A maid with little knowledge in the inner house has never seen such a dungeon-like environment, let alone tortured by guards like Wei Yi. She doesn't need to use harsh criminal methods, just verbal extortion and threats can scare people Need to say everything.
"Yes, it's ma'am! Ma'am let Madam Gu be captured! I'm just a maid who doesn't know what and where I'm taken. I beg you to let me go!"
The servant girl cried so much that she was tearful, her eyes were fixed on the poisonous scorpion crawling towards her on the ground, her face was full of horror, she was afraid that the thing would climb onto her body.
Wei Yi wrote down her confession by the way, and went up to the front and cut the maid's fingers with a knife expressionlessly, asking her to press her fingerprints.
Yu Xian turned his head to Li Chengze and said: "Don't delay, go and save Madam Sister-in-law."
Li Cheng folded the confession and put it in his arms, then dragged the maid, tied her hands and feet and threw her into the carriage, and went directly to Zhang's mansion.
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In Zhang's mansion, Mrs. Zhang didn't see Dongxue when she got up early in the morning. At first, she frowned and asked, "Where did Dongxue go? What time has it been? Why don't you see anyone?"
She thought she was being lazy, so she spoke impatiently.
Dongxue is the eldest maid, and she usually lives in the same room with Lamei, but two days ago, Lamei's old lady fell ill, so she took two days off.
So Dongxue rested alone for the past two days, and no one saw her at the moment.
So immediately a little girl ran to Dongxue's room to look for it.
After a while, he came back in a hurry, and whispered back: "Madam, Dongxue is not in the house. I asked people in the yard, and they all said that they didn't see her, and they didn't see her going out."
Mrs. Zhang's complexion suddenly fell, and she scolded: "Didn't see anyone? What's the matter, can a big living person still get news out of thin air, let me find it!"
Seeing the master's birthday, the maids in the room knelt down to admit their mistake, and then hurried out to find someone.
However, after searching for a long time, I couldn't find it.
Everyone panicked.
Go back to report to Mrs. Zhang.
Mrs. Zhang thumped a few times when she got the words, always feeling like something was going to happen.
But at any rate, I immediately comforted myself in my heart not to think too much about what could happen at home.
He said in a deep voice, "Go to the concierge and ask if he ran out."
I was still looking for Dongxue here, and not long after, a servant girl ran over from the outer courtyard and shouted loudly: "It's not good, Ma'am, something happened!"
However, before she entered the door of the main room, the nanny next to Mrs. Zhang grabbed her ears and scolded: "What are you shouting about! The more you have no rules, what kind of place is this, Mrs. Careful will give you a board!"
The servant girl trembled in fright, she was usually very afraid of the nun next to the madam.
But at the moment, he didn't care much, and said as if he was about to cry: "Nurse, something really happened! Elder sister Dongxue was found, and she was outside, and the eldest young master was also there, asking Madam to take a look."
Nanny was taken aback for a moment, then frowned to see the servant girl's expression, knowing that something might have happened, so she hurriedly dragged her in to answer Mrs. Zhang.
When Mrs. Zhang heard that Dongxue was tied up and brought to the mansion by a man, her complexion was very ugly.
She thought it was Dong Xue who shamelessly hooked up with some wild man outside.
So he led a large group of servant girls to the outer courtyard aggressively.
As soon as he walked into the reception hall, he saw two tall men.
One chill stood in the middle, and the other sat on the seat with a mocking face, as if no one was there.
And Dongxue was bound hands and feet and thrown on the ground.
Because Mr. Zhang was on duty and was not at home. After Mrs. Zhang passed by, she saw her eldest son standing there with a sullen face, as if a little nervous.
There was some fine sweat on the forehead.
"Young Master, Madam is here." A servant girl reported.
The young master of the Zhang family greeted Mrs. Zhang, calling: "Mother."
Li Cheng turned his head, looked at Mrs. Zhang coldly and said, "You are Mrs. Zhang, where did you catch my wife?"
Only then did Mrs. Zhang recognize Li Chengze.
I don't know how the other party found out so quickly. He obviously asked his servants to do it, so there should be no flaws!
Her heart was beating fast, but she tried her best to keep her expression unchanged, and even raised her voice in a bluffing manner: "Who is it, Young Master, whoever thinks our Zhang Mansion is, you are free to be presumptuous!"
Yu Xian was impatient, stood up with an unhappy face, and threatened: "Don't babble here, be sensible and tell me quickly, your maids are recruited, why does Mrs. Zhang want me to tell the heavens about this?" brain?"
Young Master Zhang hurriedly said: "Master Yu! This matter is still unclear, and it is unknown if there is any misunderstanding in it. I hope Master Yu will calm down."
Mrs. Zhang bit her to death and refused to admit it, "I don't understand what you are saying, please leave!"
As soon as she said this, she suddenly heard a "chi" sound.
It was Li Cheng who suddenly pulled out the saber from Yu Xian's waist, and stuck it to Mrs. Zhang's neck.
The voice was so cold that there was no warmth: "I don't have time to talk nonsense with you. I'm asking, where did you take my wife?"
"You! You are so courageous, quickly draw the sword—" Before he opened the words, Li Cheng moved his hand, and the sharp blade instantly cut through the layer of skin on Mrs. Zhang's neck, leaving a trace of red. Blood lines came out immediately.
Mrs. Zhang screamed a few times in fright, her eyes were wide open, and her face was full of horror.
When Mr. Zhang saw her mother was injured, he was about to rush over, but Yu Xian subdued him with one hand.
Li Cheng just stared at Mrs. Zhang quietly, without any emotion in his eyes, "Don't tell me?" Then the sword in his hand seemed to be pushed forward another inch.
Mrs. Zhang was so frightened that she almost fainted.
She was really scared.
May I ask who is not afraid of death? Who would spare their lives
Mrs. Zhang had never seen someone like Li Chengze, who dared to directly attack the family members of the imperial court official!
Don't worry about anything.
Don't look at Mrs. Zhang who has lived to this age, thinking that a person who is dozens of years old should be stable.
This person is usually very harsh and serious in front of the maidservant, putting on airs, but now he is threatened, he can't care about his posture and appearance.
The strange screams and ugly appearance make people laugh.
"Ah...don't, don't kill me, let me tell you, I'll tell you where your wife is, you put the sword away first."
Li Cheng sneered, and raised his hand to wipe her neck again.
"It's in the wilderness in the north of the city! There's my house over there, and I asked someone to lock her in!" Mrs. Zhang shouted in a sharp voice, not daring to make any more fools.
After a while, Li Cheng took back his sword, and said: "If there is a lie in what you said, wait for someone to collect the body."
His tone was very understated, but it made Mrs. Zhang tremble with fear.
He knew that Li Cheng was not joking, what he said was true.
Li Cheng returned the sword to Yu Xian, and the two left the Zhang residence together.
He drove to the north of the city quickly.
He rushed to the northern outskirts of the city in the shortest time and found the half-abandoned house Mrs. Zhang mentioned.
Li Cheng kicked the door open and walked in.
The house is a bit big, so Li Cheng and Yu Xian looked for it separately.
I kept finding a house facing north in the shade.
Li Cheng heard voices inside.
He lowered his footsteps.
Hearing the voice, it was an elderly woman.
His voice was hoarse and dry, as if he hadn't spoken for a long time.
Li Cheng was afraid of scaring the snake, so he didn't act rashly, but poked a hole in the paper window to look in.
I saw a thin figure who was talking.
"If you want to blame it, blame your bad luck. If you marry someone who is not good, you have to marry the Li family. If it wasn't for your husband's meddling and telling people from the imperial guards to enter the palace, then the eldest prince is sitting on the throne now." Yes! If the eldest prince becomes the emperor, then my girl should be the queen! But all this has been ruined by your husband, Li Chengze! We can't touch Li Chengze, since you are his wife, then the debt is yours! You should pay it back for him, hehe..."
Gu Qingci was thrown in a corner covered with dry straw. She was drugged and fell into a coma.
His body was limp and weak, and he didn't even have the strength to sit up.
The old woman glanced at her and sneered: "Don't struggle, you have been hit by cartilage powder, and you won't have any strength for a while."
"Who is your master? You were not sent by Mrs. Zhang..." Gu Qingci braced himself, and made sounds from his throat bit by bit.
The shriveled and thin old woman smiled and said mockingly: "Thank you, of course it wasn't sent by that idiot from the Zhang family. For the sake of your dying, I will explain it to you and let you do it in the underworld." A ghost.
All of this was arranged by my young lady. Mrs. Zhang is just a pawn. Who told her to be stupid, she thought she was avenging her daughter, hahaha! I don't even know how my daughter died! "
Gu Qingci is not an idiot, when she mentioned the eldest prince and said that her lady should be the queen, a person immediately came to mind.
The cousin of Cheng Guogong's mansion, Jiang Yun!
"Your lady is Jiang Yun, right! You belong to Jiang Yun! She caught me!"
The woman laughed again and didn't take it seriously, she said slowly: "You guessed it, Miss Gu is smart, but it's a pity, you are going to be on your way soon."
After saying that, she took out a small dagger from her waist, pulled it away, threw the scabbard on the ground, and walked forward.
It's too late to say it! At this moment!
Li Cheng broke through the door and kicked the old woman to the ground.
Kicked the dagger away from her hand again!
After all, the old woman was old, she looked skinny, and her body was extremely unhealthy. When Li Chengze kicked her down, the bones in her legs were directly broken, and she lay on the ground screaming with a grim expression.
Li Cheng was especially puzzled, stepped forward and raised his hand to click, and lifted her chin, making her unable to speak.
Only then did the room finally quiet down, without that disgusting sound.
After a while, Gu Qingci burst into tears.
Just now she really thought that she was really going to die, she gritted her teeth and tensed her emotions, and told herself not to be afraid, but Li Cheng suddenly appeared, happy, scared and wronged, all kinds of emotions mixed together.
She had been drugged and couldn't exert any strength on her body, but she cried all of a sudden.
Weeping softly and out of breath.
The voice was very weak.
Li Cheng was so distressed that he hurried forward, bent down and reached out to hug him up.
Said: "Don't be afraid, officials, I'm here for my husband."
From Gu Qingci's disappearance until now when he hugged her into his arms, Li Chengze's heart finally relaxed and fell into reality.
He sighed silently, lowered his head and kissed Gu Qingci's forehead.
Then, he went out with people in his arms.
Gu Qingci vented for a while, stopped crying, and buried her face in Li Chengze's arms, quietly.
Yu Xian also heaved a sigh of relief seeing that he found someone.
Li Cheng briefly explained the matter to him.
Yu Xian said: "You take your sister-in-law back first, and leave it to me to deal with it."
Li Cheng nodded, thanked him again, and carried Gu Qingci to the carriage.