Chapter 29 The confrontation (2)
“You…,” Jiang Bihan finally spoke. She looked at Chen Hui tremblingly and she was short of breath. Her face was also flushed, “What do you know?!”
Chen Hui stared at Jiang Bihan for a while and suddenly said, “Could it be…Lady Jiang, you are also…,” She lowered her voice again and said, “Could it be that you were also brought here by force by Lord Li?”
Jiang Bihan was silent and just looked at Chen Hui. She didn’t admit nor deny. Pain and despair were entangled in her eyes and couldn’t be dispersed.
Chen Hui didn’t spoke again.
Her original plan was to anger Jiang Bihan, make Jiang Bihan go look for Li Youde and drive her, the thorn of the eyes, out of Chrysanthemum Yard and sent her back to Plum Yard. However, seeing Jiang Bihan being like this, she couldn’t say the vicious words that she hasn’t said yet.
Chen Hui could now be sure that Jiang Bihan didn’t have any romantic feelings for Li Youde. She remembered that Jiang Bihan was brought over from Jiaofang Shi. It had been two years now and she is still without a status. It was either that Jiaofang Shi had some regulations that she didn’t know about or it is that this eunuch Li Youde couldn’t make any promises. She remembered that she seemed to have read that eunuchs in some dynasties weren’t allowed to have wives by law. Perhaps, it was the same here. Li Youde couldn’t give his political opponents any reason to bring him down. Therefore, whether it was her or Lady Jiang, they could only stay in his backyard without status.
Previously, Jiang Bihan had pushed and felt Chen Hui out. Chen Hui could understand that Jiang Bihan had to guard against a possible enemy for the stability of her position even if she obviously didn’t love Li Youde. If it was a gentleman, one could trust the other party’s promise, but Li Youde is a eunuch and is a real petty person. Perhaps, because of this, Jiang Bihan was afraid that she would face a rather miserable ending after falling out of favor, right?
Chen Hui felt a bit irritable. Was it really good of her to scheme against Jiang Bihan like this? Jiang Bihan looked completely different from her. She is a time-traveler from the modern times and she didn’t mind hugging Li Youde’s leg for a while. However, looking at Jiang Bihan’s demeanor, she felt that Jiang Bihan would choke if she let Jiang Bihan take the initiative to get close to Li Youde and do something.
In fact, Jiang Bihan simply overestimated her. Li Youde treated her a bit differently now, but it will stop at that. Towards her, he didn’t do less of ridiculing and criticize her shortcomings. He didn’t feel tenderness towards her at all. Who wants this kind of difference? She preferred to exchange places with Jiang Bihan and let Li Youde worship her like a little fairy. How great would that be? Speaking of it, she was unlucky and time-traveled into the wrong person.
There was a bit of hesitation in her heart. Chen Hui’s high spirits were also defeated.
“This Lady Chen is only a daughter of a merchant and naturally doesn’t understand anything,” Chen Hui laughed, “I only know that the days where I have things to eat and drink are very comfortable. I want to live better…Lady Jiang, I’ve been out long enough and should go now. Don’t you think it’s time to return the cat to me?”
That was all what she could say. As for what Lady Jiang would do afterward was beyond her control.
Jiang Bihan closed her eyes and smiled reluctantly, “Lady Chen, Lord Li, he…he is…” She couldn’t continue and didn’t force herself anymore. Instead, she handed over the three striped cat in her hand.
Before the cat fell into Chen Hui’s hands, it struggled, scratched the back of Jiang Bihan’s hand, slid down and escaped.
Jiang Bihan covered her hand and frowned slightly. Chen Hui immediately got up and looked at the back of Jiang Bihan’s hand regardless of her obstruction. She saw that it was only a superficial scratch. The skin didn’t break and there was no blood. Only then did she feel relieved. There was no vaccine in this era. If the scratch caused the skin to break and bleed, then, they could only pray and burn incense to Buddha that the cat didn’t carry any rabies virus.
Jiang Bihan looked at Chen Hui with a weird gaze. After a while, she retrieved her hand and said faintly, “Lady Chen, don’t worry. This injury had been accidentally caused by me and Lady Chen won’t be blamed.”
Chen Hui smiled and didn’t explain anything. Let her misunderstand. It was better than letting her seriously explain about things like vaccines and viruses that could cause a mental disorder.
“Then, I will go catch that cat. Lady Jiang, see you later.” Chen Hui said goodbye to Jiang Bihan and hurried away with Xiao Tiao.
Xiao Wu wasn’t at the door. Chen Hui and Xiao Tiao walked a few steps, only to find that he was holding Li Sancai and looked at Chen Hui with a foolish smile.
Chen Hui said, “Let’s go back. Also, send this cat back from where it came from. Change it for one that can catch rats. Is it still reasonable to be so afraid of rats?”
Xiao Wu promised weakly.
Xiao Wu’s movements were fairly neat and soon he brought another cat.
This time it was a yellow tabby cat with a fierce appearance. Before releasing it, the doors and windows of the yard were closed, only to find that it was unnecessary. The tabby cat didn’t even think about escaping. It rushed into the room, jumped around and soon caught one big rat. Chen Hui ran away and took a peek. Seeing that the tabby cat was so brave, she wanted to applaud. In the end, it wasn’t over yet. The tabby cat ate the rat in a few bites. It jumped up and down again for a while and unexpectedly caught another rat.
Chen Hui was very excited. In her mind, this was what a good cat should look like! What cat were cats like that Li Sancai that is afraid of rats?! She really wanted to keep this tabby cat to prevent rats, but this cat looked too fierce and when it ran past, it looked like a tiger. She was panicked when she saw it. It was better to bring it to catch rats once in a while.
After the tabby cat became successful and had retired, a whole afternoon had passed. As the sky gradually dimmed, a layer of dark cloud was also around Chen Hui’s heart. This gloomy mood made Chen Hui lose a bit of appetite during dinner.
Is Jiang Bihan not going to do anything? Or did she plan to do it after Li Youde had retuned at night?
Just when Chen Hui was extremely nervous, Ah Da who had followed Li Youde to be on duty today, returned. He repeated Li Youde’s words to Chen Hui, “Lady Chen, lord said that he will be back later and said for you to go to bed first.”
Just as Chen Hui was about to breath a sigh of relief, she heard Ah Da continue, “He also said that he wants to see you when he returns.”
“…Understood,” Chen Hui replied weakly. She thought that she could avoid it this time. Although, it was temporarily, at least, it would give her some time to think of a way to deal with it.
It was getting dark and the candles were lit in the room. After washing in her own room, Chen Hui went into the main room. She didn’t go to the inner room and just sat at the round table.
She was still restless at first and thought about how to refuse Li Youde’s ‘improper request’. As the time passed and Li Youde didn’t come back yet, the tension had slowly disappeared. She leaned against the table and slowly fell asleep.
“Why are you sleeping here?” A voice asked.
Chen Hui was stirred. She found a figure that she had become familiar with during this period of time, standing in front of her. She was about to speak when she saw that he was holding a jade genital in his hand. She was so frightened that she immediately hid behind the round table and said, “Lord, if you have something to say, say it, no need to use your hands!” She paused, “Using the jade genital is also not good!”
The smile on Li Youde’s face was extremely evil. He shook the thing in his hand and approached Chen Hui step by step. He said with a shrill smile, “Lady Chen, isn’t this was you yearned for even in your dreams? What are you hiding for? Come, come here. I guarantee that I will make you comfortable.”
“No, no need. I don’t need it. Thank you. Please, use it on others!”
Chen Hui ran around the round table in panic. Unexpectedly, she stumbled on something with her foot and fell on the ground with a bang. Before she got up, Li Youde suppressed her from behind and she screamed…
“Lady Chen?”
As soon as Chen Hui opened her eyes, she saw an enlarged face in front of her and she slapped it in her shock.
After the sound ‘pa’, the world had become silent.
The emotion of the person in front of her gradually turned from a moment of confusion to anger. His eyes were so angry that they were about to breathe out fire. Even the emperor has never slapped him like this! Lady Chen, Lady Chen! Very well done!
“Chen…”
At this time, Chen Hui actually wanted to slap herself. Why didn’t she hold on and fell asleep? Why did she had to have such a bizarre dream? Now it was great, she obviously wanted to leave Chrysanthemum Yard, what did it mean to suddenly display that she was very fondly attached to Li Youde? But she didn’t dare to not do it! Just now, she clearly saw the killing intent in Li Youde’s eyes. She was afraid that if she didn’t do this, she would be immediately killed by him!
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