nycdaug Chapter 30 Settlement
Chapter 30 Settlement
The clan chief invited her to stay at his house while it was being built, and a guest room had already been prepared. Zisu was more than happy to accept, and naturally agreed.
She sent Uncle Li and his bodyguards back to the county town, but Xiangli stayed behind, sleeping on the floor and sharing a room with her. She also wrote a letter and had the bodyguards take it back to discuss with her mother sending away the three male bodyguards, leaving only Aunt Yao and Aunt Cai.
A bodyguard earns two taels of silver a day. If you reduce the number of bodyguards by three, you can save six taels of silver a day. That adds up to one hundred and eighty taels of silver a month, which is no small amount.
Upon receiving her daughter's letter, Madam Yu immediately dismissed three male bodyguards, giving each ten taels of silver for travel expenses, and sent them back to the capital on their own. This travel expense was an extra cost, and they could have waived it. However, these men performed their duties diligently throughout the journey. On the way, they encountered an unknown assassination attempt, and it was only through their desperate protection that the attacker was apprehended and brought to justice.
Although they couldn't find out who was behind it, it was obvious to everyone that it was Zisu's uncle's family! Her daughter's earlier worries were not unfounded. If they hadn't hired bodyguards, she and her daughter would have fallen into the hands of bandits, and the consequences would have been unimaginable!
The bandits' objectives were twofold: first, to rob them of money, as the mastermind had told them that Zisu and her daughter had 10,000 taels of silver; and second, to kidnap them, as this was one of the conditions set by the mastermind, who claimed they would ruin Zisu and her daughter's reputations and make them unable to live with any face.
What a vicious heart!
Even today, Ms. Yu still feels lingering fear; otherwise, she wouldn't have kept the two female bodyguards.
Zisu settled down in Wuliping alone with Xiangli, returning to the county town every few days to visit her mother. Days passed in this way, and before long, a month had gone by; the house was finally completed!
The old clan chief consulted someone to choose an auspicious day, and the moving day was set for the day before the autumn harvest. The old clan chief's eldest son, along with several other sons, personally went to the county town to bring Zisu and Yu Shi to Wuliping.
Zisu kept Aunt Yao behind to serve as the martial arts instructor for Zisu, Xiangli, Dingxiang, Haitang, and Yingtao (also known as Pangya), teaching them essential self-defense skills. Previously, Aunt Yao had already written to the owner of the escort agency, who agreed to let her stay in Wuliping for six months.
There were five main rooms. The central room was the hall, and the first room on the left was Yu's bedroom, which included a bathroom. The bathroom was on the left side of the house; it was a room about two zhang long and one and a half zhang wide, built to resemble the washroom that Zisu had seen in her dream. However, it was only for urination; for defecating, one had to go to the backyard.
Grandma, along with her two-year-old cousin Yu Han, lived right next door to Yu's family to take care of her. Zisu lived in the first room on the right, while she had decorated the second room on the right as a study.
Aunt Yao lived in the first room of the west wing, the second room was for Begonia and Lilac, the third room was for Pear and Fatty Cherry, the fourth room was set up as a sewing room, and the fifth room was the bedroom of Aunt Li and Uncle Li.
The family was finally settled, and early the next morning, Zisu took several maids to climb the mountain. During the construction of the house on the back mountain where Little Stone lived, Zisu had also found several farmers to build a path from the foot of the mountain to the summit. The path was covered with river sand, so it wouldn't be slippery even in the rain.
----Tianjing has started a new story, everyone is welcome to check it out, mwah.