vstars Chapter 468 I don’t want to live that kind of life
Chapter 468 I don’t want to live that kind of life
Jiang Yan didn't mention going to the palace to find Ling Ling again.
Even though she had been raised in seclusion and was ignorant of the world, she was not stupid. That day she guessed her mother's intention and how her mother knew it.
During these three days, Jiang Yan stayed indoors and locked herself in her room, refusing to see anyone.
Her two brothers and sister-in-law came to call her, but her father and mother did not come.
"Yan'er, my sister-in-law asked someone to buy your favorite roast duck from Zuixianju, and Heng'er insisted on waiting for aunt to eat it together. He is drooling with greed!"
Jiang Yan bit her lip and swallowed.
But she didn't dare come out.
She lied to her mother, and her mother didn't come to see her in the past few days. Was her mother heartbroken and no longer loved her?
As Jiang Yan thought about it, feelings of grievance and sadness surged up in her heart and tears fell.
Seeing that persuasion was useless, Wang became anxious and went to Madam Jiang's yard and told her about Jiang Yan's situation.
"Mother, it's been three days and Yan'er hasn't come out or eaten. What should we do? Otherwise, let Mammy open the door and take a look!"
Mother Jiang smiled faintly and poured Wang a cup of hot tea, "Drink some hot tea first."
Wang looked at the hot tea in the cup and sat down on the chair.
"I asked Xiangyu. She secretly sent food to Yan'er's room in the past three days. She is not starving."
After hearing what Mrs. Jiang said, Wang finally breathed a sigh of relief and picked up the hot tea on the table and started drinking it.
Yes, that mother can watch her children starve and freeze.
Madam Jiang fiddled with the tea leaves and said slowly, "When she came out of the theater that day, she must have been touched. If she can think things through in the next few days, it won't matter if she goes hungry for a few meals."
No matter what, she would not let her daughter have any contact with a servant.
Wang knew her mother-in-law's good intentions. From another perspective, if her Heng'er fell in love with a maid in the future, she would not agree.
But three days had passed and she couldn't help but worry.
"Mother, three days have passed. Maybe my sister has figured it out. She's just too shy to speak up. Why don't we give her a way out?"
Madam Jiang thought about it and nodded, "Okay, I'll go see her later. I hope she can figure it out in these three days."
After asking the kitchen to prepare a few of Jiang Yan's favorite dishes, Mrs. Jiang brought the maids and the nanny to Jiang Yan's yard, and heard low sobbing sounds coming from inside.
Out of concern, Mrs. Jiang knocked on the door first.
"Yan'er, mother is here with your favorite food, can you open the door?"
Jiang Yan was crying sadly, thinking that her mother hated her for lying, but she didn't expect her mother to come to see her with her favorite food.
Her uneasy heart finally relaxed. Jiang Yan didn't care about anything else, got off the bed and opened the door.
When Jiang Yan saw Mrs. Jiang, she threw herself into her arms and couldn't help crying out of grievance.
"Why did you come to see me just now, mother?"
"I thought my mother didn't want me anymore! Woohoo~"
Madam Jiang held the girl in her arms and stroked her head lovingly. "Silly Yan'er, you were raised by me like my own sweetheart, how could I not want you?"
Hearing this, Jiang Yan cried even louder.
After a long while, Jiang Yan finally stopped and lay in Madam Jiang's arms, sobbing and apologizing: "I'm sorry, mother, I shouldn't have lied to you!"
Madam Jiang stroked Jiang Yan's head and said gently, "My Yan'er has grown up. It's normal for her to have worries. Can you tell your mother everything?"
Jiang Yan bit her lip and finally told Mrs. Jiang everything.
Mrs. Jiang picked up a piece of roast duck and put it into Jiang Yan's bowl, watching her eat it in small bites with a smile.
"Yan'er, I'm also an experienced person, and I can understand your feelings. Have you ever thought that you might just be grateful to that Mr. Yun?"
Jiang Yan picked at another piece of steamed fish in the bowl and shook her head, "I don't know. I just know that I am very happy to see him."
Madam Jiang looked at her frowning face and asked softly, "Do you remember the play that mother took you to see? Your father is a second-rank official of the dynasty, and our family is the richest in Daning, with both financial power and influence. You should know how many people want to use you to get into our family. If you marry that Mr. Yun, and he uses you like in the play until he squeezes out every last bit of your value, won't you regret it?"
Jiang Yan lowered her head, picked up a little fish meat and put it into her mouth, chewing it slowly. After a while, she said, "I don't think he is that kind of person. He refused the purse I gave him and quietly sent it back to my room."
Mrs. Jiang was shocked. She didn't expect that her daughter had even given her the purse, but she didn't even know about it.
Xiangyu, this girl, stayed with Yan'er but didn't know how to persuade her. It seems that I need to pick two capable people to serve Yan'er.
After calming down, Madam Jiang slowly spoke, "Yan'er, I haven't told you about the Queen!"
Jiang Yan raised her eyes and looked at Madam Jiang curiously.
"Your Majesty was once the least favored prince in the palace. Later, he formed an alliance with your uncle, Su Heng, and secretly fought for the throne. Su Heng became the youngest prime minister of the dynasty. In order to consolidate the government, Your Majesty married Su Heng's sister, the current queen. The love between the emperor and the queen was once a good story, but how do you see it now?"
"My family members were imprisoned, and the harem was filled with concubines. The emperor and empress no longer had good things to say about each other, and they were fed up with each other."
Jiang Yan was shocked as she watched her mother tell the story. They all said that the emperor hated the queen, but she thought that the two of them were married only for the sake of alliance and that there was no love between them.
"Yan'er, if Young Master Yun has three wives and four concubines in the future, and treats you like the emperor treats the queen, he will hold your hand with the hand he has held others, and hug you with the arms he has hugged others. Can you tolerate it? What's more, Guard Yun has never said that he likes you! Even if your parents use their power to force you to marry him, your situation will only be worse."
Jiang Yan's eyes gradually turned red and she put down her chopsticks silently.
After explaining all the pros and cons, Madam Jiang looked at Jiang Yan calmly and asked, "Do you want your parents to use their power to help you marry him, and then go through the opera you watched that day again?"
Jiang Yan shook her head and whispered, "Mom, I don't want to live that kind of life. I want to live in harmony with my parents and my brother and sister-in-law in the future."
That kind of life is too horrible. No matter how good Mr. Yun is, she doesn't want to live like that.
Madam Jiang pulled Jiang Yan over, let her lean on her shoulder, and said gently: "There are many good boys in the capital, there are always some that Yan'er likes and likes Yan'er. Mother will accompany you to see more, okay?"
Smelling the familiar incense on her mother, Jiang Yan felt unprecedented peace of mind.
She knew that her mother would never harm her no matter what.
*
In the Prince's Mansion, Xiao Changshi was treated by the imperial physician and his health improved a lot. Although he still felt a little weak, he no longer had diarrhea.
That night, Xiao Changshi called Si Mo into the room.
Si Mo had been serving Xiao Changshi with trepidation since the welcoming banquet. Now, seeing Xiao Changshi looking at him with a pair of cold eyes, he hurriedly lowered his head and knelt down.
"Your Highness, why did you ask me to come here?"
Xiao Changshi raised his head and closed his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking. After a while, he asked, "Si Mo, when did you follow me?"
Si Mo was at a loss for a moment before answering, "I have been following Your Highness since I was ten years old, and it has been five years now."
Xiao Changshi said "hmm" lightly, and then asked: "Who else is there in your family?"
His voice seemed to come from the abyss, making Sima shudder.
He had never seen the prince like this before, but he had to answer his master's words.
"I have parents, two brothers and a sister at home."
Xiao Changshi placed a silver note of 1,000 taels and a bottle on the table and said coldly, "I will send someone to deliver the silver note to them. They will have no worries about food and clothing in their lives, and you will have nothing to worry about."
Although he guessed that this day might come, when he really faced it, Si Mo couldn't help but tremble.
He looked at Xiao Changshi and begged, "Your Highness, I can cut off my tongue, stay away from the capital, and never speak for the rest of my life. Please forgive me, Your Highness!"
Looking at Si Mo with sharp eyes, Xiao Changshi's eyes were full of displeasure, and he said angrily: "Whenever I see you, I will think of what happened that day. Only when you all disappear can that incident be buried forever! Do you understand!"
Si Mo's heart trembled. The prince meant that not only him but also the He family would be eliminated.
He can't escape!
Si Mo fell to the ground, tremblingly reaching for the bottle on the table. Looking at the poison in his hand, Si Mo looked at Xiao Changshi again and pleaded, "I am leaving now. Your Highness, take care. I hope Your Highness will keep his word."
Xiao Changshi glanced at him, "Of course."
Si Mo suddenly pulled out the stopper of the poison and swallowed it with his head tilted back.
Under the cover of night, a body was dragged to a mass grave and hastily buried. In a village dozens of miles away from the capital, a family of five died in a fire.