Hua Hong lowered her head: "No, I don't have any."
"Nonsense!" Fu Nanyao became excited. "The day before yesterday I asked you to deliver a note, and the day after that you and Liu Lu went out with me. I was beaten that night, and if you didn't tell me, how would Dong Kuang know that I went back to my parents' home?"
She hurriedly finished her lunch and returned to Dong's house, fearing that she would be discovered.
Unexpectedly, at night, Dong Kuang beat me up again. The beating was quite severe and I still remember it vividly.
Yan Funing looked at Lvliu: "You speak."
Lvliu said respectfully, "That day, the young lady told her husband that she wanted to go shopping and would be back after lunch. When we left, she asked me to drive and halfway there she said she wanted to go back to her parents' home. The young lady had asked to go back to her parents' home several times before, but her husband had always refused. Not only did he refuse to accompany her, he also wouldn't allow her to return. So, I never dared to tell my husband about this trip back to her parents' home."
"If Liu Lu doesn't tell me, then it's you, Hua Hong."
Yan Funing's cold eyes moved towards Hua Hong, and in a moment, she took off the exquisite dagger from her waist.
With a clang sound.
The dagger was unsheathed, and a cold light flashed.
Hua Hong shook her head repeatedly: "It's not me, it must be that the son-in-law found out something."
Yan Funing didn't believe it at all. She slowly leaned over and waved the dagger in front of Hua Hong from time to time.
"Did Dong Kuang want to take you in, or did you want to climb into Dong Kuang's bed, or did someone instruct you behind the scenes?"
The voice asking the question became fainter and fainter.
Hua Hong shrank back and hid: "I dare not climb onto the bed, and there is no one behind me telling me to do so."
Caiyu would not give Huahong a chance to hide. She reached out and pushed her shoulders, easily controlling her.
"What a delicate flower."
Yan Funing used the tip of the dagger to pick off the red flower on Huahong's head.
Flowers fall to the ground.
Yan Funing glanced at Caiyu, and Caiyu understood and picked up the flowers and gave them to her young lady.
"You are wearing delicate flowers to attract more attention. This person is none other than Dong Kuang."
"Look how delicate the flowers are." Yan Funing's voice was cold, and she scratched the petals with the tip of the dagger again and again. "What do you think would happen if I scratched your face?"
Lu Wenfeng was stunned.
I have the impression that Yan Funing is delicate and dainty, but why is she wielding a dagger now?
Fu Beimo and Meng Li knew very well that their sister-in-law already had an exquisite dagger and they could play with it however they liked.
Fu Jiang was also stunned.
The young lady in front of him actually had the shadow of the young master in her behavior.
That cold and faint voice, the unhurried tone, and the way he held the dagger really made him look a bit like a young master.
Could it be that they look like a couple?
Only Yan Funing herself knew that she had once had a dream in which someone held a dagger to her face.
Such an action is extremely intimidating to women who care about their appearance.
She thought to herself that Huahong was relying on her looks to become Dong Kuang's concubine, so she must care about her appearance.
As expected, Hua Hong covered her face and said, "I say, Madam, please don't scratch my face."
"Go on."
Yan Funing slowly and methodically pinned the flower with several lines on it back on Huahong's head.
Hua Hong shrank back in panic. "The day before yesterday, the young lady wrote a letter and asked me to send it back to the Fu family. After returning to the Dong family, the uncle asked me where I had been, and I just said I had been out. The uncle also asked what the young lady would do if he took a concubine. I told him to ask the young lady himself. But I heard that the uncle was interested in taking me in."
Fu Nanyao became excited when she heard this: "So you betrayed me the next day?"
Yan Funing put her hand on Fu Nanyao's leg, indicating that her leg was injured and she shouldn't get excited.
"The next day, the young lady returned to the Dong family from her parents' home. The son-in-law called me to the study and said that Huahong should be paired with red flowers." As she spoke, Huahong lowered her head even more. "I, I told him about the young lady's return to her parents' home."
Fu Nanyao sneered: "No wonder you always wear a red flower in your hair since that day."
"Please forgive me, miss!" Huahong requested.
The room became quiet.
Yan Funing stared at Huahong and Liulv for a long moment before asking, "Are you done?"
"I've finished speaking. I really didn't tell anyone else about other matters. The beatings that the young lady got from then on had nothing to do with me." Hua Hong was eager to clear herself from the matter.
Liu Lu also said: "This servant is always by the young lady's side, and is rarely separated from her."
Yan Funing nodded.
Just like just now, Liu Lu was guarding, but Hua Hong was nowhere to be seen.
Fu Nanyao and Yan Funing said, "Sister-in-law, we can't keep a maid like Huahong."
Wan Niang said, "Just sell it."
Huahong, who was kneeling on the ground at this moment, did not look surprised, as if she had expected this day to come.
Yan Funing's eyes narrowed: "Huahong, you are hiding something."
Huahong was startled, then quickly returned to her composure.
"No, I will never hide anything. I did something wrong and I deserve to be beaten and scolded. I also deserve to be kicked out of the house."
That makes sense.
Yan Funing shook her head lightly and looked at Fu Nanyao: "How did you choose between these two?"
"My sister-in-law also knows that I have always wanted to have a maid to take care of me. After getting my brother's consent, she asked the housekeeper to find a few women to come over, and I picked two."
"Did your brother help with the selection of the maid?"
"No, I won't bother you with such trivial matters. Besides, the maid is my servant, and I want to do it according to my own preferences."
At this time, Fu Beimo interrupted: "Yuan Lian just keeps whoever he likes, without any scheming at all."
Fu Nanyao said: "How would I know about the Huahong Club..."
Yan Funing smiled.
housekeeper?
The butler is someone sent by the higher-ups, or he may be someone else's spy.
Did he choose the person with a purpose?
Even if there is nothing wrong with the housekeeper, the people he recruited from the human traffickers may have had problems long ago.
Fu Nanyao frowned: "Sister-in-law, was there a problem when I chose the maid?"
"It's not that your choice is wrong. I'm afraid that no matter how you choose, you'll end up picking someone deliberately arranged by someone else." Yan Funing boldly guessed, "For example, Liu Lu has no other background, and all the other candidates for the maid have been bribed. So if you want two maids, at least one of them will be someone else's."
Fu Nanyao was hurt and aching, and she couldn't understand what she was saying, so she said directly, "Sister-in-law, I'm confused."
"You are really confused. What sister-in-law means is that someone is deliberately harming you!" Fu Beimo shouted anxiously.
"Bei Mo, stop making noise and listen to your sister-in-law." Wan Niang gave the order.
Yan Funing said calmly, "Let me guess, Huahong, you are Cai Mushi's man."
When these words were spoken, Huahong was shocked.
How could Yan Funing guess it?
But she said, "I am a servant of the Fu family, not of the Cai family. Please don't make random guesses, Madam."
Fu Nanyao finally reacted and said excitedly, "Because I scolded Cai Mushi, she wants my marriage to be unhappy. She bribed Hua Hong to get into Dong Kuang's bed to disgust me."
Cai Mushi is so vicious!
She is the daughter of the prime minister. How could such a woman be known as the most talented woman in the capital?
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
