Tang Dynasty Puppet Doctor

Chapter 116 Revealing the Truth in Public
"What does she mean? Does she mean that the murderer of this Cui Wu lady is hiding among us?"

The streets were once again filled with noise. Many people were frightened and wanted to escape, but were blocked by the yamen runners lining the streets.

Murong Huan replied at this moment: "Don't be afraid, everyone. The murderer is not a vicious monster who kills innocent people. Let me tell you a story first, and let you judge the justice!"

As she spoke, she gave Xiao Muchen a hint with her eyes. Xiao Muchen also called Xuan Yu over and whispered something in his ear. Then Xuan Yu sent someone away in a hurry.

"This story begins with a bright and beautiful young woman who rescued a beggar wandering the streets. Because her father had died young, she and her adoptive mother depended on each other for survival, selling tofu for a living. The young woman's name was Yingying. From childhood, she had a kind heart and sympathized with the weak. One day, she came across a young boy who was nearly starving on the street. She picked him up, fed him every day, made him new clothes, and used the money she and her mother had saved from selling tofu to collect tuition for him so that he could go to school.

In the boy's eyes, this smiling girl was like a god.

He had been silently looking up to this smiling girl, thinking that this not-so-rich but warm life would continue forever. However, he never expected that one day, a lady from a wealthy family would suddenly adopt this young lady as her adopted daughter. However, because of the lady's status as a first-class noble, Yingying became someone he could not reach.

He also thought that Yingying would live a life of luxury and even superiority as a noble lady from then on. However, he never expected that one day he saw with his own eyes that Yingying was bullied by many noble ladies who were well-dressed and appeared kind. These noble ladies would pretend to be good sisters with Yingying in front of that lady, but in private they would often beat and kick her and humiliate her in every way.

At first, the boy helped the girls to resist, but because he was weak and powerless, he was subjected to even more crazy revenge from those noble ladies.

These ladies not only found some strong servants to beat him up, they even went so far as to blind the boy's eyes.

In order to prevent the young man from being bullied, Yingying begged them bitterly and was even willing to work like a slave, just to eliminate the anger these noble ladies had vented on the young man.

Later, these noble ladies seemed to find it boring to torture a blind man, so they transferred the fun of bullying to the young girl.

The better the lady who adopted her treated Yingying, the more these noble ladies bullied her in private. They even threatened her not to tell the lady about all this, otherwise they would make her adoptive mother and brother disappear from the world.

So, Yingying swallowed all the humiliation and grievances she had suffered. In order to protect her adoptive mother and the adopted brother, when facing the lady's questions, she always smiled and showed her best side, without letting people see any flaws. She even told the lady that all the sisters were very nice to her.

Until one day, the lady introduced her to a handsome and talented scholar and wanted them to get married. Perhaps for the lady, this was the best marriage she had chosen for her daughter. She even asked her niece to act as a matchmaker.

However, Yingying did not like the scholar, and she knew that the scholar was not really kind to her. But in order not to disappoint the lady, she kept a distant relationship with the scholar. However, she did not expect that the scholar colluded with the girl from the Zheng family to trick her into the governor's mansion, intending to give her to the newly appointed governor as a plaything.

However, what they did not expect was that the new governor was not a beast like them. He was a young general. When he saw the helpless girl looking at him with pleading eyes, the general softened his heart and did not do anything excessive. Instead, he sent someone to send Yingying out of the governor's mansion and told her that if she was bullied again, she could go to him.

But Yingying did not dare to tell the general about her experience. However, when the general was following Yingying one day, he saw her being bullied. So the general taught these noble ladies a lesson, thinking that from then on, these noble ladies would not dare to bully Yingying again.

However, what the general did not expect was that his accidental help would only make these noble ladies even more aggressive.

Out of pity, or perhaps love at first sight, the general sent some betrothal gifts to Yingying's adoptive mother's family, expressing his willingness to marry her. Yingying agreed to the general's proposal and waited for him to come and marry her on the appointed day. However, to her disappointment, the general did not come as promised because something happened at home, and he broke his promise when she needed him most.

It was at this most important moment that those noble ladies deceived Yingying out with lies. She thought she had waited for the general who would marry her, but she did not expect that it was a group of inhumane bandits.

These evil bandits not only destroyed her innocence, but also, at the request of those noble ladies, gouged out her eyes, chopped off her hands and feet, and left her to suffer like a human pig until she died..."

At this point, the crowd suddenly fell silent, and there were bursts of sighs and sounds of disbelief and indignation.

"Who is so vicious as to do such a heartless thing?" someone couldn't help but ask.

Lu Ling and Lu Shiyilang were also shocked.

Murong Huan swept his gaze over the crowd and continued, "When that young man found her, she was already on her last breath, but she held on, waiting for him to arrive. She told him to take good care of himself and not to seek revenge for her. Am I right?"

"And the general who promised to marry her..."

When Murong Huan reached this point, a shrill cry broke out from somewhere: "Stop talking! Please stop talking..."

There was another wave of uneasy restlessness among the crowd, and someone couldn't help but whisper, "Who is it? Who is crying?"

Murong Huan and Xiao Muchen followed the sound and came to a teahouse on the roadside. They saw Madam Cui holding a maid's hand, leaning against the door of the teahouse, beating her chest and crying bitterly.

Perhaps it was too heartbreaking, Mrs. Cui cried so hard that she could not make a sound and fell to the ground.

"lady--"

Murong Huan ran over to support him. At this moment, a handsome young man walked out of the teahouse with a seven-stringed zither in his hands. He was the blind zither player.

"Madam, do you think today's play is good?"

Murong Huan looked at the zither player in surprise and asked:
"You wanted to avenge Yingying, so why did you bring Madam Cui here?"

The young man let out a sad, bitter laugh: "If she hadn't abandoned me in the beginning, or if he hadn't gone to Puzhou to find her in order to make up for the guilt in his heart, how could she have suffered such an unfair fate?

We were clearly living quite well together, even if our lives were a little poor, but at least we had harmonious neighborhood relationships, and those simple uncles and aunts were all kind to us. But it was because of her arrival that our peaceful lives were completely disrupted... And it all started because of her, because she brought a group of demons with her!"