Chapter 1006 - 1081 is like a big black wolf_1
"Master..."
Procuress Bai was gasping for air, her eyeballs almost rolling back in her head.
Unfortunately, the man’s grip did not loosen.
"My lord knows, you are a greedy one still wanting to make a profit from this, but because of your greed, you’ve ruined a great plan of mine. Now, what should we do?" Procuress Bai shook her head, trying to plead for mercy, but the man merely sneered and continued, "What? You feel wronged? Do you know that because of your greed, the Yang Family has taken this matter to the authorities? Not only that, now everyone in Funan knows that the girls at Fancy Red Pavilion have two indenture contracts. The affair with the Jin Family in the county and the Wang Family in the prefecture seeking disputes with Fancy Red Pavilion has also spread throughout Funan. Nowadays, any household with a girl from Fancy Red Pavilion in their harem either has her punished with caning or sold off."
"And this is just in Funan. What if word spreads to the Capital City? You have scattered a good game of chess!" The man grew more and more angry as he spoke, his grip tightening until the person in his hands finally stopped breathing.
He threw her to the ground as if discarding a dead dog.
"Someone come!"
"Master!"
"Hold off on dealing with the Yang Family for now," the man said, and then kicked Procuress Bai’s body, "This fool, I warned her, such things can be done once, not twice, yet she went and did it three times without satisfaction, and tried it yet again. Did she really think no one would investigate?"
"So now, what shall we do, my lord?"
The man narrowed his eyes before finally decreeing, "Burn down every Fancy Red Pavilion in Funan! Spread the word that all this was done by Procuress Bai and Hong Xiu acting on their own. The business with the indenture contracts, too, was all their doing—just for the sake of making an extra bit of redemption money."
"Yes, sir!"
Hong Xiu was the woman with the crimson lips, who, along with Procuress Bai, managed the Fancy Red Pavilion throughout Funan Prefecture.
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Yangshu Village
Ms. Wang was coming over to pick up the dowry gifts for Wang Yunlian from Yang Chuxia.
Seeing that Tieshu seemed to have something to report to his daughter, she went back first.
"Madam, Hong Xiu only admitted the matter of the indenture contracts, taking all the blame onto herself and Procuress Bai. She claimed they were the ones greedy for money, keeping the contracts merely to make more from selling the girls. As for other matters, she flatly denied them."
"That’s all there is to it. We have no concrete evidence for the other affairs, and Fancy Red Pavilion knows this."
But even if she didn’t admit it, the mere spread of the affair would probably catch some people’s attention, and that was enough.
However, two days later, Yang Chuxia received another piece of news. The Fancy Red Pavilion in Funan Prefecture was completely engulfed by fire overnight.
Furthermore, the word was out that no other Fancy Red Pavilion branches would allow the girls to redeem themselves anymore.
This was a message to everyone that the business with the indenture contracts was indeed the idea of just a few Pavilions in Funan, and that no other places were involved.
Moreover, the rumor that the girls of Fancy Red Pavilion acted as spies in other households was utterly baseless. Don’t believe it? Then how about I stop selling the girls from now on, does that settle it? You say you have one of Fancy Red Pavilion’s girls in your harem—well, if you don’t trust it, why not just send her away?
As a result, those families who originally had girls from Fancy Red Pavilion and had hesitated, were now on the fence.
Those who couldn’t bear to part with the girls’ beauty ultimately didn’t send them away, while the more timid ones sold the girls off.
However, for the Yang Family, as they learned from Ms. Hong, Fancy Red Pavilion had not approached them again, but Yang Chuxia had not relaxed her vigilance.
Fancy Red Pavilion struck her like a big, black wolf lurking in the shadows, watching you intently, just waiting for the moment you let your guard down to bite, and you wouldn’t even know why it bit you.