Chapter 18018 Don’t shout, it’s me
On the way back to Qingtong Courtyard, the silks and satins sent by the second lady's maid had already arrived, and she asked someone to comfort Yun Sheng in a gentle tone, saying that she had suffered a great injustice today.
Yun Sheng forced a smile and said nothing was wrong. Living under someone else's roof, how could she dare to do anything to Qiao?
Mrs. Qian snorted twice, looking quite satisfied. She said unhappily, "I told you not to go to the Second Chamber, but you didn't listen. If you had listened to me, how could you have gotten into this trouble today? Don't blame me for being cruel just now. I was really afraid that your innocence would be tarnished by the Second Young Master. Becoming his concubine would be a way to preserve your reputation."
Yun Sheng pinched the hem of her skirt and said nothing.
She originally thought that her mother-in-law was just good at talking but had a good heart. But after this incident, she felt completely disappointed.
It would be fine if you didn't believe her, but how could you say those words to hurt her feelings?
Xie Qingyuan felt quite unhappy. She glanced at Yun Sheng, who looked expressionless, and then looked at Mrs. Qian with a headache: "Okay, mother, please stop talking. Mother Sheng is innocent today. I'm afraid she's scared."
Yun Sheng paused, his eyes glancing at the bewildered and stammering Xie Qingyuan, feeling mixed emotions.
She actually didn't know how to face him.
As soon as Fang entered the house, Xie Qingyuan followed. He gently closed the door and reached out to hug Yun Sheng with a guilty and distressed look. Yun Sheng inadvertently dodged slightly, leaving him with nothing to hug.
Xie Qingyuan withdrew his arm, feeling a little embarrassed.
He choked up and said, "Sheng Niang, are you blaming me? I...it's not that I don't believe you, I just had a brain injury and didn't react for a moment. Just pretend you didn't hear what I said. No matter what happens, I won't push you onto anyone else."
Seeing Yun Sheng's expression relax a little, Xie Qingyuan continued: "I see you have an injury on your neck. Let me take a good look."
Yun Sheng's expression was very calm. She stared at this handsome face, examining him carefully. The concern between his eyebrows was unmistakable.
It was clearly the same face as before, but she felt that he was much more unfamiliar in recent days.
Thinking of the look in his eyes when he first entered at noon, Yun Sheng suddenly turned her head away. She said in a soft voice, revealing fatigue: "I'm a little tired and want to lie down for a while. As for other things, we can talk about it later, okay?"
Xie Qingyuan smiled awkwardly and said quickly, "Okay, then Sheng Niang, you should have a good rest."
Yun Sheng slept until dusk. She didn't have much appetite for dinner, so she just had some porridge.
After Ah Xi helped her wash up, she turned off the lights and went to bed.
Yun Sheng was half asleep when he broke out in a cold sweat.
The bed beside me sank halfway, and a warm and strong body pressed against me.
Recalling what happened in Aunt Wen's courtyard, she screamed and kicked the man.
Suddenly, a large hand covered his mouth. A dense breath fell on Yun Sheng's ears, and a man's deep and deep voice rang out: "Don't shout, it's me."
Undeniably, Yun Sheng's heart relaxed. She was so frightened that her entire body was damp, as if she had just been pulled out of the water.
The man let her go, got down to the bed in the dark, and lit the candles on the table, instantly illuminating the inner room.
Yun Sheng rubbed his eyes, then looked up at him and questioned, "My cousin is a dignified marquis. How can he sneak into a girl's boudoir in the middle of the night? How can he be so unreasonable?"
Xie Zhan smiled and said calmly, "Tell me, which courtyard in this mansion is it that I cannot go to?"
Yun Sheng choked and slowly breathed a sigh of relief: "I'm going to sleep, please leave, uncle."
Xie Zhan pretended not to hear. He strode forward and raised his hand to lift the curtain.
"What...what are you going to do?" Yun Sheng supported his hands on his sides and moved his hips backward inch by inch.
The dim candlelight shone over, revealing Yun Sheng's shoulders and neck to be snow-white, making the red marks on her neck even more conspicuous.
Xie Zhan was tall, and when he lowered his brows slightly, he could see the young lady's bulging chest, her skin as white as the finest mutton-fat jade.
Feeling the man's gaze, Yun Sheng's face flushed with shame. She was only wearing a thin nightgown. She lowered her head, grabbed the thin blanket beside her, and casually wrapped it around her.
Xie Zhan seemed to be mocking her with a half-smile: "If this Marquis wants to force you, what's the point of wrapping yourself in a few more layers of quilts?"
After he finished speaking, he sat down beside the couch.
Yun Sheng's face was filled with guarded vigilance. This action might have angered Xie Zhan. He frowned and said sullenly, "What? Is this how you treat your savior? Do you think I can eat you, and that's why you're so afraid?"
He placed his big hand on Yun Sheng's slightly trembling, cold face.
Yun Sheng didn't dare to complain on the surface, but in fact he was very angry at him for meddling in other people's business.
She lowered her eyebrows, thinking that she did not reveal any expression, but her dark rolling eyes betrayed her.
Xie Zhan grew increasingly angry, raising his hand to clamp her chin. "What are you afraid of? If it weren't for me, you wouldn't even know how you died. You're kneeling there, why don't you come and beg me? Are you counting on Xie Qingyuan? In my opinion, it's still a matter of whether that guy believes you or not."
"He didn't." Yun Sheng seemed to have been touched in a sore spot, and he didn't know who he was reminding.
She slowly raised her eyes, her rosy lips bitten until they turned white, and she said again: "He didn't."
As the matter of the day was brought up, Yun Sheng, having tried to hold it back, finally couldn't help but raise his voice, "I don't need your help, Your Majesty. Why do I ask you? If it weren't for Your Majesty, I would have explained the matter clearly long ago."
Xie Zhan sneered: "You mean, I'm meddling in your affairs?"
Yun Sheng remained silent, which was considered as his agreement.
But actually…actually, when he said it wasn’t her, her heart was moved for a moment.
Xie Zhan said in a deep voice, "Should I laugh at you for being stupid or for being naive? Do you think that if you take all the blame on yourself and say it's a misunderstanding, the Second Madam will easily let you go? Or is it Xie Minghao?"
Yun Sheng felt a chill run down his spine. Did Xie Zhan…know something? Otherwise, why would he bring up Xie Minghao?
Xie Zhan's words suddenly poured a basin of cold water on her head. Yes, she seemed to have forgotten that she knew about the affair between Xie Minghao and Aunt Wen. Although the matter had been covered up, how could she know that the other party would not kill her to silence her just in case?
Yun Sheng's lips trembled, and he spoke incoherently, "Second Madam won't do that. As for Xie Minghao, I don't understand what the Marquis is saying."
Xie Zhan's eyes were cold and his lips were raised. Since she wanted to be stubborn, he let her be.
He pulled away the quilt that was wrapped tightly around Yun Sheng and stroked her slender neck with his big hand.
Yun Sheng shrank back and said anxiously, "This is still in Qingtong Courtyard. Please respect yourself, my Lord."
"What do you think I'm going to do? Come and apply the medicine."
Yun Sheng was still in a daze when he saw Xie Zhan take out an exquisite porcelain-white medicine box from his arms. He cut a finger, and the next moment, he applied the cool and high-quality ointment on the red mark on Yun Sheng.
He was very close, and his warm breath sprayed half of Yun Sheng's face. Yun Sheng's five fingers holding the thin blanket suddenly tightened. She stumbled and said, "I dare not trouble my cousin. I'll do it myself."
"Silence."
After a moment, Xie Zhan withdrew his hand, and Yun Sheng suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
It wasn't until Xie Zhan lifted her legs and lifted the hem of her skirt that Yun Sheng became panicked again.
She crossed her arms, her eyes red as she asked, "Is my cousin trying to force me to death?"
Xie Zhan's expression was calm and he said with a firm look: "You don't dare to seek death."
Then he asked again, "You knelt for so long at noon, don't your knees hurt?"
While Yun Sheng was still in a daze, Xie Zhan had already rolled up her skirt to her knees. Under the flickering candlelight, Yun Sheng's pair of tender and slender legs were firmly held in Xie Zhan's palms, and the whiteness was dazzling.
Xie Zhan narrowed his eyes slightly, glanced at her calves, and then his gaze fell on the pair of delicate white jade feet.
Perhaps due to the owner's panic and shyness, the insteps of her feet were stretched straight and trembling slightly. Her round, pink toes were still curled up, as plump as shelled pearls.
Xie Zhan's eyes were deep, and he suddenly held Yun Sheng's hand. Yun Sheng felt so hot from his palm that her body went numb.
A woman's feet are so private, how can they be easily shown to outsiders?
This man is also her nominal cousin.
Yun Sheng blushed and the tips of her ears turned red.
She panted hurriedly, "Uncle, please let me go. I can apply the medicine myself. It's late at night. Please go back and rest."
Xie Zhan had no intention of touching her tonight. He had plenty of patience for his prey.
He let out a long breath, retracted his gaze, and pushed Yun Sheng's skirt up a little more. The large purple bruises on her knees were clearly visible to Xie Zhan.
Then Xie Zhan's face turned pale.
Yun Sheng lowered her eyes, her heart beating so fast in her throat with nervousness. She glanced at Xie Zhan who was applying medicine on her, and felt that something was wrong.
She pursed her lips and thought of her husband Xie Qingyuan, her face suddenly turned pale.
After a while, Xie Zhan stood up. He placed the medicine bottle on the table and left a message: "Apply it three times a day, and you will be completely healed in a few days."
It would be best for him to take good care of her body.
Bang, bang, bang—
Yun Sheng's tightly closed door was suddenly knocked in the silence.
She was already feeling guilty, and with a clenched heart, she looked pleadingly at Xie Zhan, who was about to push the door open, and then asked in a low voice, "Who?"
"Shengniang, I just got up to go to the bathroom and saw that the light was still on in your room. Are you still awake?"
It was Xie Qingyuan's voice.
Yun Sheng frowned and shook her head at Xie Zhan, her watery almond eyes welling with tears.
She knew Xie Zhan wasn't afraid, but she was. She didn't want to be Xie Minghao's concubine, nor did she want to be Xie Zhan's.
The man raised his eyebrows and moved his lips silently, as if asking her to beg him.
Yun Sheng tilted her head in agreement and rushed out the door, saying, "My dear husband, I'm fine. You should go back to sleep. I just got up to drink some water."
After she finished speaking, she hurriedly got off the bed and extinguished the candle.
Seeing this, Xie Qingyuan sighed and said, "Okay. Since you have nothing else to do, I will go back first."
Yun Sheng pricked up his ears, listening to his footsteps gradually fading away. When he heard the faint sound of the door closing, he suddenly realized that he was sweating coldly.
In the darkness, she lowered her voice and said, "Thank you so much, uncle."
Xie Zhan chuckled twice, said nothing, and then strode out of the room.
Xie Qingyuan in the room heard some noises. He stood up and frowned as he pushed the window open. The candlelight illuminated the sky outside, but it was still pitch black, with no one in sight.
He guessed it was a wild cat running around on the roof tiles, or maybe he had heard it wrong.
He sat back down at the desk and looked at the thin sheets of correspondence he had recently exchanged with Mrs. Xie Yulan.
Xie Qingyuan was not unable to sleep at night, but was worried about these letters.
Initially, Xie Yulan had her maid give him a letter, which contained nothing but praise for his talent. Xie Qingyuan, unable to guess what the lady was thinking, took the opportunity to write a poem in reply, also praising the other's virtue and appearance.
After all this, how could he not understand? He was satisfied with this lady in every way, except that her appearance was indeed a little lacking.
But his mother was right, marry a virtuous wife. As for beauty, having Sheng Niang by his side was enough.
What made Xie Qingyuan hesitate was that he originally thought Xie Yulan was the best choice, but now he saw that Minister Lu wanted to promote him. If he really won the favor of the prince, why would he worry about not being able to marry other noble ladies?
His eyes fell on those lines of words. It was Xie Yulan who was questioning him whether he was reluctant to part with Yun Sheng, which was why he was so hasty to give Yun Sheng to her younger brother Xie Minghao as a concubine at noon.
Xie Qingyuan closed his eyes and finally wrote back to her.
[It is far less important than Yu Niang in your heart.]
There was still no sign of the prince, so he couldn't cut off Xie Yulan's path with his own hands now.
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When I woke up, it was already bright outside.
Yun Sheng heard from Ah Xi that Ah Tao, the personal maidservant of Aunt Wen, was sent to be Xie Minghao's concubine by the Second Madam, and she was not even given the title of concubine.
Seeing Yun Sheng in a trance, Ah Xi explained in a low voice, "Er Lang Jun hasn't married yet. If he takes a concubine first, it will be embarrassing."
Yun Sheng nodded perfunctorily. Noticing that Ah Xi was walking a little strangely today, she said with concern, "If you're not feeling well, go back to your room and rest."
Ah Xi said that nothing was wrong, but in fact she went to Manager Bai to receive punishment yesterday.
Madam Yun was kind-hearted and didn't blame her, but she herself felt guilty.
Yun Sheng was holding the quilt in a daze. She did not go to look for Aunt Wen today, and Aunt Wen did not send anyone to invite her. The two of them kept the two secrets tacitly.
At dusk, the Marquis's residence was enveloped in a cool, hazy moonlight. Frogs croaked in the pond, a faint murmur of movement could be heard.
Just after midnight, Aunt Wen's bedroom was opened a tiny crack. She was suddenly awakened from her dream. Not daring to light the light, she lowered her voice and asked frantically, "Are you crazy? How dare you come here after this incident?"
Xie Minghao said nonchalantly, "What are you afraid of? Your loyal and personal maid has already accepted it, so no one will suspect you or me. I have to say, your maid is quite special. I'll ask you two to serve me together someday, and it can be considered a threesome."
Aunt Wen burst into tears and trembled all over: "You are shameless, you are vulgar."
Xie Minghao hugged her and kissed her. The woman in his arms struggled, which aroused the secret sense of excitement in his heart.
This was his father's favorite woman, and now he was holding her down. What if his father was dissatisfied with him?
Aunt Wen was disgusted and disgusted. She had had enough of this life of living in fear and having to implicate others. She pushed Xie Minghao away with force and put a silver hairpin against her neck: "Let's stop here, I beg you. If you continue to pester me, I will die in front of you."
Xie Minghao sneered: "Aunt, stop threatening me here. If you want to die, you should have hanged yourself the first time you lost your virginity. If you die, can you let go of that little bastard you gave birth to?"
The silver hairpin in Aunt Wen's hand loosened, and she fell to the ground helplessly.
Xie Minghao was feeling proud when the door was suddenly kicked open.
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