Chapter 15 Chapter fifteen

"No!" Ai Ni shouted to Biga and Joss. "Don't put it there!" Joss left the room immediately, but Biga stayed behind with her mouth tightly shut.Ever since Mrs. Ernie showed up at dinner in a gold coin suit that day, she had been in a bad temper.Biga didn't dare to persuade her to talk to Sir Lowe, because every time she got the answer: he asked for it. As for Sir Lowe, it was even worse. Biga asked Cooper to work on Sir, but Lowe hit Cooper in the stomach. As a result, the cold war between the hostess and the hostess made the whole castle and even the whole village suffer.There was sand in the bread again, horse manure would inevitably be stepped on when walking through the atrium, and the farmers had nothing to eat. As for the moat that had already started to clean up, a few cow carcasses had now surfaced.Everyone used to take these situations for granted, but now everyone is complaining.They complained of stones in their bread, of fleas in their clothes, of lice, of Sir Lowe's temper, and of Lady Ernie's failure to do her duty. (They all forgot how they refused to obey her in the first place.)

All in all, not a single person within a ten-mile radius of the past two weeks was spared from being affected. "Ma'am—" Biga said. "I don't want to say anything to you." Aini said immediately.For two weeks her temper grew worse and worse.Bijia tried to persuade her as soon as she opened her mouth, and she was so tired of it. Since that arrogant and beautiful man thinks she is so ugly, then she will grant his wish so that he will not see her in the slightest. "Not me," Biga said. "It's Mrs. Landy who wants to see you." Annie raised her head. "Is Seaman not enough? He has already won, what does he want his mistress to come to me for?"

Bijia smiled. "Sir Seaman is rumored to be arguing with his... Mrs. Landy too. Maybe she wants to exchange ideas with you!" Aini wanted to talk to someone.Biga always asked her to apologize to Lowe, and the others were too frightened by her temper to say anything.But how could someone as stunningly beautiful as Randy understand her mood? "Tell her I can't take it." "But, madam, she invites you to her room. It is said that she never invites anyone there." "Oh?" Aine said. "I go to see her? I, the mistress of the castle, to visit a harboring mistress? Tell her: don't talk!"

Biga left the room, and Aini looked at the tapestries on the wall.She cursed this bold and presumptuous woman in her heart, but on the other hand she was very curious.What did the beautiful Randy want to say to her? The same invitation went on for three days, and each time Aini declined.On the fourth day, Aini saw a fat woman with big breasts appearing in the courtyard from the window, which was one of the girls of the previous eight weeks. Ai Ni called Joss over. "Bring me my red satin gown, the one with the gold lining. I'm going out to visit." An hour later, when Ai Ni was dressed, she had to show her best side.She walked cautiously across the courtyard, enduring people's amazed gazes.When she finally came to the suite above the kitchen, a maid opened the door, and at this moment Aini opened her mouth wide open unconsciously.She had never seen such a magnificent arrangement.There are gold plates and silver pots everywhere, thick and complicated carpets on the floor, finely woven tapestry on the walls, and a thumb-sized flower with more than a dozen colors!The ceiling was covered with pictures, the windows were lined with stained glass, and the sunlight shone in like colorful jewels.

"Welcome!" Randy said.She was still the most beautiful thing in this dizzyingly beautiful room. "I..." Aini took a deep breath to recover. "Do you have anything to tell me?" Earlier, Aini planned to tell him that she would go to hell if she did other people's mistresses, but when she saw her, all these words disappeared. "Aren't you going to sit down first? I've prepared something to eat." Aine sat down in a chair and took the golden cup full of mead. "You have to go find him," Randy said. "He's too stubborn to give in to you; and I doubt he knows what to do then."

Aini put down her glass with a bang and stood up. "I didn't come to hear this. He's humiliated me enough, I won't go to him again." "Wait!" Randy yelled. "Please come back, I'm too presumptuous." Ai Ni turned around. Randy smiled at her. "Forgive me, I've been very upset recently. Seaman's temper is very bad, of course I told him that everything is his fault, he shouldn't be jealous of Lowe like that. If it weren't for his behavior, Lowe would not treat you Say those words." Annie sat down again. "It was," she said, picking up her glass again. "He said in front of everyone that he couldn't stand my looks."

Randy looked at the blond girl.So, she thought, so the girl cared about Lowe's criticism of her appearance.Men like Lowe and Seaman can easily make a woman cringe, even a woman like Randy.She still has to look in the mirror every morning and tidy herself carefully. "I see." Randy finally said. "It's me," said Aine. "I get it too. I thought I could make him love me and make him want me. But he never wanted me, and neither did anyone else. Joss, my maid, was really right when he said men I don't need a wife. My situation is even worse. Not only my husband doesn't want me, but his brother, his mistress, and his men all don't want me, except the old lady. Now even the door of the old lady is locked. I'm welcome."

Listening to her self-pitying words, Randy understood very well.A woman is confident when she feels wanted; she can set a bed on fire, she can make big bets.But if she feels that she has lost her attractiveness, all her power will disappear without a trace. "Which old lady?" Randy was thinking in her heart, trying to delay time, so she asked casually. Randy didn't pay attention at first, but Aini's words caught her attention. "She lives above the sunroom?" "A single room that is often locked. But she seems to know when I'm in trouble, because when I have a problem, the door will open. She is my best friend since I came to the Ou's house. She—"

"Isn't she pretty, with brown hair?" "Yeah, who is she? I've been meaning to ask her, but every time I see her I—" Aine paused, watching Randy ring a silver bell.A maid came, Randy whispered something to her, and the maid went out again. Randy stood up. "Do you mind if we visit your old lady now?" "The room was locked and hadn't been opened since my husband and I had that dinner." "I have sent the maid to get the key, shall we go?" Ai Ni had caused a commotion when she walked through the atrium before, but when Ai Ni and Randy walked by, everyone stopped working and watched the two women walking past in disbelief.

Ani led Randy and the others up to the room above the sunroom. "She locks the door when she doesn't like to be disturbed and we should respect her privacy." Randy didn't answer.Then her maid brought a large key, which she put in the lock. "It's not good—" Aini just opened her mouth, but then stopped.The room that was once clean and bright is now empty.Under the thick and dense spider web, Ai Ni recognized the old lady's furniture.The originally transparent and refreshing windows are now broken, and there is still a dead bird lying on the ground. "I don't understand," said Ernie. "Where did she go?"

"Dead, long, long ago." Although Ai Ni couldn't believe it, she still made the sign of the cross on her chest. "Are you saying that what I saw was a ghost? No way. I talked to her and she was as real as you. She told me a lot of things that other people don't know." Her eyes widened. "I've heard of this person, I haven't seen her myself, but it seems that many people have. She seems to like to help others. A few years ago, a maid was pregnant. She was about to jump off the building when this lady appeared , she persuaded the maid to give up her thoughts of suicide. Don't you wonder why no one dares to live here? Most people are afraid to even come up." Aini walked across the dusty floor and came to the embroidery frame. On the frame was an unfinished brocade with a slender lady on it—the same one Aini had seen when she came to visit.Aini suddenly felt like she had lost a good friend. "Who is she? Why does she stay at Ou's house to be scary?" "He's Seaman's grandmother, Lowe and Sal's too. Her name is Ruth, and she's Old Ogier's first wife. Their son is John, the father of Lowe and Seaman. Ruth After her death, Jill married Hopetty, and his family claimed that Ruth was not legally married to Jill, so her sons were all illegitimate. This castle belonged to Ruth's family, and she grew up here." "That's why she is so lingering." "A few years after she died, the king declared John an illegitimate son, and he came back here too. It was in this room that he saw his mother, and the door has been locked since then. Some say John is stupid because his mother To tell him where the marriage certificate is, but he won't listen." "What marriage certificate?" "John has never been able to prove that his parents' marriage is legal and valid. The people who attended the wedding mysteriously disappeared one by one, and the marriage certificate disappeared. Everyone guessed that the Huo family took it away, but some people said It was Jill who hid." Randy smiled. "If you see this lady again, maybe you can ask her where the certificate is. If it can be proved that this marriage is legal, then the king will rule to return the land of the Ou family to Lowe and Seaman, and this feud can be ended gone." Ai Ni wondered if Lowe would love her for it if she found the marriage certificate.No, maybe not.Even if she is the richest woman in the world she is still that ugly wife. "We should go," she said. "Lock the door, she needs privacy." They left the room and locked the door.Randy looked at her with concern. "Are you going to find him?" Aini knew who she was referring to. "I won't. It's not me he wants, it's gold. Now that the Sunday girl is back, what am I? Now I want to say goodbye. I still have some embroidery to do!" They went down the stairs and Randy said goodbye to Aine and left. That night Seaman came to Randy's room.He was limping and had a bruise on his face.Randy sent the maid away and took out a sackcloth to clean his wound. "I'm going to kill Lowe," Seaman said through gritted teeth. "That's the only way to stop him. Have you talked to that wife of his?" "She's no better at talking than your elder brother." "Wow! Be careful!" He groaned. "I don't want to have new wounds. I know Lowe. He has tolerated that woman enough. He actually agreed to stay with her in bed all day!" "How generous he is!" Randy said mockingly. "Indeed, I always thought he wouldn't do that to his wife." "So what do you think? That good-tempered brother of yours left her alone and didn't look her in the eye until she set fire to his bed. You call that generosity?" "Woman!" Seaman murmured. "What strange animals you are!" He took her in his arms and began to kiss her neck. "Let's leave their business alone." She pushed him away and stood up. "You haven't showered in weeks?" "Before, you didn't care whether I took a shower or not." "I thought you had a natural smell of horse manure back then," she replied. Seaman also stood up. "It's all the woman's doing, if she—" "If you hadn't intervened, everything would have been fine. How would you make it up?" "We've argued about this before, remember? I also admit that I... well, I went a little too far with Lowe, and I listened to you and invited the two of them to dinner, didn't I? The group of women A gold coin wearing a suit appeared! Lowe really should have accepted her money, he should—” "He should tell her she's beautiful," Randy interjected. "She thinks your horny big brother doesn't want her, I don't know why she thinks that, he'll sleep with her if it's anything that looks like a woman." Seaman smiled proudly. "Quite a man, isn't he?" "We're going to make this clear. You've got to get Lowe to tell her she's the most beautiful woman in the world, and that he wants no one but her." "Then I might as well move some mountains. No one can force Lowe to do what he doesn't want to do." "Did he go back to sleeping with those Sunday girls?" Seaman pondered for a moment. "No, in fact this time he's gone without a woman for a record time. Don't look at me like that!" he said to Randy. "My elder brother can deal with women whether he is married or not. Maybe he just doesn't want to find women these days. I can understand that he was pissed off by that shrew wearing a gold coin costume for dinner. That's a tough move!" "It's all up to you now." Randy said sweetly. "Why don't you just ask Lowe to send Ernie back to her father? Then you can do what you want, and your brother won't have to be pissed." "Then who will be responsible for getting us something to eat?" Seaman murmured. "Damn you, Randy! Damn that Ernie too! Lowe and she should be damned! Someone should lock them up and let us be quiet for a while, those two people are annoying me to death." He suddenly opened his eyes. His eyes lit up, and he raised his head. "What's up?" "It's okay, I just thought of a way." "Tell me." Randy urged. After a while Seaman began to talk about his plans. On the same night, Seaman gave Ai Ni a gift of reconciliation.Ernie was sitting in the sunroom as usual, and she was used to people in the castle never disturbing her when she wasn't there, so she was surprised when the knight came to her with a bottle of wine.The knight said it was a gift from Sir Seaman to his beautiful sister-in-law. "Do you think it's poisoned?" Ai Ni asked Biga. "Maybe there is an element of love mixed in." Biga said, she never gave up any chance to reason with Ai Ni. The wine was warm and strong, and Aine drank a lot. "I suddenly feel very tired." She was so tired that she could hardly stand up.Just then Seaman walked in.Aini's maids stared blankly at this handsome man, but he only stared at Aini. Biga leaned her head against the back of the chair as she watched her mistress close her eyes. "This is not quite right." "It's fine if she falls asleep." Ximan said, pushing away Biga and picking up Aini who was on the sofa. "My lord!" Bijia yelled. "You can't!" "I just want it!" Heman said as he carried the sleeping Aini up the spiral staircase until he reached a room with iron panels on the first floor.He took a key from his belt and opened the door. This is a small room with a toilet on one side and a heavy locked iron door on the other, leading to the top of the city wall.Usually this is for the guards, but it is also often used as a prison.Seaman made this plan. Seaman stood for a while after pushing the door open, allowing his eyes to adjust to the darkness.Lying on the bed was the sleeping Lowe, and Seaman hesitated after seeing him.But the fleas behind him started dancing wildly on him again, and he knew it had to be done.He dumped his sister-in-law on the bed with his brother, and he started scratching. "Okay," he said, looking at the two. "You stay here until you're willing to let us be quiet."