Chapter 329 Clues (2)

“Help! The young miss has fallen into the water…” A servant passing by saw Tong Qianbi struggling in the water and shouted in panic.

“Let’s go, it seems she won’t die.” Su Yaoguang led the people away.

That evening, as Su Yaoguang had just returned to the mansion and was waiting for Zhou Wangshu to come out of the bathroom, a maid stumbled in and knelt before her.

“Young madam, please save our miss, young madam…” The maid kowtowed to Su Yaoguang. “Our miss is being tortured to death by the second young master.”

Su Yaoguang frowned. “Your miss is…”

“It’s Miss Tong Qianbi!”

“She’s the distant niece of the Marchioness. If there’s anything wrong, the Marchioness will take charge for you. Why come to me?” Su Yaoguang picked up a teacup and drank. “I don’t manage household affairs.”

“But the Marchioness doesn’t care whether our miss lives or dies. She took in our miss just to make her toil for the second young master. I’ve heard the second young master has a bad temper and has already beaten many maids to death before. The Marchioness thinks that since our miss is at least his cousin, he wouldn’t dare to treat her as harshly as the maids.”

“She’s not wrong. Isn’t your miss fine?”

“But our miss is going to be killed by him!” The maid cried, “Young madam, as women, you’ve also suffered and must be kind-hearted. Our miss has a hard life. Her parents passed away early, and it was her uncle who raised her, but the old master wants to sell her as a concubine to a sixty-year-old County Magistrate, so she had no choice but to seek refuge with the Marchioness.”

“The Marchioness appears to be benevolent, but in reality, she lets our miss slave for the second young master. If it was just serving the second young master, our miss would accept it. But the methods of the second young master are too cruel; she can’t bear it as a weak woman. This time… this time he even used tongs to burn her in that place… our miss hasn’t even married yet!”

Su Yaoguang furrowed her brows.

“Where is your miss?”

“I risked my life to bring her out. She’s just outside your courtyard gate.”

“Then bring her in!” Su Yaoguang stood up and went out, instructing a servant, “Invite a doctor over.”

“It would be best to have a female doctor,” the maid said. “I heard there’s a skilled female doctor in the Capital City. Let the female doctor diagnose our miss!”

“Then invite Doctor Jiang Jing from Taoyao Square,” Su Yaoguang ordered.

While the servants went to fetch Jiang Jing, Su Yaoguang saw Miss Tong Qianbi. She looked ghastly pale, resembling a ghost.

“Help her to a side room.”

Zhou Wangshu came out of the bath, and seeing no one in the room, he asked the servants and learned that she had been taken away by Tong Qianbi’s maid, so he immediately rushed to the side room.

He strode in, and everyone greeted him.

Tong Qianbi’s maid knelt on the ground, kowtowing to Zhou Wangshu: “Young master, please save our miss! Please don’t drive her out.”

Zhou Wangshu held Su Yaoguang’s shoulder, looking displeased at the person lying on the bed.

“Didn’t I tell you not to meddle in others’ affairs?”

“I felt really sorry for her and couldn’t help it,” Su Yaoguang said. “Alright, she’s just an insignificant person. It was easy to save her once, and I won’t keep managing her.”

Zhou Wangshu showed displeasure.

“Alright, don’t be mad. I’ll surely keep you company later.”

Jiang Jing quickly arrived.

Su Yaoguang led Zhou Wangshu out of the door.

After a while, Jiang Jing’s voice came from inside, scolding: “Which beast did this?”

“Stay here, and when Jiang Jing is done, have her come to the main house to find me,” Su Yaoguang instructed, then took Zhou Wangshu back to her main room.

Back in the main room, Zhou Wangshu removed the adornments from Su Yaoguang’s hair.

He combed her hair and talked about amusing things from the day, being affectionate with her.

“Yaoguang, brother-in-law, can I come in?” Jiang Jing called from outside, “If it’s inconvenient, Yaoguang, come out, and we’ll talk outside.”

Su Yaoguang opened the door and pulled Jiang Jing into the room.

Jiang Jing saw that they hadn’t rested yet and smiled, “Am I not disturbing you?”

“Even if you are, it’s not you but certain unrelated people,” Zhou Wangshu replied displeased. “How is that person?”

Mentioning Tong Qianbi, Jiang Jing’s eyes were full of pity.

“She has many injuries, burns, pinpricks, cuts, and the most terrifying… the place on a woman’s body is already festering, it’s like she’s gone through inhuman torture.”

“New or old injuries?”