Chapter 607: Don’t Believe (4)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
As soon as she finished speaking, the surroundings became even quieter. Many people held their breaths.
This time, everyone forgot about Li Zhaodi and turned their attention to the question of “crazy”.
All eyes were focused on Zeng Ya. There was fear, shock, and disgust in their faces.
Tang Jinyun, who had returned to her senses, took a few steps back in fear of being stained with something dirty.
Zeng Ya felt that everyone’s gazes were like countless needles stabbing into her body. She looked at Gu Yanfei angrily and barely maintained her elegant demeanor. However, her voice had already turned cold. “Second Lady Gu, you’re going too far by slandering me like this!”
When she said the last sentence, her tone was as cold as ice. She felt that Gu Yanfei was simply muddle-headed.
Ridiculous, what a joke! Does Gu Yanfei think that she can hide her past just because she accused me?!
“Why would a crazy person admit that she’s crazy!” Wei Jiaoniang crossed her arms and looked at the ashen-faced Zeng Ya leisurely. She sighed and said, “I once heard my mother talk about Zeng Yue. Zeng Yue must have made her crazy…”
Zeng Yue was a character from more than 70 years ago. Originally, his qualifications were mediocre. At the age of 20, he hadn’t even read all four books and five scriptures. However, after he was rescued from the water when he was 21 years old, he suddenly seemed to have been enlightened and became a poet. In just a few months, he had produced a few peerless poems, such as “Quiet Night Thoughts”, “Wielder’s Load”, “Pleasure in the Rain on a Spring Night”, and so on. He was praised by those literati.
Later on, he kept saying that he knew how to make gunpowder and cannons. In the end, he blew up the house. A servant in the family was injured because of this. One of his legs was cut off by the iron piece that was blown away, but he claimed that his broken leg could be reattached.
He spoke all kinds of crazy and unbelievable words.
Zeng Yue’s family tried to persuade and punish him, but to no avail. They could only invite a Daoist priest to their door. The Daoist priest said that Zeng Yue had been plagued by evil spirits when he fell into the water and was no longer Zeng Yue. That was why his actions were very different from before.
Zeng Yue refused to admit it. He said that the Daoist was a scammer. In the end, he was burned to death by the Daoist. His death was quite tragic.
He was only 25 years old when he died.
Many people present had read Zeng Yue’s poems and had heard their families or masters mention Zeng Yue’s deeds. At this moment, when they looked at Zeng Ya again, they felt their hair stand on end.
“Zeng Yue?” Fan Mushuang blinked and said thoughtfully, “I remember. Is he the ancestor of the Zeng family?”
“Could it be that…” Madness would be pa.s.sed down to future generations?
Even if Fan Mushuang didn’t finish her sentence, most of the people around her had already thought of this. They looked at Zeng Ya with fear.
Initially, they only believed 40 to 50% of it, but now, they believe 70 to 80% of it.
Could it be that the evil spirit that possessed Zeng Yue back then hadn’t left, and now…
Zeng Ya’s face turned pale. Even her fingers that were holding the fan handle began to turn white.
A crack appeared inon her gentle and calm appearance.
She gritted her teeth and said seriously, word by word, “I’m not crazy!”
She felt a chill run down her spine as fear quickly spread from the bottom of her heart. It intertwined into a dense net that trapped her.
Initially, she firmly believed that no one would believe Gu Yanfei’s nonsense. Only now did she realize that she had underestimated Gu Yanfei. Not only was Gu Yanfei the Second Lady of the Gu family, but she was also the Eldest Prince’s sweetheart. She was also proficient in magic spells. Even Shangqing Spiritual Master wasn’t her match.
Gu Yanfei’s words had their own prestige.
At this moment, Zeng Ya suddenly felt what it meant to kick a man who was down.
She was afraid. She was afraid that others wouldn’t believe her. She was afraid that everyone would believe Gu Yanfei!
In that case, she would be “crazy”.
Zeng Ya became more and more uneasy. She wanted Tang Jinyun to speak up for her. When she turned around, she realized that Tang Jinyun had disappeared.
Not only Tang Jinyun, but the other close friends beside her also retreated in unison. The vigilance and disgust in their eyes were overflowing.
An empty s.p.a.ce suddenly appeared around her, as if an invisible wall separated her from the people around her.
With a thought, Wei Jiaoniang’s eyes darted around, and her pupils lit up. She sighed and said, “Sigh, she’s so young. How pitiful. Yanfei, is she like her ancestor, Zeng Yue?”
“It must be,” Lu Qin said.
“It’s not what she wanted.” Gu Yanfei looked at Zeng Ya with a sigh. “She’s crazy. That’s why she brought the future Princess Consort Kang’s biological sister to me!”
“No, I didn’t!” Zeng Ya was even more agitated. Her high and sharp voice cracked.
In her agitation, she looked a little disheveled. She was no longer as gentle and elegant as usual.
However, Gu Yanfei ignored her. Instead, she turned her face to the right and glanced at Chu You, who was approaching not far away.. She asked with a faint smile, “Your Highness, am I right?”