Chapter 179 The Ye Family's Own Destruction
The woman gritted her teeth and said, "Yes, he pretends to be a decent person outside, but he is actually a bad man. He started to harm the maids in the courtyard when he was thirteen years old. But the eldest lady always covered up for him and blamed the maids for seducing her son. She either sold them or executed them..."
After hearing this, Nong Chun and Zang Xia felt angry.
Gu Ruanci remained calm: "I can help you save people, but there's no need to tell me these things. After all, I don't have the right to extend my hands into the Ye family's inner courtyard."
The woman's eyes dimmed for a moment, but she still retained hope.
"If the county lady can spare my daughter's life, I will be extremely grateful."
"Where is your daughter?" Gu Ruanci asked.
"I was placed in a dilapidated temple, but I couldn't leave for too long, otherwise the Ye family would find me... This is something my biological mother left me. I couldn't bear to sell it all these years, and now I can prove my identity to the county lady."
As the woman spoke, she took out a jade pendant from her bosom.
"What's your name?" Gu Ruanci asked.
The woman's eyes were blank again. "When I was serving your biological mother, she named me Lan Yin. But after I returned to the main courtyard, the old lady changed my name to Hei Yan, saying that I was an ungrateful person."
Heiyan, this name, Gu Ruanci frowned.
"So you want me to go to the ruined temple myself and save your daughter?"
She asked, her expression serious.
"I know this request is excessive, but I really have no other choice. This is her last hope for survival..."
Nong Chun asked, "Since you can still enter and leave the Marquis' Mansion, why don't you just take your daughter and run away?"
Heiyan was really helpless and said weakly: "Because I have another daughter, who is in the hands of the eldest lady..."
Everyone was speechless. They were so unlucky that they didn't meet a good master.
"I can't promise you anything. After all, according to what you said, your daughter was beaten and thrown into a mass grave. Even if you put her in the dilapidated temple, she might not be alive by the time we arrive."
Heiyan kowtowed again: "I know this request is indeed a bit excessive, but it is the only solution I can think of. If the county lady cannot go, I dare not harbor any resentment. As a mother, I am unable to protect her, which is already the greatest weakness. I should not expect others to do so..."
After saying that, she stood up, wiped her tears, and left with a sad face.
"County Lady, let's go home..." Changsong said.
He didn't believe Heiyan, after all, she was from the Ye family.
"Nongchun, let's go to Prince Duan's Mansion again..."
Gu Ruanci is not a saint and cannot save everyone, nor will she let other people's words that are difficult to tell whether they are true or false affect her judgment.
She had too much to do and no time to be a saint.
Instead of returning directly to the Gu family, they went to a teahouse.
About half an hour later, Lu Enyan sent someone to deliver a message that there was indeed a seriously injured woman in the dilapidated temple. She was dying and it seemed that she had been severely beaten with a stick.
"It seems that what Heiyan said is true..." Zang Xia almost cried.
As a fellow slave, she felt that Heiyan's family was so unlucky to have encountered such beasts as the Ye family.
"That Ye Chengyao is simply not a human being. And that eldest lady of the Ye family, isn't she the wife of a marquis? It's clearly her own fault for not teaching her son the right way, and yet she's putting all the blame on others."
Gu Ruanci sighed, asked Lu Enyan's people where to place the woman, and then set off.
In a secluded house, Gu Ruanci met the little maid.
Judging from her appearance, she should be only thirteen or fourteen years old and her height has not yet fully grown.
"How could Ye Chengyao have the heart to do that!" Zang Xia cried again.
Gu Ruanci's acupuncture finally saved the little maid's life.
"County Lady, this is what we found on her..."
Gu Ruanci took the thing handed to her by the servant, which turned out to be the indenture of the little maid.
"I don't know if it was stolen by Black Swallow, or if this is just one of the Yunyang Marquis' usual tactics."
Gu Ruanci sighed and looked at the unconscious maid Yunxiang.
"I'll take care of the rest..." Gu Ruanci said to Lu Enyan's people.
She didn't want to get too involved in this matter. If she pushed it all to Lu Enyan, the Ye family wouldn't dare to say anything in the future.
Even if there was some conspiracy behind the scenes, they didn't dare to plot anything against Lu Enyan.
"County Lady, Yunxiang is saved. How do we tell Heiyan?" Nongchun asked on the way back.
"She will naturally find a way to check again."
Gu Ruanci would not easily doubt a mother's love for her child, even though she had seen mean women who did not love their own flesh and blood.
The Ye family has indeed had a lot of things happen recently, from big to small, and none of them are reassuring.
"Was there anything unusual after Heiyan came back that day?" Qin Kerou asked her personal nanny.
"No, Madam still holds her eldest daughter in her hands. How dare she rebel against the Marquisate for a dead daughter... Madam, don't worry, they are all family children, and the lives of the entire family are in Madam's hands..."
Qin Kerou felt a little relieved, then sighed again: "Cheng Yao, this prodigal son, really makes me mad. He's got all the maids in the yard on his mind. If this goes on, he'll be unable to hide it sooner or later. What if he really gets married in the future and finds out about these things?"
The nanny quickly consoled her, "Madam, don't worry. The young master is just unstable... If you're truly worried, you could place some maids of average or even ugly appearance in his courtyard. The princess will then naturally become more restrained."
Qin Kerou thought about it and felt that it did make some sense.
"It's not that I haven't thought about it before, but it's not easy to implement. If it gets out to outsiders, wouldn't anyone with a little bit of intelligence be able to guess why?"
The nanny also sighed. After all, Ye Chengyao was not a good person.
She could only say, "Madam, as long as we don't say anything about these things, who would spread them? It's not that nothing else has happened in the mansion over the years, but they've also been kept strictly secret."
Qin Kerou nodded and said, "You're right. Let's do it this way. Go and call Heiyan over."
"yes……"
Soon, Heiyan arrived in front of Qin Kerou.
"Heiyan, you were born in the Marquis' Mansion and have been serving there all your life. Do you have any dissatisfaction over the years?"
Qin Kerou's tone was filled with strong pressure.
Heiyan quickly knelt down, fearing that she would do something to her eldest daughter.
"Madam, I absolutely dare not..."
Qin Kerou didn't speak in a hurry, but gently placed the teacup on the table.
"I won't hold it against you for not disciplining your daughter properly, allowing her to seduce the master. As long as you serve me well in the future, you will have a good life. Your eldest daughter, Yun Duo, is also of marriageable age. I will help her find a suitable steward in the next few days. Your good days are still to come..."
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