Chapter 22 Framed (2)
After Chen Hui returned to Plum Yard, she briefly told Xiao Tiao about her hapless experience. Xiao Tiao was frightened and quickly helped Chen Hui deal with the injury on her neck.
Chen Hui sat on the embroidered stool, looked at herself in the mirror and sighed sadly. The next few days, she is going to be hungry again. That exasperating eunuch is really inhuman. She felt that the captor was right. One day, he would definitely die by thousand cuts!
She suddenly remembered that she hadn’t thanked Gu Tianhe seriously. If he hadn’t made the sudden move, letting the captor’s dagger go astray, then, perhaps more than the pear would’ve been stabbed. However, she felt that words were not enough to express sincerity. She was impoverished now and couldn’t repay him. She could only put this matter in her heart.
The next two days, Plum Yard has been locked again and as expected, Chen Hui and Xiao Tiao had no food for another two days. Chen Hui felt very sorry when she thought that Xiao Tiao always got implicated because of her and got no food to eat. Now, she had no way to make up for it. She could only scold that exasperating eunuch more frequently in her heart.
By the third day, Chen Hui lay weakly in bed and thought that that exasperating eunuch should give her food today. If he doesn’t give her something to eat, she would truly starve to death!
When the sound of the door of Plum Yard being unlocked came, Chen Hui hurriedly got up. Xiao Tiao wasn’t as lazy as her and was already by the door now. When Chen Hui got out of the bed after getting dressed, Xiao Tiao suddenly rushed in with a blank expression.
“What’s the matter Xiao Tiao?” Chen Hui asked baffled. If the meal came, Xiao Tiao should be happy. If the meal didn’t come, Xiao Tiao should be sad. Why did she behave like now?
Xiao Tiao hurriedly said, “Lady, there is an official outside, saying for you to go with them.”
Chen Hui’s expression also became as stunned as Xiao Tiao’s , “Official? Why look for me? That is not right. What about that exasp…Lord Li?”
Xiao Tiao didn’t know much. She could only shake her head blankly.
Chen Hui thought for a moment and let Xiao Tiao go out to tell them that she was getting dressed up. She quickly dressed and cleaned herself. Li residence wasn’t a place where everyone could break in easily. She didn’t know from which department these officials were, but since they could come in, it meant that the people of Li residence also couldn’t do anything to them. Xiao Wu had said before that Li Youde is the Chief Internal Eunuch in charge of supervision. That was a profitable government office. Also, he was able to open a residence outside of the palace, which shows that not everyone could bully him. It seemed that these officials only wanted to take her away, then, the matter wouldn’t be too serious and hasn’t reached to the point yet where the whole Li residence would be unlucky…It couldn’t be that Li Youde couldn’t take her anymore and was going thrown her to the officials for them to toss her around, right? If he really wanted to torture her, it would be more convenient to keep her by his side. If she really died from torture by accident, then that merchant father of hers who sold his daughter for fortune, would come ask for justice.
Chen Hui couldn’t figure out the reason when she was dressing up. Seeing that the people outside had waited long enough, she could only go out to meet them.
Seeing that she had come out, the official who had become impatient from waiting said, “Are you Chen Pingzhi’s daughter Lady Chen?”
“Yes, don’t know why sir is looking for this Lady Chen?” Chen Hui asked gently.
“We are the officers of the Ministry of Justice. You will know after you come with us,” That officer said. “Our sir is still waiting. Let’s go!”
He turned and left. The sights of the few people he brought with him fell on Chen Hui. Chen Hui had to turn back and brief Xiao Tiao. Then, she quickly followed them.
Chen Hui couldn’t help but look around as she followed and discovered that Rely Bamboo Pavilion was very silent. It seemed as if nothing had happened, except that the expression of the Li residence’s servants that she met on the way were not very good. If she looked closely, it seemed to be a kind of worry about themselves.
To Chen Hui’s surprise, these officials of the Ministry of Justice were actually quite considerate and let her ride the carriage of Li residence to the feudal office of the Ministry of Justice. She had wanted to ask several times what was going on, but unfortunately, it had all been answered half-heartedly. When she got in the carriage, naturally there was no chance to ask anymore. She could only shut up.
Chen Hui didn’t expect that the first time she left Li residence would be in such a circumstance where the future was hard to forecast. She wasn’t even in the mood to see what kind of novel world there was on the outside. These officials were still quite polite with her, so, she wasn’t taken away as a prisoner. Otherwise, with just a lock of the shackles, they didn’t have to be like this. Before she came out, she saw that it was silent in Rely Bamboo Pavilion. That meant that only she was taken away from Li residence…This was interesting.
The more she thought about things, the calmer Chen Hui became and stopped thinking. When she arrived at the place and got to know what had happened, she could find a way to deal with it.
After a while, they arrived at the feudal office of the Ministry of Justice. When Chen Hui got out of the carriage, she was inside of the feudal office. Then, she was led down the lobby of the Ministry of Justice by the officials.
When she arrived at the main hall of the Ministry of Justice, Chen Hui realized what was truly interesting.
The person sitting in the main seat of the hall was naturally the highest ranked official of the Ministry of Justice. Chen Hui didn’t know who that was. Of course, there were many people who she had never seen and didn’t know. For example, the big bellied middle-aged man kneeling on the right side.
However, in the next moment, she got to know the identity of the other party.
When the middle-aged man saw that she came, he cried, walked on his knees over to her and shouted, “My pitiful daughter. You have suffered!”
As soon as Chen Hui thought about avoiding him, she heard a scolding from the person above, “Not allowed to make a noise!”
That middle-aged man immediately knelt back embarrassed. Chen Hui let out a sigh of relief. She narrowed her eyes slightly when she saw the woman kneeling on the right of the middle-aged man. That is…grandmother Xu? The last time she saw grandmother Xu, the other party was at her last gasp. That was the first time that she had experienced the true cruelty of that exasperating eunuch. At that time, she thought that that exasperating eunuch pretended to leave grandmother Xu’s life, but she was hurt so badly, how could she survive? Unexpectedly, grandmother Xu really survived.
Chen Hui’s gaze fell to the other side. She knew the man standing with his hands together. Wasn’t it that exasperating eunuch who always didn’t feed her? What made her feel faintly delighted was that Li Youde, who never let her live well in the past, was now looking at her. His gaze was flashing and there was faint fright in them.
Chen Hui couldn’t help it and smiled at him. Perhaps, because there was such a joy taken from his calamity in the smile that couldn’t be masked, Li Youde’s complexion changed drastically and he gritted his teeth suddenly.
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Thanks for the chapter 😁
It’s nice to see some development. Admittedly, reading about the FL trying to eat meat…starts to lose its appeal after the 100th time lol. I hope he appreciates her more after this court scene.
Payback time! Let’s goooo!!!