flstandardbreds Chapter 140 The Meng Family Arrives
Chapter 140 The Meng Family Arrives
"Li Dynasty?" Qing Shu had also heard something about the Li Dynasty envoys, and said, "Didn't they say they would enter the capital in October? How come they came so early?"
Feng Jia shook her head: "But I heard from General Shen that the Li Dynasty envoys came to Beijing with bad intentions."
Qingshu frowned, "Li Dynasty is located in the southwest of Dali, bordering Dayuan. Ever since the Li Dynasty changed its ruler, they have been causing troubles on the border of Dali. The people on the border are suffering. However, the officials of Dali still support them, sign peace terms with them every year, and even offer gold and silver as appeasement!"
Qing said: "I really don't understand. The wolfish ambitions of the Li Dynasty are obvious. Why don't we have a good fight and let them see that I, Dali, am not easy to bully!"
Feng Jia smiled and shook her head: "You can think of it, but our heroic saint can't? It's not that simple."
"That's right." Qingshu nodded.
Thinking of something else, a look of disappointment appeared on his face: "It's really a waste of money for that Xiao Shi. She actually rose to the top and became the concubine of the Third Young Master. Although she is just a concubine, she is still the master of the mansion after all. If she is lucky enough to give birth to a little young master, then the mother will be honored by the child!"
Feng Jia let her long hair down, and a petite and delicate face of a beauty appeared in the bronze mirror. She said calmly: "Do you think this is a good thing?"
Qingshu stood behind her, combing her hair. He glimpsed a corner in the bronze mirror and felt that his young lady was so beautiful that he could not take his eyes off her without any makeup. After a long while, he said, "Miss, what do you mean?"
Feng Jia just smiled and said nothing, "Just wait and see, a fence-sitter like Xiaoshi will not have a good ending."
Sure enough, early the next morning, before Feng Jia woke up, she heard a commotion outside. Qingshu hurried in to report, "Xiao Shi... No, the Third Young Master's aunt is crying outside and insists on seeing the young lady. She is now the mistress of the mansion, and I was just too nice to chase her away. Who knew she was so shameless and got angry in the yard, saying that if you don't see her, she will smash everything outside to pieces!"
Feng Jia frowned and pressed her brows, and asked in annoyance, "Where's Song Huai?"
"Song Huai wanted to take action, but was stopped by this servant."
Feng Jia nodded: "You are a calm person, never mind, I just can't fall asleep, help me wash up."
After a while, Feng Jia dressed neatly and walked out of the room, only to see Xiao Shi still wearing the wedding dress she wore yesterday, standing in the yard with jewels all over her body, holding a flower pot in her hand.
"Liu, what are you doing? Are you annoyed by all the flowers in my yard?"
Seeing her coming, Xiao Shi changed her domineering attitude, threw the flowerpot on the ground, and walked towards her with a face full of grievance, almost crying.
"Ninth Miss, please save this slave!"
As he said this, he was about to kneel down.
Feng Jia snorted coldly: "Liu, you are now my third brother's concubine. I can't accept your gift."
Xiao Shi's body froze, but she did not kneel down. She just waved and drove the servants around her away, and then said: "Ninth Miss, only you can save Xiao Shi! Please help me because Xiao Shi once served you!"
"What are you talking about? Everyone knows that you have been promoted to be my third brother's concubine. People in the mansion are envious of you, but you want me to save you?"
When Xiao Shi thought of last night, she shuddered violently, her legs became weak, and she could hardly stand: "The Third Young Master is a sadist!"
Feng Jia just drank tea.
Xiao Shi pressed her hands on the table, shaking violently: "On our wedding night last night, the Third Young Master did not consummate the marriage. Instead, he beat me for several hours! I was almost beaten to death! Such a person is too terrible! I don't want to marry him! Please, young lady, have some mercy! Please go and beg the master, go and beg the old lady! Let the Third Young Master give me a divorce letter! I don't want to be his concubine anymore!"
"Liu, what are you talking about?" Feng Jia put the teacup upside down on the table. "You were the one who wanted to be a concubine, and now you are the one who doesn't want to be a concubine. How can you make my third brother feel embarrassed?"
"And I see you don't have any injuries on your body, why do you say that Third Brother beat you up so badly?"
"The Third Young Master used a bamboo whip soaked in pine oil to beat me. It was like my skin was torn apart, but there was no scar left! The Third Young Master deliberately left no handle!" Xiao Shi said, as if she couldn't speak. After a long silence, she gritted her teeth and said, "Besides, he didn't want to touch me, so he tried every way to humiliate me! Last night, he even smeared aphrodisiac on that wooden object and stuffed it into my private parts! He also tied me to the bed and tortured me in every way! I couldn't even survive!"
Xiao Shi's breathing was heavy, her face full of fear and horror.
"I really can't stand it! The Third Young Master put all the blame on me, saying that as long as he's here, every day's punishment will be heavier than the day before! No! Ninth Miss! I will die if this goes on! You are the most powerful, so please help me plead for mercy and grant me a marriage certificate!"
Feng Jia shook her head: "The witness of this marriage is the Third Prince. The Third Prince didn't say anything. Liu, you will always be my Third Brother's concubine."
"Ah!" This sentence seemed to be the last straw that broke the camel's back for Xiaoshi. She was so scared that she fell to the ground, kicking her feet as if she was tripped by something.
After a while, she suddenly stopped and looked at the sneer on Feng Jia's lips with an incredible look.
"You...are you?"
Xiao Shi couldn't believe it, but everything in front of her forced her to accept the fact. "You knew it would be like this sooner or later! You knew the Third Young Master had a way to deal with me! So you deliberately asked the Third Prince for a concubine position for me, just to tie me to the Third Young Master forever! You are so scary! So scary!"
"I'm scary?" Feng Jia squatted down, pulled out the hairpin, and used the tip of the hairpin to slightly lift Xiao Shi's chin: "When you and Meng conspired to destroy my innocence, you weren't scary? Since you worked for Meng, but you told me about her crimes, wanting to use my knife to kill her, and you sit back and reap the benefits, you're not scary? You clearly promised Meng, but changed sides for the sake of profit, people like you aren't scary?"
The pointed hairpin scratched a shallow mark on Xiao Shi's fair skin. Feng Jia's sneer grew thicker: "You deserve it. You deserve it. You can't blame anyone else!"
The hairpin on Xiao Shi's head fell to the ground, just like her heart, shattered. She grabbed the broken hairpin and stubbornly inserted it back into her hair. She slowly stood up, her vision a little blurry: "When did you find out?"
"A maid who has disappeared for several months suddenly ran into my carriage. Naturally, I have to investigate."
Xiaoshi bit her lower lip.
"This investigation is shocking. You actually have a husband?" Feng Jia said.
She still found out. Xiaoshi's face turned pale, and she smiled self-deprecatingly: "What I said at that time was half false and half true."
"I was indeed whipped and thrown into a beggar's den, where I suffered humiliation. Later I escaped, but I was an illegal resident and no family wanted me. To make a living, I had to live in a brothel. The people who went there were all kinds of people, and some had special fetishes! I really couldn't stand it, so I begged one of the benefactors who treated me well and fled the city overnight."
"I hastily married him and thought we would be together forever. I didn't expect that he was a scumbag who was easily bored with the old and easily attracted to the new. He used to hold me in his hands and dote on me, but after marrying me home, he began to despise me because I came from a brothel and called me dirty! After drinking, he beat me up. I had no choice but to run away!"
"Then I met Nanny Zhen from Madam Meng's side, and then what happened later happened..."
"But I was forced to do this! Ninth Miss! Why can't you spare the lives of lowly people like us?"
Who could spare her then? If she hadn’t fought for her life in this four-cornered house, she would have died thousands of times! Feng Jia didn’t want to listen anymore and said coldly, “Send the guest away!”
Half warning and half persuasion, he said, "Liu, you and I were once master and servant. I'm reminding you that you should never come to my garden again. After all, my third brother hates me to the extreme. If he knew that you always come in and out of my garden, he might misunderstand that we are conspiring with each other, and then he will treat you even more fiercely."
Xiao Shi was helped down like a sculpture. Just as she left, someone in the yard came running to announce, "Girl! There's trouble again from Earl Yongyi's mansion! The old lady is calling you to the front yard!"