Being favored by the paranoid master, the whole imperial capital kneels down

The Cao family has been having a hard time these days.

Chu Xinli's leg was recovering from an injury, but Cao didn't dare tell anyone in the Chu family that the injury was caused by Nan Chuzheng.

Especially Lord Chu, he always thought that Chu Xinli and Nan Chuzheng were close, and he became more and more fond of Cao.

In the mansion of Marquis Zhaoyong, he openly favored his concubine and neglected his wife.

In the past few days, Lord Chu has been urging Chu Xinli and Cao to call Nan Chuzheng back to the mansion to treat Chu Xinli's leg.

Whenever Cao thought of Nan Chuzheng's fierce and indifferent look that day, she would tremble.

How could she dare to ask Nan Chuzheng to treat her son's leg?

Cao could only keep making excuses to fool the Marquis of Chu.

To this day, her natal family, the Cao family, came to her and said that Cao Bingde had been missing for several days.

Some time ago, Cao openly announced that her son had become the crown prince of Marquis Zhaoyong's Mansion.

A concubine who was born into an opera family, giving birth to a bastard son, could become the crown prince...? In the eyes of others, this was a rebellion against the Heavenly Gang.

Anyone who is interested can find out after a little inquiry that Nan Chuzheng, who grew up in the countryside of the Chu family, has a good relationship with Yan Luosi.

Nan Chuzheng played a key role in Chu Xinli becoming the crown prince.

Everyone in the Cao family knew that Mrs. Cao wanted Cao Bingde to marry Nan Chuzheng.

As a result, after Cao Bingde went out to keep an appointment, he never returned to the Cao family.

After several days of anxious waiting, the Cao family could no longer sit still and took the initiative to find Cao.

Cao didn't need to think too much to know that Cao Bingde's disappearance was related to Nan Chuzheng.

She was so frightened that she knelt in front of the door of the South House and cried all the time.

"Chu Zheng, Chu Zheng, please meet me."

Cao couldn't help crying. Cao Bingde's disappearance and her son Chu Xinli's leg injury made Cao feel anxious and sad.

The servants of Marquis Zhaoyong's mansion were peeking out of the gate, not knowing what Aunt Cao was doing.

The tightly closed Nanzhai opened, and Xiaoyin walked out.

"Go back, the young lady won't see you."

Aunt Cao raised her face, tears streaming down her face.

"No, no, my mother's family only has Bingde as a child. He hurts like an eyeball. Chuzheng..."

Xiaoyin kicked Aunt Cao in the heart.

She was kicked so hard that she almost couldn't breathe.

"You are allowed to call the young lady by her name?"

Xiaoyin's face was full of disdain. She was the most cruel and ruthless among the four girls.

She squatted down, grabbed Cao's hair with one hand, and forced her head up.

Xiaoyin held a thin knife in his hand and gestured at Cao's face.

"Who do you think you are? You're just a toy. Do you think you can force me to abdicate?"

Didn't Mrs. Cao kneel down and cry in public at the door of Nanzhai's house just to use public opinion to force the eldest lady to let Cao Bingde go?

"The eldest lady asked me to tell you something. Cao Bingde's affairs are not her responsibility, but when you can see him depends on your performance."

Cao's face was filled with horror as she looked at the thin knife in Xiaoyin's hand.

The cold blade kept scratching her face, and Cao didn't even dare to move.

The slightest movement would disfigure her face.

"Hatsuko... No, no, what do you want me to do, young lady?"

"I, I will listen to the eldest lady."

Xiaoyin was not very satisfied with Cao's behavior. She took a thin knife, opened Cao's collar, and cut her collarbone.

"The eldest lady wants to know who Lord Chu is in contact with."

She leaned over to Cao's ear and whispered,

"Shouldn't you, as his concubine, pay attention to what Lord Chu said and did every day, as well as the Chu family's household expenses?"

Cao grimaced in pain, blood gushing from her collarbone.

But she didn't dare say a word.

Xiaoyin helped her up and stuffed a hemostatic pill into Cao's mouth.

Seeing the servants from Zhaoyong Marquis's Mansion looking over, she raised her voice with a pleasant expression:

"Look, it's just a small matter, and yet you asked Auntie to come here in person. Don't worry, Auntie, I will definitely convey your message."

She patted Cao's shoulder, and Cao's body obviously tilted. Her face was pale, her hair was disheveled, and her clothes were soaked with blood.

But he didn't dare to express even a single word of opinion.

She thought she understood what Nan Chuzheng meant.

Nan Chuzheng not only asked her to monitor Lord Chu, but also asked her to seize the household supplies from Zhou.

It is actually not difficult to monitor Lord Chu.

Over the years, Lord Chu spent more than half of his time sleeping in Cao's room.

But being in charge of household chores, although this was what Cao had wanted before, she was still just a concubine after all.

Since ancient times, in a wealthy family, how could a concubine who was born into an opera family be able to control the household finances?

No matter how incompetent Mrs. Zhou was, and no matter how angry Lord Chu was at her indifference, he never really let Mrs. Cao handle the household chores.

"I, I'm afraid I can't get the household expenses..." Cao trembled, looking at Xiaoyin pitifully with tearful eyes.

Who is Xiaoyin? He was so young that he could kill his own parents.

She reached out, pinched Cao's shoulder through her clothes, and pressed her thumb against Cao's collarbone.

"The eldest lady has ordered that no matter what method you use, whether it's making a fuss, crying, throwing a tantrum, or even threatening to hang yourself, it's fine."

"Our young lady only wants results."

Cao was shaking violently with pain, but the pill she took reduced the bleeding from the wound on her collarbone.

She nodded while crying, "I'll go, I'll go, girl, please let me go."

"Think about Cao Bingde. If you delay causing trouble in the cabinet, you will delay seeing him."

"If we delay for a few more days, what we'll send back to the Cao family will be a corpse."

Xiaoyin's face was full of bloodthirsty viciousness, and no one would doubt her words.

Cao gritted her teeth and went back to ask Zhou for the account book.

Zhou was in the Buddhist temple, praying to the Buddha to give her another chance, to let Nan Chuzheng return to her and continue their mother-daughter relationship.

Nanny Jin had been sent to do odd jobs on the farm, and the new nanny advised Zhou,

"Madam, you are in the Buddhist temple every day, so you should take care of the affairs of the Marquis' Mansion."

"Otherwise, the Marquis will be even more angry with you."

Zhou only looked at the Buddha in front of him and did not speak.

However, Chu Shiqing, who came in, felt angry.

"Mother, are we going to remain passive like this forever? Don't you know that I met Nan Chuzheng's adopted brother a few days ago?"

"Their relationship is strange, isn't that something I'm wary of?"

Since it was about Nan Chuzheng, Zhou finally reacted. She hurriedly stood up and asked Chu Shiqing,

"What do you mean? Speak clearly."

Chu Shiqing immediately said, "I can't explain it clearly, but I just feel that Nan Chenrao is not a good person. The way he looks at Nan Chuzheng is against human ethics."

"Mother, for Chu Zheng's sake, you can't be so depressed anymore."

Violating human ethics?! Zhou was so frightened by these four words that her face turned pale.

"No, no, how could it be possible? You must have guessed wrong. My Chu Zheng is flawless, and her manners are dignified, better than the most well-behaved noblewoman."

"How dare her adopted brother think that about her?"

"Disgusting, so disgusting!"

At this moment, as soon as Cao entered the room, she ignored the nanny beside Zhou and started smashing things as soon as she entered the Buddhist hall.

Cao yelled like a shrew,

"Ms. Zhou, please hand over the account book quickly. Ah, you abandoned woman, give me the account book and the key to the pair quickly."