boyutpedia Chapter 175: Don't Fail 1 Dance
Chapter 175: Don't Fail 1 Dance
Daiyu looked at her quietly and silently accompanied her with a glass of wine.
Miaoyu smiled bitterly: "There are countless beautiful banners in the ten-mile mountain pond. I have never seen one, let alone what kind of business they make.
"They were competing for the title of Oiran. I saw a girl on the stage dancing to the wrong beat, and I couldn't help but criticize her.
"My father was held at knifepoint and couldn't speak. I was taken to the stage. I danced to my heart's content in front of the crowd without knowing anything."
Having said this, Miaoyu suddenly drank another glass of wine, covered her face with her hands, and burst into tears.
That dance was the root of all her misfortunes.
She danced beautifully.
There were many talented and handsome men present, some of whom could write poetry and some could paint.
Those who can write poems praise her as "dancing with the wind and snow, as graceful as a startled swan" and those who can paint paint her as "slender hands with fragrant fragrance, and waist like a willow".
In less than half a day, her name spread throughout the streets and alleys of Gusu City.
More than a dozen brothel owners came to see her father, asking whether he wanted to sell his daughter and for what price.
Her father was so angry that he slapped her hard in front of those people!
"Is it dirty? You step on a stage like that and touch a piano like that, are you dirty?!"
Her father scolded her, and when he saw her crying, he became even angrier and almost hit her with a stick. He locked her in a carriage, pushed everyone away with a sullen face, and rushed home.
However, someone with ulterior motives had already secretly followed them to the place.
Soon after, someone discovered the old items in her yard.
Some people proposed marriage to her, some people acted as matchmakers, and the most hateful thing was that someone presented her with a painting of a dancing beauty.
From the head of the village to the newly-appointed Jinshi, from the county magistrate to the inspector, none of them failed to visit her house.
Her father went from politely refusing to being assassinated, to finally having no choice but to let her become a monk.
But even so, they still refused to let this family go.
Six years ago, one day, the governor of Suzhou suddenly came to visit and said that he wanted to "borrow" some antiques from his family to decorate the house.
The reason was that the emperor was about to go on a tour to the south, and the prince who was leading the tour had arrived and was going to stay at the prefect's villa. The prince loved antiques, so he borrowed the artifact to display it, and would return it after the emperor and the prince left.
Under such circumstances, how could it be possible to return it?
However, as the saying goes, a county magistrate who exterminates a family, a prefect who confiscates property, and a father-in-law official, which common people can afford to offend?
Her father had no choice but to pack a box of antiques and give it to the prefect to take away.
After only half a month of peace, the prince who was used as an excuse came in person.
Her father had to pack another box.
The prince smiled and asked her father: "Why are you sending away beggars?!"
The attendants held her father down, and the prince went straight into her yard, looked it over from inside to outside, and after praising it, he did not take anything and left in style.
Her father was surprised and happy. He knelt there and shouted: Your Majesty is noble and admirable!
The emperor's southern tour ended and everyone left, except this prince.
The prefect came again and said that her father was a remnant of the previous dynasty and that so many expensive antiques were actually kept for the royal family of the previous dynasty; they were just waiting for the restoration of the previous dynasty, and these things would be put back in the Hanyuan Hall of the Daming Palace.
Her father immediately realized that these things caused the trouble, and immediately stated that he had nothing to do with the previous dynasty, and that her father was the first Jinshi in this dynasty and had served as an official, and so on.
The prefect gave up and left.
Her father knew that the matter was not over yet, so he immediately picked out some small items and buried them secretly in a secret place in the back hills where Miaoyu often played. He held up the list of the remaining items with both hands and presented it to the prefectural government, saying that he was willing to present it to the court.
Hearing this, Daiyu couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
Miaoyu's father is such a bookworm!
"You heard it too?" Miaoyu cried and laughed, "The prince stood there, sneering and asking: Present it to the court? Do you mean that if the prefect and I accept it, we will be robbing your property for the court?
"You are framing me!"
"What frame-up? If it was presented to the imperial court, it should have been registered and stored in the treasury. It would have nothing to do with these two scums." Daiyu sighed and shook her head.
So Miaoyu's father was driven out.
The list is missing.
Seven days later, the family was attacked by bandits, and the entire yard was looted. Miaoyu's parents were also hacked to death at home.
As for Miaoyu, she escaped the disaster because she had already lived in a temple.
Daiyu looked at her with sympathy in her eyes.
"I rushed over after hearing the news. My parents were covered in blood and unrecognizable. They were thrown in the yard and next to the well like rags.
“There were marks of being tied on my father’s wrists, and the yellow silk cloth stuffed in his mouth had not been removed.
"My mother... was naked..."
Miaoyu's eyes were already dazed and tears were falling like a waterfall.
When Daiyu heard this, she closed her eyes.
Killing can only be done with a nod of the head.
Even if it was really murder and robbery, it shouldn't be done like this, humiliating the women.
……brute!
Miaoyu laughed again, her face full of tears, and said softly: "When I looked at them, I said, how dirty they are."
"Nonsense." Daiyu retorted.
Miaoyu sat there in a daze.
Daiyu did not look at her, but said softly and firmly: "Those two are worse than beasts, they are the ones with dirty hearts and lungs, and they are filthy bastards!"
Miaoyu fell off the stool to the ground, and lay there in the dust, crying loudly!
"father!!!
"mother!!!"
Daiyu looked at her trembling shoulders in grief, took a deep breath, and raised her head to drink the glass of wine.
It was not until Miaoyu cried until she almost fainted that Daiyu called her maid in, helped her up, and sat her down at the table again.
After wiping my face and washing my hands, I drank a bowl of sobering soup.
"Do you still have that list with you?" Daiyu asked bluntly.
Miaoyu nodded: "Take it with you! I have never left this list behind in these years!
"My father copied three copies of it, one he handed in, one he kept at home, and one he buried in the back hills along with the small items he gave me.
“When I had taken care of my parents’ funeral, sold the yard, and returned to the temple, my old servant came to me and told me everything. He also took me to dig out those things.
“When I saw the list, I knew that my father was actually prepared. He knew that these two beasts would never let my family go.
"He told me to go to the capital immediately after getting the things, not to say anything, to find a high-ranking official, and to live a good life in my nunnery."
Miaoyu spoke in a low voice, took out a slightly yellowed piece of paper from her sleeve pocket and carefully spread it in front of Daiyu.
Daiyu did not touch it, but just looked at it from top to bottom.
Miaoyu's father was very careful and upright in his work. He wrote down every stroke what the item was and how old it was. He also wrote down how much the item was worth at that time.
Total number: 369 pieces, value: more than 29,377,500 taels.
Daiyu looked up at Miaoyu.
Miaoyu pointed to the Dianxi Qiao that was placed on the treasure cabinet in Daiyu's room and said, "The current market price is at least one thousand taels."
Daiyu sighed and looked at her with complicated eyes: "Did you give a small colorful bell from Chengyao to a village woman named Liu who went to Rongfu to beg for money?"
Miaoyu was stunned.
"How much is the bell worth?"
"...about a hundred taels."
Daiyu said: "She is a village woman whose family can live for a year with twenty taels of silver, and suddenly she got a clock worth about a hundred taels.
"Do you think that someone has already targeted the Jia Mansion, the Rongcui Temple, and you because of this?"