The Princess Wei Yang

Chapter 78: Urging the Evil Spirits Part 1

Chapter 78: Urging the Evil Spirits Part 1

1金屋藏娇 – literally to hide a beauty in a golden house. Used to denote meeting a lover secretly

2一笔画不出两个李字 – a way of saying two hands cannot clap; Li Changle is trying to say that the Li Residence cannot be complete without either of them

“Jiu Yiniang was sharing a room with San Xiaojie last night, but she went missing early this morning!” Du Mama hurriedly reported.

Li Xiaoran immediately looked at Li Weiyang, as if to seek her confirmation on this matter.

Li Weiyang nodded: “I did not see Jiu Yiniang when I woke up in the morning.”

“Where could she have gone?” Li Xiaoran couldn’t believe his ears.

Da Furen glanced at everyone present: “Who saw where Jiu Yiniang went? Out with it!”

The servants looked at each other, when out of a sudden, someone stepped out from amongst the crowd and pointed at Li Weiyang. “Furen, Nu Bi had seen with my own eyes that Jiu Yiniang was kneeling on the floor begging for San Xiaojie. They had talked for a very long time, and I faintly heard something like ‘please let me go’!”

Da Furen angrily retorted: “What nonsense! Are you saying that San Xiaojie let Jiu Yiniang go?”

Li Weiyang watched her acting, smiling coldly and never uttering a word.

Yatou hesitatingly replied: “During then.. I was not the only one who saw it, Hong’er, Lü Luo and Mingxia.. we clearly saw it! Furen, please ask them if you don’t believe me!”

“The three of you, speak up!” Du Mama snapped.

The three Yatous who were named were obviously very passive; they looked at Li Weiyang with much fear as they stepped up. “Laoye, Nu Bi had indeed witnessed Jiu Yiniang kneeling on the floor begging San Xiaojie, but we do not know what they had said!”

Li Changle seemed to have been waiting for this moment. She questioned Li Weiyang angrily: “Weiyang, what is the meaning of this? Why did you help Jiu Yiniang escape?”

“We haven’t conducted a thorough search of the surroundings, perhaps it might not have really been an escape?” Li Xiaoran could not believe it was possible.

Da Furen smiled coldly. “Let them search and see!”

A few servants went outside of the living quarters to search for Jiu Yiniang, but returned with nothing even after checking the prayer hall.

Li Weiyang lowered her eyes, with a fleeting cold sneer at the edge of her lips. This is all a trap – the previous time when Jiu Yiniang was sobbing and begging for her help, yesterday night’s arrangement for them to share the same room; everything had been planned nicely from the start.

“What do you have to say for yourself, San Mei!” Li Changle scolded.

Li Weiyang replied calmly: “The Li Household has provided Jiu Yiniang with good food and comfortable clothing, why would she want to run away?”

Li Xiaoran frowned in deep thought. Why would his beloved concubine, whom he doted on, run away without a care for anything else?

Li Changle revealed an expression of shock, then changed quickly into realization – “Might she have… I remember the last time Muqin invited a performance troupe, one of the yatous was gossiping about how Jiu Yiniang had a lover with her troupe, perhaps..”

Jiu Yiniang had eloped with someone else! Everyone was stunned.

Li Xiaoran’s face was filled with speechless indignation and awkwardness; his beloved concubine had actually run away with an actor – which goes to show that in Jiu Yiniang’s heart, he couldn’t even hold up against such a lowly person! In an instant, a curl of hot anger flared up in his heart and he loudly demanded an explanation: “Weiyang, what actually happened!” He was extremely angry; why would Li Weiyang have to help Jiu Yiniang!