Chapter 44 Embrace She did not refuse Cui Miao's embrace
Nie San, who was lying on the ground and no longer in human form, was very excited when he heard this. He opened his mouth and made several terrifying sounds that were no longer human. The sounds were so shrill and scary.
Since you can't speak, just use a pen and paper to write down what you want to say.
Cui Miao hurriedly called the innkeeper over, asking him to fetch paper and pen from the cashier's office. Yang Yan stopped him, his eyes fixed on his hands, which had twisted into a different shape.
"No more paper and pen. The tendons in both his hands have been severed."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present fell silent.
It is well known that the Xirong people are cruel and violent, but no one expected them to be so brutal.
Nie San's throat made a hoarse sound, and blood foamed continuously from his mouth. He opened his eyes wide, as if he wanted to say something, but with his eyes wide open, he couldn't utter a single word.
Yang Yan looked at Nie San and naturally knew that he was Lu Shichu's man. Before his death in his previous life, the evidence of Lu Shichu's collusion with Xirong was still vivid in his mind. In this life, Yang Yan had no idea whether he had done such a thing earlier.
According to Yang Yan's way of interrogating people, he would definitely ask him directly at this moment whether it was Lu Shichu who asked him to go to the Xirong camp and collude with the Xirong people, and then ask him to open his eyes or close them.
But this sentence seemed a bit too directed at Lu Shichu, so Yang Yan said nothing, paused for a while, and waited for Chai Heng to ask himself.
Chai Heng looked at the fallen Nie San, thought for a moment, then squatted down and said, "Looking at your current state, I'm sure the Xirong people haven't treated you well, so there's no need for you to cover up for them. Nie San, are you here in the Xirong camp to help the Xirong people, or are you serving as bait for Da Qi?"
"If it's the former, blink twice. If it's the latter, close your eyes now."
Nie San widened his eyes, blinked twice, and tears welled up in his eyes.
Chai Heng's heart tightened. "Did someone instigate you, or did you find the Xirong people yourself? Just like before, the former blinked twice, and the latter closed their eyes."
Nie San blinked twice again.
Chai Heng pursed her lips and suddenly felt a little hesitant to ask further.
While she was hesitating, Cui Miao said, "Ah Heng, do you know him?"
Yang Yan replied at the right moment: "This is Lord Lu's servant."
Cui Miao had some friendship with Lu Shichu during his time in the capital, and he didn't believe Lu Shichu was someone who could collude with the Western Rong. But the questioning had reached this point, and completely bypassing Lu Shichu was naturally impossible. So when Chai Heng hesitated and Yang Yan remained silent, he opened his mouth and asked directly.
"Who instructed you to collude with the Xirong people? If it was Lord Lu, you would have blinked twice."
This time, Nie San not only blinked twice, but also trembled with fear.
As a family servant, if his master treats him badly, it is understandable that he would try to trick him before dying, but physiological tremors cannot deceive people.
Moreover, Cui Miao knew that Lu Shichu had been very close to the prince recently, so he thought about it and suddenly changed his mind. What if it was the prince instead of Lu Shichu who was colluding with the Western Rong?
"Did Lord Lu ask you to go to the Xirong camp at the order of the Crown Prince? Or was it just Lord Lu's own wish?"
Nie San closed his eyes, indicating the latter.
At this moment, everyone present was silent.
Chai Heng clenched her fingers. Before bringing Nie San back, she had thought about what to do if it was her senior brother who instructed him to make a deal with the group of Xirong people.
Thousands of possibilities flashed through her mind. It wasn't that she was blindly defending her brother, but firstly, even if the three judges convicted him, it wouldn't be enough to just have witnesses. Secondly, she couldn't understand why her master and mistress had spent their entire lives fighting for the stability of Da Qi. If he colluded with the Xirong, what was his purpose?
"This person will be handed over to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Justice for joint trial."
"Whether Lord Lu is truly innocent or not, your opinion and mine have no bearing on it. It all depends on the final review. Ah Heng, don't overthink it."
Cui Miao knew that Lu Shichu was Chai Heng's senior brother. After calming down, he comforted her and said, "Master Yang, I will hand this person over to your Ministry of War and Ministry of Justice for now."
Yang Yan nodded and asked Zhou Jiu to send the man to the county magistrate for custody for the time being, and to ask the doctor to keep him alive. As for other things, they really had to wait and see.
Zhou Jun never expected that the people Chai Heng brought back would point the finger at Lu Shichu, and his words became excited: "My senior brother is a clean person, he would never do anything to betray Da Qi!"
"You can't just suspect him! But you, Yang Yan, first teamed up with Liang Yuanjing from the Ministry of Justice to bully my junior sister, and now you've taken Nie San away, and you'll have to hand him over to the Ministry of Justice later. Who knows if you'll let personal interests override public ones and turn the tables and falsely accuse my senior brother?"
Zhou Jun had been moved by Yang Yan's tireless efforts to find Chai Heng a few days ago. But now, troubled by Nie San's incident, he recalled what others on Furong Mountain had told him about the terrible things Yang Yan had done to Chai Heng, which they had discovered in the capital. He quickly dumped all the information on him.
Yang Yan originally thought that if he kept quiet about Lu Shichu's situation, he would be able to avoid Chai Heng thinking that he was taking revenge on Lu Shichu and deliberately targeting him. Of course, he did target Lu Shichu. After all, he knew what kind of person he was in his previous life better than anyone else.
But we can’t let Chai Heng think like this right now.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Jun was missed and was inevitably affected in the end.
"In the face of the overall situation, there's no need for me to trip up your senior brother. You can rest assured about this." Yang Yan said, then looked at Chai Heng, "Do you believe it?"
Chai Heng said nothing.
In fact, she believed it.
Yang Yan's style of doing things has always been very clear. When it comes to major events, he never puts personal interests above public interests. Otherwise, he would not have become the teacher of the young emperor in his previous life.
"Let Zhou Jiu take the person away."
Chai Heng didn't say it directly, but only indirectly expressed that she could still trust him in this matter.
"Junior sister!"
"How could you agree to let them take the person away? What if they set a trap to harm my brother?" Zhou Jun was anxious and rushed to Chai Heng and wanted to shake her.
Among so many fellow disciples in Furong Mountain, Zhou Jun and Lu Shichu have the best relationship. Chai Heng looked at Zhou Jun, and suddenly many fragments related to his previous life flashed through his mind.
She dodged Zhou Jun's shaking: "I'm tired and want to go back and rest."
"Second Brother, you should go back and rest first. If you feel there is anything wrong, you can write a letter to Master and his wife."
She was indeed tired.
And my head hurts a lot at this moment.
Cui Miao sensed something was wrong with her and hurried over.
While Zhou Jiu had the man taken to the county governor, he looked at Chai Heng's back and asked Yang Yan, "Sir, do you want to go with us?"
"No."
She would come to him when she couldn't figure something out.
*
Chai Heng had a dream.
I dreamed of my second brother from my previous life.
After the incident at Furong Mountain, she actually often dreamed of Zhou Jun in her previous life. At that time, Zhou Jun also died in the massacre of Furong Mountain by the Xue family. She always dreamed of Zhou Jun at that time. In her dream, he was covered in blood, looking at her with a sad face, and opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something to her, but just like Nie San she just saw, he couldn't say anything.
Every time she had a dream like this, her hatred for the Xue family grew. The more she had this dream, the more hatred she harbored towards Xue Ruyue's father, and the more she did things beyond her sanity.
After her rebirth, she rarely dreamed of her second senior brother from her previous life, because Zhou Jun was still alive in this life, but she dreamed of him again tonight.
In the dream, Zhou Jun's eyes, mouth and nose were bleeding, his face was horrifyingly pale, and he was holding a piece of paper with words written on it that she couldn't see clearly, stuck to the side of his face.
A pair of eyes were wide open, staring at her motionlessly.
She was startled and woke up from the dream. She couldn't help screaming when she woke up, covered in cold sweat, and then she couldn't sleep all night.
The next morning, Cui Miao came to see her.
He heard her screaming in her dream last night, but due to the difference between men and women, he was afraid of ruining her reputation by going to her room at night, so he came to find her early in the morning.
"What happened yesterday?"
"What nightmare did you have last night?"
Cui Miao asked her with concern.
Chai Heng had barely slept in the second half of the night and was feeling rather unhappy. After a long while, he said to Cui Miao helplessly, "I'm scared."
She rarely expressed fear.
Cui Miao's heart softened all of a sudden. He could no longer control his suppressed emotions towards Chai Heng, and suddenly wanted to hug her.
"Can I... hold you?" Cui Miao asked nervously. He stuttered a little when he was nervous.
Chai Heng had originally thought of giving Cui Miao a try after her leg injury healed, and now that he asked, she didn't hesitate and said, "Okay."
Cui Miao's palms were sweaty, and he raised his hands to hold Chai Heng in his arms.
"Sir, let's go."
At Chai Heng's door, Zhou Jiu whispered to Yang Yan, "It's awkward for them to be standing outside while they're already carrying the baby." Zhou Jiu once again tried to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
It's like peeping into someone else's happiness.
"If Madam really finds a good match, you should be happy, sir. Just like if you find a good match, Madam will be happy for you."
Yang Yan peered through the thin window paper. If he found a good match, Chai Heng would certainly be happy. Although she had previously wanted to cut off all the romantic opportunities around him, now she wanted him to marry someone else immediately, even if that person was Xue Ruyue.
But he couldn't be as free and easy as her.
"Let's go back." Yang Yan pinched his eyebrows tiredly.
Zhou Jiu carefully observed Yang Yan's expression and said, "Okay."
Back in the room, Zhou Jiu couldn't help but flatter Yang Yan in order to ease his mood: "You just did a great job. In the past, you would have rushed in and thrown Master Cui out. But you didn't this time. You are much more rational than before."
"Really?" Yang Yan suddenly thought of Chai Heng in the past. The closer she got to Cui Miao, the more he wondered how she had endured when he had taken care of Xue Ruyue because he was angry with Aunt Xue.
At that time, he always thought she was petty.
He was also mean and always used Xue Ruyue as an excuse to make her angry.
Now that I think about it, she was very generous enough to still care about him even though he did such an extreme thing at that time.
After all, he already didn't want to pay attention to her anymore.
"What do you think? If I don't talk to her for three days, will she realize that I am unhappy because she is close to Cui Miao, and then she will be more restrained?" Yang Yan asked.
Zhou Jiu: "It's impossible to restrain yourself, but if you don't speak to her for three days in a row, the lady will probably be very happy."
"Will she come to coax me?" Yang Yan smiled.
Zhou Jiu: “…”
"Sir, please keep your nonsense to me. If you say it to my wife, she will think you are sick and will want to avoid you again."
"But she wasn't like this before."
"She used to be most afraid of me being sad, so whenever we argued, she would always come up with ways to beg and coax me. The last time we argued, she made a wooden sculpture that took her a long time to carve. I knew it took her a long time, and she gave it to me to try to make peace with me and get me to pay attention to her, but I refused and didn't agree."
"I happened to be going somewhere far away at the time, so I thought I'd give her some time off and then give her a way out and reconcile with her when I came back. But I didn't know at the time that it was the last chance she would give me, and unfortunately, I didn't take it."
Recalling the past, Yang Yan's words were filled with indescribable emotions.
Zhou Jiu couldn't bear to see his master like this. Although he couldn't quite make out the timeline in his master's words, he still said, "Don't be like this, sir. I really can't bear to see you like this. Is there anything I can do for you?"
"Help me get that wood carving back."
Zhou Jiu: “…”
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