Chapter 14: Infatuated Man 3
◎Man proposes, God disposes! ◎
Yan Yue fell pretty hard last night, so she went out to buy some ointment for bruises and sprains early in the morning, and also bought a few meat buns.
On the way back to the inn, I saw a government official directing two laborers to push a flatbed cart that was hastily covered with a straw mat. The wheel of the car rolled over a pothole, causing the straw mat to tilt, revealing Sun's mother's deathly pale face.
Yan Yue froze in his tracks, and quickly took two steps to catch up with the officer: "Sir! What happened?"
The officer turned around unhappily, and when he saw that she was dressed in bright clothes and was beautiful, his unhappy look faded and he asked, "Do you know her?"
Yan Yue said: "I know him, he is from the village below."
The officer said, "Yesterday, for some unknown reason, this crazy woman suddenly went mad and beat a lame beggar to death. We had no choice but to arrest her. But this morning, we found her clinging to the prison fence and strangling herself to death!"
Yan Yue was shocked. Sun's mother actually beat Chen Xiaomei's father to death?
The officer said with a gloomy face: "When the jailer saw her, she was half-kneeling, with her head stuck on the wooden fence and her neck stretched out. It was terrifying! When I arrested her yesterday, I thought she was crazy, but I didn't expect that she would be so crazy!"
The officer kept nagging and said to Yan Yue: "Since you know her, quickly notify her family to come and collect the body!"
Yan Yue paused and said, "Her family members are all dead..."
"Tsk, then we can only bury him in a mass grave! What bad luck!" The officer sighed and directed the laborers to push the cart and leave again.
Yan Yue felt mixed emotions and returned to the inn in a daze, only to hear the waiter say someone was looking for her.
She approached those people suspiciously and almost didn't recognize them.
The old brothel owner who was wearing gold, silver and jade last night, all the gorgeous jewelry on her body disappeared. Instead, there are all kinds of beads, and even the hairpin on the head is in the shape of a wooden sword handle!
Seeing that she was alone, the madam peered behind her.
Yan Yue asked: "What are you looking for?"
The madam laughed and said, "No, no..."
While she was talking, she suddenly took advantage of Yan Yue's unpreparedness and struck out as fast as lightning, slapping Yan Yue on the forehead!
Yan Yue was stunned for a moment, looking at the yellow floating in front of her eyes, and raised her hand to touch it. It was a piece of yellow talisman paper, covered with red lines that looked like ghostly talismans. I asked in confusion, "What is this?"
The madam was so frightened that she almost fell to her knees. She stammered, "I, I just, just... I have something to talk to you about."
Yan Yue held the talisman and sat opposite the madam: "What do you want from me? Do you want to pay me back?"
The madam moved her lips, reluctantly put the cloth bag in her arms on the table, and asked, "How much do you want..."
Yan Yue blinked her eyes and said, "I gave you a silver ingot yesterday! Do you want to deduct some of it?"
The madam looked at her in surprise for several times, took out a silver ingot from her cloth bag, and asked suspiciously, "Is that all?"
Yan Yue was confused, and seeing the medicinal wine placed beside her, she said, "Are you going to compensate me for the medicine? These cost me three taels of silver."
The madam quickly took out another silver ingot and pushed it to her.
Yan Yue was even more puzzled when she picked up the silver ingot. She thought to herself, he was so ferocious yesterday, why did he have a change of heart today?
The madam was frightened by her look and said quickly, "That...that Chen Xiaomei was indeed sold to our Zui Xiang Lou by her father a few years ago. She was wild and always wanted to escape. After being beaten, she killed herself with a pair of scissors..."
Yan Yue’s expression froze. Chen Xiaomei was dead?
Seeing her frowning, the madam stuttered even more: "That, that Chen Jialang, yes, it was an accident... He insisted that I hand him over, but, he's already dead... I, I really didn't want to beat him to death... I compensated his family, a huge sum! His family has given up the matter..."
The madam was still saying something, but Yan Yue could no longer listen.
Chen Xiaomei died a long time ago, what should Liu Jie do? If he knew that Chen Xiaomei had died long before he arrived, how angry he would be!
If Liu Jie turns into an evil ghost or a fierce ghost, she will have no power to resist!
While daydreaming, Yan Yue caught a glimpse of the beads hanging on the madam's body and asked hurriedly, "Can these things on you drive away ghosts?"
The madam was stunned for a moment and replied: "It is said that it can drive away demons and evil spirits. But..." It's useless!
The madam didn't dare to say the latter part. Seeing Yan Yue staring at her eagerly, she quickly took off all the things and said, "You want them? I'll give them all to you! These are red abalone beads, tourmaline, bodhi, peach wood, agarwood...oh, there's more!"
She took off her hairpin and said, "This peach wood sword hairpin is also for you!"
"All, are you going to give them to me?" Yan Yue asked flattered.
The madam looked miserable: "I'll give it all to you! Don't come to me again, okay?"
"Okay!" Yan Yue agreed readily. She went to see the madam just to ask about Chen Xiaomei's whereabouts. Now that she knew, there was no need for her to go.
The madam's face lit up with joy: "It's settled then! You can't go back on your word!"
However, before she could finish her joy, a group of yamen runners rushed into the inn and pushed away the waiter who came to greet her: "Where is the madam of Zui Xiang Lou!"
The madam was put in shackles by the yamen runners. She didn't understand what was happening yet, "Did you make a mistake? I uh..."
The bailiff dared not let him finish his words, so he simply stuffed a cloth into his mouth and dragged him away! The several strong men following the madam didn't even dare to raise their hands and just followed behind obediently, saving the yamen runners from having to take action.
A group of people came and left quickly, leaving the people in the inn looking at each other in bewilderment.
"What happened?"
"Don't you know yet? Zui Xiang Lou has collapsed! Some people say that it was because of this old procuress who committed many evil things, and the gods appeared and punished her!"
"It is said that when Zui Xiang Lou collapsed, half of the people in the government office ran out! They didn't even have time to put on their pants!"
"Really? Aren't they the madam's backers? Why did they arrest people?"
"What are you talking about? Now that everyone knows about this, the government has lost face. We have to distance ourselves from the matter right away."
"So, the purpose of arresting the madam is to silence her?"
"I didn't say that!"
Yan Yue was shocked: Zuixiang Tower collapsed? Is the madam’s backer an official from the government office? Is the madam about to be silenced? Oh my god! Would she get into trouble? !
In panic, Yan Yue noticed something on the table. The madam had just taken down various beads, talismans, evil-repelling items, and a...cloth bag?
Oops, I forgot to take everything with me!
Yan Yue grabbed the cloth bag, but ultimately didn't chase after him.
If I send something to the madam now, will the police mistake me for an accomplice and arrest me as well? Forget it, I'll keep it for her first and return it to her when she comes back!
She opened the cloth bag and took a look, her eyes suddenly widened! In that cloth bag, except for the two silver ingots that were taken out, there were actually only silver bills! In addition, there are a few gold bars and some silver coins!
Yan Yue sighed: The madam is so rich! The money Sun Yun sent to her family in the past three years is nothing compared to what she received!
What she didn't know was that the madam had taken out all her assets overnight and bought these "treasures" to drive away demons and evil spirits. She had originally planned to tell Yan Yue the truth as the demon demanded and then run away!
Who knows that man proposes, God disposes!
Yan Yue returned to the house and wanted to apply medicine to her elbows and knees that were injured last night, but when she took off her clothes, she found that the bruises had almost healed!
She sat on the bed in a daze. When she came back last night, she had large bruises all over her body, and it hurt whenever she moved. How come it’s almost healed after just one night? Thinking back to the previous injury, it seemed like I wouldn’t have to use crutches anymore in a few days.
She held the black stone at her waist. Could this be the effect of this thing again?
While Yan Yue was daydreaming, she thought of the news of Chen Xiaomei's death and became worried about how to tell Liu Jie. In addition, he had learned of the death of Chen's father and Sun's mother earlier, and his mood was depressed to the bottom. He couldn't even muster the interest to eat a sumptuous lunch on the table.
When the madam came, Bai Chen was watching upstairs. He knew that Yan Yue had learned the bad news about her "good friend". Seeing her like this, he couldn't bear to say any more vicious words.
"What are you thinking about?"
Yan Yue said gloomily, "Nothing. I just feel like I'm doomed to fail. No one who gets to know me will have a good ending."
Chen's father was beaten to death by Sun's mother, Sun's mother was stuck on the prison bars, Sun Yun's stepfather was struck to death by lightning, and even the two-year-old child died of illness...
Bai Chen patted her head lightly and pretended to be dissatisfied, "What nonsense are you talking about? I am fine, right? Are you cursing me?"
Yan Yue quickly denied: "No, no, no! How dare I? Sir, you are rich and powerful, of course, good things will come to you..." But she said in her heart: It takes your strong and noble character to suppress my evil spirit!
Bai Chen was satisfied and urged, "Eat quickly, I'll take you to a nice place this afternoon!"
In the afternoon, Bai Chen came back in a carriage and took Yan Yue with him to a wilderness with a river.
Yan Yue asked in confusion: "Why did you bring me here?"
Bai Chen grinned: "Don't you want to hunt wild game?" He took out a bow and arrow and gestured to Yan Yue: "I will teach you archery!"
The new thing quickly distracted Yan Yue's mind and he focused on learning archery.
She was quite talented. In just one hour, she could accurately shoot at the center points drawn by Bai Chen.
"That's right! If you didn't have calluses on your hands, I would have suspected that you were a hunter!"
Bai Chen rarely praised her, which made Yan Yue even more excited and eager to find some living creatures.
The two of them wandered through the woods and finally found a vole. Yan Yue drew his bow and drew his arrow, but the moment the arrow was shot out, the field mouse jumped up and ran away.
Yan Yue was very depressed because of the unsuccessful start.
Bai Chen comforted him, "You're just unlucky. This one is too good. The next one will definitely work!"
Not long after, the two found another rabbit.
Yan Yue drew the arrow again and stared at the rabbit carefully, not noticing that Bai Chen's fingers hanging by his side moved, and a trace of red demonic power flew over.
Hit the target with one arrow!
“Hit!”
Yan Yue shouted happily and ran over to pick up the rabbit.
"I told you you can do it!" Bai Chen pretended to praise him, looked at the sky and said, "The sun is about to set, let's go back!"
Yan Yue was in high spirits, how could she agree? "No, no! One rabbit is not enough for us to eat. Let's catch another one before going back. Please..."
Bai Chen had no choice but to agree: "Okay!"
After searching for a while, it was getting dark and it was difficult to find prey. Yan Yue was about to back out when he suddenly heard a bird of prey roaring overhead. He looked up and saw a bird that looked like an eagle.
Bai Chen's pupils shrank as he retracted his gaze, "This one is not..."
However, before he could finish his words, Yan Yue's sword had already shot out!
The bird of prey let out a scream and then fell to the ground.
Bai Chen covered his eyes: Bai Lubao, don’t say you are my subordinate when you go out!
【Author’s words】
Bai Lubao: Your Majesty, please speak with conscience [burst into tears]
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