Leng Yan was doing embroidery slowly in her bedroom under the dim oil lamp on the table.
Suddenly the oil lamp was blown out by the wind.
Leng Yan was frightened and hurriedly took out a firelighter from her pocket, planning to light the oil lamp again.
At the moment, the sound of opening the door came into the quiet room, and then some low footsteps were heard.
“Who is it?” Leng Yan turned around and looked at the door, asking in a low voice.
There was no answer, and the sounds stopped.
In the darkness, Leng Yan couldn’t see anything. With sweat on her back and palms in fear, she still forced herself to calm down. Then she asked, “Rou’er, are you back? Say something!”
“Rou’er” didn’t answer, but the footsteps in the room appeared again and approached her gradually. Then they got close to her.
Leng Yan couldn’t insist anymore and turned around, planning to run away.
However, as soon as she ran to the bedside, a tall and big figure behind her rushed to the bed and pressed her.
She was scared and wanted to shout, but the person seemed to have guessed what she was thinking about and covered her mouth before she spoke.
The warm breath was next to her ear and made her tremble all over. Her heart was filled with fear.
“Little beauty, did you miss me?”
The person laughed weirdly in a deep and hoarse male voice, and Leng Yan stopped struggling immediately, but soon she quivered with rustling.
The man was satisfied with Leng Yan’s reactions and then laughed evilly again.
“Good beauty, you are available for so long and must miss me a lot. I will make you happy!”
While speaking, the man had taken off Leng Yan’s coat and her nice figure was revealed.
When she was about to struggle, the man pinched her sensitive part with his rough hand, while tears fell from her eyes as she felt the pain, yet she stiffened like a stone and didn’t dare to move anymore. She just let the man do what he liked.
…
Leng Yan lay on the bed and let the man move willfully. Tears kept coming out of her eyes, and then fell along the corners of her eyes silently.
After a long time, another thud appeared in the room, and then the light was on, which scared the two in bed.
The man on top of her reacted first and turned over, rolling to the inside of the bed. Then he pulled the quilt to cover himself tightly.
As a result, Leng Yan was caught off guard and her naked body was shown to the public.
“Absurd!”
Mo Shujun’s loud curse was heard. She had walked around the table to the bedside. Looking at the dirty scene on the bed, she was so angry that she knocked her crutch, pointing to the two in bed and cursing, “Why not put on your clothes? You are an evil son. You will really irritate me to death!”
The man, Shi Juncai curled up like a quail and trembled as he was rebuked. He didn’t dare to speak a word to retort.
After Mo Shujun finished her lecture, he greeted cautiously, “Mother!”
“Get dressed and come down!”
Shi Juncai rolled down from the bed like a ball at once and meanwhile begged for mercy while trembling. “Mother, Mother, I… No!”
“What? Look at what you have done!”
Mo Shujun suddenly raised her hand and wanted to slap Shi Juncai in his face, but seeing that he was trembling in fear, she stopped her hand in the midair and couldn’t bear to beat him up.
She sighed deeply and was so mad at Shi Juncai that she could hardly stand steadily. The maid behind her supported her, so she didn’t fall.
“Evil son, I don’t want to discipline you when you are dissolute at ordinary times as long as you don’t cross the line, but look at what you are doing. Don’t you know that she would marry your brother soon? How can you, how can you do that to her…” Mo Shujun cursed and coughed at the same time. In the end, she could hardly speak.
Shi Juncai knelt on the floor as a punishment and grabbed his ears in the beginning to listen to his mother’s lecture obediently, yet at last, he was more resentful while listening. Then he couldn’t help retorting, “It was your fault. I told you that I like Leng Yan long ago, but what did you tell me? You said that she is your maid and I can’t defile her.
“However, you gave her to my brother as his concubine soon. Why? I am your son. You don’t leave such a beauty to me but him?”
While speaking, he was bolder with sufficient reasons and complained about Mo Shujun in the end.
Mo Shujun was furious because of his rebellious words and raised her crutch again, hitting him severely.
She hit his solid back with winter clothes and he almost couldn’t feel the pain, yet he still shouted exaggeratedly, “Ouch!” It scared Mo Shujun. She thought that she had injured him and hurriedly walked up to check on him.
However, Shi Juncai was stubborn and refused to let her check while retorting, “Just beat me to death. Anyway, I am not as capable as my brother. I know that you dislike me since long ago. Just beat me to death today. Beat me…”
While he was speaking, he intentionally raised his head and showed his face, letting Mo Shujun beat him.
Nevertheless, Mo Shujun loved her youngest son to the bone, and even if she touched him at ordinary times, she was afraid that she would hurt him. She had beaten him just because she was too angry, and she even regretted it afterward. How could she bear to beat him again?
Seeing that Shi Juncai had tears in his eyes, she softened her tone and comforted him in spite of her anger. “Kid, you want to make me sad? You know that I love you most but you said that to break my heart. You are going to irritate me to death!”
The princess royal would lower her dignified head and forget her honorable identity only in front of her youngest son Shi Juncai.
However, Shi Juncai looked as if he wasn’t comforted and even wanted more, shouting, “You don’t even want to give a maid to me, but you said that you love me? I don’t believe it!”
Mo Shujun was not a fool. Hearing that, she could certainly understand that Shi Juncai asked her in another way to give Leng Yan to him.
In fact, since Shi Juncai said that, Mo Shujun would just give any other maid to him as a reward.
However, it couldn’t be Leng Yan. Mo Shujun had told all people in the mansion that she would marry Leng Yan to Shi Junhe as his concubine, yet she gave this maid to Shi Juncai as a reward. What would it be like?
Even if Shi Junhe didn’t care, in the outsiders’ eyes, it would ruin Shi Juncai’s fame.
She couldn’t let Shi Juncai do something so stupid.
Mo Shujun looked serious and pulled Shi Juncai to her, saying in all earnestness, “Juncai, I will let it pass, but you need to remember that Leng Yan is your brother’s woman. Even if you take away all the other maids in the Shou’an Hall, I won’t say anything. However, only she can’t go with you! Do you understand?”
Shi Juncai was still resentful.
“Kid, just listen to me. Would I harm you?” Mo Shujun grabbed Shi Juncai’s hand more tightly and analyzed for him seriously. “It’s not that I don’t want to give Leng Yan to you, but don’t you think it over? At the crucial time, if you forcefully take her to your residence, how would the outsiders speak of you?
“You haven’t regained your official position now. If somebody who is brainless takes it as the evidence to denounce you, do you want to be an official?”
Shi Juncai pondered for a while and then realized that it was true. Although he was still reluctant, he controlled himself and answered unwillingly, “Okay. This time he will get what I want.”
They had a heart-to-heart talk and totally forgot that Leng Yan was also in the room whom they were talking about.
Nevertheless, in the eyes of these two members of the nobility, a maid was really a commodity that could be bought and sold randomly, and the difference was the price.
They talked about her because they thought much of her.
Leng Yan restrained her anger while trembling and kept her head lowered, letting the two comment on her with contempt and insult.
“Mother, I slept with my brother’s woman just for you. Don’t be mad at me.” Shi Juncai rolled his eyes and started to talk nonsense again.
Mo Shujun goggled at him and responded crossly, “The woman I will give your brother must be a pure maid at least. You slept with her first and leave the trouble to me. How can you have the face to say that you did that for me?”
Shi Juncai didn’t care and commented with bullshit, “What’s the good of a virgin? They are unskillful with no allure, and it’s not fun to have sex with them. I should teach her a few times at least before I can taste her charm. I really helped my brother.”
“What nonsense are you talking about?” Mo Shujun was furious and cursed in a loud voice.
Suddenly she found something wrong and looked at the bed. There were only water stains on the messy sheet, and she knew what they had done at a glance, but there was no blood on it, which meant…
Mo Shujun slapped Shi Juncai once more in a rage. “Naughty boy, I thought you just lost your head for the moment, but you even…”
After cursing Shi Juncai, she still didn’t vent her anger and then aimed at Leng Yan who kept silent, rebuking harshly, “You don’t have a sense of self-love. I provide you with good food and clothes and love you like my daughter. Look at what you have done. You even seduced Juncai repeatedly. It’s a pity that I love you so much.”
From their identity and what happened just now, it could be seen that Leng Yan was forced.
However, Mo Shujun pretended blind in this thing and put all the blame on Leng Yan, while the maid was weak and endured her reproach in silence.
Shi Juncai couldn’t help but cut in. “Mother, why do you curse her? Isn’t it good?”
“Bullshit!” Perhaps Mo Shujun lost her mind out of anger and even spoke out dirty words that she had never said at ordinary times.
Shi Juncai didn’t care and even smiled. “Mother, isn’t it great? I sleep with my brother’s woman, and he will raise my child in the future. It is much easier than what we have planned.”
When Dong Hui didn’t have a son, Mo Shujun and Shi Juncai planned to give a child to Shi Junhe as his foster son to inherit the title of nobility in the future. However, Dong Hui was like an old female cat which protected its babies and refused to raise somebody else’s son no matter how nice he was.
So their hope came to nothing.
Mo Shujun’s eyes lit up and she pondered even though she had been excited. After a while, she didn’t say yes yet her tone softened a lot.
She just rebuked crossly, “Pregnant. If it is so easy as you said, your brother might have had a son now.”
Shi Juncai smiled scornfully and snorted. “It’s because my brother is useless. If I were him, I might have had many children. I think that he is incapable. Even if you give Leng Yan to him, she won’t have a son in the future. It’s better to let me do it!
“I get her pregnant, and he will raise my baby. How wonderful it is! So our title won’t be given to an outsider, right?”
Probably only such a jerk as Shi Juncai could say that he took his brother as an outsider.
However, Mo Shujun didn’t retort unexpectedly. Instead, she was tempted by his words and looked at Leng Yan’s belly carefully, as if there was a baby.
After a long time, Shi Juncai didn’t hear Mo Shujun’s response, so he got impulsive, deciding to show his master card.
He would see how Mo Shujun disagreed after he said that.