Chapter 100 Removing the Eyes
The phoenix chick suddenly appeared, startling Chai Lie. A sinister smile flashed across his face, "My Lord Commander, you told me to wait, and I have waited for you until today."
Chai Yu was so angry that he wanted to kill him on the spot, "It was you who turned Alie into this?"
Phoenix Cub continued to shout, "I didn't force the eldest master to practice this martial art. He wanted to do it himself."
"Let Alie go!"
Fenghuangchu grabbed Chai Lie's shoulder with one hand and said, "Well, you attacked your father and brother today, and killed the Chai family. How can you have a place in the Governor's Mansion in the future? Everyone will poke at your spine."
The lady yelled, "Alie, don't listen to this devil's nonsense. Come back, come back to mother."
The governor stared at the Phoenix Cub. He didn't expect that he would let Chai Lie practice magic skills as well. But how did he know the internal skills of "Gao Shan Shou"? If he had the secret book for a long time, why did he keep asking him for it?
"What do you want to do?"
Phoenix Chick smiled and said, "My Lord Commander knows exactly what I want."
The wife was already in tears. She had never imagined that such a scene would ensue on New Year's Day. "Husband, give him whatever he wants. Xiaoliu has already left home. Are you going to watch Alie being taken away by this demon?"
Chai Yu said nothing.
Zhuxing saw Chai Che's wound was so deep that the bone was visible. He remembered that his right hand was broken. He was afraid and shouted, "Erlang!"
He was no longer in the mood to comfort his wife, but still said, "I'm fine, don't run around."
As he said this, he winked at Jiaoran, asking her to take Zhuxing away.
The governor still refused to give in. "What Ali brought you just now was the 'Gao Shan Shou' you wanted. You've already got it, so why are you still refusing to give up?"
He shook his head and said, "Master Governor, please don't play dumb. I haven't got what I want yet. This is just an incomplete chapter. I want the complete manual."
Chai Yu said, "Didn't I tell you that the dragon is guarding it? When the time comes, we will attack together and get it from it."
He felt annoyed when he saw Chai Yu still pretending to be stupid. This mortal was cruel and hypocritical. Even if his own son got into trouble in front of him, he would still lie to him.
The most damnable ones are hypocrites like this.
While they were confronting each other, Zhen'er suddenly crawled out from under some table. Her steps were no longer so unsteady, and she walked towards Cheng Yuan's body firmly and slowly.
Zhuxing saw this and was almost scared to death. He cried out, "Zhen'er!"
Chai Lie killed the woman he loved most with his own hands. He has slowly woken up, but his eyes are dim. When he sees Zhen'er standing motionless beside Cheng Yuan's dismembered body, for a moment, his whole heart seems to be cut into pieces by a thousand knives.
"On the second day of March, at Suolongtan, I want to see Gao Shanshou. Otherwise, you will not only lose a daughter-in-law, but also your eldest son." After saying this, he forcibly abducted the heartbroken Chai Lie and took him away.
His move was to scare Chai Yu by making a show of force. If Chai Yu dared to deceive him, he would use a little trick to let him know how powerful he was.
Jiaoran, who was standing by, finally understood that Fenghuang Chu had never believed Chai Yu at all. He said that the secret book was under the Cainv Pond, but she and Fenghuang Chu didn't believe it at all. She sensed the aura of the secret book under the guidance of Jifeng. Then how did Fenghuang Chu know that Chai Yu had deceived him and why did he take revenge on him like this?
From that day on, Zhen'er, who could understand what adults said and speak short and simple sentences, rarely spoke.
No matter who talks to her, she seems not to hear.
There are two goldfish tanks in the greenhouse of Si Yuyuan. The small fish in the tanks were raised by someone when Cheng Yuan was still alive. The mother and daughter often play with the goldfish in the house.
After Cheng Yuan died, Zhen'er often stayed alone. The maids teased her, and she didn't laugh as much as before.
Only a month had passed, and she was able to walk alone to the greenhouse, to Cheng Yuan's tablet, and to the camellia tree in the yard.
At first, she just kept quiet. For example, when someone asked her, "Ms. Zhen'er, the snow outside is deep. Don't go out in the snow. It's cold, okay?"
She said, "Okay."
When Mu Jin fed her during meals, even if he fed her pumpkin, which she disliked the most, she no longer said that pumpkin was not tasty.
She became very sensible and even cried less.
No one knew when she would cry or make a fuss, but the precocious girl would just sit quietly and sleep, as if she was still lying beside her mother, just like the day Cheng Yuan died, when she crawled out from under the table, lay in a pool of blood, and held her mother's hand.
After the library was burned down, Mu Jin rarely went to Qingbi Garden to paint. The governor seemed to have given up forcing him to paint.
He rarely painted anything in Siyu Garden anymore.
However, when he saw Zhen'er staring at the goldfish motionlessly that day, he drew two lifelike goldfish for Zhen'er.
Zhen'er carried the painting with her for the next few days.
Jiaoran met Zhen'er again in Siyu Garden. Zhen'er no longer hated her as much as before. She just didn't talk to Jiaoran, not a single word.
Seeing that she was becoming more and more silent day by day, as if she had a mental illness, Jiaoran secretly hid one day and hid in her room, preparing to scare her and play with her for a while.
But just as she hid, she heard Zhen'er walk in.
She spread the goldfish painting that Mu Jin had given her on the table.
Jiaoran didn't know what she was doing behind the pillar, so he secretly peeked out and found Zhen'er took out a small knife and kept poking the painting.
She was stunned for a moment. Did Zhen'er hate Mu Jin? Did she hate Mu Jin for not protecting Cheng Yuan?
Jiaoran could no longer hold back and walked out. When she saw Jiaoran, she hid the knife behind her.
"Little boy, don't play with knives. It's dangerous and can hurt you."
Jiaoran stretched out his hand, but she refused to give it to him.
She lowered her head to see why Zhen'er wanted to destroy the painting, and then she saw that Zhen'er had simply used a knife to poke holes in the goldfish's eyes on the paper.
Jiaoran didn't understand, "Don't you like this painting?"
Zhen'er shook her head but said nothing.
"You don't like it, right? Then why did you poke the fish with a knife?"
Jiaoran pointed at the fish's eyes and asked.
She still refused to say.
Jiaoran said to her, "Mu Jin drew this painting for you, right? He thought you liked goldfish, so he gave you such a beautiful painting. If he knew you did this, he would be sad."
When Zhen'er heard her say this, she suddenly burst into tears and pointed at her eyes.
Jiao Ran didn't understand what she meant. "What do you want to say? Say it."
She just shook her head.
Keep pointing at your eyes.
Seeing her crying harder and harder, Jiaoran suddenly understood, "You only poked the goldfish's eyes because... without eyes, the fish won't cry, and you won't cry either, right?"
Zhen'er nodded.
She felt her heart was choking, and she held Zhen'er in her arms. "Don't be afraid, crying is okay. Everyone wants to cry when they are sad. You are still very young, so you can cry freely. Of course, when you grow up, you can cry freely too."
Zhen'er hugged her neck and sobbed helplessly.
She picked up Zhen'er and patted the child's back gently, saying, "Don't be sad, Zhen'er. Everything will pass and be fine. When the snow melts, I'll take you outside to catch grasshoppers, okay?"
She was still so young, but she had to learn to control her sadness. Jiaoran remembered that years ago, Chai Lieto held her on his neck and rode a big horse, taking her everywhere to play. Cheng Yuan was afraid that she would catch a cold, so he gently wiped the sweat off her face with a handkerchief.
But the change happened too quickly.
Suddenly, she became a child without a mother.
Chai Lie also disappeared, but if he were there, how would he face the child? He killed her mother with his own hands in front of the child.
If she was just an ignorant baby, perhaps she would not be afraid and have no memory. As she grew up, she would slowly forget this nightmare, but she remembered it.
Half a month later, the lady insisted on taking care of Zhen'er herself, so she took Zhen'er away.
Mu Jin is only her nominal father, and Jiaoran has no right to decide where the child will go.
Perhaps following grandma is the best choice.
The Chai family sent many people to track down Fenghuang Chu and Chai Lie, but after searching for more than a month, there was no trace of them.
Chai Che came to Siyuyuan more and more often.
As the time for the appointment with Fenghuang Chu approached, the guards in the mansion became tighter, but Jiaoran didn't know why, but he always felt that all this was in vain.
He wanted Jiaoran to work with him to kill the phoenix chick and get rid of this scourge.
Mu Jin tried to stop him several times, "Her body hasn't recovered yet. If you act rashly, will you be able to protect her? Or will you wait for her to protect you and Chai Yu?"
"I have already arranged all the servants in the palace. If he dares to come, he will never return."
Mu Jin said, "Since you have made all the arrangements, Jiao Ran will no longer participate in your actions."
Chai Che blurted out, "She is also a member of the Chai family. If we don't kill the Phoenix Chick, the Chai family will never have peace."
Jiao Ran sneered, "Now that things have come to this, you say I'm a member of the Chai family?"
"Although my father attacked you in the secret room before, it was just an unintentional mistake. He is your father. Without him, how could you be standing here?"
Jiaoran didn't expect these words to come out of Chai Che's mouth.
Mu Jin was not surprised. He always put the interests of the Chai family first. "Jiao Ran and I will not take action. Doesn't Fenghuang Chu want the "Gao Shan Shou"? Since he wants it, then ask the governor to give it to him."
Cha Che sighed, "Do you really have to stand by and watch at this time?"
"I have a conscience by not joining forces with Phoenix Young to kill him," Jiaoran said.
Chai Che had no choice but to sigh and leave, and asked him not to mention this matter to Zhuxing.
Jiaoran looked at his back, feeling indescribably aggrieved. She thought that at least Chai Che would understand her difficulties. She could not make peace with Chai Yu and deal with Fenghuang Chu for him. Whenever she thought of the disgusting things Chai Yu had done to hurt her mother and Mu Jin, she could not suppress her anger.
But she was also a little disappointed with Mu Jin. When the incident happened that day, she could have taken action quickly, but Mu Jin delayed her. In that moment, Cheng Yuan died under Chai Lie's sword.
If she had acted faster, she might have been able to help Chai Che subdue the mad Chai Lie.
"Do you still hate him?"
Mu Jin didn't understand what she meant, "Who?"
"Chai Lie."
"I never hated him."
"Liar. You obviously hate him to the core." Jiaoran had seen through his meanness. He even curled up the corners of his lips when he saw Chai Lie in excruciating pain that day.
"You hate him for bullying you since you were little, for being rude to you, and for cheating on you, so if he died, you would be very happy, wouldn't you?"
Mu Jin's voice became serious, as if Jiao Ran saw through him completely. "Yes, I hate him. I hate the whole Chai family. Chai Lie killed Cheng Yuan. Very good. This is what he deserved. I thought he would commit suicide after accidentally killing his beloved. It's a pity that he is a coward and dared not do so."
Jiao Ran squeezed his hand tightly. "You once held that child in your arms. Don't you feel sorry for her? She lost her mother at such a young age."
He pulled his hand out of Jiaoran's grasp and said in a cold voice, "Do you feel pity for me? I was also orphaned at a young age."
He raised his hand. "I told you before that it was frostbite, but it wasn't. Did you see the tourmaline bead on the governor's wrist? He used it to hit my knuckles so hard that I didn't break the skin, but I still had bruises. When they treated me like a dog, did you pity me? Chai Lie and Chai Hui took me to the mountains and had hunting dogs tear me apart for fun. Did you pity me? I slept in the dark, not even daring to dream, only nightmares. I closed my eyes, and the ghosts were gone. The bloody vessel clung to me. The poisonous fumes from the Fairy Pond caused my mouth and nose to bleed, but the governor, upon seeing this, simply declared me useless, unable to withstand even this. It truly hurt, Jiaoran, I'll never forget. They bound my hands and feet. I tried to break free, but the ropes rustled, but I was too young and too weak to break free, and I was sent to the platform. Over the years, the blood that had flowed from my body left my hands and feet constantly cold. I became weak and powerless.
She looked at him and whispered softly, "We will leave here in the future. I promise you, it will be soon. As soon as I get the "Takayama Shou", we will leave. Can you slowly forget all this hatred? It will make you very painful."
"I want to forget, but I just can't."
He turned around and knew Jiaoran was behind him, but he couldn't face her.
Jiaoran hugged him from behind.
He felt like he could finally breathe again, "I really do hate the Chai family, so please don't try to persuade me to forgive them. I can't do it."
Jiaoran didn't say anything, just hugged him quietly.
She was thinking that maybe the person Mu Jin should hate the most was her.
She was transferred to Huiyingmen, where she spent more than ten happy and unrestrained years. At least when she was a child, she firmly believed that she was a loved child and that her father and mother were the best people in the world.
But he was imprisoned in darkness forever, tortured by hatred that did not belong to him.
What nourished him growing up was not the constant love of his parents, nor the freedom and joy given by his friends, nor the mutual help of his brothers. He grew up in endless hatred. In the hatred, he could still gain a trace of desire to survive, but as for love, he was just afraid and longing for it.
Mu Jin's childhood was like her opposite. She was so happy and unrestrained in the past, while he was trapped here as a prisoner for more than ten years.
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