She was going to be beaten her to death!

Hua Zhi was so scared that her face was pale. She knelt on the ground and kowtowed, “Mother Li, spare me, Mother Li, spare me, this maid, this maid…”

Then she gritted her teeth and said, “It was Miss Zhao who gave me 100 taels of silver and asked me to do something for her.”

It was indeed that Zhao Yunchu!

Mother Li’s face was gloomy, “Tell me everything you have done!”

Hua Zhi shuddered.

Mother Li has been in charge of the backyard for Wang Shi for many years. Hua Zhi knew her methods very well. Now she dare not hide it anymore. “Yes, I say, I say…”

“It was Miss Zhao, oh no, Zhao Yunchu asked me to deliberately put the handkerchief she gave to the Master in the lady’s room, pretending that the Master accidentally dropped it.”

“It was also Zhao Yunchu who asked me to put the medicine in the tea she drank when she came to visit the Lady, so as to frame the Lady for deliberately making things difficult for Zhao Yunchu and make the Master dislike the lady.”

“Zhao Yunchu also asked me to deliberately bring the Lady over when the Master and her were having a tryst, so that the Lady could see the scene of their secret meeting.”

“When the Lady left home, Zhao Yunchu told me to wait for the opportunity on the road, and I must not let the Lady give birth safely…”

“…”

The more Mother Li listened, the uglier her face looked.

Zhao Yunchu was originally the cousin of the Master Qin Zhishang. When Qin Zhishang was just a poor scholar, the two of them often visited each other. Although the two families had not officially discussed marriage, in the eyes of everyone, it was only a matter of time for the two to get married.

But Qin Zhishang was very talented and had a smooth journey in the imperial examination. He won the eighth place in the imperial examination after the spring palace selection. In addition, he was handsome and talented, and became a candidate for the son-in-law of many wealthy families in the capital.

The Wang family was one of them.

Seeing that Wang Shi was fond of Qin Zhishang, Old Master Wang personally decided to arrange the marriage between Wang and Qin Zhishang. Qin Zhishang also rose rapidly in recent years due to the support of the Wang family. Now he was the prefect of a district.

Qin Zhishang and Wang Shi were also in harmony, and they envied others.

Then Zhao Yunchu came.

She claimed that because her family was poor, she came to her yí in order to find a good husband. She also benefited a lot from her aunt since she was a child and wanted to be filial to her yí.

Qin Zhishang’s mother Zhao Shi was very happy and decided to keep Zhao Yunchu. She loved her very much, even more than Wang Shi.

Wang Shi was a daughter of a noble family, so she didn’t care about these things. The relationship between her and Zhao Shi was polite and acceptable. She was happy to be able to make Zhao Shi happy.

But gradually, things were not right.

Zhao Shi always mentioned the past of Qin Zhishang and Zhao Yunchu intentionally or unintentionally, and often talked about Zhao Yunchu’s carefulness and thoughtfulness to Qin Zhishang.

Wang Shi felt depressed, but she thought that this was just the wishful thinking of Zhao Shi, the mother-in-law, and Qin Zhishang was always consistent with her, so it wouldn’t matter.

But soon, Wang Shi found that Qin Zhishang looked at Zhao Yunchu with more tenderness, and often mentioned it. Even the things he got from outside, in addition to those for Zhao Shi and Wang Shi, Zhao Yunchu also had a share.

Whenever Wang Shi asked about Qin Zhishang, Qin Zhishang had only one answer.

Don’t worry, she was just a biǎo mèi.

If she asked too many questions, Qin Zhishang would get impatient.

Wang Shi was aware that there must be something she didn’t know. She was nervous and gradually found many clues. Finally, she saw the scene of Qin Zhishang and Zhao Yunchu having a tryst in the back garden in the middle of the night.

Wang Shi’s questioning resulted in Zhao Yunchu crying for her to help her, Qin Zhishang’s self-righteousness, and Zhao Shi’s persuasion for her to agree to Qin Zhishang taking Zhao Yunchu as a concubine.

As the legitimate daughter of the Wang family, Wang Shi was arrogant and could not accept these. That night, she ordered the servants in the courtyard to pack up her dowry and return to her parents’ home in the capital.

At that time, Wang Shi was already more than eight months pregnant. She was exhausted from the journey, and Wang Shi was depressed because of the matter between Zhao Yunchu and Qin Zhishang. Finally, her amniotic fluid broke early when she passed through Hedong Prefecture, and she suddenly went into labor and encountered a difficult labor.

Wang Shi stepped into the gate of hell, and Zhao Yunchu played an indispensable role.

Mother Li gritted her teeth, the anger in her eyes almost bursting out, “You have always followed the Madam, and the Madam has always been kind to you all, and you did such a thing for a hundred taels of silver?”

“How can you be worthy of the Madam!”

“The Madam treats me well on weekdays, but the Madam is jealous, how can she tolerate me?” Hua Zhi cried with tears in her eyes, but her tone was angry, “The maids who come as dowry in other mistresses’ families have to be promoted to concubines when the mistress is pregnant, but the Madam just holds back and doesn’t let them do anything. She even doesn’t let the maids handle the Master’s personal matters. What’s the reason?”

“I am a slave. If the Madam doesn’t promote me to be a concubine, I can only marry a servant in the future. The children born will still be slaves and serve others all their lives. How can the Madam be so cruel?”

“Zhao Yunchu promised me that as long as she could successfully marry the Master as a concubine, based on the old relationship between him and her, he would definitely dote on her. But the Lady is jealous and has a temper like a spoiled young lady, so she will definitely be disliked by the Master in the future. Sooner or later, she will have the final say in the whole family, and by that time she will definitely recommend me to serve the Master and get a decent status…”

So she took the risk and betrayed her master!

“I really underestimated your ambition!”

Mother Li almost bit her teeth, “Since you are treacherous and want to climb into a man’s bed, I will help you!”

“Tie up this little bitch first, and then find a yazi to sell this ignorant, black-hearted and rotten-bellied bitch! Also make it clear to the yazi that it doesn’t matter how much she’s sold for, as long as he can sell this little whore to the dirtiest brothel and settle her down, I’ll give him fifty taels of silver!”

Since you were so greedy for men, I’ll let you enjoy it to your heart’s content!

Hua Zhi was so frightened when she heard that that she kowtowed and begged for mercy, “Mother Li, please forgive me, I don’t want to be sold to that dirty place!”

“By the way, Madam, Madam, I want to see her. I have served her for so many years. I have no merit but hard work. It’s just a small mistake. Madam will definitely forgive me, Madam, Madam…”

The old women and maids came forward and tied Hua Zhi up. They even stuffed a rag into her mouth because she was noisy.

Hua Zhi struggled for a while, but in the end, she was tied up like a dumpling and couldn’t make a sound. She watched herself being thrown into the woodshed, waiting for the yazi to come and take her away.

Madam was really a jealous person. She couldn’t even tolerate her thoughts.

Biǎo mèi… Humph!

(End of this chapter)

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