Chapter 228 Explosion of Acting Skills (1/2)

Lin Mengya was snapped back into reality by the sound of her maidservants’ sobbing.

As Lin Mengya watched her three maidservants drowned in tears, there was, however, not a hint of fear in her eyes as she furrowed her brows.

“Master, please don’t be hard on yourself because of me given things had come to this. It’s my sad fate that I could no longer stay by your side to serve you, Master. I will prove my innocence with my life. Please do not implicate my young mistress.”

Baizhi had broken down in tears. After all, who would not be fearful of death?

However, in order not to implicate her own mistress, she was willing to exchange her mistress’ innocence with her death.

“Silly girl, death is like putting out the burning lamp. What is the use of proving my innocence with your death? Mother, this matter came about all because of the 50 taels of silver. Baizhi may be a maid, but she is also a life. I implore you to consider this carefully lest my maid should be accused wrongly.”

Lin Mengya’s words were indeed very pertinent.

Concubine De pondered for a moment, then she glanced at Yun Ruo, who was standing in front of her.

Yun Ruo, who was looking down with all due respect, lifted her head and gave Concubine De a nod.

She seemed to say that regardless of what happened now, there was no way Lin Mengya could turn the situation around. Surprisingly, Concubine De agreed to Lin Mengya’s request.

“Alright, as you have said, princess, I will give Baizhi a chance to plead her innocence. Men, put Baizhi in the woodshed for the firewood and make sure no one comes near her. Mengya, I will give you three days to gather the evidence to prove her innocence. If you fail, we can’t give in to your whims and fancies.”

While speaking, Concubine De maintained her usual elegance on the surface, but the expression in her eyes was that of an evil and vicious intent.

Lin Mengya watched as Baizhi was led away. Taking a bow, it was a show of Lin Mengya’s gratitude towards Concubine De’s mercy.

“I’m exhausted, let’s call it a day. Jingyue, help me back to my room,” said Concubine De.

She glanced at her son and daughter-in-law coldly before she got up and return to her room, accompanied by Jingyue.

A group of servants trailed behind her, making her look as authoritative as usual.

Baishao, who used to be Lin Mengya’s intimate servant chose to remain silent as she, too, followed behind Concubine De.

“Master!”

Now that Baisu and Baiji were no longer restrained by Concubine De’s servant, dashed towards Lin Mengya.

“It’s alright now, stop crying. Let’s talk when we get back to the Liuxin Courtyard.”

While they were still in the Art Courtyard where Concubine De’s men were listening and looking on from every direction. Lin Mengya had a lot of queries but she could only discuss this in her own territory.

“Your Highness, are you coming with me?” said Lin Mengya to Long Tianyu.

From the moment Long Tianyu stood by her just now, she felt a warm current running through her heart.

She had always thought that between Concubine De and herself, Long Tianyu would definitely stand by his mother.

Never would she have imagined that he would take her side and protect her.

Long Tianyu shook his head. He had more important matters to tend to at the moment. Moreover, he thought what they were going to discuss would be between the ladies and not for him to hear anyways.

“Be very cautious in everything you do. Please send Baisu to Qinwu Courtyard to look for me if you need anything,” enjoined Long Tianyu before he left.

Long Tianyu thought his mother was not acting normal today. He needed sometime to reconsider some of his decisions.

Lin Mengya nodded and the two went their separate ways to their respective courtyards after they exited from the Art Courtyard.

Lin Mengya and her company walked silently all the way back to the Liuxin Courtyard. However, the moment he stepped into the courtyard, they realized that the usually well-kept garden was now in complete disorder.

The servants were seen nervously and frantically tidying up the mess in the courtyard. Apparently, the flowers and plants had been trampled upon and the tables and stools had been overturned.

Apart from Lin Mengya’s room, which seemed untouched, the rest of the rooms suffer damage to different extents.

With a severe expression on her face and a cold voice, Lin Mengya said, “Please bear with this for a few more days. I will get to the bottom of this and seek justice once we rescue Baizhi. Baishao… no, Baiji, please make a statistics of the losses and damage here.”

This looked more like a ransacking than a search of her courtyard!

It had seemed that Concubine De’s servants usually kept a low profile on normal days. Who knew they were actually rather formidable!

“Lass, I would think it a good idea for me to rescue Baizhi out of that hut first. It’s not difficult for me to break into that hut,” suggested Qinghu.

The hostility in Qinghu’s expression was unmistakable.

Nevertheless, Qinghu would not make any move to start a fight with the other servants in the prince’s mansion without Lin Mengya’s instruction.

For this reason, he had only tried to protect them secretly when Baizhi was taken away.

Moreover to Qinghu, those men sent by Concubine De should not have trampled upon the exotic plants which he had gifted Lin Mengya with.

“Don’t be scared of them, Elder Sister. I am not in the least concerned about that Concubine De,” said Lin Zhongyu.

In fact, Xiaoyu cared about things that happened in the courtyard even more than Qinghu did. He almost could not restrain himself from stepping forward especially when Concubine De’s servants were beating Baizhi up to force her into confession.

However, like Qinghu, he would not make any move unless Lin Mengya instructed him.

“Things are not as simple as you think. I’m sure they’ve carefully thought through a plan to tackle me. It’s just too bad it’s not easy to deal with me, which is why they had resorted to laying their finger on the people around me.”

At this moment, Lin Mengya had sat down on a chair in the main hall and was looking solemn.

In fact, she still could not grasp how Concubine De had such a drastic change after she visited the palace that day.