<h4>Chapter 1346: Chapter 1359</h4>


    Mrs. Wu quickly let go of Ye Liang, apologizing, "Miss, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, you see, I just got too happy and forgot myself? I’ll go get some furnace ash for you."


    Ye Liang lowered her eyes to look at her own arm, it was covered in fresh blood, with some ces faintly showing bruises, like old injuries.


    These wounds...


    The pain spread through her entire arm, apanied by a tingling sensation, as fragmented images quickly shed through her mind.


    This morning, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl was drawn by the smell of food to the kitchen. Just as she reached the door, a few people suddenly jumped out.


    "This is the restricted area of the Marquis Mansion. How can a fool like you rush in carelessly?" said an evil servant with protruding brows and eyes, who grabbed her arm and pressed her to the ground.


    This person was named Pan An, a martial arts partner at the Marquis Ye Mansion and a close confidante of the Second Miss Liu Mei’er.


    "Hungry... eat..." Ye Liang was frightened, and her already incoherent speech became even less clear.


    "Eat, eat, eat! All you know is eat!" Pan An’s eyes glinted viciously as he whipped her arm several times, "At least dogs can guard after eating, what do you know?! Even a dog is more useful than you!"


    Pan An, being a martial arts partner, left several bloody marks on Ye Liang’s arm with a few whip strikes.


    In Ye Liang’s dull eyes was full of fear, she shivered with her neck shrunk, making "woo woo" cries.


    "If you want to eat so badly, I’ll let you eat your fill!" Pan An nced around, his eyes falling on the coarse feed prepared for the pigsty beside the kitchen door, "You guys pry open this fool girl’s mouth, if she wants to eat, let her eat enough at once!"


    In their eyes, the fool girl Ye Liang was even less than pigs and dogs.


    Several evil servants grinned triumphantly, holding her hands and feet, while Pan An grabbed a handful of coarse feed and stuffed it into her mouth.


    Ye Liang struggled, but her strength was no match for these people who had practiced martial arts since childhood, her tiny face flushed bright red.


    "Ouch!" Suddenly, Pan An screamed, "Damn it, you fool girl dared to bite me!"


    Ye Liang bit down hard on Pan An’s hand, sending him into a fury, he kicked fiercely at Ye Liang’s abdomen...


    The scorching pain from her arm pulled Ye Liang back to reality.


    Mrs. Wu wiped the blood from her arm with a cloth and then applied a handful of incense ashes to her wound.


    "It’s all because Mrs. Wu is useless, always letting the miss be bullied by Pan An."


    Mrs. Wu sighed, they were now penniless, even their meals had been reduced by half, even if she ate nothing and gave everything to the miss, the miss would still be starving.


    If it weren’t for the miss secretly running to the kitchen to find food because she was hungry, she wouldn’t have been beaten like this by Pan An.


    Suddenly, a "bang—" broke the silence between the two.


    The broken door was kicked open, and a brawny man wearing coarse cloth walked in, snorting withughter, "I told you this fool girl wouldn’t die so easily."


    "Pan An! What are you doing here?" Mrs. Wu promptly protected Ye Liang with her body.


    For some reason, Ye Liang trembled instinctively when she saw the visitor.


    The original owner’s instinctive reaction.


    Ye Liang looked at Pan An with sharp, cold eyes, her abdomen still faintly ached, and the pain in her arm hadn’t diminished in the slightest, all of which had been inflicted by the evil servant before her.


    Her hand, hidden under the nket, clenched tightly.


    "Doing what? Justing to see if this fool girl is dead!"


    Pan An swaggered in with his hands on his hips.


    Even after kicking the fool girl in the morning, he hadn’t vented enough anger, continuing to beat and kick the unconscious fool girl several times.


    Until one of his underlings, worried he might kill the fool girl, stopped him and reminded him, only then did he stop, spitting viciously at the unmoving fool girl on the ground.


    His underlings saw the fool girl was motionless no matter how hard they kicked and panicked, "Boss, why isn’t the fool girl moving? Could she be dead?"


    Although the fool girl’s status was humble, she was still the legitimate daughter of the Marquis Mansion, and Pan An suddenly panicked, "What are you standing there for? Hurry and report this to Second Miss!"


    Later, someone reported that Mrs. Wu had taken the fool girl back to the woodshed, so he secretly followed to have a look.


    Unexpectedly, this fool girl really had arge life.


    "Pan An! How can you curse the young miss like this!" Mrs. Wu knew Pan An came with ill intentions, but couldn’t contain her anger at his constant curses for the young miss to die, her body trembled with rage.


    "Young Miss?" Pan An spat fiercely, "Just a waste abandoned by God, losing face for the Marquis Ye Mansion! She’s just like her mother, both are disgraceful to my Daye Marquis Mansion!"


    "You!" Mrs. Wu’s face flushed red in anger, "Pan An! You’re not allowed to insult Madam like this!"


    Pan An sneered, standing arrogantly with his hands on his hips, "Madam? Where’s Madam in the Marquis Ye Mansion now? It’s the Second Madam who’s in charge now!"


    He pointed disdainfully at Ye Liang and Mrs. Wu, "Pack up and get to the back mountain!"


    The back mountain?


    Upon hearing this, Mrs. Wu’s expression changed, her brows furrowed, "Pan An! Why should we pack up and go to the back mountain!"


    "It’s an order from the Second Madam!" Mentioning the Second Madam, a few traces of hard-won pride appeared in Pan An’s tone.


    Mrs. Wu’s face sank. They had already been forced into the most deste woodshed of the Marquis Ye Mansion, yet the Second Madam wouldn’t let them go!


    "To tell you the truth, the Second Madam wants to build a garden for the Second Miss here, so this woodshed naturally has to be demolished. If you don’t move to the back mountain, do you want to move to the front yard?"


    Pan An’s every word and action revealed disdain and mockery towards Ye Liang and Mrs. Wu.


    The back mountain had been abandoned for decades, the grass there probably reached waist height, even livestock was unwilling to tread there, and at night it was cold and frozen, with only a dpidated temple that was even worse than the current woodshed, simply not a ce fit for human habitation!


    The most frightening thing was, every midnight, there were strange noises often heard from the back mountain, resembling the cries of cats and the wailing of infants, very terrifying!


    Ye Liang had no impression of the back mountain, only noting Mrs. Wu’s face drastically changed at the mention of it, guessing this back mountain wasn’t a good ce.


    Mrs. Wu was extremely angry, she hadn’t expected the Second Madam to be so ruthless towards the young miss for the sake of that outsider niece.


    "The miss is the legitimate eldest daughter of the Marquis Ye Mansion, the Marquis will definitely not agree to this!"


    She, as an old maidservant, didn’t care about being bullied, but the miss, as the legitimate daughter of the Marquis Mansion, being bullied like this, she simply couldn’t swallow her anger.


    "A worthless material abandoned by the Marquis Ye Mansion for sixteen years who hasn’t opened her elemental power space, the Marquis has long forgotten her!"


    Pan An red at Mrs. Wu, seeing her unmoving, he gestured to his men behind him, "What are you standing around for? Go ’invite’ the young miss to the back mountain!"


    The word ’invite’ was pronounced particrly heavily.


    "Yes!"


    The few people behind him received the order, rolled up their sleeves, and moved forward, ready to grab Ye Liang’s arm.


    Except, before they could grab a corner of her clothes, their hands were hit away, followed by a cry of "ouch" as someone fell backward to the ground.