Chapter 1 — Female Guardian Luc Lenh Nghi

When my step-mother led someone to break through the western door of the mist room, I had just pulled the golden brooch from Trieu Thuan's throat. She originally thought she would see me with my clothes disheveled and unconscious in a man's arms. Therefore, the door was only opened a crack, and she couldn't wait to cry: "What a cruel act! How could the Giang family give birth to such a shameless daughter!" The clan elders, wives, and fathers who followed her all stiffened outside the door at the same time. Trieu Thuan lay on his back on the ground, blood continuously flowing from his throat. I sat by the bed, slowly closed the hem of my shirt that he tore, and raised my head to look at my stepmother. "Mother came so quickly." "I didn't have time to call for help." 1. There was a cup of wine that was overturned in the room. The wine was personally delivered by big sister Giang Minh Chau. She said that today was the anniversary of her mother's death, and her father did not let me go to the main courtyard to worship, fearing that I would feel uncomfortable, so she specially ordered the kitchen to heat up a bottle of apricot wine for me. I only drank half a cup and already felt like His whole body was limp. When he woke up, Trieu Thuan was on top of me. He was the only son of the manager of the outer court. He usually relied on his father's trust and often bullied the maids in the palace. Seeing me open my eyes, he was startled, then laughed. "It's good that the second lady woke up. Don't let the lady bring someone here later. You don't even know how innocent you are." I pulled down the golden hairpin on his head and pressed it to his neck I don't think it's a concern at all. How much strength can a lady who has been drugged have? It wasn't until the tip of the hairpin broke her skin that he panicked and covered my mouth. I stabbed the hairpin from under his chin. He struggled a few times and then fell to the ground. The first thing I did was to close the door from the inside Discovering that there was a man in my room, she should have at least knocked on the door first. But she did not do so. She directly ordered someone to break the door. After clearly seeing the situation in the room, her face turned pale for a moment, but she quickly calmed down. "You killed someone?" I lowered my head to look at the bloody gold brooch in my hand and said softly: "He intends to humiliate me, should I lie still and let him trample me?" soul, rushed in and raised his hand to hit me. I immediately turned away to avoid him. His slap fell into the void, my face became even more unsightly. "Tough! Having caused such an embarrassing incident, you still dare to argue!" "What shameful matter?" I looked at the clan elders standing outside the door. "Is it someone who broke into my bedroom in the middle of the night, or did I kill the villain in order to protect my purity?" "It is clearly written in the clan rules that when a woman encounters someone who humiliates her, rising up to save herself is to keep her virginity. Why did it turn out to be my fault when it came to father's mouth?" An old man frowned and said: "Why Trieu Thuan entered your room has not been clearly investigated yet. How could you directly take his life?" I put the brooch on the table. "If you still can't investigate clearly, then report to the mandarin." The room immediately fell silent. The stepmother stared at me, her eyes finally changed. The person who has the habit of being startled the most is the one who is afraid of reporting to the mandarin. As long as he is unruly in examining the body, that bottle of wine, the road Trieu Thuan took to the inner courtyard, along with the person who called the clan elders before, they will all be investigated. The stepmother may not immediately be convicted. guilty, but father's reputation as an official will not be maintained first. Father lowered his voice: "Bad things in the house cannot be spread outside." I laughed. "Didn't father just say that it was I who caused the shame?" Parents

did not dare to report to the officials. He told the clan elders to come to the main hall first, saying that they had to close the door to investigate this matter. The stepmother also planned to follow. I called her back. “Mother.” Her steps stopped. I pointed at the hourglass next to the wall. "From the main courtyard to here, it took at least a moment. "I woke up less than half a moment ago. Trieu Thuan had just stopped breathing, and his mother had already brought someone to break down the door. "Mother, can you tell me who went to tell you the news?" The stepmother turned to look at me and said without fear: "The servants in the palace saw Trieu Thuan entering your courtyard, of course they had to tell me." "In a panic, how can I remember?" "Then investigate each person individually." I stood up, placing my hands on the edge of the table. The medicinal power has not yet completely dissipated, before my eyes it became dark. Step-mother thought I couldn't stand it, but a disdainful look appeared in her eyes. "It's true that you killed Trieu Thuan. Even if he was at fault, he must be handed over to the elders to deal with. It's not the turn of an unmarried girl like you to arbitrarily take his life." "At that time, he was lying on top of me." My voice was extremely calm. "Mother meant that I had to call the wife in first, help him up properly, and then ask for instructions on whether to kill him or not. Why?" Someone at the door couldn't help but laugh softly. The stepmother's face immediately turned red. She was about to get angry when I suddenly bent down and took out a bunch of keys from Trieu Thuan's chest. On a bronze key is engraved a very small word "Sugar". Hoa Vien Street is the stepmother's residence. I took the key and brought it in front of her. "The key to the warehouse of the mother's house, why is it on him?" The stepmother did not reach out to receive it. On the contrary, Chu ma ma stood next to her with a pale face and unconsciously took half a step back. Right after that, stepmother slapped Chu's face with a slap. "You! How dare you hide something like that from me!" Chu's mother covered her face, stunned on the spot. The old slave had followed his mother's example for twenty years, and only now did he understand that he had become a discarded pawn. She knelt down and grabbed the skirt of her stepmother's dress. "Madam, you're not the slave, you're the one who told the slave..." The stepmother raised her foot and kicked her in the chest. "Pull down!" I didn't stop her. This is not the best time to drag the whole model into the water. A blade without a handle cannot hurt the person you really want to kill. Chu ma ma was gagged and pulled out. When my stepmother turned to look at me, her eyes were red. "It's because I wasn't strict with my subordinates and almost hurt you. Don't worry, I will definitely give you an explanation." I bowed my head slightly. "I'm sorry, mother." Perhaps she thought I had just killed someone and was scared to death. But she did not see that there was not a single tear in my drooping eyes. Trieu Thuan is just the first human life. Letting him die like that was so gentle. 3. In the main hall, father suggested a solution. Trieu Thuan rushed into the inner courtyard in the middle of the night, with nefarious intentions, and was accidentally killed by me. Chu Ma Ma was deceived, opened the side door for Trieu Thuan, was beaten fifty times and then sold out of the palace. As for the bottle of wine that was mixed with anesthetic, the kitchen said it was brought over by a rude maid who just arrived. That night, the maid jumped into the well and died, with no witnesses left. After my father finished speaking, he asked me to point him out in front of the clan elders. I didn't move. "There's still something missing." Father frowned: "What?" "The things my mother left me." Stepmother's face darkened. My birth mother, Luc Thi, was not from a low background. When she was young, her maternal grandmother once saved the emperor's daughter, was appointed Ninh An district military officer, and was given three estates and a grain warehouse outside the city. In the holy edict, it was written very clearly: The fields were given to daughters,

Do not pass it on to your son-in-law. After my mother passed away, when I was still young, the land deed, estate books and district military seal were temporarily managed by my father. In one month, I will turn seventeen years old. According to the old will, father must return those things to me. Why did Trieu Thuan choose this exact moment to barge into my room? Because once I am expelled from the Jiang family's family tree for unchastity, the estates given to me will temporarily be managed by my father. Waiting until I "committed suicide in shame", he could present a petition to the court, asking to transfer the estate to Giang Minh Chau, who also had Luc Thi blood. Giang Minh Chau is only two months older than me. She was born from my stepmother, but from a young age she was recorded in my mother's name. The gentleness on the stepmother's face finally could no longer be maintained. "You are just an unmarried girl, what do you know about estate management? If the old housekeeper helps you, can he still harm you?" "Maybe." I answered very quickly. Father slammed on the table. "Jiang Lenh Nghi!" "Trieu Thuan's body has not been buried yet." I looked at him. "If father does not want to hand it over, I will send someone to report to the authorities now." The old clans looked at each other, but no one spoke up to help father. They could help him oppress a girl, but they didn't want to risk their reputation and future with him. A long time later, father gritted his teeth and said: "Take out the seal." Stepmother sat still and did not move. Father said again. "Go get it." Half an hour later, I got my mother's green jade seal and three dusty estate books. My father told me to point the finger at the paperwork to handle it. I didn't even bother looking to point it out. The day Chu ma ma was sold, she kept turning her head to look at me. Perhaps she expected me to save her. I sat down in the hallway, bowing my head to wipe the golden brooch that was once stained with blood. Just now, she opened her mouth not because she was thinking about me, but just because she discovered that her master wanted her dead. If you can't bite the mother-in-law, then you can only endure it yourself. When the traffickers dragged her out of the palace gate, she finally cursed loudly: "Giang Lenh Nghi, do you think you've won by taking back those torn books?" "Those estates were already empty!" I raised my head. The stepmother stood not far away, her face pale. I laughed again. Mama Chu finally said something useful. 4. The next day, I went to Truong Phong village outside the city. The first page's family name is Ton, a person promoted by his father. Seeing me coming, he called out to the second lady, but she still sat on the chair and did not stand up. "The house is busy, the room has not been tidied up. You have a precious body, you should return soon." I did not get angry, I ordered someone to put three estate books on the table. "Last year, Truong Phong Trang collected nine thousand wheat stones, transferred six thousand stones to the district military warehouse, the remaining three thousand stones were used to preserve seeds, pay taxes and pay wages." "But this year's books are only recorded five thousand seven hundred stones." Ton Trang Tou's eyelids twitched slightly. "Last year the wind and rain were not favorable, the harvest was poor." I nodded. "It was really poor." "But when I entered the farm, I saw that the drying yard had just been paved with three layers of stone, twenty cow barns were built to the west, the soles of the tenants' shoes were also covered with wheat husks." "If we only collected five thousand seven hundred stones, where did we get so much wheat straw to feed the cows?" Sun Trang Tou finally stood up. "Miss, you don't understand." Farm work, wheat straw is not worth money." "Straw is not worth money, but cows are worth money." I closed the book. "There were originally forty-seven plowing cows in the book, but now there are sixty-nine in the barn." "Did the extra twenty-two fall from the sky?"