kingnovel Chapter 437 Jin She Loves Talent (8)
Chapter 437 Jin She Loves Talent (8)
Just as Yun Ni'ao and the Wheel of Samsara were having a heated discussion, Chu Yunfan slowly walked into the room with the help of others.
At the same time, the imperial physician also rushed to the scene at an extremely fast speed.
When he first saw Chu Yunfan, he couldn't help but gasp. He saw that the Duke of Chu's head was covered in blood. The shocking scene made the doctor's scalp numb instantly. He stammered, "How...how did this injury come about?"
For a moment, all kinds of speculations came to my mind.
Could it be that after the Duke of Chu learned that his fiancée had cheated on him, he chose to commit suicide out of shame and anger?
It turned out that before this, the rumor had already spread like wildfire: Shen Yueying, the daughter of Master Shen, had actually fallen in love with a scholar who came to the capital to take the imperial examination!
Moreover, she has loudly shouted in public more than once that she wants to cancel her engagement with Chu Yunfan.
However, people's reactions to this matter varied.
Many people did not feel too much about this. After all, everyone knew that although Chu Yunfan was a duke, he actually relied on the influence of his ancestors to have his current status.
In contrast, Shen Yueying made a bold statement many years ago, claiming that she would never bow to the powerful and wealthy in her life, and that she must marry a talented and knowledgeable man in this life.
In this case, Chu Yunfan obviously does not meet her standards for choosing a partner.
If it weren't for the sudden marriage incident that year, even if the two grew up together and had a deep friendship, it would probably have been difficult for them to get married so smoothly.
Some people even secretly thought that if it weren't for those coincidences, Chu Yunfan might never have been able to marry Shen Yueying in his life.
Chu Chuan watched the imperial physician's expression change several times as he "rotated" and asked with some difficulty: "Imperial physician, but my young master..."
"No, no!" The doctor hastily denied, "The injury looks serious, but it's probably just superficial. The pulse is relatively stable, but the head is an important part of the body, so it's hard to say what's going on inside."
"Then please treat my young master's wound first." Chu Chuan could only sigh softly after hearing this, "Please prescribe some nourishing medicine for my young master later, please help this imperial physician."
The imperial physician quickly responded: "I have changed my ways, so I don't deserve such thanks."
As the saying goes, the prime minister is a third-rank official. This housekeeper Chu has been in the Duke's Mansion for many years, so it is only right for him to give him some face.
Chu Chuan left a few servants to help the imperial physician, and then left the room with a grim look on his face.
"Have the people who went to Shen's house returned?" Chu Chuan asked the people around him, "If they haven't come back, send someone to urge them!"
"Yes!" The guard immediately took his men out and headed to the Shen family.
At this time in the Shen family, Master Shen was sitting in the front hall, listening to the people from the Chu Palace talking about the cause and effect.
"Sir Shen, that's the truth." The man bowed without being servile or overbearing after he finished speaking. "Your Miss Shen and her maid are both in our Chu family right now. When can you go and pick them up in person?"
Master Shen knew that his daughter was usually willful and reckless, but it was very bold for a girl to go to the Chu family's house with a maid to cancel the engagement, especially when she heard that the woman named "Yuqiao" did not take the Chu family seriously.
He just felt that this matter might not end well.
My wife obviously has good taste, so why did she choose a maid like this for her daughter this time? Isn't this bringing disaster to the family?
Thinking of this, Master Shen said to the housekeeper beside him, "Go and get the indenture of the young lady's maid and give it to the guard of the Chu family first. They have the final say on how to deal with her."
But the housekeeper looked embarrassed, because this maid named Yuqiao really won the favor of the eldest lady. Not long after she entered the mansion, she was asked to be the head maid, and even her indenture was directly kept by Shen Yueying.
"Go get it!" Seeing that the butler did not move, Master Shen urged again.
The housekeeper saw that he could no longer conceal the truth, so he told the truth directly about the indenture.
"Nonsense!" Master Shen slammed the table, "Send someone to Miss's room to look for this indenture."
"Yes!" the housekeeper said and immediately went to Shen Yueying's yard.
However, if an outsider searched the courtyard, it would inevitably damage Shen Yueying's reputation, so she asked the nanny in the eldest lady's courtyard to look for her.
But after searching in several places, they still couldn't find what they wanted.
"I know where the indenture contract is!" At this moment, Yuya, a second-class maid in Shen Yueying's yard, stood up.
In fact, Yuya’s original name was not this. Her real name was Hongdou. When she was sold to the Shen family, she had just fled to the capital not long ago. Almost everyone in her family was gone. The name "Hongdou" was the only remaining thought of the family.
When he entered the mansion, he was young and at first he followed the nanny to learn the rules. Anyway, he was not a well-known person around the master, so he did not change his name.
When Shen Yueying was choosing a maid, she happened to take a fancy to Hongdou, and after hearing about her background, she promised not to change her name.
Hongdou had only been Shen Yueying's maid for a few years, but when she was about to follow the young lady to the Chu family as a dowry, a maid named Yuqiao came to the Shen family.
Not only did she take away her position as the head maid, but she also changed Hongdou's name - the new name was Yuya, which had to start with the character "Yu" just like Yuqiao.