“He marries you? In your dreams!” said Wei Changying, shoving Duanmu Xinmiao against the pole in the corridor. If a doctor often dealt with medicine, a smell of medicine would be around him or her. The Eighth Miss of Duanmu Family perhaps stayed in the yard which was filled with the smell of medicine for a long time, so this strong smell around her made Wei Changying feel a little uncomfortable when she walked closer to her.

After taking a deep breath, Wei Changying got used to this smell. She slowly pat Duanmu Xinmiao’s face with her hand. However, Duanmu Xinmiao was exposed to the sun to select the medicine and then fought with Wei Changying, so her face was covered with sweat. Wei Changying dried her hand with the upper shirt of Duanmu Xinmiao in disgust. She said with a cold smile, “How dare you threaten me? I’m Shen Cangfeng’s wife, so how could you be in a higher status than me? At most, you would be a concubine!”

“If I were Shen Cangfeng’s concubine, with my medical skill, I would...”

“As his wife, I can handle his concubine at my will, so how could I allow you to live in the same court with me? How innocent you are!” said Wei Changying, wiping her hand dried and clean. And then she pointed at Duanmu Xinmiao’s forehead with her finger to warn her, “If you dared to make troubles, I would plead with my mother-in-law to ask Shen Cangfeng to marry you as a concubine immediately. Besides, you are supposed to directly go to the Jintong Courtyard with me rather than go back to your own home. If you were in my hand, I would quickly ask servants to break your legs and cut your tongue off. Moreover, you would be sold to human traders for a little money. With this sum of money, I would buy sugars for the maids. You could have a try if you dare cause troubles. Do you think that the Duanmu Family would help you? As a lineal daughter, you are dirtily willing to be a concubine. And it is normal that your family would drive you out of the house to keep their family honor.”

Stunned for a few seconds, Duanmu Xinmiao suddenly stopped struggling. She became calm to ask with a sense of curiosity, “If you planned to sell me, why would you break my legs and cut off my tongue?”

Wei Changying looked at Duanmu Xinmiao as if she were crazy. She thought in mind, “There must be something wrong with the brain of this Eighth Miss of the Duanmu Family. Aren’t my words fierce and cool?” However, she wouldn’t recognize this; otherwise, she would lose her face. So, she replied with a sneer, “I should break your legs in case you escape from the human traders. To be safe, it is necessary to cut your tongue to prevent you from uttering a word.”

“You should also break my hands, or I could still write!” Duanmu Xinmiao suggested heartily.

Wei Changying became furious because she thought that Duanmu Xinmiao had attempted to provoke her. She quickly caught the upper shirt of Duanmu Xinmiao to tear off a large part of her clothes, and said in a colder tone, “Do you doubt my intention?” She also thought in mind, “I am rather vicious, so how could you not be frightened by me?”

“Obviously, you didn’t have any experience about these matters!” Duanmu Xinmiao’s upper shirt was torn, so her light green inner clothes and half part of her naked shoulder and arm were revealed in the daylight. So did her Shou Gong Mark. However, she was so open that she didn’t feel shy in this courtyard. If another young lady, say, Wei Changying, were half-naked in this public place, she would be ashamed even if she was only standing before a lady.

However, Duanmu Xinmiao didn’t care about this at all. She slightly curled up her lips to say with a contempt, “Do you really want to frighten me? If this is your intention, you should learn how to bully concubines from me.”

Wei Changying thought that Duanmu Xinmiao must be crazy, so she kept alert. But she still asked with a cold smile, “Why?”

“It is because I have dealt with thirteen concubines of my father without being suspected, and none of them ended up well!” said Duanmu Xinmiao in an arrogant way. She crossed her arms in front of her breast and raised her head to look at the sky.

Her look and gestures silently revealed her intention that Wei Changying should quickly learn these tricks from her.

Astounded for a while, Wei Changying stammered, “What?” She also thought in mind, “They having an argument now, aren’t they? So why did Duanmu Xinmiao talk about what she had done to her father’s concubines?”

“Does she have any plot?” pondered Wei Changying. However, Duanmu Xinmiao continued to said excitedly, “The concubine A, who was the most vicious, was my first target. Because my mother didn’t have a son but two daughters, my elder sister and I, and because my sister had experienced something bad…” Referring to this, she let out a sigh and angrily went on, “Concubine A actually mocked at my mother and my elder sister. At that night when she mocked at my sister, I sprinkled a bag of medicine power into her courtyard, lying on the wall of her courtyard!”

Looking at her, Wei Changying didn’t know what she should say. Duanmu Xinmiao stopped for a while. Seeing that Wei Changying didn’t reply to her, she angrily glared at her and continued saying, “The next day, she was dead!”

“What was that powerful medicine power?” Wei Changying asked in shock.

Duanmu Xinmiao snorted, “How could that be a strong medicine power? The concubine A was allergic to certain ordinary medicine. So, I made use of this weakness to kill her!”

Wei Changying asked in astonishment, “How could no one ever suspect you?” The concubine A died of the medicine that she was allergic to, and Duanmu Xinmiao was a lineal lady who was good at medicine. Therefore, unless the Duanmu Family were all fools, how could they never suspect Duanmu Xinmiao?

“Because I placed the remaining medicine power in another the concubine’s room. Well, let’s call her concubine B. She was not kind, either. On the surface, she respected my mother, but privately she harbored a malicious intention. So, she deserved to pay her life for the life of concubine A!” Duanmu Xinmiao said with a contempt. “On the contrary, what can you do? And you are still planning to break my legs, cut off my tongue, and then sell me? If you want to leave no room for maneuver, you should also scratch my eyes and pour mercury into my ears to make me blind and deaf. What is more, you should also break my hands to not allow me to write anything. Otherwise, if you leave thing halfway done, people must think that you are cruel but what you have done would be not enough!”

Wei Changying was shocked for a while and then asked, “Have…have you really done so?”

Duanmu Xinmiao sighed, “How could I ever do such a thing?”

Wei Changying wiped her cold sweat furtively and thought to herself, “According to your words, what you plan to do is similar to the cruel behavior that Empress Lv had done to Consort Qi. It’s not a thing that an ordinary people will be able to accomplish…” And then she heard Duanmu Xinmiao ’s pity words, “I always tested my new medicine on them. Unfortunately, they all died during the test. How could they endure to the part that I broke their legs? Let alone other things.”

“…” Wei Changying was silent for a while and said, “We are quarreling, aren’t we?”

So why could they now friendly talk about how to murder concubines?

Duanmu Xinmiao thought for a second and came to realize, “You are right. Come on! Give me the bracelets!”

How could she still dare to covet my bracelets! Wei Changying asked, whose eyes were filled with viciousness, “Do you really think that I cannot deal with you? If you actually make me angry, I would throw you up onto the roof now. What you will do then?”

“Don’t you want to deal with the concubines?” said Duanmu Xinmiao. She glared at Wei Changying and said, “I didn’t plan to grab your bracelet! Is it not a good idea that I turn them into a pair of medical bracelets for you?”

Wei Changying was shocked, “Medical bracelets?”

“If you gave me this pair of bracelets, I would soak them in the medicine solution. After a few months, the medicine will immerse into the bracelets and they would become medicine bracelets.” Duanmu Xinmiao lowered her voice to entice Wei Changying, “I’m able to make various kinds of medicine bracelets on the basis of your requirements, from abortion to murder.”

Wei Changying looked at her in shock, tightly holding the bracelets on her wrist, and asked, “Didn’t you hear my husband’s words just now?”

“Shen Cangfeng?” Duanmu Xinmiao asked in puzzlement. “What did he say?”

“This pair of bracelets is one of the betrothal presents from the Shen Family,” said Wei Changying, taking a deep breath. “So, how could I give them to others?”

Duanmu Xinmiao was still anxious to persuade, “If you think so, you are not right. As a saying that, ‘You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.’ Therefore, even if those vicious concubines who gorgeously dressed pretended to respect you, they would still talk about you with vicious words in front of your husband and your mother-in-law to sow discord. Even if your relationship with them were good, it would be destroyed by those words. Particularly those who are once praised by your mother-in-law, you then must apparently respect the concubines for the sake of your mother-in-law’s face, right? In order to be called virtuous, how many difficulties and sulks you would have to endure?”

“What’s more, what they have done will be much more than that,” Duanmu Xinmiao said. As she saw Wei Changying’s blank face, she thought that Wei Changying could be successfully persuaded with more efforts. Therefore, she continued saying in a pretty cold voice, “You should remember that the Shen Family is different from the Wei Family. They don’t care whether their descendants are lineal or not. Although these descendants are in a different family status, those who are born by the concubines still have the chance to be the Family Head! This means that even if you spend so much time and energy managing the household of the Shen Family, your children will still have to treat their brother as their master, because the children born by the vicious concubines become the Family Head. How could you allow this to happen?”

“What’s more, you are not their birth mother. So how could you have a close relationship with them? You will be their lineal mother in the future, but if those children were in power, how could they keep distant to their birth mother to honestly get along with you?”

At last, Duanmu Xinmiao drew a conclusion, “So, if you are willing to give this pair of bracelets to me, in the future, you could poison any concubines you don’t like! I’m pretty sure that all of them will definitely die! If they are still alive, you can just come back to find me again. To be honest, I would not introduce this precious ‘once for all’ thing to you if you were not the destined person.”

“The destined person?” Wei Changying murmured, and she was a little confused by Duanmu Xinmiao’s words. “It’s only because you want my bracelets… Right?”

Duanmu Xinmiao replied, “Nonsense! How could I be this kind of person? I know that your husband, Shen Cangfeng, has been chosen as the next Family Head of the Shen Family, so you must be the Family Mother of the Shen family. Do you think that you need not worry about anything in the future, merely because he treats you well right now? His future is so bright that many beauties would be send to him by someone with malicious intentions. Moreover, he is not only handsome, but also good at intelligence and martial arts. If his kindness to you were envied by others, it would be possible that a group of shameless women would line up to try to have sexual relationship with him! Think about that, those people...”

“Eighth Miss,” Mrs. Huang, who left others to accompany Shen Cangfeng to wait at the front gate and sneaked back to the moon-gate with the granddaughter to try to trim the sails, couldn’t help walking out of the corner to speak with bitter hatred, “How could you egg on young madam with those words I have persuaded you before? You once told me that you wouldn’t marry anyone for the rest of your life, and you would adopt an orphan from Ciji Hall. You hoped that this child would look after you when you are old. Besides, you are afraid that your husband would love others easily if he were higher than you in status, while you are not willing to marry to a man who is lower than you in status. I have persuaded you at that time. But now, how could you entice young madam with only a part of my words? It is not a proper thing to do.”

Wei Changying let go off Duanmu Xinmiao, wiping her sweat with her handkerchief. She only found that Ji Qubing and his disciple, Duanmu Xinmiao, were both strange from the head to the toe.