Volume 2: Eagle vs. Dragon Chapter 47 Despair
After Changzi was dragged out, because they were in Wujiayuan, the people from the Ye family could not take any action, so they dragged him all the way to Wujiayuan, where they started to beat and kick him.
Ye Dalin would naturally not come to take care of such a small matter in person, so the servants beat them up on their own, and then heard Ye Zhong come over and say, "That's enough."
Changzi heard Ye Zhong's voice and rushed over, spitting out the mud with grass roots in his mouth, and shouted: "Zhong, Master Zhong! Help! Third Miss!"
Ye Zhong said: "Didn't you hear what Hao Guan said just now?"
After the servants left, no one heard the confrontation , but everyone could see that Wu Chengjian did not oppose the sisters' remarriage on the spot.
Changzi burst into tears on the spot. Wu Chengjian was Ye Youyu's last hope. If he refused to step forward, Ye Youyu would have no hope. Even though she was full of wisdom and strategy, she had no power to use. Ma could crush her at any time! Thinking of this, Changzi cried with tears and snot, and was even more sad than when he was beaten up just now.
Seeing him like this, Ye Zhong sighed, "Good boy... stop crying. You are loyal to your master, and people with this kind of heart will be successful sooner or later. The third lady is blessed by you in her previous life for treating her like this, but some things still depend on fate."
He said to the other servants, "Lock Changzi up in the woodshed and don't beat him anymore."
Changzi lay motionless, and the two servants dragged him to the woodshed. Halfway through, Changzi suddenly struggled like crazy. The three servants were all half-grown servants. If one of them went crazy, the other two could not hold him. In addition, what Ye Zhong said just now made the two servants think that Master Zhong might still be protecting him, so they did not dare to use too much force.
By this time it was dark, and Changzi dodged them left and right, and they disappeared without a trace.
Changzi hid and fled all the way to Chenglu Garden. This time he didn't even take off his clothes and sneaked directly into Chenglu Garden. Dongxue was already waiting there.
After Changzi left, Dongxue felt a little relieved, so she started to prepare Chenglu Garden, cleaned it up for Ye Youyu to stay, and went to the small kitchen to prepare food. Unexpectedly, after waiting for a whole night and a day, there was still no movement outside, and Dongxue became worried.
Unlike Dongxue's worries, Ye Youyu was thinking: "Will he... come?"
Changzai left overnight, so Ye Youyu didn't sleep that night. She knew there was no point in staying up late and waiting, but she still couldn't sleep.
The next morning, when he ate the breakfast brought by Dongxue, his mind was not on the food. He kept muttering that the morning had passed, then it was noon, and after noon, it was afternoon again. He waited like this for the whole day.
Dongxue said worriedly: "Changzi... I don't know if he will be caught, I don't know if he can see Haoguan..."
Ye Youyu was stunned and said, "It is my fate not to see him. But if I see him... and he doesn't come to save me... what should I do?"
Dong Xue saw that Ye Youyu looked a little lost, and said quickly: "Girl, don't think too much, Haoguan will definitely come to pick you up, he will."
Ye Youyu was not sure. Hua Chahao's shadow suddenly pressed over like a wall. She suddenly thought to herself: "If it was her... he would probably save her regardless of the consequences. But if it was me, he would have to make up his mind..."
When Ye Youyu thought that her lifelong event was just a business deal in Wu Chengjian's mind, she felt a sharp pain in her chest. These days, she kept telling herself not to be too greedy and not to think too much, but she knew she shouldn't think so, but she couldn't control her heart.
A normal day goes by quickly, but today's day seemed to be extremely long.
After enduring for a long time, it finally came to night, but there was still no news from Changzi. Ye Youyu finally looked unstable.
Although Chenglu Garden is remote, some larger movements can still be seen. Dongxue can see from afar that there seem to be lights flashing in the main house, and there are one or two waves of bustling life. Are they celebrating something?
When it was time for dinner, the door was finally opened. Dongxue was overjoyed and ran over. Ye Youyu's eyes also flashed with hope.
However, the one who came in was Cuiping, Ma's personal maid. She brought a food box and stuffed it into Dongxue's hand, saying, "The second young lady is getting married, and there will be a sisters' banquet tonight. Although the third young lady is ill and cannot go in person, they are sisters, so the second young lady has not forgotten to give the third young lady a meal." Her words seemed polite, but her tone was full of complacency: "Take it."
The door slammed shut again, leaving Ye Youyu and Dongxue standing there in a daze.
Ye Haocai is going to have a sisters' dinner...
Then the marriage is still going on...
So was Changzai caught?
Or was it that Changzi failed to meet Haoguan?
The sky was high and the moon was bright, the wind was clear and the water was cold, making the yard look lonely and cold, like a prison.
Ye Youyu lowered his head and walked back into the house, his body already shaky.
Dongxue looked at the food box in her hand and didn't know how to persuade them, but she still held on to the last glimmer of hope and waited by the fish pond.
She waited and waited like this, and every quarter of an hour seemed like a year. She thought to herself, "The girl in the room must be even sadder than I am."
The yard was very cold, and she curled up into a ball because of the cold. She didn't know how long she waited. In short, when her limbs were frozen, the water surface suddenly broke. Without looking, she knew it was Changzi!
Dongxue seemed to have seen the light of dawn after traveling through a dark cave for dozens of miles. She was so happy that she almost jumped up. But when she was about to jump up, she found that her hands and feet were stiff and she couldn't move. But she had already called out, "Girl, girl!"
The door of the house opened, and Ye Youyu came out with hope.
However, after Changzi struggled to get up, he was just shivering. Dongxue thought he was frozen at first, so she quickly took him back to the house and brought out the stove, quilt, and ginger soup that had been heated in the small kitchen.
Changzi finally stopped trembling, but still didn't speak.
"Changzi, what's wrong with you? Say something!" Dongxue was a little anxious.
Ye Youyu suddenly understood and said sadly, "You saw him, didn't you?"
Changzi was shivering.
Ye Youyu asked again: "He doesn't want to come, right?"
Changzi opened his mouth, but no words came out.
Ye Youyu covered her face immediately.
But a wet liquid seeped out from between her fingers.
How many times has she cried for Wu Chengjian?
Dongxue was anxious, and Changzi was also anxious. Dongxue shouted, "Girl, girl, don't cry, let's think of another way, let's think of another way."
Changzai was also walking around, but he didn't know what to say.
“Don’t cry, don’t cry.” Ye Youyu covered her face and choked up, “Let’s think of a way…but…but…but what else can we do!”
She had never felt so helpless in her life.
The weather is cold and the walls are thick, and the weak woman becomes a prisoner.
There is really nothing we can do.
She had tried everything, but in the end it still ended like this. The person who dealt her the final blow was the one who had given her hope for many years.
Is this really fate?
She has always refused to obey her fate, but now... she still can't resist...
"Don't cry, don't cry..."
When she was at Baietan and Yingyang Garden, she cried twice for Wu Chengjian, but she was able to maintain a little composure and just wept silently. But now, as she cried, she lost control and burst into tears.
"Don't cry, don't cry, haha, haha..."
There was the sound of stringed instruments outside.
That's a big drama.
The location of the stage was chosen by Ma, and it happened to be in a place where one could faintly hear the sound from Chenglu Garden. Occasionally, one or two passages floated in, allowing Ye Youyu to hear them clearly: it was "Yu Gui" - a play with the most meaningful meaning of blessing and praying for a daughter before she gets married.
"Madam..." Ye Youyu laughed out loud, with tears on her face: "You win... You win..."
Seeing Ye Youyu laughing and crying, Dongxue and Changzi were extremely worried. However, no matter what they said, Ye Youyu turned a deaf ear. Dongxue was really worried that if this continued, the third girl would go crazy.
"If only Sixth Madam were here," Dongxue cried, "at least the girl wouldn't be like this..."
Changzi suddenly broke free from the quilt wrapped around him and rushed out.
"Changzi!" Dongxue called out, but couldn't stop him at all.
Changzi ran out of the yard and dived into the fish pond.
Although he did not fall ill due to diving back and forth in the middle of winter thanks to his youth, the severe cold penetrated his bones and left him with a chronic illness.
After leaving Chenglu Garden, Changzi went straight to the northwest corner of Ye Garden, climbed over the low wall to see Xu, and stammered to tell her about Ye Youyu's situation.
When Xu heard that Wu Chengjian did nothing, she couldn't help but be shocked: "Haoguan refuses to come? What should we do?" During this period of time, she had already figured out her daughter's thoughts. She knew that although Youyu didn't say it, she actually thought very highly of Wu Chengjian. Sure enough, when she heard more, she found that her daughter was crying and laughing at the news, as if she was crazy.
Changzi stammered, "Sixth... Madam, you, think of a way..."
Xu just stood there.
If Wu Chengjian was Ye Youyu's innermost hope, then Ye Youyu was Xu's lifeblood. Xu usually got anxious when she encountered a little difficulty. When she heard that her daughter was going crazy, her whole body began to tremble. However, after a while, she finally stopped trembling. She had only one thought in her mind: "I want to go see Youyu!"
She had no options and no ideas, but she had to be with her daughter at this moment!
With a glance, she saw a pair of scissors on the table. Xu grabbed it, put it in her sleeve, and said to Changzi, "Come on, take me to see the master and the mistress."
Changzi said: "Ah?"
Xu had already walked out and pushed open the gate of the courtyard. Seeing that her maid had finally heard the noise, she came over to stop them viciously. Xu showed her scissors and said to the maid, "If you dare to stop me, I will die on you. Let's see if you can bear this sin tomorrow!"
The old woman had been mocking and humiliating Xu these past two days, but now she was a little surprised. She had never seen Xu like this before.
If it was still the Xu who cleaned the toilet, she would have died and no one would have cared. But after Ye Youyu's troubles in the past few months, Xu's status in the Ye family has also risen sharply. Although the servants did not think that they could defeat Ma, since she could stand on the opposite side of Ma and fight her, she was no longer an ordinary concubine.
