Chapter 41 Aying, how to kill people

After Xie Chengyi entered the Marquis' Mansion, he went straight to Xingchunyuan.

"Your Highness." Ping'er bowed.

"Where's my eldest sister?" Xie Chengyi asked cautiously.

Ping'er glanced at Xie Chengyi and replied, "Inside the house."

When Xie Chengyi was about to go in, Ping'er called him softly, "Prince!"

Xie Chengyi turned around and saw Ping'er hesitant to speak, and couldn't help but asked sternly, "What's wrong?"

Ping Er immediately knelt down and kowtowed, saying, "Please, my lord, save the young lady!"

Just this sentence made Xie Chengyi feel very depressed, "Tell me in detail!"

Ping'er instantly felt very upset for her master. "The eldest lady came back to the mansion because she had a quarrel with her husband. Not only did her husband not listen to her, he even allowed the prostitute in the brothel to give birth to an illegitimate child and bring it back to the palace. The eldest lady didn't allow me to talk about these things, saying that you are too busy and can't cause more trouble. But I see the eldest lady crying every day, and I really feel sorry for her! Please, my lord, make the decision for her!"

After listening to Ping'er's brief summary, Xie Chengyi was furious. He clenched his hands tightly, wishing he could capture Xu Yuanping and beat him up right away!
But he still had to suppress his anger. After all, he had to consider his elder sister and know what her plans were.

"Okay, I understand." Xie Chengyi's face was very gloomy.

Lift the curtain.

"Miss, the prince is here."

Xie Hejun was feeling sad, but when he heard his brother coming, he quickly wiped his eyes and took a few deep breaths.

Xie Chengyi turned and went into the house.

"How come you have time to come here? Have you been to the Shangshu Terrace?" Xie Hejun smiled gently.

Xie Chengyi looked at his eldest sister's face, then turned to the servants and said, "Everyone go out first."

A woman calmed down and said, "Your Highness, your wife has been a little tired recently, so I'd better wait on her here."

Xie Hejun glanced his head.

Xie Chengyi's face darkened, his eyes were cold, and he said coldly: "I didn't know that the Dingyang Marquis Mansion needed to listen to you?"

After all, he was a great general who killed people without blinking an eye. His aura was frightening, but the old woman still twisted her neck and said, "This old slave was arranged by the prince--"

Before he finished speaking, Xie Chengyi moved his palm in an instant and grabbed the woman's neck. He exerted a little force with his wrist, and saw that woman's face turned red, and her eyes kicked in fear...

"Chengyi! No!" When Xie Hejun saw Xie Chengyi's temper, he hurried forward to dissuade him.

Xie Chengyi's arm twisted, his strength weakened slightly, and he immediately threw the old woman to the ground.

"Cough! Cough! Cough!" The old woman trembled and shrank back.

"Tell your master! This is the Marquis Dingyang's Mansion, it's not his turn to act wildly here! Get out!!!" With Xie Chengyi's stern shout, the old woman was already trembling with fear, and she ran out crawling.

Xie Hejun looked anxious, "If this gets out, won't you be accused of being ignorant of propriety? You just entered the Shangshu Office, how can you be so willful?"

Xie Chengyi wiped his hands with disgust with the handkerchief and said cautiously: "Then let Xu Yuanping bully you?!!"

Xie Hejun stood there in a daze for a second.

"I don't know what you mean." Xie Hejun turned his head and looked to the side.

Xie Chengyi said solemnly, "Eldest sister, have you been living like this all these years?"

"How, how could it be, no, I'm, fine..." Xie Hejun tried to convince herself to calm Xie Chengyi's suspicion, but she couldn't hide the flickering look in her eyes.

Xie Chengyi immediately asked, "Why has it been so long since you came back, but Xu Yuanping hasn't even come?"

Seeing his elder sister's distracted look, Xie Chengyi suppressed his anger and said solemnly, "Yesterday on the long street, a lunatic took hostages and said that the family was destroyed by the persecution of King Jinyang. He was so reckless that he didn't seem to be lying or framing someone!"

Xie Hejun's heart skipped a beat and he looked up at Xie Chengyi infatuatedly.

Xie Chengyi even said in confusion: "If the Jinyang Palace really did something unforgivable, sooner or later it will send itself to prison. By then, once His Majesty investigates, not to mention the Crown Prince, even the Emperor may not be able to protect himself!"

Xie Hejun suddenly trembled all over and cried, "Stop talking! Stop talking!"

In an instant, Xie Chengyi saw Xie Hejun who was so sad that she couldn't control herself. Since childhood, in his impression, his sister was gentle and steady, she never had big emotional fluctuations, even her anger was extremely subtle. He had never seen his sister so helpless.

"Eldest sister..." Xie Chengyi was speechless.

Xie Hejun's tears fell uncontrollably, and he looked so sad and broken.

Even so, Xie Hejun did not allow herself to lose control too much. She quickly adjusted her emotions and suppressed the bitterness that kept surging. "You never called him brother-in-law since you were a child, why?" Xie Hejun asked with red eyes, with a heavy nose.

Xie Chengyi didn't expect his sister to ask this, and said calmly: "I'm used to it."

"No, you don't approve of him. You said you didn't like him from the first sight." Xie Hejun remembered this incident very clearly. Back then, when the suave Xu Yuanping came to the Marquis' Mansion with pride to propose marriage, Xie's father and mother were extremely satisfied. Only Xie Chengyi didn't say a word to praise him. He just said that he hoped his sister would think it over carefully.

Xie Chengyi knew that his elder sister was not blindly virtuous. She had the sobriety that a daughter of the Xie family should have. So, he looked at his elder sister and replied, "Eldest sister, he and I just have different ways of dealing with things. Even if I don't like him, I still hope that you can be happy. But now even Ping'er says that you have suffered a lot of injustice, how can I have a good impression of him?"

The words "I hope I will be happy" completely hit Xie Hejun's heart.

Xie Hejun straightened his body slightly, with a solemn feeling of coming from a noble family. "Although the Jinyang Palace is of high status, the old prince and the prince are not good at managing the family. They are so utilitarian and aggressive, and they only want to win over people quickly, but the final result is not always what they want. The more they are not satisfied, the more they want to win over people higher up. Over time, they form an obsession that is difficult to satisfy. Don't look at the grandness of the Jinyang Palace, it is already a golden exterior with rotten cotton inside."

Xie Chengyi was chilled to the bone when he heard this, and suddenly realized, "So this is why you came back this time?"

Xie Hejun raised his head slightly and smiled helplessly, "I want to stop him, but it's not that easy."

"How far have the relationship between my elder sister and him reached?" Xie Chengyi pondered quietly.

This was the first time Xie Hejun faced this problem head-on. How far had she gotten? Over the years, she had pawned her dowry time and again, just to let Xu Yuanping feel her feelings, just to let Xu Yuanping understand that doing things in a down-to-earth manner was the right way. But what did Xu Yuanping do? He nodded, and then he took the money to make concessions to his connections, or else he went to Jiyue Tower to relax. Xie Hejun could tolerate all of this, but what she could not tolerate the most was that Xu Yuanping did not leave enough hope for Jun Ting.

He even secretly sold the ancestral property left to Jun Ting. Not only that, when the girl from the brothel found her with the child whose eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar to Xu Yuanping, she knew that she could no longer pretend.

"He has almost squandered all the family fortune. Not only that, he also has three illegitimate children outside..." There was endless disappointment in Xie Hejun's eyes.

"This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is--" Xie Hejun had to calm down several times before he could pick out the words from the deepest part of his heart.

Xie Chengyi said solemnly: "What?"

"The prince and the crown prince seem to prefer the illegitimate child born outside the family..." This sentence was as much of a blow to Xie Hejun as slow slicing to death. She had been so proud and sober, but she had lived such a miserable life. This was the deepest punishment for her.

"No matter how much they favor her, she is just a concubine who is not worthy of being on the stage. How can she be compared with the emperor?" Xie Chengyi said coldly, the murderous intent in his eyes could hardly be concealed.

Xie Hejun felt bitter, "What if she's a wife? What if she's a concubine? As long as he likes her, what status can't he give her?"

Xie Chengyi couldn't stand it any longer when he saw his elder sister being treated so badly by Xu Yuanping. "Eldest sister, you don't have to go back to Jinyang Palace. Tomorrow, I will send Chenglin to pick up Jun Ting. The child they don't like is a treasure in my Xie family!"

Xie Hejun looked at her brother with gratitude, but she couldn't let her brother get hurt, nor could she let the Xie family be humiliated. "No need."

"Sister!"

"Jun Ting is after all a member of the Xu family, and I am also the daughter-in-law of the Jinyang Palace. If we just get a divorce, Jun Ting will probably become a laughing stock in the whole capital, and how can my parents hold their heads up? I can't be so selfish..." As Xie Hejun spoke, his eyes became more and more blurred, and the tears that he had tried so hard to suppress finally burst out.

Xie Chengyi could not accept the evil custom of disregarding women's lives for the sake of etiquette, and immediately replied: "I only want to ask one question, elder sister, are you still willing to let Jun Ting be his Xu family's heir? Are you still willing to be his Xu Yuanping's wife?"

***
After coming out of Xingchunyuan, Xie Chengyi felt extremely heavy-hearted. He had never known anything about his family's affairs in the past ten years, and now he had no idea that his family was so broken.

Quietly and distantly, I arrived at Yimeyuan.

The image of that stubborn and tenacious woman popped into my mind.

Yes, in this cannibalistic capital, living like Huo Aying is not a bad thing.

"Prince?" Su Jian saw Xie Chengyi standing at the door and was puzzled. She hurried back to report to Huo Aying.

"Miss, the prince is outside our yard." Su Jian replied.

Ah Ying was startled, "What are you doing?"

Su Jian shook her head. "I didn't do anything. I just looked very serious..."

Ah Ying thought about it and decided that after all, she had just agreed to help him find his brother, so he had to maintain the relationship. So he asked Su Jian and Shuang'er to stay in the yard and he went out.

From a distance, I saw Xie Chengyi sitting in the pavilion. Although he glanced into the distance, he still felt the chill...

"My Yimei Courtyard is so nice that you can look at a tree for so long?"

When Xie Chengyi turned his head, he saw Huo Aying in a crescent-shaped white brocade skirt. She was not dressed up at all and looked cool and elegant.

“Good for thinking about problems.”

"What's the problem?" Huo Aying stared.

Xie Chengyi's eyebrows moved, and he asked in an unmistakable voice, "How to kill someone?"

Huo Aying was startled for a moment, then recovered his composure, his expression indifferent like that of an officer in the dungeon who was used to seeing life and death. "What is there to consider? Kill if there is a reason!"

No matter what happened yesterday, we should face the sun every day.