Chapter 414: Today’s Tale, The Rouge Story
Third Master Jin left. He didn’t stay at the teahouse.
He had nothing much with him, only a wine gourd in his hand and a jade pendant.
That pendant came from his mother.
His birth mother was a concubine. Even back in the mansion, she hadn’t been favored. Only after giving birth to him did she gain a little status.
But those large, deep mansions were never kind places.
While he was still a baby wrapped in cloth, his mother fell suddenly ill. She didn’t make it through that night.
He grew up with a wet nurse. This jade pendant remained his mother’s only keepsake.
Amid the hazy night, Jin San went to a pawnshop and pawned the jade pendant.
But at the pawnshop, the pendant worth over twenty silver taels finally fetched only eight taels.