readsfreenovel Chapter 391 You Insolent Slave
Chapter 391 You Insolent Slave
"Did the master only summon the two of them?" Chi Yuan asked.
The butler nodded in agreement.
"Is Fourth Concubine angry?" Yan Xun asked deliberately.
"..." Chi Yuan really didn't understand why Yan Xun was suddenly adapting so well, but he still replied, "Of course."
"How am I different from you?"
He looked at the old steward and asked, "Why am I the only one who can't go?"
"This, this..." The old steward wiped non-existent sweat from his forehead, "This is all the master's wish."
"This old servant does not know either."
"Perhaps it's because the master thinks we understand the Gao family's rules better," Li Wu suggested.
Unlike Chi Yuan, who only knew that the game might have a loop, he and Yan Xun had deduced that it was a "scripted murder mystery".
If Master Gao's goal is to hinder players who know the truth about the Gao family.
It's perfectly normal to look for them then.
"...Is that really true?" Chi Yuan asked Yan Xun.
"That's the only way to think about it," Yan Xun said tactfully.
He had no idea why Master Gao had sought out him and Li Wu; these were all just their speculations. If there was any real reason, they would only find out after meeting Master Gao.
"That would be best," Chi Yuan said.
He stood up as he spoke, saying, "Since the master has left, there's no point in me staying here."
"Together?" he asked, looking at Yan Xun and the other person.
"This..." The steward looked a little embarrassed, as if he didn't want Chi Yuan and Yan Xun to travel together.
"Hmm?" Chi Yuan looked at the steward again. "I'm not going to cause trouble, is that not allowed?" As he spoke, a hint of anger appeared on his face.
Realizing that if things continued this way, Chi Yuan would cause a huge disturbance at the Gao family... the steward finally said, trembling, that of course it was possible.
He then gestured for himself to clear a path for the three of them.
They hadn't walked far when Yan Xun saw a well at the end of the road.
Everyone, including Yan Xun and his two companions, as well as the steward, saw the well, but as if they were under a silencing spell, no one expressed any sentiment about the suddenly appearing well.
The whole road became quiet.
The steward didn't even look up, but led Yan Xun and the other two along a different route, saying, "That route has better scenery."
The maids behind them seemed not to have seen the well that had appeared strangely at the end of the road; everyone remained silent.
Yan Xun looked at the steward whose eyelids were drooping.
The steward had obviously seen the well as well. He remembered that Li Wu's maid had once said that only those of them who served in the Gao family knew about these strange wells, and that Master Gao was completely unaware of them.
— Yan Xun and the others only learned of this information from the maids after the well appeared.
“…That thing…” Yan Xun suddenly spoke, looking at the well.
The steward's expression showed obvious panic. He even disregarded etiquette, stepped forward and covered Yan Xun's mouth, then hurriedly led him away from the spot.
As Yan Xun was being dragged away by the steward, he glanced back at the well at the end of the corridor.
Suddenly the well began to shake, the opening widened, and then it seemed as if something was climbing up the bottom of the well... Everyone heard the sound of fingernails scratching the well wall.
But perhaps because Yan Xun only said three words, and the steward pulled him away in time, the thing at the bottom of the well did not climb up until the well disappeared from Yan Xun's sight.
Seeing Yan Xun being dragged away by the steward, Li and Wu naturally followed.
Li Wu strode over to Yan Xun and the steward, frowned, and pulled the steward's hand away.
The manager seemed to realize his actions only then, and tremblingly tried to kneel down... looking as if he deserved to die.
"Alright." Yan Xun looked at the steward in front of him. "What are you doing?"
Why are you being so mysterious?
He looked back at the well, which was no longer in sight, and at the trembling steward and the terrified maids. "What happened to that well?"
A hint of confusion flashed in Li Wu's maid's eyes; she clearly remembered that she had already told Yan Xun about this.
It was clear that Yan Xun had an "innocent" demeanor, untouched by the Gao family's rules, so she guessed that the other party hadn't taken it to heart... Of course, she couldn't expose Yan Xun at this time. She knew that Master Gao doted on this newlywed seventh concubine, and even Li Wu had a good relationship with him, so she lowered her eyes and didn't show any extra emotions.
Xiao Hong and Xiao Lü's ideas were basically similar to hers.
The steward merely glanced at the maids with his drooping eyelids, then slowly began to explain the strangeness of the Gao family's wells.
"...So, be very careful when you see these wells in the future."
The manager coughed a few times as he spoke.
"Nobody knows what's in the well."
"Is that so strange?" Yan Xun feigned disbelief.
"Could this be retribution for the Gao family's worship of those things..."
He didn't finish his sentence, but his expression conveyed that was the gist of it.
Everyone knows that he was sold to Gao Ruiyun by his uncle and had no feelings for Gao Ruiyun at all—anyone who was married off by their uncle to a heartless, short-lived man would have the same attitude.
The steward understood the situation, but Gao Ruiyun didn't care. What could a servant like him say? He could only pretend he hadn't heard anything.
“These wells are a bit suspicious. For Madam’s safety, it would be best to be careful,” the steward said.
At first, Li Wu didn't understand why Yan Xun would suddenly provoke those wells, but after looking at the expressions of the stewards and maids, he roughly understood what was going on.
The steward's glance at the maids clearly indicated that he and Yan Xun had seen these wells before and were aware of their strangeness.
From this perspective, their every move was indeed being monitored.
Master Gao specifically asked him and Yan Xun to go to his courtyard together, most likely because he felt that they were talking to each other alone too often, without the help of the maids.
—In theory, Yan Xun was a newlywed concubine of the Gao family, so even if Li Wu wanted to talk to him, he shouldn't have sent the maids away every time.
"I didn't expect the NPCs in this instance to be so intelligent," Li Wu thought.
"Does Gao Ruiyun know about these wells?" Yan Xun suddenly asked.
The steward seemed surprised by his sudden question, glanced at the maids, and then said demurely, "We never report these trivial matters to Master Gao."
“But I don’t think Li Wu knows either,” Yan Xun said. “I just remembered that when I first entered the Gao family, I also saw a well.”
“I was with Li Wu at the time.”
He looked at the steward and said, "I saw that he was also quite surprised when the maids mentioned these wells."
"It seems they were unaware of this as well."
Yan Xun stared at the barrage of comments flooding the live stream, repeating them expressionlessly:
"Fine, you insolent servant! Since you dare to deceive your superiors, I'm going to tell Master Gao!"
Half a minute ago, the live stream chat was flooded with messages from Yan Xun asking for help.
[Anyone in the live stream who's watched family dramas? What should I say to intimidate him at this point?]