Chapter 31 Dowry List and Suicide Note
In order to prevent any accidents from happening at tomorrow's homecoming banquet, the Shangshu Mansion is heavily guarded everywhere.
As a result, Qingsong Courtyard, which is usually guarded by four people, only has one person tonight.
“Bang!”
The sound of a whip hitting a body was heard.
"Bitch, are you tired of living? How dare you run and bump into the young lady? I'll beat you to death!"
Qingsong Courtyard was remote and almost no one came here. It was only when Ye Chutang got closer that he heard the shouting and cursing.
Jinzhi's limbs were locked with iron chains, and she couldn't avoid the whip, so she screamed in pain.
"Wuwuwu, I won't run away anymore. Stop hitting me. It hurts..."
"Only when it hurts can you learn a lesson, old man..."
The man holding the whip suddenly fell to the ground, unconscious.
Jinzhi was startled and curled up her body. She wanted to look but didn't dare to.
She was afraid of seeing something she shouldn't see and being killed to silence her.
She hasn't completed the young lady's request yet, so she can't die for the time being!
Ye Chutang pushed open the broken window and jumped into the dirty room.
As she passed the man, she removed the anesthetic needle from the back of his neck.
Jinzhi listened to the approaching footsteps and her body trembled with fear.
“Papa… don’t come over… wuwuwu…”
She was crying and snotting, looking miserable and disgusting.
Ye Chutang squatted down in front of her and said softly, "It's me."
Jinzhi recognized Ye Chutang's voice and looked up in disbelief.
Looking at the face that looked 60% like the young lady, he burst into tears.
After crying twice, she covered her mouth tightly to prevent herself from making any sound.
So as not to attract other guards.
Ye Chutang didn't mind her being dirty and gently stroked her back.
"Cry if you want to, it's okay."
Jinzhi's tears were streaming down her face and she was sobbing, which sounded particularly sad.
It took her a while to control her emotions and she loosened her hand that was covering her mouth.
"My dear lady, I have finally waited for you to come back."
Ye Chutang had long guessed that she was pretending to be crazy, otherwise she would not have gone to Ningchuyuan.
"Well, I'm back, and no one will bully you anymore."
She found the key on the man and tried to untie the chains that bound Jinzhi, but was refused.
“Miss, it’s okay for me, but you can’t let anyone know that you’ve been to Qingsong Courtyard.”
Ye Chutang insisted on untying the chain despite Jinzhi's obstruction.
"Don't worry, I can protect you."
Jinzhi looked at the little lady who was completely different from the young lady, and felt both relieved and distressed.
The young lady must have suffered a lot to have the confidence to not be afraid of the evildoers of the Ye family.
After the chains were untied, she knelt in front of Ye Chutang and performed a profound kowtow.
"Your servant Jinzhi greets the young lady."
Ye Chutang helped her up, "Aunt Jin, thank you for your hard work over the years."
Jinzhi has endured humiliation and hardship in the Ye family for more than ten years and deserves her respect.
Hearing her name, Jinzhi wanted to cry again.
"I am incompetent and cannot protect the young lady. I am not worthy of your hard work."
After saying that, she wiped the dusty stool again and again with her sleeves.
But her sleeves were also dirty and she couldn't wipe them clean no matter how hard she tried. She was so anxious that she was sweating profusely.
Ye Chutang grabbed Jinzhi's arm.
"Aunt Jin, stop wiping it. I'll take you back to Ningchuyuan."
"Young lady, the master will not agree. Tomorrow is your big day, and I cannot cause you any trouble."
"It's precisely because nothing can happen tomorrow that he doesn't dare to control me tonight."
Jinzhi stood still, "Young lady, I will go with you after tomorrow."
Seeing that she insisted, Ye Chutang did not force her.
"Okay, I'll pick you up after the homecoming party. You came to see me tonight. Is there anything you want to say to me?"
Jinzhi nodded quickly.
She found a relatively clean piece of clothing from the closet and spread it on the stool.
"Young lady, please sit down."
After Ye Chutang sat down, Jinzhi rolled up her sleeves, revealing her black and dirty arms.
She felt it on her arm.
After touching the foreign object, the black nails dug into the flesh and tore off a large piece of skin.
"Don't be afraid, young lady. It's fake leather."
Hidden inside the fake leather was the dowry list that Ye Jingchuan had been looking for for fifteen years, as well as Tang Wanning's suicide note.
After she gave the two things to Ye Chutang, she faced the direction of Tang Wanning's tomb and kowtowed three times.
"Miss, I have fulfilled your mission!"
After Ye Chutang put away the thin embroidered dowry list, he opened the suicide note.
The fake leather is well sealed and the paper suicide note looks like new.
The handwriting is beautiful, but the strokes are not very connected, which shows that it was written before death.
"Chu'er, mother can't grow up with you... The only thing mother can leave you is a lifetime of wealth, and you must keep the dowry well... Mother is going to find your brother. I hope you are safe and worry-free in your life."
There are not many words, but they are full of regret and reluctance.
After reading the suicide note, Ye Chutang asked Jin Zhi, "Aunt Jin, do I have a brother?"
"Yes, the young lady was pregnant with twins, but she gave birth prematurely. The young master was born stillborn, and the young lady was in critical condition. Fortunately, Doctor Xue helped to save her life."
"Where is my brother buried?"
Speaking of this, Jinzhi's tears fell again.
then.
Thanks to Tang Wanning's "money ability", Ye Jingchuan's career was exceptionally smooth.
Kong Qingyuan, who was then the Chief Justice of the Dali Temple, intended to marry his second daughter to him as his concubine.
Tang Wanning loved Ye Jingchuan and was pregnant, so she did not agree.
Old Madam Ye was dissatisfied with this and despised her because she was a merchant's daughter and thought she was narrow-minded.
Ye Jingchuan needed Tang Wanning's dowry to pave the way for him, so the mother and son played the good cop and the bad cop respectively.
Tang Wanning didn't want to make things difficult for Ye Jingchuan, so she asked him to take his concubine Kong Ru as his concubine.
Kong Ru appears to be respectful and kind, but in fact she is vicious and scheming.
Tang Wanning tried her best to guard against it but still couldn't prevent it. She slipped and gave birth prematurely, and almost killed three people.
"Young lady, you have no idea how cruel the master is. When the young lady was still giving birth, he had the young master who died young thrown into the river.
Mrs. Kong also viciously told the young lady about this, causing her to bleed profusely. If it weren't for Doctor Xue, the young lady would not have been born. ”
Ye Chutang knew that in ancient times, children who died young could not be buried in the ancestral tomb or on high ground. Instead, they were usually thrown into the river and washed downstream.
She asked again: "My mother's death was man-made?"
Jinzhi shook her head.
"The young lady was injured during childbirth, and I had to take care of the sickly young lady day and night. In two years, I was exhausted."
Before Tang Wanning died, she saw through Ye Jingchuan and was worried that he was plotting to take her dowry. She was also worried that her daughter would not have a good life in the Ye family.
He asked Doctor Xue for help and hid the dowry list and suicide note on Jinzhi.
She also asked Jinzhi and Yuye to take their daughter back to the Tang family in Jiangnan after her death.
As a result, Yuye was found dead while delivering a message to the Tang family.
Jinzhi was also caught by Ye Jingchuan, who forced her to hand over her dowry list.
When she refused, the beast forced her to get pregnant, hoping to use the child to force her to speak up.
So she slipped and had a miscarriage, and for fifteen years she pretended to be crazy because of the loss of her child.
After hearing this, Ye Chutang solemnly promised: "Aunt Jin, don't worry, I will avenge my mother and brother!"
Jinzhi took a deep breath and suppressed the emotions that were suffocating her.
"Young lady, I am telling you this just to let you know that there is not a single good person in the Ye family."
"Besides, compared to revenge, Miss hopes that you can be happy."
Ye Chutang thought to himself: Three lives, this revenge must be avenged!
"Aunt Jin, don't worry, I know what I'm doing."
After saying that, she stood up and glanced at the unconscious man.
"He will be in a coma until dawn. Aunt Jin, have a good rest tonight. I'll pick you up after the homecoming banquet."
"Okay, I'll wait for the young lady."
As soon as Ye Chutang jumped out of the window and left, Jinzhi whispered softly.
"Young lady, I have no regrets in my life for being able to meet you and tell you what happened back then."
After saying that, she rushed towards the wall.
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