Ji Yunyi requested the family law to be enforced.
"Stealing property from the residence and reselling it without the master's permission. Steward, according to the family law, what should be done?"
The steward frowned tightly.
Looking at the scene before him, he said fearfully, "That... that depends on the value of the stolen property. The higher the value, the heavier the punishment."
Hearing this, Ji Yuyan's eyes showed fear and her hands and feet became restless.
The things she took before, not counting the hairpin, just the few blood agates, were rare items of great value.
Their value was immeasurable.
"No, no! Second brother! I 'took' things from our own residence. It doesn't count as stealing."
Ji Yunyi coldly and angrily shouted, "Took? Ji Yuyan, you have a lot of nerve. That thing was a betrothal gift sent by Prince Feng. Even if we go back ten thousand steps, that thing doesn't even count as something of our Ji family. It belongs only to Yunxi. Without her permission, this is stealing."
"Steward, execute the family law." Ji Yunyi fiercely flung his sleeves, extremely indignant.
Hearing this, the old steward looked at Prime Minister Ji Qilin.
After all, she was the second young lady of the residence. Although they usually didn't like this pretentious mistress, without the prime minister's order, they didn't dare to act rashly.
Ji Yuyan was so scared that she trembled. "Sister, I didn't mean it. Sister, please help me."
Ji Yunxi remained silent.
Seeing that this trick didn't work, Ji Yuyan quickly looked at Ji Qilin and said with a crying voice, "Father, if I am to be beaten a hundred times with the family law, then I will lose my life. Father, I am also your daughter. Do you want to watch your daughter be beaten to death because of a few things?"
Ji Yunxi coldly said, "I thought my sister didn't recognize the goods and should not know what the blood agate was before 'accidentally' putting it into her own purse. Now it seems that you can even say the words that according to the family law, you should be beaten a hundred times. This shows that you still know how valuable this thing is. Good sister, this is not an innocent mistake. You are - knowingly committing a crime."
Ji Yuyan stood there stunned. She wanted to defend herself, but found that there were no loopholes in what Ji Yunxi said.
This time, she was like lifting a rock to drop on her own feet.
Ji Qilin was entangled in his heart.
He asked himself that he had never lacked discipline for Ji Yuyan since childhood. Even if she had a vicious mother, he never took his anger out on her because of this.
But Xier was sensible since childhood and had suffered a lot of grievances. Yuyan was just a concubine daughter. Now she even offended Xier. If it was before, the daughter would act coquettishly and this matter would pass.
But now, hearing what Xier said, he was also extremely angry.
"Bodyguards, beat her twenty times."
"Father! Father, don't!"
Ji Yuyan crawled to Ji Qilin's feet and kept begging.
"Yan'er, you are not young anymore. You have to be responsible for your actions. If you don't have this beating, you will never learn your lesson."
With the prime minister's order, the steward asked the bodyguards to carry Ji Yuyan to the long bench.
After a while.
A series of cries and shouts sounded.
Ji Yunxi watched coldly the whole time.
That night's family law beating made Ji Yuyan's skin open and her flesh split. For seven consecutive days, she could only lie on her stomach in bed.
On the tenth day, she could walk on her own.
Every time the maid changed Ji Yuyan's medicine, the moment the pain hit her mind, she hated her sister Ji Yunxi even more.
"Second young lady, please bear with it. It will be over soon."
"Little bitch! You hurt me. Be gentle with me!" Ji Yuyan cursed continuously.
After the maid changed her medicine, she didn't want to stay for a moment and quickly walked out of the room.
Ji Yuyan supported the table with difficulty and stood up.
She wanted to pour herself a cup of tea, but casually glanced and found that there was a letter on the table in her room. She didn't know when it appeared.
She opened the letter.
After reading the letter, she was shocked and quickly kneaded the letter into a ball and tightly grasped it in her hand.
She looked around and saw that no one noticed.
Then she carefully unfolded the letter again.
- If you want to get rid of Ji Yunxi, this stumbling block, I can help you.
There was no signature.
There was also a small line of words. The general meaning was that if you wanted to put Ji Yunxi to death, you could reply and put the letter under the third glazed tile on the eaves. Someone would take it away.
The pain on her back came again.
Ji Yuyan looked at the blank rice paper on one side. Hatred flashed in her eyes, and then she resolutely picked up the pen.
These days.
Ji Yunxi slept worse and worse.
Every time she woke up, her head became heavier and more painful. She lived in a daze for several days.
It was late at night again.
She didn't feel sleepy again, so she got up, dressed well, and went up to the attic to relax.
When she couldn't sleep in the past, she would come to the attic and look up at the brightest star in the night sky.
The book said that the brightest star everyone saw was different. Those stars were the transformation of their closest people.
Ji Yunxi had heard her father talk about some things about her mother. Although she didn't have a great impression of her mother, she thought that her mother should be the closest, kindest, and most perfect woman in the world.
If she was here, that would be great.
Every time she had something on her mind, Ji Yunxi always told it all to the stars in the sky.
But tonight.
Not long after she went up to the attic, she had a headache.
Ji Yunxi hugged her head with both arms, curled up her body and leaned against a corner of the attic. The pain in her mind seemed to be tearing every nerve in her body, making her whole body cold and unable to move.
"What's wrong with you?"
A gentle but urgent voice came.
Ji Yunxi forced herself to open her eyes.
She saw the figure on the other side of the attic at a glance. There was a hand order hanging on his waist that she had seen some time ago.
Was it him? The mysterious expert who appeared that night?
What was he doing here?
Her sight moved up. What came into Ji Yunxi's eyes was a man. At this time, there was a pure silver half mask on his face. The mask was designed extremely exquisitely. The upper half of his face was covered tightly, only revealing the man's evil and handsome eyes. At the lower left corner of the mask, there was a pattern of a flower on the other side of the river.
Just his eyes and lips were so captivating.
It was hard to imagine how amazing the face under the silver mask would be.
Ji Yunxi didn't have time to think. The pain in her head became even worse.
Seeing this, the man on the opposite side was full of anxiety. He paused and immediately appeared in front of Ji Yunxi.
"Don't come over! I..."
Before she finished speaking, she felt a warm and numb feeling coming from the back of her neck. The next moment, Ji Yunxi's whole body went soft and she fainted without consciousness.
The man gently hugged Ji Yunxi.
All that filled his nose was the fragrance of the woman.
"Don't be afraid. I'm here for everything. You should have a good sleep first."
This whisper was full of doting and extremely gentle.
The night was as calm as water.
It seemed that nothing had happened.
When Ji Yunxi woke up, it was already the next day.
She habitually put her hands on her forehead, but found that for some reason, her head didn't hurt at all today.
In the previous few days, every time she woke up, her body was extremely uncomfortable. Today, the feeling of fatigue and sleepiness had all disappeared.
The mysterious person from last night suddenly emerged in Ji Yunxi's mind.
She quickly called the maid.
"Xiaojiu, when did I come back last night?"
The maid looked at her with a puzzled face and was extremely surprised.
"Miss, you stayed in the room last night and didn't go out."