Chapter 42: Boomerang "You deserve to be like this now...
Zhou Jiu was always quick and efficient, and he quickly summoned two doctors. Although Chai Heng had walked a long way and had felt some leg pain, she knew her own body and didn't think the injury had recurred. Since they were already there, she thanked Zhou Jiu and led one of the doctors to Cui Miao's place.
Zhou Jiu watched Chai Heng turn around and lead his men to Cui Miao. He always felt something was wrong and exclaimed, "Hey."
Chai Heng turned around, thinking that Zhou Jiu had something to say, and waited patiently for him to speak.
Zhou Jiu scratched his head: "No, nothing, ma'am, you can go."
After divorcing Yang Yan, Chai Heng felt strange every time Zhou Jiu called her Madam. Back in the Marquis's residence, she'd been terrified of Yang Yan, always worried he'd go mad and do something harmful, so she'd been fine with Zhou Jiu calling her that. Now, she was a free woman with nothing to fear, so after some thought, she stopped at Cui Miao's door to correct Zhou Jiu.
"Don't call me Madam anymore."
"You can just call me Chai Heng or Miss Chai, it's all fine," said Chai Heng.
Zhou Jiu also knew that the two had divorced, so it was inappropriate for him to call her that. After stuttering for a long time, he nodded: "Okay... Chai, Miss Chai."
Chai Heng, satisfied with the address, went to Cui Miao's room. Zhou Jiu hurriedly led the doctor back to his master.
Yang Yan leaned against the bed: "How is her leg injury?"
The doctor lifted his clothes and cleaned the wound.
Zhou Jiu didn't know where to start: "I didn't know about Miss Chai's leg injury. After I brought the doctor over, she was concerned about Master Cui and took him to Master Cui."
"Miss Chai?" Yang Yan curled the corners of his lips, savoring these three words with a hint of amusement.
The doctor's hands were shaking slightly as he cleaned the wound, which was already bloody and mangled. Zhou Jiu felt a tremor in his heart when he saw this. He turned his head away, not wanting to see his master's pale face, and at the same time began to shift the blame, "It was the Madam who told me to call you that."
Yang Yan knew very well that it was Chai Heng's instruction.
She had always been like this, clearly distinguishing between close and distant relatives. Since she felt she could now completely break away from him, she hurriedly asked Zhou Jiu to change his address.
Similarly, it was also because she felt close to Cui Miao now and truly thought Cui Miao was a good person, so if he found a doctor for her, she would bring him to Cui Miao first.
Yang Yan couldn't explain how he felt right now.
Are you uneasy?
Of course there is.
Before coming here, although he'd been unhappy to see Cui Miao and Chai Heng together, he hadn't truly considered the possibility of them being together. Firstly, he subconsciously still felt that Chai Heng was his wife; they'd been married for over a decade, and she couldn't bear to leave him. Secondly, putting herself in her shoes, he felt that Chai Heng was using Cui Miao to piss him off, just like he'd used Xue Ruyue to piss her off.
But now, he wasn't sure.
He knew Chai Heng well; she wouldn't get so close to someone she didn't like. She still had some feelings for Cui Miao, but he had no idea when that affection would develop into a deep liking, and then into love. No one could be sure.
"So what is she doing now?"
"In Lord Cui's room." Zhou Jiu replied truthfully.
"Call her over." Yang Yan closed his eyes. "Forget it, wait a minute, take these two basins of blood out first, so I can change into clean clothes."
After the doctor finished cleaning the wound, he was sweating again.
Zhou Jiu wiped the sweat from his forehead. He knew that his master and mistress could only be together for two days normally. They were no longer husband and wife, so how could he call her over whenever he wanted?
But since he had to bear the emperor's worries while eating his food, he had no choice but to try again.
"Okay, then sir, please change your clothes first."
"I'll go call you after you've changed."
Chai Heng stayed in Cui Miao's room for a long time, watching the doctor bandage his arm and listening to him talk about how he came to Linzi City.
During her years in the capital, she had never met anyone like Cui Miao. He followed her wherever she went, always by her side. When she thought of returning to Furong Mountain, he followed her. When she visited Shouyang Village, he followed her out of concern for her. It was impossible not to be moved by such a sincere man.
After leaving Cui Miao's room, just when she began to carefully consider her relationship with Cui Miao, she turned around and saw Zhou Jiu cautiously smiling at her.
"What's wrong?"
"Madam, no, Miss Chai, our master would like to invite you over." Zhou Jiu said.
During the days in Linxi Village, Yang Yan still took care of her very attentively, but Chai Heng did not think that there was anything that the two of them needed to talk about alone until now.
"Let's talk about it when everyone is here."
"I don't want to go now."
Zhou Jiu naturally knew why she resisted. Once bitten by a snake, one will be afraid of ropes for ten years. His master had done things so recklessly in the past, so it was normal that she didn't want to pay attention to him now.
Zhou Jiu pursed his lips. Although he felt that his master deserved it, he couldn't help but say, "Madam, I'm sorry. I'm still used to calling you that, but I'm really not speaking for our master. You've known him since you were fourteen, so you should know him well. He always speaks like that, and it's unpleasant. Sometimes he's too conceited, but he's not that hard-hearted. He's done a lot for you behind the scenes."
"You were always afraid of the cold in the winter, and you would often have a high fever. Every time you had a fever, your parents would stay up all night to watch over you. But when you woke up during the day, they didn't want you to know, so they would pretend not to care and go to court."
"The servants in the mansion didn't know what you liked to eat and use. It was because you observed your usual habits and wrote them down one by one and told me, and I passed them on to the servants who were responsible for shopping."
"In the past few years, the Saint has been constantly trying to make things difficult for Furong Mountain and Prince Jing. No one in the court dares to speak up for Prince Jing, and it's all because the Lord always angers the Emperor on behalf of Prince Jing and his wife. Almost all the reprimands he's received in recent years have been for speaking up for Furong Mountain."
"He may have some bad qualities, but you also know that he lost his mother when he was very young, and his father was very absurd, beating and scolding him at every turn. For so many years, no elders around him taught him how to be a good husband." Zhou Jiu sighed, paused, and then said,
"I'm not saying all this to force you to do anything. I just think he lives a very lonely life. His mother died early, and his father wasn't really a father and didn't love him that much, so he lives a cold and paranoid life. If possible, ma'am, you should go and see him."
Chai Heng stood at the door and listened quietly to what Zhou Jiu said.
When she was with Yang Yan, she loved him more than anyone else, so Chai Heng naturally knew what Zhou Jiu said.
But these were not reasons for her to forgive him.
If someone, because of so-called love, forgets the hurt they've caused them, it's like handing a knife to that person. Even if they stab you three or six times, they deserve it. She had once handed Yang Yan a knife like that, and he had never shown mercy to her. She didn't want to experience that again.
"If Yang Yan is willing to always speak nicely and behave like a decent person, I am willing to talk to him nicely. Even if we can't be husband and wife, we can still be friends."
"I don't want to keep having such awkward and thorny conversations with him. But our trust is gone. Unless he can guarantee that he will always be a normal person in front of me, I can't be alone with him."
After Chai Heng said this, he was about to leave again. Zhou Jiu sensed a sign that he could pull Chai Heng over and said, "Talk nicely. His parents can talk nicely now."
"ensure."
"I can promise that."
"Madam, no, Miss Chai, if the master says anything unpleasant again this time, I will never come next time he asks me to deliver a message." Zhou Jiu stood in front of Chai Heng, preventing her from entering the room.
The inn was full of people coming and going. Chai Heng didn't want to argue with him, as it would be too embarrassing, so he said, "Then you go and remind Yang Yan first, and I'll go after you do that."
As if he had received some extraordinary recognition, Zhou Jiu nodded hurriedly, went into Yang Yan's room, said a few words, and then came out immediately.
"Madam, the master said that he is willing to talk to you nicely and swear on his future for the rest of his life."
This oath was a little true.
Chai Heng reluctantly believed it, sighed, and walked in. Zhou Jiu knew it was inconvenient for him to follow, so he waited outside.
Inside the room, the doctor hadn't left yet. Yang Yan had changed into a clean set of white clothes. He'd been injured a lot lately, but apart from the dark clothes she'd asked him to change into when he was learning from Cui Miao, he still loved wearing white. He didn't know how he had so many white clothes to change into.
It's amazing to say, this man had just lost so much blood, so much that Chai Heng almost thought all the blood in his body was almost drained out, but at this time he could still sit in front of her with all his strength.
She couldn't express her concern, so the only thing she could say was, "What do you want from me again?"
Seeing him like this, with this expression on his face, even someone he didn't know well would at least ask him how he was doing. But to her, there was no concern at all.
Yang Yan asked, "Do you talk to Cui Miao the same way?"
"Of course not." Chai Heng said honestly. Cui Miao was so good to her, and when she saw Cui Miao injured, her first words were of course to ask how he was doing.
"Please change the sentence."
Chai Heng didn't want to provoke him, but although he didn't say anything abnormal, he always made demands, so she didn't indulge him: "You deserve to live the way you are now."
Her light words were like a boomerang that hit Yang Yan's heart. Yang Yan's back stiffened and his whole body seemed to be frozen.
"You said something against me before, and I'm returning it to you. It's not too much, is it?" Chai Heng put the crutch aside.
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