Chapter 235 - Framing, Something Evil Has Got Me (2/2)
Luckily, Min’er said her brother would definitely come to rescue her.
Today, seeing Yu Feng, she immediately felt there was still hope.
Yu Feng patted her shoulder, supported her to sit up, and pointed at the proud-looking old eunuch beside him. “Don’t cry, my sister. Come meet Eunuch Wei. He’s from Consort Yu’s palace, and Consort Yu is our younger cousin. She heard you’re in Mo Manor so she especially sent people to visit you.”
“Consort Yu?” The name didn’t ring a bell with Auntie Fang, but she received Yu Feng’s signaling, and so she immediately wiped her tears with the good sense and curtsied to the old Eunuch Wei. “I bow in respect before Eunuch Wei.”
Seeing her pay such a salute to him, Eunuch Wei involuntarily grew fond of her. He made a gesture to hold her smilingly. “You’re being too polite. I came today to visit you on behalf of Her Highness. I didn’t expect you’re ill like this.”
He turned around to face Mo Huawen and said with a solemn face, “You don’t even send for a doctor when your wife is ill like this? If you can’t find a good doctor, I can request a royal doctor from Her Highness for your wife.”
“Wife? He should really call that! “To win Yu Feng over, Consort Yu really came so far as to send a royal doctor to treat a concubine who can’t even show up in public.”
Mo Huawen sneered and put his teacup on the table with a thump. “Eunuch Wei, she’s my concubine, not my wife. My wife was Fu General’s first legitimate daughter. If you call her my wife, you don’t seem to respect Fu General Manor or the Emperor in the court.”
Back then, the Emperor had personally agreed on Mo Huawen’s marriage. The old eunuch should call a concubine as his wife. He really disrespected the Fu General Manor and the Emperor.
“You…” The old eunuch was chocked with anger hearing this. He moved his throat and stretched his neck, but still, he couldn’t say a word. If someone wanted to make trouble out of this, he could even be sentenced to be captivated. Therefore, the old eunuch didn’t dare to talk back.
Before the royal family, a third-grade official didn’t matter at all. However, they mattered much in front of others. How did the old eunuch dare to directly confront Mo Huawen? The most he could do was threaten Mo Huawen in the name of Consort Yu. He wanted to make Auntie Fang a legal wife by this and then drew Mo Huawen into Consort Yu’s team.
“Old sir, I did nothing. It was not my fault that the child was gone. I didn’t know how that happened either. On that day, I first felt dizzy, and then when I woke up, the mistake had been made. Old sir, I’ve been serving you for many years and gave birth to a son and a daughter for you. How could I kill your son myself? It’s my child too.”
Auntie Fang dived into Mo Huawen’s arms, tugged at his clothes, and cried until she was out of breath. Her eyes, words, and face all carried sorrow. She clung to Mo Huawen and nearly fainted from whining.
“Old sir, show some pity on Auntie Fang. On that, Auntie Fang really knew nothing. When she got out, she looked lost. I was following her, and when I saw her not as spirited as before, I asked her to go back to the room to rest. But Auntie Fang looked blank as if she had been possessed and she insisted on going out. Then, after you punished her, she finally looked clearheaded. That night, Auntie Fang cried until late at night. I couldn’t bear to walk in, seeing her unable to support herself because of crying. Auntie Fang really liked the child. How would she not want the little master in her?”
The maidservant, standing aside, couldn’t take it anymore, knelt beside Auntie Fang while crying. At the same time, she kowtowed to Mo Huawen. “Old sir, you must look into for the sake of Auntie Fang. She’s obviously possessed that day.”
Meanwhile, Mo Huawen still coolly watched the master and her servant putting on a show, while Yu Feng was shocked, walked to them, and lifted the young maidservant from the ground, snapping. “What’s that? Auntie Fang was possessed? Was it on that day or before? What happened? Tell me!”
“Since the abortion, Auntie Fang had been feeling unwell but nothing serious because the servants in the manor served her well. But, a few days before the thing happened, she acted strangely and looked absentminded. Sometimes, she would sit there in a daze, and when she woke up, she didn’t know what she’d done.”
The little maidservant still had traces of tears and dirt on her face. Those streaks made her look very pitiful and sincere.
“She’d been absentminded. She didn’t know what was happening or sober up until the thing finished… Ah, something’s going on!” The old Eunuch Wei frowned while murmuring to himself. Suddenly, he changed his face and exclaimed.
Yu Feng hurriedly let go of the maidservant and asked, “Eunuch Wei, what’s that?”
“Obviously, Auntie Fang had been put under a spell. Someone must have affected your sister’s brain with evil things. Oh, that makes sense. Why did a mother get rid of her child? Evil things were working. In the past, a consort had been controlled and killed her son in her. The Emperor was furious and looked into it, only to find another consort had trapped her with evil things.”
After that, the old Eunuch Wei twisted around to face Mo Huawen. “Sir Mo, there were indeed evil things. I used to see some in the palace. Today, Her Highness sent me to visit the daughter of the Yu family. I couldn’t ignore it after such a thing had happened. Sir Mo, please let me look into this matter in your manor, and I might clear Auntie Fang’s name.”
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