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◎How dare you touch her?◎
His fingertips were slightly cool as they traced across her skin, inch by inch, from her back to her shoulders, and then to her breasts...
Wherever he passed, he aroused a shudder. Shu Yao turned sideways to him and pulled up her clothes inconspicuously.
His falling hair brushed against her shoulders, and Shu Yao felt a tingling sensation in the crook of her neck.
After bandaging it, she quickly put on her clothes, but she noticed that his expression was a little awkward: "Ah Jing, are your injuries feeling better?"
Ji Shijing looked down at her, the candlelight dancing in his eyes, as if illuminating some of his thoughts: "It's okay." His voice was inexplicably hoarse.
Shu Yao: "That's good." She touched her collarbone, which was aching slightly. She guessed that she wouldn't be able to go to the shop for the next few days. She would tell the girls at Zui Xiang Fang tomorrow that it was the end of the year now, so she might as well wait until after the New Year to go.
Ji Shijing glanced at the night outside, his brows slightly furrowed, his thin lips stretched straight, and a fleeting hint of cruelty flashed across his eyes.
He stood up and suddenly felt dizzy. Shu Yao quickly supported him and asked, "What's wrong?"
Ji Shijing calmed himself down. Seeing her concerned expression, something in his heart suddenly softened. "Rest early."
…
Late at night, in Shoukang Pavilion, the maid on duty was dozing off in the outer hall. A tall figure walked in silently, and the howling cold wind outside covered his footsteps.
The old lady was sleeping soundly. A pot of silver charcoal was burning in the room. She was snoring with her mouth open, and yellow saliva flowed from the corners of her mouth onto the pillow, emitting a foul smell.
The man stood beside the bed and slowly took out a small knife with a silver glow. He placed the tip of the knife against the old lady's forehead, slid it all the way down to her mouth, and then the tip of the knife went deeper and deeper.
The old lady was finally awakened by the noise, but before she could open her eyes, the thing in her mouth suddenly exerted force, and then a violent attack came, and the air was filled with the smell of blood. She opened her mouth wide, but could only make a "woohoo" sound.
With blood dripping from her mouth, she looked at the person who came and suddenly opened her eyes wide. She raised her hand to hit him, but as soon as she raised her hand, she felt a sharp pain in her mouth again. She was completely exhausted and supported herself on the edge of the bed. With a "wow" sound, she spat out a mouthful of dirty blood, with half of her tongue mixed in the blood.
The old lady looked at the half tongue, as if her soul had left her body. After a long time, she hurriedly climbed down from the bed, not caring about the pain in her mouth. She just wanted to find someone to rescue her quickly. Just as she climbed over the threshold, a hand grabbed her ankle and dragged her back.
The old lady was clutching the ground so tightly that she didn't even notice her broken nails.
There was blood all over the floor.
She looked at the man in front of her and the sharp knife in his hand, and finally got scared. She shed two lines of turbid tears, shook her head desperately, begging him to let her go, and even kowtowed twice on the ground, her hair disheveled, looking very embarrassed.
The man turned the knife in his hand and slowly pointed the tip of the knife at her eyeball. The blood on the tip of the knife dripped onto her face. The old lady was so frightened that she dared not move. Cold sweat broke out on her forehead. She stared at the tip of the knife in front of her, afraid that it would pierce her in the next second.
The tip of the knife was getting closer and closer, and stopped an inch away from her eyeball. The man holding the knife suddenly raised the corner of his mouth. The old lady saw him smile and thought that he would not attack her again, so she breathed a sigh of relief.
But the next second, the tip of the knife mercilessly pierced her eyes.
"How dare you touch her?"
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The next day, two maids brought hot water and pushed open the old lady's door. The moment the door opened, a smell of blood hit them in the face.
The two maids looked at each other and realized something was wrong, so they walked in quickly. But when they saw the scene in the room clearly, the basins in their hands fell to the ground with a clang.
Then came the two people's screams of fear.
The room was in a mess, with shocking bloodstains on the floor. The old lady was lying on the ground, and it was unknown whether she was dead or alive. Two eyeballs and a piece of tongue were scattered not far from her.
The two little maids ran out crawling and tumbling.
Soon, Guo Cuiping, who received the news, hurried over with a doctor.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she entered, she couldn't help retching when she saw the scene in front of her, so she simply stood outside the door and directed the servants to clean up the house.
But the maids didn't dare to go in at all. Only some old women endured the nausea and changed the bedding on the bed and wiped the bloodstains on the floor.
When the doctor saw the old lady's miserable condition, his face turned pale with fright. He first tried her breathing, which was weak, with more breaths coming in than out.
He had the old lady carried to the bed, then took out silver needles and pricked various acupuncture points to save her life. Turning his head, he saw an eyeball and a tongue not far away. He walked over to take a look, stroked his beard and said, "The old lady must have had her eyes gouged out and her tongue cut off last night."
Guo Cuiping covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief. When she heard what the doctor said, she was frightened. Could it be that someone bad had happened to the mansion last night?
But she couldn't understand why the bad guys only hurt her mother.
She asked the doctor, "Is my mother still alive?"
The doctor nodded and said, "The old lady has lost too much blood. She needs to rest for a while."
As he spoke, he sighed, "I don't know who could have done such a cruel thing."
Guo Cuiping urged him: "Doctor, please treat him quickly."
The doctor did not dare to hesitate and immediately wrote a prescription for blood clotting and asked his servant to go to the pharmacy to get the medicine.
Guo Cuiping asked the servant to call Ji Dayong back.
Such a big thing happened in the mansion, and she, a woman, couldn't make any decisions. What if a bad guy really broke into the mansion? The more she thought about it, the more scared she became.
When the servant went to call Ji Dayong, he was sleeping in the bed of the widow in Liuxiang. When he heard the news, he just put on his clothes slowly and kissed the widow on the forehead before leaving.
It was a very bad morning, and Ji Dayong kept cursing along the way.
When they returned to the mansion, Guo Cuiping immediately came to greet them: "You are back. Something big happened in the mansion yesterday."
Ji Dayong pushed her away forcefully, looking impatient: "It's just a thief."
Guo Cuiping stumbled and fell to the ground, accidentally hitting her head on a fake stone, and a bump appeared instantly. She pointed at Ji Dayong, feeling aggrieved: "You bastard, you're not home every day and you give all your money to women outside. I want to fight you." As she said that, she rushed towards him.
Ji Dayong kicked her directly in the heart. Guo Cuiping lay on the ground groaning and couldn't get up for a long time.
Ji Dayong didn't even look at her and went straight into the old lady's room. The old lady's face was wrapped in gauze, and she didn't look as creepy as before.
He walked to the bedside and asked the doctor, "What happened to my mother?"
The doctor put away his silver needle and replied respectfully, "The old lady had her eyes gouged out and her tongue cut out. She has lost too much blood and is still in a coma."
Ji Dayong didn't expect this to happen. He took a step back in fear, his voice trembling: "How...how could this happen?" He thought it was just an ordinary thief who broke into the house, but he didn't expect it was a criminal.
Fortunately, he didn't sleep in the mansion last night.
After coming out of the old lady's room, he quickly summoned the servants to thoroughly search the mansion, leaving no corner untouched, for he was afraid that the bad guys were still in the house.
However, after searching for a whole morning, no clues were found. Ji Dayong had no choice but to go to the yamen and ask the officials to transfer some people to protect the Ji Mansion. Only after doing this did he breathe a sigh of relief.
He even specifically sent someone to the gambling house to tell Ji Tianbao not to go home recently because things were not going well at home.
Ji Tianbao was very happy. He wanted nothing more than to book a room in the gambling house without asking about the situation in the mansion at all.
Ji Dayong sat in the old lady's yard, waiting for her to wake up. Only when the old lady woke up could he know who the murderer was.
Guo Cuiping sat on the other side, rubbing her chest. Ji Dayong's kick was quite severe, and it still hurt. She looked at him with resentment, "How much did you give that widow?"
Ji Dayong drank a cup of hot tea and looked Guo Cuiping up and down, his eyes full of disdain: "You are my wife, Ji Dayong, after all. Can you dress up a little? I feel ashamed when you dress so tacky every day."
Guo Cuiping looked down at her clothes. The bright red and green were very eye-catching. She thought they looked very beautiful. Moreover, the fabric was made of the finest silk satin, which was worth five taels and ten feet. It felt extremely comfortable to the touch, and she couldn't let it go.
She snorted coldly, unwilling to be outdone: "I heard that the widow killed two husbands. You'd better be careful, don't let her kill you."
Ji Dayong slammed the teacup in his hand onto the table. Just as he was about to attack her, he saw Mrs. Li running out of the room: "Master, the old lady is awake."
Ji Dayong and Guo Cuiping walked into the room slowly. The old lady stretched out her hands and groped on the bed, sobbing all the time, the sound like a broken old waterwheel.
"Mom, lie down." Ji Dayong sat down beside the bed.
Hearing her son's voice, the old lady suddenly became excited. The gauze wrapped around her eyes started bleeding. She grabbed Ji Dayong's hand in panic and wanted to say something, but no other sound came out of her mouth, only "wuwuwu."
Ji Dayong scratched his ears and asked, "Mom, who hurt you like this yesterday?"
The old lady held him tightly, her body trembling more and more, and her heart was filled with hatred.
Seeing his mother like this, Ji Dayong no longer expected to hear any clues about the murderer from her. He pushed her away irritably. The old lady lost her balance and fell back onto the bed. She groped around in confusion, looking so pitiful.
But everyone in the room just watched coldly, and no one stepped forward to help.
Suddenly, the old lady stopped groping and raised her finger, pointing to the right.
Guo Cuiping immediately understood and asked tentatively, "Is the murderer to the right of Shoukang Pavilion?"
The old lady became excited and nodded vigorously.
Guo Cuiping and Ji Dayong looked at each other, which meant that the murderer was someone from the mansion.
Thinking of this, both of them saw fear on each other's faces.
Guo Cuiping hurriedly asked, "Mother, is he a servant in the mansion?"
The old lady shook her head.
Guo Cuiping swallowed her saliva and thought of the two people living in Chunhua Pavilion. Could it be them? But a weak woman and a sickly man would not harm her mother like this. Who could it be?
She asked, "Is it Shu Yao?"
The old lady hesitated for a moment and shook her head.
Then there was only one left, and Guo Cuiping asked the person she was thinking of.
When she heard the name, the old lady nodded vigorously, pounding the bed with her hands, and the gauze covering her eyes began to bleed again.
Ji Dayong and Guo Cuiping were both stunned.
Then, Ji Dayong slammed the table and said, "I never thought that beast would do such a heartless thing. I'm going to kill him today."
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