Chapter 183 The most poisonous stone lock
Guan Mo was very afraid of the winged insects just like moths. He could keep calm when he was scared by He Danggui’s words, but the only remaining calm of him was broken by Shi Liu’s scream. At last, he was so scared that he flied into the sky to drive the moths away. Actually, Shi Liu didn’t see any moths, but she saw there was a sense of boredom flashing from Third Miss’s eyes when Second Childe Guan pulled Third Miss. Therefore, in order to help Third Miss to drive the playboy away, Shi Liu cried out naturally and scared Guan Mo away successfully.
After Guan Mo messed his bun up and drove moths away, he immediately came back to see this good play. But he saw that the intact girl was covered all over with blood!
He never expected the torture in Luo’s Family was so harsh that put a hundred jin of stone lock on a delicate lady. In Guan’s Family, even if the maids made mistakes, they would not use this kind of instruments to torment them. Were the steel needles, bamboo sticks, tongs and soft whips more suitable for ladies?
Third Sister was broken off the engagement by Duan’s Family last month. In her letter, she explained the reasons. When Duan Xiaolou was in Chengxu Academy, he was obsessed with He Danggui. He wanted He Danggui to marry him as his wife. And he would keep all the women around him away. The letter got wet for Third Sister’s tears. In her letter, she said that Duan Xiaolou made several apologies to her. He said that she would not return the very precious bride-price. And he gave her a beautiful tea house. She would always think of him when she sat in there.
After reading the letter, Guan Mo’s mother was so angry with her shoulders trembling. Her most cherished daughter loved the only son of Duan’s Family in her daughter’s best year, and waited him until he was 20 years old. They were engaged for 2 years, but now he broke off the engagement. Did he want to destroy her daughter’s whole life?
Guan Mo persuaded his mother hardly. If He Danggui married into Guan’s Family, they could gradually teach her. They would not only let Duan Xiaolou change his mind to make an apology to Third Sister and ask for marriage again, but also torment the arrogant and indifferent beauty... Thinking of the girl’s alienating gaze and the feeling of destroying her, he felt extremely excited.
In this afternoon, He Danggui jumped into the lake, which made many people follow her. He was afraid that his beauty would take away by others, so he jumped too. When he went ashore, He Danggui was held by Meng Xuan and they went to the bamboo forest. He felt it was unsuitable, so he wanted to follow them. But Liao Qing’er came suddenly and chatted a lot with him, which seemed that she wanted to stop him. When he asked Liao Qing’er what was the relationship between He Danggui and Meng Xuan, she said they were unfamiliar with each other and they were strange who had never saw each other for several years.
But he still felt there was a kind of secret agreement between them. Although they never saw each other, it seemed that they always focused on each other. He didn’t know why he had this feeling, but that angered him. That girl was reserved by him. How could other people get close to her! So, when he heard that Second Mistress Luo in Luo’s Family would teach He Danggui a lesson, he absolutely agreed. Who allowed her to stand here letting others lean on her body and smell her?
Guan Mo saw his mother, his Second Aunt and Third Aunt’s means, which were used to deal with concubines. In order to avoid others’ gossip, all the means would let them feel pain at that time, but it wouldn’t remain any scars after that. As for such a beauty like He Danggui, it was so pity that she got injured, let alone that she was crushed to death!
That biddy with black face said the stone lock was stained with leprosy virus. Oh, my, my! It was He Danggui’s fault. She was so stubborn. If she agreed to leave Luo’s Mansion with him, she would be his concubine without status and wouldn’t die!
“You are reserved by me, and you will soon belong to me. Even you want to die, you must ask me!” Guan Mo used the Ba Huang Evil energy, which he practiced secretly, and tried to split the stone lock.
It was unexpected that biddy with black face lunged at the stone lock and screamed, “Don’t hit my lock. It’s a previous antique lock, which has been handed down for 3 generations and killed 108 people. You can’t break it!” Seeing Guan Mo come to pull her, she immediately waved her hands and said, “Stop! Don’t touch me! If you want to save her, I can give you the key. Why don’t you ask me for help? I won’t receive your money. Martial artists are troublesome...” The loud cough by He Danggui interrupted her words.
When Sun Meiniang saw Biddy Wen take the key from her arms, Sun Meiniang immediately stopped Biddy Wen, “Don’t unlock it. Who allow you to give the key to outsiders? How could she be crushed to death? She is not made by paste.” Crushing He Danggui to death was a favor to her.
Because of the stone lock and Biddy Wen’s weight, more blood exuded through He Danggui’s shoulders. Just a few moments, her clothes turned red. Madam Luo couldn’t bear it, so she asked Zhang Huan’s wife and others, “You work together to hold the stone lock. If Third Miss confesses her guilt, remove it.”
“No!” Sun Meiniang and Biddy Wen shouted together.
After their words, all the people were shocked and looked at the lower biddy with black face. They never knew there was a strange person in Luo’s Mansion. How dared she oppose Madam Luo in public!
Biddy Wen also realized that she was wrong, so she immediately did a remedy. She waved her fingers and explained to all the people, “Actually, my grandson got smallpox. He liked to put his hands and face on the stone lock, so you couldn’t touch it. It’s so dirty. Many kinds of poisonous insects and snakes like to settle down at there, tut-tut.”
“Did you say it was stained with leprosy virus?” Guan Mo and Ding Rong’s wife asked together. Why the old biddy was so incoherent?
“Uh, of course,” Biddy Wen said slowly, “But leprosy is a terminal disease. I’m afraid that you are scared, and smallpox is weaker... My grandson is still alive! Generally speaking, the stone lock can kill people without spilling blood. Uh, shedding blood like water. It’s so dangerous!”
Madam Luo was so angry that she pounded her legs. She shouted, “Remove it now! Who allow you to use it? Burn it immediately!” But after hearing Biddy Wen’s words, nobody dared to remove the lock.
Biddy Wen blinked the only shining eyes in her black and old face. She corrected Madam Luo and said, “This lock is made by stone and can’t be burnt. It’s a nice material and can be widely used. Why burn it?” She also clapped the lock when she said. He Danggui was blooding again, and the blood dropped in the ground. When Guan Mo saw it, he gnashed his teeth in hatred and pinched Biddy Wen’s neck. He asked, “Do you unlock it?”
“Oh, oh! A kid is bullying an old woman!” Biddy Wen rolled her eyes with her tongue out and screeched, “Spare my life! I just follow the orders. Administrator Ding asked me to bring the heaviest stone lock in the warehouse. She was dissatisfied with some stone locks, which was less 100 jin, and asked for a stone lock of 150 jin. I told her this lock would crush a man to death. It was lying idle for many years and was full of green hairs. But she waved her hands and said that Second Mistress Luo just wanted that result. Second Mistress Luo wanted to crush Third Miss to death in a moment and didn’t allow Third Miss to explain anything. If you want to revenge, you can find Administrator Ding. I’m just a normal biddy who cleaned the toilet. I have parents and children, please spare my life.”
The expression of Ding Rong’s wife changed a lot. She pointed at the black face biddy and said with a trembling voice, “You are lying. She was lying! Club her to death. Club her now!”
After her words, some servants arranged by Ding Rong’s wife came into the main hall with sticks and many weapons. If He Danggui beat the rap and left Luo’s Mansion with Guan Mo by force, these people would stop them. Even if they couldn’t keep He Danggui stay here, she would be injured.
However, Sun Meiniang never expected that Guan Mo would interfere, otherwise she would have told servants of Luo’s Mansion to let He Danggui and Guan Mo go. As the law, “If the couple elope, the woman cannot be a wife”, which meant that no matter who abducted the other, who eloped to others’ home or where the couple eloped, the woman could only be a concubine. Anyway, if the couple went to have a honeymoon without their parents’ agreement, the female would never be a wife, no matter how honorable her status was and what an outstanding contribution that her children made.
Although it was not crucial among normal people, the female who eloped would be labeled as “an immoral woman”. She couldn’t raise her head among people. That was what Sun Meiniang wanted. It would be much more carefree for her than she killed He Danggui directly.
At that year, Sun Meiniang was willing to abandon her position as the daughter of the concubine in Sun’s Mansion. She made an appointment by letters with He Jingxian. They would elope first, and when they had children, they would come back home to beg for their parents to agree their marriage. A woman was willing to sacrifice herself for a man. How she loved him! But it was unforgivable that the heartless man wasted her love!
Seeing the malicious servants around approach, Biddy Wen yelled, “Help... Guan Mo is taking liberties with me!”
After this yell, Guan Mo was too scared to lose his grip on her neck and turned back disgustingly. Biddy Wen severely coughed and rubbed her neck. She said, “Cough, cough. Third Miss, you see his true feature clearly. Cough, cough. If you get married with him, he must treat you like this. Maybe worse than this. You can’t marry a man who bullies the weak. They are used to use violence...”
He Danggui, who was still holding the stone lock, thought Bai Yangbai, who disguised as Biddy Wen, said too much. He would reveal if he kept talking, so He Danggui coughed in order to stop him. And this cough drew Madam Luo’s attention. Seeing that her granddaughter was locked by the “hypertoxic stone lock”, she commanded servants to unlock it, but the servant who was called asked Biddy Wen to do it.
But Biddy Wen was chasing by 2 servants, who carried sticks. She yelled and opened Third Miss’s dress to take refuge, but she was kicked out by Third Miss. She covered the painful place between her legs and jumped. She yelled, “Bad girl, where you are kicking? My, my lifeblood...”
“Madam Luo, I needn’t unlock. I can hold on for a while,” He Danggui’s sonorous voice drowned Biddy Wen’s ravings. He Danggui also queried, “Administrator Ding, Madam Luo and 2 masters of Second Branch are here. Even the biddy said something wrong, they will command to swipe or punish her. Why did you want to kill the biddy with no words?”
Ding Rong’s wife was so angry that she was still trembling. She talked harshly, “What Biddy Wen talked is nonsense. All her words are fake! You are working together with her!”
Hearing this, He Danggui sneered. She refuted with a smile, “Madam Luo must examine it carefully. Before I went to school, everything was fine and all the people were smiling when they saw me. After I paid respect to Madam Luo, I went to Chengxu Academy. In the poetry feast, we were singing, dancing and performing corpses impromptu. At that time, all of us enjoyed ourselves. However, Bo He came suddenly and told me there was something wrong in family. She said Concubine Hua aborted. Qing’er also felt strange at that time. Qing’er said that my Second Uncle’s concubine was ill, but I was not a doctor or a midwife. Why did they ask me come back quickly? Although I was confused, I immediately asked for leaving and came back in a hurry. On my way home, Second Childe Guan blocked the way and said he wanted to come with me. But I said it was too late and there were some misfortunes happening in Luo’s Family. I was afraid that we couldn’t treat him well, but he...”
“Sister He, what are you talking about?” Guan Mo interrupted her immediately, “If you didn’t ask me for help, how can I know what happened in your home?”
The blood still dropped from He Danggui’s shoulders, which made her look like a proud red lotus. She smiled and said, “I refused several times, but Childe Guan dragged the rein and came to Luo’s Mansion directly. Even though I called him, he never listened to me. Ren Dongteng, Bo He and Huai Hua all saw it. Childe Guan, I praised that you are well-informed and arranged spies in Luo’s Mansion at that time. You also accepted it pleasantly. I have 3 witnesses. As a man, don’t you feel ashamed that you framed me in order to revenge for the old resentment half a year ago?”
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