klisemfg Chapter 804 Chapter 804
Chapter 804 Chapter 804
This encounter completely tore their relationship apart.
Jin Fuyun had just entered the cloth shop with the help of her maid. Before the shopkeeper could greet her, the maid named Bai Shao spoke first, "Shopkeeper, please find a private room upstairs near the window. Our young lady doesn't like noise. Please don't disturb her after the tea is served."
“Uh…, yes!”
The eldest daughter of the Jin family is back.
The cloth shop owner looked over and hurriedly led the way, took Bai Shao upstairs and found a secluded place. After Bai Shao was satisfied with what he saw, he went downstairs to serve tea and water.
This cloth shop is not small. The three shops downstairs are connected, and all kinds of common cloth are displayed, including coarse and fine, soft and hard, silk and satin.
But the finest silks and satins would never be left out in the open for everyone to see.
They had to wait for the wives of high-ranking officials to arrive, take them to the private room on the second floor, ask about their preferences, and then bring up piles of food for the guests to choose from.
However, truly wealthy people do not like to show themselves in public.
Like in the past, when Jin Fuyun wanted to select materials, she would ask the owner of the cloth shop to deliver them to her house to make the selections. But this was the first time that he came personally to her house.
But looking at that girl, with small eyes and a flat nose, she is more imposing than the lame girl.
Where did you come from?
After Jin Fuyun entered the room, his face turned completely cold. "Now I can't even say a few more words to my old friend?"
Bai Shao smiled faintly.
There was a gleam in her little eyes, "I am also following the orders of the general and the princess to serve the young lady well. You were too kind-hearted in the past and allowed the people below to fool you, otherwise you would not have such a reputation."
It was only two or three days after arriving in Beijing.
White peony and white grass, who had wandered around several nooks and crannies of the capital, could hear it clearly.
Jin Fuyun listened, and the corners of her lips slightly raised, revealing a hint of sarcasm, "Whether my reputation is good or bad, I will be the princess of a county prince in the future. As a little maid, you'd better not learn from your aunt and make such a mess that you can't even show up on stage now."
Bai Shao didn't get angry when she heard this.
Still smiling, she looked at Jin Fuyun and said, "Miss, my sister and I have been rewarded with food by the general and the princess. In my heart, the masters in the mansion are good, which is what I hope for. I will never say that I won't serve you attentively just because you are the princess of the county."
"Huh! Father really makes me look at him in a new light!"
In just over a month since she returned to Liyang, Jin Fuyun had experienced the darkest time of her life. In the general's private residence, she received the first beating in her life. Except for her face, her neck and limbs were all whipped to pieces.
Her father sat in the upper seat, watching her struggle and wailing coldly.
He asked again and again in a cold voice, "Do you know you are wrong?"
Jin Fuyun had a limp and could not escape, her hair was loose, her hairpin had fallen off, and the two painters and secretaries were beaten to death in front of her.
Seeing the maidservant dead in front of her with flesh and blood flying all over her body, Jin Fuyun called out "father" with a trembling voice.
"Could it be that you really want Jin Qi to marry into the Yong County Prince's Mansion in my place?"
Upon hearing this, Jin Meng sneered.
"My child! I gave birth to you and raised you. I know exactly what's going on in your mind."
"Father, you really don't care about my life or death?"
Life or death?
Jin Meng smiled gently and looked a lot kinder, but when he opened his mouth, he almost wanted to kill Jin Fuyun.
"In your eyes, isn't the Jin family just a plaything?"
Jin Meng stood up and slowly walked to the dying Jin Fuyun. He slowly squatted down and looked at his daughter who was sweating profusely from the pain. "My daughter, I thought that you are exactly the same as me, but I never thought that you are a woman after all. Apart from men in your heart, you can't think of a better world."
I overestimate you, my daughter.
Jin Fuyun suddenly became flustered. She knew that her father's calm tone was filled with disappointment in her. Did he really die like this?
No, no!
This is her fourth life in which she has worked so hard!
She absolutely shouldn't die like this. She struggled to her feet and grabbed her father's heavy hand. "Father, I will definitely obey you. It's inevitable to make mistakes in life. I beg you to forgive me this time because I'm young."
"Spare you?"
Jin Meng seemed to have heard a joke, and laughed so hard that Jin Fuyun's heart sank. Then he slowly said, "My son, everything you did was to send your father, your mother, and even the entire Jin family to hell. How can your father forgive you?"
Jin Fuyun quickly shook his head.
"No, father must have misunderstood, but Aunt Qing just made up a story. Aside from caring about Pei Silang, I have never done anything to harm the world, father! Heaven and earth can bear witness to my daughter's heart, and I would never dare to deceive you!"
Jin Meng looked at his daughter who was whipped beyond recognition, but he still insisted on speaking.
——I do not admit any guilt!
"Yu Cheng has done a lot of unscrupulous things for you. Don't you think that your father is completely unaware of it?"
Yu Cheng!
Jin Fuyun knew that there were some things that she had to keep secret, and maybe her father would really spare her life. Otherwise, her father hated people who were spineless, so even if she told him everything, all she would get in return was sudden death.
In her four lives, she never dared to underestimate the emperor, nor did she dare to look down on her father.
As expected, Jin Meng ordered his men to continue beating her, using a whip dipped in salt water. She fainted several times and was then woken up by a basin of cold water.
Repeatedly.
The torture lasted from dawn to dusk.
Jin Fuyun only admitted that she loved Pei An, and acquiesced in the events of Long'en Temple. However, she pretended to be ignorant of the death of the Qingmei Garden madam in prison, Zhu San's suicide out of fear of punishment, and the fire in the teahouse at the pier.
Not to mention... the death of Prince An.
At the end, Jin Fuyun only had one breath left, but she was still as strong as ever. "Father, no matter how arrogant I am, I dare not do those treasonous things. Father, your daughter was raised by you. All my skills and methods are learned from you. I will never dare to send the Jin family to the forefront of the storm."
These were the words she spoke haltingly, and they sounded like they came from her heart.
Jin Meng spared her.
When she was carried back to her mother's room, her mother wiped her tears and muttered to herself, "...what kind of drug did the young master of the Pei family give you to make you ignore your parents and relatives and go and harm his wife?"
Jin Fuyun had a fever for three days before he finally woke up.
There were scars all over her body, and she had to apply medicine every day. In the snow in Liyang, others were often shivering with cold, but she, dragging her lame leg, silently let the maids tear off the gauze stuck to the bloodstains.
"Mother, my daughter is wrong."
Princess Hong'an was frail and short, not at all as tall and beautiful as her mother. The seemingly gentle and timid woman gently stroked her daughter's thin hand and said, "It is a great honor to admit one's mistakes and correct them."