Chapter 150 Kneeling and Begging for Mercy

One day, Shang Yukuan was leaning against the bed and drinking medicine when he heard a burst of crying from the yard.

Madam Wei's eyes were sharp, and she knew that it must be the women of the third house who were unwilling to give up.

These days, she had stopped him many times on the grounds that the Duke had to recuperate.

But the third old lady didn't know what was wrong with her, and she insisted on making a fuss, so she simply didn't hide it.

Her eyes turned red, her nose felt sore, and she cried.

Shang Yukuan was already upset, and seeing the lady like this, he was even more irritated.

"What's wrong? What's the commotion outside?"

His hand was injured, not his ear, so he could naturally hear that the shouting voice was from the third house, so he asked this question.

Seeing this, Madam Wei opened her mouth and cried.

"These days, the master is recuperating, so I haven't told you many things, for fear that your illness will relapse. But if you keep stopping me like this, I'm afraid that the third room will make trouble outside the mansion, and I can't do anything about it."

"Did Erlang lose too much money in gambling again? Or is it Si Niang's marriage?"

"If it's just these, I will handle it myself, but it's much more troublesome now!"

Afterwards, Madam Wei took a deep breath and slowly spoke.

"Master, you don't know that you were assassinated this time because the servants in the mansion hired a killer to kill you."

When the four words "hired a killer to kill someone" fell into Shang Yukuan's ears, he almost choked and looked at Madam Wei with disbelief.

"What? Who is it?"

"Hey, it's Mother Qin next to Erlang's wife. Does the master have any impression of her?"

Shang Yukuan frowned. He had some impression of Mother Qin, but he had no grudges with her in the past or in the present. How could this happen?

"Why did she find someone to assassinate me? What good would it do her if I died?"

"Master, you don't know that on the day you were assassinated, the Jingji Division arrested the criminal. Liu Lang interrogated him for a long time but got no results. In the end, it was His Majesty who ordered the Ministry of Justice to interrogate him and find out."

In between the words, he always mentioned Shang Ji, accusing him of incompetence.

"Then what happened?"

"After finding out, it was my brother who brought people to search the house. When they searched the third room of Beiyuan, they tried to shirk responsibility. As expected, Mother Qin was arrested out of guilt, and 2,500 taels of unknown silver notes were also found in Erlang's wife's room."

When Shang Yukuan heard this, he didn't even know how to describe his shock at the moment.

"I have never treated them harshly! Why do you have to do this!!"

He was so angry that he started coughing violently, and his wounds were involved and he cried out in pain again.

Mrs. Wei said while calming him down.

"Not to mention the master, even I dare not believe it, but the things were searched out from their courtyard, and..."

"What else? Tell me all at once, I can bear it!"

"And some witchcraft dolls were found in the third uncle's house, with both the master's and the people from the East and West Courtyards on them."

Hearing this, Shang Yukuan could no longer listen to the words.

He was full of incomprehension and the pain of being calculated.

"The Jingji Division took away the third uncle, Erlang's wife, and Qin Mama beside her. The third aunt came to me every day to beg for mercy, but I am a woman in the back house, what can I do?"

This made Shang Yukuan very angry, and he raised his hand and smashed the medicine bowl in Madam Wei's hand.

Her chest was also heaving, and she didn't know how angry she was in her heart.

When Madam Wei saw this, a trace of success flashed in her eyes, but she quickly suppressed it.

When she raised her head again, she asked with grievance.

"Now they heard that the master has woken up, so they are clamoring to see you. Should we see you or not?"

"What do you want to see them for? Do you think my life is not long enough?"

There is no longer the protection and pity for the family in her words. If she had a knife, she would stab them a few times to vent her anger!

Outside the yard, Madam Jiao sent people to stop them.

Sanlang's wife is smart. She came once before and never came again.

So the one who is shouting the loudest now is the Third Old Lady.

As for her daughters-in-law Fan and Si Niang, they don't like to talk on weekdays, so most of the time they come with her and just cry silently.

"Madam Jiao, please let us in. Yukuan has suffered so much. Let us go in and take a look."

"Don't worry about the Third Old Lady. The Duke is fine. As for what you are thinking, you know it and I know it too. Don't make things difficult for me."

Madam Jiao felt that since the Third House was chosen as a scapegoat, it would be best if they died together so that there would be no worries in the future.

But she knew the Duke's temper very well.

If the Third Old Lady cried for a while, the Duke would be able to swallow any hatred.

So, she didn't want these people to come in front of Shang Yukuan.

However, the Third Old Lady was determined, and she was strong on weekdays. Seeing that there was no one to turn to, she simply gritted her teeth and rushed in.

Four or five maids didn't stop her, and she rushed into the main house.

This scared Madam Wei.

But the Third Old Lady's target was not her, but the injured Shang Yukuan.

Madam Jiao knew his temper, and so did the Third Old Lady, so she would definitely succeed if she asked Shang Yukuan for mercy.

So this time, he didn't act like an elder. As soon as he entered the door, he knelt on the ground and crawled to Shang Yukuan, crying loudly.

"Yukuan, please save your third uncle. You should have known what he thinks of you since childhood. The witch puppet was simply framed by someone!"

She cried so hard that Shang Yukuan had a headache.

He was gritting his teeth just now, but now he was a little flustered.

He looked at Madam Wei, and there was a lot of help in his eyes!

But the third old lady finally found a chance to see him, and she didn't care about her face.

"That vicious Guan actually dared to hire someone to kill you. If I knew she was such a person, I would never let her into the mansion. Now, in order to save her own life, she has implicated your third uncle in these things. Isn't she just trying to drag our family to death?"

"I have asked Erlang to write a divorce letter. What she did has nothing to do with our third house! You can kill her or cut her up, but your third uncle is really innocent!"

After saying that, the third old lady quickly handed over the divorce letter.

Not to mention Shang Yukuan, even Madam Wei was a little surprised by her behavior.

It seems that the third house is also a bunch of spineless people. In order to save themselves, they are willing to let Guan take on all the things.

Hiring someone to kill the Duke and blaming the grandfather of her husband's family.

Apart from other things, these two major crimes are enough to make her or the entire Guan family die.