Chapter 108 Aunt Hong's Wild Thoughts
Mo Liyuan left the main courtyard, his figure like a ghost in the night, disappearing silently in the Wuguo Marquis Mansion.
Tianyi shook his head, looked at Lan Zhenrong with some sympathy, and then strode away.
The next morning, the two servants rubbed their sleepy eyes and woke up from their dreams in a daze.
"Strange, how come he fell asleep on the ground?" One of them rubbed his shoulders, looking confused.
"Yeah, that's really strange. Could it be that we were too sleepy last night and dozed off and fell asleep?" another echoed.
"Huh? Didn't the master go to Concubine Hong's room last night? Why is the door wide open so early in the morning?" A sharp-eyed servant noticed the abnormality in the main house and became even more confused.
The two looked at each other and felt something was wrong. They walked in and were stunned by the scene in front of them.
A servant hurried over and squatted down to check the situation.
"Oh no, it's the master!"
At this moment, Lan Zhenrong opened his eyes with difficulty, and everything in front of him made him feel dizzy.
Why was he sore all over, as if he'd been beaten up? What was going on?
The two servants carefully helped Lan Zhenrong to his feet. They heard him gasp for air in unbearable pain.
Wasn’t he enjoying the sweetness of Aunt Hong’s room last night?
"What... happened? What's wrong with me? Why does my whole body hurt? Where's Aunt Hong?" Lan Zhenrong's voice was trembling.
The two servants looked at each other, and one of them replied, "Master, I don't know when you came back last night." After saying that, they both felt uneasy.
Lan Zhenrong looked around tremblingly. Isn't this his master bedroom?
Lan Zhenrong staggered to the bronze mirror.
The self in the mirror had a bruised and swollen face, and was almost unrecognizable.
He opened his eyes wide and looked at himself in the mirror in disbelief. He said that his whole body was in pain. It turned out that he was really beaten!
"Who the hell did this!" Lan Zhenrong roared, shaking the whole room.
At this moment, the butler hurried over with official uniform in his hand.
"Master, when Concubine Hong woke up, she said she didn't see you, so I guessed you went back to the main courtyard. Now it's getting late, so I brought you the official uniform." The butler's words were filled with concern and anxiety.
He was very confused: the master had returned to the main courtyard early this morning, why was he not wearing his official uniform? He had even taken his official uniform to Hong Yi Niang's place yesterday. Seeing that it was getting late, it was time for him to go to court!
When the butler looked at Lan Zhenrong's face, he was so surprised that he could stuff an egg into it.
"master?"
Lan Zhenrong pointed at the two servants beside him in anger, "Come here, drag them away and beat them to death!"
Upon hearing this, the two servants trembled violently, their knees bent involuntarily, and they fell to the ground in an instant.
Their faces were filled with fear, and they begged for mercy in trembling voices: "Master, please spare my life. I really don't know what happened last night!"
Lan Zhenrong was furious and obviously didn't want to listen to these excuses.
"Give all the guards who patrolled last night twenty lashes of the cane!"
The housekeeper whispered tentatively, "Master, it's getting late. Would you like to ask for leave today and not attend the morning court? I'll go get a doctor to see you."
When Lan Zhenrong heard this, a hint of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes.
"The thieves have gone too far. The storehouse was robbed, and the mansion is in financial difficulty. Now they have beaten me like this! I ask the emperor to help me! What a rude thing! Why don't you let me change my clothes?"
Seeing this, the housekeeper had a thousand words in his mind, but he could only carefully help Lan Zhenrong change his clothes.
He muttered to himself: "Master, if you go to the morning court like this, you might be laughed at by those ministers. If you want the emperor to make the decision, at least wait a few days."
But he didn't dare say this out loud. After all, the master was very angry at the moment and wouldn't listen to anything he said.
The housekeeper called a maid, brought in hot water, and helped Lan Zhenrong change his clothes. Lan Zhenrong even grimaced in pain when washing his face, and he was extremely angry.
The housekeeper helped Lan Zhenrong limp out of the room. Seeing this, the maids and servants along the way all lowered their heads.
Everyone was thinking: "That's their master? How come after just one night, he's got a bruised face and is limping?"
The maid hurried in, her voice a bit flustered: "Auntie, just now I saw from afar that the housekeeper was supporting the master... The master's face was bruised and swollen, and he was limping!"
"What did you say?" she demanded in disbelief, her voice trembling slightly.
The maid lowered her head and spoke in a voice as thin as a mosquito: "Auntie, I saw it clearly. I asked the housekeeper and found out that the master woke up early in the main courtyard and fell to the ground when he woke up."
Aunt Hong frowned, "Hurry, help me get up, I'm going to see the master."
"Auntie, the master has gone to court."
Aunt Hong was stunned. "What? Didn't you say that the master was bruised and swollen, and even limped when he walked? Even in this state, he still went to court?"
"Yes, auntie!"
Aunt Hong thought carefully about last night. She clearly remembered that under the flickering candlelight, she and the master...
But she suddenly lost consciousness and knew nothing. When she woke up, the master was gone. She thought she had fallen asleep last night, but now she thinks something is wrong!
Just then, hurried footsteps were heard outside the door, and another maid came in. "Auntie, this is terrible! The master has beaten two servants in the main courtyard to death, and also beat the guard who was on patrol last night with twenty strokes of the cane. Right now, the front yard is crackling with the sound of the cane."
Aunt Hong was shocked when she heard this, "Last night...did someone break into the Marquis' Mansion last night?"
She was with the master last night. When she thought of this, her heart beat faster and an inexplicable fear surged in her heart.
She looked down at herself and pulled the quilt over her body tightly, as if that would dispel the uneasiness in her heart. However, the panic and fear followed her like a shadow, lingering.
"Auntie, what's wrong with you?"
Aunt Hong shook her head. "Did you hear anything last night?"
The two maids shook their heads.
Aunt Hong was extremely confused. She wondered if she had been raped by some bad guy last night... If so, the master would definitely dislike her and never come to her room again.
The lady finally became paralyzed, and it seemed that she would be able to right herself, but now... Aunt Hong pounded the bed angrily.
If Tianyi knew what Hong Yi Niang was thinking, he would definitely spit! He didn't even look at her last night, okay? He didn't want to get a stye yet. He directly grabbed Lan Zhenrong, okay.
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