Chapter 62: Injuring Others Will Eventually Harm Oneself

  Ye Yiniang's heart was racing wildly, almost wanting to flee in terror. But at this moment, Xu Ruoyi had already turned back and asked: "Jiner, is there anything else?"

  Xu Mingjin glanced at Ye Niang, whose face had turned pale, and anxiously said to Xu Ruoyi: "Father, the assassin is not in the Emerald Garden, it's possible that he will run to where the sisters are. We can't guarantee the sisters' safety, and I won't be able to eat or sleep well. Please, Father, go and search again to make sure he's no longer in the Xu Manor."

  Xu Ruoyi heard this and said with a smile: "Jin'er, you can worry about the safety of your sisters, it makes Father very happy."

  Yexi's wife saw the situation, anxious, and hastily said: "Master, if you continue to search like this, it will be dawn soon. Tonight is your wedding night! Can you bear to let your new wife sleep alone? Maybe she's waiting for you to return! How can you make her suffer?"

  Xu Ruoyi's face flashed a hint of unbearable expression, and Ye Niang saw the situation, just wanting to continue persuading Xu Ruoyi to give up the search, when she saw Xu Ruoyi wave her hand and say: "You don't need to say anything else, Yan'er will understand me, but the safety of the people in the mansion is more important."

  When she heard this, her heart was completely captured by Xu Ruoyi's gentle and affectionate "Yan'er". The new wife's name was Ye Yunnian, and in just a few hours, he had already started calling her Yan'er... I've been married to him for over ten years, and he has never called me by my name like that before. In an instant, Madam Ye's heart was drowned in a sea of jealousy.

  Xu Ruoyi was quite careless in this regard, he didn't notice anything unusual about Ye Yiniang at all. He instructed Xu Mingjin to go back to sleep and then led the servants to walk towards the courtyard where Xu Mingxia lived. Ye Yiniang was pulled by Xu Ruoyi to move forward, but her mind was completely preoccupied with how to dismember Ye Yunyan into a thousand pieces.

  They arrived at Xu Mingxia's courtyard, the gatekeeper saw that it was Xu Ruoyi and didn't dare to block him, carefully opening the door to let them pass. Xu Ruoyi and his group walked all the way to the entrance of Xu Mingxia's living room, stretched out their hand to knock on the door. After a moment, the lights inside the room lit up, followed by the voice of Xu Mingxia's personal maid Ping'er: "Who is it? What are you doing at this late hour?"

  "It was me."

  Inside, Ping'er heard Xu Ruoyi's voice and was very surprised. What is Master doing in Miss's room at midnight? However, she didn't dare to delay, ordering the little maid to open the door, while she herself rushed towards the inner chamber, thinking of telling Miss that Master had arrived first. Ping'er arrived at the door of the inner chamber, calling out to Miss repeatedly, pushing open the door and walking in, fumbling to light the lamp.

  "Ah!" Ping'er let out a terrified scream.

  Xu Ruoyi, who had already entered the living room, hastily rushed into the inner chamber. When he saw what was happening inside, he too was shocked speechless. Ye Niang also got frightened by that scream and followed Xu Ruoyi, rushing in as well. "Ah!" she cried out.

  Only to see in the inner room, Xu Mingxia was hugging a fat-headed and big-eared man, sleeping soundly. Probably awakened by the screams of Xu Ruoyi and others, she opened her sleepy eyes and looked at the people who had rushed into her boudoir with great surprise. But soon she discovered that something was wrong, and when she lowered her head to take a look, she saw the fat-headed and big-eared man's head in her arms, "Ah!" She screamed louder than anyone else. This time, not only the slaves and servants in her courtyard but also the people from several nearby courtyards heard her scream. Many people got up and rushed over to see what was happening.

  Xu Mingxia screamed and hurriedly pushed the man in her arms outwards, but he was too heavy, she couldn't push him with just two hands. At this time, Ye Yiniang had already thrown aside what happened to Ye Yunyan and was extremely angry at the situation before her eyes. She saw that the man was exactly the one she had bought and personally put into the Emerald Garden to ruin Xu Mingjin's reputation, but why did he appear on her daughter's bed?! Ye Yiniang was shocked and frightened, with only one thought in her mind: It's over, it's over, what can be done now? She saw her daughter struggling to push the man away but couldn't, so she quickly went forward to help. The mother and daughter together used their strength and finally pushed the man off the bed.

  Xu Ruoyi looked at the scene in front of him, feeling extremely angry. As someone who had been immersed in officialdom for over a decade, he had long since developed a pair of eyes that could see through worldly affairs. With just one glance, he knew that his daughter had been schemed against. This was absolutely not because Xu Mingxia was shameless herself. Moreover, Xu Ruoyi had always known that Xu Mingxia secretly liked the young master of the Pingxi Wangfu, Xuan Yuan Qidi. He was also pleased to see this happen. If his daughter married well, his official position would rise to a higher level. Xu Ruoyi looked down at the man who had finally awakened on the ground and thought that such a rough and ugly man was someone Mingxia would only look up to if she were blind.

  But who knows what the two of them did before he came? What if that man raped Xu Mingxia?

  Xu Ruoyi immediately ordered the nanny to come in and check if Xu Mingxia was still intact, and ordered someone to take the man who had just gotten up to be interrogated. Only then did she look at the mother and daughter who were already embracing each other in silence and pain. Several people all withdrew from Xu Mingxia's inner chamber and sat down in the flower hall.

  "Master! Someone must be framing Xia'er, you have to stand up for her!" Ye Niangniang rushed in front of Xu Ruoyi and cried: "Poor Xia'er, who is so heartless!" However, Ye Niangniang was very clear in her mind that this matter could only be done by Xu Mingjin! But she couldn't mention Xu Mingjin's name, otherwise, it would expose her own scheme to frame Xu Mingjin. Master would be the angriest with herself at that time. Thinking of this, Ye Niangniang silently cursed Xu Mingjin in her heart, but didn't mention a word about him.

  Xu Mingxia was held down by several ayahs, still not understanding what they were going to do. When she finally understood, she let out a series of shrill cries: "No! I didn't do that kind of filthy thing! I'm innocent! Innocent!"

  Xu Ruoyi's face showed a look of unbearable pain, and the aunt had already been crying. She now deeply regretted provoking Xu Mingjin. What was this? Stealing a chicken but losing rice? But Xia'er was her own flesh and blood! She wanted to ask Xu Ruoyi to drive away those maids, but Xu Ruoyi only said two sentences, making her immediately shut up.

  Xu Ruoyi said, "If those old women find out that Xi'er is still intact, I will do my best to suppress this matter, and Xi'er's reputation will not be affected in the slightest. She can still have a grand marriage in the future. But if it's not verified, she'll have to stay in the ancestral temple!"

  Xu Mingxia's screams continued indoors, it was really unknown how she had such great strength to scream, many maids couldn't stand it and kept a distance from here. A moment later, the two matrons walked out of the inner room and said to Xu Ruoyi: "The young lady is still intact."

  Upon hearing this, Ye Yiniang finally let out a sigh of relief and collapsed to the ground.

  Xu Ruoyi stood up and walked out to instruct the servants, "Tonight, get rid of all the maids and slaves who are present. Including that man."

  "The steward hesitated and said: 'Master, there are over thirty people present tonight, I'm afraid...'"

  Xu Ruoyi said: "Then close them all first."

  The housekeeper took orders and left.

  After finishing all this and comforting Xu Mingxia and her daughter, when Xu Ruoyi returned to the new house, she was exhausted. By now, it's almost dawn.

  Ye Yunyan saw him and hurriedly came forward to support him, placing him on the couch. She was both asking about his well-being and massaging his sore shoulders at the same time. Xu Ruoyi had never received such thoughtful treatment from Ye Yiniang before. Looking at the person in front of her who was gentle and elegant, with delicate skin, she looked incredibly young and captivating - this was definitely not something that Ye Yiniang, a middle-aged woman, could compare to. For a moment, he felt extremely comfortable. The series of annoying things he had just experienced at Xu Mingxia's place slowly faded from his mind.

  Xu Ruoyi saw that Ye Yunchang's face was always smiling, so he knew that she was indeed as he had guessed, virtuous and magnanimous, able to understand that he had no choice but to leave her alone in the empty house tonight. For a moment, the more he looked at Ye Yunchang, the more pleasing she became. Originally, he hadn't planned to let her manage the backyard, but now he was starting to consider it. He worried about telling Xu Ruoyi about what had happened with Jiang tonight. After all, this wasn't something to be proud of. She had just married into the family. The fewer people who knew about this matter, the better.

  Fortunately, Ye Yunyan only asked a faint question, and he hastily passed it by. After that, she wisely stopped asking. Xu Ruoyi saw this and liked her even more in his heart.

  Two people chatted for a while and then hugged each other and fell asleep on the bed.

  As soon as it dawned, the two got up, had breakfast and went hand in hand to Chunhui Garden to pay their respects to Old Lady Xu.

  Xu Mingjin closed all the doors and went back to sleep after Xu Ruoyi left with everyone last night. This morning, she got up early, had breakfast, and rushed to Old Madame's Chunhui Courtyard. She was curious about Xu Ruoyi's new wife. Of course, that was only part of it - she also came to collect gifts. If you don't get some gifts for calling a little girl who is not much younger than yourself "mother", then that would be too cheap. Others probably thought the same way. Xu Mingying, Xu Mingfang... all the young ladies from the Xu family had arrived, and even Xu Mingxuan came today. But only Xu Mingxia was nowhere to be seen.

  Xu Mingjin sneered, feeling that what happened last night was too embarrassing to show her face. Xu Mingjin ordered Yuzhu to secretly hide in the dark and observe everything clearly, then report back to her.

  Xu Ruoyi still loves Xu Mingxia, no matter how much benefit is mixed in that love. But last night, Xu Ruoyi was indeed thinking for Xu Mingxia and minimizing her harm. Xu Mingjin knew that Xu Ruoyi wanted to keep this thing hidden, but paper can't wrap fire. It's just a pity for those maidservants, now they are locked up, don't know what the final outcome is.

  Mrs. Xü saw that everyone had arrived, except for Xü Míngxiá. She was very fond of Xü Míngxiá and immediately sent someone to visit her, but was stopped by Xü Ruòyì. He said: "Mother, Xiǎ'ér was frightened last night and probably can't come today. Later, I'll take my wife to visit her personally. You're old, don't go, and Xiǎ'ér won't be able to keep this good fortune either!"

  Mrs. Xü heard this and was still very worried, so Xü Ruòyì had to comfort her again. Only then did Mrs. Xü stop dwelling on the matter, but she swept her gaze over her granddaughter who had been standing in a circle, lingering longest on Xü Míngjǐn. She snorted coldly and said: "Xiǎo'er has received a fright, yet all these younger sisters of hers are smiling with joy - truly heartless!"