Chapter 12 When did it change?
"Su Rui, get out of here..."
Su Ye's angry voice stopped abruptly the moment he walked into the Chaoyang Courtyard.
The strong stench that hit Su Ye's nose made him cover his mouth and nose quickly, and his eyebrows were almost frowned into one.
Seeing Su Rui wearing a bamboo hat, tied up his shoulders, and holding a long-handled ladle, pouring the filthy stuff that gave off a strong stench on the ground, he quickly took two steps back and cursed: "What are you doing? You insist on taking this yard away just to mess it up and upset Yao'er, right? You are so scheming and vicious!"
Su Rui wondered if there was a Zhou Yao in Su Ye's head, and everything was blamed on Zhou Yao.
"Didn't you destroy the yard? I have no one around me, and the marquis's wife won't repair it for me, so I can only loosen the soil and grow some vegetables. Besides, agriculture is the foundation of a country. I'm farming in your house, and you say it's a waste and you're questioning the national policy." Su Rui said leisurely as he continued to water.
The words that Su Ye was about to say were choked back.
Among the four classes of people, scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, farmers are second only to scholars. The current emperor values agriculture, and every family and mansion will open a small piece of land in the mansion to show that the monarch and his subjects are of one mind.
Even though it was just a superficial effort to open a shop in the back corner of the mansion, Su Ye didn't dare to say no.
This damn girl Su Rui learned to be sharp-tongued when she was at the border. She put all kinds of accusations on him and even wanted to harm him, let alone Yao'er.
Yao'er was vague in her words, and no one knew how much injustice she had suffered in the past few days.
"I'm not saying this to you! Hand over the antidote!" Su Ye stretched out his hand and ordered.
Su Rui turned around, holding the long-handled spoon, and asked, "What's the antidote?"
"You're still trying to pretend!" Su Ye was immediately furious, enduring the stench as he walked over to her. "You caused Yao'er to be stung by bees and insects, leaving her with blisters all over her body and disfigured, and you refused to give her the antidote? Su Rui! Yao'er has put so much effort into your case, and you treat her like this? You're going too far!"
"Why do you say I harmed her?"
Seeing Su Rui's completely helpless look, and thinking about Yao'er's miserable condition and her pleading for her, Su Ye scolded her without caring about her dignity at all, "That day you touched Yao'er's face and shoulders, and on the way back she was stung by a swarm of bees and insects. How could this have happened if you hadn't done anything? You're just rotten to the core. You can't bear to see Yao'er doing well, so you want to destroy her too!"
She sucks?
There is no evidence at all, but they concluded that it was her just because she touched Zhou Yao. If she was the one who was stung, what would Su Ye say?
Su Rui remembered that there was a time when Zhou Yao poked a hornet's nest with a branch. She was stung all over her face while trying to protect Zhou Yao and escape. What did he say?
He said that she was stung because she didn't take good care of Zhou Yao, or because she was dressed too brightly, otherwise why didn't Zhou Yao get stung.
When did it change?
It seemed that when she was three years old, her mother's health became worse and worse due to her father's long-term neglect. Liang began to come to the Marquis' Mansion frequently in the name of visiting. After that, Su Ye began to dislike both her mother and her.
In the mouths of Su Ye and his father, she was inferior to Zhou Yao in every way. Only Liang praised her and obeyed her in everything. Therefore, after her mother passed away, she accepted Liang so easily and obeyed everything she said, without even thinking about it. Many things pushed her into unbearable situations.
Therefore, when the Spring Banquet was widely rumored, no one believed that it was not her.
"You must have taken some medicine. Now hand over the antidote and follow me to kneel down and apologize to Yao'er, and we'll let this matter go."
Su Ye's harsh and impatient voice pulled Su Rui out of her distant memories.
Looking coldly at this person who was completely different from the one in her first memory, Su Rui said coldly, "No."
"You!" Su Ye pointed at her, and in anger he stretched out his hand to hit her in the face. Xier grabbed it, and unable to pull it out, he cursed: "Bitch! You should have died on the border! You came back and hurt people. In these five years, you still don't think you've hurt us enough!"
"You'd better find out who harmed whom." Su Rui's eyes became sharp.
"Isn't it because you willingly lowered yourself to shamelessness and consorted with that Chen woman that we have to endure those cold stares, humiliation, and even delayed our marriage? Isn't this harming us? Yes, you never admit your mistakes. You think it's all our fault, blaming us for not going along with you, blaming Yao'er for not lying, so you have to harm her like this, right? You're just like that woman. She stole my mother's, so you want to steal Yao'er's. You've been like this since you were a child!"
"The woman you are talking about is your mother!" Su Rui got angry for the first time.
Su Ye said it without hesitation. Now thinking of that woman, the corners of his mouth twitched twice and he turned his eyes away and said, "Hand over the antidote!"
"I didn't." Not wanting to say more, Su Rui turned around and went back to her room.
"Brother! Don't treat your sister like this." Zhou Yao's voice came from the courtyard gate. She was weakly holding the gate, her face was pale, and there were lumps of varying degrees of ulceration on her face.
Today is already the seventh day. Even if Zhou Yao's swelling doesn't go away, it won't become so serious unless it's intentional.
No wonder Su Ye was so eager to come and ask for punishment.
Now seeing Zhou Yao rushing over, Su Ye hated Su Rui even more.
"It must be hidden on you! If you don't give it to me, I will find it myself!" Su Ye said as he pounced over.
Xier tried to stop them, but the distance was too close. Zhou Yao ran over and seemed to be trying to separate them, but she ended up pulling Xier instead.
Su Rui was annoyed, so he grabbed a long-handled ladle, scooped a full spoonful from the bottom of the dung bucket, and poured it forward.
Noticing Su Rui's change in movement, Xier dodged and hid to the back. Su Ye and Zhou Yao were blocked by Xier and did not see Su Rui's movement, so they had no time to dodge.
In a flash, Zhou Yao instinctively hid behind Su Ye and grabbed him with both hands to prevent him from escaping.
Su Ye opened his mouth to shout something, but before the sound came out, the feces poured down on his head, and before he could close his mouth, he was filled with feces.
He was so nauseous that he didn't care about anything else and leaned over to vomit violently.
Although Zhou Yao avoided most of the feces, Su Ye vomited all over the hem of her skirt, which made her stomach churn. The eroded face made her look even filthier.
None of the attendants and maids who followed them dared to approach these two dung men.
Su Rui and Xi'er had already left. Watching them from afar, they complained, "You saw me pouring manure, but you didn't know how to hide and vomited on me. It's really disgusting."
Hearing that she still complained that he shouldn't vomit, Su Ye was so angry that he suppressed his nausea and rushed towards her, returning all the feces to her.
"Miss! Someone is coming from the palace, saying it's the Empress..." The old woman who delivered the message ran in shouting. She was so shocked by the scene in front of her that the rest of the words got stuck in her throat.
Su Rui asked as if nothing had happened: "What about the Queen?"
The messenger came back to her senses and said with bated breath, "She said that the Empress is summoning you to the palace immediately."
"Go tell the Marquis's wife that if she doesn't want me to enter the palace like this, prepare clothes for me immediately."
The messenger didn't want to stay here any longer and ran out immediately.
"You dare to threaten your mother." Su Ye glared at her hatefully.
"Brother, you're so stupid! Have you forgotten that you took everything from my courtyard? Now I have nothing. Naturally, I can only let the Marquis' wife prepare for me when I enter the palace. After I return from the palace, I think brother should apologize to me for this matter."
As she spoke, Su Rui's gaze shifted to the maid behind Zhou Yao. "Also, if your brain isn't working well, think about it more. Think about how you only just learned about what happened seven days ago. Or think about what happened five years ago so you don't forget."
Seeing Su Rui's meaningful words, Zhou Yao's pupils trembled.
Did she know?
Does the long time ahead refer to five years ago?
Before the two could react, Su Rui turned around and went back to her room.
Zhou Yao didn't care about the dirt on his body and turned around and ran towards the Marquis's wife Liang.
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