Wei Shu

Chapter 252
Your Excellency Linglong has a pond.

The pond is not big, and there are many lotus flowers planted in it. When the flowers are in bloom, the pavilions are lovely and quite a sight to behold. The water in the pond is cool and windy, so it is a good place to sit and relax in hot weather.

However, at this time of year, there are naturally no lotus flowers. There are only a few pieces of remnant lotus floating on the emerald green pool, and the sound of the rain hitting the remnant lotus sounds a bit too bleak.

The sky was overcast, and the stone steps in front of the pavilion glowed a dark green color, and the moss marks all over them had been soaked and slippery by the watery wind.

It's going to rain.

Cheng Yuanniang held up the hem of her skirt and carefully stepped down the green steps step by step. The west wind swayed her sleeves and blew through her thin autumn clothes.

In fact, she could have thrown away the note and not come to the appointment.she thought.

After all, she had never exchanged a word with Miss Wei, and they were not even acquaintances, so the note might not have been left for her.

But she still came, and she didn't even give herself any time to think. As soon as she saw the note, she rushed over and sent all the maids away.

"This is a decent way. There are many less decent ways, girl, would you like to try them?"

In a daze, the cold single line seemed to ring in her ears again. Cheng Yuanniang subconsciously stopped and turned around slowly.

In the empty water pavilion, only the cold wind blew through the bare stone bench and passed through her skirt without leaving any trace.

Cheng Yuanniang fell into a daze again, wondering if she had had a nightmare. However, the dull pain coming from her knees and elbows reminded her all the time:
She wasn't dreaming.

The woman named Wei Shu asked her to meet at Linglong Pavilion, and threatened her face to face with power, force, and absolute and unshakable power. She even made it clear that if she didn't obey, then she would "have nothing but Eat, drink, and have diarrhea on the couch."

This is really vulgar.

But beneath the vulgarity, there is a chilling horror.

Cheng Yuanniang's face was so pale that there was no trace of blood. In this deserted flower viewing pavilion, her heart felt colder than her body.

It wasn't until this moment that she finally realized what she was facing.

It's killing intent.

Intense, close, only a stone's throw away from her.

She believed that at that time, if she had any strange thoughts or hesitation at that time, she would never be able to use her own feet to step down the stone steps and then step on the ground like this moment.

She would really die on the bed like the evil goddess said.

"Well done."

This was the last word Cheng Yuanniang heard before she noticed the breeze.

Then, the crooks of her knees and elbows seemed to be brushed by something hard and warm. The dull pain penetrated into her bones, making her almost not fall down.

Now she knows that this is the price she paid for everything before.

The injuries she had inflicted on Cheng Yuejiao with the help of her grandmother were now returned to her in full.

And deep down in her heart, she actually felt a little bit lucky. She was lucky that the other party just returned it as it was, instead of paying it back tenfold or even a hundredfold.

Even though the other party has such ability, he has never done so. The reason is——

This is a decent way.

And Cheng Yuanniang must accept this kind of dignity, because other consequences are definitely not something she can bear.

She pinched the corner of her skirt and pursed her lips tightly, but she couldn't stop the "gurgling" sound from her teeth.

The voice was so soft that only she could hear it.She knew she had escaped.

Although she was so cold that she could hardly breathe, let alone speak out loud, the man surnamed Wei seemed to know and expected that she would be obedient and would do his best to save everything, so he drifted away.

Cheng Yuanniang will naturally keep her promise, and she naturally wants to live with all her beard and tail, instead of becoming a walking zombie.

"Girl, girl."

A familiar call suddenly came from the distance, abruptly pulling Cheng Yuanniang back from her thoughts.

She seemed to wake up suddenly, and subconsciously she straightened her back, her face changed a look, and she reached out and rubbed her cheeks a few times to make her face less ugly.

After a few breaths, a figure came from the end of the path, but it was Cai Lian who was carried away.

Just now, Cheng Yuanniang ordered her to go back to the house to get the books, and she specially selected the books in the corner of the bookshelf to delay some time.

At this moment, Cai Lian was holding a soft bundle in her hand. Inside was a thick stack of books, which was quite heavy. Sweat was already visible on her forehead.

"You don't need to be so busy, it's still early." Cheng Yuanniang brushed off the corner of her skirt, and walked up slowly, her voice as soothing as usual.

Cai Lian hurriedly took a few steps and said with a smile: "Young lady, are you in a hurry?"

"It doesn't matter." Cheng Yuanniang said briefly, then pursed her lips.

Cai Lian glanced at her face, and gradually stopped smiling. She followed her carefully, and after taking a few steps forward, she finally couldn't hold it back and said softly:
"It's still quite cold in the windy land. The girl should have put on her cloak just now. It's my fault that I didn't go back to get it first."

She blamed herself and looked up at her master.

Cheng Yuanniang didn't know whether she heard it or not. She looked straight ahead and walked forward silently without saying a word.

Although Cai Lian was just a first-class maid, her intelligence and energy were no worse than those of Tuxue. Seeing this, she shut her mouth and only took two steps into the limelight to serve her master. Block some wind.

It wasn't until she turned onto the side road that Cheng Yuanniang, who had been silent until now, suddenly stopped and asked Cai Lian a question:
"Grandma is awake?"

Cai Lian was startled.

She just went back to the house to get her books. How did she know about the situation in Jinxiu Hall?

However, before she could answer, Cheng Yuanniang suddenly seemed to understand something again, and rolled her sleeves and said, "That's it, I'll ask again later."

When she said this, her eyebrows frowned slightly.

The words of the man surnamed Wei were quite meaningful. She had been thinking and pondering over and over again along the way, and she vaguely realized one thing:

Feng Laoan's sudden "disease" seems to be no coincidence.

After all, the root cause of Cheng Yuejiao's punishment still lies with Mrs. Feng.It was precisely because the old lady was dissatisfied with her second wife that she took those instigations to heart and then acted on them.

Now, this source has been cut off. At least today, Cheng Yuejiao no longer needs to be punished.

Cheng Yuanniang's heart skipped a beat, and an inexplicable chill instantly pierced her bones.

"Is the girl patting the wind? Is it cold?"

Cai Lian had long sensed that something was wrong with her master. When she saw Yuan Niang's face turned pale, she thought she had just been frozen, so she couldn't help but feel a little anxious, and at the same time she felt strange in her heart.

Cheng Yuanniang had always been quiet, just like the scholars outside who only loved reading and writing, but now she seemed to have lost her soul and didn't know what had happened.

She didn't dare to ask in depth, so she only mentioned what she could tell.

(End of this chapter)