her mind every day. She just said she was willing to marry him, but now she didn't want to see him.
According to Gu Yong's personality, he should have rushed in directly to find out what the woman's situation was.
But then he remembered how gentle and considerate she was when she applied medicine to him when they were leaving, so he endured it.
"Since you are not feeling well, take good care of yourself. I will come back another day."
When Liu heard Mother Chen's report that Gu Yong had passed away, she breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't know whether she felt more relaxed or more disappointed.
"If you regret it, the Marquis is not far away." Mother Chen said tentatively.
Liu just shook her head.
"Girl, girl, there are guests coming!"
"Has the Marquis returned?" Mother Chen asked hurriedly. Although Liu shook her head, she couldn't help but hold her handkerchief tightly when she heard Jin Cai say that the Marquis had come.
Jin Cai shook her head, "It's for our Seventh Miss!"
Shen Qingqiu turned over in her chair, "Come to see me?" She had no acquaintances in the capital during this period.
Jin Cai swallowed her saliva, not knowing what she saw, and her expression was unspeakable, "Miss, go and have a look, there are quite a few people gathered at our door!" Seeing her like this, Shen Qingqiu became curious, jumped off the chair and walked to the door. Liu and Chen Mama were worried, so they followed.
As soon as Shen Qingqiu walked to the door, she saw a bloody scene as soon as she opened the door! If it was just ordinary blood, it would be fine. She had seen many broken legs and arms, but it was a dead pig with its eyes wide open! Then she saw Tu Jiu, who had been seen in Yulou before, took back the pig's head and bowed respectfully to Shen Qingqiu, "Miss Liu, Tu Jiu comes to pay his respects to you!"
Liu was the mistress of the Liu family's embroidery building, so Tu Jiu naturally thought that Shen Qingqiu also had the surname Liu.
"Become my disciple?" Shen Qingqiu looked at the burly man in front of him.
"Of course!" Tu Jiu said respectfully to the young master.
Tu Jiu had not been defeated since he became a master, but it was unprecedented that he was beaten to the point where he could not stand up by a seven-year-old girl. He tossed and turned at night and could not sleep. In his dreams, he saw the girl using the same moves as him. However, he discovered some details in his dreams, such as the cleverness of the girl's strength.
For example, every time she tiptoes or waves her hand, everything is methodical!
Otherwise, no matter how strong a seven-year-old girl is, how can she move to someone who weighs dozens of times more than her?
Tu Jiu was born into a wealthy family, and he practiced martial arts just because he liked it. Now there is such a big Buddha in front of him, and he comes to become his disciple with sincerity. He has fulfilled all the formalities, and only hopes that the master will forgive the past and accept him.
Shen Qingqiu looked at the pig in his hand that died with its eyes wide open, then looked at the people following Tu Jiu, who were carrying boxes on their shoulders.
His eyebrows raised slightly, "Do you really want to take me as your master?"
"I really want to learn skills from my master!" Tu Jiu stood up straight.
Shen Qingqiu had not thought of taking in a disciple at first, but after taking a look at Tu Jiu, who had tiger eyes and a bronze back, he decided that it would be okay to find a free guard to look after the house. Anyway, with her skills, she was good enough to be taken in as a disciple.
"Okay, then let's follow the rules." Shen Qingqiu said.
Tu Jiuhu's eyes lit up with joy, and he immediately reached out to the people behind him, and the group of people carried the things into the Liu family's yard. Liu and Chen Mama were both stunned when they saw the pig's head, and then they looked at the man holding the pig's head and said to them, "This must be Master's Wife, I will pay my respects to you later, and then ask the kitchen to stew this pig's head for you to nourish your body."
Liu, who was a few years younger than Tu Jiushang but whom he called Master’s Wife: …
Everyone placed the pig's head on the shore, and put up the incense table. After the chairs were set, Shen Qingqiu sat down.
Tu Jiu threw off his robe and knelt down in front of his master, leaving dirt all over the floor. Liu was startled, and after watching for a long time, she finally realized that it was her daughter who was accepting a disciple. But she always felt that Tu Jiu had a fierce and evil aura, which made people scared - and wouldn't he feel ashamed to take a child as his master? "Don't take this child's play seriously. If this gentleman really wants to learn something -"
Before Liu finished her words, Tu Jiu glared at her, "How could I be such an unfaithful person! She said she wanted to accept me, and I said I wanted to be your disciple, so we are master and disciple! I, Tu Jiu, will never betray my trust in my life!" He kowtowed three times to Shen Qingqiu and offered her tea.
Because my teacher was still young, I soaked candied dates in the tea with sugar, so it tasted sweet.
"Good disciple."
After taking a sip of tea, Shen Qingqiu felt that this disciple was more to his taste.
Liu couldn't bear to see her daughter's obedient disciple. She felt scared after just one look and hurried back to her room to rest. Shen Qingqiu drank a few sips of tea, ate a few snacks, waved his hand and told his disciple to leave.
Unexpectedly, Tu Jiu just stood there looking at her, and finally revealed a shy smile.
Shen Qingqiu: "Well?"
"My disciple wants to become your disciple, so I can't stay in the Jade Tower any longer."
"so……"
"I, along with my fellow disciples, have come to you for help!"
Shen Qingqiu looked at Tu Jiu's brothers behind him, more than a dozen burly men... How could they fit into the small courtyard of the Liu family!
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