Chapter 40 Chapter 40 Who did Nan Yun kill?
Even though she is no longer young, time still favors beauties.
Aunt Zhou is such a person.
It's just that she had been trapped in the yard for a long time, and her flamboyant and eccentric personality had been restrained a lot, at least that's what it seemed on the surface.
She timidly avoided Nan Xu's gaze, lowered her head and stared at her half-worn clothes in a daze.
No one knows what she is thinking.
The Marquis's wife glanced at him out of the corner of her eye and smiled sarcastically.
Seeing that no one paid any attention to her, Zhao Yuqin felt a little bored and stopped talking in a huff.
Seeing her lack of interest, Nan Xu couldn't help but think of the times when he had gotten angry at her. Thinking about what had happened recently, she couldn't help but sigh.
Some people seem to change quietly without realizing it.
She glanced at the confused or thoughtful expressions of the crowd and repeated the question her second sister-in-law had asked just now.
"Where's Ayun? Why haven't I seen her?"
Not only have I not seen her now, but I haven't seen her since I came out of the Big Buddha Temple a few days ago.
At that time, she had to take care of Yin Ruizhu and was worried about Yu Ming. Although she didn't see her, she thought she was by her sister-in-law's side. She guessed that her sister-in-law had someone send her back to the mansion first.
Now that he's gone again, it's hard not to think too much.
When Mrs. Hou heard her pronounce "Ayun", she remembered what she was going to say next and suddenly didn't know how to start.
Except for a daughter who died young, only three girls were born in this mansion.
There may be some old grudges between the adults, but girls are of the same blood after all, so they should have a deep sisterly love.
But...
"I've locked Nan Yun up, and the family scandal I'm going to talk about today is related to her."
One stone can cause a thousand ripples.
Nan Yihuai stood up with a thud. His lips twitched as he looked at his stepmother, who was usually so kind to him. His face flushed. "Mother, is there some misunderstanding here? Ayun is a good girl."
As he spoke, he turned to look at Aunt Zhou, who had been keeping her head down and saying nothing, and urged, "Aunt, you're with Ayun every day, you know her personality best, why don't you say something for Ayun."
Aunt Zhou still kept her head down and didn't even glance at him.
Nan Yihuai stood there, feeling as if he had been doused from head to toe with a basin of cold water.
The Marquis's wife was not surprised at all.
The person who hated the third son the most in the mansion would be his biological mother, Aunt Zhou. She hated her son and hated him for ignoring his biological mother and currying favor with her, his stepmother, for his own future.
Madam Hou pressed her wrist and motioned Nan Yihuai to sit down. "Yihuai, please sit down first. Whether it's a misunderstanding or not, please listen to me first before you explain."
Nan Yihuai looked at the Marquis's wife's comforting eyes, took a half step back, and slowly sat down.
The moment he sat down, Aunt Zhou, who had been silent for a long time, finally snorted coldly.
The flower hall was already quiet, and the sound was sudden, but it was like a sharp weapon that could strangle someone's throat, which frightened Nan Yihuai so much that he almost jumped up.
"Auntie!"
"Third Master, please don't call me that. I can't stand it."
It would have been fine if she didn't speak, but when she suddenly opened her mouth, her voice, as hoarse as an old woman's, tore an ugly hole in her beautiful appearance, making people look at her sideways.
Nan Xu frowned for a long time, then slowly turned his head to look at the Marquis's wife next to him. It was the season when she should wear two layers of clothes, but she shivered suddenly.
"Sit down." Madam Hou said quietly, her eyes, which should have been kind, fixed on Nan Yihuai. Nan Yicheng, who was standing beside him, felt something was wrong and quickly stood up to press Nan Yihuai down to sit. He whispered in Nan Yihuai's ear, "Don't worry, third brother. Listen to what mother has to say first."
"Yes, listen to your mother first." Li Wan also advised gently.
Nan Yihuai's body tensed up, his hands tightly gripping the armrests of the chair.
Except for the servants who served the masters closely, all other servants were driven out by Mother Lu.
Seeing this, everyone knew that the topic was about to get down to business.
The Marquis's wife took a sip of tea to moisten her throat and said slowly, "This all started when our Marquis's family lost their loyalty..."
Once the conversation started, everyone present was shocked to realize that they were all involved in this game.
Why did Yong'an Houfu lose the emperor's favor?
Because the one sitting on the supreme position now is not the Queen Mother's son, Prince Yi, but the deposed prince who was adopted by the Queen Mother to consolidate her favor.
The emperor became suspicious and began to test the situation, taking back the "golden medal of immunity from death" passed down from the Holy Ancestor Emperor. This was a warning from the emperor.
Originally, they had the Li family as their in-laws to rely on, but the Li family turned against them at the critical moment, and the Yong'an Marquis Mansion, a noble family with no real power, was completely left without support.
Later, someone suggested that the girl from the Hou Mansion be arranged to marry, but before it was implemented, the imperial decree granting the marriage was issued to the Hou Mansion and Wei Yangbo Mansion. Nan Xu became the "lucky person" who had just been broken off by her childhood sweetheart and then obeyed the imperial decree.
However, some people are not happy about this marriage, while others are so jealous that they wish they could be in their place.
"It was only on the day Ah Xu returned home that I learned that Nan Yun actually had such thoughts."
Madam Hou looked down at the somewhat uneasy Zhao Yuqin and asked, "Second wife, wasn't it the Third Girl who came to you and said she was willing to share Yi Ling's worries? On the day you returned home, didn't the Third Girl come to you again and tell you, implicitly and implicitly, not to let Ah Xu go?"
Zhao Yuqin twisted her handkerchief awkwardly, glanced at her husband who was standing beside her with a gloomy expression, and replied "yes" with an evasive look.
With a loud 'boom', something collapsed in everyone's hearts.
The girl from the Yong'an Marquis Mansion was so lowly as to offer herself to him, and Nan Yihuai's face turned red again.
Mrs. Hou coughed twice and stopped talking. Yin Wu, who had been sitting quietly beside her, quickly stood up and continued talking.
Her story was simple, nothing more than Nan Yun's discontent and jealousy over Nan Xu's marriage to Wei Yangbo. Her enraged hatred had driven her to obsession. Not only had she given Nan Xu a poisoned Guanyin (Goddess of Mercy) but she had also secretly sought an opportunity to meet her brother-in-law, Duan Wenpei, when Nan Xu returned home. When her last plan failed, she devised another: finding two guild masters to drug Duan Wenpei at a Buddhist sanctuary and establish a fait accompli with him.
The idea of two sisters sharing a husband sounded incredibly stupid. Nan Yi's veins bulged on his arms, his face filled with disbelief.
How could my sister be such a person?
He suddenly looked at Madam Hou and said, "Mother, anyone can make up a story, but I don't believe Ayun is that kind of person."
The Third Master is the person in this mansion who listens most to Madam Hou. Everyone in the mansion knows this, but this is the first time he has acted against Madam Hou.
Li Wan was anxious when she thought about the farms she was in charge of, but she could only watch.
"Third brother, you don't believe it? Why don't you listen to what Dong Yu has to say?" Yin Wu clapped his hands, and someone pushed Dong Yu in.
Yin Wu said, "Dong Yu, look, do you recognize these two people kneeling here?"
Dong Yu looked in a daze at the person she pointed at and replied woodenly, "I know him."
"Where did you meet?"
"The suburbs west of the city."
"What do you want with them?"
Dong Yu hesitated for a moment, then shuddered and said, "The girl wants to use the medicine they have to help."
Yin Wu tried to persuade him, "What can I help you with? Such a vicious and ruthless person in the martial arts world only knows how to kill people. Who do you girls want to kill?"
Dong Yu panicked when she heard the word "murder." She suddenly looked up and hurriedly explained, "No! My girl didn't kill anyone! My girl didn't kill anyone!"
She kept repeating these two sentences, struggling as if she was trapped in the same place.
Each of these words is more frightening and suffocating than the last.
Nan Yihuai walked forward, pulled her over, turned her face, and shook her body continuously to make her sober.
"Dong Yu, you are the closest person to A Yun. Don't be afraid. Tell me, what on earth does she want with these people? Tell me!"
Dong Yu became more and more dazed as she shook him, and he just kept repeating that he had not killed anyone.
Madam Hou asked someone to take Nan Yi away and signaled Yin Wu to continue questioning.
Yin Wu nodded and was about to speak when he heard a clear voice behind him.
"Yu Ming's incident happened in the wing room of the Big Buddha Temple. Dong Yu, your girl didn't get what she wanted, so you came to kill my girl to vent your anger?"
The story has been told to this point, what else is there for Nan Xu to not understand?
She could even imagine how angry and disappointed Nan Yun must have been when she found out at the last moment that Duan Wenpei was not in the room at all after trying so hard and planning carefully to find this opportunity.
At this time, Yu Ming broke in. She was afraid that her dirty thoughts would be known by others, and she was angry because Yu Ming was her maid, Nan Xu. She suddenly had evil thoughts in her mind and had Yu Ming buried alive.
Poor Yuming was just asked by her to find Duan Wenpei, but she suffered such a misfortune.
"Dong Yu, didn't you feel pain when you buried Yu Ming? That was a life, how could you have the heart to do that?" Thinking of Yu Ming lying there half-dead, Nan Xu could no longer control her emotions. She grabbed Dong Yu's collar tightly, wanting to hear the answer from her.
If looks could kill, Dong Yu would have been tortured countless times.
Yin Wu also knew about Yu Ming's situation. Seeing Nan Xu like this, how could she not feel pain in her heart? She quickly reached out to pull her, "Ah Xu, let me ask. I will definitely give you an accurate answer."
Madam Hou also called her nervously, "Ah Xu, come over and sit down first."
Nan Xu's mood changed drastically. Yin Wu pulled her to his side. After supporting her, he found that she was not standing steadily. Later he realized that Nan Xu had an injury on her foot. Yin Wu immediately became furious and wanted to slap Dong Yu a few times.
The good sister-in-law was tortured like this by these bad things of theirs.
Just as he was about to help Nan Xu over and sit down, Dong Yu suddenly ran over and hugged Nan Xu's legs, muttering in disbelief, "What do you mean by buried alive? No one buried her alive. Hehe, who was buried alive? Wasn't it just a few rocks?"
She talks incoherently, she must be crazy.
Yin Wu felt that the master and servant were truly cruel and merciless. They even hit Yu Ming with rocks before burying her alive. Her face was full of disgust. To prevent Dong Yu from provoking Nan Xu again, she stretched out her foot to kick Dong Yu away, "That's enough! You are the ones who killed Yu Ming!"
"No!"
Dong Yu seemed to be stimulated and anxiously refuted Yin Wu's words.
"The girl didn't kill anyone! Hahahahaha, the girl doesn't bother to kill anyone!"
"If I have to kill someone, I'd kill the second young lady. What's the big deal about killing a maid? Hahahahahahaha." As she spoke, she stood up and turned around, tilting her head, but her eyes became more and more distracted.
Mother Lu was afraid that she would go crazy and hurt Nan Xu, so she quickly asked someone to restrain her. However, a person who was almost crazy could not be caught easily. She ran around the hall, scaring the other female relatives to retreat.
As she was running, she suddenly stopped at a place where Aunt Zhou was sitting.
"girl!"
Dong Yu ran to Aunt Zhou and suddenly hugged her legs and cried bitterly. She stood up and pushed her away, muttering, "Miss, run! These people are coming to catch you! Run! Run!"
"Hehehe, don't worry, young lady. I found those two Jianghu people. I also gave them a lot of silver and told them that as long as they use drugs to knock Wei Yangbo unconscious and then send you into the room, they will help you get what you want."
She rambled on and on, "I know you're unwilling, and I also know you're kindhearted and wouldn't do anything that would damage our sisterhood, but, young lady, how many people in this mansion can truly plan for you? It's better to let this servant help you... Hahahaha, let this servant help you... Hey, the butterflies are flying, all of them..."
Nan Yihuai's body relaxed and he collapsed to the ground.
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