Chapter 102 Hanging
Ji Yunshu seemed to have suffered great humiliation and said in a cold voice, "Since it is you who asked me to come back, then I am yours. Please respect yourself, sir."
"Self-respect?"
Lu Yanlin walked forward a few steps and came in front of Ji Yunshu. He lifted her chin with one hand and said, "Miss Yanlan, I'm afraid you haven't understood your situation yet. Master Zhou won't accept you. He will train you well and then give you to someone else, just like A Mei."
As he spoke, he stroked Ji Yunshu's face with his fingers. Bai Ling was terrified watching from the side, but he didn't dare to move, for fear of revealing something and causing trouble for Ji Yunshu.
Ji Yunshu didn't move either. She just looked at Lu Yanlin with cold and disgusted eyes.
Lu Yanlin looked at her with interest and smiled: "You look down on A Mei, right? Have you ever thought that one day you will become like her?"
Ji Yunshu said calmly, "So what?"
Lu Yanlin let go and carefully wiped his fingers with a handkerchief in front of Ji Yunshu: "It's okay, I really want to see if you can still maintain your current arrogance by then."
Ji Yunshu didn't say anything. Lu Yanlin turned and walked out. When he left, he stopped and looked back, saying, "Goodbye."
It was a while after he left that Ji Yunshu sat down on the chair.
Bai Ling whispered in her ear, "Is he suspicious of us?"
Ji Yunshu touched his face and smiled, "It was because of suspicion that you brought us back."
She knew that the man was suspicious of her face, but Chao Qing had spent a lot of effort making this mask, which was as thin as a cicada's wing and could not be felt at all.
Bai Ling was puzzled: "What on earth does he want to do?"
Ji Yunshu sipped his tea and said leisurely, "What else can we do? Just test him. Don't worry, as long as we don't reveal our true intentions, he won't be able to do anything to me."
"But we can't keep wasting time like this."
Trapped in this yard, they can't do anything.
Ji Yunshu held his chin up and smiled, "Prefect Zhou is so cautious that he's even worried about a singing girl that Jin Shi brought back from the capital. What do you think is the reason?"
"Guilty?"
"Yes, he's so guilty, suspecting me but not killing me outright. He's obviously worried about something, and he's even more afraid of complications than I am."
"It seems to be true, don't you think?"
"He's afraid of something happening, so let's create some trouble."
Bai Ling had a bad feeling in his heart.
Sure enough, the next moment, she heard Ji Yunshu say again: "If I were indeed a fallen singer, and suffered such humiliation just now, what would happen?"
"Don't want to live anymore?"
Ji Yunshu nodded: "I'll hang myself and see what happens."
Bai Ling: "...Not really. How could people like them care about the life or death of a singer?"
"I know they don't care about the singer's life or death, but they definitely don't want anyone to die in the mansion at this time. Besides, bringing me back is not a good idea, how can I bear it?"
"Crossing the Ming Road? Do you want to see Madam Zhou? Wouldn't that make things more complicated?"
No matter how Bai Ling thought about it, he felt that this matter was unreliable, but Ji Yunshu said that he was free anyway and it was just a pretend move, not real death.
Lu Yanlin returned to Zhou Qingbang's study and saw Zhou Qingbang looking out the window. He knew what he was thinking about, but he didn't say anything. He sat in a chair and drank tea.
Zhou Qingbang turned his gaze back and asked him, "How is it?"
Lu Yanlin shook his head: “The face is real, I don’t see anything wrong.”
Zhou Qingbang didn't say anything.
Lu Yanlin looked at his expressionless face and asked, “What are you going to do with her?”
"Let's put it aside for now."
Lu Yanlin showed a sarcastic smile on his face again: "It seems that you are still worried, but just leave it like this, aren't you afraid that your wife will find out?"
Zhou Qingbang showed a warning look on his face: "That courtyard is out of the way. I have already told the servants not to meddle in other people's business."
"You're so worried about your wife finding out about all that. Do you want to kill me to silence me?"
Lu Yanlin said with a smile.
"Alin..."
Zhou Qingbang stopped him with some pain.
Lu Yanlin snorted and said nothing more.
At this time, the steward came in hurriedly and reported: "Sir, the girl you brought back last night committed suicide."
Zhou Qingbang suddenly raised his eyes and asked, "What's going on?"
The steward stood on the ground, catching his breath, before replying, "After Master Lu left, the girl hanged herself. Luckily, her maid found her in time. She's not dead."
Zhou Qingbang frowned and asked Lu Yanlin: "What did you do?"
Lu Yanlin sensed his displeasure and sneered, "What can a man do to a woman? She's just a singing girl. If she dies, just drag her out and bury her. Why make such a fuss?"
Zhou Qingbang was so angry that he was speechless. After a while, he said, "Don't you think I'm in enough trouble?"
While the two were arguing, the steward said again: "Sir, the servant was frightened. When he was coming back to me, he bumped into someone from Madam's side. Madam should know about it."
As these words fell, both of their eyes fell on him. Zhou Qingbang's anger could no longer be suppressed. "Why didn't you say so earlier? Didn't I tell you not to let the Madam know? Didn't you turn a deaf ear to my words?"
The steward shrank his neck and said, "This... was an accident."
Zhou Qingbang was furious, but Lu Yanlin seemed in a good mood: "Oh, what should I do? If my wife knew, I wonder how sad she would be."
Zhou Qingbang glanced at him coldly and walked out without saying a word.
Lu Yanlin looked at his back with a gloomy look, and finally stood up and followed him.
The courtyard where Ji Yunshu lives.
As she wished, the hanging incident attracted Zhou Qingbang's wife Qin.
Qin was very beautiful, with an oval face, willow-shaped eyebrows, and a pair of clear eyes.
Her demeanor is dignified and elegant, and you can tell at a glance that she comes from a good family.
Before coming, Ji Yunshu had learned about Zhou Qingbang and knew that Qin came from a scholarly family and that his elder brother was a third-rank imperial censor in the court.
Speaking of which, she had some interactions with another girl from the Qin family.
Qin's expression was somewhat cold, but after Bai Ling exaggerated the story of Lu Yanlin humiliating her daughter, she sat on the bed and said to Ji Yunshu, "He's just that kind of person. Just ignore him. He's so young, why would he be so upset?"
Ji Yunshu saw that her face was cold and there was a hint of sadness when she spoke. It didn't seem like it was because her husband brought another woman back, but more like... the fox was mourning the death of the rabbit.
She felt that one day she would end up like this.
This means that Qin may know what her husband has done and is not optimistic about him.
Ji Yunshu cried, "So what if I'm young? I'll just suffer a little more. It would be better to die early."
Seeing her like this, Qin couldn't help but wipe her tears with a handkerchief: "Don't say that, life is unpredictable, maybe one day..."
"lady."
She was halfway through her words when Zhou Qingbang walked in from outside: "Why is Madam here?"
Qin returned to her previous indifferent expression. "I heard something happened here, so I came to see. Since my husband has brought her back, he should treat her well. What's the difference between Mr. Lu humiliating her and humiliating my husband?"
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