The Blessed

"Yes, your humble subordinate knows..."

Taking over the letter with a trembling hand, Hu Lizhi spread it open, and his face looked even more awful. He raised his hand, “Someone! Lock them up and bring them to yamen!”

Neat and quick, the yamen runners tied the badly injured Zhang Hu and Ling Chenghua who had just had a miscarriage up.

“Ah…Abaaba…”

Ling Chenghua's tongue had gradually turned numb, she couldn’t pronounce a complete word already, but those eyes were still full of maliciousness. Ling Jingxuan slightly frowned while approaching her, signaling the two yamen runners to stand aside, then he said by her ears viciously in whispers, “I’m afraid you’d never have a chance to come out. So, I’m gonna tell you two things. First, when you had an intercourse with Ling Jingwei under the public, it was not that he forced you, but I let you two take some strong aphrodisiac. Second, the reason you were thrown out of the family was that I sprinkled some medicine that could make one have illusion on your pillow, so you’d tell people those bad things you have ever done. Finally, this time the one you kidnapped is the seventh prince!”

With what he said, Ling Chenghua’s eyes widened bigger and bigger, with only hatred in them. When he said the last thing, Ling Chenghua’s pupils shrank, like a losing rooster, totally losing the momentum, in her brain ringing the two words seventh prince. At this moment, she finally knew she could never beat Ling Jingxuan, never!

"Magistrate Hu, sorry to trouble you then. And Lady Han and her daughter. Don’t care about our feelings. Just hold the justice!”

After making her totally break down, Ling Jingxuan turned to walk to Yan Shengrui’s side. He had never been a kind man who would return good for evil. If one showed him respect, he’d pay back more. But if one wouldn’t let him have an easy time, he would let the other side suffer more! Be it Ling Chenghua or that pair of mother and daughter, for the sake of their parents, he had given them like countless times. They just hadn’t cherished it. Then don’t blame him for being heartless.

"Of course, My…Lord Chu, Childe Seven, do you need me to leave some guards to protect you?”

Hu Lizhi only knew Chu Yunhan and his son’s background wasn’t simple, but never knew they were from the imperial family and put all his focus on Chu Yunhan and his son, he never knew Ling Jingxuan was also a figure he couldn’t reach. But, Ling Jingxuan also didn’t mind. Actually it wasn’t a bad thing that he had no idea of it, which may save him a lot of trouble in the future.

"No need, go back and get prepared. I will return to the imperial capital in three days. You are responsible for escorting us."

With one hand held behind, Chu Yunhan showed some sense of alienation and unreachable nobility. On hearing him, Hu Lizhi hurriedly nodded, “Yes, My Lord. Then I will take them back to the yamen.”

Making a swing of his sleeves, Hu Lizhi also knew how to behave. He nodded at Ling Jingxuan and then left. The three bodies on the ground were already gone, so did the shadow guards of Zeng Shaoqing. And like the two cubs knew they got things to deal with, they both stood behind Ling Jingxuan obediently. After they left, the shadow guards burned Zhang Hu’s house into ashes after processing those bodies.

Because Hu Lizhi had to send people to Ling Jingxuan’s place to detain Lady Han and her daughter, so the team that detained Zhang Hu and Ling Chenghua waited at the market at the entrance of the village. A lot of people recognized them. In ordinary days, a lot of villagers had been bullied by Zhang Hu. Now seeing that he was arrested, they all hurled things at them. And Ling Chenghua, after knowing the truth, she suffered a big blow. And when staying at the market, the poison attacked her again. And the locked hands started to tear open her own clothes without her own control. Soon, she already got nude of her upper body. Seeing this scene, all men even didn’t have time to blink, while women all blushed, cursing. Ling Chenghua was clear in the heart what was happening, but she could only groan there, with tears in her eyes.

"Ah, my Chenghua, what's wrong with you?"

As the old lady who hurried over saw her daughter's appearance, she immediately burst into tears, but as she was about to rush forward, she got stopped by the two yamen runners. The old lady shrank back and stuffed them some silver while sobbing, “Officers, she is my daughter. Can I go talk a few words with her?”

In front of these people, the old lady could only behave.

"No, they have committed a felony of decollation."

The yamen runners, who were always greedy for money, pushed her money back without thinking. Although they did not know exactly what crime it was, they knew they could never survive.

"Ah? Officers, are you mistaken? My daughter is well-educated since she was young. What decollation crime has she committed? Officers, you can’t wrong the good person!”

Hearing that, the old lady froze there, and immediately exclaimed with disbelief. When her daughter went to see her at noon, everything was fine. Why her daughter had committed such a heavy crime in such a short time?”

"Well-educated?"

The yamen runner threw her a sarcasm look and then Ling Chenghua who was feeling herself under the public. You call that well-educated?

"Haha..."

Knowing what that look meant, the old lady felt so ashamed that she even couldn’t raise her head. People all burst into laughter. Ling Chengcai and his wife who followed her hid themselves among the crowed. They heard that Ling Chenghua was arrested, so they wanted to see her down look, but didn’t mean to suffer shame with her. Today the market was extra lively. Even those villagers from nearby villages came. And the old xiucai’s family again was pushed in the teeth of the storm. And their old Ling family suffered a disastrous decline.