Chapter 334 Xue Jiaer's Heartache
Xue Jiaer didn't sleep well that night. She woke up every few minutes and could hardly get up the next morning.
After Princess Cong passed away, she could no longer do the work of giving gifts, eating, drinking and having fun, and she was very scared, so she could only stay in the mansion.
I just got up lazily, washed up, and thought of going to the garden to get some fresh air.
After taking a few steps, she saw a man in gray clothes flash past the gate of the courtyard where she lived. She hurriedly chased after him and grabbed him.
She was not afraid in the Prince's Mansion.
"Madam Jia." The man saluted him. It turned out that he was just a handyman in the mansion.
"You, when did you change into clothes of this color?" Xue Jiaer asked, panting.
"Madam, I didn't change it. My coat just got wet, so I took it off and changed into another one." He pointed to the dark blue coat in his hand.
Xue Jiaer looked down at his boots again and saw that they were not that person's, so she let the boy go.
As soon as she reached the edge of the garden, she heard the ladies chatting.
"I wonder if it will be our fault this time!"
"That's right. I heard that after eating the food she gave me, the child died at night, and the adult also died!"
"That's her. She's not even our Highness's wife, just a concubine! She has nothing to do with our Highness or us!"
"Every day, you thought you were the Crown Princess! Now you've gotten into big trouble!"
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Xue Jiaer walked out.
"You ate this too, is there anything wrong? I didn't hear you say you didn't want it when you were eating it!" Xue Jiaer said sarcastically. These Ru ladies were not in her eyes.
"Then our identities are not worth your poisoning!" Mrs. Chang teased.
"Which eye of yours saw me poison you? Why don't you report to the police, or tell your father? You can get a reward from the king. Otherwise, you won't be able to see the king for a whole year!" Xue Jiaer sneered.
Mrs. Chang's father was a minor official in the Criminal Justice Department.
"Xue Jiaer, don't go too far! You really take yourself too seriously! You are just a nameless person! If you were really important, why wouldn't His Highness give you a name?! He hasn't even issued a marriage certificate?!" Madam Xin also came to help.
"It's more than just not giving it! I saw with my own eyes when Eunuch Si asked about this matter a few days ago, and he immediately shook his head and said there was no rush!" Mrs. Chang added.
Xue Jiaer was stunned.
If she hadn't quarreled with these two idiots, she really wouldn't have known so many things!
She didn't say anything more to the two of them and went for a walk somewhere else in a bad mood.
These people and the prince seemed less important to her. What lingered in her mind was the man with the black boots covered in gold.
When she thought of this, she felt a chill in her heart. This feeling seemed familiar.
Things in that world, which I hadn't thought about for a long time, came to my mind again.
Cold sweat started to flow and he staggered a little.
The little girl beside her hurriedly supported her: "Madam Jia, please don't argue with them. Don't get angry and hurt yourself. It's not worth it."
Xue Jiaer didn't hear a word she said. She ran back to the yard in a panic, hid on the bed, and covered herself with the quilt.
"Go outside and see if there's anyone wearing grey clothes and black boots, man!"
The little girl didn't know what was going on, so she went outside to look around. There was no one else in the yard except a few servants she usually used, so she came back and told Xue Jiaer that there was no one there.
The little girl quickly closed the door.
She had never seen Xue Jiaer so panicked before. When she looked over, she saw that she was pale, trembling all over, with beads of sweat on her forehead, and she looked very unwell.
"Mrs. Jia, what happened? You seem to be sick. Do you need me to ask a doctor to come and take a look?" the little girl asked timidly.
"No! You go too. Go and help me watch the gate of the yard. No man is allowed to approach my yard, even if he is cleaning it!" Xue Jiaer drove her out.
The girl had no choice but to do as she was told and walked to the gate of the yard to guard it.
She was also free, so she started chatting with the young ladies outside the yard.
"I don't know if Madam Jia has done anything wrong. She looks like she has seen a ghost."
The girl said, "Haven't you heard? Someone was killed! I don't know if it was poison, but he died after eating what she gave him!"
The little girl hugged her arms and said, "I don't dare stay in this yard anymore. Can I talk to the housekeeper and ask someone else to take care of this girl? The way she looked just now scared me to death!"
"If you go and tell her, who will come? Someone has to wait on her. She's a favorite of the prince!"
"Don't mention any popular people. I haven't received a single ounce of silver from her. The prince usually looks unhappy when he comes to her room, and they don't seem to be close. I don't think the prince likes her."
"Is that so..."
Xue Jiaer fell into a drowsy sleep, but woke up soon after.
She saw the gray dress and the gold-sprinkled boots right before her.
"Who are you?" she asked in surprise.
But the man didn't answer her.
She looked up from the boots to the hem of her clothes, to her belt, and then to her face, and she felt as if someone was strangling her throat.
That face was clearly her stepfather's, with ugly thick lips, a hooked nose, and a pair of triangular eyes that always showed contempt and viciousness.
Why is he here? Xue Jiaer asked in her heart.
The man smiled faintly, turned around and jumped out of the window.
Xue Jiaer stood there in a daze. At that moment, the fear in every pore of her body was awakened, and she let out a shrill scream.
Hearing the scream, the little girl didn't dare to go into the room at all. She hurriedly ran to find the butler and told him that the lady had gone crazy.
The butler scolded, "You were fine yesterday, why are you so crazy today? Don't talk nonsense here, be careful, or I'll skin you alive!"
The little girl told the butler about Xue Jiaer's abnormal behavior one by one.
The housekeeper thought about it carefully and felt that something was not right, so he said, "Could it be that he is sick? Let's go and get a doctor to take a look."
When Yuwen You returned home in the evening, he heard that she was sick and went into the room to see her.
Yuwen You happened to be wearing a gray coat and black boots today. When Xue Jiaer saw him, she screamed before she even saw him clearly.
"No! Don't come near me! Get out! Get out!"
Yuwen You slapped her in the face: "You are a rebel!"
This slap reminded her of her stepfather who followed her every day and the hundreds of slaps he had given her.
"I'm no longer that Xue Jiaer! Not anymore!"
She pulled out the hairpin from her hand and stabbed Yuwen You.
Yuwen You snatched the hairpin away and cursed, "I knew you were a dog that could never be tamed! You added the code to kill Feng Aoqing, do you think I don't know?! Stop pretending to be sick, you just don't want to take out the money, right? I think you're just looking for death!"
Xue Jiaer seemed to sober up a little, and murmured: "Your Highness..."
"Let's go!" Yuwen You lifted her up from the bed and dragged her out of the house.
......
Someone stopped Shi Jin outside the Prime Minister's Mansion.
"The master gave you medicine and silver, and you are free."
"Thank you very much."
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