"That's right! This person is Yan Yan's older sister." Little Mirror shouted out the answer.
Fang Ruotang already knew about Yan Yan's background thanks to Xiao Jing's explanation. He was burdened with a blood feud, and his entire family was wiped out. How come he suddenly had an older sister?
Li Mingyu's smile vanished, and the melon seeds in her hand lost their flavor. She could only secretly rejoice that Yan Yan was talented and had a heavy workload, so he didn't have time to chat with them.
What happened?
[Back when her family was massacred, Yan Yan escaped by switching clothes with her maternal uncle and hiding in a rice jar, while her older sister Yan Yan was out secretly meeting her lover late at night and wasn't even in the mansion.]
[Hmm?] Is this something a normal young lady from a respectable family would do?
The Yan and Qin families, whose main power base was in Tongzhou, had a disagreement seven years ago when a silver mine was discovered there. The Yan family advocated reporting it to the imperial court, while the Qin family insisted on mining privately. The two families clashed, and the Yan family was massacred by bandits overnight.
Fang Ruotang smacked her lips, her smile fading. She glanced at Li Mingyu's calm expression and secretly continued asking Xiao Jingzi.
Are you saying the Qin family wiped out the entire Yan family?
【yes. 】
Does the "tortured love" refer to the relationship between the daughter of the Yan family and the son of the Qin family? Did the daughter of the Yan family not know that the Qin family had massacred her entire family?
[At first I didn't know, then I found out, and after a series of physically and emotionally torments, I'm now pregnant with my enemy's child and about to give birth.]
Fang Ruotang: ? ? ?
This little love story was the one that Fang Ruotang found most difficult to understand among all the complicated and bizarre love stories she had heard.
It felt like I'd been fed a pile of shit.
So she kept repeating what Xiao Jingzi said with a furrowed brow the whole time, and the others around her felt even worse because they had to hear it twice.
The scene fell silent for a moment.
Fang Ruotang gritted her teeth, unable to hold back any longer.
What is Yan Yan thinking?
[I don't know.] The little mirror is not human after all. It can explore the past and predict the future, but it cannot guess people's hearts.
Moreover, people's hearts are ever-changing.
[Is it just a matter of wiping out an entire family?]
Fang Ruotang didn't understand, but was deeply shocked.
In her eyes, no one can surpass her family. Her family gives her endless care and love. Anyone who dares to touch her family, haha! She will slaughter them.
Still trying to talk about love with the other person? You'd be more like being skinned alive!
"Mingyu?" Fang Ruotang looked at Li Mingyu and pointed at her to make a decision.
Li Mingyu lowered his head slightly, then suddenly smiled softly and asked, "The imperial court must be very interested in silver mines, right? After all, we are currently facing a shortage of silver and food."
Although the Li family and the Yan family are on good terms, and her mother was also a close friend of the deceased Madam Yan, it would take the Li family several years to overthrow the Qin family, and they might not even succeed. However, if the Crown Prince were to take action, it would be a matter of a snap of the fingers.
When the Yan family was first wiped out, Yan Yan went into a period of self-isolation, acting like a mentally challenged person who had lost his soul. It was she who pulled him out of his shell little by little, and it was she who worked tirelessly day and night to raise him into the person he is today.
So this time, even if Yan Yan blamed her for interfering, she didn't care. She just wanted to end this matter quickly and bury the past.
Yan Yan is only twelve years old. He shouldn't be trapped in a blood feud forever. He deserves a bright future.
I believe that if Uncle and Aunt Yan could know this in the afterlife, they would definitely agree with her actions.
"Oh right! A silver mine." Fang Ruotang's eyes lit up, and she immediately called to her maid, "Quickly, go and call the Crown Prince here."
Cui and Shu exchanged a glance.
His eyes were filled with helpless doting affection.
Only their sixth child calls the Crown Prince like a summoned beast, anytime, anywhere. If he's late, she'll complain.
“Ruo Ruo, when the Crown Prince arrives, could you talk to him about involving Xiao Yan in this case, and Yan Yan as well…” Li Mingyu frowned, suppressing her malice, and said, “Can Xiao Yan handle it himself? After all, she is his last remaining family member.”
Fang Ruotang agreed without giving a direct answer.
"Thank you." A ruthless glint flashed in Li Mingyu's eyes.
Having witnessed Yan Yan trapped amidst the blood-red sky, she couldn't understand Yan Yan at all, and couldn't even imagine how painful it would be for Yan Yan to know this.
But even if she dared not face it, there were still some things that needed to be resolved. She steadied herself and said, "The Crown Prince will be here soon. I will go and call Xiao Yan over."
"Go on, go on!" Fang Ruotang waved her hand, feeling that today's little love story was too heavy.
It's not what she likes.
"What was Yan Yan thinking? It would have been one thing if she hadn't known at first, but now that she knows he's the murderer of her parents, why would she still get involved with him?"
As soon as Li Mingyu left, the remaining people began a heated discussion.
Fang Ruotang raised her hand, "I know, Xiao Jingzi said that this kind of person is love-obsessed. They have nothing but love in their minds. In their eyes, love is more important than anything else."
Fang family women: ...
I don't understand, and I can't respect.
The thought of having such a descendant in my family makes me wish I could just drown in the toilet.
Yan Yan arrived a step ahead of the Crown Prince; the women of the Fang family had already moved to Rongshou Hall under the guidance of Old Madam Fang.
After all, it's not a happy occasion, and there's no reason for the whole family to stay and watch someone else suffer.
Only Fang Ruotang sat there, continuing to eat and drink.
Upon seeing Yan Yan, he stared at him for a few moments, his face as pale as a ghost, his eyes vacant.
"Don't be sad. At least we know who the murderer is. Although your older sister is a scoundrel, your sister Mingyu is a good person."
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