The Slender Waist-Chapter 779 - 553 Please Thief into the Trap_2

The crowd gathered, increasingly numerous.

Lady Tao glanced at the crowd, not seeing Pei Jue appear, and her conviction strengthened even more.

She pretended to protect Feng Ya, furrowing her brow and saying:

"Shi’er Niang, so many people will frighten the Fifteenth Miss."

Feng Yun curled her lips slightly, ignoring her, "Break the door!"

The guards responded in unison.

Lady Tao pressed her lips tightly together, barely restraining her instinctive grin, and feigned anxiety:

"Do not crash the door."

She ran forward, blocking the entrance of the chamber.

"My family’s Fifteenth Miss is inside, how can we allow men to barge in?"

Feng Yun slightly curved her lips, "Madam Feng, why so nervous? Could it be there’s something indecent inside?"

Lady Tao was nearly laughing to herself internally.

Isn’t it indecent indeed?

She also awaited the guards breaking in, catching their master and his little concubine in a clandestine affair, stunning everyone present...

But for now, not everyone had arrived, and it wasn’t lively enough.

She wanted to make people suspect there were ghosts inside. That way, when the time comes, it would mislead people into thinking she had prior knowledge of the affair between Feng Ya and the Prince of Yonghuai. Thus, the two of them were having an affair, not just coincidentally in the same room...

Two outcomes, similar in appearance, but fundamentally different.

The Prince of Yonghuai actively meeting Feng Shi Wu Niang in the West Chamber, eagerly making love, was very different from him drunkenly stumbling upon Feng Shi Wu Niang...

Thus, Lady Tao even more forcibly attempted to prevent the guards from intruding, even going as far to block them with both hands spread across face-to-face.

The guards, hesitant to touch her, looked towards Feng Yun with difficulty.

Feng Yun smiled nonchalantly, "Madam Feng, please do not disrupt the rules of our residence. Or is it... you block so shamelessly because the Fifteenth Miss and that little thief are doing something indecent inside?"

Lady Tao scoffed internally.

Wait until they catch the "little thief", Shi’er Niang will cry.

Her face didn’t show it, but her words turned sour.

"Shi’er Niang, how can you speak like this? I am your elder aunt, and she is your fifteen sister. Even if you disregard her reputation, you shouldn’t falsely accuse her of having an affair with a thief."

Feng Yun chuckled lightly, her expression as if flowers were about to bloom.

"I didn’t say she was having an affair with a thief; that’s what you said, Madam Feng."

As her voice fell, she forcefully grabbed Lady Tao’s arm, pulling her back and signaling the guards.

"Aren’t you going to break the door?"

The guards responded in chorus, charging at the door.

The door latch was very tight; several people used full force, and amidst Lady Tao’s screams, a loud bang sound burst forth as the wooden door opened.

"Fifteenth Miss..."

Lady Tao started to call out but then stopped.

Just as the guards rushed into the room, they dragged out a man from behind the screen, his face flush, barefoot with disheveled hair and clothes in disorder, around forty years old or so.

Lady Tao’s face changed drastically.

"You... why is it you?"

She recognized this man.

He was Duan Wu, the steward by Feng Jingyao’s side.

Having come with them to the Pei Residence for the banquet today, how could he be in this chamber?

Where was the Fifteenth Miss?

Lady Tao’s body swayed a bit, barely able to stand.

Immediately afterward, she saw Feng Ya being "invited" out from behind the screen by two maids.

Unlike Duan Wu, her face was deathly pale, her disordered clothes barely covering her fair body, her hairpin lost, hair spilled down, and her steps so sluggish as if she had lost her soul. Seeing Lady Tao, she weakly knelt on the ground, tears streaming.

"Please mother, stand up for your daughter."

Lady Tao was stunned.

She remained bewildered for a long time, still not understanding what had happened.

She glanced at Feng Ya, then at Duan Wu, infuriated.

"What’s going on? What exactly is happening?"

Her tone was very stern.

From the moment she discovered that it wasn’t Pei Jue in the chamber, Lady Tao’s attitude towards Feng Ya changed.

If it weren’t for the presence of so many people, she would have had to pretend to be a loving mother, or else she might have already slapped Feng Ya across the face.

She ruined her plans.

Worthless creature.

"Mother, mother, it’s not my fault, he appeared all of a sudden..."

Feng Ya naturally sensed Lady Tao’s anger.

With her head lowered, she shook her head, crying sadly, and rushed to cling to Lady Tao’s sleeves, wanting to complain.

Lady Tao smelled the vulgar fragrance of powder and seeing her disheveled appearance, subconsciously despised her, yanking her sleeve forcefully, causing Feng Ya to collapse softly to the ground.

"Mother..."

She looked up, unable to believe that her legitimate mother, who had been coaxing her softly just days ago, could look like this. She was so distraught that she could do nothing but cry, unable to utter a word.

On the contrary, it was her maid, kneeling on the ground, nervously beginning to explain.

"Madam... when the maid and Fifteenth Miss went out to change clothes, just as we entered the chamber, I was suddenly knocked down, almost knocked unconscious, and then, I saw Duan Wu, he dragged Fifteenth Miss behind the screen..."

Lady Tao was going crazy.

"Why didn’t you respond when I called you earlier?"

The maid quickly lowered her head, "I did not dare to make noise, fearing someone would see us and tarnish Fifteenth Miss’s reputation... Fifteenth Miss couldn’t make any noise... that Duan Wu... was so cruel..."

Damned.

Utterly damned.

Lady Tao’s mind was in complete disarray.

She had never expected such an outcome; hearing the sneering laughter beside her, she didn’t even know what to do...

Instead, it was Feng Jingyao, who had hastily arrived, that was composed enough.

With his hands behind his back and a stern face, he looked angrily at Duan Wu trampled on the ground by the guards, and then glanced at the sobbing Feng Ya.

"Despicable creature, utterly shameless." 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

It wasn’t clear whom he was scolding. Before his voice even fell, he sighed deeply once more.

"Today, you’ve all witnessed a farce, truly embarrassing, utterly shameful."

As he spoke, he addressed Lady Tao.

"Why haven’t you taken Fifteenth Miss away yet, causing a spectacle here?"

Lady Tao’s eyelids twitched, and she replied.

Feng Jingyao then approached Duan Wu, looking down on him with a cold snort, "Offending the Prince of Yonghuai Residence, you truly seek death. Guards, drag Duan Wu away and beat him to death with sticks."

The guards beside him surged forward to grab Duan Wu.

Duan Wu appeared somewhat delirious, resembling someone drunk, only goofily smiling at Feng Jingyao.

"My lord, I am Duan Wu... My lord, I am Duan Wu ah, err... I am your confidant, have you forgotten? I know many of your secrets... hiccup... if you hit me... I might not be able to keep my mouth shut..."

Feng Jingyao’s brow furrowed so tightly it could trap flies.

"Drag him away!"

"Wait!" A cold voice came from behind the crowd.

The atmosphere suddenly grew tense, and Lady Tao sharply turned her head.

Prince of Yonghuai?

He indeed wasn’t in the room...

There’s a traitor!

Lady Tao’s body shivered, subconsciously looking at the kneeling maid beside Feng Ya, her eyes almost spewing fire.

The crowd automatically split down the middle.

Pei Jue walked slowly over, calmly saying: "Minister Feng, the thief captured by Pei Residence has not been interrogated yet, how can you take him away and have him killed?"