Chapter 96 Chapter 96 Her heart was cold and hard.
Xie came into the house as ordered, thinking that Alang called him to ask about matters related to yesterday's wedding, but Xie Yun said nothing, just looked at him with a cold and gloomy gaze.
With a "swish", cold sweat broke out on Xie's body.
This burly man, rarely seen in the manners of a scholar, bowed stiffly and said, "Ah Lang, what do you want me to do?"
No one could endure Xie Shijun's gaze that could pierce people's hearts.
"Nothing, I just have a question for you." Xie Yun's dark eyes turned cold as she asked him, "Do you think my marriage is inappropriate?"
Xie Yun knew very well that he would never let the woman who had become his wife leave Changling alone. So, there was only one explanation for the scene in his dream.
His subordinates did this without telling him.
Xie remained silent upon hearing this. As a subordinate, he had no right to answer this question. The master's marriage was not his place to make a comment.
For him, everything he did was just following orders.
At this moment, his silence became the best answer.
Xie Yun's expression remained unchanged as he nodded and ordered Xie to leave. The moment Xie turned around, a mocking smile appeared at the corner of his lips.
How could it not be ridiculous? It was just a somewhat realistic dream, yet he was so frightened by it that he even deliberately tested the troops who had followed him for many years.
He said he wanted to take revenge on the peasant girl and watch her in pain and cry until she trembled, but the reality was that she quickly returned to normal, while he tossed and turned, rarely finding peace.
Xie Yun lowered her eyes, the increasing pain in her legs seeming to silently speak, "Tsk, Ah Xian is so cruel."
However, he could forgive her and her little temper, because compared to the great satisfaction and pleasure he got, these were nothing.
But at this moment, Xie Shijun's pupils were clearly dark, and his heart was filled with intense desire.
Why is it impossible? Why is it impossible?
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It had rained and the ground was still a little slippery.
Zhang Jingxian looked straight ahead and walked very fast. On the way, she met servants from the mansion who bowed respectfully and called her Madam. She shook her head and told them seriously that she was not Xie Yun's wife.
These people's reactions were somewhat bewildered. With the six rituals complete and announced to heaven and earth, how could she not be the envoy's wife?
They still bowed their heads deeply and treated this former guest as the mistress of the mansion.
Zhang Jingxian had no choice. She couldn't force these people to admit that yesterday's wedding was not what she wanted. In the end, she did not return to the guest house where she had lived, but went to the stable.
The foal was lying quietly, and when it sensed her breath, it looked over with its big, blinking eyes.
Zhang Jingxian walked over and leaned on its body. She suddenly felt very tired, and the aches and pains that she had deliberately ignored surged up. She was certainly not as calm as she looked on the surface.
"Many times, I was ready to have nothing to do with him anymore, but reality told me again and again that I was no match for him."
Now she was forced to become Xie Yun's wife. Zhang Jingxian thought about it and realized that the only consolation was that she didn't have to pay the two hu of fine grain in autumn.
But apart from this consolation, she did not feel the slightest joy in this forced marriage, although she had looked forward to it immensely in her previous life.
"He deliberately tricked me into catching the wild geese and sending them to him. It's ridiculous that I let down my guard because of this." Every time, he proved to himself that she had wrongly trusted a selfish, cruel and cold-hearted person.
"What should I do?" Zhang Jingxian murmured, her eyes dim. She really had no idea how to solve the current dilemma.
Xie Yun said that she had sent their marriage certificate to Xishan Village. With the previous letters as a basis, her uncle might think that they were in love after seeing it.
Yangshan also came under the name of Xie Shijun, and even her idea of hiding in the mountains became a delusion.
Zhang Jingxian could no longer return to her home, but she could not stay in Changling, in this mansion full of memories.
She couldn't let go of the life that lay in the way, her own life. But if she let it go and pretended nothing had happened, "Then I would have fulfilled Xie Yun's words, truly lowly!"
She tilted her head back and gently covered her eyes with the back of her hand.
The foal listened to the human girl's words and silently raised its hoof, inviting her to go out and play. It knew that she was happy when she was running freely.
"Okay, but we may not be able to leave the city." Zhang Jingxian accepted the invitation of a horse and led it out of the stable and towards the mansion gate.
An embarrassing scene then occurred.
A few meters away from the gate, she met Shu Jian, the generous elder who liked to call her Xiao Axian, with a complicated expression on his face.
"Master Shujian." After not seeing each other for over a month, Zhang Jingxian's tone was filled with a hint of shame. She couldn't explain to him how she had promised to return home, but in the end she had become the wife of the envoy.
If she had not pleaded for Ban Jiang, and Shu Jian had not sent the troops who escorted her back home to monitor Ban Jiang, perhaps she would have successfully gotten rid of Xie Yun.
However, if she were to go back to that day, Zhang Jingxian would still make the same choice, peacefully resolve a dispute, and repay Ban Jiang for his care for her cousin and others, which means she must let Ban Jiang go.
"Ah Xian, you have married Qilang, and you need to call me uncle in the future." Shu Jian sighed deeply. The young man from the Gongcheng family was right in what he said. The die is cast, the six rituals have been completed, and the century-old reputation of the Xie family determines that the woman in front of him will be the wife of the Xie family in the future.
No changes can be made.
Zhang Jingxian pursed her lips, not saying "Uncle" out loud. "Master Shujian, I want to divorce Xie Yun. Can you or Prime Minister Xie help me?"
She was so stubborn, surprisingly stubborn.
Shu Jian couldn't help but ask why. In his eyes, the world-famous Envoy Xie shouldn't be so disgusting to her, even though she was forced into the marriage.
Zhang Jingxian paused, realizing that if she used her dislike for him as an excuse, it would sound bland, so she said in a bitter tone that she was afraid of him.
"Besides, I already have someone else in my heart."
She had no choice but to take drastic measures and told Shu Jian that she had two minds and that if she could not divorce Xie Yun, she would probably do something to embarrass Xie Yun.
Zhang Jingxian knew that this sentence violated the most serious taboo of the aristocratic family. She could be unhappy, afraid, and fearful, but she absolutely could not betray.
Not to mention, she was just a commoner with no family background or talent. If she was abandoned by the common people, and word spread to the world, Xie Yun and the Xie family would be branded with an indelible shame.
Shu Jian's expression changed, and his beard trembled. "Xiao Ah Xian, you have given me a problem that has been around for ages."
Zhang Jingxian looked at him expectantly, believing that even difficult problems have solutions.
However, a struggle flashed in Shu Jian's eyes, and he finally warned her seriously not to say another word like that, "Even if I admire you and the Prime Minister likes your progress and loves to read his collected works, you won't live long."
Hearing this, Zhang Jingxian's face turned pale and she replied weakly, "Yes."
She couldn't escape, couldn't leave, couldn't go back, so what should she do?
"I'll go back to Jiankang and ask the Prime Minister. Perhaps he can come up with a foolproof plan. Xiao Ah Xian, remember, don't do anything stupid that will make others regret it."
Shu Jian saw her helplessness and confusion, patted her shoulder, and tried to calm her down temporarily with the word "drag".
Perhaps it was because Prime Minister Xie's image was deeply rooted in people's hearts that Zhang Jingxian's uneasy mood calmed down a little, and all the depressing thoughts in her mind disappeared.
She managed to cheer up a little, smiled and said she could endure it for a few more months.
Shu Jian wanted to say something but stopped himself. When he heard the woman say the word "endure", he suddenly had an absurd thought. His heart was unexpectedly cold and hard.
In this grand wedding, Qilang not only had to endure the wrath of the Prime Minister and the Lord of the Palace, but also ruined the possibility of forming a political alliance with others through marriage.
The latter may concern his life.
Originally, seven-tenths of the world's military power was in the hands of the Chao family. The fact that Qilang could become today's Envoy Xie and the leader of the Northern Army had made the Grand Marshal wary of him.
The seemingly precarious balance was due to the powerful Di people in the north and the stalemate between the Prime Minister and King Xie within.
The Di people are bound to invade. After the war, if the Grand Marshal wants to become emperor, he will definitely attack Qilang first.
Therefore, the Prime Minister and the Lord of the Palace never mentioned Qillang's marriage before, in order to let Qillang marry a girl from the Chao family after the war to quell future troubles.
But after yesterday, the marriage became a bubble.
Unfortunately, Shu Jian couldn't reveal these words to the woman in front of him.
"Ah Xian, come with me to meet your cousins. Consider it a favor to me so they can feel at ease."
"Um."
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