Chapter 155: Sealing The City for Three Days
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Miss Fu gritted her teeth, her eyes flashing with malice.
“Yes.”
The servants dared not look at her, fearing the angry woman would lash out. Their legs shook.
“So, does that mean Old Madam Pang returned to the Capital for her granddaughter’s wedding?”
“It seems so.”
“Get out!”
The servants left. Miss Fu picked up a nearby teacup and threw it.
“Wang Jiaru, how dare you steal my Brother Long Ji? I won’t let your Wang and
Pang family off the honk”‘
Back in the Haitang Courtyard, Qiao Mai instructed the children to freshen up and rest. She then went to find the old lady.
However, Old Mistress Wang had not returned. Upon inquiring, Qiao Mai learned that she had gone to visit her elder brothers at her maiden home.
She had no choice but to return to her courtyard, freshen up, change her clothes, and brew some tea.
A person like Miss Fu was bound to seek revenge. Not getting what she wanted, she would continue causing trouble.
Qiao Mai didn’t want any trouble. She had come to enjoy herself and broaden her children’s horizons. She wanted to live a peaceful life.
But today, she was angry. She was furious!
First, her daughter’s hairpin was snatched, and then they were chased out of the restaurant. The Fu family was something else!
There was no need to inform the old lady about this; she could handle it herself.
The Fu family’s discipline was lacking, leading to the upbringing of such a shameless woman. Qiao Mai decided to teach both the woman and the family a lesson.
Old Mistress Wang and her husband returned late, likely having enjoyed some drinks at the Pang family. They slept immediately upon returning.
The kitchen sent six dishes and a soup with steamed buns as the main course for dinner. After the children had eaten their fill and slept, Yue Hong and Yue Xia wanted to clear the table, but Qiao Mai insisted they rest.
Qiao Mai sat alone in the courtyard. Although it was September in the southern part of the Capital, the evening felt cool.
The night breeze rustled, and the bright moon in the sky quickly disappeared behind a layer of dark clouds.
Qiao Mai gave the children’s room a light sedative to ensure they slept soundly. Once they were deeply asleep, she moved them all into her space.
Wearing her night clothes, she ventured out into the Capital at this late hour.
She didn’t know the Fu family’s location, but she knew that anyone with status and wealth in the Capital lived in prosperous areas with large mansions and grand entrances.
With her cultivation, searching household by household wasn’t tough.
Qiao Mai was diligent and thorough in her search. Eventually, she found it in the middle of the night.
She first confirmed the rear courtyard and then stood by Miss Fu’s bed, sneering.
She was quite beautiful, but her heart was like a venomous scorpion. Her conduct was even worse than mountain bandits, yet her family indulged her.
Qiao Mai extended her hand to choke her neck but decided against it. Instead, she bought a special pen from the trading platform. The ink it wrote could never be erased, no matter how hard she tried to rub it off.
The more she tried to erase it, the deeper and clearer the color was. It was perfect for a woman like her.
Qiao Mai uncapped the pen and wrote the words “Bitch”, “Cheap” and “Spoilt.”
She threw the pen cap into her space, swept through her room for any valuable items, and then left.
After checking the time, she conducted a thorough sweep of the Fu family’s residence before departing with a sense of satisfaction.
Although Qiao Mai had gathered quite a haul during this sweep, it was nowhere near enough to shake the deep-rooted foundations of the Fu family. It was merely a lesson for them.
Before departing, she left a note on the pillar in front of the Fu family’s living room.
“Evildoers will meet their doom. This is a warning. If you don’t mend your ways, it will cost a life next.”
The next day, the Capital was in chaos. The Fu family reported a theft, and all the officials from the court and the guards on patrol were dispatched.
Miss Fu liked to sleep in, but due to the turmoil in her household, she got out of bed in a huff.
“Chun Feng, Dong Xue, why are you two making such a fuss?
The two maids were waiting outside and rushed in upon hearing her voice.
“Miss, it’s bad!”
Before they could finish their sentence, they saw the writing on her face and screamed in shock.
“Miss, your face, your face!”
Miss Fu rolled her eyes. “What’s wrong with my face?”
Chun Feng quickly brought a mirror from the dressing table and handed it to her tremblingly.
Miss Fu saw the writing on her face and screamed in horror. She immediately threw the mirror on the ground.
“Who did this? Whose doing is this?”
One maid helped her put on her clothes, and the other prepared water to wash her face.
“What’s happening?”
“We don’t know.”
Miss Fu, irritated and anxious, washed her face. But no matter how hard she scrubbed, the writing’s color deepened and became more distinct.
Panicking, Miss Fu started to cry. “What should I do? What should I do? Which b*stard did this to me?!”
“Miss, the situation outside is chaotic right now. Why don’t you wrap your head in a veil? We need to meet your mother soon.”
“Fine, let’s do that.”
The two maids quickly wrapped her face in a veil, and the three were about to leave when Madam Fu arrived and was shocked by her daughter’s appearance.
“Daughter, what happened to you?”
Miss Fu immediately threw herself into her mother’s arms, sobbing, “Mother, my face!”
“What happened to your face?”
Madam Fu lifted her daughter’s veil and saw the words on her face. She angrily asked, “Who did this? I’ll skin them alive. Quick, wash it off!”
“It won’t come off no matter how much I wash it, Mother.”
Thinking back to last night’s theft, Madam Fu immediately connected it to her daughter’s face.
“Has anything been stolen from your room?”
“I don’t know, Mother. I just woke up and was busy with my face.”
“Quick, let’s check.”
They entered the room and were all dumbfounded. All their gold and silver jewelry had disappeared.
Madam Fu sat on the floor and lamented, “It’s over. Our family is ruined.” “Mother, what happened?”
“Our family’s gold and silver treasures… They’re all gone.”
“Did they steal your dowry too?”
“It’s all gone. Overnight, it’s all gone. Your face… It might have been done by that thief.”
“If they hated our family so much, why didn’t they harm my innocence? Why only write on my face?”
“Perhaps it’s precisely to humiliate you further.”
Madam Fu’s eyes were red. Losing so many things, she couldn’t care less about her daughter’s face.
Still sitting in shock, Miss Fu suddenly burst into tears. “All the precious things I collected are gone. Several items were rare. Even the palace’s concubines might not have had them. My treasures, my treasures!”
The mother and daughter cried together in the room. After crying for a while, Minister Fu came over.
“Why are you crying? Hurry up and make a list of the missing items. This way, the court can investigate. The sooner they find the stolen goods, the better. The city gates have been closed by imperial decree, and the emperor has ordered the city to be sealed for three days for us.”
“Father, is the message in the living room true?”
“That’s nonsense. If the thief dares to come again, watch me peel their skin off. It was our family’s negligence. We thought no one would dare touch us under the emperor’s nose, but we didn’t expect someone would dare to provoke us.”
Hearing that the stolen items might be recovered, they stopped crying and quickly came to the writing desk to write down a list.
Minister Fu looked at his daughter’s strange appearance and asked, “Rong’er, what’s going on?”
“Father, the thief wrote something on my face.”
“Why haven’t you washed it off?”
“I can’t wash it off. The more I try, the clearer the words become.”
Minister Fu gritted his teeth. “Perhaps they used some substance. Don’t worry, daughter. I’ll arrange for a royal physician to come and take a look.”
“Dad, please do it quickly. I can’t leave the house like this.”
“I understand.”
After venting her anger with a trip outside, Qiao Mai returned to her room and enjoyed a leisurely nap. It was only when the sun had risen that she woke up.
Just as she opened her eyes, someone knocked on her door.
“Sister, sister, I’m here.”
Qiao Mai smiled. “Come in..”
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