good season

The Duke of Wei's Mansion.

With such a major incident at the Ministry of Justice, and Zhu Yu being personally arrested by Yan Xia, Lord Xu, adhering to the principle of "I'll take the credit, you take the blame," immediately sent someone to the Duke of Wei's residence to report the news.

Although Old Madam Wei's cane strike was quite severe and Yan Xia was also seriously injured, he had practiced martial arts since childhood and had also trained in the military camp. For him, this injury was half real and half fake.

The Duke said, “Silly boy, if you’re not seriously injured, who will sympathize with you? Who will pity you? Those censors will whine and complain, Lord Zhu will find fault with them, and the emperor will just try to smooth things over.”

Yan Xia is a master detective; he's definitely not stupid. In fact, he's incredibly quick-witted.

So the father and son, one crying and the other fainting, put on a tragic show in the imperial court.

As for the fact that more than a dozen members of the Yan family ran to the Baoqing Marquis's mansion and took off the roof tiles, that's a side story.

Yan Xia never dreamed that the wicked Zhu Yu would become a eunuch.

Moreover, it was in the Ministry of Justice's prison, which was as secure as an iron plate.

It wasn't a lightning strike or the Grim Reaper's death, but a rat!

Zhu Yu was gnawed by rats, and only that one spot was gnawed.

Yan Xia paused for a moment, then clapped his hands and laughed: "Well done, wonderfully done!"

Yes, this is even better than killing Zhu Yu.

Zhu Yu had not yet been convicted, and even Yan Xia, who was in charge of the case, knew that even with conclusive evidence, convicting Zhu Yu would be extremely difficult.

For example, just last night, the Baoqing Marquis's mansion sent over the murderer who killed Miss Biao.

Even without interrogation, Yan Xia knew that the murderer would take all the blame, and the Marquis of Baoqing's mansion would even prepare all the witnesses and evidence.

As for the six corpses that were later dug up from the manor, the Marquis of Baoqing's mansion would still find a suitable scapegoat.

As long as there are scapegoats, then Zhu Yu is innocent.

If Zhu Yu died last night, then Zhu Yu died unjustly. No matter who killed him, even if it was a rat, as long as he died in the Ministry of Justice prison, then he died unjustly.

Regardless of whether he committed any wrongdoings in the past, if he died unjustly, then he is the victim.

With Consort Li and the Marquis of Baoqing's mansion, there will always be plenty of people who will speak out for him and condemn him in words and deeds.

Once that time comes, both Yan Xia and the Ministry of Justice will become the murderers who killed Zhu Yu, and the poor women who died at Zhu Yu's hands will become evidence to frame him.

The deceased Zhu Yu will be thoroughly whitewashed into a good person, a respected and innocent person, through the wealth and power of the Baoqing Marquis's mansion.

Yan Xia shuddered at the thought of the consequences.

Fortunately, Zhu Yu did not die.

That's how people are. If someone dies, they'll be pitied, but if a rat gnaws on their manhood, it becomes a joke.

Once someone becomes the laughing stock of the neighborhood, all their past scandals, whether true or just rumors, will be dug up.

Afterwards, people will sigh and say, "It's karma, it's all karma!"

Yan Xia guessed correctly. The wind in the capital has now shifted from the fact that Prince Zhu was bitten by a rat spirit to the fact that Prince Zhu is so wicked that the laws of the mortal world are no longer sufficient to punish his crimes. Therefore, Heaven sent a divine rat down to earth to take away his manhood.

The legendary rat spirit transformed into the Spirit Rat with a Ganoderma Lunar Crescent Moon, under the command of the Moon Goddess.

Since rats are prolific breeders, there is a long-standing folk custom of using rats to pray for a large and prosperous family. For example, in the first month of the lunar year, people would paste paper-cut window decorations of rats as part of a wedding procession; women would secretly hide dough figurines of rats at the head of their beds; and the wedding bed would be decorated with patterns of "rats eating grapes," and so on.

This time, the divine rat descended to earth and spared Zhu Yu's life, which was a sign of Heaven's benevolence. However, taking away Zhu Yu's fertility was a sign that Zhu Yu and even the Baoqing Marquis's family had incurred Heaven's wrath, and Heaven wanted to make their family line end!
Once you start something, someone will naturally help you understand it.

Zhao Shiqing originally infiltrated the Ministry of Justice prison with the intention of killing Zhu Yu.

But later, she changed her strategy.

Just as Zhang Siyu said, if she kills Zhu Yu, the real Liu Qi will surely die. Zhang Siyu, who brought Liu Qi in, as well as Liu Qi's family and the guard who has to support a large family and whose wife is pregnant, will all be implicated by her. She can regain her original identity, but they will have to pay for Zhu Yu's life.

These people are innocent, and Zhu Yu doesn't deserve it!
Zhao Shiqing only changed her mind on the spot; she hadn't really thought that much about it. As for letting the rats gnaw off her genitals, it was simply because she wanted to destroy the tools of the crime for those poor women who had been harmed by Zhu Yu.

Yes, that means destroying the tools used in the crime.

Miss Zhao hadn't really thought that much about it, so when she heard the story of the divine rat descending to earth to take away the Zhu family's fertility and cause the Zhu family to die out, she was stunned.

Good heavens, she unintentionally created a legend.

She is a true genius.

The brilliant Miss Zhao returned home triumphantly and told her grandfather the story she had heard on the street. Zhen Wuduo laughed heartily, thinking that she was indeed his precious granddaughter.

If it doesn't make a sound, it's a blockbuster.

Even today, the legend of crows giving warnings still circulates in Beijing. When crows enter a house, no one chases them away. On the contrary, children are often trembling with fear, afraid that they have done something wrong in front of their parents and that this has attracted the crows to give warnings.

Now, Zhen Wuduo could guess with a flick of his toes that, at least most of the time, men in the capital would instinctively want to cover their crotches when they saw a rat.

Human joys and sorrows cannot be shared. While the grandfather and grandson were laughing and joking, the Baoqing Marquis's mansion was shrouded in gloom.

Madam Wei has fainted twice already. The imperial physician has warned that there must not be a third time in the near future, otherwise there will be no way to save her.

Therefore, Madam Wei could only force herself to remain calm and not let herself faint again.

Her Yu'er was still lying in bed, and she had not yet avenged Yu'er.

However, after regaining consciousness, Zhu Yu only uttered a few words when describing the rat; otherwise, he just stared blankly at Cheng Chen above his head.

She asked, "Yu'er, does your body still hurt?"

Zhu Yu still looked at Cheng Chen.

She said, "Yu'er, don't worry, Grandmother will definitely get justice for you. You were harmed by those people in the Ministry of Justice, it was Yan Xia who harmed you."

Upon hearing Yan Xia's name, Zhu Yu finally reacted. He turned his head, and although he was facing Old Madam Wei, it was as if he was looking at someone through Old Madam Wei.

"That cut hurt so much, am I dead?"

His memory ends at that knife wound. He was in so much pain. He thought he was going to die, but the next moment, he was back in that cell, where a big rat was gnawing at his genitals.

Old Madam Wei was startled. A knife? What knife?

“Yu’er, did someone slash you with a knife? I knew it, this isn’t something a rat gnawed, it’s a knife cut, it was done by the Ministry of Justice, wasn’t it?” Zhu Yuzhong looked at Cheng Chen again and said quietly, “Yan Xia must have killed me, he killed me, I was killed by Yan Xia.”

Madam Wei was both shocked and furious. That beast Yan Xia actually wanted to kill her Yu'er!

“Grandmother’s darling, you’re not dead, you’re alive and well. You’re so lucky, Yan Xia has no ability to kill you.”

This time, Zhu Yu ignored her and just muttered to herself, "So I was killed by Yan Xia. He actually killed me. He killed me for Zhao Yunnuan and those bastards."

Unfortunately, his voice grew softer and softer, and Old Madam Wei could only hear the first few words; she couldn't hear the rest at all.

Madam Wei was furious and sent someone to summon Lord Zhu, but Lord Zhu was not at the mansion.

Madam Wei could hardly believe her ears. Her son was seriously injured, and yet his father had gone out of the mansion again.

"Where did he go? Find him and bring him back!"

Madam Wei summoned Lord Zhu's confidant and, through a combination of persuasion and coercion, finally got the confidant to tell the truth.

The Zhu family's concubines weren't just the two sisters; there was also a woman named Lan, whom they had taken in a year ago.

The reason he's been only visiting the sisters lately is because Lan is pregnant and it's inconvenient for her to take care of him. So, he's gradually forgotten about Lan.

Now that the heir apparent has been deposed, Lord Zhu has thought of Lady Lan, or rather, he has thought of Lady Lan's unborn child.

Although Lord Zhu was a womanizer, he had difficulty conceiving. To date, he only had one son, Zhu Yu. His concubines all gave birth to daughters, and one of them was even killed by Zhu Yu.

It is conceivable that Lord Zhu suddenly realized how important Lady Lan's pregnancy was.

Therefore, as soon as Zhu Yu was out of danger, Lord Zhu went to visit Lady Lan, and at that moment he was holding Lady Lan's belly and calling for his son.

Madam Wei was both angry and heartbroken. She was angry that Lord Zhu had abandoned Yu'er so quickly, and heartbroken that her Yu'er would have an even harder time in the future.

After complaining for a while, Madam Wei wiped away her tears and had someone call Madam Ma over.

"What kind of mistress are you? Your own son is being bullied and you can't do anything about it. You don't even know that the other woman is pregnant. You're a good-for-nothing. I shouldn't have let you into the family in the first place."

Mrs. Ma was so ashamed by the scolding that she couldn't lift her head. However, when she heard the phrase "the other woman is pregnant," she instinctively looked up and asked, "Mother-in-law, you said the other woman is pregnant? Whose child is it?"

Madam Wei was so angry she wanted to slap her, but remembering the imperial physician's instructions, she could only tell herself: Don't get angry, don't get angry.

"It's your man's child."

Madam Ma was stunned for a moment, and a surge of hatred welled up in her eyes. Her son was ruined, but the vixen outside was pregnant. Why?
"Don't think I don't know what you're up to. You have a son, and regardless of whether he's your biological son or not, you're still the Lady of the Marquis. If I were you, I would go there myself right now, bring that woman into the manor, and have her treated well. When the time is right, we'll separate the mother and keep the child," Old Madam Wei said coldly.

Ma was completely submissive; what else could she do at this point?

Her son is already disabled, and at her age, it would be incredibly difficult for her to have a son. If she wanted to, she would have done it long ago. If she hasn't been able to conceive after all these years, then she truly can't have one anymore.

Just as her mother-in-law said, if she has a healthy son, she will still be the Lady of the Marquis. When her son inherits the title, she will be the next Old Lady Wei, the supreme matriarch of this mansion.

When Madam Ma arrived at Chunhui Hall, she didn't even bother to look at Zhu Yu lying next door. Instead, she took her people, had her carried into a sedan chair, and went to fetch her mistress.

As evening fell, a small sedan chair made of blue cloth carried a beautiful woman into the mansion.

From then on, the household had one more concubine, Lan, who was six months pregnant.

To ensure the safety of the unborn child in Aunt Lan's womb, Madam Ma allowed Aunt Lan to live in her own courtyard, right under her nose. She was determined not to allow any harm to the unborn child in Aunt Lan's womb.

From that day on, Madam Ma focused all her attention on Aunt Lan's belly, worried that Aunt Lan was carrying a girl. Madam Ma even summoned almost every midwife in the capital.

These midwives are all experienced, but they often frequent high-class households, and their greatest skill is reading people's expressions and moods.

They said whatever Ma wanted to hear, almost in unison, that Aunt Lan was carrying a boy.

Madam Ma was indeed very happy. From then on, she wished she could keep Aunt Lan by her side, taking her everywhere she went, for fear of any mishap.

The news of Aunt Lan's affair quickly reached Zhu Yu's ears.

Zhu Yu gritted his teeth.

He wasn't even dead yet, and they'd already made a smaller one to replace him.

Think beautifully.

From that day on, Zhu Yu became even more silent, but also more cooperative with the imperial physicians' treatment.

His genitals had been bitten off at the root, and there was no possibility of them regenerating. In order not to affect his urination, the imperial physician even consulted Liu, the doctor who specialized in cleaning eunuchs. As a result, Zhu Yu recovered well, and after a month, he was able to move around normally again.

But Zhu Yu didn't want to wait; a month was too long.

While he lay in bed recovering from his injuries, he had someone summon Sun Lingzhi.

If it weren't for that dream (or perhaps it wasn't a dream), Zhu Yu would have long forgotten about Sun Lingzhi.

He had actually grown tired of Sun Lingzhi long ago, otherwise he wouldn't have given her to his father, Lord Zhu. The reason he remained attached to her later was simply because of the thrill.

But because of that dream, Zhu Yu got to know Sun Lingzhi again.

In her past life, Sun Lingzhi killed Zhao Yunnuan, but Zhu Yu didn't have the heart to silence her because she was ruthless and useful.

Zhu Yu still thinks this way: Sun Lingzhi is too useful. Not only can she act pitiful, but she is also ruthless when it comes to killing people.

Sun Lingzhi already knew that Zhu Yu had become a eunuch, and she even cried about it.

It wasn't that she felt sorry for Zhu Yu, but rather for herself, as she would soon have one less person to rely on in the mansion.

Now that Zhu Yu has sent someone to summon her, Sun Lingzhi is filled with unease. Zhu Yu was already a pervert, and now that he's not even a man anymore, will he become even more perverted?
Sun Lingzhi instinctively protected her stomach; she was pregnant.

When Aunt Lan entered the mansion, she reminded her whether she should tell Old Madam Wei that Aunt Lan wasn't the only one who was pregnant; she was also pregnant, but it was too early to tell.

As she walked, she thought to herself, and when she looked up, she found herself outside the Chunhui Hall.

Sun Lingzhi clenched her fist gently. Let's go inside and talk about it.

Sun Lingzhi didn't even get to see Old Madam Wei before she was taken directly to Zhu Yu's sickbed.

Zhu Yu extended his hand, and Sun Lingzhi quickly grasped it, saying softly, "Young Master, you still remember me? I thought you had forgotten me." (End of Chapter)