Chapter 134 She Abandoned Him
"Shh..." The old Taoist priest made a gesture to silence the others. "This matter is a secret of heaven that cannot be revealed. Even she herself does not know it. If the Jiang family worships her well, they will surely be blessed in the future. If..."
"What if?" Yao asked anxiously.
The old Taoist stroked his beard and gave her a meaningful look. "If anyone interferes and hinders the Immortal Lord from overcoming the tribulation, I'm afraid it will bring disaster upon the entire clan."
Yao's legs went weak and she almost fell to the ground. "This...this...Is the Taoist priest seeing things right? How could Jiang Rufei be a deity?"
"If Madam doesn't believe me, you can ask a few more Taoist priests to come and see. The result will be the same. But remember, don't do this again today, lest you summon the Immortal Lord's true body. If the Immortal Lord gets angry, the lives of everyone in the Jiang family will be in danger."
Although Yao was suspicious, she was frightened and nodded repeatedly, preferring to believe it than not.
Jiang Rulin was once critically ill, and it was the Taoist priest who cast a spell to pull her back from the brink of death. Otherwise, the child who the doctor had predicted would not live past the age of ten would not be able to live healthily until now. Naturally, she believed in the Taoist priest's ability.
"One more thing." The old Taoist rolled his eyes slightly, "You need to tell me the whole story of this girl from beginning to end. Then I can use some magic to keep the Jiang family safe for two years."
"Only, only two years?"
"Madam, don't worry. Miss Jiang Er is getting married soon. From now on, it will be the affairs of Dingyuan Marquis Mansion."
Yao breathed a sigh of relief and told everything she knew, describing in detail how Jiang Rufei came to the Jiang family.
"She, that girl sold her body voluntarily..."
Jiang Fei leaned against the pillar, her fingertips embedded in her palms.
If what Yao said was true, was it really her who abandoned Pei Jing and left him to fend for himself in the dilapidated temple? Although she had no memory of that part, she asked herself whether she had ever been that kind of person since she was a child.
Yao was still chattering on and on about Jiang Fei's childhood after she came to the Jiang family, but Jiang Fei was no longer listening at all, as her mind was completely occupied by that sentence.
Suddenly there was a commotion at the gate, and then someone outside started banging on the door.
Wen Zhu immediately dodged and ran to Jiang Fei's side, holding the knife at his waist, ready to strike at any time.
Jiang Fei didn't let her listen just now, and the two of them were some distance apart. Just as she ran to Jiang Fei, the gate of the east courtyard was slammed open by someone from the outside.
A group of guards rushed in from outside and surrounded the east wing.
Jiang Fei held Wen Zhu's hand and said, "Wait, don't be impatient. This is not the Jiang family's guardhouse."
As soon as he finished speaking, the guards separated and a man rushed in hurriedly, followed by Qingxing holding an umbrella.
Jiang Fei was stunned: "Princess?"
The princess looked her up and down, and only breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that she was not injured. She immediately shouted sternly, "Take down all these ghostly creatures for me!"
At the command of Princess Anping, the accompanying guards immediately rushed forward.
The old Taoist's face changed drastically when he saw this. He turned around and tried to escape, but was held by two guards on his left and right.
"Princess, please spare my life!" The old Taoist priest knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.
Yao was also panicked and stammered, "Princess, what do you mean..."
Princess Anping glanced at Yao and said, "How dare you! The Emperor detests supernatural powers and witchcraft, and you dare to practice such evil in the Jiang Mansion."
She turned to Jiang Fei, her eyes full of concern: "A Fei, are you okay?"
Jiang Fei shook her head, a warm feeling welling up in her heart. Although she had solved the problem on her own, the feeling of having someone protecting her was different after all.
Therefore, people's good intentions will eventually come back to them in some way, and people's malice will also hit them back like a boomerang.
Yao knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, "Princess, please understand. I was confused for a moment. I love my daughter so much and I was afraid that Rufei would be possessed by some evil spirit, so I resorted to this desperate measure."
If the princess had not known Jiang Fei's situation, she would have really believed Yao. But if she punished her severely, it would probably make the matter worse and implicate Jiang Fei.
"Forget it." Princess Anping said, "For Ah Fei's sake, I will not publicize this matter and let the Jiang family handle it. But if it happens again..."
"I won't dare to do it again!" Yao waved her hands repeatedly as if she had been pardoned. "I won't dare to do it again!"
Princess Anping then turned to Jiang Fei, her tone softening. "After you left today, I felt something was amiss, so I brought people here. I first went to Songhe Hall to see the old lady. When I saw that she wasn't unable to get up, I knew you must have been bewitched."
Jiang Fei felt warm in her heart, "Thank you for your concern, Princess."
"What's the point of saying all this? It's all trivial. You've helped me a lot." Princess Anping glanced at the Taoist priest. "What are you going to do with these people?"
Jiang Fei naturally didn't want to make a big deal out of it, not because she was afraid that the supernatural rumors would implicate her. Once the matter was exposed, her life experience would no longer be concealed, and Pei Jing would know in advance that she was the Caoya of that year.
That's why she sent Wen Zhu away earlier and interrogated the old Taoist alone. She couldn't kill so many people without anyone noticing, so she could only let them leave the capital as soon as possible according to the original plan and get as far away from the capital as possible.
"I'm not injured, so let's not publicize this matter. Let them get lost as far away as possible."
She glanced at the old Taoist priest, who nodded repeatedly, "Let's get out of here, get out of here."
Yao originally wanted to refuse to pay the reward, but the Taoist priest was quite capable and she was afraid that he would cast a spell that would make the talisman ineffective, so she had to pay the reward and let them leave quickly.
After the matter was settled, Princess Anping returned to her villa.
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Back in the west wing, Jiang Fei sat alone in front of the window, Yao's words echoing in her mind.
"She, that girl sold her body willingly back then."
Jiang Fei's fingers unconsciously stroked the edge of the teacup, and the tea had already gone cold.
"Miss." Jiutao walked in quietly and placed a bowl of porridge on the table. "You haven't eaten for a day."
Jiang Fei came back to her senses and tapped her fingertips lightly on the rim of the cup. "Jiutao, how desperate does a person have to be to voluntarily sell himself?"
Jiu Tao thought for a moment and said, "Maybe he has nowhere else to go."
"Then how did you get sold to the Jiang family?"
Jiu Tao held her chin and said, "I ate too much and my family couldn't feed me. They sold me to a wealthy family to prevent me from starving to death."
This answer sounds both pathetic and funny.
So it was because she really couldn't eat and wanted to survive that she abandoned those promises and left him alone in that dilapidated temple?
Jiang Fei closed her eyes. The dusk outside the window gradually deepened, casting her profile in shadow.
For some reason, Jiutao felt that the young lady was very sad now.
The candlelight in the west wing flickered and went out, the room was dark and stuffy, and the chirping of cicadas and frogs rose and fell outside the window.
Jiang Fei lay in bed, unable to fall asleep. She murmured, "It turns out I really abandoned him."
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