Translator : Tojoillust
Editor- Lily
Chapter 56
“Sss, sss, sss.” It sounds like small pebbles continuously rubbing against the ground, emitting this noise.
This sound was very ear-piercing. It could even be said to be sharp, and could directly stimulate the human brain nerves so that people’s bodies would follow with a shudder. Like a knife sliding against a glass window.
“Giggle, giggle, giggle.” Following that, laughter resembling children playing emerged from somewhere, but this laughter carried a hint of ethereality, sounding somewhat unreal.
And then there was the sound of clattering footsteps, and the sound of a group of people waiting anxiously for something, huddled together, gasping for breath and chatting, a constant stream of broken voices coming out of their mouths.
Kind of like a whisper in prayer.
In between, there were several women screaming, a bit like the eardrum-piercing squeal of a pig when a butcher killed them.
The source of the cacophony of voices was not known, but it was very noisy and annoying to the people.
Mrs. Zhou lay on the bed, rolled over, and frowned as if she was having a nightmare.
The noise grew louder, too loud to ignore, and suddenly, a baby’s cry came, followed by footsteps.
What had been a prayer in the crowd turned into shouts of delight.
Before they could rejoice for too long, the woman let out another scream, this one even more harrowing than the one she had just uttered, before it ended abruptly and returned to silence.
Only an anxious old lady could be heard shouting, “Someone, Mrs. Yi has fainted! The newborn baby also seems lifeless.”
Mrs. Zhou jolted and woke up from her dream, her heart thumping out where it was, her whole body still sweating, lying on the bed.
Was it a dream?
Madam Zhou’s pupils shrunk.
Mrs. Zhou’s original name was Yang Peifang. Not to mention her youth, she could still be considered a beauty now. If it weren’t for the fact that Mr. Zhou took possession of her when she was young, and her own family background was strong enough, she probably would have married a satisfactory husband by now.
She reluctantly got up from the bed, her hair a little messy.
Gnashing of teeth.
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Why is she suddenly dreaming about this? It’s bad luck, damn it.
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Mrs. Zhou was ruthless and resolute.
In just a year or two, not only did she completely revamp the backyard of the Zhou residence step by step, but she also directly broke the tradition of women not managing household affairs. She reached out to handle the financial matters of the Zhou household, making Mr. Zhou somewhat wary of her.
During the delivery of that concubine, she directly bribed the midwife and several maids, not only preventing the child from seeing the light of day but also causing the death of that woman inside.
With this in mind, Madam Zhou thought of Zhou Caihua, and her eyes were filled with even more intense hatred.
Who would have thought that there would actually be someone else who had exploited the situation.
“Peifang, why are you doing this to me.” Something seemed to have drifted past the door, and a shadow scuffed past, along with the light of the candles lit in the room, moving from side to side.
The woman’s voice was a little grim and questioning, as if she had come to claim her life.
Mrs. Zhou’s heart immediately thumped and her pupils trembled, covering the quilt on her body in fear as her body trembled.
Subconsciously, she lifted the curtain of the lace window and began to loudly call inside the room, “Someone! Quickly, come! Help!”
But strangely enough, no matter how much she shouted, the maid on duty who was supposed to be serving outside the door rigidly didn’t rush in, not knowing if she couldn’t hear her voice or something else.
Mrs. Zhou’s heartbeat followed suit as it beat faster, and her breathing began to wheeze.
“Peifang-” the woman was still screaming her name, and great fear wrapped itself around Mrs. Zhou’s whole body.
Cold sweat slid down her forehead, and her body couldn’t stop trembling.
As soon as she pulled the covers off her head and covered her ears to keep from listening to the shouting outside, her body began to stop shivering under the covers.
She lied down under the covers and whimpered in a small voice, with the expression of guilt.
“Why are you doing this to me-!”
“Wasn’t it you who told me that you would consider me your own sister?”
The woman’s screams began to roar and even became rough as if she was giving vent to some emotion in a frantic screaming frenzy.
“Why won’t you leave us mother and son alone! Why!”
Mrs. Zhou’s body felt like it was wrapped in some kind of ice, starting from the soles of her feet upwards, there was no place on her body that wasn’t steaming with cold air.
The more desperate the woman’s voice, the louder she cried, and an immense fear surged in her heart, causing her great torment.
“I was wrong! I was wrong! Please spare me; I’ll immediately go and burn more paper money for you so that you can live a little more comfortably down there, please spare me!”
Mrs. Zhou’s mental state went mad. She buried her head in the quilt, whimpering and begging for mercy at the same time.
The woman paused after hearing her ludicrous comment, then tilted her head as if to let out a frightening snort, “Heh hee hee hee…”
Whether mocking the woman for being unrepentant as death approached or mocking oneself for once trusting this hypocritical woman, it was unclear.
The woman’s laughter was extremely mournful, even turning into prolonged wailing that seemed to pierce the skin and reach into the bones. It sent shivers down the spine and made the hairs stand on end.
Mrs. Zhou trembled even more in fear. But in the next second, the woman’s screams came to an abrupt end, as if the source of the sound had been choked off by something, and everything around her returned to silence again.
The “thump-thump” sound echoed in the room, indicating that only Mrs. Zhou’s heart was still beating, seemingly sending a signal that she was still alive.
She hid under the covers with a small sob, and wondered how much time had passed, as if everything around her had stood still.
Her breathing was also a bit rapid due to the lack of oxygen inside the quilt.
Quiet …
Silent as if time had come to a standstill, everything that had just happened seemed to be nothing more than Mrs. Zhou’s imagination.
Her body shuddered, carefully sticking half her head out and showing half her eyes to the scene beyond the curtains.
The room was empty, and the only candle burning in the room did not go out, burning steadily.
Seeing this, Mrs. Zhou took a deep breath, and with a sense of fear of escaping from death, she rolled over and was lying on the bed, before she could rest, her eyes met with the eyes on top of the bed that were scarlet to the point of shedding tears of blood.
“Ahhhhhhhhh! –”
Mrs. Zhou screamed out like a madwoman, both eyes closed, and fainted completely in fear.
“Brother, you’re really good looking.” As soon as Su Jingyan opened his eyes, he locked eyes with the small child who stood at the head of his bed staring intently.
The little child, whose gender was not visible, was dressed tightly and stood there quietly with a rag doll in his hand.
Su Jingyan had just accidentally fallen asleep on the table, and now he was still a bit groggy, blinking his eyes like a dazed deer.
This child, with two watery eyes, kept coming up to Su Jingyan’s side to survey his good-looking face, and the curves of his mouth kept rising upwards, smiling in a way that inexplicably made people feel a little creepy.
Possibly out of some unexplained intuition, Su Jingyan did not want to take care of this little kid in front of him, who looked to be at most three years old, yawned, and then continued to stare.
The child didn’t feel the slightest bit annoyed at being ignored by this beautiful beauty in front of him, and even felt that Su Jingyan was treating him in such a way that was somewhat understandable.
The child’s eyes were frighteningly bright, like a pug coming up to its master for a bone.
The child tentatively reached out, his little tender claws wanting to touch the corner of Su Jingyan’s coat, but before he could touch it, he felt a flurry in his spiritual body, nearly being thrown out, but also being bounced out a bit because of the force he had just felt.
But this kid wasn’t some ordinary kid after all, and there was no way he was going to be made to fall to the ground and become disabled just because of this attack.
The little child tidied himself, and then stood back up again to the position where he had originally stared at Su Jingyan and continued to look at him eagerly.
Suddenly the child noticed that the beauty’s eyes became radiant all of a sudden, the good-looking doe’s eyes were full of stars shining, and in the spirit of indifference to the world, his demeanor followed with colourfulness, as if he had seen something.
Before the child could react from his stunned look, the back of his neck was grabbed by something, and his entire body was yanked up in the air.
“Don’t think that just because you have the skin of a child, you really consider yourself a child.” The man looked grimly at what he was grasping in his hand and snorted, as if he was looking at an ant with contempt.
If he pushed just a little harder, the little one he was holding would turn into smoke by him.
Originally, the child, who had intended to struggle and show a fierce expression, immediately fell silent and went still like a puppet with its strings cut when he heard the man’s voice. He seemed to be trying to diminish his presence, allowing the man to grab him as if he were a lifeless puppet.
The man sneered again.
In the next instant, Lu Yichen didn’t hesitate and directly threw the thing he was holding in his hand in the direction of the door.
The child was thrown hard to the ground with a loud “bang” that sounded a little painful.
But he got up from the ground again nimbly, seeing no trace of a bump and stumbling.
The child looked at the door of the forbidden room, and for some reason, his entire spiritual body couldn’t stop starting to tremble, and his legs were a little weak.
The kind of fear that had just come from within, he could barely put into words.
The curvature of Su Jingyan’s mouth reached its maximum, with a beaming smile on his face. His bright, sparkling eyes were fixed on the man’s face without moving, and he uttered in a soft and tender voice, “Yichen!”
The man sighed at his innocent expression, placed the food he had just prepared for him on the table, and then effortlessly pulled him into his arms, giving his hair a gentle rub.
Su Jingyan took a breath, smelled the aroma of the food, and, with a hint of innocence, said, “It smells so good.”
Lu Yichen buried his chin in the side of Su Jingyan’s neck and also sniffed the fragrance on Su Jingyan’s body. Looking at the side of the other’s face, he hooked the corner of his mouth.
Hmm, it smells really good.
