Chapter 11 Heartbreak
Zhao Yan looked at her with some confusion. He Rongjin was surprised. There was a man next to him, who turned out to be He Rongjin's cousin.
The air was filled with silence. Yu Huatang clutched the basket tightly and approached. "After Anfu returned, my mother had some medicine prepared and asked me to bring it over."
Zhao Yan came out and took the things from her hand. "Thank you for your help."
At this time, He Rongjin offered to leave.
The room fell silent again. Zhao Yan poured her a glass of water and asked, "How did you find this place when you didn't see anyone leading the way?"
Yu Huatang suppressed the bitterness in her heart. What he hadn't said just now was, "He wanted to marry her."
"Master Qiao brought me in."
The room fell silent again.
Yu Huatang smiled bitterly in her heart. She was indeed an uninvited guest. They must have been chatting for a long time just now. Her arrival was likely to disturb their interest.
Thinking of what he had just said, the last glimmer of hope in her heart was about to die out, and she felt bored.
"It's getting late, and Mother is still waiting for me to come back. Just take the medicine in the basket on time. I'm leaving now."
Zhao Yan felt a little strange. Yu Huatang had always been cautious and considerate of his emotions and behavior. He knew that she liked him.
But today she was a little cold and no longer as caring as before.
"Be careful when you go back."
Yu Huatang felt sad. Lord Qiao knew to send her here, but Zhao Yan, as a husband, never thought of sending her away.
"My appetite has decreased while I'm taking medicine. There are some vegetarian cakes in the basket. My husband can use some."
That's it...
She put down the teacup, looked at him, and stood up to leave.
Leaving the lounge, she walked out the same way she came.
After crossing the bridge and entering the veranda, I heard voices coming from a room at the back.
The man's voice was filled with regret, "Did Zhao Yan just say that he wanted to marry you? If so, I'll go back and discuss it with my uncle. I'll ask him to at least grant you the position of co-wife."
He Rongjin's soft voice was filled with regret, "That's so easy. Even if she's a co-wife, that Quanzhou woman is still in the middle..."
The man said angrily, "Then let him get divorced! You can't be the mistress after all."
He Rongjin was shocked. "Brother, be careful with your words. Zhao Yan didn't explicitly say that Father is still not safe."
The man's voice consoled him, "I know what you're thinking. You still love Zhao Yan, otherwise you wouldn't have wasted your time until now. If Zhao Yan and his wife were in harmony, it would be fine, but they've been childless for three years. Everyone in the capital knows the rift between them."
"If that's the case, why can't we just divorce?"
Why can't we get a divorce? These words kept ringing in Yu Huatang's ears. She returned to Jingya Hall in a daze, and everything around her lost its color in her eyes.
It turns out that I was redundant from the beginning to the end...
It turns out that they, like their mother-in-law and Zhao Yan, all felt that they were from different worlds and could never live together...
It turns out that her infatuation and her lonely waiting were all her own wishful thinking...
In an instant, she lost all her support and strength. She felt like there was a huge hole in her heart. A strong wind raged, and a chill surged from her heart, turning her face a deathly white...
The night after the rain was particularly lonely. The servants had gone to bed early and the room was dead silent. Yu Huatang sat at the foot of the bed with her quilt wrapped around her. There was no light in the room and even the moon avoided her.
She felt the world go dark, the darkness soaking her from head to toe, leaving her in agony...
Unexpectedly, she fell ill and developed a high fever. Bowl after bowl of bitter medicine fell from her mouth. She felt uncomfortable both physically and mentally.
When Chu He fed her the last dose of medicine, he said, "The Third Young Master is back today."
She must have been happy in the past, but now she is like a walking corpse, with no color...
She sat there with a blank look in her eyes...
After a while, Chu He came over and saw that she looked dull.
Originally, Chu He went to invite the Third Young Master and told him that the Third Madam did not look well, but the Third Young Master replied hurriedly, "I know," and went to the He Mansion.
After Chu He explained the reason and the whereabouts of the Third Young Master, he observed Yu Huatang.
Seeing that she still had no expression, although they resented the Third Madam for her lack of courage, it would not be of any benefit to them if the Third Madam went.
Seeing that she hadn't eaten much, Chu He asked carefully, "Madam, would you like some porridge?"
Yu Huatang took a long time to come back to her senses and shook her head. It turned out that he knew she was sick...
These days, the maids thought she might not be able to make it, so they just prepared a set when she remembered, and didn't prepare one when she didn't.
A feeble thread wound around her. The illness dragged on for more than half a month, and no one came to visit her during that time...
Chu He boiled the medicine that day, and when he entered the house, he saw the skinny Yu Huatang. If the dead are motionless, then Yu Huatang looked like a half-dead person who was about to die...
In a whole month, the Third Madam lost a lot of weight...
The bitter medicine stung her stomach and she curled up in discomfort.
Sometimes she wished the doctor could just prescribe her a simple cure, and she would be free...
The quilt covers my head, the night flows quietly, and there is no sound anywhere...
She finally shed tears, but now she didn't know who to blame...
For the first time, she thought of her hometown, Quanzhou, the city by the water, her deceased parents, and the cousin who brought her to the capital...
If her parents were still alive, she wouldn't have to come to the capital, wouldn't have met Zhao Yan, and wouldn't have experienced all the pain and suffering here.
Looking back now, every little thing that happened in the past three years was just a mistake, something that should not have happened.
If Zhao Yan had insisted on not marrying her, she would have been able to live a good life. It was all her fault for being wishful thinking and not being able to understand the alienation in his eyes, so she rushed towards him like a moth to a flame...
She regretted it the first time. She was wrong. She shouldn't have dreamed of the bright moon in the sky. She should have stayed in the small town and lived an ordinary life...
All of this is her own fault.
Salty and sour tears rushed out, and she finally grabbed the quilt and burst into tears.
There was no one to rely on here. When she was devastated and heartbroken, she kept calling out for her deceased parents, "Dad... Mom... It's so hard... I want to go home..."
She didn't want to like him anymore. She was so tired and desperate...
After a few more days, God finally took pity on her and allowed her to recover a little strength from her exhaustion.
After drinking the medicine, Yu Huatang lay aside in a daze.
Chu He sent over the money she earned from selling lanterns a few days ago, "Then Madam Wang couldn't see Madam, so she asked me to say hello on her behalf."
Yu Huatang walked like a dead tree, nodded, and said no more.
Even if she didn't want to hear, she knew the whole story of what people were talking about these days.
Zhao Yan finally succeeded.
Minister He was ultimately found not guilty, but he retired and returned home.
He Rongjin was meeting with the nobles in the capital, but he was a bit old, and many nobles were unwilling to...
After all, it was me who delayed them...
The thorn in my heart has taken root, it's time to pull it out...
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