In fact, some things that have happened will be spread quietly without asking.
The next morning, when Duofu went to the kitchen again, he heard people chatting on the side of the road about the grievances between the two of them.
It was also because Zhang's actions angered her sister-in-law this time that everyone brought up the old matter again.
"I heard that when Mrs. Liu was pregnant for the first time, she went back to her parents' home to find her sister-in-law and went to the countryside to pray together. However, there was an accident on the road. The carriage overturned and Mrs. Liu fell on her body. The child was gone. Since then,
Mrs. Liu has never had any good news."
After hearing this, Chu Yunli asked: "So the two of them haven't gotten along well in these years?"
Duofu shook his head: "I don't know."
She only heard a little bit about it.
In a previous life, when Zhao Shuangyu was strangled to death in his own yard, Mrs. Zhang seemed to be living in the house.
Chu Yunli thought for a while: "My health has improved, so you don't have to stay up late at night. Or, you said you wanted to go back to the village to take a look. Let's go tomorrow."
Duofu shook his head like a rattle: "I won't go, you still need someone to take care of you."
Even with her around, she couldn't take care of it. Everything in the entrance was
There is no guarantee that it will be safe. If she is gone, my cousin will only be in more danger.
Chu Yunli didn't force it, and said: "Then you are not allowed to keep vigil."
Duofu finally agreed.
From that day on, Chu Yunli lived alone. Chen Zihao wandered around a bit, and she even tried to walk into the garden. On the first day, her mother-in-law wanted to stop her, but at that time she once again emphasized her identity as a guest. And
She threatened that if she couldn't go to the garden, she would move out immediately.
The Zhang family hopes that she will stay in the house for a while, preferably for a few months, so that everyone will forget what happened to Zhang Mingli's wife and concubines. When the time comes, no one will care if she leaves.
The scenery in the garden was nice. On this day, Chu Yunli also met a drunk Zhang Mingli.
Zhang Mingli stumbled, causing the people around him to exclaim. He suddenly raised his head when he heard the people around him calling Chu Yunli in surprise.
"How will you be here?"
Questioning tone.
Chu Yunli seemed to be smiling but not smiling: "I will stay, but it is all to preserve your reputation. If you want to drive me away, then I will leave immediately."
Zhang Mingli's face turned green and white: "Are you laughing at me?"
"What's so funny?" Chu Yunli asked, "You're in such a miserable situation, and I'm not much better either."
This is true. Zhang Mingli dismissed the servants, approached her and asked curiously: "You have lived in the house for more than ten days, why haven't you seen your adulterer?" He looked gloating: "By the way, shouldn't you?
You will be deceived by someone. That beast doesn't care about you at all and doesn't want to marry you, right?"
Chu Yunli looked at him with meaningful eyes: "That is indeed a beast. However, I have made up my mind to cut off contact with him and no longer care about his life and death. It would be better if he doesn't show up. If he dares to show up in front of me
, I have to beat him up."
"It's just you?" Zhang Mingli said with disdain: "Who is a weak woman going to beat? If a man can't beat you, he will let you and think how powerful he is..."
Chu Yunli suddenly picked up the flower pot at hand and smashed it in his face.
Caught off guard, Zhang Mingli only had time to turn his head to hide. The flower pot hit him directly on the head, making him dizzy. The drunk man fell down on the spot when his head was injured again.
.
The servant just stood away, not too far away. As the flowerpot and Zhang Mingli landed, everyone looked over and were dumbfounded on the spot.
"how……"
They did not dare to question Chu Yunli, so they stepped forward to help others, while others went to report the news.
Here, Zhang Mingli had just been helped to sit down in the pavilion. Before the doctor came, Mrs. Zhang had already hurried over with someone. When she saw her injured son, she was furious: "Zhao Shuangyu, don't you want to
Are you alive?"
Chu Yunli raised her eyebrows: "You want to kill me?" She raised her chin slightly, revealing her slender neck: "Come on. After the killing is over, it will be a good deal to go to hell with you."
Mrs. Zhang: "..."
Her chest heaved with anger, and she shouted angrily: "Where's the doctor, why hasn't he come yet?"
After not seeing her for a few days, Mrs. Zhang became very haggard. After Chu Yunli looked her up and down, she asked with a smile: "Madam, is she...sick or has she been bullied? Her face is so ugly, I need to see a doctor to take a good look at her."
It's just that there is no pot to be opened. In the past few days, Mr. Zhang didn't know whether it was to let the maid give birth to a baby or just because he was greedy for novelty. He has been living in the study room. Even if Mrs. Zhang had people prepare his favorite meals, he wanted to give them to him.
I made an appointment to come back... Mr. Zhang came, but he left after dinner and went back to the study.
The two of them were an old married couple, and Mrs. Zhang was almost at the age of becoming a grandmother. She couldn't openly ask for favors from men. She couldn't let go of her dignity and was angry in her heart, so she became like this.
"Take care of yourself and don't worry about it."
Chu Yunli nodded: "Madam, you are right. I was just walking in the yard, and I bumped into Zhang Mingli. He asked me to teach the father of my child a lesson. So... I couldn't hold it back for a moment,
Just hit him with a flowerpot!"
Mrs. Zhang frowned at first, then understood the meaning of her words, and immediately sneered: "You are no longer a member of my Zhang family, and I don't want to ask you who the adulterer is, so there is no need for you to talk about this.
It’s a fig leaf, you have to put that evil bastard on my son’s head.”
Chu Yunli didn't argue with her because the doctor was here.
The doctor came into the room and smelled the smell of alcohol. He couldn't help but frowned: "Madam, I have told you not to drink anymore. Otherwise, it will affect your life span. Why don't you listen?"
Mrs. Zhang just wanted to smile bitterly. She had tried to persuade her son, but he couldn't listen. What could she do?
There was already a big swelling on Zhang Mingli's forehead, with faint red bloodshot eyes. It looked very serious, and the doctor frowned: "This can easily damage the brain, and in the least it can make you stupid, and in the worst case, you can lose your life."
After hearing this, Mrs. Zhang's face darkened, and she asked the doctor to treat her well. She turned back to look at Chu Yunli with a look as if she wanted to kill someone.
Chu Yunli stood up: "It's been a long time since I came out, so I have to go back and lie down."
"Stop here." Mrs. Zhang said coldly: "Beat my son like this. If you want to leave, there is no way."
Chu Yunli sat back again.
Mr. Zhang only had this son. Hearing that his son was injured, he hurried over. Mr. Zhang was also with him.
Seeing his son who didn't know whether he was alive or dead on the bed, Mr. Zhang looked at Chu Yunli with the same unkind eyes: "Can't you just talk to me if you have something to say? Why do you do it?"
Chu Yunli spread his hands: "He asked me to hit him."
"Impossible!" Mr. Zhang said without thinking. His son was just drunk, not crazy. How could he be beaten to death?
Mrs. Zhang said angrily: "Master, get rid of this woman quickly! If you dare to deal such a heavy blow to Ming Li today, you might actually kill someone that day. If something happens to our son, it will be too late to regret it."
Mr. Zhang was pondering.
The doctor over there has finished bandaging: "As long as you wake up and don't vomit or have a fever, it should be fine. If there are any abnormalities, please call the doctor quickly."
After the doctor left, Chu Yunli stood up again.
"Zhao Shuangyu, where are you going?"
Mrs. Zhang has already sent someone to bring a flowerpot: "If you want us not to pursue this matter, you can hold this vase and smash it on your head. Once you finish smashing the matter, it will be over."
Chu Yunli snorted: "I'm not stupid."
Mrs. Zhang: "..."
"If you don't take action, I will report it to the official."
Hearing this, Chu Yunli clasped his hands and smiled and said: "Retribution, I just want you to check out the filthiness of this house. I, a good person, was slandered and had a secret relationship with others, and I was forced to drink it."
Prenatal medicine... I also want to know who wants to harm me."
She once again mentioned that she was unjustly accused, and the Zhang family and his wife both looked unhappy.
At this moment, they have determined that their son cannot be born. If this is the case, then the biological father of the child in Zhao Shuangyu's belly must be someone else, and she must have stolen it from him.
Under such circumstances, she had to say that she was wronged. It was strange that the two of them could not be angry.
Mrs. Zhang mocked: "Zhao Shuangyu, you are a woman, you should take care of your own face. Also, you are not done with my son!"
"What do you want?" Chu Yunli said calmly: "I am willing to go to court with you. The reason why I beat Zhang Mingli is that he deserves it. He deserves it. I beat him because he is inferior to a beast. I beat him because I respect him."
Even though Mr. Zhang knew that he had seen the world, he was so angry at these words that his face turned livid.
Mrs. Zhang said: "Pisces, you must be measured in your words and actions." If you continue like this, you will easily be beaten to death by your brother and sister-in-law.
"Are you teaching me how to do things?" Chu Yunli mocked: "Who are you?"
Mrs. Zhang's face was not pretty either: "I am your elder, and I am trying to persuade you with good intentions. If you don't listen, forget it."
She turned around and left.
Chu Yunli looked at her back: "Mrs. Liu, I think you have bad intentions. When you come back, you will mess up the Zhang family..."
Hearing this, Mrs. Zhang suddenly turned her head and stared at her as if she were looking at a dead person: "Zhao Shuangyu, don't think that you can talk nonsense now that you are no longer Mingli's wife."
"I just want to talk nonsense, what can you do to me?" Chu Yunli said plausibly: "If you have the ability, you can drive me out!"
"Move!" Mr. Zhang couldn't bear it anymore: "Get out of here now."
Chu Yunli didn't hesitate at all and walked away.
Mrs. Zhang breathed a sigh of relief. Nowadays, the person she hates the most, besides her sister-in-law, is her ex-daughter-in-law.
If you can't drive away your sister-in-law, you might as well drive away your ex-daughter-in-law.
Mrs. Zhang frowned: "Brother, for the sake of Mingli's reputation, I'd better stay here for a while. The worst is, if we don't talk to her if we don't see her, we'll just do it."
Mrs. Zhang answered: "No, she clearly doesn't want to stay, so she is provocative at every turn. If she still tolerates it, she will push her even further in the future, and the family will be so noisy by her that they can no longer live."
Compared with his wife, Mr. Zhang was more willing to listen to his sister and said: "Pisces, you stay for now!"
He thought more deeply. If something happened to his son, he would definitely not let this woman go.
"I'm not from your family. I can leave when I want and stay when I want to." Chu Yunli snorted coldly: "This is not the way to treat guests in your family. You don't take me seriously at all. Later I will
Just pack your things and leave early tomorrow morning. From now on, you and your family can take care of themselves."
After saying this, he walked away amid the ugly faces of everyone.
Chu Yunli didn't really want to leave. After returning, she still pretended, packed some things, and lay down early that night.
Late at night, a dark shadow flashed across the side courtyard and went straight to the main room.
As soon as that shadow entered the yard, Chu Yunli suddenly opened her eyes. In the darkness, her eyes were sharp and she did not feel sleepy at all.
The door was carefully pushed open, and a tall figure squeezed in. Holding a rope in his hand, he quietly went to the bed.
When he was two steps away from the bed, the person rushed forward, but only hit the warm bed. He stretched out his hand to find someone, and suddenly noticed that the room was pierced by a sharp object.
He was stunned for a moment, and when he came back to his senses, he was already covered in cold sweat. He forced himself to calm down and said, "You... be careful, put the knife away first, and say what you have to say."
Chu Yunli held the scissors tightly and did not move back. Instead, she pressed down with her hand.
"Going down from here, it seems to be a kidney. If you stab it with a knife, you will definitely not be able to save it."
After saying this, she noticed that the person under her was shaking. She reminded again: "Don't shake too much. I'm very timid. If I get frightened and accidentally plunge in, don't do it."
Blame me."
The person underneath was stiff and didn't dare to move anymore: "Girl, we have something to discuss."
Chu Yunli blew up the fire seal and saw only one of the man's exposed eyes. The rest of the man's eyes were covered with black cloth. She looked carefully and made sure she had never seen this man before, and said, "You walked in at midnight."
What do you want to do with my house?" Without waiting for his answer, he emphasized: "Speak carefully, otherwise, I will kill you. Anyway, you deserve to die when you are dressed like this."
At the end of the sentence, his tone was filled with murderous intent.
The man actually didn't believe that she would kill someone, but the girl's hand holding the scissors was very steady. She only had one life, so he didn't dare to gamble.
"I have no grievances against you. I am here just to follow orders."
Chu Yunli asked: "Whose order?"
Everyone has an aura on their body, and the smell on this person's body is exactly the same as what Zhao Shuangyu smelled before he died in his previous life. One of the people who killed her was this person.
The man hesitated: "I can't say."
"Then you go die." Before Chu Yunli could finish her words, the scissors were already stuck in her hand.
The next moment, the man felt a pain in his waist, which made him groan.
Chu Yunli said sadly: "That's wrong! If you don't tell the truth, you may not be so lucky next time."
The man hurriedly said: "Let me tell you, I received a letter before dark, asking me to come and take your life. After the deed is completed, I will be given two hundred taels of silver." He stretched out his hand to touch his chest and took out a piece of paper.
Banknote: "This is the deposit."
Chu Yunli reached out and took it, which was a fifty-tael denomination.
She thought sarcastically: "Am I worth this little money?"
The man was speechless: "I really said everything, please let me go."
Let it go?
The murderer is right in front of him, how could Chu Yunli let him go?
She moved quickly and stabbed him hard again. At the same time, the man turned over and tried to escape. In the weak light of Huo Zhezi, silver light shone in his hand. Chu Yunli avoided it neatly and stabbed him again.
The man's dagger grazed Chu Yunli's belly, and the blade even scratched her clothes. However, he had no chance anymore. He fell down, and more and more blood flowed from his body. He was still angry at first.
There was a gurgling sound, and then there was no movement at all.
Chu Yunli stood indifferently, waiting for the person to die. She bent down and dragged the person out of the house and threw him directly outside the door.
It was still early, so she wiped the floor casually, then covered herself with a quilt and went to sleep.
The next morning, she was awakened by Duofu's screams.
Duofu came to wake his cousin up so early in the morning because it was time to drink medicine. She was so sleepy that she stumbled when she walked to the door. When she saw her things clearly, she was scared to death.
"There are dead people!"
This life was like an earth-shattering shock, and it quickly attracted everyone to watch. There was a death in the mansion, which alarmed all the masters.
Not to mention the Zhang family and Mrs. Zhang, even Zhang Mingli, who had yet to recover from the injury on his forehead, rushed over.
Seeing the man lying in a pool of blood, everyone couldn't help but look at the owner of the house who was fully dressed.
Chu Yunli stood in the house with her arms folded and said plausibly: "I told you that I would move out in the morning, but you still didn't let me go. You killed someone and left it at my door. Do you want to scare me to death?"
Mr. Zhang was quite speechless.
No matter how much you want to scare people, there is no need to kill people! Not to mention that this person's origin is unknown. Even if he is a servant in the mansion, he can teach him a lesson, but if he really kills someone, he still has to go through a lot of trouble.
Time to explain to his family. If the negotiation is not good, we will go to court.
"Where did this person come from? Call all the people on night watch in the yard over here!" After Master Zhang gave the order, he asked Chu Yunli: "Did you hear anything else last night?"
Chu Yunli shook his head: "No."
Mrs. Zhang looked unbelieving: "This man died right at your door, how could he not know about it at all?" She asked tentatively: "Is it the adulterer of yours who helped you kill him?"
Zhang Mingli looked at the tall man on the ground: "Maybe... this man is her adulterer."
Chu Yunli was stunned for a moment and sighed: "You are really good at making it up."
Zhang Mingli sneered: "You are lonely in the boudoir and have been living with someone for who knows how long. If you don't want to dump him, he will come to you if you are angry..."
Chu Yunli suddenly took off her shoes, ran over and stuffed the shoes directly into his mouth: "My mouth is too dirty, so it's better to talk less."
Zhang Mingli: "..."
He hurriedly spat out the shoes in his mouth and pouted several times: "You are so angry because of what I said."
Chu Yunli said rudely: "Idiot."
"Who are you scolding?" Zhang Mingli was furious: "This is my home, where did you get the courage?"
Chu Yunli finally figured out that Mr. Zhang should not dare to kill anyone. Otherwise, Mr. Zhang would have been unable to bear it just because of her repeated provocations.
Mr. Zhang rubbed his eyebrows: "For such a big matter, you should report it to the official!"
"No!" Mrs. Zhang stopped her: "If someone dies in our house, if you are held accountable, our house will be dug up. Brother, every family has secrets, and then everything will be revealed."
Find out. It is true that our family has not committed any major crimes, but not everything can be revealed. For example, Mingli’s wives and concubines..."
The fact that his wife and concubine were pregnant at the same time, neither of them from the Zhang family, was such a strange and unfortunate thing that people in the city could discuss it for decades.
It was precisely because of this that Mr. Zhang tolerated his ex-daughter-in-law doing whatever she wanted.
"Then what should we do with this man?" Mrs. Zhang didn't dare to get close: "Such a big dead man, please have someone move him away as soon as possible."
Master Zhang ordered people to take away the man in black, and then called the night watchman over to inquire carefully.
The Zhang family lives in one of the most affluent streets in the city. The adults here are very strict and no one is allowed on the street after midnight. Under such circumstances, the night watchman in the house is almost a decoration.
Chu Yunli reminded: "Don't you check his identity?"
Mr. Zhang is investigating. Isn’t it impossible to find out?
Chu Yunli reminded: "There is a curfew on the street, and no one is allowed to walk around when the time comes. He should have entered the house before dark, and the only people who can let people in are the eccentric mother-in-law and the family members."
guests."
Mrs. Zhang immediately asked: "Who are you referring to? Don't blame Sang and scold Huai. It's not your place to speak."
Chu Yunli took a step back: "Okay, I won't say anything anymore. This person is obviously coming after me, with a dagger in his hand, and he probably wants my life. My Zhao family is clean and honest in everything they do.
I never make grudges with others. Being a wife of the Zhang family is too difficult for you, and being a guest in your house is risky, so I will leave now."
After saying that, he turned around and took the baggage he had packed yesterday: "Thank you, go find the carriage."
Duofu was eager to leave here. She felt awkward every day here, and her heart was filled with worry. When she heard this, she was immediately overjoyed: "Sister, wait a moment, I'll go find her now."
Mr. Zhang looked displeased: "Since this person came for you, it's better to find out. Aren't you afraid that after you move out, someone will come to take your life?"
Chu Yunli seemed to be smiling but not smiling: "If I die in your Zhang family, there will definitely be someone who will help cover it up. If I die outside, whether in an inn or in my own yard, there will definitely be someone who will help me seek justice.
Yes. The murderer will definitely be found out, and the person who wants to kill me should not take such a risk. After all, they just want my life, not their own!"
After hearing this, Mr. Zhang's face turned ugly.
In fact, everyone present understood that apart from the Zhang family, the only person Mr. Zhang was willing to help cover up was Mrs. Liu who was a guest in the house.
The Zhang family mother and son hate Zhao Shuangyu to the core and will probably kill him.
As for Mrs. Zhang...she is definitely not the one who has no grudges against Zhao Shuangyu.
Mr. Zhang's eyes fell on his wife: "Madam, how do you explain?"