"My dear Miss, Madam, how could I lie to you? I really took off Madam Li's clothes and took them away. If you don't believe me, just look."

Mother Wang opened the dark blue bundle in her hand and indeed took out a moon-white dress from it. It was the one that Lin Yanyu wore to the banquet.

Qian Caixia sized up the dress for a moment, then suddenly jumped up and snatched it from Mother Wang's hands, tearing it apart like crazy. However, the dress was very solid, and her fingers were rubbed so hard that they burned, but she failed to tear off a single piece of fabric.

He threw her to the ground in anger, stamped on her, and cursed breathlessly, "Bitch! Bitch! Bitch!"

Mother Wang was so frightened that she rushed forward to hug her and repeatedly advised her: "My lady, what are you doing! Stop it now, it's just a piece of clothing. If you don't like it, I will cut it into pieces. Your body is delicate, what will you do if you hurt yourself!"

She had to persuade Qian Caixia to sit on the chaise longue.

She looked at Qian Caixia's chest rising and falling violently, and could not help but persuade her earnestly: "My dear Miss, when it comes to nobility, who in the whole Chongzhou Prefecture can surpass you? Why do you have to make such a fuss for a rough woman and lose your status for no reason?"

After all, Mother Wang was Qian Caixia's wet nurse, so she still had some face in front of her and gradually calmed down.

"Mammy, you don't understand."

Mother Wang thought for a moment and asked tentatively, "Miss, you don't have any thoughts about Lieutenant General Li, do you?"

Seeing Qian Caixia remained silent, she panicked and warned, "Don't be silly! Not to mention that he has a legitimate wife, even if he has never married, the master and the mistress would not agree with his status."

Qian Caixia didn't respond to Wang's mother's words. She stared at the white dress that was trampled on the ground. Her eyes turned red and she asked quietly, "Madam, who do you think is better, me or Madam Li?"

"Why ask? Miss is definitely better! No matter how beautiful Madam Li is, she is just a peasant woman of humble origin. How can she be compared with Miss?"

Mother Wang thought Qian Caixia would be happy after hearing this.

Unexpectedly, she fell on the chaise longue and cried, "You are lying! If that's true, why did he do this to me? Is it because he saw me...the way I am, that he thinks I am even lower than a peasant woman!"

Mother Wang was dumbfounded. She didn't understand what Qian Caixia meant, so she just stepped forward and tried to comfort her with gentle words.

Qian Caixia cried for a long time and only stopped when the makeup on her face was smeared. She squinted her slightly swollen eyes and let Mother Wang wipe her tears with a straight brow.

"I must prove to him that I am a thousand times more noble than that bitch!"

Qian Caixia fell asleep with a heart full of resentment. In the middle of the night, she suddenly felt cold, as if a cold wind was blowing into her neck.

At first she didn't notice anything unusual and thought she was just not sleeping well, so she kicked the quilt aside.

She frowned and reached out to touch something, but found nothing. She rolled to the side impatiently, and her body tilted and rolled down like a ball.

She opened her eyes in horror, and her legs went limp with fear. All she saw was a pitch-black abyss, and the lantern hanging below her sight seemed only the size of a firefly.

Half of her body was blocked by the upturned eaves, half hanging outside and half hanging inside.

Qian Caixia grabbed the collar of her thin nightgown and took a few steps back as if being licked by a tongue of fire, shouting fiercely but weakly: "Who is it? Come out! Come out!"

Her cries were like a wisp of smoke, floating in the air without any response.

The moon was covered by dark clouds, and the pitch-black night sky was like a sleeping giant. The red halos like fireflies seemed like the giant's eyes staring straight at her, and the night wind whistled past her ears like the cry of ghosts.

Qian Caixia's tears flowed down her face as she cried out, "Dad! Mom! Mammy! Wuuwu! Is there anyone here? Save me! Save me!"

……

The Thousand Buddha Pagoda is the largest pagoda in Chongzhou. The tower body is more than ten meters high. On the first and fifteenth day of every month, high-ranking officials and common people in Chongzhou Prefecture will go to the Thousand Buddha Pagoda to burn incense and worship.

To show their piety, people often gather in large numbers in front of the Thousand Buddha Temple at daybreak, waiting for the gate to open so they can rush in and be the first to burn incense.

Today was just like usual. As soon as the temple gate opened, everyone rushed in like chickens and ducks out of a cage.

Suddenly, a servant from the gang leader's family who was trying to be the first to burn incense saw something with his sharp eyes.

He pointed to the top of the Thousand Buddha Pagoda and said, "Everyone, look, is there anyone up there?"

Everyone looked in the direction he pointed.

“It seems like there is really someone there!”

Someone with sharp eyes said in surprise: "It looks like a woman wearing pink pajamas!"

"She is sleeping on the top of the tower without any clothes on. I don't know whose family she is, hehe."

Some people who just wanted to watch the fun shouted, "Let's all go up and see who it is!"

At the same time, the backyard of the government office was in turmoil. The maid on night duty got up at Yinshi and found that the young lady who was sleeping in the curtain had disappeared without a trace.

Prefect Qian and his wife were alarmed and hurried over with their clothes on. They mobilized all the maids and servants in the backyard, but they couldn't find the person. Madam Qian cried and Qian Sanwen was furious and was about to send out the palace soldiers to look for her.

The gatekeeper of the government office came crawling in.

"Mr. Prefect! There is news about the young lady!"

Qian Sanwen's brows relaxed slightly, and Mrs. Qian also stopped crying and hurried forward to inquire.

"Where is Miss?"

"On the top of the Thousand Buddha Pagoda."

The couple was shocked: "What!"

The doorman was sweating coldly on his forehead and was a little embarrassed to speak, "Also... when you left, bring some clothes for the young lady. The person who came to report the news said that the young lady had no clothes on."

Mrs. Qian held her temple, made a "hmm" sound, rolled her eyes, and fell to the ground like a puddle of noodles.

Qian Sanwen led his men and hurried to the Thousand Buddha Temple, where he saw people still pointing at Qian Caixia and a man was whispering to one another and laughing at something.

He became furious and drove everyone out of the temple. The captain of the palace guards used a ladder and nimbly brought the unconscious Qian Caixia down.

Qian Sanwen went forward with full of worry, and saw that his daughter looked dazed, as if she was stupid.

"My son, what happened to you? I am your father. Do you see who brought you here?"

Qian Caixia's eyes didn't move at all. She just stared at one spot without moving an inch. It was obvious that she was frightened.

When Qian Caixia was brought back to the backyard of the government office, Mrs. Qian burst into tears again, hugging Qian Caixia and crying, "My child, my flesh!"

After returning to the familiar environment, Qian Caixia's frozen body gradually warmed up and her dull eyeballs slowly moved.

She first looked at Magistrate Qian's wife, and then at the group of maids and servants kneeling on the ground.

He asked stupidly, "Where's my nanny?"

A round-faced maid looked at Madam Qian, and when she nodded, she said, "Mother Wang was found by the gardener who was tending to the lotus this morning. It was said that she fell into the pond and drowned."

Qian Caixia burst into tears and murmured, "Sure enough, I don't accept it... I don't accept it..."

As he spoke, his body went limp and he fainted.

Everyone was in a panic and found that Qian Caixia's body was burning hot. It was obvious that she had been blown by the cold wind all night and had developed a high fever out of shock.

Qian Sanwen saw his daughter's miserable appearance and paced back and forth in anger, muttering: "How unreasonable! How unreasonable! When I find out who did this, I will cut him into pieces!"

A maid with a pointed face who was standing in front of the bed suddenly turned around and knelt down in front of Qian Sanwen with a plop.

"I know who wants to harm the young lady!"

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