The Demon Concubine of God

Xiaoshe Huanmi was a close attendant specially awarded to Tong Xianyu by the emperor when she got married. She was a naive and lovely child of twelve years old. Just now, he accompanied his son to General Ji's courtyard. When they arrived, Aunt Liu and her maid were already in the general's room. He remembered that his son did not have much interaction with Aunt Liu. He only politely performed a courtesy, and the son did not even look at her. How come he mentioned this Liu when he passed by her courtyard?

Xiao Huanmi blinked her eyes and said to her master: "Master, are you disgusted by this Liu? If you really don't like me, go and tell the emperor, and the emperor will tell the general. Then no matter how favored Liu is, she will not stay in the Ji Mansion."

The little fox flicked Huanmi's forehead with his finger in annoyance. He said, "What are you thinking about? I'm not wrong when I say you're a fussy person."

Huan Mi groaned and stroked her forehead, saying blankly, "Didn't the young master look down on that concubine? When she was a rich lady, she was a good match for the general. They were even ready to get married, and the general even saved her life in times of trouble. Who can blame her for her bad luck? Her father committed a crime and not only lost his job, but also imprisoned the whole family, making her a prostitute. Now she can be a concubine in this mansion and has her own courtyard. Everyone says that she and the general are still in love with each other."

Tong Xianyu shook her head and said, "Ji Ziyin is not interested in women. I might have believed you before, but now I don't believe it. Didn't you see how they were getting along just now? Aunt Liu was obviously avoiding things, and what General Ji said to her was not her business... Did you pay attention to the maid next to Aunt Liu?"

Huan Mi replied: "That girl is very experienced and there is no trace of cowardice in her eyes in front of her master."

Tong Xianyu looked at his attendant, sighed, shook his head, and said, "It's still too young." Then he turned around and went his own way.

Not long after Aunt Liu and her maid went to the general's courtyard, the general had something on his mind, and even when he went to his courtyard, he didn't say a few words and sent them away. At this time, when he was just strolling in the garden, the general had a quarrel with the sister of Concubine Liu in Jinxi Hall. So Aunt Liu from Suichen Courtyard must know something.

At this time, the little maid Xue Xue from Tong Xianyu's yard came over, bowed to Tong Xianyu and followed him to his own yard. As they walked, they followed him closely and whispered, "I heard... that the servant of the cousin Shi Xiaoye in the Ji Mansion had committed something that was related to Madam Liu a few days ago. The general angrily entered Madam Liu's yard and beat her maid with a stick. The maid was beaten severely, but she only said that she had seen Shi Xiaoye before but really didn't do those things that hurt the world. The general just said that he was not easy to fool. He asked them about what happened at their lady's birthday banquet, and he also knew about the fact that he poisoned himself. The general asked Madam Liu not to say that she didn't know, he knew everything she did with the criminal Yu Shishi from the second room, he has all the evidence here, tell Madam Liu not to quibble."

Tong Xianyu led the servants into her own yard and asked them to close the door. Then she turned around and called for Duixue to continue.

Duixue said, "Even so, Madam Liu refused to admit it. She just cried and yelled at the top of her lungs, saying how she had such a hard life to marry into their family. She married him just for show and never expected to be his wife. As long as he treated her respectfully, she and the general would live in peace. But she didn't know that the general was so suspicious and wanted to pin the blame on her with some unfounded evidence. I heard that Madam Liu was in a good mood to embroider a screen, but she was so angry that she cut the embroidery work that she had finished for half a year and accidentally pricked her hand. She must have been very angry."

Tong Xianyu asked: "Did she collude with others to cause trouble?"

Duixue said, "The general didn't do anything to Madam Liu. He just asked the maids who committed the crime to sign a confession and handed them over to the second young master. In my opinion, Madam Liu is a simple and honest person. People call her a stubborn person behind her back. She said she did it, and if she said she didn't do it, she must have been wronged. She is not at the same level as Empress Liu in the palace. Even if she has ten more tricks, she can't catch up with Empress Liu. So there is something fishy about this matter. I'm afraid it was not done by Madam Liu. By the way, master, you don't know that the two maids and nannies who serve her were specially selected by Empress Liu before Madam Liu got married."

Tong Xianyu nodded and said, "I don't care about their trivial matters. If it weren't for the fact that the young lady's illness is difficult to treat... and... the ancestor has disappeared for several days. I think he must have encountered trouble in order to rescue the young lady. Alas! If only the young lady was awake at this time, then there would be some clues to find out what trouble the ancestor encountered."

Let's not talk about the old ancestor's condition, but Chu Yanqiu. Ten days later, Chu Yanqiu went to see Shen Wen. Her condition was even worse. When she was awake, she sat on the bed in a daze, and she had no consciousness even when eating, drinking, defecating or urinating. Chu Yanqiu called her beside her, but she didn't respond. After a while, she started to cry.

Chu Yanqiu called him several times in a row. This time she was sober, her eyes full of pain and despair. She said: "What do you want? Love? But I have already given it to him...it's too late to take it back..."

After saying this, he fell into coma.

A few days later, the stupid Shen Wen was lying in bed in a daze.

Chu Yanqiu asked the maid to wash and dress her, then took her hand and left Ji Mansion, and took a carriage to Yixiang Tower. Chu Yanqiu opened the curtains of the carriage and glanced at the sign of Yixiang Tower, then asked Chihe to whisper something to him, and then asked Chihe to help Shen Wen get off the carriage and bring her to Zixiang Tower.

The madam of Yixianglou was shocked when she heard that the person was from Ji Mansion. She was also told that the girl in front of her was a girl from Yixianglou. The madam looked around but had no impression of the girl. She had to carefully ask which girl in her building she was and what her name was. Chihe leaned close to her ear and told her about it. The madam looked at Shen Wen's appearance in disbelief. She felt that she had an impression of her and thought of the past. She was so scared that she almost fell to the ground.

Chi He didn't care about her. He grabbed the collar of the madam and dragged her into the house. He asked his subordinates to watch him at the door and tell the madam what the master meant, asking her to take good care of Miss Shen. If anything went wrong...

The old procuress felt really wronged. Such a huge pot fell from the sky for no reason, and she didn't even dare to say a word. In the end, she had to send Chihe and the others out the door like seeing off a nobleman.

The pimp followed the madam to send the people out of the door. He kept watching his godmother wiping the sweat off her head and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong with you, mom? She keeps wiping the sweat off her head. It's not hot today. Are you sick?"

The madam was still recovering from her shock. She was stunned for a moment before she twisted her son's ear and said, "Oh! Why are you still caring about this? Come in with me quickly, and I will explain it to you in detail."

The madam closed her room door and told the pimp what happened. The pimp touched the back of his neck in horror and stammered, "This... This is a ghost story I dreamed about in broad daylight. Isn't this something that can't be imagined in the world?"

The madam slapped him on the face to wake him up. She said, "Let's not talk about the one sent back to the Ji Mansion. Do you know which family this noble lady belongs to?"

The ghost looked at him in bewilderment and said, "What? That Lord Chu is a living devil. Why didn't mom mention it? If I don't mention him and there's someone else who's not easy to mess with, our Yixiang Tower will really collapse!"

The madam paced back and forth in the room anxiously and fearfully, she wanted to say something to her son but hesitated...

When the old man saw that she didn't say anything, he got anxious and said, "Oh! Mom, please tell me!"

The madam then said, "A few days ago, a noble lady came to our Yixiang Tower. Do you remember her?"

The old man said, "The one with the hood covering her whole body? I still remember that I secretly said that the woman was born with a charming body, pretending to be pure and noble, but in fact she had been tossed and lingered on the beds of countless men."

The madam covered his mouth with her hands and said nervously, "You reckless fellow... She is the concubine of the current Prince Rui... She came to mention the young scholar who was sold earlier. You didn't know that we really believed that the young scholar was a criminal slave who was captured from the exile place. Who knew that he was... The younger brother of this concubine, he is the grandson of the Duke of Shen's mansion."

"what!"

When the turtle man heard this, he couldn't help but scream.

The madam didn't know what to do this time. She said like a wronged girl, "When Concubine Shen came, she asked me for the indenture of the young master Sun, but the indenture of the young master Sun has disappeared. You also know that Prince Rui is the supervisor of the household registration of official prostitutes in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He happens to have the list of the young master Sun of the Shen family. Now our lives are in the hands of the prince."

The old man was also anxiously pacing around the room. Suddenly he said, "Oh! That's not right... Young Master Shen Sun is Young Master Shen Sun. Wasn't it a girl who was sent here today? What does this have to do with that girl?"

The madam seemed to have come to her senses, and clapped her hands and said, "That's right! Who can prove that this young man is the grandson of Duke Shen's mansion?"