Chapter 233: Revenge
"The situation was urgent at the time, so I didn't ask in detail," Mu Qing said. "I only know that my aunt discovered the Crown Prince's intention to frame you, so she showed up to tell me the news and help me save you."
"Is it that simple?" Hu Xin'er was skeptical. "But she had been hiding from us before, so why is she back home now?"
Mu Qing frowned: "Maybe he misses his mother?"
Hu Xiner shook her head. This reason didn't make sense.
Moreover, she and Jiang Yao actually have no friendship, and Jiang Yao doesn't seem to like her very much. Why would she show up in person and risk being assassinated?
Or did Jiang Yao have other plans that she didn't tell them?
After breakfast the next day, Mu Qing went to the palace to work.
Hu Xin'er found Jiang Yao's room and asked directly, "Aunt, why did you risk saving me?"
Jiang Yao seemed a little surprised, then said coldly, "Because you are the one Mu Qing loves."
Hu Xiner asked other questions.
Jiang Yao frowned impatiently, "The answer is that simple, believe it or not."
Hu Xin'er was confused.
She suddenly thought of Chunfengzui. If Chunfengzui was really founded by Jiang Yao, then she must not be a good person.
Even if he had a little affection for her, Madam Lu, it should be very weak.
Moreover, the poisonous insects that Feng Ge and Mu Qing were infected with before... these are all suspicious points.
Hu Xin'er wanted to know the truth, so she asked, "Then... Aunt, did you build Chunfengzui?"
Jiang Yao said impatiently, "Yes and no. Get out of here now. I'm getting upset just seeing you."
Hu Xiner was about to ask more when the door was pushed open.
It turned out to be Mother Lu! After a few days of recuperation and reuniting with her sister, she looked much better.
"Mom." Hu Xiner called out.
Seeing that she was also a little surprised, Mother Lu said immediately, "It's a good thing that you two are here, why don't you join me in worshipping Buddha?"
"Okay." Hu Xiner agreed without hesitation. Although she was still full of doubts, she didn't want to dwell on the topics she had just discussed in front of Lu's mother.
When they were discussing Jiang Yao's whereabouts before, Lu's mother said she didn't know what Jiang Yao did for a living.
I think Jiang Yao was worried that her sister wouldn't be able to accept it, so she didn't tell her about Chun Feng Zui.
After all, that place... is really a den of evil that harms people.
Is Jiang Yao, who is suspected of founding Chunfengzui and whose temperament has changed drastically, still the trustworthy good sister in Lu's mother's memory?
Jiang Yao didn't respond, but she didn't object either.
He just followed them quietly when the two of them went out.
There is a small Buddhist temple in Mrs. Lu's house, with a Buddha statue inside, which she brought back from a temple many years ago.
Over the years, she has been worried that the murder committed by Lu's father would bring disaster to his children, and she deeply repented for her own mistakes.
Therefore, the small Buddhist temple was filled with curling green smoke, which never stopped. She was also extremely pious when she worshipped the Buddha.
Hu Xiner followed suit, burning incense and worshipping Buddha, and closed her eyes like Lu's mother.
But she didn't believe in Buddhism, so she was just pretending and didn't really make any wishes.
Jiang Yao had been watching quietly from the side. In the Buddhist temple filled with green smoke, she looked more and more like a demon, as if she would disappear as soon as the sunlight shone on her.
After finishing the worship, Mother Lu said solemnly: "Amitabha, sins, sins."
After she finished speaking, she was melancholy for a moment, then turned to look at Jiang Yao: "Yaoyao, is the Lu family's revenge inevitable?"
Jiang Yao didn't even look at her: "Sister, after all this, why are you still so naive?"
Her voice was light and thin, with a hint of coldness.
Mother Lu closed her eyes and said, "When will this cycle of revenge ever end? The Crown Prince seems to have decided to settle the matter peacefully."
Jiang Yao sneered, "Do kind people have to rely on the leniency of evildoers to survive?"
She was a little emotional. "Sister, it's not like we don't have a chance for revenge! Giving up now is like putting yourself on the chopping block and letting others prey on you. The prince can kill you if he wants to, or let you go if he wants to. Are you willing to be his plaything?"
Mother Lu said earnestly, "But if we really want to overthrow him, or even point our sword at the emperor as you said, the government will definitely be in turmoil. At that time, the situation will be turbulent and how many innocent people will be killed?"
Jiang Yao suddenly raised her eyes. "You really look like a legitimate official's wife now. You're actually worried about the political situation and the innocent people? When they were stirring up trouble up there, did they ever consider how innocent we are? Why can't I hate them? Why can't I kill them?"
Hu Xin'er couldn't say anything and could only watch the incense ash fall down and spit out the red sparks inside.
Mother Lu twisted her Buddhist beads in her hand, trying to calm herself down. She continued to persuade, "Yaoyao, calm down. I know you've had a hard time these years, but it won't be so hard in the future. Can't we just be together as a family and live a good life?"
Mother Lu knew better than anyone that her only obstacle now was her younger sister Jiang Yao.
As for Mu Qing and Hu Xin'er, as long as she wanted to do it, they would do their best to satisfy her.
Therefore, there was even a hint of pitiful pleading in her words.
Because as long as they can deal with Jiang Yao, their family can live a peaceful and happy life.
However, such words only aroused the resentment that had been pent up in Jiang Yao's heart for a long time.
A hint of anger flashed in her eyes: "Sister, what nonsense are you talking about? Am I risking my life for that old bastard Prime Minister Lu? Do you really think that Mu Qing and I are fighting for the Lu family?"
Mother Lu closed her eyes in pain again, and the time before she got married emerged in her mind... The figures of those closest to her and most trusted people flashed by like a revolving lantern.
She said in a bitter voice: "Of course not, I know you are doing this for the Jiang family, and for you and your lover who was burned to death..."
Jiang Yao bit her lip, trying not to get angry at her sister.
She found that she was becoming increasingly unable to understand Mother Lu.
"Why have you become so weak?" She finally couldn't help but ask, "You lost your son to such a tragedy, are you really too scared to even hate?"
Mother Lu glanced at the Buddha statue and sighed, "Yaoyao, do you know? Over the years, I've often dreamed of my son. Sometimes he looks like Jue'er, sometimes like Mu'er, but they always cry."
Jiang Yao listened to her story and tried hard to control her anger.
Mother Lu said slowly, "I wanted to get close to them, but I couldn't touch them. Have you ever experienced the pain of waking up in the middle of the night with despair?"
Jiang Yao was somewhat moved: "Sister..."
"Yaoyao, I'm already half buried in the ground. I was already a madman. Fortunately, I was able to wake up so that my relatives would not be unable to recognize me in front of them..."
At this point, Mother Lu choked up and said, "I really don't want anything to happen to the living anymore!"
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