Doted By The Regent King-Chapter 1203 - 1201: Forced to Swallow the Bitter Loss

What should we do? Naturally, we have to come clean; what else can we do?

Madam Wang held her tea as she listened to her wet nurse talk about that damn assassin failing his mission, losing ten thousand taels of silver, and for a moment, her mind went blank.

"Ma-Madam?" Nanny Wei called out in a trembling voice. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

"Failed?" Madam Wang raised her eyes towards her, "Ten thousand taels of silver gone?"

Nanny Wei swallowed her saliva and said, "That’s right."

Bang.

Madam Wang forcefully smashed the porcelain teacup in her hand onto the floor, tea leaves and water splattering everywhere. She glared at Nanny Wei, her eyes brimming with malice, "Ten thousand taels spent, and you’re telling me he failed? Just killing two women and he failed?"

Impossible, such a renowned assassin couldn’t kill two women, impossible, people would laugh if they heard. What kind of assassin is this? He might as well go be a sissy.

Nanny Wei was so frightened that she fell to her knees, saying, "Wei Da said they have someone protecting them, and it’s an expert. Those assassins even lost two of their own."

Madam Wang’s face was livid.

This was even harder to accept than the failure itself. Those wretched people have experts protecting them, but why?

"Who is it? Who’s opposing me?" Madam Wang gritted her teeth.

How would Nanny Wei know? She just said, "Maybe they’ve hired bodyguards or something?"

"Can bodyguards really be better than assassins? These useless people, are they just freeloaders?" Madam Wang stood up in a rage, "The task wasn’t completed, and the silver is gone? They dared to pocket the silver despite not completing the mission, aren’t they afraid of getting burned?"

Nanny Wei grabbed her hand and said, "Madam, there’s nothing we can do about it now, we have to accept it."

"Nonsense! Why should we! Go, tell Wei Da to take people and get my silver back."

"Madam, you can’t!" Nanny Wei was pale with fear and quickly said, "They said if we make a fuss, they won’t let it go easily. Madam, you are like jade ware, you shouldn’t compare yourself to clay pots!"

"A bunch of rabble still dares to threaten us, how dare they not let it go!" Madam Wang sneered.

"Madam, if they go public with this, it’ll be a big problem for us. Hiring someone to commit murder, if this reputation spreads, it will bring no good to you, and it will also be bad for the young miss and young master!" Nanny Wei said, "And you know those are just a mob, and also assassins, if we anger them, they could break in and kill us, then..."

Madam Wang’s face turned pale, and she sat down heavily.

"Madam, trying to catch a rat by smashing a jade vase, that’s a loss-making action. The urgent thing is to cover up this handle, not making it bigger; otherwise, if it really gets out, we’ll lose both our reputation and possibly our lives! As a noble family, why compare ourselves with those sewer rats?"

Madam Wang’s mouth opened, considering what Nanny Wei said, envisioning what would happen if it came true: the reputation, the lawsuit, the threat to her life.

"Do we just let it go like this?" she murmured.

Nanny Wei coaxed, "Madam, they’re holding a handle over us, we have no choice but to bear this loss silently! Think about the young miss and young master, if... we can’t afford any risks."

"But..." Madam Wang gritted her teeth, "Ten thousand taels, an entire ten thousand taels just gone like that, I, I can’t accept it!"

Nanny Wei lowered her eyes, thinking, I advised you countless times before, you wouldn’t listen. Now that things have come to this, who can you blame for your regret?