Chapter 269

Du Ruo didn't pay too much attention to the two women and forgave them for their impoliteness.

She even felt a little sorry for them.

Not to mention ancient times, even in the harmonious society of her past life, it wasn't necessarily safe for women to go out.

Who knows if you'll be eating barbecue properly and a lecherous violent man will fall from the sky?

But Du Ruo could only help so much. Anyway, after dawn, when the ship arrived at Fengyang Prefecture, she would hand them over to the government, believing they would be properly resettled.

After distributing the food, it was already late at night.

Du Ruo was also tired, so she asked the captain for a wind-proof lamp, yawned, and went to the cabin where she lived.

The lantern flickered, and the cold, damp river wind poured in through the cracks in the door.

It was eerie.

It had a childhood *Liaozhai* feeling.

"You talk about *Liaozhai*, I talk about *Liaozhai*, joy, anger, sorrow, and joy all come to the heart; ghosts are not ghosts, monsters are not monsters..."

Du Ruo was humming a tune to build up her courage, but who knew that as soon as she turned around, she bumped into a straight body.

Caught off guard, she was almost scared to death!

She hurriedly retreated two steps and poked the lantern up to look.

Under the pale candlelight, a terrifying face was reflected, disheveled, covered in blood, with two eyes staring straight at her, and the corners of her mouth curled into a strange smile.

"My god, what ghost?"

Du Ruo gasped.

If someone was timid, they would probably lose half their life on the spot.

"Are you sick?" Du Ruo patted her heart and said unhappily: "Why didn't you make a sound? I thought it was a female ghost from this river coming up to find a substitute."

After saying that, she bypassed the woman, hung the lantern on the cabin wall, and lay down to rest.

She was puzzled in her heart.

Why is Jin Que still here? Shouldn't the maid who killed her master be tied up and thrown into the river to feed the fish?

At least she should be beaten to the point of being disabled, right?

Really don't know if Bian Dou Dou is too kind, or if he still has feelings for Jin Que, so he can't bear to be cruel.

Du Ruo couldn't be bothered to care; it had nothing to do with her anyway.

Leaving a selfish, cold-blooded poisonous snake by her side, she only hoped that Bian Dou Dou wouldn't regret it in the future...

"Mistress Du." The poisonous snake entangled her, knelt in front of Du Ruo's bed, and cried: "I'm sorry, I was wrong. I shouldn't have spoken to you with evil words, caused trouble; shouldn't have dragged you into the water, put you in a disadvantageous position; and shouldn't have done anything to you, almost killing you..."

"I deserve to die!"

"Can you be magnanimous and forgive me?"

Du Ruo turned over and sat up, looking at her coldly.

The woman was bruised and swollen, crying miserably, looking ridiculous and pitiful.

*Heh. *

"Fine, we're both thousand-year-old foxes, what kind of *Liaozhai* are you playing with me?" Du Ruo smiled coldly: "Say it, what do you want?"

Jin Que's crying stopped, her eyes flickering: "I'm sincerely apologizing to you..."

Du Ruo didn't have the patience to listen to her nonsense and pointed outside: "You're sincere, right? Fine, you jump off the ship now, and I'll forgive you."

Jin Que's face twisted: "..."

Can she still live if she jumps down?

This vicious woman!

It seemed that acting pitiful wouldn't work, so she would take another path.

Jin Que put away her tears, climbed up from the ground, and looked down at Du Ruo on the bed: "Mistress Du, I want to make a deal with you."

Du Ruo raised an eyebrow. This was fresh.

"What deal?"

Jin Que raised her chin and said: "Actually, I woke up a long time ago."

At that time, in order to survive, she chose to kill Bian Dou Dou, but she didn't expect to be stopped by Du Ruo and smashed unconscious with a bench.

She didn't know how long it had been, but she woke up.

She was woken up by pain.

That cruel old woman, Deaf Granny, didn't know how to cherish fragrance and treasure jade at all, and actually snatched her pearl earrings so rudely.

And she tore her earlobe!

It hurt so much.

But she could only endure it, not daring to make a sound, for fear that Deaf Granny would take her life if she was unhappy.

She just lay on the ground and pretended to be dead, watching everything that happened later.

It wasn't until Deaf Granny was driven away and the captain and the others began to clean up the scene that she was sent back to the cabin by Bian Dou Dou.

"I know you saved my young master more than once. You are his benefactor."

Du Ruo smiled: "So?"

"So, I want you to go to the young master and help me plead for mercy, and ask him to forgive me this time."

Jin Que bit her lip, her tone filled with innocence and grievance: "You know, it wasn't my fault. I was forced to do it, and I made such a choice on impulse. If it were you, you would have made the same choice, right?"

Du Ruo was speechless.

This is really a toad's eyes full of toads, can't see frogs.

Does she really think the whole world is as selfish, cold, heartless, and shameless as her?

Du Ruo didn't argue with her, just sneered and asked: "Why should I help you?"

"Of course you have to help me, because helping me is helping yourself."

Jin Que pounced on the bed, her eyes full of greed: "Do you know how much money the Bian family has? That's money that can't be spent for several lifetimes! You are the young master's benefactor. If you plead for me, he will definitely sell you this face and forgive me. When the time comes, I'll act spoiled and coax him, and it won't be long before he completely forgets what happened today."

"When I successfully become the young master's concubine, I'll find a way to make him promote me. In this way, the Bian family's wealth will be in my hands."

"When the time comes, I'll give you two taels of silver as a reward for your help today."

She glanced at Du Ruo proudly: "How about it, Mistress Du? It's just a few words, and you can earn two taels of silver. You won't lose out on this deal, right?"

It's really not a loss.

Du Ruo finally understood. It turned out that this was Jin Que's idea.

*Tsk tsk tsk*, poor Bian Dou Dou, calculated to death by a maid.

Her eyes turned, and she nodded: "Fine, I'll go find your young master tomorrow and talk to him properly."

Seeing Du Ruo agree so readily, Jin Que was a bit unbelievable: "Really?"

"Of course it's true." Du Ruo smiled meaningfully: "Money, who doesn't want it?"

Jin Que was overjoyed.

She knew that there was no one in this world who didn't love money.

"Then it's a deal, it's a deal!" Jin Que chattered a few more times, confirming that Du Ruo wouldn't go back on her word, before she was satisfied and walked toward her bed.

The moment she turned around, dark light flashed in Du Ruo's eyes.

Suddenly she raised her hand.

She sent Jin Que a handful of incense powder without hesitation.

*Achoo*, Jin Que sneezed several times, then collapsed limply onto the cold floor, falling into a deep coma.

Done!

Du Ruo clapped the remaining powder off her hands, not caring whether Jin Que would catch a cold, and lay down to sleep.

Finally, she could sleep peacefully. Comfortable.