slave like jade

Chapter 142
Hearing that she was demoted to a commoner by Yu Ruyan's words, and was fined to do hard labor in the handyman's room, it was as if a thunderbolt exploded on Chen Yanfei's head on a sunny day, which made her completely dumbfounded!

The aunt status she had worked so hard to get was gone, and the life she had managed to live as a master was gone, and she had to go to the most bitter and tiring handyman's room!
Chen Yanfei was going crazy, desperately wanted to jump in front of Yu Ruyan, but was stopped by the maid and Chen Ma behind her, and she crazily roared at Yu Ruyan who had a calm face: "Why do you punish me casually? You haven't married His Highness yet, so what right do you have to demote my status? I don't agree, I want to see Your Highness!"

Seeing her distorted face, Yu Ruyan smiled coldly, and said: "Just because I am Princess Heshuo, and because you didn't kneel down and bow down when you saw me just now, even if I drive you out of the palace now, or It is only natural to be beaten to death and thrown into a mass grave, you—do you want to give it a try!"

Yu Ruyan's personality is just like this, she will remember those who are kind to her for the rest of her life, and she will give her heart and soul for you, but when it comes to those who use her and betray her, she is unequivocal and will not show mercy.

Seeing her stern and indifferent appearance, Chen's mother was frightened, she dared not open her mouth to intercede for Chen Yanfei anymore, she just cried and asked Chen Yanfei to kneel down and confess her mistake to Yu Ruyan.

With Yu Ruyan's order, Brother An had already called a few rough envoys to escort Chen Yan to the handyman's room. She struggled and cried, "I won't go to that kind of place. I'm the aunt that His Highness personally accepted. , you can't treat me like this."

It wasn't until this moment that Chen Yanfei became completely flustered and frightened. His whole body was trembling with fear, cold sweat dripped down his face, and his eyes were full of despair.

Yu Ruyan walked up to her slowly, looked at her condescendingly, and said coldly: "At first, you were going to be assigned to do hard labor in the handy room, but I was the one who saved you from Mrs. An and let you in." Yunsong Court is in charge. I treat you well, and Tongqin treats you with sincerity, but what about you? First, you use the copper money to confuse me, making me think that you like the copper coin and relax your vigilance, and then you collude with An Lan, Sing and chorus, keep me in the dark, let me lure the wolf into the room, let you enter the Yunsong Courtyard smoothly, and then climb into His Highness's bed..."

Before Chen Yanfei climbed into bed, Mu Lingzhi and Yu Ruyan were expressing their feelings for each other when they were in love. He planted her favorite flower seedlings for her, and she also worked hard to learn how to be a sugar doll to celebrate his birthday. The relationship between the two could have been improved to a higher level, but it was completely destroyed by this dirty and terrible woman in front of her. Now that Yu Ruyan thinks about what happened that day, her heart is still full of anger!

"You are really powerful, I didn't know that you hooked up with An Lan secretly, and even the stone cave where the knife was hidden was discovered by you. You must have been the one who brought the cloth strips that bandaged my wounds to His Highness in the end. Give it to her! You are so scheming!"

"Since I was able to save you back then, I can send you to the handyman's room now. In fact, that's where you were supposed to stay. After going around for a while, you just returned to your original place, that's all. So, you have nothing to complain about."

Yu Ruyan waved her hand lightly, and the rough envoy dragged Chen Yan to the handyman's room unceremoniously, but Chen Yanfei hugged Chen Ma tightly and refused to let go, begging: "Mother, Help me, save me quickly, I don't want to go to the handyman's room, please help me talk! Mom..."

At this time, she put her last hope on Chen Ma, but Chen Ma dared to say nothing, she would only hug her sadly and cry...

After Chen Yanfei was taken away, Yu Ruyan stepped forward and pulled Chen Ma who was on the ground, and sighed: "Chen Ma hates me in her heart? Blame me for being merciless?"

Chen Ma cried and shook her head, "The concubine handled it right, she asked for all of this, it's just...just..."

Thinking of the hard work in the handyman's room, Chen Ma said sadly: "But she is a girl, and she has never done any rough work with us since she was a child. The old slave is just afraid that she won't be able to bear it..."

Yu Ruyan knew that she wanted to intercede for Chen Yanfei after all, so she couldn't help but interrupt her: "To tell you the truth, there will be many things happening in the palace recently, and Mama Chen should understand her character. She'll stay in the utility room."

Hearing this, Chen Ma was taken aback, she seemed to understand something in her heart, she is an old man in the palace, but she also knew some things in the back house, she understood in her heart, she stopped crying immediately, and didn't dare to say anything more up.

Leaving Yingchun Courtyard and walking towards Yunsong, Brother An asked: "That nasty Chen Yanfei used to treat the princess like that. The princess should just drive her out of the palace or beat her to death. Why are you still being so polite to her. "

Yu Ruyan sighed and said: "You don't know, her brother gave up his life to save His Highness, His Highness will never forget this kindness, and neither will I. It doesn't matter if she dies, but I don't want to indirectly ask for it." Chen's mother and Chen Bo's lives, Chen Bo has helped me save my life many times before, and even saved Xiaodao. So although she is hateful, I will not take her life, on the contrary, I want to save her life. It can be regarded as returning Chen Bo and Chen Ma's kindness. But what she will do in the future depends on her own fortune!"

Another point, she can be regarded as taking Chen Yanfei's knife, knocking the mountain to shake the tiger, and giving a warning to those who dare to disobey her and are about to make a move!
Back at Yunsong Courtyard, Mu Lingzhi hadn't come back from the palace yet, Yu Ruyan ate something by herself, just removed the bowls and chopsticks, and was about to take a nap, but An Lirong begged to see her outside the courtyard.

Brother An was very annoyed, and said angrily: "Didn't His Highness clearly tell them not to disturb them when they have nothing to do, and they came to the door just after returning home. Princess, you go to bed and rest, I will send her away."

After all, Brother An put on a fierce look and went to chase her away, but Yu Ruyan said casually behind her: "I was expecting her to come, if you chased her away, wouldn't it be a waste of my life?" Thinking about it? Go ahead, make a pot of good tea, it's time for me to meet Concubine An!"

Brother An looked at Yu Ruyan in astonishment, and dared not say anything: "Did the princess guess that she would come?"

Yu Ruyan pursed her lips and smiled, and said leisurely: "Yes, I knew she would come, but she came later than I expected!"

Brother An opened his mouth wide in surprise, turned around and went out.

It is not unusual for Yuru Pigment to come to An Lirong. After all, she has only returned to the mansion for less than a day, and she has dealt with Chen Yanfei mercilessly. In the eyes of everyone in the mansion, it is only because Chen Yanfei offended her before, and now She just started to take revenge one by one, so how can those who framed her and offended her still sit still?
At the beginning, Chen Yanfei only betrayed Yu Ruyan and got Ji to climb into Mu Lingzhi's bed. Now she has easily demoted her to a commoner and thrown her into the handyman's room to do hard labor. It directly killed her, the fire in the firewood room, and the white silk in the cell, not only Yu Ruyan remembered, but An Lirong herself remembered it clearly.

When the news of Chen Yanfei's relegation and punishment came, Xilian was carrying sweet soup into the threshold, her feet were soft, she tripped, and all the sweet soup in her hand spilled out...

Seeing her panicked look, An Lirong became even more angry, and slapped her for the first time!

"Why panic? This tiger hasn't come to the door yet, what do you think you have become?"

When An Lirong reprimanded Xi Lian, her hands were shaking non-stop. In fact, the panic in her heart was no less than that of Xi Lian!

Xi Lian was slapped, feeling afraid and wronged in her heart, she couldn't help crying: "The master saw it too, she started to attack, Aunt Chen offended her before, and she threw her into the handyman's room less than half a day after entering the mansion Go, if she wants to settle accounts with us, I'm afraid... I don't know how she will deal with the slaves."

"Why are you panicking? Mrs. Chen is just an unfavorable concubine, but I am the side concubine that His Royal Highness is marrying. She will demote me even if she doesn't even think about it." An Lirong gave herself courage, but she also knew in her heart However, if Ruoyu Ruyan wanted to deal with her, even if she was killed, it would be as simple as trampling an ant to death.

Now, Yu Ruyan has status, power, and more importantly, Mu Lingzhi's love.The combination of these three is a supreme weapon, no matter which one she An Lirong can't fight.

An Lirong was no longer in the mood to eat lunch, and sat alone with a gloomy face and frowning, and finally couldn't sit still, and took the initiative to come to Yu Ruyan.

She led the thin curtain and waited hesitantly at the gate of Yunsong Courtyard, afraid of seeing Yu Ruyan, but also afraid that she would not want to see her.

After the little girl went in, she came to lead them in within a moment.

When she came in with the little girl, Yu Ruyan was already sitting in the gazebo in the yard, with a pot of fragrant tea and two celadon teacups in front of her, seeing her coming, Yu Ruyan smiled slowly, and raised her hand to let her sit opposite Down.

An Lirong didn't dare to sit down, her legs gave way and she knelt down in front of Yu Ruyan.

As soon as she knelt, the thin curtain following her knelt on the ground even more, not daring to raise her head.

Yu Ruyan smiled coldly in her heart, and said slowly: "What is Concubine An side doing? Although we have different identities, we don't need to perform such a big gift when we meet every day."

She said so, but she didn't let them get up, and let them kneel on the hard stone surface in the gazebo.

An Lirong is several years older than Yu Ruyan, and has been in charge of the palace for many years. She looks more mature than Yu Ruyan, but in terms of mentality, she is far inferior to the young princess in front of her who is much younger than her. .

Before, when she learned that Yu Ruyan was the new concubine of the palace, she was still thinking, just because she had been immersed in the palace for so many years, and because she was so old, she was confident that she could handle the 'new concubine' across from her .

But looking at it now, she actually underestimated Yu Ruyan too much.

From her unceremonious opening to seize the power of the palace in the morning, to disposing of Chen Yanfei at noon, the whole palace was panicked within a short time, and everyone felt fear of this princess in their hearts.

An Lirong knelt in front of Yu Ruyan, lowered her head, and said in a trembling voice: "I am guilty. I didn't know the real identity of the princess before, and I have offended the princess a lot. I also ask my lord to forgive me. one time……"

Her fingers tapped lightly on the jade tabletop, but Yu Ruyan remained silent all this time, the gentle knocking sound could be heard in the ears of the master and servant who were kneeling on the ground, every second was so hard, cold sweat Tears poured down from Xilian's pale face, from the beginning to the end, she didn't even have the courage to look up at Yu Ruyan, she completely lost the arrogance and domineering she had when she bullied Yu Ruyan.

Yu Ruyan took a sip of tea slowly, and then said coolly: "Concubine An is too born, what happened before - those who don't know are not guilty, not to mention Concubine An is an old man in the mansion, from now on I will take over the mansion I still think Concubine An can tell me a little bit more about the matter here, it's cold on the ground, get up!"

Hearing these words, An Lirong's heart that was suspended between Xilian and Xilian suddenly fell to the ground. An Lirong wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, and said with a forced smile: "The princess is very capable, swift and resolute, and she has just entered the mansion for a long time. , I dealt with the restless Chen family. I heard that she confronted the concubine face to face, and even broke the boundaries and left the yard. The concubine really handled it well... The concubine acted decisively, and the concubine felt ashamed, so how dare she mention the concubine? "

"Really? Since Concubine An thinks that I have handled it well, then I can rest assured. Before, I was afraid that I would be punished severely or lightly, which would be biased."

Although Yu Ruyan's words sounded very polite, her tone was cold and cold, which made people feel terrified.

After saying this sentence, she didn't speak anymore, but just drank tea by herself, while An Lirong stood beside her flustered, and the atmosphere became inexplicably awkward.

She suddenly remembered the things she had brought, and hurriedly beckoned Xilian to present the things to Yu Ruyan, and said respectfully: "Princess, this is the account book, seal, storeroom key, list of personnel in the palace, and merchants who purchased from outside the palace." Please check the list, Princess."

Yu Ruyan glanced lightly at the things presented by the thin curtain, and signaled Brother An to accept them.

Seeing that the things on the table were taken away, An Lirong was reluctant, but there was nothing she could do. She bent down and said goodbye to Yu Ruyan: "Princess, if there is nothing else, I will resign myself."

"Concubine An, wait a minute!" Yu Ruyan stopped her, motioned her to sit down, and personally filled the cup in front of her with tea.

An Lirong didn't understand what Yu Ruyan meant, but she didn't dare to disobey her order, she sat down next to half of the stool, but she didn't dare to drink tea.

She forced a smile and said, "Wangfei, what else do you want to order?"

Yu Ruyan smiled leisurely: "It is true that I have something to ask my side concubine."

Hearing her say the word "ask for advice", An Lirong was taken aback.

Yu Ruyan said leisurely: "I have been away from the palace for more than half a year. I haven't been in the palace for so long. I probably don't know what happened in the palace. In fact, I don't need to know about the past. But a few days ago in the palace, the noble concubine The empress expressed her doubts about the death of Mrs. An's child, and asked me to ask what happened when I was free?"

When she said these words, Yu Ruyan seemed to be casual, but her eyes did not miss any expression on An Lirong's face.

Sure enough, An Lirong's expression froze when she suddenly heard her mentioning the death of An Lan's child. When she understood the meaning of Yu Ruyan's words, she realized that it was Concubine Xie who personally ordered Yu Ruyan to investigate the matter. His heart felt like falling into an ice cave, and his face was pale.

Seeing Yu Ruyan's cold gaze fixed on her, An Li put up with the panic in her heart, and pretended to be calm: "I don't know much about this matter, I only know that Mrs. An went to the garden for a while. In the circle, I accidentally fell, and then...the amniotic fluid broke, and it took two days to give birth to the child, but unfortunately the child was born without breath..."

When she said these words, An Lirong's hands trembled violently in the sleeves, and it was cold from the toes to the fingertips.

Yu Ruyan seemed to be listening casually, and said with a smile: "It's really a pity, if it can survive, but His Highness's first child, no matter if it's a girl or a boy, I'm afraid Mrs. An will be more expensive than a mother, and His Highness will be promoted." She is a side concubine. Oh, I forgot to ask, is the child a boy or a girl?"

An Lirong dug her nails deeply into her palm, and said in a trembling voice: "It is said...it is said to be a little princess..."

"Oh!" Yu Ruyan sighed softly, looking very regretful, "His Royal Highness likes girls very much, what a pity. If I can survive, it will be almost a full moon now. With the relationship between the side concubine and Mrs. An I'm afraid that during her confinement time, she will trouble the side concubine to help her take care of the little princess, maybe the little princess will have the closest relationship with the side concubine in the future, pestering you day and night, Don't want to separate!"

The words were warm and tender, but in An Lirong's heart, they were extremely ironic and terrifying. The phrase "wrapped day and night, and refused to separate" made her feel hairy, and chills spread from the soles of her feet to her whole body.

The expression on her face was obviously smiling, but it was uglier than crying, watching Yu Ruyan push the teacup in front of her, not daring to disobey her kindness, she wanted to take a sip of tea but her hands were shaking.

Yu Ruyan saw all her reactions in her eyes, and her heart was already clear——

In fact, regarding the child in An Lan's womb, she didn't need to think much about it to know that An Lirong killed her.

Because with An Lan's current status in the mansion, she is not only the wife, but also holds the power of the family. No one else can touch her at all, and only An Lirong, who has a higher status than her and has hatred with her, can do it. This ability.

But knowing is useless, there must be evidence.

How do you find evidence to identify the person in front of you?
The tea lid in her hand was slowly scraping the foam, Yu Ruyan's eyes were fixed on An Lirong, but her heart was running rapidly.

However, before she could come up with an idea to find clues from An Lirong, Mu Lingzhi returned from the palace.

Mu Lingzhi looked extremely tired, with a hint of anger hidden in his eyes, Yu Ruyan asked An Li to let them go back first, and followed Mu Lingzhi into the room.

Helping Mu Lingzhi take off the heavy court clothes, and then waited for him to put on light casual clothes, Mu Lingzhi asked her why An Lirong came, Yu Ruyan just smiled and told him that she sent the head of the house He also told Mu Lingzhi about punishing Chen Yanfei in the morning.

When Mu Ling heard it, she smiled unconsciously, pinched her beautiful nose habitually, and praised: "It's a good punishment. You don't need to be polite to that kind of person."

While talking, the copper coin came back and told Mu Lingzhi that there was still no news from Kuang Qinqin.

Mu Lingzhi ordered him to continue searching, while Yu Ruyan hesitated to speak while listening, and finally thought about it, but swallowed the words in his mouth.

After the copper coin left, Mu Lingzhi hugged her in his arms, rubbed her face lightly, and asked her carefully what she had for lunch, what she did, and if she felt bored?
Yu Ruyan's face was itchy after being rubbed by him, and she couldn't help laughing 'giggle'.And looking at the delicate girl in his arms, all the boredom in Mu Lingzhi's heart was swept away immediately, and he couldn't help but kissed her again.

Recalling what happened in the morning, Yu Ruyan stopped his dishonest mouth with her hand, raised her head and asked him: "Your Highness is entering the palace today, is there any progress on the matter of the altar?"

When the matter of the altar was mentioned, Mu Lingzhi felt gloomy, and said slowly: "There are no clues, and Dali Temple is helpless. And today in the court hall, some ministers joined together to make a statement, saying that this matter was not man-made, it was God's will. It is God's will not to recognize Xiaodao as the crown prince. Heh, he wants the father to appoint another crown prince! It's unreasonable!"

Thinking of today's court affairs, Mu Lingzhi became more and more angry, and finally he couldn't hold back, slammed his palm on the table, and said in a ruthless voice: "The ministers who played today are all Mu Xiang and the eldest prince. In fact, the truth of the matter is very obvious. The matter of the sacrificial altar was caused by Muxiang and the eldest prince, but they couldn’t find any evidence for them, and now they still slander Xiaodao for not being virtuous enough, and they want to abolish his prince on the grounds of being against God’s will. position!"

After hearing his words, Yu Ruyan's heart sank, her face was solemn——

She knew that offering sacrifices to heaven is a big event, but this time such an unlucky event happened during the sacrifice to heaven. If the truth of the matter cannot be found out, someone with a heart will say that heaven does not recognize Xiao Dao as the crown prince. As a result, Xiaodao's position as the crown prince will not be guaranteed, and the new crown prince battle will set off a new bloody storm.

She told Mu Lingzhi with a firm tone: "I can tell Your Highness with certainty that this matter must be man-made, not God's will."

Mu Lingzhi was amazed at the firmness of her tone. Seeing his suspicious face, Yu Ruyan carefully told the story of the strangeness of the eldest prince Mu Yunzhi and the small stone that hit her knee on the day of the incident. gave him.

Thinking of the dangers of that day, Mu Lingzhi is still trembling with fear and heartache. Now that he knows that someone deliberately wanted to put Yu Ruyan to death, he was furious, his teeth clucking, and Yu Ruyan was still number one in that furious look. see for the first time.

He said bitterly: "It's actually framing Xiaodao and killing you at the same time. It's so vicious to kill two birds with one stone!"

A cold light flashed in Yu Ruyan's eyes, and she said coldly: "Yeah, the people who want my life the most in the whole east, there will be no one else except the Mu brothers and sisters, so the little stone that day must have been killed." Mu Ziyang of martial arts beat him."

"But as Dali Temple said, the altar collapsed and the scene was chaotic. All clues disappeared with the collapse of the altar, and the First Prince and Muxiang were all high-ranking and powerful people. Evidence can't just point to them."

Thinking of what the Mu brothers and sisters did to Yu Ruyan, Mu Lingzhi's eyes bled with hatred, "I should have thought a long time ago that when the altar collapsed that day, why did it fall in the direction of the female relatives, and you happened to be there I couldn’t move my legs at the time, so it’s just a coincidence, but it’s all carefully arranged by them.”

Speaking of this, he thought of something again, couldn't help frowning and said in doubt: "After the sachet incident last time, I sent someone to investigate Mu Ziyue carefully, but the strange thing is that the investigator came back to report to me, Mu Ziyue She has been seeking medical treatment in a Camellia Town far away from the Eastern Capital for several months, but she has not returned to the Eastern Capital, not even the Crown Prince’s Sealing Ceremony, and the dark guard went to the Camellia Town overnight. .”

Hearing this, Yu Ruyan's whole body shook, and her heart suddenly panicked!
(End of this chapter)