Chapter 28: Throw Them Out

Zhao Ruyun was stunned for a while, and suddenly thought of what Shen Ninghua had said before. She felt that Shen Ninghua’s eyesight was like a loud slap in the face. She became angry due to embarrassment. “What are you? Do you think you are qualified to ask me for an explanation?”

Shen Ninghua sneered and looked at Shen Dong, whose face was gloomy. “Cousin, whether I am qualified or not is not up to you. I am the first daughter of the Shen family. Besides, I’m the Prime Minister’s daughter. Am I not even qualified to ask for an explanation after being framed? There’s no such rule in the world. Since you just mentioned the empress, I’m making this clear. Even if we take this case to the empress, you should give me an explanation.”

Empress Zhao was very powerful in the harem, but her power was only limited to the harem. In the kingdom of Da’an, women were never allowed to be involved in politics. No matter how powerful empress Zhao was in the harem, she did not dare to interfere with the court affairs. After all, there was still the emperor. Moreover, in a few days, the Second Prince who had made great achievements in the war would come back. The emperor liked this second son very much. Empress Zhao and the crown prince were busy dealing with him. They wouldn’t have the time to take care of Zhao Ruyun.

Hearing this, Zhao Ruyun’s face flushed and her eyes almost burst out with anger. “You… you…”

“Yun’er!” Madam Zhang frowned. She interrupted Zhao Ruyun, got up and went to Shen Dong and old lady Xiao. “Now that Shen Ninghua didn’t do this, that’s all. The Zhao family won’t pursue this any longer. We have something else to do at home, so I am going home with Yun’er.”

Old lady Xiao felt disgusted, but she did not show it on her face. She only nodded and agreed. Shen Dong, on the other hand, looked at Shen Ninghua up and down. After thinking for a while, he chose not to say more. “Please.”

Shen Ninghua stood there without any expression. There was now not the slightest expectation in her heart for Shen Dong. Madam Zhao and Shen Linghan’s eyes were full of obvious gloat and old lady Xiao only cared about herself. Shen Ninghua coldly sighed in her heart, wondering how silly she was in the previous life trying her best to please the family even by sacrificing herself. The reason she was able to live again must be to let her collect debts from them.

When Zhao Ruyun walked past Shen Ninghua, she bumped Shen Ninghua on the shoulder, and looked cocky. “You want an explanation? I’ll see how you can get it.”

A smile suddenly flashed on Shen Ninghua’s expressionless face. “I don’t need to ask for it. I’m waiting for you to deliver it in person.”

“Haha, OK, then you can wait, but you can’t get one until you die, hum.”

Shen Ninghua looked at the back of Zhao Ruyun and Madam Zhang, and a gleam flashed in her eyes. She turned around to salute Shen Dong. “Since there is nothing else for me to do, I am leaving.”

Shen Dong waved his hand as an acknowledgement. He then turned to talk to old lady Xiao.

But Madam Su stood up and said. “I’m also going back. By the way, I can help bring Mrs. Shao’s gifts to Ninghua’s yard.”

Shen Dong frowned but said nothing.

As soon as Shen Ninghua walked out of the hall, Shen Linghan’s said discontentedly, “Grandma, father, look at my sister. She always quarrels with cousin for no reason. Cousin promised to speak well of me in front of the empress when I am in the Palace. Now it seems that it’s out of the question. Alas, to be serious, many tricky issues occurred recently in our family. Why are there so many odd things?”

Hong Ling heard this and was very angry. “Miss?”

“It’s OK. Go back and tidy up the yard.” Shen Ninghua didn’t care about what Shen Linghan said. She turned to Madam Su with a smile on her face. “Thank you so much for today.”

Madam Su shook her head. “I just happened to be here, but the water here is too deep. You don’t have to lean too close to see how many fish there are. Otherwise, you risk falling into the water.”

“No matter how deep the water is, fill it with just a little bit of earth every day, and one day the pond will be filled up.” Shen Ninghua’s smile remained unchanged. She knew the depth of the Zhao family, and knew that it was dangerous to provoke the Zhao family. But she was bound to confront the Zhao family if she wanted to defeat the first lady. She had nothing to fear. If the Zhao family wanted to start a storm to drown her, they had to see if she agreed.

“Yeah.” Madam Su replied without saying anything more. She told the servant girls to carry the box to Yingyue Courtyard and left.

Shen Ninghua looked at her back with a smile. She turned around and ordered Hong Ling. “Put things in order.”

“Miss, they bullied you like this, and you’re still in the mood to tidy up things.” Hong Ling stamped her feet angrily. Her life was saved by Shen Ninghua, so she always subconsciously took Shen Ninghua as the most important person in her heart. Today, when she heard Shen Linghan distorting the real situation, she was so outraged that she wanted to go and kill Shen Linghan to vent her anger.

Shen Ninghua chuckled. “Silly girl, you are still so impatient. When did you see me end up being bullied?”

Hong Ling was stunned. “Miss, do you have a way to get justice?”

“Grandmother and father both want to make concessions to avoid further trouble. I can’t embarrass them right now. However, no one can owe me any amount of justice. I will wait to see how Zhao Ruyun cries in front of me for help.”

Shen Ninghua’s eyes were cold and bright. The poison on Zhao Ruyun’s fingers was very similar to that of a poinsettia. Zhang Nian’s prescription was also correct. But Zhao Ruyun loved applying iris powder to her face. In this way, if she used rosin green ashes, the poison would only become more and more serious. Of course she had the antidote, but why should she give it to Zhao Ruyun? Haha, she would like to see how Zhao Ruyun continued to be arrogant while seeing her hands rot!

Hong Ling was relieved. After they were back in Yingyue Courtyard, she told Bai Ruo what had happened. “If our miss didn’t tell me there was a way, I would definitely put a sack on their heads and gave them a good beat on their way back.”

Bai Ruo immediately twisted Hong Ling’s ear and scolded her, “I’ve already told you long before to think twice before acting. Who do you think they are? They are the wife of Duke Wei and the first daughter of the Zhao family. Who are you? If you dared to show a trace of disrespect in front of them, they can use it to set up our miss, let alone beating them. You are a grown-up. Use your brain in the future. If you get the miss into trouble, I will beat you to death myself.”

Hong Ling shrunk her neck while she was being scolded, and thought to herself, “Sister Bai Ruo is the kindest and gentlest of the four of us. But when she becomes angry, she is even more terrifying than the miss.” Although she was good at martial arts, somehow when she saw into Bai Ruo’s eyes, she dared not say anything.

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Shen Ninghua looked at the two of them and sadly remembered that her maid Si Qin also loved to teach Si Qi this way. “Hong Ling, it’s time for you to think about the way you do things. I can’t protect you all the time. There will be more events in the future. You have to learn to survive without my protection. Whatever method you use, to survive is the most important.” Don’t be like Si Qin and Si Qi. They would not say a bad word about Shen Ninghua even if they were put to death. How Shen Ninghua wished that the two maids cursed her into pieces just to survive. Those two silly girls…

Hong Ling was stunned and remained motionless. “Miss… I’m wrong.”

“It’s OK. Go to do your work. I want to sleep for a while.”

Bai Ruo sighed in her heart. She left the room and closed the door. Then she looked at the other three maids with a severe expression. “From now on, you are not allowed to make trouble for the miss anymore. Hong Ling, you follow me from today on, and I will teach you bit by bit. If you say something wrong again and make the miss sad, I will kick you out.”

“Yes, sister Bai Ruo, I see.” Hong Ling had always known that Shen Ninghua was particularly indulgent to her, and she especially cherished this indulgence. She made up her mind that she would not make the miss sad again.

In the room, Shen Ninghua looked up until the sadness in her eyes faded and went to the bed. She fiddled with the black jade pendant that her mother left her and gradually fell asleep on the bed.

Everything went very smoothly in the next two days. After putting away Chu Junyi’s luminous pearl, Shen Ninghua didn’t care about it anymore. She simply closed the door of the courtyard to live her life and waited for the best time.

On the morning of the third day, Shen Ninghua got up and before she could make up, the door of Yingyue Courtyard was smashed open from outside. Zhao Ruyun took a group of maids and old maidservants with her and stood in the courtyard.

Today, Zhao Ruyun was like a different person from three days ago. Her face was pale, her eyes were bloodshot, her body was covered with makeup powder, but her body still gave out a repugnant smell that could not be disguised. At this time, she stared at Shen Ninghua with big eyes like a ghost.

“Shen Ninghua! Take out the wine you made before!”

Shen Ninghua put down her comb and said with a faint smile. “Cousin, you rush into my yard with so many people in the morning just to get some wine to drink?”

Zhao Ruyun gritted her teeth and ordered the people behind her, “Search the yard!”

“Yes, miss.” After receiving the order of Zhao Ruyun, the servants immediately took action. Regardless of Shen Ninghua’s presence, they rushed into Yingyue Courtyard and searched everywhere.

Hong Ling gritted her teeth to restrain her anger, so that she didn’t fight with them on the spot.

Shen Ninghua didn’t seem to see the actions of those servant girls. “Bai Ruo, help me comb my hair.”

“How about a cloud bun, miss?” said Bai Ruo, bending her knees.

“Yes, that would be fine.”

After Bai Ruo finished combing her hair, Shen Ninghua picked out the hairpin sent by Madam Shao from the jewelry box and put it in her hair carefully. Then she got up and looked at Zhao Ruyun who had found nothing.

“Cousin, have you finished your search?”

Zhao Ruyun looked upset. “Where did you hide the wine you made before?”

“Cousin, it seems that you don’t intend to answer me. In this case, I will use my own way to get the answer.” After those words, Shen Ninghua’s face chilled down, and her voice was as cold as frost. “Qing Que and Hong Ling, these people broke into my yard without any reason and damaged the yard wantonly. Beat them and threw them out of the mansion!”

“Yes, miss.” Hong Ling kicked over the nearest nurse, grabbed her clothes and threw her directly out of the door of the mansion.

Qing Que was even more ferocious. Seeing that these servants dared to get up after they were kicked to the ground, she simply stepped on their legs so that they could never get up again. Less than half a quarter of an hour, all the servants were kicked out.

A lot of onlookers were gathering at the door of Shen mansion, talking about what was going on as the servants were thrown out from time to time. Some of them also found that these servants were from the Zhao family and they became more curious. Were the Shen family and the Zhao family fighting with each other? Otherwise, why did they beat the servants of the Zhao family out of the mansion?

Shen Dong and Madam Zhao just got up when they heard the news. They were so startled that they quickly got dressed. Without even washing their faces, they went straight to Yingyue Courtyard.

When Shen Dong entered the door, Qing Que was just throwing the last nurse out of the yard. He hurriedly shouted, “Shen Ninghua, what are you doing this time?”

“Greetings, father and mother.” Shen Ninghua saluted the two people unhurriedly. “These people rushed into my yard in the morning, turned over and smashed my personal belongings. Can’t I punish a few servants?”

Shen Dong looked at Zhao Ruyun and then at Shen Ninghua. He felt his scalp tightened. “Ruyun, what are you doing in Ninghua’s yard?”

Zhao Ruyun cried out. “Uncle, help me. I don’t want my hand to rot.”

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