Chapter 51 Seeing Green Lotus suddenly acting strangely…

Seeing that Lühe had suddenly become strange, no longer bothering Lu Hun and leaving without a word, Wei Yin felt puzzled. She tugged at Lu Hun's sleeve, but Lu Hun did not dodge, letting her hold his sleeve in her hand. He gazed at her calmly.

Wei Yin asked, "What's wrong with Lü He?"

“I brought her back to her senses for a moment,” Lu Hun explained. “It was only for a short while.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Green Lotus entered the room and reverted to being the clueless, silly girl, clamoring for osmanthus candy from Granny Wang.

Wei Yin wondered what Lü He was thinking during that brief moment of lucidity.

It's impossible to know.

As they left the new house, Lu Hun stopped and looked into the depths of the garden. He said, "I sensed Wenxuan's presence; he's in the garden."

"Hold this." Lu Hun handed her a ribbon from the back of the handkerchief. "Stay close to me."

Wei Yin nodded hurriedly and reached out to hold his hand tightly.

The two headed towards the garden. Although the house was now lit up everywhere, the garden was full of flowers and trees, and was large and secluded, making it easy for people to hide. The Wen family had many servants, and Old Master Wen was afraid that the servants would be restless at night and run into the garden to do some dark things. Therefore, the garden was locked at dusk, and no one was allowed to enter. Naturally, there were no lights inside.

Lu Hun carried a lantern from elsewhere and walked ahead, with Wei Yin following behind him.

The garden was quiet and dark, with no one in sight. As we walked deeper in, we saw the lakeside pavilion we had first seen in the distance. It was the day Wenxuan and Lühe got married. Several tables of their own food were set up in the pavilion, and Wenzhu and Wenqin sat by the lakeside talking about Wenxuan and Lühe's happy years together.

As Wei Yin was thinking, she looked up again and saw that a lamp had suddenly lit up in the otherwise dark and deserted pavilion.

She opened her mouth, and Lu Hun obviously saw it too. He paused for a moment, then picked up the lantern and continued forward.

Wei Yin gripped his ribbon tightly, following closely behind.

As they approached, the lamp in the pavilion in the middle of the lake became brighter, illuminating a figure sitting at the table. It was Wenxuan. The young man sat facing them at the table, holding a short, dry twig in his hand, carefully tending to the flame in the oil lamp. The flame jumped around incessantly as he gently stirred it.

He was truly a handsome young man; even though his face was deathly pale and his expression was melancholy and dejected, his features were still very beautiful.

I don't know how he could be so handsome, but Wen Lang, Wen Zhu, Wen Qin and others can't compare to his looks.

Moreover, his perpetually melancholy expression made him appear somewhat sickly, like a beautiful woman.

Wei Yin recalled what he had said to Jin Nian.

He said he was not only handsome, but also had a great body...

With his appearance, he certainly has the right to say those things.

But when Wei Yin realized that it was Lu Hun, who had become Wenxuan, who said this, she dared not think any further. She felt it was somewhat offensive, after all, Lu Hun was too young. In the past, at the Wei family school, she had always regarded him as a junior.

"You've arrived?" Wenxuan gently raised his head, his gaze not falling on Lu Hun, but directly on Wei Yin's face, his eyes looking through her to another person.

Wei Yin felt extremely uncomfortable being stared at.

Lu Hun positioned his tall, thin body in front of Wei Yin, then picked up the lantern and continued walking into the pavilion.

Wenxuan, in a daze, stretched out a hand and placed it in a distant gesture to block the red mole between Wei Yin's eyebrows.

“Wei Yin, you look just like Jin Nian. If it weren’t for this red birthmark, you would look exactly like Jin Nian.”

"Please let us out."

Lu Hun waited quietly for him to finish speaking before drawing his Po Jun sword.

He no longer restrained his demonic energy, and wisps of black energy began to spread outward from his body. The Po Jun Sword also seemed to become even more murderous because of his transformation into demonic energy.

"Child, don't be anxious." Wenxuan didn't care and kept staring at Wei Yin. "Jin Nian, you've seen so much about what happened back then, haven't you remembered yet?"

Wei Yin frowned. "I am not Jin Nian."

No, you are her.

Wenxuan insisted, "You look so much like her. You still have her scent on you. If it weren't for her, how could you have it?"

Wei Yin didn't know what he was talking about and didn't want to listen.

Seeing her like this, Wenxuan's face grew even more sorrowful, as if he were blaming Wei Yin: How could you not remember? How could you forget everything that happened between them?

He braced his hands on the table, his eyes filled with tears as he gazed at the candlelight.

"Back then, Jin Nian and I ended up together behind my grandfather's back. She... was pregnant with my child. However, my grandfather eventually found out. In order to protect her and our child, I agreed to my grandfather's conditions and... had another child with Lü He. Jin Nian would be able to leave the Wen family and gain her freedom after giving birth to the child in the mountain villa. I think Jin Nian grew up in the Wen family. Her aunt and uncle are long gone. She has always been very careful in the Wen family. In the future, she will still be subject to my grandfather's arrangement of her marriage. It would be good if she could leave. Even if we have to separate, I don't care. As long as Jin Nian and the others can live a better life, I don't care if I am buried alone in this house."

Wenxuan's eyes gradually turned bloodshot, and his whole body trembled.

“My grandfather and I have already compromised so much, but he, he actually lied to me. There were many wolves at the mountain villa he sent Jin Nian to, and she and her child died in the wolf’s mouth! When I got there, there was nothing left of her, only a pool of blood on the ground. She was eaten alive by the wolves!”

Wei Yin felt a chill run down her spine.

So that's how Jin Nian died.

Old Master Wen, how could you let your granddaughter die such a tragic death!

When Wenxuan recalled the past, his emotions were clearly more intense than anyone else's. He reached out and forcefully covered the candle flame with his hand.

“Grandfather is heartless and insane. He has ruined us all like this. He doesn’t deserve to be our grandfather! Before my second brother left, he told me that Grandfather was ruthless and insane, and that we couldn’t compromise with him. He told me to take Jin Nian and leave the Wen family as soon as possible. But I didn’t dare. I didn’t have my second brother’s courage. I was used to the Wen family. After leaving the Wen family, I didn’t know how to live. Besides, Grandfather raised me. I couldn’t abandon this family. Even if this family was terrible, I could only compromise time and time again to get a little pity from Grandfather. Who knew that in the end…”

As Wenxuan was speaking, the sound of footsteps came from outside the pavilion.

Several maids and servants rushed over with lanterns, their faces showing signs of mourning.

They seemed completely oblivious to Wenxuan, and only spoke to Lu Hun and Wei Yin, saying, "Young Master, Miss, something terrible has happened! The second and third branches of the family have both been in trouble. This evening, news came from the ancestral hall that the Third Miss was in much better spirits and was having a good meal. But as soon as the servants left, she cut her wrists with a shard of a broken bowl. Everyone rushed to save her, but it was too late. Then, the Fourth Miss from the third branch heard that she was to marry in place of the Third Miss. After pleading with the Old Master to no avail, she turned around and jumped into the dry well in the Old Master's courtyard. When they pulled her out, she was already lifeless."

The sudden barrage of messages caught Wei Yin completely off guard.

Two little girls, Wenzhu and Wenqin, are gone just like that?

An old woman said again, "Young Master, Miss, the Second Master and Second Madam, along with the Third Master and Third Madam, went to a banquet tonight. The bodies of the Third and Fourth Misses are still lying in the same spot, and no one dares to touch them. Young Master Sun is also seriously ill. The Old Master is busy finding someone to treat Young Master Sun and has no time to pay attention to the Third and Fourth Misses. What do you think, Young Master?"

Even at this point, Old Master Wen still doesn't seem to care at all?

He doesn't treat his two granddaughters like human beings at all.

The garden was close to the ancestral hall, so Wei Yin and Lu Hun went to the ancestral hall first. Outside the ancestral hall, many servants were peeking inside, whispering about the deaths of two girls in the mansion that night.

Deep inside the ancestral hall, at the very spot where Lu Hun was whipped last time, lay Wen Zhu's corpse quietly. To avoid frightening anyone, the servants had covered her body with a white cloth. However, a patch of skin beneath the white cloth was already soaked crimson, and beside it lay shattered porcelain shards.

When Wei Yin saw so much blood, her heart skipped a beat. The scene of her mother dying like this flashed through her mind, and she instinctively turned her face toward Lu Hun.

It took me a long time to calm down before I dared to look at it again.

A servant who saw the good relationship between Wenzhu and Weiyin asked with pity, "Miss, would you like to see the Third Miss?"

Wei Yin hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded.

The servant who asked the question immediately removed the white cloth from Wenzhu's face. She had only been dead for a short time, and apart from her pale complexion, she looked almost the same as when she was alive.

Wei Yin recalled the scene at the lakeside pavilion where Wen Zhu and Wen Qin had sat.

Wenxuan followed, standing quietly at the doorway, gazing at Wenqin.

But one could sense the silent grief emanating from him.

This was a scene he had already experienced.

After leaving Wenzhu, I went to see Wenqin in Old Master Wen's courtyard. There were quite a few people gathered around Wenqin's place as well. It's rare to see so much excitement in this deep mansion, let alone in Old Master Wen's courtyard.

The fact that the fourth daughter chose to die at her grandfather's place is chilling.

Wenqin died by jumping into a well. Her body was covered with bruises and scrapes, and she was only wearing one shoe. No one knew where the other shoe was.

Just two days ago, she was worried about Wenzhu.

Unexpectedly, it was her turn right away.

Wenxuan followed again.

He glanced at it, then quietly looked away, towards the outside of the courtyard, as if waiting for something.

Lu Hun sensed it immediately, "What is he waiting for?"

As soon as Lu Hun finished speaking, several people who were wailing even louder rushed in, disregarding everything and breaking through the crowd.

As soon as they entered, they knelt down abruptly in front of Lu Hun.

"Young Master, you must go back and check on him! Young Master Sun is dying!"

Another person hurriedly explained, "The old master consulted the old scholar who treated the fifth young master last time. He said that the young master only had a common cold and fever, so he prescribed some medicine for him. After the young master drank it last night, he suddenly started convulsing, foaming at the mouth, and his eyes were almost rolling back. It seems he's not going to make it. The old master is completely panicked and begs the eldest young master to go back and check on him immediately!"