Chapter 481 Impersonation
Chapter 481 Impersonation
Ji Yuntang glanced at him and asked, "Who said your third brother agreed?"
"If this princess hadn't said so, how could they have taken Miss Zhong back?"
Luo Sinian didn't quite understand, and Ji Yuntang didn't explain to him.
She only said: "You must guard the Night Palace for me. I have something important to go out for."
After Ji Yuntang finished speaking, he returned to the Night Palace and left through the back door.
At the same time, the Zhong family's carriage bypassed the downtown area and came to a less populated street.
Suddenly, a group of scarred, bandit-looking men jumped down from the trees and rushed towards them with knives in hand.
The horse was frightened, raised its hooves and neighed, then rushed forward with the carriage carrying Zhong Changli.
"Ahhh, help!"
Xu was so frightened that she didn't sit firmly and hit her head on the bicycle frame, and fainted.
When the servants carrying the sedan chair at the back saw this, they ignored the sedan chair and ran away, leaving Miss Zhong behind.
Pei Zhiyi was dressed in black, with a black cloth covering her face. She smacked her lips and said, "How cowardly! You're just running away without caring about your young lady?"
After saying that, she glanced at the men who were dressed as bandits next to her and said, "Brothers, we have made a good harvest today. We actually managed to snatch such a beautiful bride. Carry her away!"
"Yes, boss."
The subordinates carried the bridal sedan away, and Zhong Xinyu inside was so scared that she almost cried!
"Who are you? Where are you taking me?"
Pei Zhiyi swung a dagger in his hand and said in a scoundrelly tone: "You'll know when you get there!"
When Zhong Xinyu in the sedan heard this, she panicked instantly!
She said anxiously: "No... No, I can't go with you, I have something important to do, please let me go!"
When Pei Zhiyi heard this, he thought she was just too scared and ignored her.
Soon, they carried the sedan chair into a dense forest.
Ji Yuntang stood with her back to the crowd. She was wearing a large black cloak that concealed her figure and appearance.
When Pei Zhiyi saw her, he immediately went up to her. She had just called out one word when she suddenly realized something and immediately changed her words.
"Tang... Hall Master, we have brought this girl back!"
Ji Yuntang: "..."
They said that she was asked to lead people to act as bandits and rob, but they didn't ask her to surpass others?
Pei Zhiyi’s acting is so realistic!
Ji Yuntang signaled Pei Zhiyi to let the people around her leave. When she turned around, she saw Zhong Xinyu getting out of the sedan chair, slipping and falling.
But she didn't care about anything else, she got up and prepared to escape.
Pei Zhiyi was about to chase after her, but Ji Yuntang was one step faster than her. With a flash of her body, she was already behind Zhong Xinyu.
Ji Yuntang held her shoulders and she said in a faint voice: "Miss Zhong, we just met."
Zhong Xinyu felt that the voice she heard sounded familiar. She turned around and saw that the person in front of her was Ji Yuntang. Who else could it be?
"Ye... Princess Ye..."
Zhong Xinyu's legs went limp with fear. If Ji Yuntang hadn't held her back, she would have already fallen to her knees.
"You seem to be very afraid of me, my princess?" Ji Yuntang narrowed his eyes.
"No...no..." Zhong Xinyu was trembling with fear and didn't even dare to raise her head.
In order to confirm his guess, Ji Yuntang directly pulled up her wrist and took her pulse.
The more she felt his pulse, the colder her eyes became.
After a moment, she withdrew her hand and said with certainty: "You are not Miss Zhong at all. Who are you?"
Pei Zhiyi was startled. She walked up and whispered, "But I've asked His Royal Highness Prince Chen before, and he said that Miss Zhong looks like this!"
After they finished speaking, the two looked at each other and their eyes shrank at the same time.
"Could it be a human skin mask?"
Ji Yuntang's gaze fell on Zhong Xinyu's face. Just as she was about to reach out to touch her, Zhong Xinyu took two steps back.
"I am Miss Zhong. What do you want to do?"
Ji Yuntang said coldly: "This question should be asked by me, the princess."
"Ms. Zhong has a mental illness, but you are normal. What do you want to do by impersonating her?"
Pei Zhiyi was impatient. "Tangtang, stop talking nonsense to her. Just tear off her human skin mask!"
"You don't have to deal with such trivial matters. I'll do it."
She stepped forward to control Zhong Xinyu, put her hand directly on her face, and touched along the edge.
Sure enough, she really felt a small bulge.
Pei Zhiyi pulled it and tore it hard. Zhong Xinyu screamed in pain, and a layer of human skin mask was torn off from her face.
The face under the mask was pretty and charming, but not as beautiful as the previous one.
Pei Zhiyi became immediately furious. She pulled out a dagger and put it against the girl's neck.
"Who are you and why are you pretending to be Miss Zhong?"
The little girl was so scared that she knelt on the ground. "Princess Ye, please spare me. Miss Pei, please spare me. I am Ming Xia, Miss Zhong's personal maid. I grew up with my young lady."
"This time it was not my intention to impersonate our young lady. It was really Madam's order, and I dared not disobey."
Ji Yuntang asked in surprise: "What about your young lady?"
When Ming Xia heard this, tears immediately fell from her eyes. "Miss...Miss is seriously ill and is dying!"
Pei Zhiyi took back the dagger in his hand and helped her up.
"What happened? Tell us in detail."
Ming Xia then said, "Although our young lady is the legitimate daughter of the family, she is not Madam Xu's biological daughter. Her mother died of illness when the young lady was seven years old. Madam Xu was promoted from a concubine to the mistress of the family by the master."
"Ever since Madam Xu started to manage the household, our young lady has had a very difficult time in the mansion. Because Madam Xu herself gave birth to two sons, she has always been targeting our young lady, trying to take away the dowry that Madam Xu left for her."
"I often persuade the young lady to complain to the master, so that the master can know what Madam Xu has done and protect the young lady."
"But the young lady is too soft-hearted. She always says that it will pass if she just endures it. Once she marries Mr. He, she will no longer live in the Zhong Mansion and will not threaten Madam Xu's two sons, so she won't be targeted anymore!"
"Originally, she and Mr. He had already reached the stage of proposing marriage, but Madam Xu disliked the fact that the betrothal gift Mr. He gave was too little, so she asked him to go back and prepare 100,000 taels of silver. If the amount was not enough, she would marry my daughter to someone else."
"Mr. He is the only one in his family and makes a living by fishing and selling fish. One hundred thousand taels is an astronomical figure for him, but in order to marry a young lady, he still agreed to it. He went out fishing before dawn every day just to save enough money to marry a young lady."
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