Chapter 294: Previous Life Extra 6
"I received a letter from Xie Beiran last night. He said he had a way to save my second brother and asked me to go to the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion to discuss it in person. I was eager to save him, so I accepted the invitation. But, but I passed out after drinking a cup of tea at the mansion. Then the scene you just saw happened. Really, I really don't know anything. My husband, please believe me..." Shen Qingxi knelt in front of the study and repeated the explanation over and over again.
But the door in front of her remained tightly closed. Even though she spoke until her voice became hoarse, the man showed no mercy.
It was not until the sun went down that Liang Jinghe finally opened the door and walked out.
She showed a hint of joy, thinking that he finally believed her, but the next moment, a divorce letter was thrown in front of her.
She looked at the densely written words in disbelief, and her almost dried tears welled up again.
"Why, why don't you believe me? You clearly said it before, you said you would believe me for the rest of your life..."
Liang Jinghe pinched her chin and forced her to look up. Seeing her sad face, he choked up and asked, "Shen Qingxi, if I wasn't the prince of Rui Palace, but just a poor scholar from an ordinary family, would you have looked at me more?"
She was stunned for a moment, and asked in confusion: "Why do you ask this? You are the prince, how can you be a poor scholar?"
Liang Jinghe suddenly felt that it was meaningless to ask this question. He loosened his hand, closed his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "I know that a woman who is divorced will be despised and lose face in the world, so, divorce is the greatest honor I can give you."
"You can take back the dowry you brought with you. In addition, I will give you a house, three farms, and six shops as compensation. As long as you don't squander them, you will be safe for the rest of your life."
"No!" Shen Qingxi knelt over and grabbed his robe, crying, "You can't do this to me, Liang Jinghe. I am your wife, who was married to you in a formal ceremony. You can't just abandon me like that! Someone clearly harmed me, why don't you find out the truth? Why?!"
"The truth..." He smiled sadly and said, "You want the truth, right? Okay, I'll give it to you now."
Then he ordered, "Bring Aunt Yunping here."
Hearing this name, Shen Qingxi was obviously stunned.
Soon, the guard came over with a round-faced woman, who was the maid who served Jiang Muyu when he was alive.
Yun Ping did not bow when she came to him. She just stood there with her hands folded in front of her. She looked at Liang Jinghe and asked, "Why did your Highness ask me to come here?"
Liang Jinghe said, "Aunt Yunping, please tell the princess again what you said before."
Yun Ping took a look at Shen Qingxi, who was kneeling on the ground, her clothes torn and in a mess, and felt happy. She said, "The princess did push Miss Shen away back then..."
She has always been unwilling to acknowledge Shen Qingxi's identity as a princess. In her mind, there is only Jiang Muyu as a princess.
"It was just that when Miss Shen was about to fall, the princess grabbed her in time. I saw clearly that she broke free from the princess's hand and fell into the pool."
"No! You're talking nonsense!" Shen Qingxi yelled and interrupted her.
"Whether I lied or not, you should know it very well in your heart! In order to clear the Queen's name, I have made several inquiries, even going all the way to Jiangnan to the Shen family's old house, and only then did I find out that your body is inherently unstable. Even without the Princess's push, it would be difficult for you to keep your first child!"
Shen Qingxi shook her head and denied it repeatedly, but Liang Jinghe would never believe a word she said at this moment.
He said in a deep voice: "Take the divorce letter and pack up your things and leave the palace immediately. Otherwise, I don't mind changing it into a divorce letter."
She felt his determination and found it hard to accept for a moment, but her mind told her that it would be useless to beg him, and leaving now would at least give her a decent ending.
Shen Qingxi calmed down, lifted her sleeve to wipe the tears from her face, picked up the divorce certificate on the ground, raised her head slightly, bowed to him, then turned around and left with her shaky body.
Liang Jinghe stared at her back as she gradually faded from his sight, and felt as if there was a void in his heart.
But at this moment, a sudden laugh interrupted his thoughts, and he looked over and saw it was Yun Ping.
He frowned, puzzled. Then he heard Yun Ping say, "It's really the law of nature, no one can escape it!"
"You have betrayed human ethics and behaved like beasts, you must not die a good death! Shen Qingxi deceived her mother-in-law and this is retribution, and you, Liang Jinghe, you were disloyal and unfilial, you ignored your biological mother and caused her to die in prison. When you wake up in your dreams at midnight, aren't you afraid that your ancestors will come to find you and punish you?!"
Liang Jinghe's face changed drastically. The death of his biological mother had become a thorn in his heart. Shi Nanye's hatred and scolding, Jiang Muqing's indifference and alienation seemed to be mercilessly whipping him, but no one had ever scolded him so bluntly to his face like Yun Ping, and this person was once a servant in the mansion.
"Such beastly behavior is unacceptable."
He suddenly stretched out his hand and strangled Yun Ping's neck tightly, and the curses stopped abruptly. Yun Ping's face turned red, but her unusually bright eyes were filled with stubbornness and anger. The lack of fear and begging for mercy aroused his anger even more, and the strength of his hands became stronger and stronger.
Yun Ping's breathing became increasingly difficult, and her face became increasingly ugly. She was about to die on the spot. The guards nearby were horrified and rushed forward to stop her.
Seeing the murderous look on Liang Jinghe's face, they didn't care about Yun Ping, who was lying on the ground gasping for breath, and hurriedly tried to stop him, "Prince, you must not do this!"
"Heh - you, you are just angry and embarrassed because someone said something right." Yun Ping finally recovered her breath and said sarcastically when she saw this.
Liang Jinggang's anger rose again after being persuaded, and he heard Yun Ping's sharp voice: "Do you know what kind of life she lived in prison?"
"You are the Princess of Rui, but you only have one person you can trust to serve you. But you are just temporarily lost in your mind, and even a lowly servant dares to lie to you. And all this is thanks to you, my good son!"
Liang Jinghe shuddered and subconsciously retorted: "Nonsense!"
At first, he had clearly instructed the prison guards to treat his mother well, and he had people deliver meals to the prison on time every day, and also provided her with all the clothes for all four seasons.
"Nonsense?! Haha——" Yun Ping sneered, then changed her tone, and acted like a proud and arrogant servant: "It's really worthy of being sent from the palace, it's really valuable, and the queen doesn't need it here anyway, why not give it to us brothers to exchange for wine money."
After a while, his tone changed again, and he continued, "Your Highness Princess can't eat so much, why don't you give us these dishes so that we can have a taste!"
No matter how stupid Liang Jinghe was, he could tell that he was imitating the jailer's words. His pupils shrank because of the inner secret revealed in these words.
That was his biological mother. Even though she was sent to the women's prison, she was still the princess in terms of food, clothing and daily expenses. But now...
He forced himself to calm down and asked in a deep voice: "Why are you telling me this now?!"
Yun Ping sneered again: "Of course you should also taste this kind of bone-wrecking pain in order to repay the princess for the suffering she has endured."