Zhang Liuyuan didn't expect that the person who seemed to have the softest temper and should be the best at begging for mercy would be so violent and would start beating people without hesitation. He shrank back in fear. Jiang Rao's kick didn't hurt him, but he cried out in pain.
Jiang Rao looked at him who was just moaning and not talking about business, and suddenly felt that the few kicks he had just given were not enough to vent her anger. She raised her hand and touched the wooden board standing against the wall.
There was snow piled on the wooden board, and Jiang Rao was a little unable to lift it. Suddenly, someone behind him said, "Don't."
Jiang Rao turned around and glanced at Rong Ting.
He turned around and came to her side. Why did she feel that his expression with his eyes lowered and looking at the wooden board was... fear?
Can't stand seeing violent scenes?
Rong Ting lowered his hand and took the wooden board, "I'll do it."
He held the board in his hand, and his long fingers stroked it across the board, as gracefully as a guitar string, until they stopped at the long nails.
"I say! I say!"
Zhang Liuyuan watched Rong Ting pull out the nails from the wooden board. If the nails were driven into human flesh, he would not know how painful it would be. He shuddered immediately, "The person who came to see me is Lord Shen, Shen Que! Lord Shen!"
"I didn't expect that he was so cruel that he wanted to lure me to an inn in the wilderness and kill me to silence me."
Zhang Liuyuan's eyes flashed with hatred, "Although he always asks servants to find me every time he comes, I secretly followed him once. The square-faced, bearded servant who talked to me was a servant of the Shen Mansion! It must be Shen Que!"
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The sky is slightly bright.
Shen Xiuying curled her lips early in the morning. The maid who was combing her hair looked at her in the mirror, "Why are you in such a good mood these days, young lady?"
Shen Qinying smiled but said nothing.
She has been in a good mood ever since Fourth Master Jiang was taken away.
Even if we know that Rong Ting has blocked the imperial edict of trial, what good will it do?
Even if you delay the time, it will only be temporary.
Even if he wanted to investigate, the people sent to assassinate Zhang Liuyuan would probably have silenced him forever.
Without Zhang Liuyuan in the world, the only person who can write such beautiful calligraphy is Jiang Xingzhou.
The only person who committed the crime of disrespect was Jiang Xingzhou.
The face reflected in the mirror gradually became arrogant and complacent.
Even though she suffered in her previous life, she was the one who was reborn in the end, wasn't she?
Not everyone has the ability to seize the initiative.
When she thought of the time when the emperor fell ill after the beginning of winter, and Empress Ling Jiahe knew her abilities and worshipped her like a god, and in exchange found someone to help her find Zhang Liuyuan, Shen Xiuying couldn't help but smile.
She knew Zhang Liuyuan because in her previous life, this man had boasted in front of her that the new emperor appreciated him because he could imitate Jiang Xingzhou's brushwork very well.
Knowing Jiang Rao's identity in this life, she understood why Rong Ting appreciated Zhang Liuyuan's calligraphy and paintings.
I'm afraid she was a maidservant bought to please him.
If Jiang Rao had seen her father's paintings at that time, she would have been very happy.
The happier she was in her previous life, the more frustrated and sad she is now.
She had gone to Wuyi Lane on purpose to take a look. It was said that Fourth Master Jiang was generous to others and did not put on airs with his servants. But if the servants in the Ning'an Marquis's Mansion were not replaced, would they try their best to escape?
With the queen's support, she will definitely live better than anyone else in this life.
When the final verdict comes out, she must get Jiang Rao's indenture contract before anyone else.
Chen Xiuying felt quite proud and let the maid dress her up beautifully. She wanted to outdo those annoying illegitimate sisters in the mansion during breakfast, so she walked out with a haughty look on her face.
Not long after he walked out of the courtyard, he was knocked to the ground by a servant who stumbled over, and stars appeared in front of his eyes.
She was helped up by the maid, and raised her hand to hold the trembling hairpin on her head. Her face immediately darkened, "You blind thing!"
The person who bumped into her was a maid.
The maid also fell to the ground, and a bundle rolled off her body.
Shen Xiuying saw that the maid had no regrets, but picked up her bag and ran out, which made her even more angry, "Catch her for me."
She has no regrets for talking back to her master, so she's going to punish her with a stick!
The maidservant beside her stopped and stared at the moon-shaped door in a trance, "Miss, listen, is there any crying in the front yard?"
Shen Xiuying turned her gaze towards the child who was with her. The sound of a child crying gradually reached her ears. She frowned, "It sounds like my brother... Why is he so ignorant?"
"What should I do if I ruin my father's mood?" Shen Xiuying was a little annoyed. She no longer cared about the maid who bumped into her and walked quickly to the front yard.
Shen Xiuying is arrogant and looks down on everyone, but she knows the situation and knows that now that she has been able to live in the Shen Mansion, she must please Shen Que.
When I stepped into the front yard, I saw that everyone who should have been having breakfast was gathered in the yard.
Shen Que was furious, "Who on earth did such a stupid thing! Who came up with such a stupid idea to frame Jiang Xingzhou! Can we offend the Ning'an Marquis' Mansion?"
Shen Xiuying's body froze as she watched her biological mother Jiang kneeling on the ground, hugging her brother, and the two of them crying together.
The guards were coming in and out, and it sounded like they were searching for a square-faced servant.
The servant with a square face and beard... Shen Qinying trembled a little.
That was the person she sent to find Zhang Liuyuan.
She had already given the man some silver and asked him to move to another place, so the guards wouldn't find him.
But Chen Qinying was vaguely frightened and wanted to hide back.
Shen Que happened to see her at this time, pointed at her and asked, "You, is it you?"
Shen Qinying quickly shook her head.
The Imperial Guards did not find the square-faced servant in the Shen family, but they heard from other maids and servants that there was indeed such a person, but he had just received his salary and moved to another place, so he was not at the mansion.
Chen Que refused to admit that he had instructed the servant to bribe Zhang Liuyuan and frame Jiang Xingzhou, but the evidence was already in front of him and he was taken away by the imperial guards instead.
Jiang knew that once her husband left, he might never come back alive, so she rushed over and grabbed his legs.
Chen Que was extremely sad, yet he was also moved by his wife's support and companionship, and his eyes became moist.
Jiang burst into tears, "Master, please divorce me! Please divorce me right now! If your crime affects your entire clan, who will take care of our Ying'er and Ci'er?"
Shen Xiuying also knelt down, "Dad, please give Mom a divorce letter!"
Shen Que didn't expect that they were thinking of him. He was furious and pointed at the mother and daughter. After a while, he cursed with blood in his throat, "Poisonous woman!"
Back then, he personally got to know his first wife and found a godfather for Liu before he lived with her.
Jiang was gentle and caring, and she kept saying that he was her life, and that she would even rather die if she couldn't be with him.
But this woman who said he was more important than her life was now crying and begging him to break up with her just to survive.
It is difficult to see true love in a smooth life.
When he thought of his wife's bloodshot eyes as she looked at him before she died, Shen Que felt as if he was stuck in a quagmire, unable to breathe, with bloodshot eyes, just like the scene before the death of that poor woman who had accompanied him through hardships but was replaced by a new man.
This is his retribution.
In the end, he did not give Jiang a divorce letter.
Shen Xiuying knelt on the ground, trembling all over. She had not figured out what had gone wrong, but she knew that Zhang Liuyuan was not dead.
Even Zhang Liuyuan knew that the person who went to find him was her family's servant.
There was only one way left to rescue her father.
——Take the initiative to confess your guilt.
But she didn't dare.
If she doesn't plead guilty, she will be implicated.
If she confesses, she will be the one beheaded.
Exile and slavery are not as scary as losing your head.
In the end, she did not stand up, but bowed her head in the direction of Chen Que.
He would definitely not blame her, he has always loved her and her mother.
But when she thought about the bad luck that was originally meant for Jiang Rao, she would have to bear it all by herself...
Shen Xiuying's eyes went dark as she watched Shen Que being taken away by the Imperial Guards.
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