Chapter 378 Slapping Chen Jiaying in the Face, the Father

Bang, bang, bang!

The Flying Eagle Guards personally took matters into their own hands and struck the guards with a board. After a few blows, the guards' backs were covered in blood and gore.

The screams gradually faded from their original pitiful cries.

Chen Jiaying had been pampered since childhood and had never seen such a bloody scene before.

He was so frightened that he backed away repeatedly. If it weren't for the maid supporting him, he would have almost fallen to the ground.

Pei Yuan stood with his hands behind his back under the corridor, seemingly already used to the bloody scene before him.

Instead, he glanced at Chen Jiaying indifferently, "I wonder who instructed this wicked servant to dare to conceal the truth from his master."

"Huh? Why does Miss Chen look so pale? Do you think my reprimand was wrong?"

Chen Jiaying felt guilty and scared. She tried her best to calm herself down and forced a smile that looked worse than crying.

"No, Your Highness is right to reprimand him. How dare that lowly person slander me for ordering him around?"

The fact that the prince didn't kill him on the spot was already exceptionally merciful.

puff.

The servant coughed up blood; the fear of impending death ignited his strong will to survive.

With trembling hands, he pulled a lotus-root-colored purse from his bosom.

"I dare not lie, it really was Miss Chen who instructed me to do this."

Miss Chen said that the young master is busy every day at fifteen, and some unimportant people should be treated as if they never came.

Do not report to the young master about everyone, lest you cause him trouble.

Young master, this is the purse Miss Chen gave you back then, and inside is a one-hundred-tael silver note.

Because the amount was large, I couldn't bear to exchange the smaller ones. I beg you, sir, to spare my life.

Pei Yuan glanced indifferently at the purse in the servant's hand, then raised an eyebrow at Chen Jiaying.

"Miss Chen is very generous, giving away a hundred taels in one go."

"The servant only earns two taels of silver a month; I doubt he can come up with a hundred taels to slander Miss Chen."

Chen Jiaying's face turned pale, and she almost tore the handkerchief in her hand to shreds.

But all she could do was put on a wronged expression.

"Does Your Highness prefer to believe the words of a lowly servant rather than Jia Ying?"

That purse... he might have stolen it from me, yes, that's right, he stole it, and then he falsely accused me."

Pei Yuan chuckled coldly, "He's just a gatekeeper. If no one instructed him, even if he had ten lives, he wouldn't dare to fool me so easily."

As the saying goes, a dying man speaks good words, and his life is now in my hands.

I don't think he would risk his life.

As soon as he finished speaking, the servant, who had been dazed from the beating, suddenly turned his head and looked over.

His eyes bulged out, his expression was filled with hatred and ferocity, and with his blood-soaked back, he looked as if he had crawled out of hell.

"If I have uttered even a single lie, may I die a violent death on the spot and be sent to the eighteenth level of hell, never to be reincarnated."

And you? Do you dare swear such a solemn oath as I do? Do you dare say that if you didn't order me, you'll suffer a terrible death?

Chen Jiaying was so frightened by his terrifying expression that she couldn't catch her breath, her vision went black, and she almost collapsed to the ground.

Pei Yuan said calmly, "Miss Chen, do you dare to swear an oath? If you do, I will believe you."

Chen Jiaying certainly wouldn't dare; what if it came true?

Her eyes darted around, and she didn't dare to look Pei Yuan in the eye.

The handkerchief in her hand was almost torn to shreds. Her eyes darted around, and she was about to pretend to faint.

"ah!"

A piercing scream suddenly rang out, startling her so much that she almost jumped up.

It turned out that the servant had rolled off the stool, covered in blood, and was curled up in pain, letting out a terrible scream.

Chen Jiaying could no longer pretend to be unconscious.

Pei Yuan waved his hand and ordered, "Drag him away and apply medicine to him."

The servant was dragged away.

A long trail of blood stretched out in front of Chen Jiaying, warm and pungent, glaring and vivid.

Feeling guilty, Chen Jiaying didn't dare to look at him. She quickly walked up to Pei Yuan and explained in a pitiful tone.

"Jiaying is truly considerate of the prince's hard work and doesn't want some unimportant people to tire him out."

That's why I said those few extra words. Jiaying really didn't mean anything by it, Your Highness, you must believe me.

"Irrelevant?" Pei Yuan raised an eyebrow, revealing a sinister smile.

If he had known that A-Chu had come looking for him that day, he would have confessed his feelings to her long ago.

He would then be able to find out a few days earlier that A-Chu was a woman and that A-Chu was pregnant with his two children.

Pei Yuan grew angrier the more he thought about it, and in his extreme anger, he laughed.

"You are not me, so what makes you think the person who came is insignificant?"

What if they are very, very important people to me? Didn't you ever think that it might interfere with my plans?

Besides, this is my territory. You are here as a guest. Is this how you, Chen Jiaying, behave, and usurp my position?

Or is this simply the rule of your Chen family?

Chen Jiaying turned pale at these words, her lips trembled, but she couldn't utter a rebuttal.

Pei Yuan's words were more humiliating to her than a direct slap in the face.

She could only explain, tears streaming down her face, feeling wronged.

"Jiaying really came for the prince. She's a pregnant woman, and she just went to a man's door without warning."

Who knows if those shady characters outside are trying to take advantage of the situation to harm the prince?

"Shut up! Who are you calling indecent?" Pei Yuan said angrily, taking a step forward instinctively.

The chilling aura emanating from him frightened Chen Jiaying, causing her to retreat repeatedly. She cried out in grievance:

"Who exactly is that pregnant woman? Why are you protecting her like this?"

Jiaying has been in Yangzhou for three days. Apart from seeing the prince once on the first day, she has not seen him since.

What has Your Highness been busy with these past two days? Why hasn't he come home each day? Tell me, are you spending time with her?

Pei Yuan clenched his fist. "Are you questioning me? You didn't come to Yangzhou at my invitation."

There is no need for me to accompany you, especially since I have official duties to attend to and am temporarily unable to return to the capital.

"Miss Chen can return to the capital on her own first, lest she take it upon herself to stop some important person for me that day, delaying the case's progress and making my return to the capital even more uncertain."

Chen Jiaying has been pampered since childhood and has the support of the Empress Dowager. She has never been ridiculed like this before.

She immediately felt embarrassed and ran away crying.

"I'll leave, I'll leave, okay?"

Pei Yuan stared at her retreating figure and whispered instructions to Sun Yan.

"Go and have Liu Feng find two people to secretly escort Chen Jiaying back to the capital, and make sure she doesn't cause any trouble on the way."

"yes."

Sun Yan followed Chen Jiaying's figure and left.

Half an hour later, they returned to report, "Miss Chen has already left with her people, and has sent two Flying Eagle Guards to follow her from a distance."

Pei Yuan hummed in agreement, then turned to see Sun Yan's hesitant expression.

He raised an eyebrow. "Just say what you have to say."

Sun Yan pursed his lips and scratched his head. "It's nothing. I just feel that someone like the gatekeeper, given His Highness's temperament, would definitely have been beaten to death in the past."

"Your Highness has punished him today, but you've spared his life and even had medicine applied to his wounds. Isn't that a bit too merciful?"

kindness?

Pei Yuan thought about it carefully and realized that it was indeed a bit too lenient.

Can they be the same?

He's about to become a father, so he needs to accumulate good fortune for his child.

He thought it in his heart and then said it out loud.

"I'm about to become a father myself, I can't be bothered to argue with them."

Sun Yan was stunned.

Can they be the same?

Your Highness, you've become a father unexpectedly!

Sun Yan gritted his teeth and stomped his foot.

He knelt down on the ground with a thud.