In the afternoon, Zhe Yanzhi wanted to talk to His Highness King Yong, but he learned that His Highness King Yong had gone to inspect the refugees, so he had to return home unhappy.
As soon as I entered the palace, I heard the housekeeper severely reprimanding a maid, "If you dare to spread rumors or talk nonsense again, I will definitely cut out your tongue and gouge out your eyes. Remember?"
Zheyanzhi's butler has been with him for thirty years and is one of his most trusted people. He has always been mild-tempered. Zheyanzhi has never seen him so angry. What's going on?
"Old Wang, what's going on?" Zheyanzhi couldn't help but feel a little strange.
"Ah! The master is back."
Butler Wang quickly waved his hand, signaling the maid to leave quickly.
Zhe Yanzhi could see clearly, and became even more confused. He stepped forward and asked, "What rumors are there in the house?"
"There are no rumors. Master is worrying too much."
Zheyan's face darkened, "It must be the first time in ten years that you got so angry just now! Lao Wang, you have been with me for thirty years, do you still have something to hide from me?"
"Hey! They are just some very dirty rumors that are hard to hear, so I don't want to tell you."
Zhe Yanzhi's face became more and more gloomy, and he said with great dissatisfaction: "Am I a three-year-old child? I still need you to choose for me. Did you betray me and want to hide it deliberately, right?"
"Master has overthought it. How could I betray him? It's so ridiculous. That's why I..."
Zhe Yanzhi became furious, pulled out his sword and gritted his teeth: "If you don't say anything, I will kill you!"
"I say! I say! There are rumors in the house that Du Shun and his wife are having an affair."
"Fart! They are brothers and sisters, how is it possible..."
"So I said it was ridiculous, and I was extremely angry. I just reprimanded the maid like that."
Orihiko put away his sword and took just two steps when he suddenly felt something was wrong. He thought this kind of thing was ridiculous, but wouldn't his servants find it ridiculous?
He thought for a while and said: "Fetch the maid just now and come to my outer study. Be careful and don't let others see it."
Although Orihiko didn't believe such ridiculous rumors, he always felt that something was a little strange. There must be something going on.
Not long after, Butler Wang and his maid Chun Shui hurried to the outer study. The maid was so frightened that she knelt down.
Zheyan said calmly: "You don't have to be afraid, I won't punish you, but I want to know where did you hear those rumors? You'd better tell the truth."
Chun Shui said tremblingly: "Master, the servants in the house are secretly talking about this matter, and many people know about it."
"Then why is there this rumor and what happened?"
Chun Shui hesitated, and Zhe Yanzhi shouted angrily, "Say!"
"I said that every time Lieutenant Duxian came to visit my wife, she would rush all the maids to the outer house, leaving only A Ping to watch at the door of the inner house. In the past few days, every time the master left at noon, he would come running,
Aunt Li discovered yesterday..."
"What did you find?"
"I found out that Lieutenant Du's belt was worn backwards. It was clearly the right way when he came, but why was it wrong when he left? Everyone began to suspect, and the news spread."
Orihiko's eyes widened, "No way! They are brother and sister!"
Chun Shui hesitated and said: "Everyone suspects that they...are not biological brothers and sisters?"
"Who said that, and where did this rumor come from?"
"Yes...he is the madam's father. One time he came to ask for money. The madam thought he was always asking for money, so she didn't give it to him. In anger, he cursed the madam at the door, saying that the madam was a white-eyed wolf for raising her.
He had raised her for twenty years in vain. He should have not picked her up in the first place and let her be picked up by wild dogs. The groom and several servants heard this and advised him not to talk nonsense, so he left in anger. Yesterday, someone said
After this incident, everyone began to become suspicious."
Zhe Yanzhi began to feel an inexplicable fear in his heart. He suppressed the anxiety in his heart, lowered his head and thought for a while, took out a silver ingot from his arms, about twenty taels, and handed it to Shunshui, "This is for you!"
Chun Shui was so frightened that he waved his hands hurriedly, "Master, I don't... don't want it!"
Zhe Yanzhi suddenly became irritable, took her hand and forced the silver into her hand, "Take it and listen to me!"
Chun Shui held the silver and said timidly: "Master, please tell me!"
Zhe Yanzhi said a few words to her, and Chun Shui nodded repeatedly, "My little maid, I will remember it!"
Only then did Zhe Yanzhi get up and went back to the government office in a depressed manner.
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In the evening, Zhe Yanzhi told his concubine Du that he might go to Shuozhou for two days and asked her to take care of the children at home.
Du Shi secretly rejoiced. She and Du Shun were having a hot affair these days, and she just wished she had no chance. Now that her husband is going to Shuozhou, wouldn't the opportunity come?
She agreed wholeheartedly and served her husband well that night.
The next morning, Zhe Yanzhi rode away with his soldiers. Du quickly asked his confidant maid Xiao Ping to inform Du Shun to come over. At the same time, he sent all the maids to the outer house as usual, saying that they had secrets to discuss with their brother.
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She used this excuse so much that she felt a little numb.
Half an hour later, Du Shun rushed over impatiently, and the two immediately hugged each other. Xiao Ping, the confidant maid, stood guard at the door of the house as usual.
At this time, in another room, the maid Chun Shui secretly climbed out of a large box. She had been arranged to hide inside by Orihiko before dawn.
Chun Shui ran to the bedroom window and eavesdropped for a moment, then immediately turned red and hurriedly ran to the small door of the back house.
Zheyanzhi gave her the key and opened the door to the back house. Zheyanzhi stood outside the door with a gloomy face. He had just seen Du Shun sneak into his house with his own eyes, and he finally believed it.
"Master, they are here!"
Orihiko gritted his steel teeth into pieces, drew his sword and rushed into the inner house without saying a word. His maid, Chun Shui, was too frightened to follow him.
Zhe Yanzhi walked to the door and heard the muffled sound in the room. He was furious, "Bang!" He kicked the door open and rushed in.
In the room, a pair of wild mandarin ducks were playing wildly, and Orihiko rushed in, making the two of them scream.
Du Shun jumped up and ran away from the window. Zhe Yanzhi stepped forward and stabbed his back with a sword. Du Shun screamed and fell to the ground.
Orihiko held his sword against his throat, murderous intent filled his chest, and he narrowed his eyes and said, "You beast, you're just living with your own sister, you deserve to die!"
Du Shun knew that it was inevitable. At this moment, he calmed down and sneered: "We are not brothers and sisters. We have always been in love. If you hadn't forcibly married her, she would have been my wife. You took my woman away. You still have it."
Say it with face!"
"You guys go underground and become husband and wife!"
Zheyan sent the sword away, killing Du Shun.
Zhe Yanzhi walked into the back room carrying the bloody sword. Du Shi had already put on her underwear. She knelt on the ground and begged: "For the sake of serving the master, please spare me this time! I don't dare to do it anymore."
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Zhe Yanzhi gritted his teeth and said: "I found out that you were not a virgin when I married you, and I endured it. I didn't expect that you were..."
He raised his sword and stabbed Du Shi fiercely. Suddenly, the child on the crib began to cry loudly.
Zhe Yanzhi was startled, and his eyes immediately turned red. He raised his sword and walked towards the cradle, saying in great pain: "This evil son must not be my son, but your bastard!"
The concubine was so frightened that she hugged his legs and shouted: "Master, he is your son, your son. If you kill him, you will regret it for the rest of your life."
"Isn't he Dushun's son? I'm sixty years old, can I still have a son?"
"Master, Dushun can't have children. He told me that he can't have children. Master, I didn't touch Dushun when I was pregnant with the child."
Zhe Yanzhi turned around and said in a trembling voice, "Are you telling the truth?"
"Everything I said is true. I went to Baohe Tang to ask Dr. Luo. He knows about Du Shun's condition."
Zheyanzhi remembered that Du Shun had been married for several years and had no children. He was shaken again. He hugged his son distressedly and the child cried in his arms. A kind of unique emotional exchange between father and son lingered in his heart again.
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Zhe Yanzhi couldn't help but burst into tears, "Cry!" He threw the sword away, hugged his son and burst into tears, "My son!"
After a long time, he looked at his concubine kneeling on the ground and asked after a while: "What is your real name?"
The concubine lowered her head and said: "My surname is Yang. She is an orphan adopted by the Du family. She plans to continue the family lineage when she grows up."
"Then why are you willing to follow me instead of Du Shun?"
"His parents thought Du Shun was fooling around outside all day long, so they wanted to find him a good marriage. Seeing that the slave's father was quite handsome, they even wanted to sell him for a good price."
Zhe Yanzhi saw that his son was still crying, so he handed the child to his concubine. The concubine quickly pulled up her clothes to feed the baby, and the child stopped crying immediately.
Zhe Yanzhi saw this and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. The child can't live without his mother! He originally wanted to make her his successor, but now forget it and let her raise his son!
After all, Orihiko was already over sixty years old, and he no longer took things between men and women so seriously. In his heart, his son was more important than anything else, even more important than his own dignity. Although his concubine stole a man, there was a reason for it.
"You go to another room! I have to clean up here."
