Chapter 11 The fight
“Again?” Li Youde laughed because of Chen Hui’s rhetoric question and said gloomily, “You really know how to deny. Chen Pingzhi is really capable for raising such a good daughter like you!”
Chen Pingzhi? The name of the original’s father?
Chen Hui said a bit bashful, “This is not all the capability of my father.”
Li Youde, “…”
He almost couldn’t help himself from snorting angrily. I’m not complementing you!
He took a deep breath to suppress the uncontrollable anger and said, “Lady Chen Hui, I advise you to be more well-behaved and don’t do these obscene things anymore!”
Chen Hui stared directly at Li Youde. After staring for a while, her eyes turned red and she choked, “Lord, how, how could you wrong me like this? Did anyone see that it was done by this Lady Chen? No one saw it, right? Why do you blame this Lady Chen for all the bad things? This lady Chen refuse to accept it!”
“Refuse to accept?” Li Youde humphed once.
“It is not done by this Lady Chen, this lady Chen won’t admit to it!” Chen Hui spoke forcibly out of sense of righteousness.
Li Youde sneered, “Could it be that you will admit if the evidence was thrown before you?”
“Of course!” Chen Hui had a steadfast expression. “However, it is impossible for lord to find evidence. After all, this Lady Chen is innocent. This Lady Chen did nothing.”
Chen Hui firmly believed that Li Youde didn’t have evidence. She used her own voice to pretend to be ghost. The clothes that she used to pretend to be ghost are her own clothes. How would they be able to tell that those were things used to pretend to be a ghost? As for the only witness, Xiao Tiao…
Li Youde suddenly swept over Xiao Tiao, but he didn’t remember this little maid’s name. Fortunately, Xiao Liu beside him was quick-witted and immediately said, “Lord, she is the one serving Lady Chen called Xiao Tiao.”
Li Youde asked Xiao Tiao coldly, “Xiao Tiao, isn’t it? Tell me everything you heard and saw these past two nights! If there is half a lie, you will be served with the rod!”
Originally, Xiao Tiao was already so frightened that her whole body trembled. Being yelled like this by Li Youde, her legs went soft and she knelt on the ground. She quickly said, “This, this slave didn’t…didn’t hear anything!”
“Xiao Tiao! Do you know what had happened to the last one who lied to me?” Li Youde smiled eerily.
Xiao Tiao shuddered from fright, but she heard Chen Hui ask curiously, “What happened?”
Li Youde viciously glared once at Chen Hui and said, “Shut up!”
Xiao Tiao looked once flabbergasted at Chen Hui once. That -desire for knowledge- question of Chen Hui pulled her out of the abyss of fear. Although, her heartbeat was still fast, it was slower than before. Hearing Li Youde ask once again, she hurriedly said, “This slave is telling the truth! This slave slept soundly at night and didn’t hear anything! This slave doesn’t dare to lie!”
Chen Hui was very proud in her heart. She knew that Xiao Tiao was timid. Therefore, she didn’t involve Xiao Tiao in this incident. These past few days, she discovered that Xiao Tiao slept more deeply in comparison to others. After she was soundly asleep, even if someone moved something, she wouldn’t wake up. Hence, she (CH) was so bold.
Xiao Tiao who lived in the same yard as her couldn’t be the eyewitness. When she pretended to be a ghost, she changed her voice. Who could be certain that it was her? There was no material evidence and no witness. Does this exasperating eunuch have the face to ‘slander’ her?
Chen Hui thought for a moment and hurriedly added, “Lord, you wouldn’t obtain the confession under torture, right? Then, you don’t have to ask any more. Take it as this Lady Chen had done it. This Lady Chen is willing to be the scapegoat.” When she spoke till here, her tone was extremely aggrieved.
Seeing that expression of Chen Hui that seemed to be heroic and die for a righteous cause, Li Youde fumed with rage. Naturally, he could punish her without distinguishing the right and wrong. In the past, when someone made him unhappy in Li residence, he punished them at will. However, today, he truly got into a dispute with Lady Chen. He didn’t believe that he wouldn’t be able to find any evidence of her causing trouble when this is his territory.
“Fine, fine, fine!” Li Youde repeated the word ‘fine’ a few times. His face was ashen and no one knew whether he was smiling or being angry. “Lady Chen, you wait! Let’s go!”
Li Youde angrily left with the people. Grandmother Xu packed up the things and left. Xiao Tiao who had regained her senses asked, “Lady Chen, the past two nights…”
Chen Hui sighed and said, “I also don’t know why master always suspects me. I obviously knew my place and didn’t do anything weird. Why does he always wrong me? If he dislikes me so much, he might as well drive me back home.”
She didn’t intend to let Xiao Tiao know what she did. Xiao Tiao truly couldn’t keep secrets. The only way to make a secret always remain a secret was not to tell others.
“Lady…,” Don’t know if Xiao Tiao heard some feelings of sadness and grievance from Chen Hui’s tone, her expression instantly fell down.
Just as Chen Hui wanted to comfort her, she suddenly heard a sound outside. So, she shut her mouth in time and quietly looked outside the door and happened to see the back of a servant who was leaving in a hurry.
What an exasperating eunuch, he is actually so treacherous. He specially left someone to eavesdrop on the conversation between her and Xiao Tiao! Fortunately, she was smart, otherwise she would have been exposed right now!
At the same time, Chen Hui made the decision to take a rest tonight. Although, the “female ghost” got suspiciously more well-behaved after Li Youde came, but it was better than getting caught.
The servant Li Youde left to eavesdrop was the most quick-witted Xiao Liu. He hurried back to Chrysanthemum Yard. His master was waiting for him.
“How is it?” Li Youde asked as soon as he came back.
Xiao Liu shook his head, “From the conversation between Lady Chen and Xiao Tiao, she truly doesn’t know.”
“Impossible, this incident is certainly done by her!” Li Youde humphed once. “What did she tell Xiao Tiao. Tell me in detail.”
Xiao Liu imitated Chen Hui and Xiao Tiao for Li Youde.
Hearing the last words ‘drive me back home’, Li Youde’s eyebrow jumped and said, “She still hopes to go home. In her dreams!”
Neither Xiao Liu nor Ah Da who was standing at a side, said a word. They couldn’t understand what that Lady Chen wanted to do, but even more, they couldn’t understand the attitude of lord. To say that he was good to Lady Chen, he happened to suppress Chen household. The promise that he made before had also been changed. If you say that he disliked Lady Chen, lord happened to endure the disturbance caused by Lady Chen. Instead, it looked like he became exhilarated and wanted to fight with her. Of course, this kind of confusion will only be buried in the bottom of their hearts. Who would dare to ask and seek for death?
Li Youde really sent two servants to lurch near Plum Yard that night to secretly observe the movements there. However, Chen Hui had long been in a deep sleep. Therefore, until dawn, the two went back without success while yawning.
Before going to the palace in the morning, Li Youde listened to the young servant’s report and sneered, “This is knowing that I will send people over, so she deliberately took a break. This Lady Chen is indeed very crafty. Only a merchant like Chen Pingzhi who had a bad smell of copper all over him could raise this kind of crafty daughter!”
However, this craftiness undoubtedly aroused Li Youde’s fighting spirit. He didn’t believe that he couldn’t win over a daughter of a merchant. After instructing Xiao Liu to continue to watch attentively over Plum Yard, he left in a hurry.
Chen Hui always had nothing to do during the day. After being clearly warned by Li Youde, she didn’t want to disturb that Lady Jiang anymore. She could only be in daze.
Sometimes, Xiao Tiao would be in daze with Chen Hui. Sometimes, she would go to clean the house again. She always has something to do.
Because of boringness, Chen Hui saw at first sight when a letter was stuffed in from under the door of the yard. When she rushed over, she didn’t pick up the letter first. Instead, she looked through the crack of the door. She only saw a figure’s back flash away. The back of the figure looked like that of a woman’s.
Who sent her a letter?
She picked up the letter. There was nothing written on the envelope. The opening of the envelope is well sealed. Presumably, no one had read the letter after it came from the sender.
Chen Hui was certain that there was no anthrax poison used as weapons in ancient times. So, she opened the letter with an ease of the mind and read it.
The letter came from her father. After reading the letter, she had a general understanding of what had happened to her…better said, what had happened to the original. Her father, the one called Chen Pingzhi, was a merchant in timber. He got in touch with that exasperating eunuch and wanted to get the timber business from the palace used to build a new palace. To get in that exasperating eunuch’s good graces, he took advantage of the drunkenness of that exasperating eunuch and stuffed the original into the backyard of the exasperating eunuch. Because the original was definitely unwilling, he made her faint by feeding her medication and then directly sent her over and made it into a fact. When she woke up, what was done couldn’t be undone. She could only accept this fate…She guessed this because Chen Pingzhi apologized several times in the letter. However, she didn’t know what was going on. That exasperating eunuch obviously accepted the money and the person, but he stuck Chen household’s business at one place. Therefore, the purpose of Chen Pingzhi’s letter was to let Chen Hui inquire and it was the best if she could use the pillow talk.
Chen Hui almost laughed three times while holding the letter. This father, this father, or was he a beast? After pushing his daughter into the pit of fire, he turned around and asked for his daughter’s help? Fancy that he still has the face to ask! However, it seemed that Chen Pingzhi didn’t know that the original committed suicide after waking up and learning the truth. If he knew, he should’ve understood. That that exasperating eunuch targeting his business for no apparent reason, wasn’t it because of daughter he sent?
Thinking that that exasperating eunuch targeting Chen household and she also had some contribution, Chen Hui laughed secretly. It could be considered a revenge for the original.
After reading the letter and being in daze for a while, Chen Hui ran back to the room and burned the letter. Xiao Tiao was originally busy. After smelling the burning smell, she ran over and asked about the situation. Chen Hui said, “Didn’t master say that there are ghosts? I will burn something for them to let them be reincarnated sooner.”
Xiao Tiao turned white when she heard about ghosts. She didn’t know what Chen Hui was burning, but she hurriedly came over and watched her burn in silence. Her mouth seemed to be muttering Amitabha.
At dinner time, grandmother Xu didn’t come at the usual time. Just as Chen Hui and Xiao Tiao felt that it was strange, two servants came from Chrysanthemum Yard. They were Xiao Wu and Xiao Liu that Chen Hui had seen before. The two opened the door with the key and brought Chen Hui and Xiao Tiao to Chrysanthemum Yard.
Xiao Tiao was naturally scared out of her wits. While Chen Hui comforted her, she thought about why that exasperating eunuch looked for her and what he would do to her again. She had no fear.
What kind of tricks was he playing?
Chapter 11 The fight
“Again?” Li Youde laughed because of Chen Hui’s rhetoric question and said gloomily, “You really know how to deny. Chen Pingzhi is really capable for raising such a good daughter like you!”
Chen Pingzhi? The name of the original’s father?
Chen Hui said a bit bashful, “This is not all the capability of my father.”
Li Youde, “…”
He almost couldn’t help himself from snorting angrily. I’m not complementing you!
He took a deep breath to suppress the uncontrollable anger and said, “Lady Chen Hui, I advise you to be more well-behaved and don’t do these obscene things anymore!”
Chen Hui stared directly at Li Youde. After staring for a while, her eyes turned red and she choked, “Lord, how, how could you wrong me like this? Did anyone see that it was done by this Lady Chen? No one saw it, right? Why do you blame this Lady Chen for all the bad things? This lady Chen refuse to accept it!”
“Refuse to accept?” Li Youde humphed once.
“It is not done by this Lady Chen, this lady Chen won’t admit to it!” Chen Hui spoke forcibly out of sense of righteousness.
Li Youde sneered, “Could it be that you will admit if the evidence was thrown before you?”
“Of course!” Chen Hui had a steadfast expression. “However, it is impossible for lord to find evidence. After all, this Lady Chen is innocent. This Lady Chen did nothing.”
Chen Hui firmly believed that Li Youde didn’t have evidence. She used her own voice to pretend to be ghost. The clothes that she used to pretend to be ghost are her own clothes. How would they be able to tell that those were things used to pretend to be a ghost? As for the only witness, Xiao Tiao…
Li Youde suddenly swept over Xiao Tiao, but he didn’t remember this little maid’s name. Fortunately, Xiao Liu beside him was quick-witted and immediately said, “Lord, she is the one serving Lady Chen called Xiao Tiao.”
Li Youde asked Xiao Tiao coldly, “Xiao Tiao, isn’t it? Tell me everything you heard and saw these past two nights! If there is half a lie, you will be served with the rod!”
Originally, Xiao Tiao was already so frightened that her whole body trembled. Being yelled like this by Li Youde, her legs went soft and she knelt on the ground. She quickly said, “This, this slave didn’t…didn’t hear anything!”
“Xiao Tiao! Do you know what had happened to the last one who lied to me?” Li Youde smiled eerily.
Xiao Tiao shuddered from fright, but she heard Chen Hui ask curiously, “What happened?”
Li Youde viciously glared once at Chen Hui and said, “Shut up!”
Xiao Tiao looked once flabbergasted at Chen Hui once. That -desire for knowledge- question of Chen Hui pulled her out of the abyss of fear. Although, her heartbeat was still fast, it was slower than before. Hearing Li Youde ask once again, she hurriedly said, “This slave is telling the truth! This slave slept soundly at night and didn’t hear anything! This slave doesn’t dare to lie!”
Chen Hui was very proud in her heart. She knew that Xiao Tiao was timid. Therefore, she didn’t involve Xiao Tiao in this incident. These past few days, she discovered that Xiao Tiao slept more deeply in comparison to others. After she was soundly asleep, even if someone moved something, she wouldn’t wake up. Hence, she (CH) was so bold.
Xiao Tiao who lived in the same yard as her couldn’t be the eyewitness. When she pretended to be a ghost, she changed her voice. Who could be certain that it was her? There was no material evidence and no witness. Does this exasperating eunuch have the face to ‘slander’ her?
Chen Hui thought for a moment and hurriedly added, “Lord, you wouldn’t obtain the confession under torture, right? Then, you don’t have to ask any more. Take it as this Lady Chen had done it. This Lady Chen is willing to be the scapegoat.” When she spoke till here, her tone was extremely aggrieved.
Seeing that expression of Chen Hui that seemed to be heroic and die for a righteous cause, Li Youde fumed with rage. Naturally, he could punish her without distinguishing the right and wrong. In the past, when someone made him unhappy in Li residence, he punished them at will. However, today, he truly got into a dispute with Lady Chen. He didn’t believe that he wouldn’t be able to find any evidence of her causing trouble when this is his territory.
“Fine, fine, fine!” Li Youde repeated the word ‘fine’ a few times. His face was ashen and no one knew whether he was smiling or being angry. “Lady Chen, you wait! Let’s go!”
Li Youde angrily left with the people. Grandmother Xu packed up the things and left. Xiao Tiao who had regained her senses asked, “Lady Chen, the past two nights…”
Chen Hui sighed and said, “I also don’t know why master always suspects me. I obviously knew my place and didn’t do anything weird. Why does he always wrong me? If he dislikes me so much, he might as well drive me back home.”
She didn’t intend to let Xiao Tiao know what she did. Xiao Tiao truly couldn’t keep secrets. The only way to make a secret always remain a secret was not to tell others.
“Lady…,” Don’t know if Xiao Tiao heard some feelings of sadness and grievance from Chen Hui’s tone, her expression instantly fell down.
Just as Chen Hui wanted to comfort her, she suddenly heard a sound outside. So, she shut her mouth in time and quietly looked outside the door and happened to see the back of a servant who was leaving in a hurry.
What an exasperating eunuch, he is actually so treacherous. He specially left someone to eavesdrop on the conversation between her and Xiao Tiao! Fortunately, she was smart, otherwise she would have been exposed right now!
At the same time, Chen Hui made the decision to take a rest tonight. Although, the “female ghost” got suspiciously more well-behaved after Li Youde came, but it was better than getting caught.
The servant Li Youde left to eavesdrop was the most quick-witted Xiao Liu. He hurried back to Chrysanthemum Yard. His master was waiting for him.
“How is it?” Li Youde asked as soon as he came back.
Xiao Liu shook his head, “From the conversation between Lady Chen and Xiao Tiao, she truly doesn’t know.”
“Impossible, this incident is certainly done by her!” Li Youde humphed once. “What did she tell Xiao Tiao. Tell me in detail.”
Xiao Liu imitated Chen Hui and Xiao Tiao for Li Youde.
Hearing the last words ‘drive me back home’, Li Youde’s eyebrow jumped and said, “She still hopes to go home. In her dreams!”
Neither Xiao Liu nor Ah Da who was standing at a side, said a word. They couldn’t understand what that Lady Chen wanted to do, but even more, they couldn’t understand the attitude of lord. To say that he was good to Lady Chen, he happened to suppress Chen household. The promise that he made before had also been changed. If you say that he disliked Lady Chen, lord happened to endure the disturbance caused by Lady Chen. Instead, it looked like he became exhilarated and wanted to fight with her. Of course, this kind of confusion will only be buried in the bottom of their hearts. Who would dare to ask and seek for death?
Li Youde really sent two servants to lurch near Plum Yard that night to secretly observe the movements there. However, Chen Hui had long been in a deep sleep. Therefore, until dawn, the two went back without success while yawning.
Before going to the palace in the morning, Li Youde listened to the young servant’s report and sneered, “This is knowing that I will send people over, so she deliberately took a break. This Lady Chen is indeed very crafty. Only a merchant like Chen Pingzhi who had a bad smell of copper all over him could raise this kind of crafty daughter!”
However, this craftiness undoubtedly aroused Li Youde’s fighting spirit. He didn’t believe that he couldn’t win over a daughter of a merchant. After instructing Xiao Liu to continue to watch attentively over Plum Yard, he left in a hurry.
Chen Hui always had nothing to do during the day. After being clearly warned by Li Youde, she didn’t want to disturb that Lady Jiang anymore. She could only be in daze.
Sometimes, Xiao Tiao would be in daze with Chen Hui. Sometimes, she would go to clean the house again. She always has something to do.
Because of boringness, Chen Hui saw at first sight when a letter was stuffed in from under the door of the yard. When she rushed over, she didn’t pick up the letter first. Instead, she looked through the crack of the door. She only saw a figure’s back flash away. The back of the figure looked like that of a woman’s.
Who sent her a letter?
She picked up the letter. There was nothing written on the envelope. The opening of the envelope is well sealed. Presumably, no one had read the letter after it came from the sender.
Chen Hui was certain that there was no anthrax poison used as weapons in ancient times. So, she opened the letter with an ease of the mind and read it.
The letter came from her father. After reading the letter, she had a general understanding of what had happened to her…better said, what had happened to the original. Her father, the one called Chen Pingzhi, was a merchant in timber. He got in touch with that exasperating eunuch and wanted to get the timber business from the palace used to build a new palace. To get in that exasperating eunuch’s good graces, he took advantage of the drunkenness of that exasperating eunuch and stuffed the original into the backyard of the exasperating eunuch. Because the original was definitely unwilling, he made her faint by feeding her medication and then directly sent her over and made it into a fact. When she woke up, what was done couldn’t be undone. She could only accept this fate…She guessed this because Chen Pingzhi apologized several times in the letter. However, she didn’t know what was going on. That exasperating eunuch obviously accepted the money and the person, but he stuck Chen household’s business at one place. Therefore, the purpose of Chen Pingzhi’s letter was to let Chen Hui inquire and it was the best if she could use the pillow talk.
Chen Hui almost laughed three times while holding the letter. This father, this father, or was he a beast? After pushing his daughter into the pit of fire, he turned around and asked for his daughter’s help? Fancy that he still has the face to ask! However, it seemed that Chen Pingzhi didn’t know that the original committed suicide after waking up and learning the truth. If he knew, he should’ve understood. That that exasperating eunuch targeting his business for no apparent reason, wasn’t it because of daughter he sent?
Thinking that that exasperating eunuch targeting Chen household and she also had some contribution, Chen Hui laughed secretly. It could be considered a revenge for the original.
After reading the letter and being in daze for a while, Chen Hui ran back to the room and burned the letter. Xiao Tiao was originally busy. After smelling the burning smell, she ran over and asked about the situation. Chen Hui said, “Didn’t master say that there are ghosts? I will burn something for them to let them be reincarnated sooner.”
Xiao Tiao turned white when she heard about ghosts. She didn’t know what Chen Hui was burning, but she hurriedly came over and watched her burn in silence. Her mouth seemed to be muttering Amitabha.
At dinner time, grandmother Xu didn’t come at the usual time. Just as Chen Hui and Xiao Tiao felt that it was strange, two servants came from Chrysanthemum Yard. They were Xiao Wu and Xiao Liu that Chen Hui had seen before. The two opened the door with the key and brought Chen Hui and Xiao Tiao to Chrysanthemum Yard.
Xiao Tiao was naturally scared out of her wits. While Chen Hui comforted her, she thought about why that exasperating eunuch looked for her and what he would do to her again. She had no fear.
What kind of tricks was he playing?
