Chapter 6: Volume 1, Chapter 6: Impersonating the Young Lady of the General's Mansion?

Looking at this guard, who was only eighteen or nineteen years old, not bad-looking, tall and sturdy, could it be Xu Shi's lover?

As if she had discovered some earth-shattering secret, Yun Qiyue's eyes were exceptionally bright.

"Alright!" Yun Qiyue looked at Xu Shi with a smile.

Xu Shi heard this and was just about to breathe a sigh of relief, but saw Yun Qiyue's hand turn, and the silver needle in her hand pierced directly into the guard's body. The guard instantly went limp on the ground.

"You—" Xu Shi's pupils shrank, her face full of anger.

"Don't be so anxious, eldest aunt, the person isn't dead yet." Yun Qiyue still looked at Xu Shi with a smile, but the smile didn't reach her eyes. "It's just that I only found out today that eldest aunt is so kind-hearted, actually caring so much about the life and death of a guard."

Was Xu Shi kind-hearted?

Naturally, that was impossible.

If Xu Shi were kind-hearted, the first branch wouldn't have only one concubine-born son and one concubine-born daughter among five concubines.

If Xu Shi were kind-hearted, she wouldn't have let the servants mistreat the original owner, making the original owner, who was clearly sixteen, have the figure of a fourteen-year-old.

Scorpion-hearted; that was how to describe someone like Xu Shi.

Of course, Xu Shi was also a person who was good at disguising herself. In the eyes of others, Xu Shi had always been a good person, gentle, virtuous, and good at managing the household. That was the evaluation of Xu Shi by the noble ladies in the capital.

But even so, Xu Shi's concern for a guard, and being pointed out in public by Yun Qiyue like this, still successfully made Yun Jiande suspicious.

After all, when the previous few guards were killed, Xu Shi didn't have much of a reaction, but the last guard, who was better-looking, made Xu Shi unable to sit still.

Could it be...

Thinking of a certain possibility, Yun Jiande's expression became not very good.

Xu Shi felt the gaze Yun Jiande cast at her, her heart skipped a beat, but she forced herself to stay calm. Her face sank, and she scolded Yun Qiyue, "These four guards were specially trained by my Xu family, and a lot of effort was spent. You've already killed three, what else do you want?"

This meaning was very clear: she cared about this last guard not because he was special, but because this guard was the last one her maiden family gave her, and training a guard wasn't easy.

Sure enough, as soon as Xu Shi said this, Yun Jiande withdrew his gaze and turned his eyes to Yun Qiyue, his expression deep.

Xu Shi felt the gaze on her dissipate and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but her back was soaked with sweat.

Yun Qiyue took in all of Xu Shi's expressions, the corners of her lips slightly curling.

There must be something fishy between Xu Shi and this guard.

But she wasn't in a hurry, because she had absolute confidence that Xu Shi would come to her door because of this guard.

Thinking of this, Yun Qiyue bypassed the guard topic and said calmly, "I don't want anything, it's just that the eldest madam said I was impersonating Yun Qiyue, but is there any evidence?"

She changed the address from eldest aunt to eldest madam, and her tone became a bit colder.

Xu Shi was about to speak, but heard Yun Qiyue say again, "If the eldest madam cannot produce evidence, I have reason to suspect that your first and third branches are coveting the property of our General's Mansion, so you unilaterally announced my death, and then wanted to swallow the inheritance of our General's Mansion."

As soon as Yun Qiyue said this, the Yun family members all changed their expressions.

Proving that Yun Qiyue wasn't Yun Qiyue? How could they prove that?

Just when everyone was thinking of countermeasures against Yun Qiyue, Yun Yaxiang, the legitimate daughter of the third branch, couldn't hold back and retorted, "How could we covet the wealth of the General's Mansion? Stop spouting nonsense."

If this spread out, how could she mix in the circle of noble ladies?

Damn Yun Qiyue, daring to ruin her reputation! She wasn't finished with her.

Yun Yaxiang glared at Yun Qiyue with full anger, as if she wanted to glare a hole in Yun Qiyue.

Yun Qiyue's gaze swept over Yun Yaxiang, her eyes deep.

Looking at Yun Yaxiang, the scene of her bullying the original owner, ordering people to beat the original owner, and calling the original owner a fool appeared in her mind.

Since she had sent the handle to her, how could she not make good use of it?

Thinking of this, the arc of Yun Qiyue's lips rose slightly. "You don't covet the wealth of my General's Mansion, then what are the spirit jade hairpin on your head and the blood jade bracelet in your hand? If I remember correctly, those were rewarded to me by the Emperor, right?"

When her father died in battle, the Emperor, in order to show his benevolence, rewarded her with some things.

And these things, currently, not a single one was in her hands, and it just so happened that Yun Yaxiang was wearing two of them today.

Yun Yaxiang heard this, her expression panicked, she touched her hairpin, hid the bracelet in her hand in her sleeve, and said with insufficient confidence, "These... these were given to me by you."

Yun Qiyue heard this and said, "Oh? I gave them to you?"

Yun Yaxiang nodded, "Yes, you gave them to me."

"Yaxiang!" Yun Jiande reminded sternly.

Yun Yaxiang then realized that she had let it slip, so she looked at Yun Qiyue with even more annoyance.

Damn Yun Qiyue, daring to set her up.

And the onlookers, hearing the conversation between the two, naturally understood something, and looked at the Yun family with a bit of color.

Yun Qiyue knew that it was almost impossible to determine her identity based on Yun Yaxiang's slip of the tongue, so she didn't continue to dwell on Yun Yaxiang's words, but swept her gaze toward the eldest madam Xu Shi and the third madam Li Shi.

"The things on your heads are my mother's, right?"

In fact, the original owner was mentally disabled, and her memories were fragmented, so she didn't recognize her mother's things.

But the things on their heads didn't look like something they would have, so she had this guess.

Of course, even if she guessed wrong, it didn't matter; as long as the onlookers believed it.

It was just that Yun Qiyue didn't expect that her random bluff would actually make Xu Shi and Li Shi change their expressions.

Of course, compared to Li Shi, Xu Shi appeared more composed.

But even so, her eyes still betrayed her.

Heh, these people, they were really shameless!

Being able to wear other people's things on their bodies and bring them out, Yun Qiyue's eyes were full of mockery.

"Enough!" Yun Jiande saw that things were developing in a direction unfavorable to them, glared at the useless Yun Yaxiang, and then looked at Yun Qiyue.

"Girl, my niece is still lying in the coffin waiting for the funeral, and as everyone knows, our Yun family's third young lady has been mentally disabled since childhood, and you are intelligent... I don't know where you learned some things about our Yun family to come here and take things out of context, and even pretend to be my niece, but I advise you to stop as soon as possible, and don't impersonate our Yun family's young lady, otherwise don't blame us for being impolite."

Yun Jiande said this righteously, with a bit of an attempt to turn the tide.

In one sentence, he not only pointed out Yun Qiyue's biggest "suspicion" now, but also stated directly that there was Yun Qiyue's body in the mourning hall, making those who had originally believed Yun Qiyue's identity turn against her again.

That's right, the General's daughter had been mentally disabled since childhood; everyone knew this. It was impossible for just anyone to disguise themselves as Yun Qiyue and claim to be the young lady of the General's Mansion, right? ===== CHAPTER 7 =====