Rebirth's Charm

Chapter 28

Ye Xihan has a lot of contacts in his daily life, including friends, colleagues, and friends.Du Liang is one of Ye Xihan's best friends.

Du Liang's family was originally in the capital. A few years ago, his father angered the emperor, and his official position was demoted again and again. Finally, he was sent to Shandong and became a seventh-rank county magistrate.Du Liang is lazy and self-motivated. As his family became increasingly depressed, in order to alleviate the financial situation, he married the daughter of a local rich man three years ago.Unexpectedly, his wife is a tigress with an ordinary appearance, but her temper is unusually violent and difficult to deal with. There is a lot of gold, silver and treasure in the dowry, but she refuses to give Du Liang a single cent.

Du Liang was so ruined that his intestines were green, and in a fit of anger, he successively got involved with several maids in the family, and thus added a housemate and a concubine.It was originally intended to create a situation where wives and concubines compete for favor, to retaliate in disguise.However, the wife crushed the women to death, and they didn't even dare to show their anger in front of her.When he went to someone's room at night, he would cry and knelt down and begged him to go back to the main room, otherwise he would be willing to bump his head to death.

If a man lives to this extent, he will be so angry that he will die half of his life if he does not die.In desperation, Du Liang came to the capital to join Ye Xihan, and became a guest of the Prime Minister's mansion based on his old friendship.

These things about him have already become a joke in the Xiangfu.

In dealing with Feng Huixuan, Ye Xizhao thought of Du Liang, and coincided with Meng's.

So, Mother Yao was ordered to go to Du Liang and told him that if he was willing to do something, he would not only get a beautiful lady like a flower, but also a generous dowry, and after the event was completed, the prime minister would give him a gift. 300 taels of silver.

In this world, Du Liang regards money as closer to his parents than his parents. Although he came to the prime minister's mansion, he said that he had no worries about food and clothing, but he didn't have much money in his hands, and he was almost crazy about poverty.Hearing this at this time, he hastily agreed, and was even worried that things might change.

After having a full lunch, the little maid sent word that Du Liang hurriedly changed into a black brocade robe, and went to the two-story building by the lake in the back garden with an excited smile on his face.

On the second floor, I went to the bed in the bedroom, put down the bed curtain, and lay down face inward.

Feng Huixuan walked up the stairs, stepping lightly, feeling extremely nervous, but also a little bit excited.

Slowly walked to the outside of the bedroom screen, probed to look inside, the black figure on the bed could be seen faintly.There are not many men in the whole capital who like to wear black clothes on weekdays.

She walked into the room slowly, and glanced down at the torn and water-stained clothes.With a determined heart, he untied the belt around his waist, dropped his clothes, went to the front of the bed and lifted the bed curtain, and stepped onto the bed.

At the same time, the person on the bed turned over.

Seeing the appearance clearly, Feng Huixuan's face turned from reddish to pale, her eyes turned from shy to frightened, and she hurriedly tried to escape.

How could Du Liang let her go? He stretched out his arms and hooked her down on the bed.A pair of restless hands were already prepared, covering her mouth, brute force tore off the apricot-yellow bellyband, and took away the jade pendant she had been wearing since she was a child.

Feng Huixuan almost collapsed, wanted to break free from the shackles of the person in front of her, but couldn't do it.

Mother Yao walked into the hall and said in a low voice: "Madam, there is something that I don't know whether I should say or not."

Meng Shi ordered: "Just say what you have to say."

Mother Yao then said: "I just heard that Miss Feng Wu went to the small building on the lake in the back garden alone. However, I heard that Master Hou rested there after drinking, and the other side has been idle all the time. What if something happens to this lonely man and widow?"

"Is there such a thing?"

Mrs. Meng and Mrs. Anguo spoke in unison and stood up at the same time.

Ye Xizhao then got up and walked out, "Let's go take a look."

The three of them each called their attendants and hurried to the small building.

When approaching the second floor, Mrs. An Guogong heard Feng Huixuan's mournful cry, and couldn't help but feel her heart tighten, thinking what's wrong?Marquis Yongping didn't seem like someone who acted out of temper. In broad daylight... Could it be that he was deeply drunk?

Ye Xizhao quickened his pace, went upstairs and turned into the dormitory, and asked in a cold voice as he walked, "Who's in there?!"

Everyone entered in order, and through the bed curtain as thin as a cicada's wings, they saw the man inside pressing the woman under him, teasing wantonly.

"You guys are so brave! How dare you do such nasty things here!" Meng's voice was stern, "Get out of here!"

Ye Xizhao looked at Mrs. An Guogong.

Mrs. An Guo looked helpless and ashamed, and said with a bitter face: "This... this... how could this happen? How could such a thing happen?" When it was clear that the man was not Yu Shaoheng, she was stunned and her expression changed. Little by little, her voice was filled with hatred, "You... you... where did you come from, how dare you insult my daughter's innocence!"

Du Liang hurriedly stuffed the two things into his arms, got off the ground, put on his shoes, and went to see Mrs. Meng.

Before Mrs. Meng could speak, Mrs. An Guogong walked towards him, gnashed her teeth and asked in a hissed voice, "Say! Who are you!? Who gave you the courage!?"

Du Liang grinned, "I..."

Mrs. An Guogong walked up to Du Liang and raised her hand vigorously, but at this moment her eyes rolled and her body softened.The huge disappointment and anger made her so angry that she fainted.

"Send An Guogong's wife to the front quickly." Meng Shi ordered, "As for this useless thing, lock it up for me!"

Du Liang knew that this was a facade talk, so he lowered his head and followed Yao's mother away without saying a word.

Feng Huixuan tidied her clothes in a panic, her hands trembling a little. Seeing Du Liang walking outside, she said in a broken voice, "You...don't go! Return my things!"

Everyone present ignored her words.

Mrs. Meng said to Ye Xizhao: "I'm going to take care of Mrs. An Guogong and ask someone to interrogate Du Liang."

Ye Xizhao nodded, "Go ahead, just leave it to me." Turning around, he smiled slightly at Feng Huixuan's bewildered gaze.

Mrs. An Guo woke up leisurely, not knowing where she was for a while.

Meng's voice comforted: "The matter has already happened, it's important to think about the countermeasures first, and you must not get angry."

"What about the beast?" Mrs. An Guo remembered the previous incident, endured a headache and chest tightness, and struggled to sit up, "Send him to the yamen! In broad daylight, how dare you insult a lady's reputation..."

Meng suppressed the smile in her heart, thinking that this person was going to be mad with anger, and reminded, "You can also send it to the yamen, the whole city will know about Miss Fifth's loss of innocence."

"..." Mrs. An Guogong thought more and more that something was wrong, "Listen to the voice of the people in the mansion, isn't the Hou Ye and the Prime Minister's man drinking there? Why did the beast go there without permission? How could the Prime Minister tolerate this?" something happened!?"

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Meng got up immediately, sat down on a chair beside her, and said in a low voice, "How did you say that? I also want to ask you——for no reason, why did Fifth Miss go to Hou?" The place where the master and my eldest son drink? What are your intentions? Don’t talk nonsense, otherwise, all the guests will be invited to judge!"

Mrs. An Guogong didn't dare to answer.

Mrs. Meng continued: "That man is a guest of Xiangfu. I asked him just now. He said that he drank a few more glasses of wine in the afternoon, and took advantage of the wine to find Xi Han and Lord Hou. When they got there, the two of them were gone. He was sleepy, so he rested in the dormitory. When he was in a trance, he saw a woman take off her clothes and bring her to the bed, and she was so drunk that that happened."

Mrs. An Guo couldn't help gnashing her teeth and said, "Nonsense! How is it possible!"

Mrs. Meng didn't bother, but said: "How to deal with this matter, I have to listen to Xi Zhao. No matter how you say it, Miss Wu has known her for many years. If it were someone else, I would have thrown the two immoral things into the prison long ago. "

"No..." Mrs. An Guogong wanted to go to the ground, "I'm going to find Huixuan, I want to ask what's going on."

Meng Shi stopped her in a low voice: "It's better to wait with peace of mind, it's good if you make a mistake again."

Feng Huixuan stared at Ye Xizhao for a long time, and her eyes gradually turned into hatred, "You don't have any intention of helping me, but set up this trap to harm me, don't you?!"

Ye Xizhao smiled warmly, like a gentle breeze in March, "I am so stupid in your eyes, I have no way to plot against you."

"I regard you as a good friend, and I ask you for help when I'm in a desperate situation, but you treat me like this?" Feng Huixuan spoke, and Dou Da's tears rolled down in a row, and then her legs softened and she fell to the ground.

Ye Xizhao smiled unabated, "I regard you as a good friend, yet you covet my husband and use me to enter the Marquis's residence, how despicable it is."

"I don't have one, why would you think so..." Feng Huixuan's eyes flickered slightly, she propped herself up, and kneeled in front of Ye Xizhao, "You misunderstood, I really didn't, I was really desperate to beg you.... "

Questioning didn't work, so he immediately changed his face and pleaded—Ye Xizhao took two steps back with disgust, "Didn't I already give you a way out? Du Liang is only in his twenties, not over fifty years old. "

"No!" Feng Huixuan said sadly, "That man is simply a rogue, I don't want to be his concubine, I would rather die than do it!"

Ye Xizhao was helpless, why was he always talking about life and death?As if she would mind.

"Anyway, can you let me go? I won't bother you anymore, can you ask that person to return the things to me?" Feng Huixuan kowtowed as she said, she was really anxious and scared .

"What did he take?"

"...underwear, and the jade pendant I wore since childhood. I beg you, return the things to me." Feng Huixuan kowtowed again and begged.

Ye Xizhao didn't bother to talk about teasing or sarcasm, and directly expressed his wish: "If you don't want to go far to Shandong, you have to listen to my orders and do one thing."

Feng Huixuan responded urgently: "You can say whatever you want, as long as you can suppress this matter, let me do whatever you want."

"Then, come back to the Marquis Mansion with me later." Ye Xizhao lowered his voice and confessed a few words to Feng Huixuan.

Zhilan, who was waiting outside the door, was overjoyed at first when she heard this, and then a little bit unwilling.

Feng Huixuan had no choice, she nodded in silence for a moment.

"Think about what to say then. Your maid will arrive later." Ye Xizhao walked away.

After walking out of the small building, Zhilan said in a low voice: "What the Madam asked her to do is also very important, but... just letting her go like this would be too cheap for her."

Ye Xizhao couldn't help laughing, "Who told you that I will do what I say to her?"

(End of this chapter)