Ink Burns

Chapter 68 The True Heart of the Mud (3000)

Returning to Cheng's house at night, Old Lu stopped at the side door and saw blood splattered in the carriage. He squinted at Shanyue and smacked his lips. Shanyue passed the silver coins to him and said, "Master Lu, the cleaning fee."

Old Lu was angry: "Who do you think I am?"

After a pause, he changed the subject: "I'm going to blackmail Master Wu." And I want to blackmail him for a large sum.

Shanyue:?
Old Lu smiled, revealing the coolness of a man of the underworld: "I am laughing. You and Master Wu are always settling accounts, and you wish you could stay eight feet away from each other - it is obvious that you can't get rid of the habit of 'crossing the bridge bone' in your bones!"

Originally, Shanyue was far away from them. She had an elegant and beautiful appearance and did the most "high-end" job of copying paintings. In "Guoqiaogu", she was like a taciturn and arrogant lady. They, a group of low-class people who lived on the edge of a knife, called her the arrogant "Miss Jiao" behind her back. Except for Wang Erniang, who scolded her in front of them but protected her secretly, they all thought that this girl was arrogant and looked down on others.

But the Fifth Master pampered her and spoiled her, and helped her clean up her mess attentively, but she didn't know what was good for her, and was distant and polite to the Fifth Master. Look, the Fifth Master just helped this girl to settle down with a woman and a girl, which was both a settlement and a surveillance, and they were hidden in a thatched cottage in the mountains, and no one knew about it.

The woman must be dead. She lies in bed every day, with a weak heart. Her voice floats on the edge of her mouth and she stares blankly: "I regret it. I feel sorry for those girls Cui Niang, Wan Wan, Qiu Niang. If I go down, I will burn my whole body into oil residue to atone for my sins."

Otherwise, he would lie straight on the bed and cry silently: "I hate, I hate Liu Hezhou, Cheng Daxing, my father, and my mother."

Most of the time I am drowsy.

Then, the girl with thick braids started crying: "Madam, you are an accomplice, and I am the accomplice's lackey. I will go with you to the frying pan and fry all over."

A master and a servant, their love is as deep as the sea.

This "Miss Jiao" didn't realize at all that Master Wu loved her deeply: Master Wu was such a steady man that he was even willing to take risks and hide people for her.
He was quite dissatisfied and muttered a few words in front of Wang Erniang, who splashed his foot washing water all over the floor: "You know shit!"

He knows nothing, but people like them who work on the edge of a knife and live by their own strength are willing to take risks for others, which is the greatest sacrifice they can make.

This "Miss Jiao" is really
Old Lu glanced behind him. The blood in the car had brought the "Miss Jiao" and the "common people" much closer.

Shan Yue followed suit with a smile: "Of course. Every day we spend together counts."

As he spoke, he casually pulled the unconscious Cheng Xinghe out, like a limp shelled crab.

Miss Wang Er and Huang Zhi had been waiting at the side door. Jiang Er was guarding the door. Seeing Shan Yue coming in with one hand supporting the unconscious Cheng Xinghe, Miss Wang Er and Huang Zhi took one of them each. Jiang Er was so scared that he was shaking like a sieve: "Young Master, what happened to the Young Master?"

Shan Yue's face changed as soon as she got off the car. Her eyelids were red and she cried, "The medicine was replaced. The real medicine stayed in Songjiang Prefecture, and the fake medicine was sent out. The nobleman in the capital took the wrong medicine. Lord Liu believed that it was the eldest young master's fault, so he threw him out and punished him privately - his tongue was cut off!"

Jiang Er's face froze. "We... the time we threw dice in the Dongchizi warehouse?"

Could it be that they pulled the wrong goods?

I was dizzy and dazed from gambling that day. It was just dawn and I couldn't see anything clearly. I only remembered that there were fake medicines on the right and real medicines on the left. I had been gambling all night and felt excited and tired. My head was dizzy and Jiang Laosan almost overturned when he was going down the mountain. Could it be that he remembered the wrong direction?

Jiang Er was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat.

Shan Yue paused in tears and said gently, "What do you mean by throwing dice?"

"It's about the time when we played dice with the old con man!" Jiang Er saw that Shan Yue didn't remember and became anxious: "Miss Huang Zhi even helped us win seven or eight taels of silver!"

Huang Zhi put his hands on his hips and said "Hey" with full energy: "You're talking nonsense! You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want!"

Huang Zhi opened his eyes and lied: "I have never heard of leopard, Shunzi, and Tower of Babel!"

Jiang Er was immediately panicked: Are they going to put the blame on them? ? Then, will these drug dealers still be alive! ?
Jiang Er was about to scream, but he heard the gentle and weak Madam He lower her eyebrows and speak softly, repeating what she had just said: "Master Liu has determined that it was the eldest young master who did it."

Jiang Er was stunned: Huh?
After being stunned for a moment, he leaned forward and asked tentatively: "Then it has nothing to do with us?"

Shan Yue blinked and said innocently, "What does it have to do with us? The young master is already like this. No matter how honest we are, his tongue and hands and feet can't be repaired."

Jiang Er was overjoyed and felt that he had escaped a disaster. Of course, he volunteered to be the manipulator and carried Cheng Xinghe, who had all his limbs disabled, back to the main courtyard.

Cheng Xingzi hung his head, and blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, dripping onto the blue brick floor.

Shan Yue casually stepped on the red bloodstains on the ground, and a strange sense of calm surged in his heart.

Lin Yueyue was just in the main courtyard. She screamed and looked at Cheng Xinghe's bloody mouth. Tears fell down her cheeks uncontrollably: "Master, Master! What happened to you?!"

Cheng Xingyu came very quickly with his head down, carrying a medicine box. He took the patient's pulse with one hand, holding his breath. After a long while, he said calmly, "The tendons of the feet and hands are cut." He then twisted Cheng Xingyu's jaw and said, "The tongue is also gone..." He said briefly, "Stop the bleeding first and save his life, then we can talk about other things."

Cheng Xingyu went to the outer room to write a prescription.

Lin Yueyue lowered her head, and only raised it with a look of sorrow after the people left: "Is it you?" Shanyue placed one hand on the table, poured herself a cup of hot tea, and looked at Lin Yueyue calmly.

"You asked me to burn the note that the young master had hidden in the wooden box."

Lin Yueyue burst into tears: "That day, I made a bet with you. I owed you a favor. You asked me to burn the note left by the madam when the young master was not paying attention. You said it was for the young master's good, so that the Cheng family would not find out about the young master's background and let the young master not be the head of the family. I believed it. I trusted you and wanted to keep my promise. It's just my fault that I was stupid and was deceived by you into doing something that hurt the young master."

The mountain moon blows away the foam on the surface of the tea.

Lin Yueyue raised his head and gasped for a few times, then looked at his beloved lying on the bed like a dead dog in mud, his heart was broken, he looked up at Shanyue: ".I must report you!"

The tea soup was okay, it was the finest tea of Longjing before the rain: ever since Cheng Xinghe and Lord Liu "recognized each other" last time, they had replaced all their tea leaves with the finest tea of Longjing before the rain.

The only drawback is that the broken tea foam sticks to the tender flesh of the inner wall of the mouth and cannot be washed away.

Unable to rush it down, Shanyue chose to chew it up bit by bit.

While I was chewing my food slowly and leisurely, a heavy rain came down from the sky, bringing sweetness back to the bitterness.

Lin Yueyue's eyes were filled with tears. She clenched her teeth, turned around and walked out.

".What a poor silly girl." Shan Yue finally spoke, slowly putting down the teacup: "A sincere heart is exchanged for mud, your hopes and beliefs have collapsed, if you want to vent, I will let you do it."

"Not mud!"

Lin Yueyue turned around, her voice as high as a bell: "It's not mud! The love between us is not mud! The eldest young master loves me too! He loves me too! We are not mud! - He protects me, he keeps me warm and fed, he lets me live in the main courtyard, he makes me feel safe, I don't have to wander around, I don't have to live under someone else's roof, I don't have to kowtow - he smiles at me!"

Lin Yueyue screamed hoarsely: "We are sincere in exchange for sincere!"

Shan Yue looked at Lin Yueyue indifferently from head to toe. Her purple-red trimmed jacket, her skirt embroidered with wisteria flowers, her bangs that were lifted up and no longer covered her eyes,
Shanyue stood up, walked to Lin Yueyue's side, gently stroked the left cheek of Lin Yueyue with one hand, and rubbed the corner of his eye with his thumb.

Using force from his fingertips, he wiped away the teardrop mole under Lin Yueyue's left eye that was dotted with eyebrow pencil.

Shan Yue passed by and whispered calmly in her ear, "At night, did he call you Ming Jiang or Yue Yue?"

Lin Yueyue froze in place.

Shanyue slowly let go of Lin Yueyue's shoulders, her eyes remained calm. She could finally unscrupulously put on her most comfortable expression in the Cheng family - that is, expressionless.

"sincere?"

Shan Yue chuckled sarcastically, "You threw away everything - your innocence, reputation, and future, to gamble on a man's sincerity, but in return he insulted you by looking through you at others. If you regarded his 'kindness' to you as sincerity, then you are really a pitiful and foolish girl."

Lin Yueyue was like a drowning fish or a bird with broken wings. She stood there blankly with her eyes wide open, staring straight at the bloodstains on the blue brick floor and the bloodstains left by her dress: she had a premonition that after He changed her makeup, hairstyle, and words and deeds, the young master suddenly showed a fierce love and possessiveness for her.

She has always been introverted, but in bed, the young master asked her to "Don't look at me, twist me with your nails! Scold me! Hit me!" Every time she showed her disguised arrogance, the young master would be as pacified as eating a watermelon from a well in the dog days of summer.
The young master doesn't love her.

She is another woman who is arrogant, proud, and looks down on ordinary people.

This realization almost destroyed her. She had already committed herself wholeheartedly and had no way back, so she could only pretend she didn't know and keep going down this path.

At this time, Lin Yueyue's eyes were dry and there were no tears.

Shan Yue lowered her eyes and said, "If I were you, I would be happy to see Cheng Xinghe's current state."

Lin Yueyue slowly raised her head.

"Because he can't run, walk, speak, or write now, his entire person, body, and soul will all belong to you completely, and no one will compete with you for it anymore."

Shan Yue said calmly: "You can even get a stable, rich and peaceful life because of this."

Shan Yue placed his hand on Lin Yueyue's lower abdomen and said in a deep voice, "It's at the Cheng family."

Lin Yueyue's eyes revealed confusion. After hesitating for a moment, she finally understood Shanyue's meaning and looked at him in fear.

Shan Yue raised his chin slightly, curled his lips and smiled: "Fuck your sincerity - you just want a home."

　The weather has been getting cold these days and I have caught a cold. My nose feels like it’s sealed with cement, and every day I feel like a koi carp with its mouth wide open to breathe. Everyone please pay attention to weather changes!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)