Chapter 244 Have You Ever Had Me in Your Heart?
The woman was stunned for a moment when she saw two strange women standing at the door. Then, her charming eyes looked Jiang Fei up and down, "Who are you...?"
Jiutao pushed the door open, causing the woman to stumble several steps before she could barely stand. "What are you going to do?"
Jiang Fei walked straight into the yard. The yard was not big, and there was a thin layer of snow on the top of the wall. She walked into the main house, which was also simply furnished.
The woman chased in, "What the hell are you doing?"
Jiang Fei sat down at the table and knocked on the table. "Who are you?"
"This is the house my husband bought for me," the woman retorted, "Who are you? How dare you break into someone else's house?"
"I am the wife of the man who came in earlier." Jiang Fei said lightly.
Upon hearing this, the woman bowed charmingly, "So it's you, sister. I didn't know you were coming. I'm sorry for the offense just now. Please forgive me."
She called her sister happily, and Jiang Fei felt a ghost fire in her heart, "Who are you?"
The woman tugged at her slipped collar and said, "I was originally a girl from Yingchun Tower. A while ago, a gentleman redeemed me. He said he liked me, so he bought me this house and told me to wait for him here."
"Is it the one who came earlier?"
"That's right." The woman stretched out her slender jade fingers and touched the edge of Jiang Fei's skirt subtly. "That gentleman loves me very much, but he never lets me ask about his affairs."
Jiang Fei suddenly raised his hand, grabbed the woman's collar and pulled her towards him.
His eyes lightly swept across the other person's hair, face, and collar, as if he was examining something, without a trace of emotion in his expression.
The woman was frightened by her look and was about to say something when Jiang Fei suddenly grabbed her neck and pushed her to the ground.
The woman wanted to struggle, but Jiutao grabbed her hands and pressed her to the ground, pressing his knee against her back so that she could not move.
Jiang Fei slowly stood up and asked, "Who sent you?"
The woman was pressed so hard that she couldn't breathe. She cried out in pain and struggled, "That's the gentleman I was talking about."
"Nine Peaches."
Jiang Fei called out softly, and Jiutao immediately grabbed the woman's collar and half lifted her up, with his other hand directly holding her throat, "Miss, it's done."
The woman's face was blue and purple, her hands and feet were kicking wildly, and she was about to suffocate. Her voice was hoarse, "I said... I said, it was a man who gave me a hundred taels of silver and told me to come here and do what he taught me. Don't worry about anything else."
Suddenly, the system's voice rang in my head: "There's another person in the room over there. He's very weak and either asleep or passed out."
Jiang Fei turned and entered the room next door, and sure enough, she saw a man lying on the ground.
In an instant, everything went through her mind roughly and she almost figured it out.
The system asked in confusion: "How do you know she has a problem?"
Jiang Fei sniffed the man's breath and found him alive. She said, "She's dressed so ostentatiously, but the furnishings in her room are so shabby, without even a decent dressing table. How can she be someone's carefully arranged concubine?"
"The important thing is that she doesn't smell like Pei Jing, and Pei Jing doesn't smell like her. From beginning to end, she's completely flawed."
System: "Then how did she appear here? Didn't Pei Jing notice her when he came here just now?"
"She must have come here after Pei Jing left." Jiang Fei stood up and walked to the door, pointing at the courtyard wall. "She climbed over from there, rubbed off the snow, and even got a part of her skirt wet."
The system exclaimed, "Awesome!" Jiang Fei had already walked over to the woman. "How about I give you a hundred taels of silver too?"
After a while, Jiang Fei brought Jiutao out of the house and got straight into the carriage parked at the entrance of the alley.
The curtain of the car fell, and the woman quietly pushed open the door, looked around, shrank her neck, and hurried to the other end.
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When the carriage reached a street market, the carriage suddenly shook violently and stopped.
"What's going on?" Wei Mingzhen asked, holding on to the wall of the car.
The driver outside hurriedly said, "Sir, someone is blocking the road."
Wei Mingzhen lifted the curtain and saw a person standing in front of the carriage. Although his face was covered by a veil, he recognized the other person's figure at a glance.
Jiang Fei raised her hand and pointed at the teahouse on the street. "Mr. Wei, would you like to come in and have a seat?"
Wei Mingzhen's eyes darkened, and he finally nodded, "Okay."
The place was in a private room on the first floor. Jiang Fei walked in and didn't even sit down. She turned around and said, "I thought you were an upright person, but I didn't expect you to use such despicable means."
Wei Mingzhen had just walked in when he paused, a look of confusion on his face. "What do you mean? I don't understand. Are you here to accuse me of holding you hostage last time?"
"I don't understand?" Jiang Fei took off her veil. "Didn't you arrange the drama in that mansion just now? You found a prostitute to pretend to be your mistress just to instigate a quarrel between him and me. Is this your gentlemanly behavior?"
Wei Mingzhen's face instantly darkened, his Adam's apple moved, but he couldn't speak for a while.
It was indeed he who had someone find out the location of the house, and only he and his followers knew it, but he was not the one who instigated the brothel women.
"Is it impossible? She was Pei Jing's mistress."
Jiang Fei raised her eyebrows as if she had heard something funny. "No matter what, that's between him and me. Do you really need to go to such lengths to instigate this? Don't do these shameful things. They'll only tarnish your reputation and mine."
Wei Mingzhen's face turned pale, and he asked in a low voice, "Have you ever...had I in your heart?"
The question was asked softly and harshly, like a thin needle, piercing the tense atmosphere in the private room.
Jiang Fei's eyes fell on his face, without any evasion: "No."
Wei Mingzhen's eyes quickly dimmed, as if something was broken.
"But I did think about marrying you." Jiang Fei said, "The past is long gone. People should look forward to it. Dwelling on the past will only make people look down on you. You are not that kind of person. Why do you degrade yourself?"
Jiang Fei looked at the deep depression in his eyes and softened her voice. She said sincerely, "Wei Mingzhen, you should remember your former self."
"Back then, in the academy, you could debate the rhythm of a line of poetry with your teacher for half a day, your eyes reflecting the moonlight and the air of a scholar. Passing by a street chess stall, you would squat down and play a game with the old man, smiling openly even when you lost. Even when handing a steamed bun to a beggar on the street, you would first say gently, 'Here you go.'"
She recounted the old events in the book, her tone devoid of sarcasm, only regret. "Back then, you were a modest gentleman, praised by so many people in the capital. Your heart held the world in your heart, not these trivial entanglements of love."
"But look at you now." Jiang Fei's eyes were filled with disappointment. "To prove yourself, to fight for something, for those obsessions that should have been let go long ago, you've tossed yourself into this state. Calculating, instigating, even resorting to unorthodox methods... If these things happened to you in the past, would you have looked down upon yourself?"
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