Chapter 89 (1/2)

Thus she changed her tune: “Then would the Feng family’s eldest young miss play a song!”

Feng Chen Yu hated that she could not quickly leave this place. She was the Feng family’s daughter to the first wife, why did she need to suffer this humiliation?

But she did not believe this humiliation to have come from Ding An palace. All of the wrongs came from Feng Yu Heng.

Fiercely glaring at Feng Yu Heng, Chen Yu stood up and walked towards the seven-stringed zither with a face full of grief. The sound of the zither picked up. She had practiced bitterly for many years in anticipation of a magnificent occasion to play the zither. Instead, here she was playing for a group of dancers and a bunch of madams and young misses who would never truly be relevant.

Feng Yu Heng did not care for her grievances. The evil plans she had come up with herself would need be dealth with herself.

Feng Chen Yu’s zither abilities were good, very good. Over the years, the Feng family had failed to develop any of Feng Chen Yu’s talents; however, the zither was different, and she actually began practicing it.

She truly was the daughter to the first wife of a first rank official’s family. Normally, these madams and young misses who were irrelevant would have a hard time even seeing her in person, much less personally hearing her play the zither.

The zither abilities she had hoped would attain the admiration of all those watching was played for a group of dancers. The sounds of Chen Yu’s song were filled with sadness and hatred.

Feng Yu Heng, the humiliation you have given me today, I will definitely repay you many times over.

However, at this time, a young servant girl was carrying some refreshments towards Feng Yu Heng, wanting to place them on the table. However, she slipped and spilled tea all over Xiang Rong.

Xiang Rong immediately leapt up in surprise and quickly patted at the water beads on her clothes; however, she was just a little too slow, as the tea seeped in to her clothes.

“This servant has made a mistake. Would young miss please forgive this servant!” The young servant was also quite nimble, as she knelt on the ground and begged for forgiveness. This kowtowing and begging made Xiang Rong feel bad.

“It’s alright, get up.” Xiang Rong helplessly allowed the servant to stand up. Looking again at her wet clothes, she was not certain what she should do.

Feng Yu Heng looked at the kneeling servant. Her intuition told her that this was not an accident. Feng Chen Yu and Qing Le found that the first plan had failed and moved to their second. She worried that this second plan would be used on Xiang Rong.

Sure enough, the servant stood up and said: “Young miss, these clothes can no longer be worn. The days now are colder. Wearing these clothes will cause you to catch a cold. Would young miss come with me to get a change of clothes.”

Xiang Rong was a little embarrassed and looked at Feng Yu Heng. Seeing Feng Yu Heng nod to her, she followed the servant.

Feng Yu Heng continued to sit at the table, eating fruit and watching the performance. When she glanced at imperial daughter Qing Le from the corner of her eye, she found that she was also looking towards her. She looked as though she were watching a play, absolutely certain that Feng Yu Heng would fall for the trick.

She naturally did not know what sort of plan Qing Le came up with; however, she was a little curious. She really wanted to see how good this imperial daughter was at harming others.

Not long after, another new servant came over, stopping by Feng Yu Heng. Saluting, she quietly said: “You are the Feng family’s second young miss, right? The young miss who just went to change her clothes called for you to help her.”

Feng Yu Heng thought to herself: Speak of the devil.

“Very well.” She rose and turned her head to look at imperial daughter Qing Le, faintly smiling. She turned towards Wang Chuan and quietly said: “Wait for me here. I will go over alone.” She then followed the servant in the same direction that Xiang Rong went.

The two walked to a row of side rooms behind the garden. The servant who led the way kept her head lowered the entire time without speaking. When they reached the third last room, they stopped. Turning around, she said to Feng Yu Heng: “That young miss is in here. Would second young miss Feng please enter.”

Feng Yu Heng looked at her then suddenly smiled, “My third sister from little has been a scaredy cat. It must be that she is not used to being taken care of by unknown maidservants, which is why she called me here.”

Seeing her speak of her own accord, the servant found it hard not to respond, thus she also smiled and said: “That’s right. Second young miss Feng and third young miss are very close. Third young miss Feng said that she is often taken care of at home by second young miss, so having second young miss for something like changing clothes is best.”

Feng Yu Heng nodded and took the initiative in opening the door. As she pushed it open, she said: “But I left the capital while I was still young. Since I returned to the manor, I could only see third sister when paying respects to my elders in the morning and at night. When she sees me, she is always timid and from far away. I really do not know where she found the courage to ask me to help her change clothes.”

After she said this, she stepped into the room, not caring that the servant’s face became even whiter. She only pondered what sort of thing would happen next.

The servant who had led the way did not follow Feng Yu Heng into the room. Instead, she closed the door from the outside.

Feng Yu Heng let out a “hm?” sound. When she turned her head around, she heard the sound of the door being locked.

She smiled. So it was this sort of plan.

“Why do you want to lock the door?” Wanting to play along fully with this act, she turned around and hit the door, “Quickly open the door!”

Unfortunately, how could there still be anyone outside. That servant had ran away long ago.

Feng Yu Heng turned back around and curled her lips in to a smile. Looking all around the room, her gaze settled on a small room behind a screen.

Steam could faintly be seen coming from behind that screen. She lightly stepped forward through the hall towards that small room. Craning her neck, she saw a man completely naked seated in the steaming bath tub with his eyes closed. His clothes were tossed on the ground, while his socks and shoes were spread all across the floor.

Feng Yu Heng remembered that she had just spoken with the servant and slammed on the door, yet this man had kept his eyes closed. Noting his steady breathing rate and the way he steadily kept a beat with his fingers, he did not seem to have been drugged.

Then this guy already knew about this play and was waiting for her to approach.

She sneered and deliberately made some noise outside the screen.