Shengjing Noble

Chapter 299: As a Plaything

"Of course not."

Su Lanyin smiled faintly and then made way.

Jiang Xuan walked past him unhappily, with an arrogant look on her face, and left without looking back.

Seeing her walk away, Su Lanyin spoke: "Your Majesty, I will give you two choices."

"What?" Fu Wuyang frowned.

"One, either follow Jiang Xuan..."

She was interrupted by him before she could finish her words, with a look of dissatisfaction in her eyes: "I am not your little brother, why should I listen to your arrangements?"

Su Lanyin ignored him and continued, "Second, you can go find Mr. Kang's concubines and ask for more details."

Fu Wuyang was speechless for a moment. After a brief thought, he turned around and walked outside. It was obvious that he chose one.

When Su Lanyin saw him leave, she calmly went back to her yard to rest.

After walking around for half a day, I decided to go back and take a rest.

She put away the things she bought, selected a few items from them, and then got up to go to see the courtyard in the morning light.

Cuiyun saw her coming and immediately stepped forward to ask: "Miss, how is my son?"

Su Lanyin smiled and comforted him: "Don't worry, although Mr. Kang is in prison, everything is fine."

"I'm already locked up in jail, how can I get better..." Cuiyun's eyes turned red with anxiety. Suddenly she thought of something and knelt down.

"Girl, my master said that you and that master are both powerful people. You must have a way to save him, right?"

"You get up first..."

Su Lanyin reached out to help her but her hand was held back.

Cuiyun held on tightly, as if she had grabbed a life-saving straw, and refused to let go, with pleading in her eyes.

"Miss, my master doesn't even dare to kill a chicken on weekdays, so how could he kill someone? Besides, that was Muzi!"

"You know Muzi too?"

"We all served the Master, and we were as close as sisters. I am very sad about her death, but only by catching the real murderer can we avenge her. If she knew that the Master was wrongly accused after her death, she would die with regrets."

Su Lanyin asked: "So, Muzi must love your son very much?"

"Of course! She can even risk her life for the young master!"

"What about your young master? How much does he love her? To what extent?"

Cuiyun was stunned for a moment, a little hesitant: "I don't know how much the master loves her, I only know that the master is very good to each of us, he never blames us, although he is fickle and loves everyone he sees, but he has never forced any woman."

Su Lanyin frowned: "So you think Kang Chenxi is a good man?"

"Why not... Compared to those disgusting men, you are gentle and considerate, which is already very good."

"But because of this, don't you think he has hurt many women invisibly?"

"Really? I only know that for the ladies who followed the Master, no matter if their families encountered difficulties or they were bullied, the Master would always provide money and effort to take care of them. He never looked down on us or treated us as the lowest slaves."

Su Lanyin couldn't comment, after all, this was a very complicated matter.

She sighed, "Maybe."

In this dynasty, the superiority of men over women created many men who acted superior to others and treated women as playthings.

It is not uncommon to see men who abuse and humiliate their wives behind their backs, and there are even many men who are so poor that they sell their wives and daughters.

Although Kang Chenxi is a playboy, he is actually kind.

"By the way, I have something to ask you."

"Girl, ask."

"Do Mr. Kang and the first lady know that your young master likes Muzi?"

Cuiyun's face changed and she immediately let go of her hand, then stood up and ran to the door to look outside.

After making sure that no one was eavesdropping, he closed the door and walked back.

Seeing her so mysterious, Su Lanyin knew that there was probably some unspeakable secret.

"Miss, the affair between my young master and Muzi is almost known to everyone, and he has extraordinary feelings for Muzi."

"Oh? Is it different from other women?"

"Yes! They are different!" Cuiyun answered confidently.

"What do you mean?" Su Lanyin was very curious. Could it be that such a playboy would really be sincere to only one person?

"Muzi was the young master's first bed-warming maid. The two of them grew up together as childhood sweethearts. Most importantly, Muzi once saved the young master's life."

"So what do you mean?"

"It's like this. When the young master was six years old, he slipped and fell into the lake. There was no one around him and he couldn't swim, so he almost drowned. It was Muzi who passed by and jumped in to save him. From then on, she was transferred to serve the young master, and his parents were also changed from servants in the outer courtyard to servants in the inner courtyard."

"So, your young master does have a deep friendship with Muzi."

"Of course, but unfortunately the good times didn't last long. When Muzi was sixteen, his parents were beaten to death because they stole the eldest lady's things. Even Muzi was implicated."

"So she was sold to Nuanxiang Pavilion by the Madam?"

"Yeah, that's right."

"Didn't your master stop it?"

"On the day of the incident, my son was out with the master on business and was not there at all. I secretly passed the news to him, and he rushed back at full speed overnight. Otherwise, I'm afraid Muzi would have been killed in Nuanxiang Pavilion."

"Then he can redeem the person."

"What's the use of redeeming her? The Madam has the Jiang family as her backer, and Muzi is just a little maid. If the Madam wants, she can come back and kill her at any time. The young master can't protect Muzi all his life."

Su Lanyin suddenly realized: "So your young master simply gave a large sum of money to Nuanxiang Pavilion and placed Muzi there?"

Cuiyun nodded: "That's right, because Nuanxiang Pavilion has thugs, and the proprietress also has someone backing her up. No matter how powerful the eldest lady is, she wouldn't go to a brothel and shout for violence."

"So, Nuanxiang Pavilion is indeed a great place to hide a beautiful woman."

"Alas, even though the Madam herself was unwilling to lower herself to cause trouble over the years, she still sent people to Nuanxiang Pavilion to cause trouble. Fortunately, the young master arranged some people there to protect Muzi until now."

At this point, Su Lanyin had many questions in her mind: "Why does your eldest lady have to be so hard on Muzi? She's just a little maid, isn't she?"

"This... I don't know." Cuiyun shook her head. She was also confused.

Su Lanyin held her chin and fell into deep thought.

There must be a demon in the abnormal situation.

Jiang Xuan is the mistress of the Kang family after all. Why would she be so ruthless towards a maid?

It's possible that she hated Kang Chenxi for blocking her son's way, but there was no need to harm Muzi.

Besides, there was no poison in the wine and food, nor in the lip balm, but the lip print was poisonous.

Why is this?

Su Lanyin compared the lip balm and the lip prints, they were exactly the same color, and there was no other lip balm in the room.

What was going on…did she miss some important clue?