When Chen Shu arrived, Ling Ruo had just finished peeling the tangerine. She peeled it very cleanly and removed every white strand on the tangerine flesh. As a result, her green-on-green nails were stained with a layer of light yellow.
"Master." Chen Shu called out carefully, waiting for Ling Ruo's instructions.
After Ling Ruo looked at Chen Shu, she handed him the tangerine flesh in her hand, "Here, this is the tangerine that was just sent from Fujian. Try it and see how it tastes?"
"Thank you, Master, for the gift." Chen Shu was flattered and took the tangerine. He broke off a piece and put it in his mouth. The tangerine was juicy and sweet, and there were no pits like ordinary citrus inside. It was very delicious. Put it outside.
With its own price plus the shipping cost of traveling thousands of miles, one can be sold for dozens of pennies, which ordinary people simply cannot afford.
It's just that Chen Shu had something on his mind at the moment, and he kept speculating about Ling Ruo's purpose of calling him here, so he didn't have the time to savor it carefully. After swallowing it wholeheartedly, he raised his head and showed a flattering smile, "The tangerine that the master rewarded couldn't be more delicious.
He paused and saw that Ling Ruo didn't speak, and then said: "Xiaoluzi said that the master has something to tell the slave. I wonder what it is?"
"There's no rush." Ling Ruo took the wet wipe handed by Shuixiu and carefully wiped the orange juice off her hands before saying calmly: "Chen Shu, since Li Wei and the others left, you and An'er came to Jingsi."
It’s been quite some time since I’ve been here, how have I treated you during these days?”
She asked so lightly that Chen Shu couldn't figure out her intention for a moment, so she could only say: "The master is as kind as a mountain to his slave, and it is hard for him to repay him even if he is broken into pieces."
A smile spread on Ling Ruo's lips, but it didn't stop there. In the eyes that Chen Shu could not see, there was only coldness instead of a smile. "Everyone can say nice things, but I don't really like hearing them." She squinted.
Chen Shu glanced at Chen Shu, who had a slight hint of sweat on his forehead, and then said: "It's not as if the kindness is as heavy as a mountain, but I ask myself
I have never treated you badly; no one wants to be born as a slave. They are all forced by life. Therefore, since I entered the palace, I have never treated the people around me harshly. I even try to treat you better, and what I ask for is not much.
It's just your loyalty, Chen Shu, have you ever been loyal to me?"
Chen Shu's eyelids twitched as he vaguely sensed something was wrong. He quickly knelt on the ground and vowed: "This slave's loyalty to his master can be seen from the sun and the moon!"
Ling Ruo smiled and said nothing, but Shui Xiu said sarcastically: "Your words will make the sun and the moon ashamed."
"What do you mean by this? Are you saying that I am unfaithful to my master?" Chen Shu said with a red face. People who didn't know it would really think that he had been wronged so much!
"I know all about loyalty and disloyalty, Chen Shu." Ling Ruo's eyes turned and fell on Chen Shu. Without looking directly at him, Chen Shu felt that those two eyes were cooling down bit by bit, along with his
His body also seemed to be frozen by something, unable to move.
"If you were really loyal, you wouldn't betray me again and again!" She said without any anger, but it made Chen Shu frightened to death. Could it be that she had discovered the wire snake she had released?
"Slave... I'm unjustly accused!" He forced himself to be calm and kowtowed, "Slave, I swear..."
A trace of disgust flashed across Ling Ruo's eyes. She took out the cylinder Xiaoluzi had just brought from the red sandalwood drawer and threw it in front of Chen Shu, interrupting his unfinished words and saying, "Take a look at this first before talking."
Chen Shu was really scared. He picked up the cylinder with trembling hands and opened it. It was so dark inside that he could not see clearly. He turned the cylinder over one by one and poured out the contents. The moment he saw it clearly, his face changed drastically.
, wire snake?! Why is it here?!
"I don't think I need to repeat what you have done. Chen Shu, you are so brave. You sold me as your master for a house and a prostitute!" At this moment, Chen Shu has been thinking about it since he came in.
The smile on his face finally faded completely, leaving only a biting coldness.
"Slave..." Chen Shu wanted to defend, but looking at the body of the wire snake on the ground, he was speechless and could only collapse on the ground.
"Tell me, who asked you to do this?" Ling Ruo asked.
Chen Shu's whole body was pale with a blue-gray pallor. He hesitated for a long time and gritted his teeth and said: "No one has a master, it's the slave who is dissatisfied with his master. He only trusts Xiaoluzi and Shuixiu in everything, and even more important things are from him."
I did not leave it to the slave to do it. I did such a thing in a moment of obsession. I beg the master to have mercy and spare the slave a miserable life." He simply admitted that since he couldn't let it go, he simply admitted that he didn't ask for anything else but to survive.
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He didn't expect that his words would make Ling Ruo laugh for a while, "Chen Shu, do you treat me like a three-year-old child? Can you drive so many wire snakes by yourself? Do you have the guts to murder Brother Li? Or maybe with that?
Can you afford a house and a woman with your little monthly money?"
Chen Shu didn't say anything. He knew what Ling Ruo wanted to ask, but he didn't dare. He really didn't dare. Even if Ling Ruo spared him, he wouldn't let him go, and he would definitely die miserably.
Ling Ruo waited for a long time, but Chen Shu still didn't speak. He nodded, clapped his hands and said, "Very good, you really have some backbone. It seems that you don't even care about the life or death of that girl Yinghong." When Chen Shu was horrified,
In her eyes, she
He said to Shuixiu: "Tell our people to cut off Miss Yinghong's ears first, then her nose, tongue, and so on. If she asks why, tell her that it was the benefactor who redeemed her from the brothel.
meaning."
Chen Shu was so frightened by her cruel words that she crawled to Ling Ruo's feet and begged with tears streaming down her face: "No! Master, please don't treat Ying Hong like this, she is innocent..."
"Innocent?" Hearing these two words, Ling Ruo couldn't help but laugh out loud. She bent down and looked at Chen Shu's face, which was covered with tears and snot, and said word by word: "What about Hongli?
What mistake did he make again, and you won’t even let him go?”
She will not have any compassion for those who dare to harm her children.
She straightened up, with unconcealable disgust in her eyes, "Chen Shu, I will give you one last chance to testify against the person behind you, or watch Miss Yinghong die without her body intact, one of the two, no
There is a third way." Before Chen Shu could speak, she added: "You don't have to ask me. You have been working here for so many years, you should know that I am a person who tells the truth; before the tea is cold,
Think clearly."
Her target was never Chen Shu, but the Nala clan!
After saying this, Ling Ruo didn't speak anymore, and just drank the tea slowly. When the tea was too cold to be tasted, he turned his eyes to Chen Shu, who had been kneeling on the ground since just now, not knowing what to do, and said leisurely:
"What, have you thought clearly? My patience is about to end."
Chen Shu was in a dilemma because he was afraid that Ling Ruozhen would kill Yinghong, and he was also afraid that his own life would be in danger. He really cared about Yinghong. If he hadn't been obsessed with her at the beginning, he wouldn't have turned to Nala to redeem her life.