Chapter 42: A Zhuangzi?!
The Marquis's eyes lit up and she coughed twice lightly outside the window.
The voices in the room stopped immediately. After a few breaths, Chunqi walked out quickly. After seeing the Marquis's wife clearly, she was startled and hurriedly bowed: "This servant greets the Madam."
"Young lady, please get up quickly." The Marquis's wife said with a smile, "Young lady is from the palace. Although she is a servant, her status is different after all. There is no need to be so polite."
"I heard that Madam Xia was ill, so I came to see her. Is Madam Xia feeling better?"
"You were fine, why did you suddenly get sick?" There was a threat in his words, as if he knew the answer but asked anyway.
Chunqi panicked: "Mammy is much better..."
"The Marquis's wife is here. Chunqi, please come in and sit down." Nanny Xia's voice came from inside the room.
The Marquis's wife frowned slightly and sneered in her heart.
She was just a servant, but she relied on being from the palace and acted arrogantly.
He showed no sign of annoyance and walked into the room first with a gentle attitude.
Before she could speak, she covered her nose with a silk handkerchief and said, "Oh, what's the smell in this room? Madam, you are from the palace after all, how come you live in a room like this?"
"The master likes quietness. Although I come from the palace, I am here to serve the master. Naturally, the master must come first in everything." Nanny Xia sat upright on the bed, calm and composed, neither humble nor arrogant.
"That's what I said, but Nanny has served nobles in the palace before, and Yin Yao is also ignorant. How can I really let Nanny do the work of serving others?"
The Marquis's wife was preoccupied with her own plans, not showing any sign of respect for her master. "Madam, are you used to the food and accommodation in the Marquis's mansion?"
"The Marquis' Mansion is ultimately not as good as the Palace. There are some imperfections. Ma'am, please don't take them to heart..."
Even if they come from the palace, they are here to serve people.
Such an elevation is clearly a threat.
Nanny Xia smiled and said, "Madam is always fond of joking. As a servant, how dare I express my dissatisfaction?"
"Since we are ordered to serve the master, let alone the master's leniency, even if the master beats and scolds us, we, as slaves, can only bear it, right?"
"Madam, there's no need to be like this. Just say what you want to say." She gave Chunqi a look.
Chunqi understood and turned around and left.
Seeing this, the marquis's wife also gave her maid a look.
The door closed and Nanny Xia looked at the Marquis's wife quietly.
"I heard what you said just now." The Marquis's wife chuckled, it sounded like a joke, but more like a threat.
Nanny Xia: "This servant has some dissatisfaction with the master. Although it is disrespectful, it is not a serious crime. Even if I say it to the sky, the master will only scold me a few times at most."
"I am, after all, a housekeeper from the palace. I am so old, can the master still beat me?"
"That would be really harsh treatment of the servants, wouldn't it, Madam?"
What you mean is that you want to take control of her just by hearing her complain a few times?
That's not possible!
"Look at what you're saying, Madam." The Marquis's wife's smile faded. "Even a foot-washing maid from the palace would be respectable enough outside, let alone Madam's status."
"This lady has no other intentions. I just think that what Madam said is right. The Marquis's Mansion is not like the Palace. There is no money to be made there. Madam..."
"Madam." Nanny Xia interrupted her euphemism with feigned impatience: "If you have something to say, just say it directly."
Madam Hou: “…”
"Okay, don't speak in code in front of others." The Marquis's wife no longer had any intention of winning him over.
The smile on his face faded, and he said expressionlessly: "I was disrespectful to my master. Although it is not a serious mistake, it will be difficult for me to gain his trust again."
"I can't touch Mammy, but Mammy should know what kind of situation a servant who is not trusted by his master is in."
"It would be better if I could make a fortune and retire. I could buy a house, get two maids, and live a comfortable life with good food and drink."
"Being a living god in your own house is more respectable than being a servant, isn't it?"
After saying this, the Marquis' wife was not in a hurry and just waited quietly for Nanny Xia's answer.
When dealing with such an old and cunning person, either don't show it from beginning to end, or hide it clearly.
"Since Madam said so, what do you want me to do?" Nanny Xia asked quickly.
The Marquis's wife said: "Yin Yao doesn't know how to check the accounts, and Nanny is ill and can't do anything. The account books in the mansion have been destroyed, and there are no documents. Even if the imperial edict comes, the amount of money given to Yin Yao is up to me."
"What can this old servant gain?" Nanny Xia finally stood up and poured a cup of tea in front of the Marquis' wife. "A house in Kyoto is not cheap. Old-age care is also a lot of money that goes out without coming in."
"I will grant you a house with three courtyards and give you 10,000 taels of silver." The Marquis's wife raised a finger.
"A farm, plus ten thousand taels of silver." Nanny Xia said calmly, "The farm has its own tenants. If things get tough, we can buy some convict slaves. That's more suitable for retirement than a house where you only leave and never come in."
Madam Hou raised her hand and slammed it on the table: "A Zhuangzi?!"
What a bold idea!
Kyoto is a farm in the suburbs, and it’s not cheap either!
"Yes, and besides, this farm cannot be the one on the eldest lady's list, nor can it belong to the Marquis's Mansion." Nanny Xia didn't care whether the Marquis's wife was angry or not.
He added a condition without thinking: "This old slave wants the manor that has never seen the light of day in Madam's hands."
"This old servant did this out of consideration for Madam. Whether it's the properties on the eldest lady's list or the properties of the Marquis' Mansion, they're all too eye-catching."
"It somehow came into my hands. There's no need to verify anything. It's evidence of my collusion with the Marquis' Mansion."
"If Your Highness doesn't pursue the matter, then that's fine. But if you do, I'll have suffered enough. But who will the Marquisate push to take the blame?"
Once His Royal Highness the Crown Prince investigates, it will be impossible to arrest someone to atone for the crime, and the master will inevitably be implicated.
Qin Yinshi is the Marquis's bloodline, so the Marquis may still show some affection for her, but Madam... how many second wives does a concubine want?
The Marquis's wife understood everything immediately.
Once something happens, trust is no longer 100%.
In the first confrontation with Qin Yinyao, the prince deliberately favored her. Didn’t the Marquis want to use her as a scapegoat?
"Okay." After thinking for a moment, the Marquis's wife nodded in agreement.
Now that things have come to this, she has to leave a way out for herself and save more private money, which is the most important thing.
"I want it now." Nanny Xia continued, "The Marquis's Mansion is rich, I dare not gamble."
"If I hadn't said this to Madam, the best I could do would be to be perfunctory and derelict in my duty. After hearing what Madam said, I have betrayed my master."
"If I don't take the things now and ask for them back later, and Madam turns ruthless, do I have to go before His Highness and expose my crime of betraying my master and die?"
This is the truth.
The Marquis's wife had no intention of defaulting on the debt. She paid it sooner or later, and she was not afraid that Nanny Xia would go back on her word.
After all, Zhuangzi was handed over from her to Nanny Xia, so she had the upper hand over Nanny Xia.
"Madam, please rest assured and recover. I will go back and ask someone to select some supplements and send them to you. The land deeds will also be delivered to you."
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