Chapter 8 Punishing the Wicked Servants!
The crow of a rooster broke the dawn.
Wen Xueling was already awake. She didn’t see Granny Xu or Mingyue in the courtyard.
She first went to her mother’s room, softly asking, “Mother, did you rest well last night?”
After several days of recuperation, Mu Qingyu’s complexion had improved somewhat.
The mother and daughter chatted for a while, and Wen Xueling’s smile also widened. However, when she saw the empty small kitchen, her expression changed.
She immediately found Granny Xu and Mingyue’s room.
“Cough, cough, Young Lady Wen, this old woman and Mingyue have been personally attending to your mother these past few days and caught a cold, so we cannot serve you today.”
Having learned to identify herbs and study medicine with her mother since childhood, how could she not see that these two were not suffering from a cold at all?
Hearing this, Wen Xueling feigned a shy financial predicament and said, “Then give me the silver. I’ll go out and buy supplies myself.”
Mingyue glanced at Granny Xu’s expression, “Young Lady Wen, we have no silver. All the money Fourth Young Master gave us has been spent.”
Wen Xueling smiled, not angered by the words.
She was fortunate that she had asked Liang Jue for a few hidden guards last night, who could protect and assist them from the shadows.
The hidden guards purchased lunch, which Wen Xueling and her mother finished in the room.
Hearing footsteps outside the window, Wen Xueling opened the package of peach blossom crisps from yesterday.
Seeing her pick up the peach blossom crisp, Mu Qingyu asked, puzzled, “Ling’er, don’t you dislike eating this?”
“Mother, I don’t eat it. It’s just a show for them,” Wen Xueling whispered to her mother.
To Mu Qingyu, her daughter, after waking that night, seemed to have matured overnight.
Ever since the mother and daughter left the northern frontier, no matter what Wen Xueling said, Mu Qingyu would comply.
Outside the door, Wen Jinli watched her eat the peach blossom crisp and slowly curved his lips.
Before, she said she wouldn't eat it, but when she was starving, didn’t she eat anything? She was truly being affected; two missed meals would cure her.
“For dinner, have Jin Yu Tower deliver it.”
He did not enter. Jin Yu Tower was the best restaurant in the capital. As a son and a brother, he was doing quite well.
Wen Xueling planned to refine the arrows she had designed for her eldest brother in her previous life, using them as an exchange with Liang Jue.
No matter what, she absolutely could not be as passive as in her previous life.
When Wen Xueling emerged with the finished blueprints, she passed by Granny Xu and Mingyue’s room, catching the scent of food and their hushed conversation.
“Granny Xu, this is the dinner Fourth Young Master arranged for them. If we’re discovered to have eaten it…...”
“Heh! Everything in the Prime Minister’s Estate is under Madam’s control. Just eat to your heart’s content. Only with a full belly will you have the strength to send that mother and daughter on their way.”
“They are despicable wretch who destroyed Madam’s family. It’s nothing even if they die, let alone eating a bit of their dinner."
In a corner outside the house, Wen Xueling’s expression was cold and calm, yet a smile played on her lips. She turned and went back into her room.
Just as darkness fell, rustling sounds came from outside the house.
“Move quickly, get rid of these two despicable wretch quickly, so we can report back to the Madam in the mansion sooner.”
“What are you afraid of? It’s all our own people inside and out. Strangling those two stinking bitches is a small matter, isn’t it?”
“After it’s done, have someone bring over Wang Mazi, the consumptive from Yan Hua Alley. The Madam doesn’t want this despicable wretch to leave even a trace in the Prime Minister’s heart after she dies.”
Wen Xueling sat by the bed, listening to them casually calling her “despicable wretch,” her heart utterly unmoved.
Mu Qingyu thought she was afraid and held the poison that could make people’s bones vanish, comforting her, “Ling’er, don’t be afraid. You know Mother is skilled in poison. This poison powder can make people collapse instantly upon inhalation.”
Wen Xueling shook her head and quietly said to Mu Qingyu, “Mother, I won’t be afraid. Our lives are about to start anew.”
Including Granny Xu and Mingyue, a total of five maids and old women boldly pushed open the door, not at all fearing resistance from the people inside.
Wen Xueling recognized those individuals as the old women who had followed her stepmother in her previous life. Each of them was arrogant, and in her past life, they had treated themselves as one of the masters of the Prime Minister’s Estate in front of her, repeatedly bullying her.
Very good.
Finally, she could begin to avenge herself.
The next day, it was still early.
In the Prime Minister’s Estate, in a courtyard adorned with blooming flowers, a woman smiled and pushed open a window, only to be met with the ghastly, unseeing eyes of Granny Xu and the four other women. Their skin was already ulcerated, and their bodies had swollen several times their normal size.
“Ah—”
The moment her sharp scream tore through the air, the corpses by the window suddenly burst, splattering the woman’s face with shredded flesh and decaying residue, filling her mouth with putrid stench.
The sound of the woman retching echoed.
Having punished the wicked servants, Fangfei Courtyard returned to its tranquility.
“Mother, the medicine is a bit hot. Drink it carefully.”
She sat composedly by the bed, gently feeding Mu Qingyu the medicine.
At that moment, the door was kicked open from outside.
“Wen Xueling!” Wen Jinli’s angry roar resonated.
“Li’er, have you gone mad!”
Mu Qingyu quickly shielded her daughter behind her, sharply exclaiming, “She’s your sister! Is there anything that cannot be said properly?”
He was furious, “What sister? She’s quite the actress, but unfortunately, I don’t have such a cold-blooded, malicious sister!”
“Do you know Wen Xueling killed someone last night?! How dare she!”
“Don't stop me. Even if she’s my sister, she must be sent to the authorities. Such a ruthless and venomous person—I can’t rest easy with her by your side. As an older brother, I must teach her a good lesson!”
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