"Yes, sir!"
A Cai took several of his men and a few servants to inventory the belongings.
Liu Shi and Wang Yuyan instantly panicked.
"Don't take that! Those are my things! What right do you mud-covered peasants have to touch them?"
"My nanmu furniture, my white jade vase! Liu Mingyu, hurry up and tell them to stop!"
The prefect's wife found the sight of her sister hopping about in agitation laughable.
This was her elder sister, born of the principal wife.
Usually, she put on lofty airs, forever insisting on the distinctions between legitimate and concubine-born children, between the noble and the lowly, and looking down on her in every possible way.
Now she looked like a monkey.
She sneered. "Sister-in-law just said that once you rise to glory, our family had better not come fawning on you. She even said we wouldn't be worthy of carrying your shoes."
"I think she was absolutely right."
"Since we've split the household, we should settle the accounts properly, so we don't leave any loose ends for us to exploit later."
"Servants, strip the clothes off this little bitch!"
Wang Yuyan instantly panicked. Dodging the two older serving women, she shouted at Chen Yonggu, "Second Young Master, have you forgotten what you just said? How can you take back things you gave me?"
Under ordinary circumstances, Chen Yonggu would never have done such a thing.
But now, he somehow found it immensely satisfying, though the sight was rather hard on the eyes.
The prefect's wife said, "My son did say he wouldn't pursue it. After all, we couldn't possibly want anything a filthy slut like you has worn."
"But those things were meant for my future daughter-in-law. Since you cheated your way into getting them, we naturally have to take them back!"
"Strip