Chapter 45: The Misfortune of the Drunken Moon Tower
A month later, Huai Moran stepped out of Zuiyue Tower for the first time and stood on the street, at a loss. She was not Baili Yeheng's wife, and she was no longer the owner of Chongzi Villa.
She was going where she wanted to go. She was walking on the street when she suddenly saw a Crescent Bank, and her calm eyes gradually became radiant.
She still has property, a bank and a brothel, and she can be free!
When he walked into the bank, Wu Shi immediately greeted him with great enthusiasm.
Huai Moran looked around and found that there was no one else in the bank except Wu Shi. It turned out that the bank had been neglected and business had not been good. Huai Moran had been busy taking care of Chongzi Villa some time ago, so he did not take care of the bank's affairs.
So the bank gradually collapsed, and all the associates were gone, leaving only Wu Shi. Now that Huai Mo Ran is clean and free to manage the bank, the bank's business and reputation are of course booming.
However, the business of the bank was good, but something happened to Zuiyue Tower, which had always been prosperous.
There was a murder case in Zuiyue Tower, and the prince of Yong'an Marquis died in Zuiyue Tower. The government sent people to seal the Zuiyue Tower at once, and all the girls in the building were invited to eat in prison.
As the boss of Zuiyue Tower, Huai Moran was naturally involved, and she was also arrested.
He was locked up with everyone in a dark and damp cell, filled with unknown insects, and rats that were not afraid of people shuttled around his feet.
The girls were used to having fine clothes and fine food, but when they encountered such treatment, they complained endlessly. This was the first time Huai Moran encountered such a situation, and she couldn't find a way to solve it for a while.
"Lingyue, please recall, did anything unusual happen before Xiangxiu and the Crown Prince entered the room?" Huai Moran turned to Lingyue.
Ling Yue is one of the calm girls. She recalled it for a moment, then slowly shook her head, "There were so many people at that time, how could I possibly notice everyone."
Huai Moran also fell silent. After a while, the jailer came to interrogate him, but also the Marquis of Yong'an came with him.
"Which one of you is in charge?" The jailer's rough voice scared the girls so much that they shrank, and some even hugged each other.
"I am."
"I am."
These two voices, one comes from Huai Mo Ran; the other comes from Ling Yue.
Huai Moran glanced at Ling Yue, who said to the jailer: "I am the bustard of Zuiyue Tower."
"Take both of them away together." Marquis Yong'an urged impatiently.
The jailer roughly pulled Huai Moran and Ling Yue out of the cell and pushed them into a room filled with torture instruments.
"Do you want to be beaten into submission?" Huai Moran asked sharply as he watched the jailer tie up Ling Yue.
"Hmph, if you don't want to suffer any physical pain, just tell me honestly how my son was killed by you." Marquis Yong'an said.
Huai Moran looked at Yong'an Hou, who was almost forty years old. His only son died in Zuiyue Tower. It was inevitable that he would be a little angry, even angry at innocent people.
"We don't know." Huai Moran said firmly, "Even if you torture us, we still don't know."
"Humph, you are so stubborn. I don't think you will say anything unless you are punished." Marquis Yong'an said with a serious face.
Ling Yue glanced at Huai Moran and said, "Master Hou, we really don't know anything."
As soon as Ling Yue finished speaking, there was a snap, and a whip was struck. Ling Yue screamed, and her whole face wrinkled together because of the pain.
"Stop, I am the boss of Zuiyue Tower." Huai Moran said loudly.
Marquis Yong'an glanced at Huai Moran with a suspicious look, and said with a smile: "Then let's start with you." After saying that, he winked at the jailer.
Huai Moran was tied to the cross. Before she was mentally prepared, the whips came down one after another. She just gasped when the first whip came down, and then she gritted her teeth tightly.
No matter how hard the whip fell on my body, it didn't make the slightest sound. In the whole room, there were only the swishing sounds of the whip breaking through the air and the slapping sound of the whip hitting the flesh.
Huai Mo Ran was numb from the pain. Every time he twitched, his brows furrowed and his gums were bitten until they started to bleed.
"Master Marquis, if you beat him any longer, you will be killed." Even though the jailer was used to interrogating prisoners, he felt that Marquis Yong'an was too cruel and beat him half to death indiscriminately.
Marquis Yong'an also saw that although Huai Moran had his eyes open, his consciousness had drifted away, so he threw down his whip and snorted coldly, and walked out of the cell.
"Mo Ran, how are you?" Ling Yue asked anxiously.
Huai Moran raised his head, followed the sound and looked at Ling Yue across from him, a faint and negligible smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then quickly lowered his head.
"Mo Ran... Huai Mo Ran..." Ling Yue stamped her feet anxiously, but no matter how she shouted, Huai Mo Ran didn't react at all.
This night was not easy for Huai Mo Ran. Every part of her body was screaming with pain. The blood and sweat on her body were mixed together, and the sticky feeling was uncomfortable. In the second half of the night, her body became cold and hot, which tortured her to the point of falling asleep.
not easy.
Baili Yeheng was in the Prince's Mansion. When he heard that such a big mistake had been made, he quickly sent someone to investigate, but he did not expect that Marquis Yong'an would move so quickly and have already arrested the person in the cell.
Another thing he didn't expect was that Marquis Yong'an would be so bold as to dare to attack Huai Moran.
When Ye Si came to the Prince's Mansion with information and told him about the punishment Huai Moran received in prison, Baili Yeheng suddenly couldn't sit still.
He dropped a bunch of things and went straight to the prison.
When Baili Yeheng received the news and learned about Huai Moran's situation, it was the second day after Huai Moran was imprisoned.
With a sullen face, he followed the jailer to Huai Moran. He suddenly had the desire to kill people. He had only been here alone for one night, and now he was like this.
"I heard that I just came in yesterday. Why was he so bloody when he was finished? The young minister of Dali Temple has interrogated him? Is there any conviction?" Baili Yeheng's face became so dark that it was really scary.
The jailer saw that Baili Yeheng had a bad look on his face, and the small prefect's cell actually alerted the prince. Even though he didn't know who Huai Moran was, he guessed that he had a close relationship with the prince.
So he replied cautiously: "There has been no trial, and no conviction yet. It's just that Marquis Yong'an has just lost his son, so he is inevitably upset."
Baili Yeheng glanced at Ling Yue, turned around and kept looking at Huai Moran, his eyes were forbearing, and he turned around and walked out of the cell without saying anything.
When he was at the door, he stopped and said in a cold tone: "Which hand did it?"
"Little... little... don't understand... madam... son..." The jailer was so frightened that he couldn't even speak clearly.
Baili Yeheng turned around, looked at the jailer sharply, and said coldly: "I ask you about the whip in that hand?"
When the jailer heard this, the color drained from his face. He knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "Prince, spare your life. I didn't do anything. It's Marquis Yong'an, and Marquis Yong'an is dominantly left-handed."
Baili Yeheng snorted coldly, turned around and left. The jailer was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground. When he calmed down and returned to the cell, he called for someone to put Huai Moran down and found a doctor.
come and see.
Anyone who could hire a doctor in prison had someone to back him up, so the doctor put the situation of Huai Moran in a more serious tone.
The jailer was too frightened to tell Baili Yeheng what the doctor said. He just ordered that he be served with delicious food and drinks.
But Huai Moran has been in a coma the whole time, and his body is getting cold and hot.
I don’t know how Baili Yeheng settled this turmoil. Anyway, Marquis Yongan kept staying at home claiming to be ill and not going anywhere.
On the third day, Governor Chen brought people to release the man. Baili Yeheng walked directly into the cell and took out Huai Moran, who was still sleeping.
Taishou Chen forced a smile on his face and asked, "Is the Crown Princess okay?"
"What do you think?" Baili Yeheng glanced at Governor Chen from the corner of his eye.
Governor Chen shrank his shoulders in fear and said with a smile, "It's important to treat the injury quickly."
But when he said this, Baili Yeheng had already gone a long way.
When Huai Moran opened her eyes and saw Baili Yeheng, she thought she was dreaming and chuckled: "Haha...I dream about you in my dreams. We are really enemies."
"Huh?! Who did you dream about?" Baili Yeheng asked with a slight frown on his sword.
Huai Moran tried her best to open her eyes wide and looked at Baili Yeheng. She wanted to reach out and pinch his face, but as soon as she moved her hand, she felt pain and grinned, so she had to give up.
"Don't move, you're seriously injured!" Baili Yeheng gently held her hand.
Huai Moran's beautiful eyebrows spread, he looked at Baili Yeheng and said, "Did I be beaten stupid, or did you take the wrong medicine?"
"Huh?!" Baili Yeheng rolled up her sleeves, dug out a lump of ointment from a box, and gently applied it around her wound.
His movements were extremely gentle, and his expression was focused as if he was in trance. The originally burning wound became cool and very comfortable because of the ointment applied thereon.
"What do you want me to say to you? Even if you don't go back to your parents' home, go to Chongzi Villa. I won't go to Chongzi Villa either. You'll stay in Zuiyue Tower all day long, and you're going to make such a big fool of me!" Baili Ye Heng
Close the lid and put the ointment on the edge of the copper mirror.
"Uh..." Huai Moran was stunned for a moment.
Baili Yeheng turned around, sat sideways on the edge of the bed, looked at her, and said, "I will only say it once, please listen to me carefully."
"I didn't send anyone to kill Fusu. I don't know how he died. And I never explain anything to anyone, but you are an exception." After Baili Yeheng said this, he told Liangchen to take good care of Huai Moran.
But Huai Moran's mind seems not to have turned around yet - I never explain things to anyone, but I am an exception to you. What does this sentence mean? Huai Moran pondered for a long time and found that Liangchen had been snickering.
"Why are you so happy?" Huai Moran looked at her and asked, "Aren't you happy to see your master being beaten like this?"
"Thanks to that person for beating you like this, otherwise how would you know that the prince is already deeply in love with you." Liangchen said with an ambiguous smile.
"Gah?! Deeply in love? Why do you say that?" Of course Huai Moran still didn't believe it.
"Didn't you see how serious the prince was when he said, 'I never explain things to anyone, but I make an exception for you'? And even to Xiaoxiao, he never explains anything he does, and you are the first one." Liangchen.
Balabala talked a lot.
Huai Mo Ran started to get distracted. When did he start to like her? It couldn't be because he was beaten so badly this time that he fell in love with her. Uh! This kind of logic doesn't seem to work!
Huai Moran couldn't figure out why Baili Yeheng, who was so deeply in love with Xiaoxiao at the beginning, showed affection to him. Is it because Xiaoxiao was disfigured and was disliked?
Liangchen looked at Huai Moran's changing expression and said, "Don't think too much. Apart from those three words, we can all see that the prince likes you."
"Eh?!" Huai Moran looked at Liangchen in disbelief, but Liangchen didn't say anything more, just smiled ambiguously.