YNRHPCYC Chapter 86

Chapter 86: Zhong Wenjin’s thoughts

It felt like a thunderbolt had struck him out of nowhere. Zhong Wenjin was overwhelmed with panic and tried to sit up, but the moment he moved, a wave of excruciating pain surged through his entire body.

Zhong Wenjin cried out.

He forced himself to sit up, but as the quilt slipped off, he looked down and was shocked!

He saw that his body was in a mess everywhere, with ambiguous red marks, tooth marks and some inexplicable scratches. And coupled with the discomfort in his limbs and waist, a large wave of memories instantly poured into his mind.

During last night’s se**al intercourse, with just one turn, Zhong Wenjin had been exhausted of almost all of his strength, and he had let Xie Zhaoxue do whatever he wanted. All the sounds and pictures intertwined, and the scenes became clear.

Zhong Wenjin thought that he would die on this bed. He had never experienced such an extreme feeling in his life. Until the end, the sound he made was just weak cries.

He didn’t expect that Xie Zhaoxue, who usually looked serious, wouldn’t know to restrain himself at all after rolling into the bed. He called him “little nephew” affectionately, but he didn’t show any mercy and tortured him to death.

Fortunately, Xie Zhaoxue still knew to leave him a breath. At that time, Zhong Wenjin could no longer tell east from west and north from south and snored as soon as he closed his eyes.

But Xie Zhaoxue insisted on having someone bring hot water, pressed him into the water to wash him, and fed him most of the pastries in the food box before he stopped tossing him around and let him sleep.

He slept until after noon.

Zhong Wenjin clutched his head and said in his heart: He was done now.

He was really nothing short of a lunatic. He actually dragged Xie Zhaoxue into the abyss and accompanied him into the quagmire.

Zhong Wenjin no longer had the Zhong family and no restraints. So he could go crazy as he wanted. However, Xie Zhaoxue was different. Xie Zhaoxue was the only son of the Xie family, the hope of the family, and his nominal uncle.

If this matter were to be spread, how would the world view the Xie family? How would they criticise Xie Zhaoxue? As soon as he thought of being pointed at by the world, Zhong Wenjin felt that his blood was boiling and he couldn’t breathe.

This matter must be suppressed and hidden.

A giant pressure sat on Zhong Wenjin’s heart, making him feel suffocated. But he was not the only one. Surely Xie Zhaoxue’s thoughts should be the same as his.

In any case, he grew up with Xie Zhaoxue, and his eyes had been on Xie Zhaoxue for too long.

In other words, Zhong Wenjin knew Xie Zhaoxue.

If something like this happened, Xie Zhaoxue would definitely be the first person who wanted to keep it secret. He would not let a third person know.

The most urgent task was to find the person who put the drug in Xie Zhaoxue’s tea yesterday. But there was no need to look for them carefully, as Zhong Wenjin had already had a candidate in mind.

He narrowed his eyes slightly. A trace of cruelty flashed across his eyes. He rubbed his face and opened his mouth to call for someone. But the sound he made was rough and unpleasant. It was very hoarse. Calling to mind that it was because he had been shouting all night last night, he was suddenly very angry.

“Somebody come! Somebody come!” Zhong Wenjin waved his aching arm, and he knocked against the headboard, the sound echoing through the room.

Then the door opened, and a maid walked in with a small step and stopped at the table in the outer room, “Master Zhong, what can I do for you?”

Zhong Wenjin glanced at the bed curtain, vaguely, and after confirming that the people outside could not see him, he gave two dry coughs and said, “Bring me a set of clothes. Yesterday’s clothes were spilt with tea by me.”

The outer clothes could still be worn, as they were taken off before Xie Zhaoxue entered the room yesterday. But the middle clothes and lining clothes were ruined by him.

Who would have known that the maidservant would purse her lips and say, smiling, “Master Zhong, the young master told you to lie down and wait for him to come back. If you are hungry or thirsty, this subordinate will give you food and drinks.”

Zhong Wenjin’s eyebrows jumped, and he savoured the words carefully, realising that something was wrong. This maid called him “Master Zhong”? And called herself “subordinate”? She was obviously not a servant in the mansion.

He suddenly remembered that Xie Zhaoxue had two very powerful confidants around him, a man and a woman, who were dedicated to handling Xie Zhaoxue’s private affairs. When there was nothing to do, they followed him in the dark, and when there was something to do, they were the first to rush out with a knife.

Those two people were indeed not servants in the mansion but Xie Zhaoxue’s personal subordinates. To put it more clearly, even Xie Shengran could not order them around.

He glanced at the vague figure standing outside and stretched out his hand to lift the bed curtain on one side. Sure enough, he saw that this woman was one of the two subordinates.

His eyes widened slightly in shock, “How is this possible?”

Xie Zhaoxue had actually sent her here; doesn’t that mean……

The female secret guard glanced at the marks on his skin and lowered her eyes with a faint smile in the corner of her eyes before saying, “Master Zhong, the young master said, you can’t get up from bed and walk around after taking the medicine. So just tell this subordinate if you have anything.”

Zhong Wenjin’s hand trembled, and the bed curtain fell again, covering his figure. Under the dim light, it could be seen that his body was trembling slightly.

Perhaps others couldn’t see it, but Zhong Wenjin himself was deeply aware of it. His heart was beating rapidly and pounding around.

What does Xie Zhaoxue mean? He actually told others? Doesn’t he plan to suppress this matter? What is he thinking?

After a long time of blankness in his mind, Zhong Wenjin came back to his senses. Although the female secret guard repeatedly emphasised that Xie Zhaoxue did not allow him to get up from bed and move around, he still insisted on putting on his clothes and wearing a skin.

As soon as he stood on the ground, his legs began to tremble. He felt very uncomfortable, and Zhong Wenjin cursed Xie Zhaoxue inwardly. He walked around the room a few times, gritting his teeth, and finally managed to suppress the pain and weakness in his thighs and tried his best to pretend that nothing had happened.

As soon as he went out, he found that only the female secret guard was guarding the door. The usual servants had all been withdrawn. Thinking of the female secret guard’s previous ambiguous eyes, he was a little shy for the first time. He coughed and asked, “Where are the servants?”

“When the young master came back yesterday, they were all withdrawn.” She seemed to see the concerns in Zhong Wenjin’s heart and said bluntly, “Don’t worry, my lord. No one knows.”

Zhong Wenjin glared at her, “You are not a person? In broad daylight, you are still lying to me with eyes open!”

Female secret guard, “…… The Lord has taught me a great lesson.”

He snorted lightly and turned his eyes around, “Where’s Ding Ziyun?”

“Who is the Lord talking about?” The female secret guard looked confused.

It may be assumed that she didn’t know who Ding Ziyun was. Zhong Wenjin thought for a while and said, “She was the servant who stood guard in front of my door before. A fair and clean-looking woman.”

“The previous group of subordinates should have been transferred to the warehouse in the backyard to guard it. Do you want to go there, my lord?” She glanced at Zhong Wenjin in surprise, wondering very much if he could walk.

When Zhong Wenjin saw this look, he suddenly became angry. He had never been looked down upon by a girl in his life. He snorted, “Of course I have to go! I’m doing business!”

As he spoke, he stepped forward. However, he misjudged the distance on his first step. The distance was a bit big, and the hip bones were pulled with severe pain. It took Zhong Wenjin a lot of effort to hold back without letting it show on his face. Then he forced himself to move forward.

After walking a distance, he couldn’t see his residence when he looked back. Then Zhong Wenjin’s steps became smaller, and he walked slowly to the backyard.

When he found Ding Ziyun, she was packing up her things. When she came out and saw Zhong Wenjin, her face turned pale instantly.

Zhong Wenjin’s face turned livid. He took her to a remote place and asked her directly in a cold voice, “Did you drug Xie Zhaoxue’s tea?”

Ding Ziyun stared at him straight, and suddenly her eyes jumped down and stopped at his neck. She said lightly, “So it turns out he went to your place last night.”

Realising that the red mark was exposed, Zhong Wenjin hurriedly pulled up his collar and said angrily, “Ding Ziyun, you really ate bear’s heart and leopard’s gall[footnote]to brace up; summon up one’s courage[/footnote]; and dared to slip a drug into his drink? I warned you not to have that kind of thought a long time ago. But I didn’t expect you to do such a despicable thing!”

“I am despicable?” Ding Ziyun seemed to throw her caution to the wind. She became calmer and calmer, and she sneered with a cold face, “Even if I am more despicable, I wouldn’t be able to compare to you, Lord Li. You availed yourself of the opportunity to get in. You must have had a good time last night, right? You are still pretending to question me today. Aren’t you ridiculous?”

“I was forced!” Zhong Wenjin shouted against his will.

She sneered.

Seeing her like this, Zhong Wenjin thought in his heart: Don’t think that Laozi’s temper will be better if he changes his face. I must teach you a lesson today.

Now that he knew that his hands and feet were not convenient to do things, if he acted rashly, he would definitely suffer, so he blew a whistle lightly, “Come out.”

The female secret guard was indeed watching near him. When she heard the whistle, she jumped out and landed in front of Zhong Wenjin with qingqiao, “Lord, please tell me your orders.”

“Hang her up for me!” Zhong Wenjin pointed at Ding Ziyun and said fiercely, “Hang her on the tree!”

The female secret guard acted decisively and neatly. She immediately turned around, touched Ding Ziyun’s back like a ghost, grabbed her hands, and twisted them behind her back.

Ding Ziyun’s face showed panic. Before she could say anything, she felt pain in her hands, and her body was pressed down. Her knees bent unconsciously, and her knees made a crisp sound.

The female dark guard drew a rope from her waist, and a four-claw iron hook[footnote][/footnote] was tied to one end of the rope. She directly wrapped it around Ding Ziyun’s arms and dragged her under the tree.

Ding Ziyun finally reacted and shouted, “What are you doing! Let me go! I’m no longer a servant of the Xie Mansion! You have no right to tie me up!”

Zhong Wenjin walked over and said with a sneer, “Laozi wants to tie you up, regardless of whether you are a servant of the Xie Mansion.”

He thought to himself that for so many years, he never looked at people’s identities when teaching them a lesson. Unless this Ding Ziyun was one of the emperor’s relatives, like the Ninth Royal Highness……

While Ding Ziyun was screaming, the female secret guard had already tied her firmly and stood aside on standby.

“You woman, you clearly don’t have a stunning face. But you have the sweet dream of turning from a sparrow into a phoenix. I should have poured a basin of cold water on you when I first met you. At least let you know what kind of person you are.”

Zhong Wenjin allowed no explanation and started to scold her, “I’ve said before that even if you’re a concubine, your status will not be enough. Even if you succeeded last night, you’ll either be kicked out of the house or become a housemaid. For a family of a functionary like the Xie family, if they want women, there will be people lining up to send them. What are you?”

A mix of emotions flickered across Ding Ziyun’s face. At first, she was a little angry, and then her expression faded into a look of helplessness. Finally, she murmured, “If you don’t try, how can you know the result?”

“You’re still so delusional at this time?” Zhong Wenjin couldn’t help sneering. He couldn’t imagine that Ding Ziyun, an honest-looking girl from a good family, was stupid and greedy in her heart.

“I had no other choice.” Ding Ziyun bit her lower lip tightly, tears gushing out all at once, “All the pigs we raised died overnight! You saw it too. The blood was drained out, and not a single one was left. We took out the pork to sell it. But no matter how low the price was, no one dared to buy it. In the end, all the pork became smelly, and we lost all our money.”

“My grandfather was addicted to gambling and wanted to send me to Yu Fu House to pay off his gambling debts. I had no other choice but to resort to this desperate measure……”

Ding Ziyun’s appearance was not top-notch. Her raindrops on a pear blossom[footnote]tearful[/footnote] appearance and sobbing voice make her look quite pitiful.

But Zhong Wenjin observed her with an indifferent attitude[footnote]to be a bystander (usually referring to someone who could get involved but chooses not to)[/footnote], “This is your own business.”

Ding Ziyun didn’t expect his tone to be so cold. She was taken aback as he continued, “Natural calamities and man-made disasters don’t only happen in your family. Sure, you were dealt a tough hand. But harbouring ill intentions is wrong. Do you think you can get others’ forgiveness by using such disgusting means to harm others and then explaining it by saying that you were desperate?”

Zhong Wenjin’s words were full of ice. He took a step towards Ding Ziyun and said in a low voice, “You should be thankful now. If it were me in the past, your family would be preparing for your funeral at this time.”

Ding Ziyun looked at him and opened her mouth but couldn’t say anything. It was obviously a bland and even ugly face, but there was a force of oppression between his eyebrows, which made her shrink back involuntarily.

Zhong Wenjin’s emotions seemed very straightforward, especially when threatening people. His fierce expression was exposed, but it was a pity that the mask on his face covered his expression.

“Master Xie has already kicked me out of the house.” She lowered her head, no longer having the sharpness as before.

Just kicking her out of the house was going too easy on her. After all, he had suffered a night of punishment!

Zhong Wenjin glanced up at the sun, turned his head, and said to the female secret guard, “You ask someone to bring me a recliner. I want to bask in the sun.”

The sunshine in winter was rarely warm. Zhong Wenjin didn’t move once he lay down, and he had people bring him food and drinks.

When Xie Zhaoxue returned to the mansion, the first place he headed was Zhong Wenjin’s room. But the moment he stepped inside, he found it empty.

He asked someone at random and found out his location. When he went over, he saw him lying on a reclining chair leisurely in the sun. Next to him was Ding Ziyun, who was tied to a tree with a painful face.

“Little Jin.” He called out.

This voice was simply Zhong Wenjin’s nightmare. He was lying comfortably at first, but the moment he heard this voice, he immediately jumped up from the reclining chair.

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