Chapter 39 (1/2)

Chapter 39

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When he went to the house, General Yu, who had just changed his clothes, walked out of the inner room and saw Mu s.h.i.+ lead the people back to the house with a tired face.

Mu s.h.i.+ didn’t seem to see General Yu, and turned her head to Mama Qian and said, “Alright, p.a.w.n my pair of gold dragon beard bracelets for two hundred taels of silver, and then pay Sorceress Bai.”

Mama Qian hesitated and said, “Madam, this is your dowry.”

Mu s.h.i.+ sighed: “Then what can be done? Preserving the reputation of our mansion is important.”

General Yu’s brows furrowed. How come in the three years he was away, the family was dependent on p.a.w.ning Mu s.h.i.+’s dowry?

Seeing that Mama Qian was about to go out, General Yu said, “Hold on!”

Mu s.h.i.+ seemed to have only seen General Yu, and quickly stepped forward: “Master, you are tired from the journey, why don’t you take a break?”

General Yu snorted: “Why should I take a break? I haven’t asked you, in the long time I was gone, why did my house become like this?”

Mu s.h.i.+ sighed, glanced at Mama Qian, and Mama Qian left quietly.

Mu s.h.i.+ helped General Yu sit down on the grandmaster’s chair next to the window and then said: “Master, you don’t know anything. Since this Fourth Lady came through the door, our family has been stretched. I can’t help it. “

General Yu hadn’t been home for long, but this was the second time he heard the words “Fourth Lady,” and he frowned, “Who is Fourth Lady, and where did she come from?”

Mu s.h.i.+ said deliberately with a look of surprise: “Master, have you forgotten? It is the daughter that the dancing girl named Yilan gave to you, whose name is Linglong.”

General Yu then remembered: “Oh, it’s her? Why did she enter the mansion?”

Mu s.h.i.+ said: “Yilan died of an illness a while ago, leaving Linglong alone. She looked pitiful, and I took her into the mansion.”

Mu s.h.i.+’s brazen words erased Yu Linglong’s hard experience in returning to the Yu Mansion, and she said nothing about Yu Linglong’s harsh and cruel abuse. Instead, she pretended to be a very generous mother, as if she was treating Yu Linglong well.

Mu s.h.i.+ looked at General Yu’s face and continued: “Maybe because Linglong grew up outside, she is very persistent, and she has caused a lot of trouble in the mansion recently. Let’s just say that Sorceress Bai originally just came to us to look at Feng Shui in the mansion, but I don’t know what provoked her. She couldn’t get up after being beaten by her. I left Sorceress Bai in the mansion to heal her injuries, but…”

Mu s.h.i.+ sighed deeply: “Master, think about it, this matter is not for us to take care of. What kind of person is Sorceress Bai, and how can she be humiliated like this? I had no choice but to provide food and drink for her. I got a doctor for her, hoping that she would recover from the injury, so I won’t mention this matter. Who knew that Linglong went to Sorceress Bai again today to make trouble and made Sorceress Bai so angry that I had to go over and comfort her for a long time. It’s just this trouble made the Sorceress’s injuries get worse, and she was so angry that she had to make a report. I had to promise to pay her two hundred taels of silver so that she would not talk about it. Otherwise, if she lets the outsiders know about it, the reputation of our mansion will be ruined.”

General Yu frowned, “It’s only two hundred taels of silver. Why do you want to p.a.w.n your jewelry?”

General Yu didn’t really care about Sorceress Bai being beaten by Yu Linglong, but she was a traveling G.o.ddess. If she was injured, she would ask for money and then forget about it. It wasn’t a big deal.

Mu s.h.i.+ said grimly: “Last time Linglong s.n.a.t.c.hed Lord Xu’s horse—”

“What!?” General Yu was surprised, “Whose horse did she steal?”