Chapter 266 The Executioner
"Yulin...Yulin..."
Jiang Wansu ran into the inn, searching everywhere for Cui Yulin.
It wasn't until she saw Cui Cheng coming downstairs to brew medicine for Cui Yulin that she rushed forward as if she had found a lifeline.
"Uncle Cui, where is Yu Lin? Where is he? Please tell me..."
She missed him terribly and wanted to tell Yu Lin about all the grievances she had suffered during this time.
"River……"
As soon as Cui Chenggang opened his mouth, he saw Xie Xuchuan behind Jiang Wansu.
"Xuchuan..."
Xie Xuchuan nodded, and Cui Cheng gave an awkward smile and took a step back.
Jiang Wansu couldn't wait any longer, so she ran up to the second floor of the inn by herself and pushed open each door.
Until I saw Cui Yulin sitting inside the house.
When Cui Yulin saw the person, he was also stunned, as if he could not believe that the person he had been longing for day and night had suddenly appeared in front of him.
“Wan Su”.
Upon seeing his beloved again, Cui Yulin couldn't help but tremble.
Jiang Wansu ran into the room and threw herself into his arms.
The two embraced, weeping with joy.
Jiang Wansu murmured about the pain and suffering she had endured since learning of Cui Yulin's tragic death at sea, while Cui Yulin spoke of his longing and affection.
Xie Xuchuan stood outside the door watching, but couldn't muster any emotion.
He just felt that this winter was a bit cold, and he was also a little tired today.
"Uncle Cui".
Xie Xuchuan said, "Jiang Wansu has decided to leave Suzhou Prefecture with Yu Lin. From now on, the Xie family will no longer have a young mistress."
"Since she has chosen to be with Yu Lin, you should... leave as soon as possible."
"Xu Chuan..."
With red eyes, Cui Cheng said in a mournful voice, "Our family has lived in Suzhou Prefecture all our lives. My father and I have always made a living in the Xie family. If we leave here, where can we go?"
“I am old, and Yulin is... If we leave this place, how will we live?”
"Xu Chuan, please have mercy and spare our lives."
Cui Cheng watched Xie Xuchuan grow up, and Xie Xuchuan was also taken care of by Cui Cheng as he grew up.
He and Cui Yulin spent the first half of their lives growing up in the Xie family's machine room.
The two were as close as brothers, no less than any blood-related brothers in the world.
As long as it's his, Cui Yulin will definitely have a share, and Cui Cheng is naturally regarded by him as a father.
Now, Cui Cheng is begging him to spare their lives.
In the end, he turned out to be the executioner who wielded the guillotine and left people with no way out.
Xie Xuchuan stared blankly, thinking for a long time, but he still couldn't understand how things had turned out this way.
Cui Yulin and Jiang Wansu hugged each other and wept bitterly, pouring out their hearts to one another.
Xie Xuchuan said, "Uncle Cui, do you mean to let Yulin and Wansu stay in Suzhou Prefecture and stay in the Xie family?"
"Do you want to separate the two of them? Or do you want Wansu to serve two husbands, being the eldest daughter-in-law of the Xie family by day and Madam Cui by night?"
"I……"
Cui Cheng was taken aback, never expecting Xie Xuchuan to say such a thing.
Xie Xuchuan turned his head away, refusing to look at him.
He stared straight at the two people in front of him, a faint smile on his lips: "Yu Lin is injured, and it will probably be difficult for him to get married in the future. Since the two of them are in love, why are you so cruel as to separate them?"
Cui Cheng was taken aback upon hearing this, having never considered this possibility.
He looked at Cui Yulin sitting in the chair and swallowed hard.
After a long silence, his voice was hoarse: "I...I will take them away tomorrow."
"In that case, I will announce the death of the eldest daughter-in-law of the Xie family in a month."
After saying that, Xie Xuchuan turned and left.
Cui Cheng stared at his retreating figure, unable to come to his senses for a long time.
Much later, Cui Yulin realized that Xie Xuchuan had already left, and for some reason, he felt extremely suffocated.
After this, he and Xuchuan are probably...
With red eyes, Cui Yulin gently stroked Jiang Wansu's hair.
"Wansu, thank you for your hard work."
He didn't ask about their child, fearing it would upset Jiang Wansu, but simply asked her softly how she had been doing these past few days.
Jiang Wansu nestled in his arms, sobbing, "I'm not doing well. You don't know how much I miss you every day, how many tears I shed. Marrying into the Xie family was not my wish either. When Old Madam Xie was alive, she disliked me in every way."
“My mother-in-law doesn’t treat me well either. Because I was pregnant out of wedlock, my family looks down on me.”
“I married into the Xie family at the same time as Shen Yuanzhu, but I suffered all kinds of humiliation simply because her dowry was more than mine.”
"My second aunt's words were full of sarcasm, and my mother-in-law's eyes were always full of scrutiny and contempt. Xie Jingyuan, who had just married into the family, didn't say a word to me when he saw me."
"On the second day of the wedding, when I served tea to my parents-in-law, my second aunt gave me a very meager gift, but gave Shen Yuanzhu a very expensive one."
Xie Yingshou threw the gift I made by hand on the ground and cursed it as junk.
"Shen Yuanzhu... Shen Yuanzhu is constantly making things difficult for me, and she joins forces with Xie Qi to humiliate and intimidate me."
"Only..."
Only after the Xie family fell into ruin, and Xie Xuchuan believed that he was the one who caused her miscarriage, did her life in the Xie family become a little better.
But at that time, she had lost her child and was in unimaginable pain.
Tears streamed down Jiang Wansu's face as she recounted, word by word, all the difficulties she had faced in the absence of Cui Yulin.
Cui Yulin felt heartbroken and hugged the person tightly.
He never imagined that Wan Su had suffered so much.
"It won't happen again, Wansu. From now on, I'll be by your side, and you'll never suffer again."
Jiang Wansu nodded happily, "I believe you, Yu Lin."
The charcoal used in the inn was of the lowest quality. After being left in the room for a long time, it became covered in dust and had an indescribable odor.
After the initial excitement of their reunion faded, Jiang Wansu began to feel various discomforts.
Footprints stained with snow lay on the floor of the room, now turned into streams of black liquid that soaked her brocade robe. Because the charcoal brazier emitted a lot of ash, only one was placed in a corner of the room.
Cui Cheng and Cui Yulin were already used to it, but Jiang Wansu felt a chill creeping down her spine.
She lowered her head, looked at the black-stained jacket and skirt, and reached out to pull it up.
Jiang Wansu stood up and said to Cui Yulin, "Yulin, go and add another pot of charcoal for me."
Only Cui Yulin and his son were in the room, so she couldn't very well ask Cui Cheng to do it.
Cui Yulin was taken aback upon hearing this.
"Xuchuan, he..."
"What's wrong with him?"
"Didn't he tell you I was injured?"
"Are you injured? Where are you injured? Let me see."
Jiang Wansu felt a pang of heartache, especially when she saw the wound on Cui Yulin's foot, she cried with tears streaming down her face.
"Yulin, I will cure you. Let's go find the best doctor."
Cui Yulin shook his head, "It can't be cured..."
"It doesn't matter if you can't be cured. I'll stay with you for the rest of my life and be your legs."
Looking at the two of them, Cui Cheng finally felt relieved of all his worries.
Xie Xuchuan is right. Yu Lin can never lose Jiang Wansu again in this life. Only with Jiang Wansu is Yu Lin able to find purpose in living.
After thinking for a moment, Cui Cheng said, "Yu Lin, Wan Su, we will leave Suzhou Prefecture tomorrow."
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