"Returning to Before Husband's Castration" 《回到老公自宫前》Chapter 14

 Usually when the embroidered uniform guards kick down a widow’s door, even those who walk past didn’t dare to get near to watch, but it was Wang Ya Nei who came running and shouting, it immediately ignited people’s curiosity for gossip, one by one they went to watch.

Because there was a great disparity between the influence of a widow and the embroidered uniform guards, it wasn’t worth watching, but a stand off between Wang Ya Nei and the embroidered uniform guards would be very good to watch!

So much so someone felt this was too exciting that they ran to tell the northern city military who were patrolling the streets: “Your second young master is picking a fight with the embroidered uniform guards again!”

The northern city military had searched for the runaway Wang Ya Nei for an entire night! Really to travel far and wide looking for something, only to find it easily!

“Let’s go!” Having heard the news, Mu Baihu, who had just woken up to take over from the night shift, rushed over with the northern city military, right now the peaceful Tianshui lane was so packed it was impenetrable, it was livelier than the food market.

Why did Wang Ya Nei come back, first because he was worried the embroidered uniform guards who thoroughly search the house, breaking his mother’s dowry, second he was not totally heartless, he didn’t feel reassured leaving the young widow to face the fiendish embroidered uniform guards alone.

As for being caught and once again put under house arrest...I escaped once, I can escape again.

Wang Ya Nei had at least a hundred ways to escape his house, last night the embroidered uniform guards had experienced Wang Ya Nei’s abilities, even Chen Qianhu couldn’t do anything to him, and had lost his life--- although it had nothing to do with Wang Ya Nei, but it was still bad luck.

The subordinates suggested to the young embroidered uniform guard in charge: “Lord Lu, this Wang Ya Nei is very troublesome, he’s a bearer of bad luck, Chen Qianhu and his son had such calamity from being in contact with him, don’t get involved with him, let alone next door is the Wang residence, it’s not appropriate to stay here too long, let’s take the suspect back to the embroidered uniform guard office to slowly interrogate.”

Wei Cai Wei didn’t want to go to the embroidered uniform guard office, she promptly explained: “There was a rat causing a disturbance yesterday night, I used the sole of my shoe to kill it, Lord Lu take a closer look, there’s blood at the rat’s mouth, its bones have shattered, if it was poisoned to death, why would its fur and bones be damaged?”

Lord Lu asked: “You dare to hit a rat?”

It’s my damn husband who killed it! 

Wei Cai Wei said: “This woman is a doctor, I’m not scared of snakes and scorpions, a rat is nothing. If Lord Lu doesn’t believe me, find a live rat, this woman will hit it for you to see.”

Rat: There’s no need!

Lord Lu looked at the dead rat closely, the dead rat had stiffened, looking at its appearance, there was blood on its mouth and fur, it looked like it had been hit to death, but...maybe it had been stamped on after it had been poisoned to make it look like this?

Lord Lu said: “Whether it was hit to death or poisoned to death, the coroner in the office can find out, if there’s no poison, we’ll let you go.”

Wei Cai Wei wanted to argue, Lord Lu impatiently waved his hand, “There’s no time to waste talking to you, if you don’t want to come with us, you have a guilty conscience. You can come with us or we can tie you up and take you away, you can decide.”

Wei Cai Wei had no choice, she could only choose the first option, follow Lord Lu out.

Afterwards...Lord Lu found Tianshui lane had already been packed with passer-bys and the northern city military under the incitement of Wang Ya Nei and was impenetrable.

They couldn’t leave.

The embroidered uniform guards didn’t want to provoke this pestilence Wang Ya Nei, afterall he was the bearer of bad luck which led to the death of Chen Qianhu and his son, but Wang Ya Nei was thinking about Wei Cai Wei’s safety, like a housefly he wanted to go closer to pick a fight.

He forced himself to the front, pointing to the vermillion front door which had a piece of paint missing from being kicked he said: “Ah! My door! Only a new layer of paint was added this year, it was so pretty, you disfigured the door with your kicking!”

Wang Ya Nei had an excellent voice and expression, his distress over missing paint was like a bald man distressed about losing his hair, he hugged lord Lu’s leg, “You can’t leave! The front door is already broken, I don’t know what the furniture and decorations in the house will look like! We need to calculate the damages clearly, pay for the damages!”

Lord Lu was caught off guard having his leg hugged, he froze, his subordinates cried out: “Protect lord Lu!”

The embroidered uniform guards rushed forward, wanting to pull Wang Ya Nei away, lord Lu also used all his strength to shake his left leg, “You rascal! Get lost! Let go!”

Both sides were toing and froing, Wang Ya Nei’s hand slid from lord Lu’s thigh to his knee, then he grabbed hold of his boot, unexpectedly pulling lord Lu’s boot completely off! 

Lord Lu was so angry his face turned white, “Give me back the boot! Take this rascal with us as well!”

Wang Ya Nei waved the boot in front of him for protection and shouted: “Embroidered uniform guards want to kill!” 

Lord Lu’s face was as white as a sheet, he didn’t think Wang Da Xia was a Ya Na who lacked three attributes as a rascal without shame and making trouble without reason, he chided: “Shut up! Who wants to kill you!”

Wang Ya Nei didn’t care, he continued to shout embroidered uniform guards wants to kill me.

Wei Cai Wei gave him a signal with her eyes, pointing at the front door, he understood, holding the boot he ran inside the house.

The northern city military arrived, seeing a group of embroidered uniform guards ganging up on their own little Ya Nei and had forced him inside the house, they all rushed in to help out.

Those watching: The embroidered uniform guards and northern city military are fighting again!

Wang Ya Nei scurried up to the second floor, hiding in the room, with a bang the door was shut, the embroidered uniform guards who chased after him frantically kicked at the door, the northern city military forced themselves in to pull the embroidered uniform guards away, Mu Baihu angrily said: “What has our family’s young master done that you embroidered uniform guards want to eradicate him!”

Lord Lu who was wearing only one boot was about to open his mouth when Wei Cai Wei who had been quiet all this time said: “Wang Da Xia took off lord Lu’s boot.”

Mu Baihu asked lord Lu: “Lord Lu wants to kill our young master over a boot, it’s too much.”

Lord Lu coldly said: “When did I say I want to kill him? He was the one who made a move first holding...stealing my boot.”

Mu Baihu knocked on the door, “Second young master, give the boot back to lord Lu.”

Wang Ya Nei said on the over side of the door: “Uncle Mu, the embroidered uniform guards have smashed up and pilfered my house, scared my tenant doctor Wei, they want to arrest her, the house and the furniture are part of my mother’s dowry, people ache after their own items, not only does the embroidered uniform guards not pay for the damages they also want to beat and kill me, you need to support me!”

Mu Baihu looked at the shoe prints on the door and the paint that had just come off, he asked lord Lu: “Lord is unknown to me, I haven’t met you before, may I ask lord for your distinguished name? What position do you hold?”

Lord Lu said: “My name is Lu Ying...Ying as in hero, as for my position...I’m not some great official, only a Leader of the bodyguards of embroidered uniform guards Commander Lu.”

The commander of embroidered uniform guard was Lu Bing, emperor Jia Jing’s wetnurse brother, an infallible favoured person of the emperor, and the person the emperor trusted the most.

Mu Baihu again asked: “Leader Lu is so young, you must be commander Lu’s...relative.”

Lu Ying seemed to dislike someone guessing his identity, he coldly said: “This had nothing to do with the matter today.”

Mu Baihu was an official in the capital, he had come across a lot of people, he understood tacitly, from Leader Lu’s reaction, he was the relative of Commander Lu.

Commander Lu had four sons, his oldest and secondest oldest son had died young, only his two young sons Lu Yi and Lu Cai were alive. 

This Lu Ying was perhaps his nephew or so.

So he was also a Ya Nei, Lu Ya Nei.

Having gotten to the bottom of Lu Ying, Mu Baihu knew what to do, he knocked on the door saying: “Second young master, Leader Lu is the nephew of Commander Lu, Commander Lu has always been strict on his family, modest and polite, he never over steps. Leader Lu led the embroidered uniform guards here today to search the house, it must be urgent, he was indeed careless in controlling his subordinates, but the matter of killing someone in the streets which the second young master spoke of? There must be a misunderstanding, come out, first return the boot to Leader Lu, we can sit down and talk, clear the air.”

Behind the door Wang Da Xia heard Leader Lu had such a huge backer as Commander Lu Bing, he knew he wasn’t someone to be trifled with, thus he followed Mu Baihu’s way out of an awkward situation, he opened the door, returning the boot to the rightful owner, he said: “I didn’t make the first move, you damaged my house, harassed my tenant, I had no alternative but to retaliate.”

Lu Ying put on the boot, “You kept on saying the embroidered uniform guards want to kill someone, misleading everyone.”

Wang Da Xia pointed at the group of embroidered uniform guards on the stairs, “So many of you want to be me up, a hit from each of you, even if I don’t die I’d be paralysed, it adds up to murder.”

Lu Ying sneered, “Creative words and insinuating countenance.”

Seeing an argument might ensue again, Wei Cai Wei opened her mouth, “This is all this woman’s fault…”

Wei Cai Wei succinctly spoke of why the embroidered uniform guards came this morning kicking down the door to find her, “...that rat was hit to death, the weather is warm, it’ll start to smell in the house, as a widow, I couldn’t open the door at night so I put it in the courtyard, when I left the house I would throw it into the garbage heap, I didn’t expect the embroidered uniform guards to come so early in the morning, they think it’s been poisoned so they want to take the rat and this woman to be examined and interrogated at the embroidered uniform guard office.”

Hearing this, Wang Da Xia then realised it was him who had caused this calamity! Wei Cai Wei had wanted him to deal with the dead rat, he picked up a leaf, picking up the rat's tail between the leaf he placed it in the courtyard, thinking of throwing it out when it was daybreak. However the embroidered uniform guards arrived suddenly and when he was running out of the back door, he had forgotten about the dead rat.

Wei Cai Wei bowed at Lu Ying, “This woman is willing to go with Leader Lu to the embroidered uniform guard office, the coroner and check that the rat didn’t die from poison, this matter will be settled, this woman still needs to earn a living from practicing medicine. This is a female household, I rely on medicine to provide for myself, if my hands stop my mouth stops, cost of living in the capital is high, if I don’t work for a day, I’m afraid one day I’ll go hungry and cold.”

Wang Da Xia was worried the young widow going to the embroidered uniform guard office would be bullied if she went alone: “She’s my tenant, if you want to beat a dog you need to check with its owner, let alone a tenant, if you bully her, you’ll be disrespecting me. I will go to the office with her---when she’s proven she’s innocent and go off to practice medicine, I still need to figure out with you how you’re going to pay for the damages to the house today.”

Wei Cai Wei thought: Who is a dog? Be careful I might smash open your dog head!