บท 8: Give Me My Respect, That's All

Yang Yiting realized that this man would die if he continued knocking his head down like this again. She didn't want Ma San's life, but just wanted to take the opportunity to establish her prestige in the mansion. She wanted to let the whole mansion know that she was the eldest daughter of the family. She would not be easy to bully.

Seeing that her goal had been achieved today, she stopped the proceedings and said to Yang Jiang. "Father, seeing that his mouth keeps running, why not shut him up first and interrogate him another day?"

Yang Jiang was also bothered about seeing the amount of blood. Since Yang Yiting said so, he waved his hand and said. "Take him and put him in the wood house. I will deal with him later. Make sure to take care of him."

After Ma San was dragged away, Yang Yiting said to the people in the yard with different looks. "Everyone has seen it. From now on, I hope everyone will abide by their duties and do things honestly. I'm sorry for your past dealings. The people here will not treat you badly, but if there's dishonesty among you, you won't be shown mercy by my father. Okay, you can all go now."

"Yes, miss." The people responded and dispersed. Since then, they all had a new understanding of this eldest lady.

However, Yang Mei Shi, Yang Ruo and others had gloomy expressions. Each with their own thoughts. Yang Ming Xuan, who followed to watch the excitement after her school time, looked at Yang Yiting with admiration, thinking of when her big aunt became so powerful.

Ma San, who was detained in the firewood room, died that night. On the second day, when the guards opened the door to deliver his food, they found him laying on the pyre covered in blood, with a blood-stained dagger beside him.

After hearing the development, Yang Yiting went to see Ma San's body in person. According to her preliminary examination, the time of death would have been around 1 am and 2 am. The fatal injury was a wound about 10 cm in length on the neck, which caused excessive blood loss. The obvious cause of his death.

Looking at the shape of the wound, it matched the dagger, dropped next to the body. Judging from the angle and depth of the wound, she could confirm that it was a suicide. It appeared that Ma San cut his own neck with this dagger.

Yang Yiting looked at Ma San's body and sighed softly. She had no intention of harming others, but just wanted to protect herself in this strange place. Ma San was not a treacherous person, as she could tell from him saving Lu Zhu that day.

Lu Zhu was stunned by the events of that day. By the time she woke up, she was already outside her room. It must have been Ma San who rescued her form the fire.

But why did he set fire to the place? Who instructed him, and why did he listen to that person's instructions?

Now that Ma San was dead, the clue's line was broken. Looking at Yang Ruo's performance on that day, it seemed to be related to this matter. But with Yang Ruo's personality and ability, Yang Yiting doubted it could even be her idea, if it was her in the first place?

Yang Yiting frowned slightly. Mother Ning and Miss Xu could only look on while Lu Zhu beside her could not help, but feel sick and retch.

This girl saw the bloody corpse for the first time. She didn't dare to enter initially, but after seeing that Yang Yiting was going in, she had mustered the courage to follow closely behind with the aim of protecting the young lady.

Now, seeing Ma San's eyes wide open and the corpse, Lu Zhu couldn't help but screamed and retched again and again. She looked at Yang Yiting and wondered when the young miss had become so bold.

Yang Yiting glanced at her helplessly, and told the male servants next to her. "Take care of the body. Inquire about his family for me, and give them a little more compensation."

"Yes, eldest lady." Replied the head servant present. They also felt very surprised that this eldest lady didn't change her facial expressions at the sight of the corpse. Ma San set fire to the eldest lady's chamber and wanted to harm the eldest lady. Yet, the eldest lady wanted to bury him well, and did not forget to take care of his family.

"She was so magnanimous and kind."

"It was really rare in the world."

As a result, Yang Yiting's prestige in the Yang Mansion had increased, and people dared not look down upon this eldest lady who hadn't been like that before.

After Sister Ning went back to the monastery, she told Madam Yang about the situation that day. She also praised Yang Yiting for what she said. The old lady was also very pleased and asked Sister Ning to pay more attention to the girl every day.

Although Yang Mei Shi and Yang Ruo were itching with anger, they couldn't help the situations.