Chapter 18 How can I let others bully me?
Only two red lamps were lit in the ancestral hall at midnight.
Especially dark and deep.
"Second Miss, kneel down properly and don't be lazy or play tricks."
"I will keep an eye on the young lady. Madam said you are not allowed to get up until dawn."
The nanny asked two strong maids to hold Deng Youning's shoulders and force her to kneel down.
The prayer mat is filled with cotton, but my knees will still hurt after kneeling for a long time.
Deng Youning did not resist.
As a descendant of the Deng family, this was her first time visiting the ancestral hall. She knelt respectfully and looked around at the seats.
From grandfather, great-grandmother...and uncle!
Deng Youning was a little curious about the ranking of the guy named Deng Ren.
She had heard the maids in the mansion mention this uncle in her previous life, and he was also a miserable man.
The uncle is two years older than Deng Zheng. He was gifted and intelligent since childhood, and had both literary and military skills.
But fate played a trick on him. When he was nine years old, he contracted smallpox and never recovered.
At that time, my grandmother and grandfather were both away on military campaigns, and all household affairs were managed by my great-grandmother, Mrs. Meng.
In order to prevent infection, my uncle was buried early.
Poor grandmother, she didn’t even get to see her child for the last time.
Thinking of this, Deng Youning couldn't help but feel regretful.
If my uncle were still alive, with his abilities, he would definitely revitalize the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion.
Tens of thousands of times better than his stupid father!
A quarter of an hour later, the other servants who had accompanied them all dispersed.
Only the head nanny beside Gu was left guarding outside the door.
Deng Youning would never accept punishment honestly.
She releases a spider whose venom has the power of somnolence.
That's a good thing for the nanny, she can have a good night's sleep.
Recalling the scent of ylang-ylang that I just smelled.
She asked the secret guards of Wanshe Valley to help investigate.
"Silver ring."
The girl's voice rose softly.
A beautiful coral snake crawled out from the corner.
Outside the window, a figure was standing there.
They rarely show up in the Duke's Mansion.
Only by hiding your tracks and acting carefully can you better help Deng Youning.
"Go check my mother's yard and see if she is doing anything out of the ordinary now."
As Deng Youning finished speaking, the black shadow immediately disappeared, and the coral snake also crawled away quickly, spitting out its tongue.
Half an incense stick later, Yinhuan came to report that there was nothing unusual.
Gu was sleeping soundly in the room.
Deng Zheng hasn't come back yet.
Deng Youning gave another order, asking them to investigate where Gu had gone and who he had met today.
She arranged several prayer mats neatly, put on her clothes, bent her elbows, and lay down on them to sleep.
The spy sent by Li Tianzhuo, upon learning that Deng Youning was punished to kneel in the ancestral hall, told his master immediately.
Li Tianzhuo, who was still busy with official duties, heard about this and flew directly to the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion using his lightness skills.
The wall of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion is actually very high, at least one and a half meters tall.
But for those of them who are good at martial arts, it is useless.
Li Tianzhuo hurried to the ancestral hall and saw the nanny sleeping soundly at the door. He finally felt relieved.
With her martial arts skills, how could she allow herself to be bullied?
He slightly raised the wooden window.
Seeing Deng Youning sleeping peacefully on the ground, he couldn't help but smile.
Her black hair fell softly below her shoulders, rising and falling slightly with her breathing.
The moonlight poured through the window that Li Tianzhuo had lifted, shining on her fair and rosy face, making her look peaceful and sweet.
Li Tianzhuo was thinking, maybe she was having a sweet dream!
Seeing that the person he was worried about was safe and sound, the boy felt a lot more relieved.
He closed the window reluctantly, with a gleam of light flowing between his brows, as if shrouded in the bright moonlight.
The emotions in his eyes burst out without any concealment.
*
The next morning.
Deng Youning woke up with the rising sun.
Walk out of the ancestral hall.
He glanced at the nanny who was still sleeping like a dead pig and slapped her cheek mercilessly.
The crisp sound of the slaps was just the right accompaniment to the birdsong in the yard.
"Who, that bastard dared to hit me?"
The nanny woke up from her sleep and cursed angrily.
She looked up and saw Deng Youning's stinky face that looked like a coffin, and glared at her unhappily.
"Morning, Second Miss."
How dare a wild girl whose identity you don’t even know whether is real or fake, slap her in the face?
Fortunately, no one else saw it, otherwise how could she rely on her status as a lady to discipline the people in the mansion in the future?
"Mammy, didn't you say you would come and kneel down as punishment? How come you are sleeping outside and can't be woken up even if I call you?"
Deng Youning smiled innocently.
Mammy was also very curious.
She clearly drank several pots of strong tea.
“Ouch.”
She scratched her ankle.
Why is my ankle so itchy?
Maybe I was bitten by a mosquito last night.
All the way back to Gu's courtyard, her ankles were so itchy that she almost limped back.
"Didn't I ask you to go and watch her kneel as punishment?"
"Why did you come back limping?"
Gu asked in dissatisfaction.
She thought her personal nanny was beaten by Deng Youning.
"Madam, please forgive me. I don't know why I slept outside the door all night."
"As for whether the Second Miss actually knelt for the entire night, I'm sorry I don't know."
After hearing this, Gu was not as angry as before.
Last night she sent someone to get some information from the servants in Linfeng Courtyard.
On the night of the family reunion banquet, Deng Yi really left the yard for the time it took to stick of incense.
She couldn't help but doubt the truthfulness of Deng Youning's words last night.
However, Deng Youning was a smart man because he did not spread the fact that Deng Yi broke into his sister's bedroom at night.
"That's it."
"That girl has been a member of a cult since she was young. She can poison and infect people."
"If she really wanted to attack you, you might have died last night."
"But don't worry, she would never dare to kill anyone in the mansion herself!"
Gu was really right.
With Deng Youning's ability, it would be a piece of cake for him to wipe out the Deng family.
But she would never let them die so easily.
What she wants is to bring them disgrace and make their life worse than death!
As for Deng Youning, as soon as she returned to Qiuyue Waterside Pavilion, Deng Yi came to her door angrily.
"Deng Youning, don't think that everything will be fine if you dodge this!"
"What you owe Lian'er and what you owe me, I will make you pay it back sooner or later."
"You must give our Deng family an explanation regarding the family recognition banquet."
Deng Yi looked like he was here to seek revenge.
Perhaps he was afraid of Deng Youning, so he brought more than ten guards with him today.
They are all good at martial arts and have strong build.
Deng Youning found it ridiculous.
It seems that the Deng family is convinced that the broken railing is related to her.
In her previous life, it was Deng Yi who cut her tendons in her hands and feet and burned her vocal cords.
In this life, as soon as she returned home, Deng Yi repeatedly caused trouble for her.
For the sake of her grandmother, Deng Youning couldn't kill him.
But she really couldn't swallow this anger!
"The broken railing was definitely not my fault."
"I don't owe you or Deng Xuelian anything. On the contrary, she has been occupying my home for sixteen years and enjoying everything that should have belonged to me."
"During this period of time, you have been targeting me everywhere. Do you really think I am easy to bully?"
"If I wanted to, I could have poisoned you just now, I could have beaten you to death now, and I could have put a curse on you later and manipulate you to do my bidding."
Deng Yi tickled his ears and glared at Deng Youning disapprovingly.
I heard that Deng Youning was a disciple of the Wanshe Valley of the Nanxin cult.
I am indeed no match for her.
But if she dared to kill him in the mansion, she would not be able to live well!
"I am sure you won't dare to kill me at home!"
He looked at Deng Youning provocatively.
Deng Youning rolled her eyes at him with disdain.
"Yes, I really can't kill you here."
"Likewise, you can't touch me here!"
Deng Yi had already thought of a countermeasure.
"Deng Youning, you can't escape the fifteenth even if you escape the first day. Don't you like running outside?"
"Then I will make sure you never come back after you run away!"
He seemed to be issuing a declaration of war to Deng Youning.
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