Chapter 6: Only come to warn.
Before doing anything else, Han Xia Yu released the barrier and told the servants to prepare funeral service for the fourth miss. When the news reached Luo Main Courtyard, Luo Zheng and the culprit had the same paled face. Luo Zheng finally found out the culprit but it doesn’t make him feel any better because the person backing the culprit is not someone they could touch and it won’t stop his daughter from seeking revenge because she also has a strong backing behind her.
Afterward, she brought Cai Siyu and old Lu Luo to enter the house to meet Luo Qing Qing as the girl explained to them that a master has saved her from the narrow death and she planned to leave the Luo Manor because it is not safe to stay in here. The two servants cried after finding out that their miss was alright and well.
The two servants helped her with the preparation to leave as Han Xia Yu ordered Pan Liu to hire strong guards and carriage to help Luo Qing Qing leave.
She has a smaller mansion compare to Luo Manor in the bustling Pei Chang city and she planned to live there if Luo Qing Qing ever leave her alone. Now, she let the girl live in that place while she took care of everything in the Luo Manor until the day Luo Qing Qing’s plan has initiated.
As for the corpse to replace Luo Qing Qing’s dead body, Han Xia Yu just killed the maid that was found suspicious according to Pan Ai when she is serving Luo Qing Qing. Other than old Lu Luo and Cai Siyu, there still two more maids that served Luo Qing Qing daily matter but one maid is from the first madam while the other maid is from the Luo elder patriarch, Luo Ren Zhou.
The one that she killed is the maid from the elder patriarch.
The two maids always steal Luo Qing Qing’s monthly pocket money that Luo Zheng gave to every misses and bribed the guards, the chef and the stewards to have good life.
It was to make Luo Qing Qing miser as they followed their real master’s instruction. However, just all of a sudden, the maid from the elder patriarch pleaded forgiveness to Luo Qing Qing and confessed ‘everything’ about her and the other maid stealing their money. Then, she also pleads Luo Qing Qing to punish her and whatsoever.
When the girl doesn’t punish her, the maid pleaded to be sent to the clothes washing building as the punishment. A few months afterward, the doctor that has been checking fourth miss’s daily condition stated that the fourth miss’s health doesn’t get any better but slowly return to worse.
Therefore, without even enough prove, Han Xia Yu stabbed into the maid heart and ended her life to replace her sister’s body to be buried in the grave. She modified the girl’s face to imitate the shape of Luo Qing Qing’s face by using heavy makeup before she covered the face with a piece of white fabric.
“This is just a beginning.” Soft yet cold voice exclaimed as the pair of black eyes slowly closed as they watched the corpse being carried away in the brown red coffin by the black clothes people.
Han Xia Yu walked out of the Leaf Courtyard and looked up to the sky as she extended her right hand out of her sleeve.
‘It was snowing that year too.’
When she first met with Luo Qing Qing, it was a cold day like today and the snow is slowly falling down to the ground similar to that day. She remembered the day when the snow is falling heavily and a snowstorm is predicted to happen, she ran toward the Leaf Courtyard to carry the feeble petite girl in her arm to her own Flame Cloud Courtyard.
That was also the day that Luo Qing Qing stated that it was her first time in the ten years to watch the snow fall to the ground.
She has been weak during her whole years and she has only felt the cold of the winter or taste the cold thick snow on the ground if the other misses comes to bully her. If there is snow as heavily as that day, the misses also won’t come out of their courtyard and she also was forbid by the old Lu Luo from watching the snow fearing that she caught high fever.
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Han Xia Yu remembered the wide grin on the girl face and how her face lit up when they saw the slow and steady snowflakes fall to the ground on the next day.
“…” She closed her eyes and sighed helplessly.
She walked away to the main courtyard, ancestor hall to meet the patriarchs and most of all, to meet Luo Zheng and demand for explanation.
She was too weak before to protect what she wanted to protect. Those people, she only requested that they don’t bother the fourth miss but they ignored her warning. They sent her away to the academy and got her sister killed. If they don’t have good enough explanation, she won’t give them an easy death.
“Second miss has arrived!” the guard outside of the ancestor hall announced her arrival for the people inside to know.
Without waiting for the elder to give permission for her to enter, she stepped into the hall and knelt.
“How boisterous! No one telling you to enter!” An elder sitting on the left side of the head patriarch reprimanded as he pointing his finger to her.
She glared her eyes to him for a short moment before rolling her eyes and cupped her fist to the head patriarch that is sitting right in front of her on the stage.
“This daughter has come to demand for justice.”
The corner of Luo Zheng’s mouth twitched as he gritted his teeth.
Han Xia Yu looked up and she couldn’t bring herself to even smile. The look in her eyes became colder and darkened.
“Before this daughter left to go to the academy, this daughter once asked head patriarch to take care of the deceased fourth miss. Why, when I have return… I was met with the poisoned miss and she died not too long after in my arms?” She bit her lower lips before continued, “Why did that happen, head patriarch?”
The head just kept quiet but the elder that reprimanded her earlier interrupted.
“The girl is already sick to begin with. It was not anyone fault if she died.”
When Han Xia Yu heard that mocking tone in the elder’s words, she scoffed. “Sick?”
“Anyone knew that she’s sick ever since she was left to live in the Leaf Courtyard.”
“Ha! So you know that Leaf Courtyard is not a place for person to live but you still sent such a young girl to live there?! If this is not killing her then what is your purpose?”
“Ill-mannered child!” The elder rose from his seat and went to slap her but got reflected by the qi she exuded.
Everyone including him was stunned after seeing him being reflected to the ground. Although he is old, already near 90 years old, he is already at Peak stage Earthly Martial General. And though his cultivation speed could not compare to the youngster this eras, he is still among the hundred strongest martial cultivators. What stage is she to be able to reflect him and even injured him just from exuding her qi?
Unfortunately for him, she is only a stage before reaching her teacher. The principal is at Upper stage Earthly Martial Emperor while she is at Mid stage Earthly Martial Emperor. How can a general that is lower than a king, compare to an emperor?
She no longer kneels on the floor and stood up with her nose pointing upward, her eyes looking down to them.
“So what if I’m ill mannered. I will only keep my manner to those that worthy! I’m here not to complain about the courtyard you sent her to live but the fact that she is already healthy and got poisoned when I’m absent in this manor! If I leave you guys to take care of her food and clothes, she won’t survive as soon as I gone to the academy!” She widened her eyes to glare at the elder that fell on the floor and Luo Zheng that sitting in his throne trembling.
“Xia Yu, if you have anything to say. Kneel. This is not a manner I taught you.” For the first time, Luo Zheng spoke.
“… If you won’t explain, I won’t continue to be patient. Anything you going to say next, say it to my teacher. Elder Ban Guo’s maid has poisoned my sister. I will take everything from your courtyard to bury them together with my sister’s body.” She turned around and walked out of the hall.
The elder that knelt immediately stood up and with his finger trembling, he pointed to Han Xia Yu.
“Luo Xia Yu! Don’t slander me!”
She paused and turned only her head to the side to sneer. “Once I handed the evidence over, not only I will take away your whole courtyard. I will also take your life and the ring on your hand!”
“You-you!”The elder coughed blood and fainted.
The servants helped him and carried him to his courtyard.
It’s not that Luo Zheng doesn’t want to expose the culprit to her but he is in conflict. If he exposed the culprit, his life still will be threatened even if she won’t kill him, other people behind the culprit will surely hunt his life. However, if he doesn’t expose the culprit, he might do that person a favor once and surely his life will be protected from being killed by his daughter.
However, he didn’t know that Han Xia Yu never has the intention to let anyone in the Luo Manor alive after Luo Qing Qing being killed. It was something that she has long planned as soon as she met the girl last year.
She only came to the hall to warn them about their cheap life not to demand for explanation.