Chapter eighty-seven, the pearl in the palm of your hand
What suffocated Shen Muqing the most was that Mrs. Xu actually raised the crutch in her hand and hit Xu Lanxi directly.
Shen Muqing hurriedly stepped forward to stop her, she knew better than anyone that this was the heroine after all, if she was really disabled, then she would not only receive a hundred thousand critical hits from the male protagonist, but also Ruan Muheng's bastard who had to pick her skin.
Old Lady Xu bent down and pointed at Shen Muqing and said, "Ran Zhu, you open it for me, I have to kill her today!" β
Shen Muqing slipped his mouth and said: "Grandma, the eighth prince is just passing by the courtyard, and it doesn't mean anything, Ran Zhu didn't say anything, you can dissipate your anger, okay grandma." β
"Come on, take the eldest lady down!"
"Yes!"
Shen Muqing begged at Mrs. Xu and said, "Grandma, just let her go." β
Old Mrs. Xu said angrily: "How can there be an eldest daughter who intercedes for her concubine for generations? Come on, poison the wine, and today I will get rid of this scourge! β
"Yes."
Shen Muqing began to beat the drum in her heart, and now she seemed to be really making a big fuss, and hurriedly persuaded: "Grandma, tomorrow is your birthday, it is unlucky for such a thing to happen at this time, and you haven't heard Lan Xi explain what is going on!" If it is really us who wronged Lan Xi, then Lan Xi's grievances will be great. β
Old Madam Xu glanced at Shen Muqing and said, "You can say something clever, if she is really wronged, how can she not make it clear to me, the old woman?" β
Xu Lanxi still didn't say a word, but there were tears in her eyes, the former Mrs. Xu would be furious because someone disturbed her nap, since the day Xu Ranzhu was sure to come back, she instantly became Cinderella, feeding pigs in the back house every day, she knew in her heart that sooner or later she would lose it if she didn't belong to her, but she never thought that since Su Yujin fell into the pigsty she was taking care of yesterday, things suddenly became not simple, and even Xu Ranzhu seemed to be a different person and began to look for trouble.
If it was really because she suddenly got close to Su Yujin that Xu Ranzhu was worried, then she deserved this punishment, and she deserved it.
Thinking like this, Shen Muqing shook his head, and the crutches hit Xu Lanxi's right arm heavily, and Mrs. Yushi Xu was so frightened by this sudden movement that she glared at the old lady, but she quickly put away her emotions and said to Shen Muqing: "Zhu'er, come to my mother." β
Although Shen Muqing didn't want to go over, he still couldn't stand the loving eyes of Mrs. Yushi, and walked back to Mrs. Yushi step by step.
Mrs. Yushi gently stroked the broken hair on Shen Muqing's forehead and said, "Don't be afraid, mother is here, let your grandmother take this breath for you, mother will take a look at who in this house still doesn't take you seriously, today is to kill chickens and monkeys." β
Looking at the expression of Mrs. Yushi's calf protector, Shen Muqing suddenly felt that Xu Lanxi was really pitiful, it turned out that she called herself next to her for fear of scaring herself, these favors used to be Xu Lanxi's, and they fell back to mediocrity in an instant, Xu Lanxi didn't complain, she just wanted to keep her original pride, and now she should have been ruined in this Lanxi courtyard.
The poisonous wine was soon brought up, and the sixth aunt hurriedly went to stop the person who served the poisonous wine, wanting to knock over the poisonous wine, but she didn't want to be controlled by others, no matter how she wailed, those people never had the intention of letting go of themselves.
The poisonous wine approached Xu Lanxi step by step, there was no despair in her eyes, but it was all relief, rather than losing it all, it was better to be directly relieved like this.
The old lady gritted her teeth and looked at Xu Lanxi and said, "I'll ask you one last time, did you seduce Zhu'er's husband!" If you are really shameless like your mother, then there is no need for me to keep you in this mansion! β
The sixth aunt was pressed by three or four people, and kept crying: "Old lady, spare Lanxi!" Lan Xi hasn't been raised by my side all these years, and he will never do the ugly things I did! β
Mrs. Yushi seemed to be ignited in an instant, but the old lady didn't step forward to slap the sixth aunt, but she still said unforgivingly: "What does the sixth aunt mean by this?" Blame me for teaching in no way? β
The old lady snorted coldly and said: "Yanxin, don't care what that cheap/person says, this kind of thing is inherited, no matter how well you teach, you can't change the cheapness in her bones!" β
Mrs. Yushi nodded and said respectfully: "What my mother taught is that Yanxin has been taught. β
Seeing that the poisonous wine was about to be poured into Xu Lanxi's mouth, he didn't want Shen Muqing to suddenly shake off Mrs. Yushi's hand, and rushed over directly to knock over the cup of poisonous wine, kneeling on the ground and begging humbly: "Please grandmother, let Lanxi go." β
The old lady looked at Shen Muqing in disbelief, and said with trembling hands: "Zhu'er, what are you calling the old lady to me?" Grandmother? You actually called the old body for her like this! β
Shen Muqing didn't know what to say, she had just been calling grandma by the name of a modern person, and just now Mrs. Yushi said grandmother, she wanted to change her voice to call a correct form, who would have thought that this could go wrong.
In order to save the heroine, Shen Muqing could only stubbornly say: "In private, Zhu'er can call her grandmother and grandmother, but now she is in Xu's Mansion, and she should abide by the rules, so as not to be gossiped about Zhu'er and can't afford to be a concubine, and ask your grandmother not to think and blame too much." β
The old lady sighed softly and said: "If it weren't for the fortune teller who said in front of the emperor that you need to go to the temple with a pure heart and few desires to feed, if it weren't for him saying that the house needs a concubine to vibrate, how could there be today's chaos!" β
Xu Lanxi lowered her head and thought about what the old lady said back then, but she never expected that the old Taoist priest was invited by her own mother, she only knew that she lived a hungry and cold life, that day her mother asked her if she wanted to live Xu Ranzhu's life, she replied that everything was developing in a good direction after thinking about it, until Xu Ranzhu came back, she had been living very well.
The sixth aunt no longer cried, she wanted Xu Ranzhu to not be able to come back in this life, but she didn't want the emperor to say that it would be good to come back when she became an adult, after all, she was engaged to the eighth prince.
The old lady looked at Shen Muqing, who was kneeling on the ground, and finally sighed in compromise and said: "Get up, the old body bypasses her, but she still has to bear it, this is the attitude of our Xu family to welcome the eldest daughter back." β
Shen Muqing breathed a sigh of relief, it is better to die than to live, no matter what punishment she receives, as long as the heroine is not disfigured and does not die suddenly.
It's a pity that she was afraid of something, and the old lady suddenly said: "Come on, brand Xu Lanxi's face!" β
"Yes."
Shen Muqing stood up and said, "No! β
The old lady snorted and looked at Shen Muqing and said, "This can't be either, that's not okay, Zhu'er!" She's suspected of robbing your husband. β
Shen Muqing looked at the old lady with a stumbling face, she really couldn't figure it out, it was Mrs. Yushi who caught the adulterer, the old lady was just hearsay, how could she come up and be sure that Xu Lanxi would compete with her for Su Yujin, is this the legendary mistake that you can't let go of one in a hundred?
"Please also ask my grandmother to let Lan Xi go, I and the eighth prince are the emperor's betrothed relatives, not something that others say can be snatched away." Shen Muqing tried his best to explain and appease the emotional old lady.
The old lady snorted coldly and said: "Today you choose, brand or let her die, Zhu'er, one day you will understand, how many wolf cubs around you are eyeing you, grandmother does all this for your good!" β
From an angle that everyone couldn't see, Mrs. Yushi secretly wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, beckoned to Shen Muqing, and said, "Zhu'er, come to your mother's side, you can't live if you do your own evil, your grandmother is bound to administer justice for you today." β
Looking at the posture of the two people in front of him, Xu Lanxi couldn't hide from this criminal law today.
Xu Lanxi said to Shen Muqing's back as if he had accepted his fate: "Miss, there is no excuse for the crime you want to add, since my grandmother and mother are so sure that I have seduced your husband, why should the eldest lady defend me so hard?" β
As far as Xu Lanxi is concerned, she and Xu Ranzhu have no intersection, and there will be no emotional maintenance without intersection, not to mention about her future husband, how could Xu Ranzhu be so stupid to defend her, in this deep palace six courtyards, there has never been no unprofitable giving.
The old lady knocked the ground with her cane and said, "Zhu'er, you dodge the old body!" She's said so, what else do you have to defend her? β
"Grandmother!"
"Come on, take the eldest lady back to the room and confine it down!"
"Yes."
Shen Muqing knelt on the ground with a dead face, and muttered: "How can there be a reason for grandmother's punishment, this is Zhu'er's own business, everything must have a source, Zhu'er is the victim, and how to punish is also Zhu'er's decision." β
The old lady squinted at Shen Muqing and said, "You girl is too kind, if you really leave it to you, wouldn't you immediately let her go as a sister-in-law?" β
"She's going to snatch my husband, and even if Zhu'er is kind, she won't forgive such a filthy person, and Zhu'er will whip her!"
The old lady looked at Shen Muqing in disbelief and said, "Yes, come here, put on the torture whip, and prepare the thick salt water!" β
"Yes."
Shen Muqing gasped, she never expected that the ancient people were so terrible, and the whipping had to be used with salt water, looking at the three or four big men who came with salt water, one arm alone was three or four times thicker than hers, and these two whips went down, Xu Lanxi might die with a whimper.
She only prayed now that the eighth prince would come to the hero to save the beauty quickly, and if she didn't come to him, her beautiful lady would really die.
Xu Lanxi was pulled and tied to the pillar, and seeing that the big man was about to pick up the long whip and whip Xu Lanxi, Shen Muqing howled again: "Wait a minute! β
Mrs. Yushi and the old lady asked at almost the same time: "What's wrong with Zhu'er?" β
The old lady said with a little anger: "You can't persuade me, the old woman, to let her go this time. β
Shen Muqing coughed lightly: "No, I just want to teach her a lesson in person." β
The old lady glanced at the long whip in the big man's hand, shook her head and said, "Grandma disagrees, this whip is very dangerous, you can't play with a little girl!" β
Xu Lanxi only felt sarcastic when she heard this, she only hated to see these people clearly now, it turned out that Xu Ranzhu beat her just to play, the whip was dangerous, they didn't let Xu Ranzhu touch the whip, but let her watch the whip whipped on herself.
Shen Muqing smiled and said, "That's right! Whips are dangerous, let's..."
βpiaοΌβ A whip hit Xu Lanxi mercilessly, and before Shen Muqing could say anything to stop him, the second whip hit Xu Lanxi's body again.
"Grandmother!" Shen Muqing wanted to say something more, but he didn't want Mrs. Yushi and the old lady to ignore her meaning at all, and whipped hard again and again.
Shen Muqing had no choice but to step forward and block the whip and said, "Grandmother, I have already been whipped five or six times, and no matter how big the sin is, it should be forgiven." β
"Come on, pull the eldest lady away for me! Keep playing! β
"Yes."
Shen Muqing didn't know where she got the courage, so she caught the falling whip with her bare hands, and the hot pain in her palm made her regret tears.
Mrs. Yushi and the old lady changed their faces in an instant, no longer angry, but walked towards Shen Muqing with a distressed face: "Zhu'er, it's okay." β
Shen Muqing covered his hands in pain, and said with tears in his eyes: "It hurts." β
"I feel sorry for my grandmother, I told you to avoid it, you have to stand in front of this dead girl."
Looking at the blood flowing from her palms, she really couldn't imagine how much pain Xu Lanxi had just endured.
From scenery to lowliness, Xu Lanxi only took a short time to experience, how uncomfortable she should be.
"Grandmother, please spare Lanxi."
Xu Lanxi looked at the girl who pleaded for her with emotion, she didn't expect that at this time, it was the eldest daughter of the Xu Mansion who had not returned for a long time to intercede for her.
"Okay, well, it's all according to my bamboo, come here! Go to the doctor, hurry! β
"Yes, old lady."
Old Madam Xu was distressed and supported Shen Muqing, who was weak because of the pain in her hands, and Mrs. Yushi also gathered around and gently wiped the blood oozing from her hands with a handkerchief, but they completely ignored Xu Lanxi behind her, allowing her to be tied to the pillar and exposed.