Half an hour later, Qingfeng set out the meal again. Su Peisheng and the maid named Lüyun stood on either side of Yinzhen to serve him. Nan Yi glanced at the expressions between the two out of the corner of his eye, but couldn't figure it out, so he pursed his lips.
Yinzhen placed a piece of spare rib in her bowl. Nan Yi wanted to return the favor, but out of the corner of her eye, she saw the maid Lüyun next to him stretch out a pair of snow-white and delicate wrists, and her fair hands picked up a piece of green vegetable and put it into the Fourth Master's bowl.
Her waist was slender and willow-like as she stood to the side, her eyes lowered and her expression demure. She leaned gently against Yinzhen, with only half a fist's distance between them. Yinzhen's arm could occasionally brush against the maid's ample bosom.
Nan Yi suddenly lost his appetite, his heart was in turmoil, and a surge of anger, whether sour or painful, filled his chest.
There are so many women in the mansion, and even more outsiders flock to her; even a maid can flirt with her man right in front of her.
She was telling herself not to care, but this indifference should be based on the premise that out of sight, out of mind.
What does this scene mean? She is, after all, his rightful concubine whom he married into the manor. If he allows vixens from outside to steal food from his territory, how could Tong Nanyi ever be so cowardly?
She stopped eating and stared at him coldly. Yinzhen frowned, put down his chopsticks, and looked at her with gentle eyes.
"Why aren't you eating? Is it not to your liking?"
Green Cloud seemed to realize something, took two steps back, and her trembling fingertips betrayed her feigned composure; she was afraid.
When she was just a maid, she knew she could only be submissive and obedient.
"Who chose this maid? She's trying to seduce the master right in front of me. She's so ignorant of manners. Su Peisheng, are you blind? Do you need me to sharpen your eyes for you?"
Su Peisheng knelt down with a thud and kowtowed, "Master, please forgive me. It was my fault for not doing my job properly. Please punish me."
Green Cloud was stunned. Her face turned pale and her eyes immediately reddened. She knelt down softly and looked at Yinzhen on the main seat with a pleading expression.
Yinzhen frowned, rubbing his forehead as he thought to himself, "Sure enough, a cow is still a cow even when it's brought to the capital. I'll never teach Lady Tong what subtlety is."
Nan Yi acted as if she hadn't seen anything, and then her words were even more sharp, bluntly asking, "Have you slept with her?"
Silence, deathly silence. Su Peisheng and Qingfeng dared not utter a sound, and the person being questioned had an uncertain expression, utterly astonished. Meanwhile, the woman opposite them was still preparing to press for details.
Yinzhen suddenly stood up, grabbed Nan Yi and dragged her into the inner room. He really wanted to sew her mouth shut so that he wouldn't be choked to death by her shocking words one day.
The woman, pinned to the bed, struggled incessantly, grabbing the brocade quilt and warm pillow and throwing them at Yinzhen's head.
Yinzhen raised his hand to block, and in the gap, Nan Yi did a somersault, grabbed Yinzhen's braid at the back of his head, and made him cry out in pain. Then he rolled over and pressed down on Yinzhen, still questioning him, "Tell me, tell me, you bastard, just say it."
Yinzhen was furious, embarrassed, and annoyed. He simply couldn't believe that this madwoman would pull his braid. He wanted to call Su Peisheng in, but he felt he couldn't bear to lose face.
"You have more than a dozen sisters in the manor, each of them of noble status, beautiful as flowers, gentle and elegant. Are they not enough for you? You even enjoy the company of some ignorant maid outside. How can you expect them to feel sorry for you? Ah, get out! I don't want to see you."
"Tong Shi, believe it or not, I'll have someone sew your mouth shut with a needle!" Yinzhen roared, he was furious.
He reached out and grabbed Tong's neck until her face turned purple, she coughed incessantly, and tears welled in her eyes. Only then did he release her, instead pulling her tightly into his arms and huffing, "You'll drive me crazy one day."
Nan bit his shoulder, and after she finished, she warned him fiercely, "Let me tell you, apart from the officially recognized concubines in the manor, if you cheat on me and sleep with those so-called women, such as maids, women who are paid to serve you outside, or women who offer themselves to you to repay a life-saving debt and climb up the social ladder, I will, I will die right here. It's one thing to steal a man from the Fujin, but to have other women cuckold me too, what's the point of living?"
"Nonsense! Do I need to steal food? I eat openly and honestly. No, what do you mean by eating or stealing men and being cuckolded? Where did you learn such nonsense? You're making things up more and more outrageous."
Yinzhen was so angry that he pressed her body down and shoved her into his arms, ignoring her pain and scolding her sternly, "I see you are becoming more and more presumptuous, and I will teach you a lesson today."
Nan Yi was unable to move her hands and feet and was at a disadvantage. The man was tall, strong and powerful. He restrained her and, in a fit of rage, tore off her disheveled clothes and thrust himself deep into her body.
She was angry too, but the tingling sensation that followed shattered her, and a soft moan escaped her lips. In her hazy state of mind, she vaguely saw his increasingly frenzied face.
The kneeling eunuch Su stood up, dusted off his clothes, and knew that the matter between Master and Master Tong would not be over anytime soon.
He glanced at Green Cloud, who was shedding tears, and said, "Go kneel outside the door. Once the master calms down, he might spare you."
That clueless person.
Green Cloud's face was ashen. She kowtowed to Su Peisheng and pleaded in a sobbing voice, "Please save Green Cloud, Father-in-law. Green Cloud didn't mean it. Please save my life, Father-in-law."
"Hmph, whether it's intentional or not, you know the answer in your heart." He wasn't blind; every move this girl made was clearly an attempt to seduce her master.
He couldn't stand it either; since the master hadn't given the order, how could a servant like himself dare to utter a word?
A newly arrived maid, who doesn't know how to behave properly and is so eager to rise in rank, was punished leniently by Mistress Tong. If it were the primary consort or the two mistresses, they would have given her a good beating long ago.
Su Peisheng didn't even glance at her, walked outside and stood to the side, lost in thought.
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