sbdcsierra Chapter 226 Ah Zhu, let's play a game (1)
Chapter 226 Ah Zhu, let's play a game (1)
Ah Zhu had barely finished speaking.
The kneeling maid trembled, as if plunged into an ice cellar, and stood frozen in place. After a long while, she slowly raised her head in disbelief, looked at A-Zhu, and murmured, "Young...Young Master?"
"Hmm? What's wrong?" A-Zhu blinked slightly, a slight smile playing on her lips, and asked with feigned confusion. Her gleaming white teeth were almost unsettling in the sunlight.
Upon seeing this, the maid felt utterly despondent and collapsed to the ground as if all her strength had been drained.
Yes! This is Zhu Qing! The ruthless Zhu Qing actually forgot his wicked nature just because he became easier to talk to after losing his memory!
She was now filled with deep regret. If she had listened to the clan leader and kept a close watch on Zhu Ke and the other man, without harboring any improper thoughts, everything would have been peaceful. But now...
Everyone knows that falling into Zhu Qing's hands would be a fate worse than death! Apart from the clan leader, no one can control him...
Yes! And the clan chief too!
Thinking of this, she hurriedly looked at Zhu Ke, who was half a step behind A Zhu, crawled forward two steps, grabbed Zhu Ke's clothes, and said urgently:
"Miss Ke, please save me! Please save me! I was sent by the clan leader to serve you. Please, for the sake of the clan leader, save me!"
Upon hearing this, a dark glint flashed in Azhu's eyes. Zhu Yao had many eyes and ears in the mansion, and she probably didn't even know who this person was.
However, this person was quite clever. Knowing that Zhu Ke never disobeyed Zhu Yao, he planned to use this as a pretext.
As expected, a hint of hesitation flashed across Zhu Ke's face, and in the end, he could only look helplessly at A Zhu.
A-Zhu raised her index finger and shook it, her tone playful yet undeniably firm: "Even if the clan leader is here, it won't work."
Seeing this, Zhu Ke turned her head away and gave the maid a helpless look. She really couldn't help; when A-Zhu got reckless, she couldn't stop her.
A-Zhu lowered his head in satisfaction, looking at the maid who seemed resigned to her fate and looked utterly dejected. His eyes darted around slyly, and then he changed the subject:
"However, Ah Zhu can play a game with you. If you win, Ah Zhu will let you go."
Upon hearing this, a glimmer of hope flashed in the maid's eyes, and she kowtowed repeatedly, saying, "Thank you, young master, thank you, young master..."
Seeing A-Zhu's cunning expression and the maid's grateful look, Zhu Ke felt his eyelids twitching and had a bad feeling.
As if seeing that the other party had agreed, Azhu immediately leaned down excitedly to explain the game rules to them:
"This game is called 'Three Ignorances,' which means you have three chances to say three things that A-Zhu in the manor doesn't know. If you say that A-Zhu really doesn't know, then A-Zhu will let you go."
Conversely, if one of the things mentioned is something Ah-Zhu already knows, then I will take one of your organs.
In short, they want to know three secrets of the mansion.
"How can this be?" The maid's emotions fluctuated wildly, and she almost fainted from the shock.
"So you're not going to play? What a pity!" Azhu's face was all scrunched up, she looked very regretful, and her eyes were full of anger, as if she wanted to devour someone.
Having said that, he straightened up and coldly said to Zhu Ke, completely unconcerned:
"Cousin, Azhu is tired. Please help Azhu deal with this person!"
Zhu Ke glanced at the maid with sympathy and nodded: "Qing'er, go and rest first."
A-Zhu obediently walked outside, and before leaving, she turned back to remind him:
"By the way, A-Zhu doesn't like her eyes, your cousin helped..."
Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a series of urgent shouts from behind:
"Young master, young master... let me play, let me play games!"
Azhu's expression changed in an instant, a knowing smile appearing on her lips. She quickly turned around, her smile radiant.
"That's more like it! Honestly, I almost made Du Azhu angry."
As A-Zhu spoke, she quickly approached, urging, "Let's get started! I can't wait! What is 'One Ignorance'?"
The maid knelt on the spot, her expression tense as she searched her memory. Finally, under A-Zhu's increasingly impatient gaze, she glanced timidly at Zhu Ke beside her, swallowed hard, and stammered:
"I...I was sent by the clan chief to monitor Miss Ke. The clan chief has people secretly monitoring each of the direct descendants of the Zhu family in the manor, and they submit letters to the clan chief every half month..."
After saying this, the maid was extremely uneasy and dared not look at Zhu Ke and A Zhu's expressions.
Ah Zhu, however, seemed uninterested, as if she was not very satisfied with the answer.
Then, as if he had thought of something, he turned to look at his cousin. Zhu Ke was only surprised for a moment, then seemed to understand and her expression disappeared.
Ah Zhu was puzzled. What did her cousin mean by this? Did she already know about the surveillance? But if that were the case, why was she surprised for a moment?
Zhu Ke received A-Zhu's questioning gaze and explained, "That's right, I knew about the surveillance, but I didn't expect it to be happening in my own courtyard..."
She had long known that Zhu Yao was secretly monitoring the people in the mansion, and these reports were submitted through her. Most of the people that A Zhu had tortured and killed in the past were these same people, and she had cleaned up the mess for them quite a bit.
Upon hearing this, the maidservant abruptly looked up and saw Ah Zhu shrugging, with an expression that said, "I gave you a chance, but you didn't do it."
"Which organ should we start with? Hmm... how about we start with the hand!"
As soon as she finished speaking, A-Zhu suddenly squatted down and, before the other person could react, forcefully ripped off her entire arm, splattering blood everywhere.
"Ah...ah..." The maid didn't come to her senses until she saw the fingers on the arm on the ground that were still trembling wildly. She rolled on the ground and wailed in pain.
Annoyed by the noise, A-Zhu took out a blue cloth from her bosom and wiped her hands. Then, she looked down and saw the bloodstains on her white shoes from the other person's haphazard rolling around. She couldn't help but frown.
Then, he looked at his shoes, then at the strip of cloth in his hand, and felt a pang of reluctance. As if possessed, he stuffed the cloth back into his robes, rubbed the shoes on the still-clean corner of the maid's garment on the ground, and kicked it a couple of times, saying unhappily:
"Hey! Stop howling and get up! There are still two unknowns! Don't waste the remaining opportunities, or you'll get Ah Zhu's hands dirty again."
The maidservant reacted as if she had seen a demon upon hearing A-Zhu's voice; she could no longer find her even remotely endearing.
She was trembling all over, her face pale, but she dared not disobey Ah Zhu's words, and could only endure the pain to get up and continue:
"The clan leader has a secret in the dark dungeon."
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