Chapter 398 Looking for a Wild Man
There was a loud bang, and the door opened as if it had been hit hard. The loud noise instantly broke the silence of the night, and also startled Yu Lingxiu who was sleeping so much that she jumped up from the bed.
She sat up suddenly and looked at Lin Miaoyin who broke in with horror.
"Lin Miaoyin! You're crazy!" Yu Lingxiu screamed.
Lin Miaoyin approached the bed step by step, looked down at her, and sneered: "Miss Yu slept really well tonight!"
Only then did Yu Lingxiu notice Feng Ming behind Lin Miaoyin and the subdued old woman in the yard.
She immediately understood that Lin Miaoyin came prepared tonight. She suppressed her fear and glared at Lin Miaoyin: "How dare you touch me? I am the eldest princess's man!"
Lin Miaoyin sneered, grabbed Yu Lingxiu's hair and dragged her off the bed.
"Ah! Let me go!" Yu Lingxiu struggled desperately, but was unable to break free from Lin Miaoyin's grip.
"I'll give you two choices," Lin Miaoyin's voice was as cold as ice. "One is that you let me drag you out like this and go to a place with me. The other is that I'll have someone dress you well and you just follow me obediently."
Yu Lingxiu sneered: "I won't choose any of them!"
Lin Miaoyin also laughed, and without further ado, she dragged the struggling and screaming Yu Lingxiu out.
Yu Lingxiu's scream was sharp and piercing, breaking the tranquility of the night like a rag torn.
The voice, filled with intense fear and despair, echoed in the silent Princess's Mansion, startling a few roosting birds, which fluttered away into the deeper night.
"Go ahead and shout! The louder you make, the more people will come!" Lin Miaoyin's voice was as cold as ice, forming a sharp contrast with Yu Lingxiu's hysteria.
She exerted force on her hands and dragged the disheveled Yu Lingxiu out of the yard step by step.
Under the moonlight, Yu Lingxiu was wearing only a thin nightgown, with disheveled hair, looking like a mad woman.
Yu Lingxiu struggled desperately, but it was useless, like a trapped beast. "Lin Miaoyin, let me go! What are you going to do? Are you crazy!"
She stared at Lin Miaoyin in horror, her eyes filled with hatred and fear.
"Am I crazy? Haha," Lin Miaoyin chuckled.
Yu Lingxiu's face was pale and her lips were trembling, but she couldn't speak.
She glanced at the servants who were gradually gathering around her, and shame and despair surged into her heart like a tide.
She knew that Lin Miaoyin was deliberately trying to embarrass her and make her unable to hold her head up in the palace.
“Please… please let me go…” Yu Lingxiu’s voice was filled with tears. She grabbed Lin Miaoyin’s arm and begged, “Let me change my clothes… let me change my clothes…”
Lin Miaoyin stopped and looked down at her with cold eyes, "You beg for mercy now? It's too late!"
She suddenly threw Yu Lingxiu aside and said to a trembling old woman, "Go, call everyone who was in Chu Youan's yard this afternoon. Don't leave any one out!"
The old woman looked at Yu Lingxiu, who was in dishevel, and then at Lin Miaoyin, who had a cold face. She didn't know what to do for a moment. She stood there trembling, not daring to move.
Lin Miaoyin was getting impatient. She pushed Yu Lingxiu in front of the old woman and said in a cold tone, "What? You don't want to listen to me?"
Yu Lingxiu staggered and almost fell to the ground. She was filled with shame and anger, and wanted to rush into the house, but Lin Miaoyin kicked her quickly and she fell heavily to the ground.
"The longer you delay, the more people will see you like this." Lin Miaoyin looked down at her with a hint of sarcasm in her tone.
Yu Lingxiu bit her lips and tears kept flowing down.
She knew that she could not escape this disaster tonight.
She looked at the old woman desperately and said with all her strength: "Go... go and call someone..."
The old woman didn't dare to delay any longer, so she responded quickly and turned around to call someone.
The old woman pretended to be calm and hurried out of the yard.
But when she left the courtyard, she quickly found a servant whom she trusted the most, pulled him to a corner, and said in a serious and hurried voice: "Hurry to the princess's courtyard, don't delay for a moment, and be sure to tell the princess about the young lady's current danger, and ask her to come and save the young lady as soon as possible. This matter is extremely urgent. If we can't do it well, we will all be dead!"
After receiving the order, the servant immediately ran towards the princess's courtyard.
However, as soon as the servant turned a corner, he was blocked by a group of people dressed in black.
The leader was Beigong You's guard. He had no expression on his face and said in a cold tone, "It's so late, the princess has already gone to bed. Don't disturb her rest. You should go back."
The servant was extremely anxious and wanted to force his way through, but he was held tightly by those people and could not move. He could only watch his hope of getting help shattered.
Half a cup of tea passed, but the servant still did not appear in her sight. An unprecedented fear overwhelmed the old woman like a tide.
She could only grit her teeth and go look for people, and soon brought over the people who were in Chu Youan's yard in the afternoon, including several maids, servants, and the kitchen helper.
They all lowered their heads, not daring to look at Yu Lingxiu, for fear of getting into trouble.
Yu Lingxiu raised her head in embarrassment, looked at Lin Miaoyin, and said in a hoarse voice: "You wanted to embarrass me, and I have already embarrass myself. Is that enough now?"
Lin Miaoyin shook her head, with a sneer on her face: "What's the point? I'm not trying to embarrass you. I'm just trying to find out the truth."
She looked around at everyone and said slowly, "I heard that you all are saying that I'm looking for a wild man recently, right?"
Everyone was silent, only the kitchen helper was hiding behind the crowd and trembling.
Lin Miaoyin's eyes fell directly on the old lady, and her tone suddenly became more serious, "I heard that You'an wanted to investigate this matter thoroughly, but in the end, a servant was beaten to death! This child is kind-hearted, and she was so scared that she couldn't sleep at night. As her mother, I naturally have to seek justice for her!"
Yu Lingxiu's face turned pale in an instant. She realized that Lin Miaoyin was standing up for Chu Youan.
She was extremely anxious and blurted out without thinking: "Although I was the one who beat the man to death, it was clearly you who caused the incident! If you had acted innocently, how could there be such rumors? Without the rumors, Youan would not have thought of finding out the truth, and the servant would not have been implicated!"
Hearing this, Lin Miaoyin sneered and said sarcastically, "According to what you said, I am the culprit? I have always been upright and have never done anything wrong, so how can there be rumors? But you, you know there is no smoke without fire, how dare you say that this matter has nothing to do with you?"
Yu Lingxiu's face was gloomy, and her voice was icy cold: "I don't know that boy at all, and I have never spoken to him. How could he be related to me? This is absolutely ridiculous!"
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