NOVEL TRANSLATION: HER LADYSHIP'S SCHEME

CHAPTER 015. MADAM JIN'S DEDUCTION

Author : 鬼月幽靈 (Guî Yuè Yōulíng)

Translator : Helena Nasution (WhiteSky)

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Yao Banxia squinted her eyes slightly, looking at the scene of deep love between mother and son, but she actually felt very uncomfortable inside.

How could the four siblings in such a miserable situation in their previous life if they were not deceived by Madam Jin and her family?

Looking at Banxia's cold expression, Madam Jin was sure that it was Banxia who insisted on punishing Cangzhu severely, so she deliberately provoked the relationship between the brother and sister.

So Madam Jin was pretending to say: "Banxia, ​​please beg your father to let go off your third brother!"

"Mother, one should be punished for one's mistakes. Third brother is the one in the wrong, so Father is right to punish him."

Sure enough, when Yao Banxia said this, Cangzhu was so angry that he stood up and pointed at Banxia and shouted: "Are you really my biological sister? Why are you trying to harm me when you just come back?"

Yao Banxia looked at this incompetent brother coldly. She felt helpless, whether she really wanted to harm him or not, he will definitely know in the future.

Marquis Yao was extremely angry, pointed at Cangzhu and shouted: "You, you ungrateful thing, come and give him a beating, beat him hard."

Then, several servants stepped forward, pressing down on Cangzhu. After a while, one can hear the sounds of planks intermittently.

"Ouch, ouch..." Cang Zhu's wailing sound instantly echoed throughout the yard.

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In the afternoon, Yao Banxia raised her eyes and glanced at the window sill outside.

Before long, Shaoyao came back and said: "Miss, they went too far. They obviously haven't allocated to us monthly allowance, but they said they have."

Seeing Shaoyao's face and neck were red in anger, Banxia just closed her eyes gently.

Because of her rebirth, many things are also changing.

For example, in the previous life, in order to make herself looking good and generous, Madam Jin gave everything the best for her, including a lots of money.

But now, Madam Jin has begun to deduct her monthly allowance. She wanted to use money to restrain Banxia.

"Miss, what should we do? How about we go to the master and complain?"

Yao Banxia opened her eyes and shook her head: "Since she dared to withhold the monthly allowance, she is naturally fully prepared. If we go there now. We will definitely fall into her trap."

"Then, how can we live without money?" Shaoyao scratched her head and looked at Banxia, looking confused.

"Miss, I went to the kitchen to get our food, vegetables and meat for this month, but the kitchen said they had already been given."

Xiangzhu came and huffed, holding a note in her hand.

Banxia took the note and saw that it was undoubtedly her signature.

She frowned slightly. The account books in this mansion had special marks.

She remembered that when they were in the country, Madam Jin coaxed her into writing a whole pile of her own name. It seemed that she had made two preparations to prevent Banxia from being disobedient.

Seeing this, she hated herself again for being such an idiot.

"Miss, let's go find grandma for help, or talk to the master." Shaoyao was almost crying.

"You're not allowed to go. You can only swallow this loss now."

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"Mom, do you think that hateful girl, Banxia, will be fooled?" Qingdai asked coquettishly while massaging Madam Jin's shoulders.

Madam Jin patted her hand and said, "Don't worry. There are only two options for her, either she goes to the old marchioness and make trouble, or she chose to starve to death."

"Mother, don't you think you should pamper her instead?"

Hearing this, Madam Jin became very angry. She threw the cup to the ground: "That ungrateful bitch who can't appreciate my soft approach. In this case, let her have a taste of the pain for daring to contradict me."

"Nanny Qin, are you ready?"

Nanny Qin quickly responded: "Madam, don't worry. As long as Miss Banxia goes to the old lady to complain to the master, she will not be able to escape the crime of stealing money and items from the house and giving them away."

Madam Jin nodded with satisfaction: "As long as that little wench is convicted of theft, she will never be able to escape. She will never be able to raise her head in the future, hahaha..."

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"Miss, this is the only thing left by the madam to you, are you sure you want to pawn it?"

Shaoyao looked at the item reluctantly, holding the package in her hand and refusing to let go.

In front of the Tianzi No. 1 pawn shop, Banxia was wearing a lavender-coloured skirt. Although it was not luxurious, it was at least a high-grade one.

She stretched out her hand, expressionless and cold: "Bring it here."

"Miss, no." Shaoyao was about to cry, looking at Banxia and shaking her head desperately.

Banxia increased her voice: "Bring it here, or you go and leave."

When Shaoyao heard that she must leave her job as a personal maid and couldn't serve her miss anymore, she immediately shook her head like a rattle drum.

So, she reluctantly handed the box to Banxia, ​​tears already flowing out her cheeks.

Banxia held the small box, her eyes were red, and in truth, she also felt sad.

Stepping into the door of the pawn shop, the store attendant hurriedly greeted her and said politely: "Miss, are you pawning something or redeeming an old good?"

"Pawn." The cold voice was as clear and sweet as a jade bead falling to the ground.

The store attendant immediately said: "Miss Purple wants to pawn, I'm taking the goods."

(TL: Here, Banxia was called 'Miss Purple' by the store attendant because she wore purple clothes)

The shopkeeper behind the counter showed his old face: "Girl, let me take a look at the good."

Yao Banxia handed over the small box, and the shopkeeper immediately opened it. Lying quietly on it is a book without words.

The shopkeeper's face suddenly turned ugly: "You girl, what thing are you pawning? A blank paper book?"

Yao Banxia looked up: "The book is not valuable, but there is something valuable in the book."

The shopkeeper then looked carefully and checked back and forth. It turns out that this wordless book contained a piece of white jade as thin as paper.

Just as he was about to take out the white jade, he heard Banxia says: "Sir, you cannot take the white jade from the book."

The shopkeeper frowned: "If you can't take it out, this..."

Seeing the shopkeeper is in trouble, Yao Banxia continued: "Sir Shopkeeper, please keep this book for three months, I will come again in summer to take it. After that, if I don't come by that time, the shopkeeper is free to do whatever he wants."

The shopkeeper felt relieved when he heard this. As long as he could generate money from the goods, he won't make a loss.

"Well, that is to say, this white jade seems to have a good quality. I will give you one hundred taels of silver for this. You should be able to accept the interest of ten taels for three months, right?"

Just as the shopkeeper finished speaking, Shaoyao immediately exploded, "What? The interest for three months are only ten taels of silver? Aren't you just robbing us?"

The shopkeeper closed the book with a bleak face: "If you don't want to, please go back."

Yao Banxia pushed back the book that the shopkeeper pushed out: "Alright, it's ten taels, then. Now, Sir shopkeeper, please write the invoice."

Nodding with satisfaction, the old man took out the invoice and handed it to Banxia along with one hundred taels of silver.

Shaoyao who followed Yao Banxia as they left the pawn shop, she couldn't help but turn around and glare at the shopkeeper.

As soon as Yao Banxia and the others left, a young man walked in.

When the shopkeeper saw it, he immediately came out from the backstage respectfully, nodding and bowing with a smile on his face.

"Guard Jiyu, what kind of wind has brought you here?"

Jiyu raised his eyes and gazed at the box on the counter before the shopkeeper could put it back into the pawn cabinet, he said, "Bring it here."

The shopkeeper was stunned: "This... didn't I just hand in the accounts the day before yesterday to you, Sir? It's only the beginning of the month and yet..."

"Bring the items that the girl in purple pawned just now." Before the shopkeeper could finish speaking, Jiyu interrupted and explained.

The shopkeeper was a little awkward: "Guard Jiyu, this is a pawned goodie. The girl said she would redeem it in three months."

Jiyu's face turned dark: "The Lord wants it."

When the shopkeeper heard this, he immediately took out the white jade from the wordless book and hand it over.

"Guard Jiyu, except for this white jade, the book is just a wordless book." Said the shopkeeper.

Jiyu didn't say a word, feeling contempt in his heart. The shopkeeper was really ignorant. This book was a priceless treasure!

Of course, he would never say that, he also only knew about it because his master told him that it was a priceless treasure, but he could not let a third person know.

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Right after leaving the pawn shop, Banxia and Shaoyao first went to a cloth shop. It was already autumn, and the weather was getting colder. They needed to buy a few clothes for the chilling weather.

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