"Cousin, I'm dead drunk, what can I do to your maid?" Wu Mingyu stood up with the help of his servants who rushed over after hearing the news. "Look carefully, our clothes are all neatly put on."
With the protection of servants, Wu Mingyu no longer had to passively take beatings, and his mouth could finally be put to use again.
After hearing what he said, his cousin immediately turned his gaze to his trembling maid.
The maid looked back at him with tears in her eyes. Not only were her clothes intact, but there were no suspicious marks on her face or body. She certainly didn't look like she had been abused.
Wu Mingyu asked his servant again, "Who helped me here last night after I got drunk?"
The servants looked at each other, and no one could answer.
Wu Mingyu frowned, "What did you do after I got drunk?"
The servants were able to answer now. They were all being ordered around by Wu Mingyu's cousins.
One went to the kitchen because someone wanted more food, one went to the wine cellar because someone wanted more wine, one was assigned to the kitchen to get sobering soup because Wu Mingyu suddenly vomited, and one went to the master's house because someone wanted to go back to the room to rest, and was pulled by the other party's servant to help him go to the master's house as he could not walk.
There were only four people in Wu Mingyu's yard, and they were all ordered around by his cousins in no time.
When they came back after finishing their work, not only was there no one around the stone table in the yard, but even the doors of all the rooms in the yard were tightly closed.
If the lights were on in the main room, they would definitely go in to see if Wu Mingyu was asleep and whether he needed their service. But at that time, only the lanterns in the corridor and at the door were still lit in the entire yard. How could they dare to disturb their master and the distinguished guests from the Lu family to rest?
Wu Mingyu understood as soon as he heard it. He was being plotted against by his cousins.
The only one who was plotted against with him was probably his stupid cousin who suspected that he was being cuckolded.
Thinking of this, he turned his gaze to his cousin's maid, "Have you been staying in this room the whole time? Have you left?"
The maid wiped her tears and said, "I have been out before. The young master vomited after drinking. I went to get some water for him to wash his face."
Wu Mingyu asked again: "Didn't you notice there was an extra person in the room after you came back?"
The maidservant complained, "When I came back, the oil lamps in each room had been extinguished. The courtyard was quiet and no one was around. I couldn't reach the lanterns on the porch, so I washed your face in the dark."
How could she know that the young man on the bed was no longer her young man, but the young man from the Wu family!
She was thrown onto the chaise longue by someone unknown, and slept curled up all night. Not only did she feel uncomfortable all over, but when she woke up, she saw her maid and Wu's cousin lying side by side on the bed opposite her. Only then did she realize that something was wrong.
He glanced fiercely at his cousins and said, "Okay, very good. You're plotting against me, right?"
"Seventh brother, what are you talking about? We are all brothers. How could we deliberately plot against you?"
"That's right, Seventh Brother, you're too suspicious. Everyone was drunk, and in the chaos, Cousin Mingyu went into the wrong room. He didn't do it on purpose. Seventh Brother, please be magnanimous and don't make a fuss about it."
Mr. Lu Qi's eyes were red. Was this a matter of his concern with Wu Mingyu? What he cared about was clearly the secret plotting of his cousins.
As a dandy young man with no great abilities or ambitions, Mr. Lu Qi's greatest hobby is collecting beauties. Unlike those sons of officials who can give their concubines and maids away, he is very possessive of each of his concubines and maids.
His brothers clearly knew this, but they still plotted against him on this point. Wasn't it just to make him a knife for them in a fit of rage?
Of course he didn't dare to offend so many people at once, but he couldn't pretend to be ignorant or just keep silent and be the scapegoat, otherwise these people would definitely become more unscrupulous and treat him as nothing in the future.
He had to tell these bastards that he could see they were plotting against him and that he was furious about it.
"Am I just too suspicious or are you just too cruel? We'll find out once we get into the yamen." After saying this, he walked out angrily.
His cousins knew that he didn't really want to sue the authorities, but he just wanted to tell them with this attitude that he would never give up unless they came up with chips that satisfied him.
Everyone didn't dare to push him too far, so they all came over and talked to him with laughter.
After a commotion, Master Lu Qi, who had benefited, was appeased. He gained both face and substance, so he no longer bothered with his cousins.
However, the real victim, Wu Mingyu, was not given any explanation by these young masters of the Lu family.
They even disdained to appease him as they did to Mr. Lu Qi. Everyone yawned and said to him half-heartedly:
"Cousin, please don't bother with your seventh cousin. You know him well. He gets impulsive when his temper flares up."
"Yeah, yeah, let alone someone like him, even if it were someone with a mild temperament, upon seeing a scene like that, they would definitely rush over and beat someone up."
"Don't just stand there like an idiot. Now that the misunderstanding has been resolved, let's get a doctor to treat your injuries."
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Everyone was talking at once, saying polite words, seemingly to comfort and show concern for Wu Mingyu, but in fact they were trying to cover up what happened last night so that he would have no idea where to start looking for the culprit.
Wu Mingyu was filled with hatred, his heart bleeding. He knew that his cousins had always been resentful of him because he was favored by his grandfather and had taken away many of their benefits. However, he never expected that they would chase him to his house and attack him openly out of jealousy.
Because of their jealousy, the opportunity he had waited so long for to get closer to Yu Zizhen, and the manpower he had borrowed from his grandfather with great difficulty, would all be meaningless.
How long has he been busy? For more than half a year, he has been hanging around Yu Zizhen for more than half a year. That guy who only knows how to study every day finally has the idea of visiting the temple fair.
What happens next? If he misses this opportunity, how long will he have to wait for another one like this?
Yes, Wu Mingyu no longer expected to be able to go this time. Because even if he threw all his shame into running out with his body aching and his face covered in bruises, knowing Yu Zizhen well, Yu Zizhen would definitely not let him accompany him to the temple fair.
If he couldn't accompany Yu Zizhen and the others to the temple fair, how would he have the chance to act in front of Yu Zizhen?
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