novelden Chapter 861 Everyone has their own thoughts
Chapter 861 Everyone has their own thoughts
Night had already fallen, and the lights in Yanjing City were twinkling, illuminating the surroundings with silver.
Xu Tong, who left the Lin family, also returned to his original residence. The dim room was simply furnished and exuded a cold air. Everything seemed to have returned to the situation when he first entered the mansion.
He carefully took out his beloved thing from his arms and hid it properly.
Just then, there was a gentle knock on the door, and the magpie's voice timidly sounded outside the door: "Eunuch Xu, the young lady asked me to ask you, have you brought back the things she asked you to buy?"
The door creaked open, revealing Xu Tong's cold and indifferent face. "No, Miss Magpie."
Xi Que's eyes moved around his face, as if trying to see something, but then she lowered her head in fear and turned around and said, "Then please follow me, Eunuch Xu. The young lady wants to punish you."
"Ah!"
A cold laugh came from behind Xi Que.
She shuddered violently, but dared not make a sound. She led the people silently towards the brightly lit room.
Soon, she brought Xu Tong to her master.
Leng Meng'an looked at Xu Tong and said sarcastically, "Why, Eunuch Xu, who can hold the sky in Prince Yu's mansion, doesn't have anyone to respect you outside? I just want Eunuch Xu to buy me a peony flower to decorate the house, but you can't even do it."
Xu Tong lowered his eyes, stood straight in front of the woman, and did not say a word.
This situation has happened countless times, and he has long been accustomed to it.
Then, Leng Meng'an boasted, "Eunuch Xu used to be so arrogant in front of me, but now he's speechless? Oh, I almost forgot, the prince has already given you to me. This is really 'discarding you like a worn-out shoe'. Now that I'm your master, you naturally don't dare to bark. Xi Que, according to the old rules, take him outside!"
Xi Que led the silent Xu Tong out again, apologized in a low voice, then took off all his clothes and handed him a wooden sign with "I am a castrated dog" written on it, asking him to hold it high.
At this moment, Leng Meng'an's smug voice rang out again: "Eunuch Xu looked down on me in the past, and being humiliated by me today is karma. But I am the most reasonable person. Since you didn't bring back the flowers I wanted, then stand in the courtyard and let these servants see your broken body to atone for your sins!"
"Xi Que, call everyone out to see Eunuch Xu's 'style'."
The magpie glanced at Xu Tong with reluctance and was about to lower its head in response.
Just at this moment, the person in front of her suddenly raised his eyes, and a strong sense of danger burst out of his eyes.
She was so frightened that she subconsciously took a step back, but the terrifying look disappeared in an instant and turned into dead silence again.
Not far away, the master's unhappy voice sounded at the same time: "Xi Que, what are you hesitating about, or do you want to be like Xu Tong?"
Xi Que's heart suddenly trembled, and he quickly lowered his head and replied: "Miss, I will go right away."
Leng Mengwan looked at the hurriedly shouting figure with disdain and warned, "You lowly servants, you'd better respect me. Although I am your young lady now, soon, my grandfather's rebellion will succeed, and I will be the eldest princess of the Great Zhou. If you dare to disrespect me, you will suffer the same fate as Gong Lanyi and Xu Tong."
"Yes!"
Respectful voices rang out one after another, and Leng Mengwan smiled triumphantly, but she didn't know that in her courtyard, countless pairs of resentful eyes quietly emerged.
Hayashiya
Xiao Yining didn't know that in the place where she couldn't see, the heroine's path to death never stopped, and it became more and more intense.
At this moment, she was pondering what Wang Cheng said, thinking carefully about how the heroine met the two old men without her knowledge, and a sense of strangeness in her heart was quietly rising.
Wan Niang glanced at her daughter's frowning face and couldn't help but touch her. She comforted her, "Qing Jie'er, your father and uncle refused to tell us the whereabouts of the will. They must have their own considerations. Besides, the shadow guards have been watching your father all the time. If he knows, your uncle will know too."
As soon as she finished speaking, an annoying voice rang out beside her: "That's right, I don't know what you're thinking. You're really asking for trouble by still thinking about it when you can't figure it out."
Xiao Yining: (*￣︿￣)
She turned to look at the person who was speaking, stood up, put her hands on her waist and said, "What do you care? If you say anything more, I will tell my father that you are taking his bed while he is not here."
Wang Gungun also stood up from the bed, his hands on his waist, and bumped into Xiao Yining, causing him to fall flat on his back. He said condescendingly, "So what? My aunt just wants me to sleep with her, and your father can't do anything about it."
Little Yining puffed up her face in anger and complained, "Mom, Gun Gun is bullying Qing Jie'er, tell him to go back."
Wan Niang looked at them helplessly and scolded them in a nonchalant tone, "Get lost! You can't bully Sister Qing."
Then, he changed the subject and coaxed, "Qingjie, be good. I don't know where Grandpa Zhang has gone. Gungun is the same age as you, so it's not good for him to sleep alone. Let him stay for one night."
Xiao Yining: (▼へ▼メ), I’ve been staying here for several nights!
That old Zhang Youqian is usually elusive. He and Wang Gungun form a crazy couple, but he never takes him with him. After the snow, he simply disappeared, causing his mother to post a missing person notice with a reward of 50 taels of silver.
Xiao Yining glared at Wang Gungun unwillingly, and was given a provocative look by him that said "What can you do to me?"
She folded her arms across her chest, sat on the corner of the bed, sulking, and muttered, "Sister Qing wants a daddy, humph!"
Seeing this, Wan Niang couldn't help but smile and said soothingly, "Qing Jie'er, your father and uncle are doing great things. Once the turmoil in Yanjing is over, our family can get together every day and live our lives well."
Little Yining turned around to look at her somewhat naive mother, but was met with the grimace made by Wang Gungun again. She snorted again, turned her head and ignored everyone.
The next moment, she was forcibly carried away by her mother and pressed under the quilt along with Wang Gungun. The bed curtains were also lowered, and her vision instantly became dark.
Wan Niang gently patted the quilts of the two little ones, and sang a "horrible" lullaby in the darkness with a gentle voice.
"Qingjie, be good and go to sleep. It's getting dark, and the beggars are coming to grab the kids and sell them to the wolves in the mountains. They'll take them to the big insects' house, where they'll tear their bones and eat their flesh, drink their blood and their soup..."
Two little ones: @_@, this song is really spirited!
Little Yining opened her eyes speechlessly, staring at the ceiling of the bed, and began to wonder how the heroine had bypassed her strict defenses and contacted her father privately.
She turned her head in confusion, and inadvertently caught a glimpse of Wang Gungun's closed eyes. She couldn't help but bare her teeth at him, then closed her eyes and tried to sleep.
On the other side, Lin Yuzan sat under a simple thatched hut, gazing absentmindedly at the tiny snowflakes falling from the sky.
The bright firelight cast a warm yellow glow on the surrounding snow and fog.
Wang Cheng brought a bowl of ginger soup and sat next to him, handing it to him, "What are you thinking about?"
Lin Yuzan's mind flashed back to his daughter's strange behavior when she saw the blueprints that afternoon. He averted his gaze and replied, "Nothing. I was just wondering why Leng Meng'an's blueprints were in the palace! The old man once said he would kill anyone who had the blueprints."
"But Leng Meng'an is alive. She showed up with the blueprints so brazenly, but the old man didn't kill her. Why do you think so?" Wang Cheng continued.
Lin Yuzan lowered his eyes and did not respond, but his old rival's judgment came to his ears.
"I think in his mind, the person who possesses these blueprints is not a threat at all, or the objects depicted on the blueprints cannot possibly appear in the world. I wonder which dynasty the blueprints Leng Mengqian produced are from."