05. The threat

That woman claimed she was pregnant and suddenly lost the baby. At that time Zhenzhen asked to check her puls and body but neither her son or that woman let them. On the end, she rushed to divorce her and just a day after she was found dead. If Lord Ka finds out about these things, the whole Kang's family will be pointed at. They did it recklessly. Then he saw the child in front fo him and his eyes became cold. If they killed her at that time, they could have said Zhenzhen did it and everything would be calm...

His line of thoughts became distorted but Shu Ya didn't care. She ate a few dried fruits and dranks some warm water to calm her stomach.

Soon one of the servants came back with the old urn in his hands and carefully put inside her hands. Then he whispered something in Lord Ka's ear and left. He smirked when he heard the information and turned his head towards Shu Ya that slowly patted the urn.

Lord Ka saw her looking completely tiered and exhausted so he called servants. ''Bring my carriage and bring miss Bai to my mansion. Explain to the mistress what happened. I will come back when I am done here.''

Shu Ya just nodded. ''Thank you, Lord Ka, but my attire is not appropriate. Please help me find some resting place where I can change my clothes and wash them. I will lose the rest of my face if I appear in front of her like this. Please.'' She bowed deeply and begged him as tears slid down her cheeks.

She wanted to have at least some face left meeting someone who didn't know her but knew her mother. He felt warm in his heart. he had two naughty boys and no daughter so he felt even more sorry to this child.

''Bring her to the resthouse by the road and find some proper clothes for her. After that bring her to my wife. Hurry.'' He waved his hand and pointed at two men on the ground. ''Pick them up and bring them inside. If they get sick they will say I did it.''

Soldiers smirked and rolled their eyes. Dear Lord Ka, but you did.

Shu Ya slowly went to the carriage with her head high and bowed lightly towards the villagers. ''I will leave now. I think I won't come back. These years thank you for giving me bits of food when they didn't notice. I wish you all long life.'' Then she slowly entered the carriage and left baffled villagers.

''Who gave her food from us?'' Everyone looked ta each other but few that felt sorry for her sighed. ''She didn't mean literally. It was sarcasm. We saw her being treated like that but never reported. Not only that, we never gave her not even a little bit to eat even tho she did so many things for us. It was our wrong. Let's go home. This place is now not good to come by. Tell children to stay away from Kang's residence. If he does that to his own blood, who knows what he would do to us who are not even related to him.''

The villagers agreed on that and dispersed while Lord Ka watched carriage disappear behind nearby trees. He turned around and entered the house. Soldiers did ransack the house but they didn't break anything as it could be worth.

In the main room stood a whole bunch of shivering young women and few older women that just sat down there with angry expressions. When they saw him they were about to say something but their children stopped them.

He looked at the main gate through the door and ordered. ''Lock the main gate and prepare the punishment tables.''

Hearing his words the few older women change their expression and became fearful for the first time. Suddenly a beautiful woman rushes in and kneeled in front of him. Everything on her was beautiful from her hair, face, long eyelashes, red small mouth and even the way she kneeled was pretty, but that didn't move him at all. In the capital, he saw many of these cheap tricks so he was completely resistant.

He went to the main seat and four soldiers stood by his side. ''Concubines on one side, direct family to the other side.''

Soldiers opened one document and started calling out the names. It was a family book. Everyone on that document was an official wife or bloodline. Anyone else was or his concubine or their children.

But a funny thing happened. The beautiful woman was never signed as his official woman on the family registry so she was pulled aside with other concubines.

''I am mine wife, how can you do this to me? Your Honor!'' She cried and wasted literally tears while he coldly just played with his knife.

Completly apathetically he stared at them. ''Do you want to hear a little story about this knife. With this knife, I cut the throat of concubine that set up my mother. My mother died after she drank poison. I did all I could to find proof for my mother's innocence and in end she still had it. Finally, I used this knife to slice bit, by bit... by a bit of her flash. She bled like a pig. But I woke her up and then continued. On end, I cut her throat and dug her heart out.''

Hearing him talking with crazy shine in his eyes about such a cruel thing the woman stopped crying and started shaking in fear. She stepped back but two soldiers grabbed her and threw on the floor.

Lord Ke bowed down to let her look ta him better and maliciously smiled ta her. ''If you don't speak I will do that to you in front of your children's eyes. They might die in fear...''

Suddenly the sound of puking could be heard as such brutality was never seen or heard by weak females like them.

But that didn't stop him to continue.