Flying Clouds in Another World

"You treat her well. Even though it's against etiquette, it's the right thing to do. Only in this way can you gain her true loyalty until death." Liu's mother Chu Bihe said to Liu Feiyun earnestly.

"Ah!" Liu Feiyun was stunned. What on earth was going on? I just wanted to visit Sister Yiyi, but why did I have to give her a lecture on the art of controlling others? Although I was just a migrant worker at the bottom of society in my previous life, I was also a history enthusiast. In addition, after being bombarded with numerous palace fighting dramas and historical dramas, I still knew a little about these superficial techniques of controlling people.

Seeing Liu Feiyun's bewildered look, Mother Liu couldn't help but burst out laughing, thinking:

Yun'er is just a little kid, why should I tell him these things, how can he understand. But she sighed in her heart, born in a noble family, and caught up with such a world, how can he be so naive, there are some things that he will have to face sooner or later. Well, I will teach him another lesson today! Yun'er, don't blame your mother for being cruel and taking away your innocent childhood so early. Who made you born in the current Liu family, the only heir of the Liu family of Earl Le'an!

Chu Bihe, the only wife of Le'an Earl Liu Shihao, the mistress of the Liu family, and Liu Feiyun's mother, was born in a declining noble family. At the age of 20, she married Liu Shihao, who was more than ten years older than her.

She had studied at Tiandu Changluo Business School for several years and was proficient in business. After marrying into the Liu family, she used her dowry to establish the Green Willow Chamber of Commerce, earning a lot of wealth for the Liu family.

In order to treat Liu Feiyun's illness over the years, it has cost a lot of money. If it only depends on the tax deduction from Liu Shihao's fiefdom and the salary of the county lieutenant, it is definitely not enough. It still has to rely on her green willow merchants to support it. What's more, the original expenses of the Liu family are not small. "Yun'er, you can go see Yiyi. Come on, I'll take you to see someone first, and let him take you there!" After saying this, Liu's mother picked up Liu Feiyun and walked out of the courtyard, followed by a group of maids.

After leaving the courtyard, I saw four people standing by the door. Two of them were wearing armor, with swords and crossbows hanging from their waists. They stood straight with serious faces. Even when they saw the mistress of the Liu Mansion, Chu Bihe, they just crossed their arms and saluted and ignored her. The other two were only wearing ordinary clothes and no armor. When they saw Liu's mother, they hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

Liu Feiyun has often seen these people since he was able to go to the library to read. He had also asked Liu Yiyi and learned that these four people were sent to protect him. In fact, there were not only these four people around the courtyard, and Liu Yiyi didn't know how many there were exactly.

These people came from two different systems. Those wearing armor were the private army of the Le'an Earl's Mansion, the Tiger Guards that many people feared. They were soldiers recognized by the empire. Those wearing casual clothes were the guards of the mansion, most of whom were martial arts masters from the martial arts world.

According to the relevant laws of the empire, only soldiers can wear armor and wield crossbows, but civilians are not allowed to do so. And only the nobles of the territory are qualified to have private armies. No matter how rich or noble others are, they cannot have them, and can only have guards. Of course, as the dynasty is getting darker, the enforcement is not as strong as before.

After leaving his own courtyard, Fuyouyuan, he walked around a few times and arrived at a small square. Dozens of guards stood around the square, and more than a hundred people stood or knelt in the square. Liu Feiyun found that several maids in his own courtyard were also in the crowd, and they were kneeling in the crowd. What was going on?

Several guard leaders, led by an old housekeeper, came hurriedly to greet Liu's mother and asked her to sit in the main seat in the row of chairs in front of the square.

Mother Liu put Liu Feiyun on her lap and asked the old housekeeper, "How is the investigation going?" The old housekeeper replied respectfully, "Madam, we have basically found out that there is indeed a thief in the family who colluded with the foreign enemy and revealed the whereabouts of the young master yesterday!"

"It is true. I was wondering how the enemy knew Yun'er's exact location at that time. Normally, Yun'er would have gone back to sleep at that time. Only yesterday did she suddenly decide to go to the library to read a book. In less than half an hour, she encountered a powerful enemy attack. It would be strange if there was no insider who passed the message." Mother Liu frowned.

"Yes! Madam, there were only twenty-seven people who knew that the young master went to the library. Among them were six maids in the young master's Fuyou Courtyard, sixteen guards and soldiers, and five guards and servants of the library. Among them, the guards and soldiers of the Fuyou Courtyard were all on duty and had no contact with others. The same was true for the people in the library. Only a few maids who served the young master had contact with others." The old butler explained in detail.

After hearing this, Mother Liu looked at the kneeling maids with a somewhat unfriendly expression. The teenage maids were immediately terrified and kowtowed repeatedly to beg for mercy, and so did their family members behind them. Mother Liu glanced at them and said, "Alright! You have been kneeling for such a long time, so stop pretending to be pitiful. Get up first! I don't think you have the courage to betray the Liu family. Tell me, who told others about Yun'er's whereabouts?"

Several maids looked at each other, and then four of them swore that they had never mentioned to anyone else that the young master went to the library. Only one of them was pale and said timidly: "Yes... yes... yes, when I was splashing water outside the yard, I stayed outside the yard for a little longer, and met the servant Xiao Wu Ge. He asked me why I had time to go out of the yard to play at that time. I casually replied that the young master was not in the yard and just went to the library to read. Madam, I really dare not harm the young master! No! It’s that I don’t want to harm the young master! The young master is so good to servants like me. I hope the young master lives a long life! How could I have the idea of ​​harming the young master." After that, she started to cry again.

Liu Feiyun listened for such a long time before he realized that it was because of the powerful enemy's attack last night. It turned out that there was a thief in the house who was the accomplice. However, he found it hard to believe that it was the maids around him who wanted to harm him.

After hearing this, Liu's mother looked at the old housekeeper. The old housekeeper nodded and gave a few instructions to a guard beside him. The guard left immediately. Not long after, a man of about seventeen or eighteen years old was brought in by two guards. The man was wearing a loose robe, his face was pale and bloodless, but there were some bloodstains on the robe. At this time, he fainted, obviously he had been severely tortured.

The old housekeeper said, "This Wu kid is a errand boy who usually only does odd jobs. He was the one who lied to Chen that the young master went to the library to read last night."

"Chen? Which Chen?" asked Liu's mother with a frown.