Chapter 12 Letter

As soon as Chen Hui entered the yard, she found that the dead eunuch seemed to have glanced at her. She didn't know what the situation was now, but she couldn't figure it out, so she obediently shut up and waited to hear what he said.

Xiao Liu reported respectfully: "Dadfather-in-law, Miss Chen is here."

Li Youde nodded lazily, but said the first sentence not to Chen Hui, but to Xiao Hu: "Xiao Hu, I'll ask you, did Chen Hui Niang receive a letter today?"

Chen Hui looked at Li Youde in surprise. How did he know... Oh, he must not only be at night, but also people stare at Meiyuan during the day. It would be not difficult to know that she had received a letter. She burned the letter before, thinking that since the original father sent the letter in this secret way, he must have avoided Li Youde's eyes and ears. If she left this letter, wouldn't it be bad if she was seen one day? Therefore, it would be safe to burn it. Unexpectedly, things would come tonight. Should she be foresighted and not let Xiao Hu discover the existence of the letter, but burned the letter in advance?

Xiao Hu heard Li Youde's question and immediately knelt down, his voice trembling as if it were the past: "Reply to Master, no, I didn't see..."

"Didn't see it?" Li Youde sneered, "Come on, call me!"

Xiao Hu was so scared that his face was pale, and Chen Hui was also shocked. When Li Youde asked Xiao Hu about it, he looked quite patient. Why is it going to be punished without anything?

Chen Hui could not have seen Xiao Hu being tortured and remained indifferent. She immediately stepped forward and stood in front of Xiao Hu and said, "Father-in-law, you don't have to examine Xiao Hu anymore. She really doesn't know anything. She didn't see the letter stuffed in from the gate of the courtyard, nor did she find that I was reading the letter."

This was equivalent to admitting her own words, but in fact, it was nothing. It was just a letter of help from home. Although it was indeed a bit of a loss of face to be sent over this dead eunuch, it was natural for her to not notice the etiquette when her father impulsively did not notice etiquette.

Li Youde moved his head slightly, sneered, and suddenly laughed and said, "Miss Chen, you are quite bold."

Chen Hui felt that his words were a bit inexplicable. Just accepting a letter, what courage would she have? There are no viruses, weapons, bacterial bombs, etc. here, so what else could she be afraid of?

"I don't know..."

Chen Hui was about to speak, but Li Youde shouted at the person lying on the ground: "Pret Xu, tell me, what's going on."

Chen Hui turned her head and looked at Mrs. Xu who was still lying on the ground. Suddenly, she realized that the back of the woman she saw today was her. But Mrs. Xu came to deliver food every day and handed it to her directly when delivering food. Isn’t it very convenient and safe? Why bother to worry?... Maybe Mrs. Xu didn’t like her and didn’t want her to know that the person who delivered the letter was her?

"Yes, yes, lord!" Mr. Xu replied hurriedly, "It's today that the Chen family said they missed their daughter, so they asked the old slave to help send a letter. The old slave thought that human relationship was normal, so they did not refuse and secretly stuffed the letter under the Meiyuan Gate... Master, I am really obsessed with it! I beg the master to spare me this time, and I will never dare to do it again!"

Li Youde sneered: "Oh, it's so light. How much money have you collected? How dare you lie to me now?"

Mrs. Xu shook her head in a hurry, but gritted her teeth and said, "Master, Master, you know what you want! I really didn't deceive the master, I dare not!"

Li Youde sneered, and suddenly a few servants came in outside. One of them hurried over and said a few words in his ear. He moved his eyebrows and kicked the person over, angrily shouting: "Useless things!"

The servant who was kicked over by him just stabilized his body and knelt upright, not daring to be disrespectful at all.

Li Youde suppressed the depression in his heart, looked up at Chen Hui, and saw her looking straight at him with clear eyes open, she felt that the fire in her heart could not be suppressed.

He told A Da: "What should you do with this Mrs. Xu?"

A Dadao: "Wife Xu is not a good person, so she should beat her twenty sticks and throw her out of the house!"

Li Youde seemed very satisfied with the answer and nodded and said, "Just do it."

Ada nodded and immediately called someone to drag a bench over, and then lit two strong servants, asking them to hold a wooden stick as thick as an arm, ready to torture.

Mrs. Xu shouted out in horror when Li Youde said, "Just do it." But someone blocked her mouth and could only scream.

Before the fight started, Chen Hui was stunned. Before Xiao Zai said that she was beaten to death by sticks, she had only a vague impression. She had never thought that the real scene would appear in front of her. Such a thick stick would not be able to stand even if she only hit a few sticks, let alone twenty sticks!

At this moment, Li Youde suddenly asked, "Hui Niang, you really know how to hide things. So where did you hide your letter?"

Chen Hui didn't dare to look at Mrs. Xu, but she heard the dull sound of a wooden stick hitting her body. She shuddered and her answer leaked out of her mouth: "...it's burned."

"Burning?" Li Youde glared at his eyes, and then thought of something, his tone suddenly became gloomy, "What is written inside? Are you going to burn it?"

Before Chen Hui could answer, Mrs. Xu fell down again. After hearing Mrs. Xu's muffled, she suddenly started to whimper, as if there was something urgent to say.

Ada glanced at Li Youde, signaled the two servants to pause, and took down the rag that blocked Mrs. Xu's mouth.

As soon as Mrs. Xu was able to speak, she was as anxious as if she was afraid that a stick would fall on her again and said loudly: "Master, old slave, old slave know what was written in the letter! I peeked at it before sending the letter!"

After she said that, she shut up and looked at Li Youde begging.

Li Youde stared at Mrs. Xu and smiled: "I promise you to get ten less sticks."

In other words, if she removes the previous two sticks, she will have to suffer eight sticks.

Mrs. Xu's face turned pale after two sticks. Now that she heard Li Youde's words, she was like a blank paper. She trembled and opened her mouth as if she wanted to negotiate terms with Li Youde, but in the end a trace of fear flashed in her eyes. She stopped the thought and said in a trembling voice: "Go back to Master! The letter was given to her by Miss Chen's lover! The letter was full of unsightly words. The old slave dared not read it too much, and he really couldn't remember it..."

She was hit by a stick. When Chen Huiniang said "it's burned", she came up with this idea in a flash. When the letter burned, there was no evidence. The letter passed her hand. What she said would definitely make Eunuch Li believe and annoyed - even if she was a castrator, there was no reason to tolerate the woman in the backyard who was in trouble! It would be better to say that a castrator could not tolerate this. Even if he didn't like that woman, he wouldn't be able to tolerate it.

Li Youde had just changed his face when Chen Hui burst out laughing.

Li Youde suddenly turned to look at her, and saw her curled her lips, her eyes, and her eyebrows were full of smiles. She said to Mrs. Xu indifferently: "Grandma Xu, do you think I'm really burning if I say the letter is burned? So I plan to arrange some false words to frame me? When I got the letter, I looked at it in a neat way and had not been removed. If you don't have the heavenly eyes, can you still see the content of the letter through the envelope? Then, what's the name of my lover who doesn't exist? You say that you can't remember those unsightly words, and you can always remember who it is, right? Say a name to your father-in-law. With this credit, you may not only save you the remaining eight sticks, but also reward you with some money!"

Chen Hui said this, of course, was cheating Mrs. Xu. Although she felt that Mrs. Xu's slander was inconvincing, who told her to make a mistake and burn the letter? Without strong enough evidence, the dead eunuch would obviously believe Mrs. Xu more than her? It would be pitiful to offend the dead eunuch and cause her to be trapped in the Meiyuan Courtyard and not be able to eat meat. If the dead eunuch thinks that the original eunuch committed suicide because of the lover, maybe she would not even have to eat in the future!

"This, this... Lao Nu, I really can't remember..." Mrs. Xu's head was covered with sweat, her eyes trembled violently due to nervousness, and she said a dry and inconsistent words in her mouth.

Li Youde looked at Chen Hui suspiciously: "Do you still keep the letter?"

Chen Hui smiled naturally and said, "Of course, that letter was given to me by my father. The letter said something about the family, and there is nothing that cannot be said to others. Why did Hui Niang burn it? Fortunately, Hui Niang still kept that letter, and now Grandma Xu can't frame Hui Niang."

"Where is the letter?" Li Youde asked.

Chen Hui said: "It's under the soil in the southeast corner of the plum courtyard."

Li Youde turned his head and glanced at the servant who had been kneeling there after being scolded by him before, and the latter hurriedly said, "You guys, let's get it!"

He said and hurried out.

Chen Hui was calm on her face and felt a little anxious. If she couldn't find the letter for a while, she would be the one who was miserable. It depends on whether she could force Mrs. Xu to collapse in these few minutes.

She looked towards Mrs. Xu slightly, with a slightly sarcastic smile on her lips, and looked at her forehead without any hesitation, sweat falling down, and Mrs. Xu was so nervous.

As if suddenly thinking of something, Chen Hui turned to Li Youde and said, "Dear, this Mrs. Xu is so hateful. She actually used such a thing to ruin Hui Niang's reputation. Now Hui Niang is a father-in-law. She ruined Hui Niang's reputation, but wasn't it just ruined her reputation? Yi Hui Niang came to see her, and she should be rewarded with fifty sticks and beat her to death!"

As soon as Chen Hui's words were filled with coquettishness and grievance came out, he became the last straw to bending the camel. The Xu Grandma, who was afraid that Li Youde would really increase the punishment after hearing Chen Hui's words, shouted heart-wrenchingly: "Please spare my life! Old slave, I'm wrong. Old slave didn't see anything. I'm just talking nonsense to avoid a few sticks. Please beg me to be kind and spare my slave this time!"

Chen Hui let out a sigh of relief and it was done.
Chapter completed!