Chapter 56 [VIP]
After Xiao Chuan sent people to the Dong family, Mi Yao never heard from Xiao Rou again.
Now that she heard that Xiao Rou's matter was over, she became curious. Since Xiao Chuan had sent people to protect Xiao Rou, Xiao Rou couldn't possibly be dead. It could only be that the Dong family suffered a crushing defeat, bringing this matter to a close.
Qi Niang was a spirited woman with a naturally cheerful demeanor and fine laugh lines at the corners of her eyes. As soon as she stepped into the room, she flashed her white teeth at Mi Yao: "Qi Hui greets Madam. Madam has such good teeth. I noticed that the bite mark on the town envoy's hand is bleeding, and it will probably leave a scar for a while."
Sensing that Qi Niang had a straightforward personality, Mi Yao said directly, "He asked for it himself."
“The lady is right, it must be the garrison commander’s fault. He is still reflecting on his actions by the stable.”
Qi Niang laughed heartily. She wanted to see her future master as soon as possible, so she went over when she heard the carriage enter the mansion. Unexpectedly, Mi Yao was not there. Later, she wandered around the mansion and happened to see her former master standing in the stable.
His indifferent, godlike expression seemed no different from usual, yet she could sense the loneliness shrouding him. His hand was bitten, and no one cared; he could only stretch out his hand for the horse to lick and soothe him.
After laughing a few times, Qi Niang nimbly knelt on one knee and bowed to Mi Yao.
"Originally, the town magistrate left me with the eldest lady to help her gain a foothold in the Dong family, but he did not ask me to acknowledge her as his master. Now that the Dong family's affairs are settled, the town magistrate has summoned me back to the mansion and asked if I was willing to follow the lady. I am willing, of course. If the lady keeps me, the town magistrate will be my former master from now on."
When Shi Ya said that Qi Niang was sent by Xiao Chuan, Mi Yao thought that Xiao Chuan intended to give Qi Niang to her, but she was still pleasantly surprised to hear Qi Niang say this.
She was surrounded by burly old women and maids, but none of them had learned martial arts. They could intimidate ordinary ladies of the inner quarters, but they lost their power when they encountered tough opponents.
Given how quickly she offends people, Qi Niang's presence by her side only adds another layer of security for her.
Mi Yao helped her up: "Why wouldn't I accept such a good thing? Tell me first that it's about the Dong family, and then we can talk about other things."
She was curious about the fate of the Dong family and Xiao Rou; salary and benefits could be discussed later.
"The Dong family are all cowards who bully the weak and fear the strong. If I use force to intimidate them, they will turn into cowards."
Speaking of Dong Jiaqi, Qi Niang looked disdainful. There were more than ten people in the family, and not one of them had any backbone. They would wash feet when asked to, and even though they were usually too lazy to fetch water and had Xiao Rou fetch it for them, they would carry heavy loads and do hard labor when asked to because they were afraid of Xiao Rou's beatings.
"The Dong family originally had a young son who was studying. I saw that he was stupid and couldn't learn anything, so I made him stop studying and go to copy books to earn money. After studying for several years, he really did learn nothing. He was a pig-headed person. The articles he copied were either ugly or missing words. He didn't earn any money and instead lost my money for meat."
"Then?"
Mi Yao's eyes lit up as she listened, realizing that Qi Niang was not only skilled in martial arts but also a master storyteller.
"He lost too much money, and I felt he wouldn't earn much by carrying bags, so I threw him into a brothel. Madam, please don't misunderstand, I didn't mean to force him into prostitution, I just wanted him to earn more money as a pimp. Who would have thought he would turn out badly and hook up with a generous old man, who then got him a small house and moved him out of the Dong family."
After elaborating on the bizarre scene of Dong Silang being stripped naked and thrown into the street by the old man's first wife, Qi Niang continued, "Dong Silang became someone else's mistress, so he was no longer considered a member of the Dong family. I stopped asking Dong Silang for money and instead asked the other members of the Dong family to work harder to earn more money to bring home for me to buy new clothes. Who knew they were so ruthless and vicious that they bought arsenic to poison me."
"Given that family's personality, they probably wouldn't dare to do it themselves. They'd have their wife do it?"
"Madam guessed correctly. After the Dong family bought the medicine, they wanted Madam Xiao to take action. It can be said that my teachings over the past few days have been effective. Madam Xiao was coerced and tempted by the Dong family. After hesitating for a long time, she still did not listen to them and took the medicine. Instead, she secretly told me about it."
Xiao Rou hesitated at first, rather than directly telling her that she had been drugged, because she had already lost her temper.
She couldn't understand why, even though they were born to the same parents, the town magistrate could behead people as easily as slicing melons, while Xiao Rou was a pushover.
Moreover, it would be one thing if she were just a pushover, but Xiao Rou is a pushover with a bit of a bully attitude towards her own family. She is extremely afraid of the Dong family and doesn't know her place at all.
They probably knew that she was sent by Xiao Chuan to the Dong family, and that she would only cause trouble for the Dong family members, and would not harm her, the town magistrate's own elder sister.
"Knowing they were going to drug me, I naturally gave them another good beating. The Dong family couldn't stand it and wanted to divorce Madam Xiao. Madam Xiao refused, so the Dong family changed their mind and said it was a divorce. Even so, Madam Xiao still refused, saying that she was a member of the Dong family and didn't know where she could go if she left the Dong family."
"The town magistrate only told me to make sure Xiao Rou wasn't bullied, so I didn't get involved in this matter. When Madam Xiao saw that I didn't comfort her, she became even more unwilling to divorce and leave the Dong family. After a month of this entanglement, the Dong family secretly sold their old house and shops and packed their bags and ran away overnight."
They didn't run out of Yizhou, but went there, intending to return to the city after Xiao Rou left.
However, leaving is easy, but returning is difficult. Following Xiao Chuan's instructions, she caught up with the Dong family and made Dong Jia put his seal on the divorce papers. Because the round trip was too far, she asked the Dong family for travel expenses and skinned them alive before returning to Yizhou City.
"That family of lazybones can only stay in Yizhou City for generations because they have a place to live. Now that they've gone to the countryside, they don't have the ability to come back."
They ran away from the house, leaving Xiao Rou alone in the city. She paused, then asked, "So where is my eldest sister now?"
Since he neither entered the Xiao residence nor heard that anyone lived in the adjacent mansion, Xiao Chuan would not allow anyone to be homeless and wander outside, would he?
"The town magistrate gave her two choices: live there, or rent a house for her in the city and pay the rent."
As Qi Niang spoke, she recalled Xiao Rou hearing the two choices and said to her sadly, "Now you know why I don't want to leave the Dong family, right? Erlang has been aloof and cold since childhood. He has always remembered the mistakes I made. Even if the Dong family leaves, he won't let me live in his house. Without the Dong family, I am just a drifting duckweed with no branch to cling to."
Hearing this, Qi Niang frowned repeatedly. No one could tell, because her previous performance had been so poor, and they were extremely disappointed in her.
Instead of trying to perform well, she complained that Xiao Chuan was meddling in her affairs and that she would no longer be Dong Xiao Shi.
"Madam Xiao ultimately chose to stay in the city. She originally thought I would stay with her forever, but now that she knows I'm leaving, she's already calling a widower 'elder brother.'"
She reported the matter to Xiao Chuan, who said there was no need to worry about it.
Indeed, there's no need to worry about it. Xiao Chuan didn't give Xiao Rou the divorce papers, nor did he tell her. So even if Xiao Rou calls him "elder brother," she can only call him that. She thinks she's still a member of the Dong family and can't marry Xiao Chuan again, which would create another brother-in-law.
After telling Xiao Rou's story, Qi Niang then spoke about herself: "My father was a bodyguard, and he and my mother both died in the war in Yizhou. My brother was a soldier under the garrison commander. Originally, I disguised myself as a man and followed my brother in the military camp, but later I was discovered and dragged out by the garrison commander."
Although he didn't keep her in the army, Xiao Chuan still found her something to do.
She never liked hanging out with a bunch of men who made lewd jokes all the time and smelled bad, so she changed back into women's clothing and ran errands for Xiao Chuan.
"It's so great to be able to follow Madam. Heaven knows how much I want to be surrounded by women. In the Dong family, only Madam Xiao is clean. The rest of the Dong family members are as smelly as I am in the army."
As soon as Qi Niang entered the inner courtyard of the Xiao residence, she felt as if she had entered a heavenly palace. Spring flowers were blooming all over the courtyard, and a faint fragrance wafted through the air. The maids were all dressed neatly and appropriately, especially when she saw Mi Yao.
With such a new master, she felt even more attractive herself.
"Don't worry, Madam. I only serve my master, not my subordinates. You don't need to worry about me being a servant to both sides. Tell the town magistrate about your affairs, and I will only tell you about the town magistrate."
Hearing Qi Niang's promise, Mi Yao smiled sweetly. After learning how much money Xiao Chuan had given her each month, she immediately tripled it.
Because Xiao Chuan's offer was not high, Mi Yao tripled it, but it was still only slightly higher than Shuang Hua's.
However, the future of Shuanghua after she owns a shop is another matter.
Having accepted Qi Niang from Xiao Chuan, Mi Yao did not break the ice with him. The day before Xiao Chuan was to leave for Jiangning, he entered Mi Yao's room and began to take off his outer garments.
"I don't know when I'll be back, so I'm giving you what I need in advance."
These words were incredibly shameless. Mi Yao, who hadn't been looking at him at first, looked up in surprise upon hearing them, checking if he was blushing.
It's as if she loves rocking on the tatami.
It was clearly him who always pounced on his prey like a hungry wolf, his eyes gleaming green as if he'd never seen meat before.
“I’m afraid my husband can’t give it to me. That day you angered me and caused my menstrual blood to come out early. You only lost a few drops of blood, but I bled profusely.”
Mi Yao glanced at the still obvious teeth marks on his hands, but he didn't seem to want to find a cloth to cover them up. She wondered what he had been saying to others these past two days.
"I'm angry with you?"
Unexpectedly, two days later, Mi Yao still didn't forget to play the victim and accuse the other party first.
Mi Yao rested her hand on her stomach, leaning lazily against the soft pillow, looking even more like a pregnant woman who needed to rest than Zhen Jing. Seeing this, Xiao Chuan wanted to banter with her.
However, upon touching her unusually pale lips, he put his outer garment back on.
Is this a case of "if you can't exercise or get anything done, you just have to get out of here"?
Mi Yao stopped looking at him and continued reading the storybook in her hands, but she didn't hear the door close for a long time.
A moment later, I heard his voice.
"You won't be dead when I come back from Jiangning, will you?"
"...Either you reach out and let me take another bite, or you'll make me furious right now."
Xiao Chuan approached the soft couch, but instead of reaching for her mouth, he poked her head from above, making her face lift up. "If you don't care about your life, what's the difference between bleeding to death and being angered to death by me?"
After he revealed that she had taken musk, he never mentioned it to her again, leaving her to fend for herself, and she really did fend for herself.
He told her that she wasn't incapable of getting pregnant, but rather had difficulty conceiving and was prone to miscarriage. She would only remember to ask him to pull out or penetrate too deeply each time, using this as an excuse to make him stop so she wouldn't miscarry and die.
Her tone didn't sound like she was afraid; it was more like she was simply making an excuse to escape his advances.
Besides, her fragrance showed no signs of fading. After each bout of profuse sweating, the damp heat would fill the room with her spicy musky scent, which would also permeate him.
How afraid was she of giving birth to a child who had half his blood? Even knowing that it would cause her to age prematurely, she still avoided having children.
He originally thought he didn't care about this, but the longer it went on, the more agitated he became, making him want to strangle her whenever he saw her.
If she were simply gone, he wouldn't have felt those inexplicable emotions.
"Now that I'm leaving, you can stop taking the musk pills."
Meeting Mi Yao's wide, almond-shaped eyes, Xiao Chuan squeezed out these words through gritted teeth.
He felt that he was putting things on the table and expressing his tolerance towards her. In fact, Mi Yao understood that this was his concession.
However, her reaction was not what he expected.
Her almond-shaped eyes, filled with anger, shimmered and sparkled at his words: "Even if my husband leaves, I still have to take the medicine. Has my husband forgotten that on our wedding night you generously allowed me to try other men? Although Zhao Wulang has been driven out of Yizhou, there are still other men in Yizhou. How can I not take the medicine?"
Mi Yao's eyes blinked, revealing her obedient and lively nature, but what she said made Xiao Chuan want to move his hand from poking her forehead to pinching her slender, fair neck.
After staring at each other for a moment, Mi Yao's senses were filled with Xiao Chuan's murderous aura. She thought he was about to go on a killing spree and leave her with a bloodbath. But in the end, Xiao Chuan withdrew his gaze, and a few breaths later, Mi Yao heard the sound of a door closing with a "bang".
She patted her tense chest and pouted.
This time I finally felt great.
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