One sentence touched a nerve with the Yu family head, whose face turned cold and who angrily swept everything on the table to the ground.
"It's one thing for you to act recklessly at home, but even if you do such a shameful thing, I still have to cover for you. Now, however, you have released more than 10,000 young and strong refugees in the city for your own selfish reasons. It seems that I have spoiled you so much that you have no sense of the immensity of heaven and earth."
The head of the Yu family sighed deeply and continued in a cold tone, "During this time, you should let her reflect on her actions and not allow her to step out of the courtyard."
Yu Xunmei looked up at him, her face full of disbelief, "You actually confined me to my quarters for the sake of those servants?"
"Butler Yu!" The Yu family head called in Butler Yu, who was guarding the study door. "Take the young lady back. She is not to come out without my permission."
"Yes, sir!"
Just as Butler Yu was about to reach out to help Yu Xunmei, who was kneeling on the ground, she ruthlessly shoved him away.
"I'll walk by myself!"
Yu Xunmei stormed back to her courtyard.
After the incident last time, her father ordered all the people in her courtyard to be cleared out, leaving only a personal maid sent by her mother.
She had barely stepped into the yard when her mother arrived.
"Amei, why did you make your father angry again?" Mrs. Yu sat on the edge of the bed, looking at her disappointing daughter.
Yu Xunmei lay on the bed, staring wide-eyed at the top of the tent. "I didn't make him angry. They're just a bunch of useless servants."
“How could they be useless? The north is in chaos right now, and a large number of refugees are fleeing south. All the big and small families in the south are taking this opportunity to recruit soldiers. The Fan family of Nanzhou Prefecture has fallen, and now is a good opportunity to strengthen the Yu family. Those were all people your father painstakingly selected, and you let them all go without saying a word. How could your father not be angry?”
Yu's mother kindly advised him.
“There have always been refugees. Is it worth him getting angry at me for such a small number of people? I will never forgive him for cursing me like that,” Yu Xunmei said defiantly.
Yu's mother was at a loss as to how to persuade her daughter, whose personality had gone astray.
“Your father is currently in contact with a prominent family in Cangwu County. I heard him say the other day that he wants to find you a family there. Cangwu is far from Nanzhou Prefecture, so you can settle down and live a peaceful life after you marry into that family.”
Upon hearing this, Yu Xunmei sat up abruptly, staring at her mother with a sinister expression. "Do you think I'm a disgrace to you and have no value to you, so you want to marry me off far away?"
Startled by her sudden appearance, Yu's mother looked away, unable to meet her gaze.
"Don't think too much. Your father would never be that kind of person. That family is a prominent clan in Cangwu County. If you marry into that family, you'll be the matriarch. You won't suffer."
Yu Xunmei gave a cold snort with a forced smile, lay down on the bed, closed her eyes, and said, "I will not marry him. You and Father should give up on that idea as soon as possible!"
No matter how much Yu's mother tried to persuade her, Yu Xunmei kept her eyes closed and didn't say a word or react at all. She could only tell the maid to take good care of her young lady before turning around and leaving.
After her mother left, Yu Xunmei fell asleep while lying down.
She wasn't the type of sheltered young lady who would throw a tantrum at the first sign of trouble; she ate three meals a day on time, never missing a single one.
Three days passed like this. Every day, apart from her mother coming to persuade her to take the initiative to apologize to her father, her father never came to see her once.
Yu Xunmei couldn't sit still any longer and paced restlessly around the room.
Could it be true, as my mother said, that my father really intends to marry me off to Cangwu?
No, she has to find a way to save herself.
That night, after the maid fell asleep, she avoided the guards outside the courtyard and went to a big tree by the courtyard wall. She climbed up the tree, whose branches extended outside the courtyard. When she was a child, she often sneaked out to play when the maid wasn't paying attention.
Using the dim candlelight under the eaves, Yu Xunmei followed the tree branches to the outside of the courtyard wall and slowly slid down.
Having evaded the guards on night patrol, she arrived at the courtyard where her eldest brother lived.
The lights are still on inside; my older brother hasn't gone to sleep yet. That's great!
Yu Xunmei reached the window and peered through the crack. She intended to quietly call her older brother out, but instead, she overheard the two people inside talking about her.
"My dear husband, my sister has been confined to her home by Father for several days. Do you think I should go see her tomorrow?"
Fan Yuejia married into the Yu family during the hundred-day mourning period following her father's death, and her relationship with Yu's mother and sister-in-law was just so-so.
Before marrying into the Yu family, she looked down on Yu Xunmei, a young lady from a secluded family, for her dissolute lifestyle.
Who knew that fate would play such a cruel trick? The person she once looked down upon was now being forced to abandon herself to please her husband.
"Even your mother can't persuade her, so what's the use of you going?"
"Does Father really intend to marry her off to Cangwu County?"
"Originally, Father intended to arrange a marriage with the Zhong family in Huaizhou City. However, the Zhong family somehow found out about my sister's affairs. Some of them even witnessed my sister mingling with the three sons of the Ye family in Yongqing City. They subtly mocked her for being indecent in front of Father and declined the marriage proposal. This caused Father to lose face."
"Then why don't we just let the third son of the Ye family marry the younger sister?" Fan Yuejia suggested.
Yu Shicheng rubbed his temples. Although his sister's matter hadn't spread, everyone in the powerful families of the South knew about it.
"That old fox from the Ye family would never admit to something like this."
"Even the third young master of the Ye family is unwilling?" Lu Jiayue asked in confusion.
Yu Shicheng sneered, "Besides his father, he also has two capable older brothers. When will it be his turn to make decisions?"
That means even the Ye family has no chance.
"My younger sister is young and impetuous, and this matter is indeed difficult to handle."
Yu Shicheng said, "Father has already made contact with the powerful families in Cangwu County. The only solution now is for Amei to marry far away and establish connections in Cangwu County. That would be the best outcome."
Fan Yuejia stood up and stepped forward to massage his temples, her ample breasts brushing against his back as if they were barely there. "Given my sister's personality, I'm afraid she won't agree."
"What can she do if she disagrees? The Yu family has raised her for over a decade; it's time for her to repay the family."
Wearing only light summer clothes, Yu Shicheng felt a little aroused by the friction. He suddenly turned his head and bit Fan Yuejia's chest through her clothes.
Fan Yuejia let out a soft moan, her face flushed with embarrassment. She reached out and wrapped her arms around Yu Shicheng's neck, trying her best to please him, her eyes welling up with tears of shyness.
She was the same; as soon as she entered the household, Yu Shicheng's concubine became pregnant, and she dared not show the slightest dissatisfaction.
If her father were still alive, she would never have suffered such humiliation!
Now, in order to conceive a legitimate son as soon as possible, she has to learn from those courtesans and debase herself.
Then, the sound of teaware being swept off the table and shattering came from inside the room, followed by the unbearable panting of a man and a woman.
Yu Xunmei left with anger and hatred.
All affection is fake in the face of profit; it's just a way to sell her for a higher price!
They're now thinking of marrying her off far away before her reputation gets out, in order to gain even greater benefits.
She was unwilling to accept it!
She wanted to escape, but where could she escape to?
She had nothing left; the maids and servants who used to serve her, and the guards who followed her, had all been replaced.
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