Chapter 51: Sick
After the old lady comforted Jiang Fei, she turned to Yao and said, "It seems that you are not fair. You and I don't need to interfere in this matter. My old bones can still move! From today on, Rulin will stay in the ancestral hall to reflect on her mistakes. She is not allowed to leave the ancestral hall."
Yao quickly knelt down and tried to plead, "Mother..."
The old lady raised her hand and waved, "I'll leave this family to you. But if you still insist on not changing your ways and can't take care of it, I'll hand it over to someone else."
Yao suddenly didn't dare to speak anymore.
Over the years that she has been in charge of the household, she has taken a lot of money from Zhonggong to subsidize her family.
Jiang Fei blinked. She was indeed not satisfied with this treatment, but when she thought about it carefully, she felt that a rich lady could not be beaten with a stick.
"Then what should we do with this lowly maidservant?" asked Yao.
"What do you say?" said the old lady.
Yao gritted her teeth and said, "Beat him to death."
Yunxiang suddenly raised her head and subconsciously looked at Jiang Rufei first, only to see Jiang Rufei pressing down her index finger, signaling her to stay calm.
"The instigator only needs to reflect on his mistakes behind closed doors, but the accomplices will be beaten to death." Jiang Fei smiled lightly, but did not finish the rest of the words, her face full of sarcasm.
Yao said angrily, "What do you want? This is your grandmother's decision!"
Jiang Fei said: "I didn't say that my grandmother's decision was bad, I just felt that the difference between the two was too big and unfair."
The old lady knew that she had suffered, and it might be difficult to feel relieved by just brushing it off so lightly.
She spoke at the right time, "Then Rufei, what do you think?"
"Yunxiang was caned to death, and the instigator was beaten with a stick and then sent to the ancestral hall. This is reasonable."
Yao raised it in one breath, "You..."
"Don't be impatient, mother. I haven't finished speaking yet." Jiang Fei continued, "Since grandma is so kind and has given a lenient sentence to my third sister, then this girl should also be punished by grandma. If she is beaten to death by mother, those who don't know would think she is trying to silence her."
The old lady thought about it and felt that this statement made sense. "Ru Fei is right. Since it is a lenient sentence, then let's all be lenient. So, Ru Lin will confine herself to the ancestral hall and kneel for an hour every day. Yun Xiang can no longer be kept. Give her a beating and sell her off."
Jiang Fei nodded, reluctantly satisfied.
She didn't want to kill Jiang Rulin. She would not offend others unless they offended her. Jiang Rulin was always staring at her and looking for trouble with her. She had to teach her a lesson and let her know that she was not easy to mess with. She would have to think twice before causing trouble in the future.
The farce ended, and when everyone in the room had left, Jiang Fei sat up from the bed and rubbed her stomach.
She was not a fool, and of course she would not drink lime water, but she had to let the doctor know that she was unwell.
As for this disease, three parts are real and seven parts are acting, so I can get away with it.
But she really shouldn't have eaten hot pot and iced fruits last night. Her body was not as strong as her original iron stomach and was still a little fragile. She went to the toilet three times in the middle of the night.
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When Pei Jing walked out of the palace, the sun was already quite strong.
The eunuch held an umbrella and escorted him to the carriage. He then watched the carriage go away before he breathed a sigh of relief.
Every time the emperor summoned Prince Zhaoning to the palace, he would be very angry, but he would meet him every few days. Not only did he suffer, but he also made the palace servants suffer.
The carriage slowed down as it reached the downtown area.
After the rain a few days ago, the weather has been getting hotter day by day. The vendors on both sides of the street have put up awnings, taking up most of the street, and two cars have to slow down when passing each other.
Duan Jiu got into the carriage and said, "The prince asked me to investigate the matter of Miss Wei. I have found some information."
Pei Jing's face, which had been cold for half a day, finally showed some expression. He raised his eyelids slightly and signaled Duan Jiu to continue.
Duan Jiu said, "Last year, the prince ordered me to start investigating Miss Wei, but the Dingyuan Marquis's Mansion kept the incident in Jiangnan a secret ten years ago, so I had no choice but to start my investigation from Jiangnan, and only then did I find a little information.
"The Dingyuan Marquisate announced that Miss Wei had gone to Jiangnan to visit relatives ten years ago and stayed at her maternal grandparents' home for six months. But in reality, she only stayed for less than a month. She must have been missing for a while, and after she was found, the Dingyuan Marquisate swept the matter clean."
Pei Jing raised his eyebrows slightly. "The reason it was erased is because that incident was not glorious. There is nothing shameful about being lost, unless... maybe she was begging on the streets when she was lost."
Duan Jiu glanced at Pei Jing and said hesitantly, "We haven't found any concrete evidence to prove whether Miss Wei is begging. Maybe... there are other reasons."
"Beggar..." Pei Jing murmured these two words, with a morbid obsession surging in his eyes, "If she has begged, then that's her."
Seeing Pei Jing like this, Duan Jiu became alert, thinking this was a sign of another illness.
The prince had been searching for someone for more than ten years, and finding out the truth of that year had almost become an obsession. It was not until last year that he began to find some clues, which was like finding a life-saving straw.
Sometimes he said he would kill her or break her legs if he found her, and sometimes he would say she had been very good to him and he had promised to repay her a hundredfold.
"That's right." Duan Jiu soothed him, "It should be as Your Majesty thinks."
The dark red that gradually appeared in Pei Jing's eyes gradually dissipated.
Duan Jiu had just breathed a sigh of relief when the carriage suddenly stopped and there was a commotion outside.
The guard driving the carriage apologized, "Your Highness, please forgive me. A child suddenly rushed into the middle of the road and almost hit us."
Pei Jing lifted the curtain, and a wave of heat immediately poured in from the gap in the curtain.
He turned his head and saw a boy being dragged to the side of the road by a burly man, who whipped him with the whip without saying a word.
"You little beast, you're rebelling!" The human trafficker bared his yellow teeth and whipped the boy hard with the whip.
"I've been running around to find a good buyer, and you just run away, ruining my business. You're trying to cut off my source of income!"
Just as the carriage was about to leave, Pei Jing knocked on the window frame and said, "Stop!"
Duan Jiu became nervous, "Your Majesty, or..."
Pei Jing raised his hand to stop him, and glanced up. There was a sign of a pawnshop hanging next to the shop door, and he looked at the boy again.
The child was only seven or eight years old. His skinny body was whipped and rolled on the ground, but he gritted his teeth and said nothing.
The trafficker cursed, "Run! Keep running! I'll sell you to a brothel and have the madam chain you up. See if you dare to mess around again!"
The boy groaned in pain, and the man beat him even harder.
He spat and whipped him a few more times, "You ignorant fool! You're worse than a dog in front of me!"
The matchmaker under the eaves leaned against the door frame and ate sunflower seeds. "You better be careful with me. If you get your face hurt, you won't be able to sell it for a high price!"
Pei Jing's pupils darkened, bloodshot began to spread out from all sides again, and even a faint smile appeared on his lips.
Duan Jiu thought to himself that something was wrong and guessed that he was going to have another attack.
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