Rebirth of an Abandoned Woman

"Eldest young master..." The housekeeper was a little embarrassed, and looked towards Sang Wan as if asking for help.

Sang Wan knew that Shi Fengju was intending to boil and dry Shi Fengming, so she smiled at the housekeeper, "Go down quickly, and you can say what the young master tells you! Second young master, remember to ask someone to wait for you." Keep an eye on the door, don't tell him to make trouble again!"

"Yes." The housekeeper had no choice but to take orders.

Shi Fengju acted as if nothing had happened, ordered Liu Ya to turn on the lamp, and sorted out all kinds of documents under the lamp. Over there, Feng Ming had been eagerly looking forward to his eldest brother coming to talk to him since the night before, and he was impatient and couldn't see his shadow, so he couldn't bear to order someone to invite him. Unexpectedly, looking forward to the autumn water, it is only the housekeeper who is looking forward to it.

"Where's my elder brother? When will he come?" Shi Fengming lay on the lattice window, stood on tiptoes, squinted his eyes and looked towards the corridor behind the housekeeper.

When Fengming got angry, the housekeeper took two steps back subconsciously, and smiled with him: "Later, the old slave will call for water, so the second young master should wash up and go to bed first! The young master is busy right now, so I just I'm afraid I won't have time to see the second young master."

"Busy?" Shi Fengming's eyes flashed sharply, "Are you really going to send a message?"

"Second Young Master!" The housekeeper was taken aback, "Even if this old servant has the guts to lie to Second Young Master! That's what Eldest Young Master really said!"

Shi Fengming was both disappointed and depressed, thinking about it, it was possible, how could he not be busy during the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce? After thinking for a while, he said, "Then what about my sister-in-law? You can call my sister-in-law here, right?"

The butler was taken aback, and thought that the young master must be angry if he wanted to go again, so he hurriedly said with a smile: "Grandma is waiting by the young master's side, and there is no time!"

Shi Fengming became annoyed, stared at him and shouted: "Get lost!"

The housekeeper wiped off his sweat, and retreated in panic.

On the other side of Cuiliu Hutong, Su Qing'er sent Xiaolian to a small restaurant nearby to buy a few dishes, and the master and servant used them at will. Seeing the sky gradually darken, thinking of the landlord's words, she couldn't help feeling a little trembling in her heart. He hurriedly closed all the doors of the courtyard and the room, and took a rest early.

Su Qing'er was lying on the bed, where could she sleep, recalling that Feng Minglang and his concubine were hugging each other sweetly at the same time last night, and in a blink of an eye, she was alone in bed and cold on the pillow, so desolate, she couldn't help feeling even more melancholy. There was no man in the house, and it seemed to be different immediately, as if there were dangers hidden everywhere in the darkness, which made her terrified and afraid to sleep.

After tossing and tossing around midnight, Su Qing'er closed her eyes vaguely and fell asleep. In my sleep, I suddenly heard a shrill cry: "It's not good! It's on fire! It's on fire! Come and put out the fire!"

Su Qing'er was so startled that her heart was about to jump out, she sat up on the bed at once, but seeing the shadows outside seemed to be reflected in the fire, she screamed and sat on the bed, shouting loudly: "Xiao Lian! Xiao Lian! Get up, get up! Go out and have a look!"

Xiao Lian rubbed her sleepy eyes and got up from the ground, wrapped herself in a coat and kicked out, and ran in panic after a while, "Miss, Miss! It's not good, it's not good! It's our place that's on fire, miss hurry up!" Run for your life!"

Xiao Lian was so startled that her teeth were chattering, and she was frantically putting on clothes and skirts.

"You read that right!" Su Qing'er felt a chill in her heart.

"Miss, that's right! Let's go, it will be too late!" Xiao Lian cried.

Suddenly thinking of Shi Fengju, Su Qing'er gritted her teeth with hatred and immediately understood. She hurriedly got out of bed and dressed, wrapped up the only jewelry and some clothes left, and went out with Xiaolian.

"Hurry up to put out the fire!", "It's terrible!" All kinds of voices were chaotic and noisy, and the yard door had been knocked open from the outside at some point, and countless people were running back and forth with buckets. A raging fire was ignited, and it had already extended to the west wing room, and it would soon burn through the main room, and the flames lit up half the sky red.

"Miss! Let's run for our lives!" Xiao Lian cried and pulled Su Qing'er to run outside.

"Wait!" Su Qing'er grabbed her and whispered, "You're crazy! We can't go out, we have to escape through the back door. If the landlord comes over, we won't be able to leave!"

Xiao Lian was startled and then realized that when the landlord came and saw this, they must pay for it. She couldn't help turning pale, and nodded hurriedly: "Miss, you are right! Back door, let's go through the back door!"

Unexpectedly, the master and servant hadn't taken two steps when they heard a rush of footsteps approaching from a distance, and one of them shouted in a high voice: "Watch me everywhere, don't let this bitch escape!"

Su Qing'er was shocked, and pulled Xiao Lian to hide in the shadows and hurried towards the back door.

Unexpectedly, someone was already waiting at the back door, and a torch was shining brightly. Su Qing'er and Xiao Lian were caught off guard by the landlord.

"Okay little bitch, you really want to escape!" The landlord pointed at Su Qing'er and cursed angrily. With a wave of his hand, several people stepped forward like wolves and took down Su Qing'er's master and servant.

"What do you want to do!" Su Qing'er struggled in shock.

"What are you trying to do!" the landlord gritted his teeth and scolded, "Of course it's compensation! You little bitch, what's wrong with my wife if your man ran away, you vent your anger on my mother's house! Such a big yard is going to be set on fire by you!" If you are naked, you still want to escape!"

"It's none of my business!" Su Qing'er clearly knew that the argument was indisputable, but she was willing to endure injustice for nothing, and said angrily: "Heaven and earth conscience, our master and servant are sleeping in the room and don't know anything, we didn't set this fire! "

"It's not you, who is that?" The landlord sneered.

"How do I know!" Su Qing'er was annoyed.

The landlord looked up to the sky and yelled, spread his hands, and said in a strange voice: "I don't know, then tell me who should I go to? You live in this house! If I don't ask you, who do I go to!"

"What, what are you doing! What's going on here!" The soaring fire had already alarmed the patrolling soldiers, and the policemen in the yamen also arrived at this time, and while organizing the crowd to put out the fire, they were looking for the owner of the house.

"My lord, you came at a good time! This house belongs to the old man, and this little bitch rented out the old house and started a fire and wanted to escape in fear of crime? Thankfully, the old man was smart enough to catch her!" The landlord saw Zhang hurriedly stepped forward and said.

"My lord, I am wronged! This fire was not set by the little girl, she was wronged!" Su Qing'er looked pitifully at the policeman in charge. Under the shadowy firelight, she looked delicate and timid, and her eyes were as bright as mist, and she looked so pitiful.

The landlord saw that the policeman looked at Su Qing'er with two points of fascination, and couldn't help but secretly hate, gave Su Qing'er a bitter "bah", pointed at her and said: "You shameless little girl!" Bitch, who are you showing this vicious look to? There are no angels in our city of Hangzhou, you are an adult who has never seen the world! Don’t try to get away with tricks! The fire clearly started from the kitchen Yes, you must have accidentally left fire at night! Besides, if you didn’t do it, why did you run away! Take a look, my lord, you even took your bags, and you didn’t say go out to fight the fire, but just watched and went through the back door Luckily, I came here quickly, otherwise, tell me to ask someone to pay for it!"

Su Qing'er's face turned pale with anger, "You, you are making unreasonable words! It's really none of my business, I was wronged!"

The landlord sneered, "Then why are you guilty? Why are you running away?"

Su Qing'er was speechless, and said in a moment: "I, I was just afraid that you would wrong me and blame me for paying me money, so I—"

"Sure enough, you are guilty of being a thief!" The landlord clapped his hands and cut her off: "If you are innocent, why are you afraid of being wronged! Adults will make a clear judgment! You are an adult who is confused!"

Su Qing'er couldn't argue with her words, she wanted to die. There was a momentary impulse that made her almost tell Shi Fengju, but she was still a little rational and held back forcefully.

Don't say she doesn't have any evidence, even if she has, can she win Shi Fengju? If it is said that Shi Fengju came, people will inevitably ask him why he wanted to harm you like this? Then she can no longer hide the fact that she seduced Shi Fengming, abandoned her parents and his wife and ran away from home.

Su Qing'er burst into sobs and sobbed, shouting "wronged" over and over again, while the landlord sneered from the sidelines, scolding "stinky bitch" and "little bitch" countless times.

The leading arrester got impatient and shouted, "That's enough! Come with me, and you will make a clear decision when you get to the yamen!" After saying that, he waved his hand: "Take them all away!"

Su Qing'er was startled, all the officials could not help but go forward and detained them, but the landlord cooperated closely, and said with a smile: "Don't trouble your lords, I will go on my own! I am also intending to ask the masters of Futai to make the decision! "

When the sky turned white, the fire was finally rescued. Fortunately, the surrounding houses were not affected, and only this yard was burned down. The neighbors around were relieved, but when the landlord found out, they jumped up and cursed at the bad luck.

After the trial in court, Su Qing'er had to plead guilty and make amends. The fire started from the kitchen. The most likely reason is that their master and servant accidentally left the fire, and she couldn't find evidence to the contrary, so she could only admit it.

The landlord, Lion, opened his mouth. The cost of brick and wood materials for reconstruction, decoration costs, furniture loss, labor costs, flowers and trees, etc. was calculated to be a large sum, and the total was 1,800 taels of silver. Hei almost fainted.

Su Qing'er refused to pay so much, but only offered five hundred taels. The landlord's eyes almost burst into flames, and he stared at Su Qing'er like copper bells. Of course, he firmly disagreed. The two almost quarreled again in the courtroom.

This was a simple matter, but the Master Futai didn't have much patience. Seeing that both of them were not easy-going lamps and were too lazy to mediate, hearing them making noise was really disturbing, and he slapped the gavel. The judge sentenced 1,500 taels to withdraw from court. Although the landlord had regrets, he could barely accept it and kowtowed to thank him. Su Qing'er was shocked and angry but unable to speak alone, so she had to admit it.

Su Qing'er only had a little jewelry left by her side, and the cash was only one hundred taels that she pawned the gold hairpin yesterday, which was still far away.