Chapter 73: Instigation

The Zhao Residence

Today, the courtyard of the fourth young master, Zhao Bin, was unusually peaceful.

Zhao Bin was aware of the Xie family and the Zhao family’s plan to praise and then kill Lu Desheng. The plan was already being laid out and implemented, and the first wave of attacks would be launched at today’s grand court session. After the first wave succeeded, the second wave would be launched, and after achieving the goal again, the third wave would be launched to completely eliminate Lu Desheng.

Thinking about how the Lu family would soon be wiped out, he was delighted. Once Lu Desheng fell, Lu Songli would be left without protection, and he would make her suffer! Thinking about this, he revealed a smile that was both excited and ferocious.

The first wave of attacks today was simple. Zhao Bin knew that the plan was so well-designed that it couldn’t possibly fail. Therefore, Zhao Bin was in a good mood today. After having the maids carefully apply medicine to his leg, he felt that it didn’t hurt at all. With this feeling, he fell into a deep sleep. He even had good dreams. It was the best and most peaceful sleep he had had since his leg was crippled.

The steward instructed the two maids to carefully put away the medicine they were holding and then went to attend to other matters.

Zhao Bin didn’t know how long he had been asleep, he only felt that his consciousness was hazy, and he vaguely heard someone talking, the voices sounded like the two maids who served him.

“Sister Taozi, let’s rest for a while, this opportunity is too rare.”

“Okay, Sister Yanzi, I’m coming.”

“Is your face okay?” Taozi asked with concern. Earlier in the morning, when the two of them were helping the fourth young master get up, the handkerchief Yanzi used to wipe his face was a bit too hot, and he directly slapped her.

Yanzi shook her head, “The fourth young master is too hard to serve now, it was better before, but now he’s really too irritable and unpredictable.”

Taozi sighed, “Of course, ever since the fourth young master’s leg was crippled, he’s basically become useless.” Last time, when she was bandaging the fourth young master’s leg, he was in so much pain that he directly threw the teacup in his hand at her. Luckily, she instinctively dodged, only getting a cut, otherwise, her head would have been smashed open.

Zhao Bin was already vaguely awake now, hearing the two maids gossiping about him, he was furious. He would definitely punish them, but for now, he would listen to what else they had to say and then sentence them!

The two maids fell silent for a moment, then Taozi said again, “Actually, if you ask me, if the fourth young master hadn’t gone out of his way to avenge the eldest young miss, this disaster wouldn’t have happened.”

“No, what did the eldest young miss suffer? Didn’t everything go her way?” Yanzi didn’t understand.

Previously, everyone outside was saying that the eldest young miss had fallen for the second young miss Lu’s fiancé first, but now that the Empress Dowager had arranged the marriage, wasn’t it her way? To be honest, after all, she was stealing someone else’s fiancé, shouldn’t it be normal for her to suffer a bit in the process?

“Yeah, we think the eldest young miss didn’t suffer any injustice. But the fourth young master doesn’t think so.” Taozi said.

Yanzi: “Indeed, the fourth young master can’t bear to see the eldest young miss suffer any injustice. If the eldest young miss gets angry or cries, regardless of who is right or wrong, it’s always the fault of the person who made her angry or cry.”

“Sigh, the fourth young master is a good person, with a good heart, this time he was just tricked.”

“Sister Taozi, why do you say that?”

“Think about it, ever since the eldest young miss and the second young miss Lu fell into the water, the eldest young miss hasn’t gained the upper hand over the second young miss Lu. Didn’t the eldest young miss deliberately have the fourth young master go and teach the second young miss Lu a lesson? The eldest young miss has done this many times before, it’s just that this time the fourth young master stepped on a landmine. This outcome, even the eldest young miss herself didn’t expect it, right?”

These words made Zhao Bin fall into deep thought. When he was in Chang’an City before, he often went out of his way to teach a lesson to those who didn’t have eyes and provoked his older sister. He was young and didn’t know his strength, and others couldn’t really hold it against him. Plus, his older sister would clean up the mess after she knew about it.

“No, Sister Taozi, the eldest young miss herself suffered consecutive losses when facing the second young miss Lu, how dare she let the fourth young master go and find trouble with the second young miss Lu? Isn’t she afraid that the fourth young master will suffer? I don’t think it was necessarily the eldest young miss’s idea, right? After all, the fourth young master is her brother, she definitely wouldn’t want him to get hurt.”

“I said before, even the eldest young miss herself didn’t expect this outcome. But I still think that the eldest young miss must bear the main responsibility for this.” Taozi’s tone was sarcastic, “To put it bluntly, the eldest young miss wouldn’t dare say it directly, but she has a close maid. Think about it, whenever the eldest young miss was in a bad mood, or had suffered a loss or injustice, wasn’t it Hongdou who stood up for her? You don’t need to think about it, this time it must have been Hongdou, the eldest young miss’s maid, who instigated it, hasn’t it always been like this? The eldest young miss doesn’t need to say anything, the fourth young master will naturally stand up for her after knowing about it.”

Bang! Zhao Bin couldn’t take it anymore. He threw the pillow on the bed to the ground, then shouted loudly, “Someone, someone, drag those two sluts outside and beat them to death!”

With his shout, the servants and maids in the courtyard rushed in. Someone directly pressed Taozi and Yanzi in front of him, holding them down tightly.

Zhao Bin was panting heavily, glaring at the two maids kneeling before him, his eyes blazing with anger. These two sluts, they wouldn’t dare to sow discord between him and his sister! His twisted left leg, throbbing with pain, made his face look gloomy and contorted.

“Fourth young master, spare us!”

“Fourth young master, please spare us this time!”

Taozi and Yanzi cried out for mercy.

Madam Luo rushed over and had people take them away first. She wanted to comfort her son, but Zhao Bin wouldn’t let her enter the room, he chased everyone out!

Madam Luo could only deal with the two maids first, but before that, she sent someone to invite her eldest daughter.

“Madam, are you really going to kill them?” The steward pointed at the two maids who had their mouths gagged and were crying.

Madam Luo hated these maids who dared to gossip about her son. What right did these two sluts have to discuss her son? It was a shame that she had chosen them before, thinking that if they served well, she could even raise them to be concubines for her son. But she didn’t expect these two to be such gossipmongers!

But Madam Luo was also worried. Killing these two maids was a small matter, but her son had lost a leg. If he wanted to get married, he couldn’t behave like this, otherwise, if the reputation spread, who would dare to marry him?

But not killing them didn’t mean letting them go! “Take them away, give them thirty strokes of the cane, and then sell them!”

Inside the room, Zhao Bin was still filled with anger.

Although he kept comforting himself, trying not to believe what those two sluts said, but when the servants reported that his sister was here to see him, he found an excuse that he was tired and didn’t see her.

Zhao Yutan left disappointed.

Madam Luo heard that her son didn’t even see his eldest daughter, and she realized that things were serious. Had he believed what those two sluts said? She went back to see her son, and he didn’t refuse to see her.

“Mother, have you dealt with them?”

“Don’t worry, I’ve dealt with them.”

Zhao Bin thought that his mother had done as he said and killed those two maids, and a rare smile appeared on his face.

Now, Zhao Bin’s temper was unpredictable, and he was prone to rage. Madam Luo didn’t dare to tell him the truth, so she could only speak vaguely.

Hearing this, Zhao Bin believed it and felt relieved. He didn’t know that the two maids were sold to a human trafficker and were quickly bought away.