The carved wooden door was slightly opened, giving a clear view of the scene inside.
On the bed, a man and a woman were folded together. The woman's neck was slightly tilted back, and her fingers pulled the sheets into wrinkles.
Chu Yan looked away from the face of the woman in the room and lowered her eyes to look at her wrist.
Under the snow muscle of Hao Wan, a thread as thin as red silk is clearly visible.
She laughed to herself, closed her eyes and took a deep breath, then opened them, raised her foot and kicked the door hard.
Bang!
"ah!"
A woman's scream suddenly rang out in the room. Chu Yun looked at the man and woman on the bed who were pulling the quilt to cover their bodies in a panic, and said calmly to the maid behind him: "Go call someone."
"yes!"
Rites Yamen
A middle-aged man hurried into the inner hall with an anxious look on his face. He smiled at the officials, and then under the gaze of everyone, he came to Chu Hai, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, who frowned, and whispered in his ear: "Master, don't you?" Okay, the eldest lady will beat up the cousin and the eldest young master!"
"What?!"
Chu Hai stood up suddenly and looked at the expressions of his colleagues around him. He suppressed his anger and walked out. After exiting the door, he asked in a low voice: "What's going on?"
The middle-aged man looked around and said with a somewhat complicated expression: "My cousin and the young master... were having sex during the day. The young lady happened to catch them, so they took them down and dragged them to the courtyard. The young master was not there. How, after being beaten twenty times and then thrown on the ground, my cousin..."
"Stop hesitating!" Chu Hai said impatiently: "Speak clearly!"
"yes!"
The middle-aged man whispered: "The cousin and the eldest young master were naked, and they were beaten in front of everyone. The eldest young master was bleeding, and the cousin...the eldest lady said that she wanted to Beat him to death!"
"Is she crazy?!"
Chu Hai was furious: "Are everyone in the house dead?! Where is Yan Niang?"
The middle-aged man glanced at him: "Mrs. Qiu went to stop her, but was beaten together. The slave wanted to send someone to rescue, but the eldest lady said that if anyone dares to move today, she will kill herself immediately. Even the lady dragged her The sick body went to plead for mercy, but it only saved the young master."
"My cousin is not even naked, so I can't let the servants in. Furthermore, the Prince's Mansion will come to pick them up tomorrow. If something happens to the eldest lady at this time, I'm afraid... I really can't do anything. Can you come and find me?"
"Asshole!"
Chu Hai was so angry that he swung his sleeves and walked out: "I want to see if she can rebel!"
The Rites Yamen was not far from the Chu Mansion, and Chu Hai returned to the Mansion not long after.
Everyone in the whole house was silent. Chu Hai quickly came to the courtyard gate and was about to go in. Butler Yu, who came back with him, quickly stopped him: "Master, my cousin is not wearing any clothes."
Chu Hai stopped immediately, turned around and cursed at the maid aside: "Idiot! It's been so long, don't you know how to send some clothes in?!"
The maid almost cried out of fright: "The slaves tried, but the eldest lady wouldn't let me."
Chu Hai became even angrier when he heard this: "If she doesn't let you, then you can't give it away?!"
The maid's tears suddenly fell, and Butler Yu said quickly: "The eldest lady and the lady in the courtyard have guarded the entire courtyard. The maids can't get in at all. If they try to break in, the eldest lady will have a knife on her neck. "
Chu Hai suddenly became silent. Hearing the cries in the yard, he paced outside anxiously.
Suddenly, the crying stopped, and the beaten man apparently passed out.
Chu Hai suddenly stopped and shouted inside: "Chu Yan! What on earth do you want to do?!"
In the hospital
Chu Yan was sitting on a chair, holding a dagger in one hand, and his cold eyes fell on the mother and daughter who had just passed out.
Hearing Chu Hai's roar, she smiled and said outside: "Father, my good aunt and cousin can only save one today. Who do you choose?"
"Chu Yan!" Chu Hai clenched his fist angrily: "If you really wanted to beat them to death, they would have died long ago. How could you wait until your father comes back? What do you want? Just tell me. Why is it such a fuss? They are your aunts and cousins!"
"Ha! Aunt or cousin?"
Chu Yan sneered: "I regard them as my aunts and cousins, but how do they treat me?!"
Everyone in the courtyard had red eyes when they heard these words. Even Mrs. Chu, who was being supported and sitting aside, shed tears.
Chu Yan suppressed the bitterness in her throat and spoke in a cold voice: "My good aunt eloped with someone and was later abandoned. She wrote a letter to my mother, crying and saying how she met an unkind person. Even her biological daughter was given away by that person." Seek a future with the officials."
"My mother-in-law has a deep love for her sisters and brought her mother and daughter back to the house. I felt pity for my good cousin. I took care of her in everything and gave her everything she had to eat and use. But what did they do?! "
"My good aunt pushed my mother into the water, and she suffered from lung disease from then on. She couldn't even take a few steps without gasping for breath. Instead of making decisions for my mother, you actually got together with her on the bed, and even handed her breastmilk into her hands. Say it’s my mother’s request!”
"And my good cousin, who is submissive on the surface, seduces the prince secretly, and spreads rumors with my good aunt in front of Mrs. Hou. Although Mrs. Hou and the prince don't believe it, they also understand what is going on in our house. The family tradition is not right inside. Dirty, decisively break off the engagement with me."
At this point, Chu Yan closed his eyes and laughed at himself: "Oh, yes, I forgot, they dared to do this only because they got the instruction from their father, because you had planned to send me to the Prince's Mansion early in the morning. !”
When he heard the word "Prince's Palace", Chu Hai suddenly became anxious: "Chu Yan! You'd better be careful what you say!"
"What are you afraid of?"
Chu Yan smiled, looked around and said calmly: "Now, everyone in this courtyard is our own people, and outside the courtyard are all your people. Who knows what you have done?"
Chu Hai gave Butler Yu a look, and Butler Yu immediately understood and drove away the servants around him, not allowing them to come near the yard again.
Chu Hai changed his previous attitude and said with a sincere expression: "I am a father for your own good."
"For my own good? Ha!"
Chu Yan looked at the red thread under the skin of her wrists and sneered: "The prince is violent and murderous. How many of the women who were sent to the prince's residence are still alive now?! Father, if it is really for my own good, why bother? What a waste of time, poisoning me and my mother, and we have to take an antidote every month to stay alive?"
Chu Hai was speechless for a moment, only looking at the closed courtyard door and frowning.
Chu Yan didn't need his explanation: "You used my mother and poison to contain me, and then you asked my good cousin to seduce my idiot brother, so that you could use your brother to control my mother. One ring after another, father, really Good plan!"
After saying this, she took a deep breath, looked at the door of the courtyard and said coldly: "I know that your father has already boarded Prince Rong's ship, and I also know what you are planning. I kept the mother and son alive and did not kill them directly. , and indeed waiting for you.”
