Chapter 677: The One Seeking Death Has Come (2)_1
Once he woke up, his eyes were bloodshot, like an enraged lion, as he ordered to publically cane Xiao Qing and Xiao Hong to death from Changchun Garden, while making sure everyone in the entire mansion witnessed it.
Stripped naked, Xiao Qing and Xiao Hong were laid on the ground. At first, they were able to scream and plead as they were beaten, but after several dozens of heavy sticks hit their snow-white backs, the flesh at their spine and waist, bruised and broken, were beaten to a pulp. With each repetitive blow, shards of flesh flew and their white bones were exposed, accompanied by the sound of them breaking. The young bodies gradually stilled, soaked in a sea of bright red blood, their life clearly extinguished.
Xiao Qing and Xiao Hong were both house-born servants. Their parents could only watch their daughters’ torturous death helplessly. Xiao Hong’s mother was kneeling, her head broken from kowtowing the Duke, blood covering her whole face. Xiao Qing’s mother, in her madness, attempted to save her daughter, but was held back by the father. Their hearts torn as they cried...
Seeing their sisters brutally beaten to death, the girls’ siblings could only weep helplessly.
For a time, the courtyard of the Duke’s mansion was filled with cries that shook the heavens and was shrouded with gloom.
Two servant girls were killed, yet the Duke’s anger was not pacified. Red-eyed with fury, he ordered Steward Cao to have someone throw the girls’ corpses to Chaos Grave Hill to feed the wild dogs, no burial allowed, and to take their families away, to be sold to human-traffickers the next morning.
Du Ruohai thundered with rage, contrasting sharply against his usually dignified aura. This frightened everyone in the mansion. It could be seen that the Duke was at the peak of his anger. After settling the matter with the two maids, it would be their turn.