As Cai Wei answered, she headed towards ’Gaoji’s Tavern’ following her memory.
At this moment, Gaoji’s Tavern was not yet closed. Cai Wei stood on the street, looking coldly through the open door at Gao Jia, who was sitting behind the counter. She snorted a cold laugh and turned towards his back house.
The layout of Gaoji’s Tavern is the same as that of the Eight-Fortune Tavern in Qingyun Town. Both are three-entry houses. The first entry facing the street is used as a shop, and the following two entries in the backyard are used as residences.
Cai Wei arrived at the backyard, lightly jumped over the yard wall, and saw the rooms in the second entry were dark without any lamps lit. It seemed that these rooms belonged to the waiters of the tavern, and they were empty at present because the tavern hadn’t closed.
Unlike the second entry, lights were on in the backyard residence, and cries of a child and scolding from a woman could faintly be heard from inside.
"You damn slut, did you want to scald me to death by boiling the water this hot?"
A crisp sound of a slap, followed by a mournful scream, echoed from inside the house to the outside.
Cai Wei frowned, walked to the window, and gently poked a small hole in the window paper with her finger to look inside.
In the room, a young lady in a large red undergarment, with her bare feet, was forcefully scolding a maid holding a child. At her feet was an overturned wooden basin and water for washing feet scattered all around.
The lady, with foxy eyes and a slim waist, held her hips with one hand, tightly twisted the maid’s ear with the other, causing the maid to cry out and beg for mercy.
"Madam, please spare me, I was wrong, I will go right away to boil water for you again..."
Lady Bai still twisted the maid’s ear, spat fiercely on her face, and cursed, "You worthless little bitch! You thought I wouldn’t notice your evil intentions? It’s on purpose, isn’t it, to take revenge for your old master. Bah! You have no idea how insignificant you are, and yet you dare to mess with me!"
While cursing, she lifted her other hand and started smacking the maid’s cheek with continuous slaps, causing the maid’s cheeks to swell up instantly.
Cai Wei could not bear it any longer, she took a hairpin from her head, and hurled it out with a ’whoosh’.
Lady Bai was engrossed in slapping, unsuspecting that a silver jade hairpin would abruptly fly in through the window and, with a ’pop’ sound, stuck her snow-white wrist through!
Lady Bai froze, and then started shrieking like a pig being slaughtered.
She had barely started screaming when a stone, thrown through the window, knocked her unconscious.
The maid, who was holding the child and whose face was swollen like a pig’s head, was terrified. She dared not scream, holding the child with one hand, her mouth with the other, as her limbs shivered violently, making it difficult for her to stand.
Cai Wei broke into the room but was not harsh on the maid. Instead, she went to Lady Bai, crouched down and, reaching out, pulled the hairpin out of her wrist.
The sudden severe pain jumbled Lady Bai’s semi-consciousness and she was immediately awake. As she saw this cold woman before her, and then saw the blood spurting from her wrist, her mouth opened wide. But as she was about to scream-
Her throat met the sharp end of the silver jade hairpin!
"If you dare scream, this hairpin will pierce your throat, just like it pierced through your wrist just now!" Cai Wei laughed coldly, her voice icy.
The scream that was about to escape was swallowed back into her stomach, and Lady Bai shivered all over.
"Da, da, damsel, please spare me. Whatever you need, just say it. I, I will try my best to fulfill your re, re, requests..."