Chapter 30 They Have Already Been Married
Jing Yao was shocked by his words and could not help but step back in a timid manner. Under the absolute pressure, a sentence popped up in her mind: He who knows the times is a hero.
She instantly retreated like a punctured pufferfish. She had fought hard, and if they didn't give in, then they wouldn't give in.
She has always been timid and was pushed around most of the time because she knew that in front of these powerful families, saving her life was the most important thing.
Naturally, she couldn't engage in fierce resistance or pursue freedom, just like the time when she had a fight with He Qingwan, her emotional outburst didn't lead to any good consequences.
I don't want to do it, but if he insists, there's nothing I can do. It's no use if I don't want to.
Think about it more positively. She doesn't need to take the lead anyway.
Jing Yao has always been able to maintain a good attitude in an environment that is not favorable to her. Crying is useless, and complaining and resentment are even more useless. Otherwise, it would be as easy for these people to crush her to death as to crush an ant.
"I know. Why are you so fierce? Just take what you say." She lowered her head and said in a cowardly and angrily tone.
He Anting was a little amused, and wanted to rub her for her changing expression: "You go home with Madam He today."
Hearing that she could live with her mother, Jing Yao's face looked a little better.
"I know, I know."
He Anting simply asked Qingwu to send the person away and did not go to the county lord.
He then went to Zhenyue Residence alone. He was still sitting in the room. Seeing him get up anxiously, He Anting said to her, "Madam He, I have something to discuss with my mother. Please go back home first. Yaoyao has already been sent back."
Hearing his address, the county lady and He's expressions changed at the same time.
Madam He left in panic. The county lady looked at him in disbelief: "What are you doing? Who are you calling Yaoyao? You think you can call her Yaoyao? Where is she? Send her back to the Earl's Mansion immediately. This is disgraceful."
He Anting placed the engagement letter in front of his mother: "Please take a look."
The Princess of Pingyang County glanced at the letter of appointment suspiciously. When she saw the official seal and the name left, her eyes went dark. She almost couldn't breathe and died.
"Mother, father's orders cannot be disobeyed."
This simple sentence almost made the county lady angry to death: "You can't disobey your father's orders, but you can disobey your mother's orders? It's just a piece of paper, just withdraw it."
He Anting said calmly: "I don't want to."
The county lady was incredulous: "You want to marry a concubine too? Don't forget the marriage with the Xue Mansion. What's more, this Jing is your brother-in-law's concubine and she's pregnant with his child. Have you been blinded by greed? Wake up, do you want the He Mansion and me to call your sister a laughing stock in the whole of Bianjing?"
"There is a misunderstanding about the Xue family's marriage. It is fake. Mother and sister will not become a laughing stock in Bianjing. I will find other ways to cover this matter up. As for the child, I will send it back to A'an and Ye Yunzheng after it is born." He said quietly.
The county lady snorted coldly: "It's hard for you to be confused. I thought you were seduced by her to become her cheap father."
He Anting naturally wouldn't do that. He claimed that he was not that magnanimous. If the child was his, it would be fine, but if it was Ye Yunzheng's, he didn't want to put the child in front of him and watch Yaoyao and his child hanging out every day.
He and Yaoyao will have children.
He frowned, "Why must she be the one who seduced her son? Why can't he just be attracted by her beauty? Excessive beauty isn't a fault. Doesn't a mother appreciate beauty?"
The county lady was speechless. She didn't believe that Jing Shi didn't have the intention of climbing up the social ladder. "In short, I don't agree with this matter."
"I'm just informing my mother about this. She doesn't have to agree."
"You..." Her son was already nearly thirty years old, and his thoughts were so cunning that even she, as a mother, could not understand. Informing her of what he wanted to do was the greatest filial piety. "Don't say this to me anymore."
This is ridiculous.
Jing Yao and A Niang returned to the Jing Mansion. He Shi had a cold face from beginning to end. Jing Yao looked at her cautiously: "Mother."
"Did he force you?"
Jing Yao pouted and admitted, "Yeah, he forced me to marry him."
It was just coercion. She was too embarrassed to tell her mother those words. It was too bad.
He was hesitant to speak. Marry? Not take her in?
The anger he had just felt had subsided a lot: "Let's go home first. Since Lord He is unwilling to cancel the engagement, then the prince can ask him to negotiate. It has nothing to do with you."
Jing Yao returned to her residence, leaving Jing Xunyuan and Cui Fengyun looking at each other in bewilderment, not knowing what had happened. Cui still wanted to act like a mother, but was directly warned by Qing Wu.
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Lingyun Marquis' Mansion
After Ye Yunzheng returned home, Ming Yi hurriedly reported that his aunt had returned to the Jing Mansion and would not be coming back.
"What's wrong? Why did you return home safely?" He thought Yao'er was upset and asked patiently.
Ming Yi hesitated to speak: "Master He invites you."
Upon hearing this, Ye Yunzheng's face immediately darkened. He strode towards the He Mansion and rushed straight into Guanlan Courtyard. He saw He Anting calmly flipping through a book in the study.
I looked up after hearing his heavy breathing: "Here it comes."
"What do you mean? What did you do?"
He Anting looked at him as if he were a defeated man. "I didn't do anything. I just wanted you to take a look at this."
He reached out and moved the scroll forward.
Ye Yunzheng grabbed the scroll and unfolded it, his eyes scanning the whole thing and fixed on the end, especially the line from more than ten years ago.
His hand holding the scroll trembled slightly.
"Yun Zheng, what belongs to you is yours, and what doesn't belong to you will never be yours. Live a good life with A'an in the future." He said these words calmly and indifferently.
"You are shameless. Yao'er will never agree to this. She is pregnant with my child."
"How do you know she doesn't want to? As for the child, it will be returned to you after it's born. It will still be yours and A's child. Also, be careful how you address her. You should call her sister-in-law."
That's what he said, but who knows? No one can predict what will happen in the future, He Anting thought indifferently. He would just use this lie to comfort him now and regard it as his pity.
How could he know that she didn't want to... Ye Yunzheng's heartbeat drowned out all the sounds in his ears. It was impossible, absolutely impossible.
"As for the Jiangnan exile, you don't have to rush off. Wait until after the imperial examination, and then ask A'an to go with you."
His current kindness seemed hateful and abominable, and Ye Yunzheng's unwilling mood almost destroyed his reason.
It was not until he walked out of Guanlan Courtyard and felt the cool breeze that he calmed down.
He would never believe He Anting's provocative words. He must be using this engagement letter to threaten Yao'er. He had to find a way. He must find a way.
Don't lose your composure.
Jing Yao felt a little uncomfortable sleeping on her small bed. Her waist hurt at night and she almost fell to the ground when she turned over. There was no food she liked for dinner, so she didn't eat much.
She had really become spoiled by her wealthy life, and she sighed sadly in the night.
She felt a little regretful for a moment. She had not yet taken the private money she had hidden. If she had known earlier, she should have gone back to the uncle's house before leaving.
Suddenly, she began to sweat, the heat made her mouth and tongue dry, and tiny beads of water appeared in her hair. She couldn't help fanning herself because it was so hot.
Oh no, what time is it today? It’s the 15th, right? Is she having a seizure again?
She had been living comfortably for so long that she had forgotten about this. Jing Yao's eyes were filled with tears. Why should she suffer this?
hateful.
She covered herself with the quilt, sobbing and biting her lips to resist the heat. Fortunately, the heat had no effect on her child, but only made her hotter and hotter, as if she was in a steaming bathroom.
When He Anting pushed open the door, he heard faint sobbing sounds coming from inside the room. He frowned and walked forward to lift her quilt, and saw her with tears on her pretty face, resisting pitifully.
His heart softened instantly. He calculated that tomorrow would be the day when her medicine would take effect, but he was still worried and thought of coming to check on her at night.
Unexpectedly, it happened.
Jing Yao had already felt weak and powerless from the heat, and suddenly a touch of coolness came over her, making her desperately try to absorb it and burrow into his arms.
Her body was soaked with sweat, and her snow-white pajamas stuck tightly to her soft body, outlining her exquisite and voluptuous figure.
A pool of water formed at his collarbone, and his whole body felt like it was soaked in a bucket of water.
She hugged He Anting's waist and sighed comfortably.
Seeing this attitude, He Anting became more and more certain that he had not let her go.
"Woo, woo, it's so hot, Yunqiao, give me some ice cubes. I want to drink sour plum soup, eat ice cream, and soak in cold water." She acted coquettishly without even seeing the person clearly.
"Look clearly at who I am." He Anting said softly with his arms around her.
Jing Yao opened her misty eyes and paused for a moment: "Prince?"
He Anting's face suddenly darkened: "Is there something wrong with your eyeballs?"
Jing Yao said aggrievedly, "You're being mean to me again."
He Anting knew that this heartless girl was deliberately trying to piss her off, and couldn't help but pinch her face. Seeing her expression of pain, he felt a little relieved.
"Tell me again, who am I?"
He seemed to want to get to the bottom of it.
"Sir He." Jing Yao said reluctantly.
"No." Unexpectedly, he denied it again. Jing Yao widened her eyes and looked at her silently.
He Anting also looked down at her, his hands itching to move. Jing Yao reluctantly called her by her full name: "He Anting."
“That’s not right.”
Jing Yao looked at him angrily, he was just teasing and bullying her.
"Old man." She got angry and turned over and rolled out.
He Anting: "..."
Old? Man?
Is he old? Although his colleagues of the same age as him have already fathered children, he is not yet thirty and looks very young.
He Anting's face darkened: "What did you call me?"
Jing Yao had already buried herself in the quilt. Without his embrace, she seemed to feel hot again. She kept silent, unable and daring not to drive him out.
"Yaoyao? What did you call me?" He had a stern face and spoke in a low voice, just like Jing Yao's elder.
Seeing that she ignored him, He Anting raised his hand high and low, and slapped the soft and raised spot with his palm, making a crisp sound.
Jing Yao suddenly turned around, her eyes filled with shock: "You, you, you..."
"How could you hit me?" Jing Yao climbed up, her cherry-pink collar slightly open, her milky skin dazzling the eyes, her messy black hair stuck to her neck, making her look like a frightened rabbit.
She felt very aggrieved. It was too much and too annoying.
"I thought Yaoyao liked it very much." He Anting's words, spoken with an ascetic look on his face, were still shameful and infuriating.
"How could I like it?" Jing Yao was shocked by his lies and asked angrily.
"Yaoyao is hot again, don't you like it?"
Jing Yao lowered her head in shame and anger. When would this damn poison be cured? When He Anting reached out his hand, she slapped it away and angrily said, "Don't touch me."
She was just being stubborn and she refused to believe that she couldn't get through it.
He Anting was afraid that teasing her too much would be bad for her health, so he took the initiative to say, "Yaoyao doesn't want to. I think I've also been poisoned by the drug. Yaoyao, please comfort me."
When the child was mentioned, she hesitated and let him hold her waist and move over. Jing Yao decided to pretend that she was a fish and forget about it when she woke up tomorrow.
Then she was really turned over like a fish and sat on his waist, with her upper body lying down, fitting perfectly.
Jing Yao was a little panicked. She had never been so intimate with any other man. Even the prince just followed the rules and fell asleep quickly after having sex. She didn't even feel anything.
She blinked her curled eyelashes several times, feeling the pressure of her full chest: "Sir, I can't breathe."
He Anting's face was stern, and he adjusted his posture: "You still call me sir."
"Then what's my name?" Jing Yao raised her face from this angle, looking very innocent.
He Anting whispered in Jing Yao's ear, and her face turned red. She stammered and couldn't say anything. She thought to herself, what kind of hobby is that? Never mind, just think of it as calling a dog.
"Brother Lanjun." She turned her head away reluctantly and called out.
He Anting raised the corners of his lips slightly, and his hands couldn't help but pinch her waist tightly.
"You hurt me." The little girl in his arms resisted delicately. The corners of He Anting's lips fell again. "Then what do you usually call Ye Yunzheng?"
Just now, she was not allowed to mention him. Jing Yao simply couldn't figure out his temper, so she said honestly: "Just call him Prince."
That's okay.
He Anting's face looked better.
If it weren't for the fact that she had Ye Yunzheng in her heart, he wouldn't mind so much.
He Anting switched the two of them around, and Jing Yao's chest suddenly felt relieved. She blushed and glanced around, "Sir, please leave immediately. Breaking into my boudoir at night is ungentlemanly."
"You are so heartless. Don't you know why I'm here? And you call me sir." He stared at her silently for a moment and decided to punish her.
He leaned over and opened his mouth to nibble.
Jing Yao screamed in shock, covering her clothes in grievance: "You bit me again."
How could he be so terrible, hitting peaches and eating red beans? Jing Yao had never even seen a fire avoidance diagram. When she was a concubine, He Shi didn't even arrange a nanny for her. She was just groping in the dark.
Seeing He Anting so crazy, he was naturally very scared.
He Anting stood up somewhat uncomfortably. He was nearly thirty years old, but he was so dizzy that he acted so unsteadily.
There were still some drops of moisture remaining in that spot, clinging tightly to it, revealing the arc he loved.
He turned away his eyes, his Adam's apple rolling.
"It's getting late, you should go to bed first." He stood up and strode away.
Jing Yao looked at his back and inexplicably crawled into the bed. After relieving the heat, she fell asleep faster.
The next day, she woke up late and when she opened her eyes, she saw Yun Qiao waiting by her bed with a smile on her face: "Miss."
"Yunqiao, you're back." Jing Yao stood up, her soft and lazy look full of charm. She suddenly thought of something, "My money..."
Yun Qiao pointed at the table and said, "Look."
Jing Yao looked at the table and saw several boxes on it. She was so excited that she didn't even put on her shoes. She got out of bed and opened the boxes.
Her money is truly her money.
She sniffed the scent of gold and silver carefully, which was soothing.
Having left the Bo's Mansion for the time being, Jing Yao no longer had to be as cautious as before. She inserted a golden magnolia hairpin on her head and wore a pair of jade earrings.
Yun Qiao saw her like a little golden peacock, without any worry, sadness or even loss of appetite, and was extremely puzzled: "Girl, you were worried about being involved in trouble before, why not now?"
"I'm worried, but now that it's happened, it's just like that. I'll just take it one day at a time."
The greatest luck is not being put into a pig cage.
Suddenly, a maidservant in the courtyard said, "Auntie, the prince of Lingyun Marquis's mansion is here."
Jing Yao was stunned for a moment, her expression a little nervous. Yun Qiao was also very anxious: "What should I do, Auntie? Is the prince here to snatch me away?"
In the front yard, Ye Yunzheng was sitting on the armchair. His face was slightly pale and he looked like he had not had a good rest.
Jing Yao hesitated after entering the room: "Prince."
Ye Yunzheng suddenly looked up. In the faint sunlight, she was wearing a lilac-colored jacket with twined branches, a pleated skirt of the same color, a milky white tube top, and a hair ornament swaying gracefully.
Her snow-white skin seemed to be soaked in milk, and her whole body was soft, plump, and charming.
"Yao'er." He took two steps forward suddenly, then restrained himself considering the situation.
"Come back with me." His tone was firm.
Jing Yao looked embarrassed, considering what to say, but Ye Yunzheng spoke up: "He Anting threatened you, didn't he?"
"No...no." She lowered her eyes. The important thing was that she didn't want to go back to the Earl's Mansion to be a concubine, so she simply took this opportunity to put Ye Yunzheng off her thoughts.
"Don't worry, Yao'er. I've figured out a way to get you out soon. I'll definitely marry you as my second wife."
Jing Yao was stunned for a moment, and quickly emphasized: "Your Highness, there is no need to offend Lord He for me. The young lady has done a lot for you, and Your Highness should treat her well. As for me, you and I are not destined to be together."
"Yao'er, stop talking. I don't want to hear these lies anymore. Just believe me." "I will take you away, take you away from Bianjing. He Anting's hand is not everywhere, but you, me and my child will be reunited."
Ye Yunzheng spoke as if no one was around. Jing Yao felt angry, anxious and confused. She felt that she had really misjudged him before.
Why did he think she would abandon her family and leave with him?
Although she was very indecisive, easily swayed, and like a fence-sitter, she was determined not to leave her mother.
Ye Yunzheng clenched his fists and left in big strides. Until now, he still believed that Jing Yao was forced by He Anting.
…
After He Anting had settled the major issue on his mind, he had to deal with another matter.
"Ms. Xue, our marriage is just a verbal agreement and it doesn't count." He Anting said to Xue Ningzhen indifferently.
Xue Ningzhen, who had been calm, froze for a moment: "What did you say?"
"He Anting, how can you behave like such a traitor?" Xue Ningzhen couldn't believe it, and her eyes suddenly turned red.
He Anting sneered: "Stop pretending, Miss Xue, how can you have the nerve to replace someone else."
Xue Ningzhen swallowed back her tears: "You...you know?" she said with a pale face.
"Not only that, you instigated Mrs. Qian to drug me and deceive me into marriage. Every single one of these deceptions has been committed against me. I will not let this go."
He was too lazy to talk nonsense with her and left after taking care of the wedding matters.
Xue Ningzhen blamed this matter directly on Jing Yao. She hurriedly took a carriage to Prince Yin's Mansion. She was now very upset and needed Princess Yin's advice.
When she entered the mansion, she unexpectedly bumped into another figure: "Master Ye?"
Ye Yunzheng nodded gloomily: "Miss Xue."
Xue Ningzhen stopped him and said, "Master Ye, I want to remind you that the concubine next to you seduced my fiancé. Don't be deceived by her."
Ye Yunzheng turned back impatiently: "Why don't you take good care of your fiancé? Why do you put the blame on Yao'er?"
Xue Ningzhen said calmly, "You may not know this yet, but your concubine has been secretly with my fiancé for a long time. They are already husband and wife. Ye Shizi, you have been deceived."
Ye Yunzheng's expression instantly turned terrifying: "Don't try to sow discord between me and Yao'er."
"That night at the Spring Hunting Palace, go ask your wife's mother, whose surname is Zheng. She saw with her own eyes that your concubine sneaked into the room where my fiancé was resting, and took advantage of his drunkenness to have sex with him..."
"Enough, shut up." Ye Yunzheng closed his eyes deeply. Xue Ningzhen already knew so much, which meant that she had already investigated it thoroughly.
So the child in her belly... Oh, it was all thanks to him for pouring his heart out. He didn't know how much he was looking forward to this child. He thought it was a gift from God.
When he opened his eyes again, his face was indifferent: "Thank you." Then he turned and left.
In the study of Prince Yin's mansion, Prince Yin looked at the man in surprise: "Are you sure you want to do this?"
Ye Yunzheng nodded: "Yes, He Anting was not on guard against my brother. I will find a way to find out his whereabouts with the emperor. Your Highness, please kill He Anting."
"Furthermore, regarding the place of exile, I hope Your Highness can help me transfer to a remote place and send more people to escort me. I need to take my people away."
Let Yao'er go? Absolutely not. He wanted to ask her in person why she had deceived him and betrayed him.
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