When news of Xie Jinyao's death reached Ye Zhen's ears, she was stunned. "Is she really dead?"
Ye Zhen had no intention of sparing Xie Jinyao's life.
Seeing the torment she endured as a female slave, and with He Ming watching over her, Ye Zhen thought it would be good for her to suffer and die.
I never expected that news of his death would come so soon.
Yin Yue nodded, "It came from the Marquis's side, so it can't be wrong."
Ye Zhen thought for a moment, "Go and find out what exactly happened."
Xie Jinyao had a blood feud with He Ming for killing his wife, so He Ming wouldn't go easy on her. However, out of caution, Ye Zhen still wanted to confirm.
To be on the safe side, Yin Yue went to see He Ming in person. After learning that Xie Jinyao had been devoured by wild beasts, she exclaimed "Good!" and went back to tell Ye Zhen the truth.
Ye Zhen learned that the person was indeed dead, but kept quiet about it.
Then he asked Wanxing, "Is there anything unusual about Kang Le?"
Wanxing is skilled in light-footed martial arts and adept at tracking; she has been leading a group to keep an eye on Kang Le these past few days.
"I spent the whole day strolling around the streets with my two children, but this man must have been used to having a large number of servants in the past. When he was in the crowd, he didn't even know to protect his own children."
Fortunately, it wasn't a holiday when there were many people; otherwise, given how carelessly she looked after the child today, the child would most likely have been abducted.
Ye Zhen sensed something was amiss. "Did she take the child with her when she went out earlier?"
Wanxing thought for a moment, "No."
"That's strange."
Ye Zhen murmured.
After being demoted, Kang Le kept a low profile and rarely went out. However, today he spent the whole day on the street with his two children.
She still harbors ambitions; her children are her legacy, and she will certainly value them highly.
"Oh no, she's probably trying to move the child away."
How could someone who wants to usurp the throne be careless and deliberately go to crowded places?
But her two children are old enough to understand things, and even if they get lost, they can find their way home, unless they are taken away by someone.
"Someone who can take a child away so convincingly that no one would suspect anything," Ye Zhen's eyes darkened. "A human trafficker."
Xie Tingzhou deliberately created the illusion that the emperor was going to arrest Zang Daren. Kang Le believed it and decided to take a desperate gamble. In order to leave herself a way out, she wanted to use human traffickers to send the child out of the capital.
After figuring out the key point, Ye Zhen gave some instructions to his two maids...
The Ye family.
Ye Zhengqing put on the official robes of a fourth-rank official, looked at himself in the bronze mirror, and couldn't help but smile.
He really got promoted, it's not a dream!
"Are you that happy?"
A gloomy voice sounded from behind him.
Ye Zhengqing was startled and turned around to see Li Chenghai.
"My lord, what brings you here?"
He quickly closed the door; if the servants in the mansion found out and word got out, he would be ruined.
Li Chenghai walked straight to his bedside and sat down.
"Lord Ye has been promoted and is very busy. He has no time to see me, so I can only deliver the gift in person."
After saying that, he threw what he was carrying into Ye Zhengqing's arms.
Ye Zhengqing caught it with a forced smile, "The funeral was just finished, and then I was given a new job. I've been quite busy. I was planning to see you tonight, sir. What did you send me?"
Li Chenghai put his hands behind his head and leaned back, saying, "See for yourself."
The package was opened, revealing ten thousand-tael silver notes, a box of elixirs for nourishing the body, and a snow-white gauze dress.
The sheer gauze dress revealed nothing, and Ye Zhengqing, knowing Li Chenghai's purpose in coming, hesitated, "My lord, I'll wear it tonight..."
"You can wear it here and now, or you can wear it outside the courtyard. You choose one."
Li Chenghai was impatient and interrupted him; he was in a bad mood today.
Ye Zhengqing was very perceptive. He quickly closed the window, took off his official robes, changed into them, and discreetly walked towards the bed.
Li Chenghai's gloomy expression softened, and he ripped open the bed curtains. "Now you're the only master in this manor. What are you afraid of? If anyone talks nonsense, just kill them."
Afterwards, Ye Zhengqing hesitated, saying, "I'm afraid that beating and killing a servant will give me a reputation for cruelty, which will be detrimental to my official position."
Li Chenghai glanced at him.
It was as if he would be promoted if he didn't beat and kill his servants.
"I bought those medicines at a high price so that Su would get pregnant as soon as possible."
The eldest son's wife has been very favored by their father these days. If the second son's wife does not have any more children, she will probably be suppressed by the eldest son's wife and never have a chance to rise again.
Thinking of his own inability to perform the task and the Taoist's words, Ye Zhengqing pleaded, "My lord, I only want to serve you. Could you please find someone else from the Su family?"
Perhaps it's because he's been with Li Chenghai for so long, but he's becoming increasingly uninterested in women.
After Wang's death, his former mistress, who had been very fond of him, wanted to take the opportunity to enter the mansion, but he instinctively refused.
He had spent quite a bit of time with Su, but she hadn't gotten pregnant, so he suspected there was something wrong with him.
In that case, it would be better to save the Su family's burden and reduce his physical strain.
Unexpectedly, before he could finish speaking, Li Chenghai kicked him off the bed and then stomped on his chest.
"Even if you are now a fourth-rank official, you have no bargaining power with me. I have not told you to break it off, so you are not allowed to break it off."
Although he was usually assertive and difficult to talk to, this was the first time he had ever been angry with Ye Zhengqing.
Ye Zhengqing was frightened and hurt by the step, so he quickly said, "I will listen to you, sir."
The person looking down at him, instead of calming down, grew even angrier. "Coward! Can't you be a little tougher?"
"Then, what should I do?"
Ye Zhengqing shamelessly fawned over him.
Li Chenghai stared at him for a long time, then finally let go of his foot and collapsed back onto the bed, as if talking to himself, "You are not him after all."
My aunt and mother were like oil and water, and they schemed against each other. My mother was worried that I would suffer, so she confined me to the academy and the backyard, and I was not allowed to contact anyone freely.
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