Chapter 21
The Jiang family is not far away, and Jiang Wu will arrive home soon.
Xiao Ji left two guards to escort them, so nothing happened along the way, except that the family was frightened when they saw Jiang Wu coming back injured.
Jiang Baichuan was also at home at that time. After hearing Jiang Wu tell the whole story, he immediately became furious and went to Cheng'en Duke's Mansion to ask for an explanation.
Although he is wild and uninhibited and spends a lot of money, he still loves and protects his daughter. He almost broke off diplomatic relations with Duke Cheng'en because of this matter, but Duke Cheng'en personally beat his unlucky son in front of him, and then arrested the person who had taken it upon himself to attack Jiang Wu and explained again and again, so he managed to save the relationship. friendship.
Afterwards, He Dinghong was sentenced to three months of confinement, and the instigator who tried to cling to Cheng'en's palace but failed miserably also received the punishment he deserved. In order to express his apology, Duke Cheng'en also sent many gifts to Jiang Wu.
Jiang Wu didn't refuse, so the matter was settled. But after that day, she never went to Cheng'en Palace again.
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At the same time, in the Qingguo Duke's Mansion on the other side of the capital, he was attacked twice by Xiao Ji. The disturbed Ge family returned home and immediately arrested his daughter's most trusted maid, Jin Liu, for interrogation.
Although Cui Lingyan didn't tell Jinliu openly about her and Cui Ang, Jinliu was with Cui Lingyan all day long, so he had some guesses. Under Ge's severe questioning, she told everything she knew.
Geshi held on to a glimmer of hope at first, but the more he heard about it, the colder his heart became. When she learned that her daughter had been rescued from Suzaku Lake by Cui Ang on the Dragon Boat Festival, the maids had not been allowed into the house to serve her at night. Her eyesight went dark and she could no longer deceive herself and covered her chest.
"Shameless! Absolutely shameless! Me! Why did I have such an evil obstacle -"
"Madam, calm down, calm down. This matter can't be entirely blamed on the third girl." Her confidant, Aunt Shen, quickly patted her on the back to reassure her, "The third girl is only sixteen years old after all, she is still a child. Can you understand those things between men and women? It must be that Cui Ang had bad intentions and deliberately seduced her and led her astray by relying on his good face!"
Ge Shi leaned on her arms and took a few deep breaths before he managed to regain his composure and said: "...You are right, Yan'er has always been well-behaved and the most knowledgeable and courteous person. She must be that bastard of unknown origin Cui Ang. Deliberately seducing and forcing her!"
When she talked about this chaotic mood, she suddenly calmed down, and a cold light flashed in her eyes, "Yes, he is the one who forced my Yan'er. My Yan'er is just too kind, and because of the relationship between brother and sister, I don't know what to do. Just tell him to give up. Since I am Yan'er's mother, I can't help but help her... Come on! Go and find the second young master for me. Tell him that I, as a mother, have something urgent to do to find him! And Yan'er, Go and get her too."
"yes!"
Ge was Cui Ang's nominal aunt, and her filial piety was so important that even though Cui Ang was on duty at the time, she had to take leave and go home.
It's just that Geshi hated his background and always treated him coldly. He never took the initiative to talk to him in so many years. Why did he make an exception today?
On the way home, Cui Ang's eyebrows darkened slightly, and he had a bad premonition in his heart. He thought for a while and asked someone to inform Duke Qing, who was also away from home.
After he returned home, Ge asked his servants to take him down without saying a word, saying that he was unfilial and rebellious and that he should be punished according to family law.
Cui Ang: "..."
Before Cui Ang had time to ask what he had done wrong, he was pushed down on the bench that had been prepared by the servants. Immediately afterwards, Ge Shi, with a frosty look on his face, stood up and walked to him, bent down and said in a voice that only he could hear: "I know you are good at it, and these people together are no match for you, but I put my words aside." Here, if you dare to resist today, tomorrow I will marry Yan'er to my hometown of Yangzhou, so that you two will never see each other again in this life."
Cui Ang's expression suddenly changed. Ge Shi knew about his relationship with Cui Lingyan.
But now that he had broken off the relationship with Cui Lingyan, he had already imagined how he would deal with it if the incident came to light. So after his face changed for a few moments, Cui Ang quickly suppressed his anger and gave up struggling: "It was my son who was at fault first. , please mother punish me."
The biggest obstacle between him and Cui Lingyan is Qing Guogong and his wife. If this beating could be used to gain Ge's calmness and Duke Qing's consent, Cui Ang felt it was a good deal. Anyway, Duke Qing will be back soon, and even if he is beaten, he won't be able to take too many beatings.
Ge Shi saw that he was trying to make a cruel trick, and he became more and more angry. He immediately said sternly: "Since you have admitted your mistake, come here and beat me hard until I tell you to stop!"
Ge Shi gave the order, and the servants who had been prepared for a long time hit Cui Ang hard with their thick wooden sticks.
Cui Ang groaned in pain, his face gradually turned pale, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
"No! Stop fighting! Stop fighting! Mom, please let me out! I'm going to stop my mother. I'm going to beg her not to hit brother Zi'an!"
The place where Cui Ang was beaten was the main room of Geshi's courtyard. There was a side room diagonally opposite the main room. Behind the slightly opened door of the side room was a girl in pink clothes whose hands and feet were bound with soft cloth and her mouth was covered. She was struggling and crying.
This girl is naturally Cui Lingyan. The "brother Zian" she calls is Cui Ang, and Zian is the name of Cui Ang.
Aunt Shen watched Cui Lingyan grow up and felt very sad when she saw her crying so sadly. But no matter how sad she was, she didn't dare to go against Ge's wishes, so she could only stay with Cui Lingyan at the moment. She persuaded her in a good voice: "Girl, please stop crying. Madam said that the more you cry, the more she will hate the Second Young Master for confusing you like this. You know, people in the world value filial piety, no matter what the Second Young Master's true origin is. What, in name he still calls Madam mother. In addition, he just admitted his mistake personally, under this situation, even if Madam beats the second young master to death in this yard today, no one will say anything wrong about Madam. Therefore, if you don’t want anything to happen to the second young master, just listen to my wife and stop interacting with him.”
"Good girl, Madam is doing this for your own good. If the matter between you and the Second Young Master is accidentally spread, you will be the one who suffers. He is a man who can at most be said to be young and romantic and not cultivate his personal ethics. , but to you, this matter is a sharp knife, which is fatal! Not to mention that once this matter spreads, all the girls in our house will be implicated..."
Cui Lingyan couldn't listen to her words at all. Blood was already visible on Cui Ang's back. She looked out from the crack in the door and could see him being beaten. Her heart was broken: "I don't! If brother Zian dies, I won't live either! You go and tell My mother, brother Zian did not confuse me, he and I are in love, and no one can separate us!"
Her mouth was covered with a cloth, and her words were slightly muffled, but she could still hear the content clearly.
Aunt Shen: "..."
Aunt Shen was an old man next to Ge Shi. She had never seen any kind of storm. Although she felt bad for a moment after hearing this, she did not panic. She just wiped her tears and followed Ge Shi's wishes and said to her with kindness and power. : "Madam said, it is of no use to her to seek life and death. If the girl wants to save the second young master, there is only one way to go, and that is to cut off all contact with him and work hard to save Prince Duan's Mansion, which is hard to find in this world. Marriage. Otherwise, she would rather lock you up in the village and find a doctor to watch you day and night, or kill the second young master first to express his bad temper. On the other hand, if the girl is willing to be obedient, then for the sake of you and the Duke For my sake, my wife can spare the second young master, and find someone to help him reverse the case - didn't you say that his biological father was unjustly killed?"
After Ge asked someone to bring Cui Lingyan, he tied her up and locked her up in this room without saying anything. Cui Lingyan didn't know what happened at first. It wasn't until she remembered that Ge Shi had just returned from Prince Duan's Mansion that she realized that her mother was so angry because she probably knew about her affair with Cui Ang.
For this reason, she couldn't believe it at first - ever since Cui Ang comforted her that day, Xiao Ji treated her so abnormally out of jealousy, she no longer worried that Xiao Ji would tell the truth about her and Cui Ang. Because this matter was related to the reputation of all the female family members of the Duke of Qing, she believed that with Xiao Ji's character, even if he was jealous and angry, he would not be able to talk behind his back and hurt innocent people.
But he actually revealed this matter...
Although she was telling her mother, Cui Lingyan still felt betrayed.
Xiao Ji, how could he do this! It was a waste of her trusting him so much!
Cui Lingyan was anxious and angry, so she immediately asked Aunt Shen to call Ge and tell her Cui Ang's true identity. But Geshi did not calm down after hearing this. Instead, he said "So what" with an even uglier face and walked away.
Only then did Cui Lingyan realize that her mother was so angry, perhaps not only because of her affair with Cui Ang, but also because she and her father had been hiding Cui Ang's life experience from her, which hurt her heart.
Cui Lingyan was panicked by this. Now she saw Cui Ang's body becoming more and more bloody. She was so heartbroken that she finally cried and nodded: "I listen to my mother, I listen! Tell her to stop!" stop fighting!"
Just at this time, Duke Qing, whom Cui Ang sent to call, also came back. Seeing that Cui Ang was beaten to a bloody pulp, he was furious. He rushed over to help him up and scolded Ge Shi: "You beat someone like this! Why are you so crazy here?!"
He is a thin-looking middle-aged man, about forty-seven or eighteen years old, with a long beard. It was a good thing that Ge Shi didn't see him. As soon as he saw him, the fire in his heart that hadn't been extinguished suddenly became even higher.
She couldn't bear it and sent all the servants out of the room. Then she rushed to Duke Qing with tears in her eyes and gave him a hard slap in the face: "You have the nerve to ask me! Do you know this thing you brought back?" You bastard, you seduced Yan'er behind our backs, causing her to almost bear the reputation of brother-sister incest, bringing harm to the whole family!!!"
Duke Qing was stunned. He covered his face and shouted in shock and anger: "Shrew! You shrew--"
Then he was stunned, "You, what did you just say???"
Ge and Qing Guo Gong have been at odds for many years, and they are only superficially married. Otherwise, Qing Guo Gong would not have concealed Ge's Cui Ang's true identity and lied to her that Cui Ang was his concubine without being discovered. .
The main reason for the discord between the two was that Qing Guo Gong had Bai Yueguang in his heart. Even if he had to marry Ge because of family interests, she had already married his good friend, and he always thought about him. He always compares Gemini with the other party...
Wait, friend.
Ge Shi suddenly turned his head and stared at the pale Cui Ang, and an idea suddenly came to his mind: "Lin Baishuang... He is the son of that bitch Lin Baishuang, right?!"
Lin Baishuang is Bai Yueguang, the Duke of Qing who died young. Her husband Meng Chengcheng was involved in a treason case, and the whole family was convicted and died.
Duke Qing's face froze and he could not say anything to deny it.
Ge Shi stumbled back two steps with tears in his eyes, and suddenly laughed twice in a hoarse voice. Then his reason completely collapsed and he rushed towards him. He started to fight the Duke of Qing like crazy again: "I said, how could I have seen such a bastard?" I felt disgusted at first sight! Cui Guanglin, you deceived me so much! You deceived me so much!"
Duke Qing couldn't dodge and was scratched with two bloody marks on his face. He was so frightened that he completely screamed: "That's enough for you!"
He threw Ge Shi hard, and Ge Shi fell to the ground, hitting his forehead heavily on the chair leg.
"mother!"
"lady!!!"
Blood snaked down from Ge's forehead, and the Duke of Qing's palace was in complete chaos.
Cui Ang, who originally wanted to use this matter as a trick to persuade Qing Guo Gong to agree that he and Cui Lingyan be together, and then use him to get rid of the Ge family, was also stunned by this unexpected development.
… Could it be that the beating he received was in vain?
