Concubine like a house

Chapter 43
"Yes." Chu Xiu nodded and admitted that this cloak was exactly the one that Xia Yanran gave her when she came to Kuishui on the day she was molested by Yun Qi.On the same day, she made a special trip to the laundry room for cleaning.Chuxiu looked carefully at the cloak on the ground, it was dripping wet, and there were a few water plants stained on it... Could it be that this was the one Xia Yanran was wearing?
As soon as the question was raised, Yun Ci answered coldly: "This cloak is from Pin Yan's corpse."

Chuxiu finally understood why Yun Ci recruited her to the torture hall.Thinking of this, she couldn't help but twitched a sneering smile: "This cloak was lent by the madam to the maidservant to wear. Later, the maidservant sent it to the washroom for washing, and never saw it again."

"That's not what the mother in charge of the washing room said." Yun Ci's haggard face was livid, and the veins on his forehead were faintly visible, "She said that this cloak will be handed over to you after it is washed."

"What?" Chuxiu raised her eyes in an instant to defend, "No! Absolutely not! After that day, I never saw this cloak again!"

"Really?" Yunci's red eyes were like a beast in the forest, and he no longer had the modesty and gentleness of the past, "Then how do you explain this dagger!"

At the same time as the voice fell to the ground, a cold light came towards Chuxiu, Qu Fang's sharp eyes quickly stretched out his hand to block it, and with a "bang", a dagger fell to the ground.Chuxiu squinted her eyes and looked, but saw the ruby ​​on the dagger was shining bright red, and what pierced her eyes was the faint blood on the blade.

This dagger... is clearly the mandarin duck dagger given by Shen Yu!Yunci has given Xia Yanran the one inlaid with rubies.Suddenly, Chuxiu remembered what Qian Yun had said on the way here just now - Xia Yanran's body was stuck with a dagger in the lower abdomen.

Could it be this one?But Chuxiu didn't understand, what does this dagger have to do with him?She was about to ask a question, but Zhu Ying suddenly stepped into the execution hall and presented another mandarin duck dagger: "My lord, this other dagger was found in the room of the Chuxiu girl."

"This is impossible!" Chuxiu opened her eyes wide, looked at the faintly green gemstone in Zhu Ying's hand, and hurriedly argued to Yun Ci, "The mandarin ducks and daggers are in pairs, and they are private wedding gifts from Lord Shen. I saw it with my own eyes, you gave the lady the dagger inlaid with rubies, logically speaking, the dagger inlaid with emeralds should be in your hands."

Chuxiu said the truth.The mandarin duck daggers must be shared among the husband and wife, so how could she steal one of them?
However, Yun Ci didn't listen to the explanation, and slammed his hand on the table, angrily said: "Could it be that I deliberately framed you? Put this dagger in your room?"

Chuxiu denied: "This is not what the servant girl meant."

"That's it." Yunci's face was full of sadness, and he asked her coldly, "Right now Mrs. Tai and the aunts are not present, honestly, does Pinyan's death have anything to do with you?"

Just this question made Chuxiu's heart sink into an endless abyss.She never thought that just now, Yun Ci who ordered the dark guards to protect her outside the washing room, would put her on such a heinous crime in an instant!
Murdering Mrs. Li Xinhou?How dare she?Although she didn't know why the mother who washes the room slandered her for holding that cloak, and she didn't know why the mandarin duck dagger appeared in her room, but how could she swallow this fatal injustice?
"No! Madam's death has nothing to do with me!" Chuxiu replied sonorously, looked at Yunci and said again: "Have you forgotten, Lord Hou? At dusk tonight, I will be with you in the washing room...Jingyuan and the washing room Half an hour away, how could I commit a crime? Then push my wife into the lotus pond?" Now, she has no choice but to tell the story of the private meeting between the two, regardless of Yun Ci's reputation.

"You know how to calculate, so ask me to testify for you." Yun Ci retorted coldly, "When I went to see you, the sun had already set. At that time, Pin Yan had been missing for an hour. Before that, you had enough time to commit the crime."

Chuxiu couldn't believe Yun Ci's sloppyness: "With only a cloak, a dagger, and a confession that I don't know whether it is true or not, you are going to convict me?" She stubbornly looked at Yun Ci. Above Dan Chi, one below Dan Chi, when the two looked at each other, they both saw the determination in each other's eyes.

After a long time, Yun Ci was the first to look down, and replied coldly: "These evidences alone are not enough to convict you, but you are the most motivated in the whole family. You were my maidservant, and you were pregnant with a child. It was me In order to marry Pin Yan, you were forced to take away the child. Now that Pin Yan is pregnant, you probably hold a grudge and intend to take revenge, tricking her out to commit murder secretly."

At this point, Yun Ci finally saw Xiu again, her eyes were undeniably sharp, as if she wanted to nail her to this crime: "Pin Yan has a dagger stuck in the middle of her belly. If it wasn't for her belly The flesh and blood in the middle hate him so much, why do you want to do this murderous thing?"

At this moment, Yun Ci's sentence of condemnation was like a blunt knife that had not yet been sharpened, slashing heavily in Chuxiu's heart.After the hand raised the knife and dropped it, although the pain was painful, it could not easily cause death.

Chuxiu looked at Yunci and smiled, angrily!This is the man she likes wholeheartedly!It's the man she thinks she knows she understands!It was the man who had treated her tenderly!It's the man she loves to the point of humbleness and to the bottom of her heart!
What kind of man is this, who has wronged her so far indiscriminately!In his heart, he was actually a female devil who murdered out of jealousy!She can endure disappointment, abandonment, disappointment, and even contempt... But, it does not include grievances!The injustice of murder!

The pain of suffocation suddenly hit, Chuxiu suppressed the anger in his chest, and wanted to defend himself with the last sentence.She straightened her waist, and slowly stood up from the ground. No matter who framed her for today's crime, she would never admit it, let alone kneel down for it: "Even if I go to kill people, it is absolutely impossible to use this crime." A dagger. On this point, Lord Shen Xiaohou can testify for me."

"You know that Zi Feng is not in the mansion today, right?" Yun Ci narrowed his eyes, almost resentfully said, "He was your former master, he took good care of you, he will definitely complain for you when he comes over! Besides, Zi Feng and I We have known each other for many years, if he asks for mercy, how can I not let you go? How could you not know that he went to the Mu Palace for a banquet today?"

"Going to the banquet?!" Chuxiu choked on these words and was speechless.She lowered her eyebrows and thought for a while, and she finally understood that no matter how she defended herself today, she would be convicted of this crime.The perpetrator counted on a good day, and arranged for witnesses and physical evidence, just to make her speechless.

But at this moment, Chuxiu didn't have any resentment towards the person who framed her.She was full of anger, and she aimed all her anger at Li Xinhou, who was aloof on Danchi.A year and a half is enough for her to see a person clearly.If she regarded Yun Ci as a god in the past, today, he has fallen from the altar in her heart.

"It turns out that I am so unbearable in Lord Hou's heart." Chuxiu's gaze slowly swept across everyone in the execution hall, Yunci, Luanqing, Qu Fang, Zhuying, Qianyun... everyone, they all had their eyes on each other. It has become so strange, cold, and indifferent to right and wrong.

And she finally felt ashamed.

Chuxiu stood upright in the middle of the punishment hall, with an unprecedented sonorous arrogance, and said with a sad smile: "Forget that I was blind and misjudged the wrong person, and now this ending... I will suffer on my own!"

Suddenly, Chuxiu saw Yunci's slender fingers, which were tightly holding the armrest of the seat, as if trying to restrain some emotion.Yun Ci's gaze was like a calm vast sea, with hidden waves and unfathomable depths.She found that she never understood this person, it was she who thought too highly of him and fell in love with the illusory shadow drawn in her heart.

When the vows of the mountain and the sea have long been destroyed, when the affectionate warmth has turned into a mirror... the first time she came out of Xiuxiu, she felt extremely regretful. If she chooses again, she would rather stay in the chasing rainbow garden. Yunci's beautiful thoughts are enough to support her for a long time.

Chuxiu slowly caressed her lower abdomen, closed her eyes and sneered: "Master Hou is right, this child should not be wanted. It will only be a shame for him to have such a father."

She didn't open her eyes, but clenched her hands into fists, trying her best to smile desperately: "This time, I will pay the fruit for myself. I can keep this life, but I will never admit to this crime!"

It was as if there were mournful grievances resounding through the sky, and the empty torture hall was full of powerful echoes of Chuxiu's words. The five words "I will never admit it" are like a curse, which is suffocating in everyone's heart.

Chuxiu held his increasingly painful heart, pulled out the hairpin on his head and pointed it at his throat, looked at Yunci and repeated sadly: "'Don't take lightly on knights, don't take alliances lightly on beauties, I'm afraid they will die for me.' Yun Ci, I will return this sentence to you today, and from now on, you and I will never see each other again!"

As soon as the word "see" came out, she exerted a sudden force in her hand, and the tip of the hairpin reached her throat.But the thorn hadn't penetrated deep yet, and immediately there was a piercing pain in her chest, which literally broke her heart.Chuxiu felt a sweetness in his throat, subconsciously stretched out his hand to cover his mouth, and a black blood clot vomited out.Then, there was a sharp pain in her head, and she fell backwards.

In a trance, Chuxiu seemed to see Yunci's slightly surprised face.But she didn't understand why he was so happy that he wanted to cover his mouth with his hands.If it weren't for the comforting smile on Yun Ci's eyebrows, she would almost have thought he was vomiting blood too.

Chuxiu felt himself falling into a warm embrace, and the voice of Yun Ci came from his ears again, like comfort, joy, reluctance, and sadness, and finally all turned into two words: "Chuxiu... "A drop of water fell on her cheek, with a strong smell of blood, and she could tell that what Yun Ci fell was definitely not tears.

Before the consciousness disappeared, Chuxiu heard someone shouting: "Finally solved!"

(End of this chapter)