Wanjin Lady

Chapter 449 Serious Illness
"Be gentle!" Wei Zheng wished he could take the blame for her, but also blamed himself for such a thing happening right under his nose. When Wen Wan questioned him just now, he was unwilling to answer, and now he regretted it.

Feeling Wei Zheng's resentful gaze, Doctor Zeng's hands trembled, thinking that this young lady might be the Marquis's lover. He could only bite the bullet and apply the medicine, his hands moving more and more gently. "Marquis, these ten fingers are connected to the heart, and the injury is to the joints. How can it not hurt?"

Doctor Zeng didn't want to be watched by his superiors while he worked, so he thought to himself, "Besides, this lady is soaking wet. She needs to change into clean clothes first, otherwise she will definitely get seriously ill."

Wei Zheng yelled Chen Ma's name outside, "Get your daughter some clean clothes to change into, and make sure they're warm! Also... make some more ginger soup!"

When Chen Ma heard Wei Zheng's call, she rushed in anxiously, "Miss, don't you like the taste of ginger?"

The man said with a vicious look: "Then let her drink it! Now that she's here, she has no say!"

As they were talking, Zhao Heng had already returned. When they reached the corridor, Zhao Heng explained the whole story in detail. "That Lord Liu from the Ministry of Inspection thought that the Marquis really wanted to investigate Yuan Wulang's case, and he had accepted 500 taels of silver from Jia. He then suddenly interrogated Shopkeeper Wen at night to curry favor with the Marquis. Shopkeeper Wen couldn't hold on and fainted several times. He then splashed cold water on Shopkeeper Wen to wake him up!"

"My Lord! Shopkeeper Wen is the young lady and young master's biological mother after all. How can she allow herself to be insulted by this bastard?"

"I have surrounded this man's house and am waiting for the Marquis's decision."

Wei Zheng's heart felt like it had been punched hard. His mind was in a turmoil for a moment. He turned around, pulled out his sword from the wooden stand, and asked calmly, "Where is Jia?"

"She's hiding at the West City Pier."

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"It's Jia Ruzhen!"

The sky was dark, the sunset glow was fading, and the early winter evening was chilly.

In the bleak darkness, Yuan Yidao lifted up the corpse that was thrown at the main door of the Yuan family. The corpse was wrapped in a straw mat and exposed a pair of bare feet.

Yuan Yidao fell to the ground, his face pale, "It's her!"

He lost two of his three souls and threw away the white cloth covering the straw mat, then grinned: "Yes, it's her!"

Beneath a tattered straw mat, Jia's body was still warm. Following the trickle of blood, Yuan Yidao saw that Jia's body had been stabbed with more than a dozen holes, and all ten of her fingers had been chopped off.

Wrapped in the white cloth on the bluestone slab were Jia's ten bloody fingers.

The gatekeeper of the Yuan family was still in shock. "Third Master, there's a man... on horseback... who dumped a body at this gate. I see... the armor on him... looks like a guard from the Governor's Office..."

Yuan Yidao couldn't hear the servant's words at all. He vomited out yellow and white food residues with a "wow" sound, and finally his hands and collar were covered with filth.

The lanterns beside the Yuan family's plaque were lit, the red gate opened, and Meixiang walked in slowly. "Third Master, what Madam means is... the troubles that Jia Shi caused outside cannot be blamed on the Yuan family. Since she signed the divorce agreement before her death, she is no longer a member of the Yuan family."

Meixiang approached Yuan Yi and said, "Third Master, before anyone sees, send the person back to the Jia family intact."

At this moment, Cheng Yunzhang had already finished school.

A quarter of an hour ago, he heard clearly the commotion in the front yard.

Yuan Yidao's crying voice could be heard through the wall, sobbing and crying, like someone who had died.

Come to think of it, it's really sad.

"Did the Third Brother really say that?"

Meixiang said: Yuan Yidao hugged Jia's body and cried loudly, firmly disagreeing with sending Jia's body back to her parents' home, and insisted on burying Jia with the ceremony of a wife.

The elder lady and Cheng Yunzhang and his mother were both surprised.

"I really can't tell... this third brother..." The elder lady hesitated, unable to utter the words "loyal and righteous". Her heart was filled with mixed emotions. She stared at the last ray of sunset light in the distance, lost in thought. It took a long while for her to come back to her senses. "These two have been fighting for half their lives! If I had known this would happen..."

She couldn't continue.

What could I have done if I had known this would happen?
It's just a bad fate!
Meixiang asked the matriarch, "Should we report this to the authorities?" The matriarch immediately shook her head, "These people seem fearless, and the matter has escalated so much; I'm afraid..."

She closed her eyes, feeling heavy in her heart, and turned to look at her son beside her, only to find Cheng Yunzhang with a strange look on his face. "Do you know who that person is?"

Cheng Yunzhang's throat rolled, and the veins on the back of his hand holding the armrest were visibly blue. "Master Wei."

The only one who had a grudge against the Jia family and acted so domineeringly in Bozhou was Wei Zheng.

Now, he feels it is an act of presumption to call him "Senior Brother".

He is worse than a beast for coveting his senior brother's wife!
As if noticing something unusual about him, the elder lady felt uneasy. "Isn't it directed at us?" She paused for a moment and said, "Don't hide anything at this critical moment."

Cheng Yunzhang just shook his head and smiled: "Mother, the affairs of Bozhou have nothing to do with us."

He was so ashamed that he didn't even have the courage to meet his senior brother and Wen Wan.

If I had known this would happen, I shouldn't have impulsively said the word "delight" that night. Now I have become a dirty villain.

"In a few days I will leave for Kyoto Imperial Academy to study."

"Imperial College?" Madam Yuan Lao couldn't hide her astonishment. Thinking of what she had asked Cheng Yuehua to do last year, the wrinkles on her face were ironed out. "It's from Lord Yan's side..."

Cheng Yunzhang smiled bitterly, "I'm following Brother Wei's path."

Senior Brother Wei's move was to cut off the source of the problem and only expel him from Bozhou to the Imperial College in Kyoto, which was considered to save his face.

A powerful person.

You can easily decide someone else's life in the blink of an eye.

The elder lady was really confused. "Why is Lord Wei so hot and cold towards us? He seemed to be very protective of Wen Wan before, but now he's thrown her into jail."

"Let's stop guessing what the higher-ups are thinking." Cheng Yunzhang helped his mother into the yard. The noise in front stopped. Yuan Yidao ordered people to bury Jia's body. He saw the faint light of a lantern flash outside.

Bai Qinqin's.

Eerie.

"Mother, just pack my bags. Don't worry about anything else." Cheng Yunzhang's face was unusually calm, even a little tired. "We can just live our own lives behind closed doors."

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Wen Wan opened her eyes and felt a sharp pain at her fingertips.

The pain was like a thousand threads, entwined around him, causing even his heart to ache slightly.

She let out a long breath, which affected her chest and made her face frown in pain.

"woke up?"

It is early morning.

There was a little sunlight outside, but the windows were closed inside the house, so no light could get in and it seemed dim.

Wei Zheng was wearing a dark, wide-sleeved kesi housecoat. The movement of his sleeves filled the room with fragrance. He walked towards her, holding the medicine, his face completely hidden in the light and shadow, making it difficult to see clearly.

This is……

Wei Zheng's bedroom.