"Heh, Eunuch Su, you flatter me. I wouldn't dare trouble you with such a small matter." Yin Qingyi sneered. If she had hit the servants serving Honghui for no reason, Su Peisheng wouldn't be so shameless. Although he wouldn't dare to do anything to her, she was still annoyed.
"Master Yin, please calm down. It was all because the servants were ignorant. I was just impatient. Please don't hold it against me." Su Peisheng's heart skipped a beat. Oh no, this man is really angry. He could only apologize repeatedly.
"Su Peisheng, aren't all the servants here from the front courtyard? Did you choose all the servants in the front courtyard? Why are the servants serving Honghui so unattended? If Honghui runs away and something happens to him today, who will be held responsible?" Yin Qingyi was indeed very angry. Seeing Su Peisheng gave her a place to vent her anger. Since she couldn't take it out on her own people, she could only target Su Peisheng. Most importantly, she needed to change her image in the back courtyard. She couldn't let people think she was kind-hearted and could be trampled on by anyone.
"Yes, yes, it's all my fault. I failed to discipline these lowly servants. Please don't be angry, Master Yin. It's all my fault!" Su Peisheng knelt down before Yin Qingyi. What could he do? This mistress wanted to establish her authority today, and Su Peisheng was willing to risk his life for her. Even if the master returned, he would praise him. So what was wrong with kneeling? The master fawned over him; why couldn't Su Peisheng kneel before someone he treated with such deference?
"Then you can stay here and watch over these servants. After you've finished beating them, you can decide what to do with them. In short, I don't want to see these people in my Luoxue Pavilion." Seeing that Su Peisheng was so sensible, Yin Qingyi didn't make things difficult for him. After all, he was a favorite of Yinzhen, and it wouldn't be good to offend him too much. What if she fell out of favor one day and Su Peisheng made things difficult for her?
"Yes, this servant will keep watch here. Master Yin, you can go inside and rest. This servant promises you won't see them again." Su Peisheng breathed a sigh of relief. Well, this master has been appeased. That's good. Otherwise, he would have been scolded when his master found out about this.
Yin Qingyi glanced at the people being punished in the courtyard. It wasn't that she was heartless; this was the rule of the time—the master was supreme. These servants dared to mistreat Honghui because they saw he was in bad shape and the Fujin was almost out of favor. They might even have wanted to curry favor with her. But she hadn't expected Yin Qingyi to act so unpredictably. Shouldn't a normal concubine torment her eldest son to death? But was Yin Qingyi a normal person? Clearly, yes. She was a normal person with normal values, so she wouldn't do such a despicable thing.
After Yin Qingyi went in, Su Peisheng looked at the eunuch who had brought him the news without saying a word, just staring at him coldly.
"Grandpa Su, I was in such a hurry that I didn't find out the details before reporting to you. I know I was wrong, and I promise I won't do it again. Please forgive me, Grandpa Su!" The eunuch's face turned pale with fright, his legs went weak, and he knelt on the ground, his head hitting the ground repeatedly.
"Get up!! I'll settle the score with you when we get back! Don't dirty Master Yin's place!" Su Peisheng kicked the ground where bloodstains had quickly appeared.
Yin Qingyi naturally noticed it as well, but since it was Su Peisheng's business, she didn't intend to get involved. Naturally, she had no intention of speaking up at all. It has to be said that after staying in this cannibalistic place for so long, she had become cold-blooded. Seeing these servants being beaten, she felt no more emotion.
When Yinzhen returned in the evening, Su Peisheng told him about it.
"Hmm, what did you do with those servants?" Yinzhen nodded, actually quite surprised. Aside from being angry with him, he'd never seen this little woman angry with anyone else. And in the year or two since she entered the household, despite his doting affection, he'd never seen her abuse the servants so casually. Today, she'd actually beaten a whole bunch of them, showing how angry she was. But then he remembered that she'd beaten them not because of him, but because of Honghui. Yinzhen felt a strange mix of emotions—joy, surprise, and… well, a complex mix. But undeniably, he was happy. It proved he hadn't misjudged her; entrusting Honghui to this little woman's care was the right decision.
"This servant has returned all the people to the Imperial Household Department," Su Peisheng answered honestly. Compared to being sold off, returning them to the Imperial Household Department was actually better, wasn't it? Hmm, it should be. (The servants who were beaten: Thank you so much! You're such a kind person!!!!)
"If this happens again, just kill him! Even if my eldest son is mentally challenged, it's not up to these servants to neglect him!" Yinzhen was not satisfied with this treatment, but he also knew that it was the New Year season and it was not appropriate to shed blood, so he didn't say anything more.
"There shouldn't be a next time. Master Yin has taught them a lesson today." Su Peisheng felt that no one would be so foolish as to think that way again.
"Hmph, have you sent some more servants to Luoxuexuan?" Yinzhen sneered, then asked. After all, the servants who had been serving Honghui had been sent back, and Luoxuexuan was probably short-handed.
"Of course, this servant sent people over immediately, but Master Yin wouldn't accept them. She said that the number of people in Luoxue Pavilion was enough, and that this servant could rest assured that the First Prince would not be neglected." How could Su Peisheng not send people over? But Master Yin just wouldn't accept them.
"...That's quite a temper. Oh well, if they don't want to take them in, they don't have to. It's not a big deal anyway. We can just pick some clever and cunning ones to go in after they calm down in a while." Yinzhen shook his head with amusement.
"Yes, this servant has remembered." Su Peisheng replied, inwardly relieved that he had admitted his mistake quickly today, otherwise his master might have given him a few lashes.
After Yin Qingyi's scare tactics, the servants in the backyard did indeed behave themselves, at least until the fifteenth of the month. The year passed without any major incidents.
"When will Your Highness bring Honghui back to the front courtyard?" On this day, Yinzhen stepped into Luoxue Pavilion, which he had not visited for more than twenty days, only to be greeted not with a warm and beautiful woman in his arms, but with this cold question.
"What? Did Honghui cause trouble here?" Yinzhen stopped and asked.
"No, that's not true. It's just that it's not proper for Honghui to stay with me. Staying for ten days or half a month is fine. Since you're not busy anymore, why don't you take Honghui back to the front yard?" Yin Qingyi shook her head. Honghui was very well-behaved, but that wasn't a reason to keep him at Luoxue Pavilion.
“You are a concubine, how is it improper for Honghui to live here?” Yinzhen was displeased. In his opinion, it was perfectly fine for Honghui to live here.
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