Chapter 672 The Grand Finale (Part 2)
"Wait!"
Xiao Yuanshan's voice rang out behind her. Jiang Nuanzhi frowned, but kept walking, pretending not to hear, and turned to leave.
"Don't you want to know about Li Rong anymore?"
Xiao Yuanshan's voice was light and airy, but Jiang Nuanzhi finally stopped in her tracks.
Her eyelids had been twitching for the past few days, and even after Xiao Xuanting ascended the throne, things didn't get better. But a little longer wouldn't make a difference, so she decided to listen to what he had to say.
Xiao Yuanshan glanced at Jiang Nuanzhi, a sarcastic smile playing on his lips: "I wonder what kind of luck Li Rong had to run into her."
Before he could finish speaking, he glanced at the words "To my beloved husband, Yuanshan," and his heart skipped a beat. He took a breath before tearing open the letter as if no one else was there: "I met someone like you."
As he spoke unconsciously, his gaze slowly fell on the letter.
In the blink of an eye, Xiao Yuanshan's face turned as pale as paper.
The slender handwriting leaps off the page, as if Li Sheng were smiling sweetly.
The letter reads:
Distant mountains,
You've had a lot of mistreatment lately, haven't you? But I don't need to ask to know, you're quite spoiled and greedy, so you're definitely not used to being in prison.
However, your Ah Sheng will be picking you up from school again soon, just like before. No tantrums, no impulsiveness. I'll take care of everything.
I have already instructed Uncle Xin to make all the necessary arrangements. Within three days, you will definitely be able to eat roasted venison. Be good and don't be as reckless as that brat A Rong.
From now on, just take good care of yourself, eat well and sleep well. I have already investigated the situation, and just in case, I will go to Yucheng soon and bring Zhao Wang back. I will clear your name.
There's one more thing. Never mind, I wanted to tell you in person so we could all share the joy. But for now, I'll let you have your fun in prison!
Yuanshan, I'm two months pregnant. Now, you'd better think carefully about a name for our baby. If you still haven't decided by the time I get back, you'd better watch out for having your ears pulled!
Your Ah Sheng.
Finally, she stamped her fingerprint on it. It was a habit they had since childhood; when writing letters to each other, they would always leave their fingerprints.
He subconsciously rubbed the slightly faded handprint.
The letter contained only a few words, but Xiao Yuanshan seemed not to recognize it. He read it over and over again, his eyes bloodshot, but his expression remained unchanged. However, his trembling hands revealed that he was not at peace.
At this moment, Lin Chun had already placed the letter, which he had torn in two, neatly on his desk.
Xiao Yuanshan's eyes flickered as he looked over.
The handwriting above is still Li Sheng's:
"Little sister Ayu, this calamity is perilous. By the time you receive this letter, I will have already gone to Yuguan. Immediately ask my father for help and ask him to send someone to assist me as soon as possible."
Furthermore, the Black Feather Token is entirely entrusted to my younger sister. Also, Yuanshan is imprisoned and in grave danger; remember, remember, if necessary, rescue him from the execution ground and protect his life! And please take good care of Consort Zhao in the palace.
With Father Ah-jung and the rest of the family away, the elder sister has placed all the burdens on her younger sister's shoulders. It's been hard on the younger sister. If things go smoothly this time, when the elder sister returns, she will bring you the moon you desire.
After an unknown amount of time, Xiao Yuanshan's eyes finally moved.
The words on the paper leaped vividly into my mind, one after another.
In a daze, it was as if memories sealed away for many years surged into my mind. My brain felt like it was exploding.
That year, he was implicated in a treason case. The King of Zhao declared himself king in Yongding City and insisted that he had colluded with him. He was imprisoned and his injustice was never redressed.
Before going to prison, he sensed something was wrong, so he made arrangements for Li Sheng in advance and sent her out of Yongding City. However, she scolded him and even pinched his ear, saying that she would skin him alive.
But later, because of his own affairs, several powerful families were implicated, and then, Li Sheng disappeared from his sight.
He didn't blame her at the time. It was nothing. She and her family were all well, which was good.
Not only that, her Black Feather Guards even tried to assassinate her.
He had thought he would protect the Li family, and even if he confessed, it wouldn't implicate her or her people. Ah Sheng didn't believe him. And it had actually come to this.
When her personal guards came to kill her, they said, "Your Highness, go to your death. Once you are dead, our young lady will be free, and the entire Li family will not be implicated."
"It was clearly her guard who said it."
How could that be?
That vicious woman! She killed my mother!
His birth mother was nothing more than a lowly maidservant who never received the emperor's favor. She spent her entire life toiling away in the deep palace and never had a good day.
He knew that his mother disliked Li Sheng, and Li Sheng disliked his mother; the two of them always had cold expressions when they sat together. But she was his biological mother. She said she loved him, so how could she commit such a heinous act?
How could she?
How dare she?
But
If only she had handed the Black Feather Guard over to Mingyu at that time.
So
Who sent the Black Feather Guard who killed his mother?
How could that be?
"Impossible."
Xiao Yuanshan's voice trembled: "Mingyu wouldn't do that. She took the fatal blow for me. She used her own blood to coerce the Black Feather Guards. She held her mother's body and wept bitterly, fulfilling her filial duty. She used a scheme to obtain the Black Feather Token, risking her life to fetch medicine for me when I was unconscious, which saved my life. In the end, she fell off a cliff and developed a chronic illness."
That's clearly how it is.
That's exactly how it is.
"How could this be?"
"How could that be?"
With Xiao Yuanshan's intelligence, he figured out the key points almost in the blink of an eye.
Her Ah Sheng
Did he never betray him?
She was to wait patiently for her to return.
Their children
In a daze, I remembered that two days before the incident, when I returned home after finishing my work, she was fast asleep on the workbench, with a white drool mark on the corner of her mouth.
The sheet of Xuan paper placed on the table was covered with all sorts of auspicious and propitious characters.
Yun, Chen, Lin, and Ping An seem to be also included.
At that moment, he only thought she was very cute, and carried her back to the bed.
Completely unaware, that was likely their last meeting.
Later, when she returned
What did he do?
He strangled the cat they had hired together.
He sent men to ambush her on her way back, and they slaughtered all the Li family members.
He threw her maid, who had been with her since childhood, into a brothel, and mutilated her bodyguards, turning them into human pigs.
When they met again, he held Li Mingyu and applied medicine to her.
Standing beside her was Young Master Wei.
After that, her counterattack came with tremendous speed and force. Even Mingyu's legs, which prevented her from standing for years, were a result of her actions.
A soft "crack" sounded as the teacup shattered. The shards of porcelain instantly sliced through flesh, drawing blood.
The letter in Xiao Yuanshan's hand was stained with blood, which he carefully wiped away. However, blood continued to flow from his hands, accidentally staining most of the letter paper.
I don't believe it.
This letter must be fake.
"This must be fake." His voice was very soft, almost inaudible. But he continued to carefully try to wipe the bloodstains clean.
Perhaps due to emotional instability, or perhaps due to shaky hands, he accidentally tore off half of the letter.
The delicate handwriting was half-soaked in blood; this letter, written by Li Sheng himself, had been ruined by him.
In a daze, the veins on Xiao Yuanshan's forehead bulged. He pieced together the blood-stained half of the letter in his two hands, trying to restore it to its original state.
However, neither his life nor this blood-stained letter can ever go back to the past.
Seeing his state, Jiang Nuanzhi knew that the person in front of her was on the verge of emotional collapse. She frowned and glanced at him, then finally sighed and said, "This came from Zhao Xiuyuan. He and Li Mingyu seem to have a lot of shady dealings. I don't know much about it. Oh, and there are some old things from back then. I found them while cleaning up the old General's Mansion, so I'll give them to you as well."
As he spoke, he placed a box on the table.
It was actually a marriage certificate, which stated that neither party was allowed to betray the other in this life, and that if they violated it, they would be struck by lightning. It was just some intimate words between a young couple, placed alongside a bottle of Daughter's Red wine.
It's hard to imagine that the owner of that thing was Xiao Yuanshan and Sister Li Sheng.
"Xiao Yuanshan, how much do you really know about Li Rong's affairs?"
Jiang Nuanzhi frowned and asked.
Sure enough, Xiao Yuanshan in front of him only murmured a few words softly, as if everything around him was unrelated to him.
"impossible"
"How could there be a mistake?"
“Ah Sheng.”
"Mingyu."
"impossible!"
"That's impossible."
The stench of blood intensified, and his madness seemed to be spiraling out of control.
“Master, judging from this, I’m afraid we won’t be able to get anything out of you,” Lin Chun said.
Before Jiang Nuanzhi could speak, a jailer jogged forward and reported, "Madam, Princess Li Mingyu has disguised herself and infiltrated the area, presumably for this person."
As he spoke, he raised an eyebrow and looked at Xiao Yuanshan, who had suddenly quieted down in the prison cell.
At this moment, Xiao Yuanshan stared blankly at the letter that was now even more badly torn, his dark eyes filled with a misty aura, lost in thought.
Jiang Nuanzhi frowned: "Forget it, let's not bother with her. Let them settle their scores from back then."
"Your Highness, the next level is where the Prince is imprisoned. How is your leg? Actually, we servants can handle this."
The old woman supported Li Mingyu, looking at her legs with concern.
After receiving acupuncture treatment from Jiang Nuanzhi, Li Mingyu was able to stand up with great difficulty.
However, most of the body weight still rests on the person next to them.
Li Mingyu clenched her wrist, and her face, which had been somewhat sickly due to years of illness, now revealed a hint of determination.
"Granny, this time, I will stand firmly by the Prince's side. I will stand with him through thick and thin, through thick and thin."
The old woman was taken aback: "Your Highness, is it really necessary to come in person? What if you get hurt?"
"I want to come in person, I absolutely must come in person!"
When she was a child, her father was assassinated, but she was saved by her mother hiding him at the bottom of a trunk. She hid there and watched her father and mother die one by one in front of her.
She was scared, so she hid.
(End of this chapter)
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