“You… Xiaoyu, come here. Let’s go back to Xiaoli Village. Don’t follow this scoundrel.”
Xiao Jiuyi was rendered speechless by Cen Xi's words, and in the end, she could only resort to bullying.
"Little Fish, would you like to go back with him?"
Cen Xi looked at the little radish head in her arms and asked.
"No, I want my mother! Brother, stop making a fuss! Come on, go to sleep!"
Xiao Yu looked up at Cen Xi, then spoke to Liu Jiuyi in a childish voice.
"Little Fish is not our mother."
Xiao Jiuyi pulled the little fish out of Cen Xi's arms and then said solemnly.
"No, I want my mother! Brother, you're a bad guy, let go of me, I don't want to talk to you anymore."
Little Fish shook off his hand and tried to climb back onto the bed.
"Alright, you two stop fooling around. Liu Jiuyi, go sleep on the soft couch over there. Xiaoyu will sleep with me. As for whether I am your mother or not, that will be settled later. If you don't want to starve to death, you don't have to do what I say. But since Xiaoyu trusts me, I will naturally take care of her as my daughter."
Cen Xi was really angry. If she could, she really wanted to put this little boy back into his mother's belly. Seriously, he was so infuriating.
After saying these words, Cen Xi ignored him and let Xiao Yu lie down on the bed. She then got out of bed and put the charcoal brazier back on its proper place.
This awful weather! We need to burn charcoal to keep the room warm.
Having done all this, she ignored Liu Jiuyi, who was standing blankly in the room, went straight to bed, hugged Xiaoyu, and drifted off to sleep.
Xiao Jiuyi was furious watching her fluid movements, but he couldn't do anything about it. So after standing there for a moment, he had no choice but to follow the woman's instructions and go to sleep on the soft couch.
Her courtyard was quiet, but because of her meddling, the master and servants of the Prince's mansion were so nervous that they didn't sleep all night.
The next morning, while Cen Xi was still fast asleep in bed, Wang the Philanthropist finally woke up. Upon waking, he looked around his room filled with his wives and concubines, but the culprit was nowhere to be seen. His blood rushed to his head again, and it took him a while to calm himself before he finally managed to stay upright and not faint.
"Madam, please stay. Everyone else, please return to your own courtyards!"
He waved his hand weakly.
"Master, what's going on? Why are there wolves in our manor?"
One of the favored concubines glanced at the First Madam and asked a question.
“I told you to get out, didn’t you hear me? Madam, this woman has no shame. You’ll have to sell her off later.”
Upon hearing that charming voice, Master Wang instantly flew into a rage, all traces of his former tenderness vanishing.
"Get out of here, all of you! The master is in a bad mood. If you don't want to end up like Fourth Concubine, then get out of here now."
The old woman glanced at the group of women with disdain and said coldly.
"yes!"
Seeing that even the most favored fourth concubine had been punished, and punished so severely, how could those who were not favored dare to stay any longer?
After a group of people filed out, the room finally quieted down.
"Master, what should we do next?"
After the First Madam found a place to sit down, she asked.
"What did that woman do after I fell unconscious?"
Master Wang rubbed his temples and asked.
"She's locked up and sleeping inside. Before going to sleep, she even ordered the servants in our household to move all the wolves to her yard. It seems she's planning to accept this concubine's identity."
The First Madam pondered the woman's actions and then recounted the story in detail.
"You mean she's planning to stay in our manor?"
Wang Dashanren looked very unwell.
"Yes, sir, what do you suggest we do now?"
With such an ancestor in the family, how will the Wang family live in the future? It's all the fault of this man in front of them for being lustful, taking all kinds of women into his household.
"Just pin a crime on her, throw her in the government office and kill her, then secretly go and ask them to come."
At this moment, Master Wang's eyes were filled with shrewd malice. What a joke! Did he think it was so easy to take advantage of him, the great philanthropist Wang? He knew last night that this woman had ulterior motives. He thought she was just playing hard to get to secure his favor, but he never expected that she was planning to take over the Wang family. Then she shouldn't blame him for being ruthless.
What a clever scheme by Lady Liu! She doesn't even consider whether Mr. Wang, the great philanthropist, is willing to participate.
"That's what I thought too. Yanru sent someone to ask last night, but that woman was too fierce. She threatened me with that wolf-killing knife, so I covered for her for the time being. I'll send someone over quietly right now. No matter how powerful she is, she wouldn't dare offend the government."
The old woman was no longer afraid as she had been the night before; her back was now ramrod straight.
"Then go directly to the county magistrate's residence and ask him for help. He's taken a lot of favors from me, so it's time for him to do his part. I'm tired, you may leave!"
After giving his instructions, Wang Dashanren seemed to still be recovering, so he closed his eyes again.
"Alright! I'll head out now. You should rest well, sir."
After saying these words, the old woman left Master Wang's inner room and called someone out the door.
After Cen Xi's big slept, she slept very soundly and didn't wake up until the sun was setting.
Naturally, she was unaware that the philanthropist Wang had already sent his wife to personally invite the county magistrate to deal with her.
She was unaware that assassins had been dispatched from the capital city, thousands of miles away, and the Prince of Leping's mansion in Lingnan, specifically to intercept and kill her, a widow from a remote rural area.
The next morning, Cen Xi woke up to find her courtyard unusually quiet, as if danger was about to erupt.
Cen Xi quickly understood their meaning. Ha! They were planning to ambush and kill her! Since she had done what she did yesterday, why would she be afraid of these people's retaliation? If she didn't have a backup plan, all those novels and historical dramas she had read would have been for nothing.
So she quickly picked up her violin and began to play, this time without attracting any wild animals.
She treated these people like wild beasts.
Little brat! Her piano skills were highly praised by her teacher at the time. He said she could absolutely kill with her music.
Today she's going to give it a try.
Half an hour later, the sounds of painful struggles echoed throughout the entire palace.
Cen Xi, carrying the little fish, pushed open the door and went out.
"It seems the wolf pack from the night before last didn't frighten you all, so you're here to provoke us again today?"
Cen Xi looked at the person in the lead and asked with a smile.
"You... who exactly are you? How do you know how to play the unique demonic sound that pierces the air, a skill unique to the Hidden Sect?"
The leader stared at Cen Xi with disbelief.
"What kind of demonic sound is piercing the air?"
This time, it was Cen Xi's turn to be confused. Wasn't the piece she was playing inspired by the "Ambush from Ten Sides" rebound and something she composed herself? When did it get the name "Demon Sound Breaking Through the Sky"? How come she didn't know about it? She seemed to vaguely remember giving this piece a name!
And she's never played it in front of outsiders, except for Yu Kuang. Could it be that Yu Kuang also time-traveled?
"Where did you hear this piece of music? What kind of place is the Hidden Gate?"
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