Chapter 169 They Brought the Duke Along to Have a Look
“All right, all right. We all have had enough of the show and should put an end to it. We’re not supposed to bother their romance. Brother Mingyong should also let it go after such grievance and I’ll treat you after we leave the imperial palace. Would you like to go to Hundred Flowers Complex?” Li Youmo laughed towards Yu Mingyong in a ruffian’s way and put the fan behind. Then he just dragged Yu Mingyong away from Sima Lingyun with much strength and tried to stop the fight smilingly.
Hearing his words, all the sirs and misses around ironically looked at Sima Lingyun who was knocked down onto the ground and Mo Xuemin who stood unsteadily by the side. They all thought it was farce indeed and that the first young miss Mo was so misbehaved and knew nothing about the rules in the boudoir. She dared to have a secret date in the imperial palace and framed her own younger sister when she got caught, which was so lascivious and vicious.
Who would dare to marry such a girl! They all decided to tell their relatives back home that they no one should marry this girl from Mo Manor.
Now that they had known the whole thing, they intended to leave right away and stay out of this trouble. The crowd dispersed and was about to set out on their separate ways.
“Hold on, Sir Yu. You have to tell me what happened, or I’ll strike my head here to death.” Mo Xuemin’s hand which was holding Mo Xiu’s trembled. This time, she was really worried, rather than pretending to be worried. Now that the people were still gathered here, she had to clarify it. By the time the rumor got out, her reputation would actually be ruined.
Therefore, she had to explain for herself.
Mo Xuemin gritted her teeth and angrily glared at Yu Mingyong, and there was a sign of bitterness and sadness by her lips, which could arouse others’ pity and sympathy. She held Mo Xiu’s hand and blocked Yu Mingyong’s way with much difficulty. If she let Yu Mingyong leave, she would never have a chance to claim herself innocent.
“What, you want to drag me in to have a look at your improper relations with others? I’m really sorry that I don’t have that kind of interest.” Yu Mingyong didn’t care about others’ opinions and sounded pretty rude. Tears suddenly streamed down Mo Xuemin’s eyes, and she just let go of Mo Xiu’s hand and let her tears drop. Then she just walked to the note and picked it up. When she looked at it, her face turned pale. It said that see you in Qingyu Pavilion this midnight, and it was signed by Sima!
No wonder everyone accused Sima Lingyun of it, but she was pretty sure it wasn’t written by Sima Lingyun. Sima Lingyun couldn’t have done such a thing when she was already trapped in a dilemma. Then when did this note come into her sleeves? That was definitely the one Mo Xiu gave her. She was surrounded by maids and there was a quite a distance between her and the others. She wondered who secretly changed the note and imputed her.
Mo Xuemin thought about a lot of things when she was standing up. No matter what would happen, she could not give up but only stick to her words!
“Sir Yu, how did you know the note was for me and I was the one who had improper relations. I came here to my third sister’s invitation and don’t have any improper relations with others. The minute you saw me, you knocked at me with the bottle. In this way, you should just kill me directly which would not ruin my innocence.” Mo Xuemin cried so hard like a pear blossom in the rain. With the note in her hand directly pointed to Yu Mingyong, she bit her lips and asked bitterly.
“How did it fall from your sleeves if it’s not yours?” Yu Mingyong said impatiently. Though Mo Xuemin looked pitiful with her crying, he didn’t care about her feelings after her words of nonsense.
“It’s not mine, it’s my third sister… No, I found it on my way here…” A slight sign of grimness appeared in Mo Xuemin’s eyes.
“It’s not about your third sister or fourth sister. It’s apparently your own business.” Yu Mingyong interrupted Mo Xuemin’s words impatiently.
Li Youmo, who was standing aside, showed a sign of mockery by his lips. He stopped persuading Yu Mingyong. Instead, he took out the fan and fanned it very hard. The people around him couldn’t stand this cold blow in such a cold winter day, so they just walked back and saw how they would continue this drama.
“It’s not our miss’s business. She did this out of good intention.” Mo Xiu came to get Mo Xuemin up and turned around to explain for her.
“Your miss had a good intention? What is her good intention? Maybe she had an improper affair with another man and wanted me to be a scapegoat for them. If they had a child, I might have to suffer for the kid!” Yu Mingyong shouted and scolded.
Although the words were rude, it actually vented the hatred. Thinking about first young Miss Mo’s improper behaviors, all laughed aloud.
Mo Xiu’s face turned red instantly and turned around hurriedly as if she wanted to say something. But she was stopped by Mo Xuemin’s hug from behind. Mo Xuemin covered her mouth and said hurriedly, “Mo Xiu, don’t talk nonsense.”
“See, your miss admitted it for herself. As a maid, your only duty is to watch for her and needn’t say anything else. Maybe His Excellency from duke’s Manor wanted you to be his concubine too? That sounds great. The miss and her maid serve the same one. His Excellency from duke’s Manor is so lucky!” Yu Mingyong’s words got even ruder and wanted to let all of his anger out as if he would die of this anger.
Mo Xuemin’s skills which were used in the backyard were of no use when compared to Yu Mingyong’s skills used in the community!
If this scene went on, Mo Xuemin’s reputation would be ruined completely!
She gave Mo Xiu a vicious wink, and Mo Xiu understood her right away.
“Miss, I have to say or you’ll be wronged. You may care about third miss, but you’ll die soon!” Mo Xiu suddenly broke away from Mo Xuemin’s hand and knelt down. She cried at Mo Xuemin.
Then she turned to everyone present, “Please don’t wrong first miss. This note doesn’t belong to her but third miss. Our miss only came here because third miss invited her. When we arrived here, we saw this note, which would definitely ruin third miss’s reputation. Therefore, she would not tell the truth even if you all wronged her. But I can’t stand it anymore. It wasn’t our miss’s fault, but our miss has to suffer from it. Please return the innocence to our miss!” Then she leaned on her knees and kowtowed hard.
Fresh blood came out from her forehead and streamed down her beautiful face!
“Mo Xiu!” Mo Xuemin hurriedly staggered from behind. She softly held Mo Xiu and cried heavily before she could say anything, which proved Mo Xiu’s words were true.
“Miss, please forgive me. I really don’t want to see that you were wronged and couldn’t tell the real reason. You can only digest the bitterness by yourself. Miss, you are so kind to third miss and can do nothing more fo her. If third miss were sincere to this sisterhood like you, she wouldn’t…” Mo Xiu was kowtowing and crying hard at the same time, so she couldn’t calm her breath. She hugged Mo Xuemin with much care. Both of them just hugged tightly and cried.
This performance made Mo Xuetong want to laugh out of no reason. Mo Xuemin was so determined to frame that she wouldn’t stop until Mo Xuetong was dead. In the last life, Mo Xuetong had been cheated by her sincere performance, so she had died so miserably.
After the pain consisted of fire and blood, Mo Xuetong saw this only as a drama!
A slight smile emerged by her lips, while there was coldness in her eyes.
There was a certain scene that was quite similar to the one right now that they strangely got mixed together. It was also Mo Xuemin and Mo Xiu who kowtowed with blood all over her face. She looked at Sima Lingyun who was knocked down on the ground embarrassedly with a swollen face. She clenched her fist so hard and let the pain spread from her hand.
At that time, Sima Lingyun was sitting in a high broad chair and looking at Mo Xuemin with much sympathy and care, listening to her words which were to cover up for her younger sister. He cared for Mo Xuemin so much that he didn’t care about his own wife who was knocked onto the ground and walked to hold Mo Xuemin up first and gently cared for her. Mo Xuetong felt the same pain like that in her last life. She never expected she could run into this scene again in this life.
All the blood rushed to her brain at the same time. The disdainful look from Sima Lingyun and the vicious look from Mo Xuemin from her memoried appeared in front of her. By that time, Mo Xuemin also framed her to have improper relations with a servant from her yard. Mo Xuemin wouldn’t stop when she saw Mo Xuetong’s face got disfigured and wanted to get her much more pain. At that time in her last life, Mo Xuemin also argued with her hypocritically, as if she hid the truth for Mo Xuetong. However, later, Mo Xiu disclosed the truth despite everything.
She seemed to have heard Mo Xuemin’s rampant mockery, the truth on her mother’s death and her painful struggle when she was forced to drink the poison. On that day, there was a big fire and she painfully lay in the fire and blood, while they were laughing contently and watching her pain outside of the fire. Suddenly the feeling of extreme hatred came over her heart.
She thought she could pretend that she didn’t care about it and could forget it little by little, by she forgot this pain was so harsh that the hatred had already entered her blood and bone. Since she had a second life, she lived for revenge. This hatred was so deep that she didn’t even want a new fresh life and tried to bring them to hell even if she had to go down with them.
Mo Xuetong suddenly clenched her fists, and her fingernails stabbed into her palms with a sticky feeling.
“What’s wrong? Even if you don’t want to see me, you don’t have to put so much strength into it.” There came a soft lazy voice by her eye with some teasing, “There, there. Relax!”
Who was talking to her with such intimate voice? The voice sounded so caring to her, so gentle and sympathetic.
She lightly lifted her eyes which showed the color of blood and clearly saw the beautiful eyes blinking at her with much glamor. Then she realized it was Feng Yuran and that she was not stabbing her own palms and let it go. He aggrievedly reached out his hand and there was a wound and some blood in his pure spotless palm.
She bit her lips and didn’t say anything else. She turned her eyes which still showed the color of light blood, but they out of focus. Her bright eyes were filled with a coldness like that of a ghost. Though she fixed her eyes on the front, it was unknown where she was looking at.
The way she behaved made him feel extremely unfamiliar as if she was not the pure, spotless girl anymore, but a ghost from hell. It made him feel frightened!
Was it because of hatred? Feng Yuran narrowed his long beautiful eyes and wondered what kind of hatred would bring so much hate to her delicate cute little face… It was so strong!
As she slowly fixed her eyes, he looked in her direction and found that the situation suddenly changed in such a short while. Mo Xuemin, who was crying and hugging Mo Xiu tightly, passed out because of sadness. Mo Xiu was screaming and shouting when holding Mo Xuemin in her arms. Yu Mingyong, who was standing by the other side, frowned and walked backward. Someone came up to him and whispered by his ear.
That man disappeared in the crowd, and then Yu Mingyong stopped being proud and disdainful. His attitude suddenly changed and he politely said to Mo Xuemin, “First young miss Mo, I’m sorry that there are mistakes in it. I’m so sorry that I’ve done such a thing.”
All were amazed by this sudden change!
No one could imagine the one who was just speaking rude and made her shameful would become so gentle and elegant in such a short time.
“Uh, what are you doing now?” Li Youmo blinked his eyes and leaned over his head. He lifted his eyebrows and asked the question that everyone else had in mind.
“It was a mistake which I didn’t remember just now. I drank too much today so that I fell asleep. So when I saw someone came in, I thought it was a thief in a trance and used the bottle to beat. However, it hit first young miss Mo. I’m so sorry.” Yu Mingyong said smilingly and acted in a handsome way. If it’s not for that he really didn’t look elegant at all, he would really make others believe he was gentle and elegant, which was totally different from the Yu Mingyong a moment ago.