No matter what, it was a matter of life and death. She had to keep the life of his beloved before he came back.
The master and servants rushed out of Changfeng Pavilion.
Outside the courtyard gate, several old women and maids were standing guard at the gate. They wanted to mock and ridicule Gu Ying when she finally came out.
But before they could speak, Gu Ying calmed her face and took the initiative to say coldly, "If you still want Sun Mammy to be released, you should hurry up and take me to the Washing Flower Yard, otherwise, the Eldest Prince will ask you for your crimes when he comes back!"
Someone was not convinced. "What gives you the right to order us around? Do you know who we are? We are the veterans in the Duke's mansion! Even the Eldest Prince can't do anything to us!"
Gu Ying's cold eyes swept over their faces. She curled her lips in a cold laugh, "Are you really beyond his control or just pretending? Why don't you try it out and see if the Eldest Prince will let you keep Miss Huo company after she dies."
When it came to this, everyone looked at each other in silence.
In this mansion, the Eldest Prince's name carried more weight than the Duke himself.
He was the killing god who had just returned from the border. He would draw blood without a second thought.
Although the Eldest Prince seemed to dote on his new wife very much, the old servants in the Duke's mansion knew about what had happened between the Eldest Prince and Miss Huo. Naturally, they did not take the new wife seriously. But Miss Huo was different.
The Eldest Prince was a ruthless King of Hell. No one dared to easily challenge his bottom line.
What if Miss Huo really died? What if the Eldest Prince went crazy again?
At this point, no one dared to make things difficult for Gu Ying anymore.
A cold north wind blew by. Gu Ying's mind throbbed with pain all of a sudden.
"Mistress, what's wrong?"
"Nothing...nothing."
She settled her mind and walked towards the Washing Flower Yard with Yin Lan and Yanzhi's help.
She rarely set foot in Zhao Changxing's place. Apart from dealing with Cheng, she usually only moved around Changfeng Pavilion. She even rarely went to Zhengde Pavilion where the Duke stayed.
And now, suddenly coming to the Washing Flower Yard,
she deeply felt what it meant to be out of one's depth.
The whole architectural style of the Washing Flower Yard was completely different from Changfeng Pavilion. Courtyard after courtyard, majestic and splendid. All kinds of pavilions and towers, extravagantly luxurious, utterly breathtaking.
But even in such an intricately carved and painted place, the Washing Flower Yard where Huo Qiyun lived was the most remote and narrowest corner of the entire Washing Flower Yard.
She had just walked to the small bluestone alley at the entrance and already felt extremely oppressed. Not to mention the uncomfortable layout of this yard, even the withered plants emitted a damp lifelessness.
Through the wall of the yard, she could hear Lv Zhi's hoarse cries.
"Mistress, please save my mistress!"
"She is dying!"
Gu Ying's heart tightened as she quickly pushed open the door and walked in.
Seeing Lv Zhi kneeling in the snow in the yard, and dozens of onlooking maids and old women, Gu Ying's face turned icy cold.
How utterly cold-blooded of Cheng and Zhao Changxing!
"Oh! Little Ying, you've finally come! Come and see what is going on here!" Cheng's sarcastic voice came from the main room. Not a trace of concern, but rather gloating pleasure.
At the moment, the carved redwood door was wide open.
Dressed in brocade robes, Cheng had made people move a chair for her to sit arrogantly in the center like a fox spirit.
Zhao Changxing was sprawled lazily on another chair padded with thick brocade. Hearing that Gu Ying had arrived, his eyes flashed with interest, especially when he saw Gu Ying come in wrapped in a thick cloak, her snow-white little face nestled in a circle of white fox fur, like a graceful snow lotus under the moonlight. He narrowed his eyes with a stir in his heart and an instant reaction below.
As expected of a girl from the Ye family, she had the charm to capture a man's heart at first sight and make him desire her, much more alluring than the one lying in his room.
He secretly schemed, thinking to himself that in a few days, Zhao Changdu would be leaving Bianjing right?
Look, the little girl just married and already abandoned alone at home, truly pitiful.
As soon as Gu Ying saw this mother and son, she felt uncomfortable. She frowned, avoided Zhao Changxing's blatant ogling, and surveyed the surroundings.
Cheng had ordered all the male and female servants attending the Washing Flower Yard to be tied up in the yard.
Apart from a tearful Lv Zhi, everyone else was beaten black and blue, bloody and mangled, panting one breath at a time, if they survive the winter it would be a miracle.
Gu Ying sneered silently and walked steadily into the main room with a frosty face. She gave Cheng a greeting bow, "Mother, where is Yun Elder Sister?"
"You still have the nerve to ask about her?" Cheng flashed the status of being the main mother of the Duke's mansion. "What do you mean by secretly giving her medicine?"
"I only saw that Yun Elder Sister's health was weak so I had someone help supplement her."
"Supplement her?" Zhao Changxing chimed in meaningfully, his gaze looking obliquely at her, "Does my younger sister think I, the esteemed son of the Duke's mansion, cannot even take care of my own wife?"
"That's not Little Ying's intention."
"Then what is your intention?"
"In a mansion where there are only two daughters-in-law like me and Yun Elder Sister, even if we secretly exchanged some things privately, there is no need to let Big Brother know everything right?"
"Huh, my younger sister really has a sharp tongue. Now that you have admitted you did give her things, what intention lies behind poisoning her?"
Zhao Changxing pressed her strongly with his questioning, directly pushing this false charge onto Gu Ying.
Yin Lan and Yanzhi were furious at this false accusation against their mistress. They protectively flanked Gu Ying in the center.
With just a look from Cheng, two old women silently slipped away to shut the door of the Washing Flower Yard.
The sound of closing the door was neither loud nor soft, but clearly showed Cheng's stance. This matter would be settled within this yard tonight.
Gu Ying's nerves tensed as she looked straight at Zhao Changxing with clear bright eyes, "Big Brother, you are being too harsh with your words. The urgent task now is to let the medic examine Yun Elder Sister instead of sitting here interrogating servants and interrogating me while waiting for Yun Elder Sister to die."
Cheng was irritated by Gu Ying's attitude. "How dare you talk to me like that! As the main mother of the Duke's mansion you better watch your tone!"
"A main mother wouldn't treat people like this. The victim has been poisoned but you don't let the medic treat her. Instead, you falsely accuse innocent people here!"
"What innocent?! I already had people examine the leftover medicine. It contained the poison Hook Lips! If you didn't put it there, then who?!"
Gu Ying's brows tightened. She finally asked a key clue, "Hook Lips?"
