The Princess Wei Yang Chapter 65 - Part 3
September 06, 2017
1纵虎归山: literally means let the tiger returns to its den; cause danger to
occur in the future
2伤天害理: literally means against nature and reason; to commit ruthless actions
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Chapter 65: A Plan within a Plan - Part 3
Li Wei Yang gave Bai Zhi a signal and Bai Zhi responded by retrieving a small case from aside. Bai Zhi stuffed the box in Hong Luo’s arms. In the box was five hundred silver taels. Hong Luo was stunned all of a sudden.
Li Wei Yang asked: “If these taels aren’t enough to resolve your
difficulty, you can let me know.”
Hong Luo held up the box, her hands suddenly began shaking and
tears began falling. She wiped away the tears and said: “San Xiaojie, Nubi
deserves to die but Nubi didn’t have a choice. Three years ago, Nubi’s mother
was ill, father didn’t have a choice but to steal one hundred taels from the account books for my mother so she could see the doctor. Afterwards, Da Furen caught ahold of
evidence and said she would send him to the officials. Father is already old
and he has leg problems, Nubi was driven into a corner to have committed such
actions.”
This was exactly similar to what Li Wei Yang had predicted. She
let out a sigh and said: “Hong Luo, I won’t make things difficult for you. Bring this box with you, leave this place with your father and don’t let Da
Furen find you.”
Bai Zhi suddenly frowned: “Xiaojie, how could you let her leave
like that? Isn’t this letting the tiger back to its den1?
Li Wei Yang waved her hands to indicate that she made up her mind.
Hong Luo had never thought that Li Wei Yang would treat her like
that, her tears were flowing down nonstop. She thanked her, stood up and walked
towards the door. Taking two steps, she suddenly stopped as if she couldn’t
move, her whole body was still right in front of them. Her back was shaking. She then turned around, knelt in front of Li Wei Yang and tearfully said:
“Xiaojie, Nubi beg your pardon, if Nubi just left like this, Nubi would feel
guilty. Da Furen ordered Nubi to bury wooden dolls in the residence, a total
of seven ……”
Seven? Li Wei Yang was stunned; she shook her head. Da Furen was
definitely something. She thought so highly of her that she buried seven all at
once.
Bai Zhi felt fear inside. If today Hong Luo chose to die rather than telling them, or if she just left, even if they dug out one, there were the remaining
six that would have sent her Xiaojie to her doom. Cold sweat covered her head. She had been very careless. How could Xiaojie let Hong Luo leave? Thinking up until
this point, she suddenly understood and lifted her head to look at Li Wei Yang.
At that moment, she understood her Xiaojie’s intention.
Li Wei Yang took a bet with Hong Luo’s character and soft
spot and believed she would be honest with her. Understanding this, Bai Zhi
couldn’t help but become speechless. Xiaojie’s thoughts were too complex. She
couldn’t be read at all.
“Nubi knows this is against nature and reason2 and there will be karma but didn’t dare defy
Da Furen’s order. To prevent others from finding out, I only made a move at
night. These seven dolls, besides buried under the tree, there is one at every
corner, one under your bed, and the last one ……”
Hong Luo’s face turned red and finally said: “The last one, Nubi
hid it in the grass behind the residence.”
Li Wei Yang lightly smiled, Da Furen’s tricks came one by one, waiting
for her doom! If she didn’t discover this early, she wouldn’t even know how she
died! Tiny wooden dolls? This was voodoo magic.
She asked Hong Luo: “Are there other people with you on this?”
Hong Luo shook her head, she said: “Nubi don’t know.”
Li Wei Yang nodded and said: “Then starting today, you should
continue to pretend to not know anything.”
Hong Luo was astonished. She lifted her head and said: “Xiaojie,
you still let Nubi stay by your side?”
Li Wei Yang smiled: “As long as you agree, I won’t kick you out
and will treat you the same as before.”
She dared keeping someone that betrayed her not because she was
overconfident, but she held onto her opponent’s biggest soft spot. Hong Luo, this
person, still had a conscience.
Bai Zhi brought Hong Luo out. Mo Zhu cautiously said: “Xiaojie,
what should we do now? Should we report this to Lao Furen?”
Mo Zhu was bestowed to her by Lao Furen, so it wasn’t unusual
that she suggested such words.
Li Wei Yang shook her head and calmly said: “Lao Furen is
getting old. It’s better to not trouble her, what do you say?”
Mo Zhu bit her lips and ultimately decided: “Yes, Nubi listens
to everything Xiaojie says.”
Since she decided to stay with Xiaojie, she would serve Xiaojie
her entire life. The person with the power to decide her fate was Xiaojie, so there was nothing much to be concerned about.
“Look for the wooden dolls Hong Luo was talking about.” Li Wei Yang
instructed.
“Yes, Nubi will secretly trash them.” Mo Zhu said, following her
good advice.
“No, keep everything, then summon Rong Er over from my mother’s
residence.” Li Wei Yang faintly smiled as she replied.
Mo Zhu was surprised, Rong Er? Wasn’t she that yatou who falsely
passed along a message from Qi Yiniang to draw Li Wei Yang over to the garden
to see Gao Jin?
Not long, Rong Er arrived trembling with fear. Once she saw Li
Wei Yang, she immediately knelt down.
Because of what happened last time, she thought San Xiaojie
wouldn’t let her off that easily but who would have known that everything was
calm. Right when she was letting out a thankful breath, Li Wei Yang summoned
her.
“Rong Er, serving Qi Yiniang, do you feel aggrieved?” Li Wei
Yang’s face had a smile as she asked.
Rong Er’s expression slightly changed, she bowed her head and
said: “Nubi is clumsy, Qi Yiniang is magnanimous. To be able to serve her, it’s
Nubi’s luck this lifetime.”
Li Wei Yang calmly smiled and said: “Da Xiaojie gifted you
something not small? Or else how did you dare use Qi Yiniang’s name to call me
out?”
Rong Er, hearing this, immediately bowed her body. Her voice was
shaking, “Nubi …… nubi ……”
Li Wei Yang’s coldly voiced: “You couldn’t have forgotten what
you have done!”
Rong Er saw that Li Wei Yang’s countenance was chillingly cold
and her voice was serious. It frightened her, causing her face to turn pale and
she didn’t dare to move. She then tearfully cried: “Nubi …… nubi is loyal to Qi
Yiniang, really don’t know …… don’t know anything about betraying the master.”
Seeing that Hua Mei had already been executed, she knew there
was no witness to testify against her. Li Wei Yang lightly smiled, she said: “I
let you speak yet you don’t speak. Later when I don’t let you speak, even if
you do, it’s already too late.”
Rong Er was frightened but she boldly said: “Nubi honestly don’t
know what wrong did I commit.”
Li Wei Yang suddenly dropped the tea cup onto the floor and then
staring at the broken fragments, and said: “Kneel over them.”
Rong Er bit her teeth together as she knelt over the broken
tea cup pieces. Pain from her knees spread to her heart as tears began forming
in her eyes.
“Someone who dares betray her master should naturally be
punished,” Mo Zhu coldly said. She didn’t have any sympathy for Rong Er at all. If Li Wei
Yang was successfully framed by her back then, they would have ended up with a
miserable death. This kind of Nubi, death was too easy for her!
Li Wei Yang calmly said: “Pour a cup of tea for Rong Er.”
Rong Er was surprised. San Xiaojie’s words, what did those mean?
Mo Zhu understood, she lowered her head as she retrieved an
empty tea cup and placed it in Rong Er’s palm, “Hold this, if a single drop
flows out, then don’t you ever wish to stand up again.”
Rong Er held up the tea cup in her palm. She was really
frightened.
Mo Zhu carried over a pot of boiled water and gradually poured
it into the tea cup.
Rong Er really couldn’t understand what was Li Wei Yang’s
meaning behind this. She only felt the sudden heat from the hot water in the
tea cup as it became more and more hot to touch. Rong Er clenched her teeth,
she only felt faint pain in her fingertips and sweat formed on her forehead.
She persisted, wanting to get through this. She didn’t imagine that Mo Zhu
would pour out the water in the cup and then pour another cup of hot water for
her to hold. At this point, the cup itself was hot and it was full. Not long,
she felt it was too hot to touch, her arms and whole body began to dramatically
shake.
“Hot?” After a while, Li Wei Yang calmly asked.
“No, not hot ……” Rong Er immediately answered.
“Good. If it’s not hot then let’s change the cup.” Li Wei Yang
said.
Mo Zhu went and soon returned with a tray and on that tray was a
burnt copper cup.
Rong Er quickly knelt down and only felt her whole body trembling
and drenched with sweat. At this point, she didn’t know if the pain came from
her knees or her fingertip, both was as painful. It was only that it was a porcelain cup just now, but this was a burnt copper cup. The skin on her hand would
definitely split and be torn!
Rong Er tearfully said: “Xiaojie, spare my life. Nubi wouldn’t
dare ever again!”
Li Wei Yang asked in a low voice: “Who instructed you to send me a
message?”
Rong Er trembled and tears were running. She fiercely kowtowed
and asked for forgiveness: “It was … it was Da Xiaojie’s yatou, Tan Xiang. The
day before I was sent to serve Qi Yiniang, Tan Xiang summoned Nubi and rewarded
Nubi with taels, forcing Nubi to agree to help Da Xiaojie. Nubi …… got confused
temporarily. Beg San Xiaojie’s forgiveness! Beg San Xiaojie’s forgiveness!”
If she said it earlier, then nothing would have happened. Li Wei
Yang lightly smiled, she said: “Rong Er, are you willing to atone for your
actions by doing me a favor?”
After what happened just now, Rong Er felt that San Xiaojie was
very terrifying. She fearfully looked at Li Wei Yang and nodded, she said: “Nubi
…… nubi will definitely make up for my actions.”
Everything was arranged, Mo Zhu whispered: “What Xiaojie wants
to do, any one of us can go. If she goes, she might cause even more troubles ……”
Li Wei Yang lightly smiled, her sparkling eyes were able to
startle others: “If one of you went, our opponent wouldn’t believe
it.”
Mo Zhu blinked her almond-shaped round eyes: “What if Rong Er
leak our plan?”
Li Wei Yang’s finger gently tapped the tea cup and then calmly
said: “Since she didn’t succeed last time, she had already been abandoned. Now
that I have evidence in my hand, if she dares betray me ---“ After, she spread
her lips to reveal a clear, shallow smile.
“There is one more thing Nubi does not understand,” Mo Zhu was
hesitant. “How did Xiaojie know then that Rong Er passed along a message under
the false pretense of Qi Yiniang?
Li Wei Yang stared at the heavy colors in the sky, her eyes were
pondering deep: “A mother loves her child like treasure. That day it was
heavily raining outside yet the message strip asked me to meet. This is not
something a mother would do.”
Mo Zhu finally understood and said: “Xiaojie is very attentive.”
She had already died once, if she didn’t learn from it, then
she deserved to die in others’ hands again. Li Wei Yang’s smile was momentarily cold.
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Translator: chaierie
Editor: Panisa
Translator: chaierie
Editor: Panisa
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13 comments
Thanks for the new chapter part!
ReplyDeleteGracias!!!
ReplyDeleteYes..
ReplyDeleteVery cleanly, rout them away.
Clear the soil and dug the roots.
Leave nothing more for them to endanger you.
Thank you for the chapter!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chapter
ReplyDeleteThank you for the new chapter.
ReplyDeleteWow LWY is just too smart....thank you for the chapter!! 💖
ReplyDeleteThank you for the chapter~
ReplyDeleteI can't help but feel sorry for the Nubis that live in these powerful families, because in one way or another they always get trapped up in a family feud and get punished..
ReplyDeleteI still felt sorrier for our Wei Yang. Every melancholic gaze she had that reminded her of her dead son that is impossible to come back (since that is a seed from Touba Zhen and god forbid her from coming close to that vile man), and her reliving life remembering that alone while she had to re-fight her way out against everyone... she understand a mother feeling because she was once a mother her self, that is the greatest tragedy.
DeleteThanks for the chapter! I really admire LWY but I couldn't help to feel sorry for that servant:/
ReplyDeleteThank you for the chapter. I suppose I could feel sorry for this particular servant, but she was paid to do this. She may have been coerced, but she took the money, and she wasn't wise enough to admit it when confronted by the intended victim with her crime. The betrayal of the master was a crime that could lead to dismissal, punitive labor, death and dismemberment. Li Wei Yang wouldn't have minded servants who accepted money from their own masters to do tasks; she would have merely used her to do something innocuous which would still lead to her enemies tripping over themselves had Rong Er confessed when given the initial opportunity; she was pretty sure Rong Er wouldn't confess unless under extreme duress, though, and now she feels justified using her to do something especially dangerous and unpleasant.
ReplyDeleteThe plight of most servants in these powerful families' homes does seem exceptionally fraught. They get ordered about by their own masters, and if caught by the intended victim can still be tortured or killed for messing with their superiors. I would never have agreed to be a servant. Definitely, I could learn farming or something else...
thanks a lot!
ReplyDeleteneato---! well, hmph, a traitor doesn't deserve to be by her mother's side?!