Cheng Ying glanced at Yang Jiyan calmly.
Seeing that he was unmoved, Yang Jiyan continued, "The emperor killed several generals in a row. After Datong fell, you took the emperor to Xianyang to avoid disaster. The emperor ordered Lord Gu to mobilize the Lingnan Army to fight the enemy, and Yu Qizhe guarded Shengjing. He used Gu Yun and Liu Ziqi, the eldest son of the Liu family, as generals to recapture Datong. The emperor issued three imperial edicts in one day to reward Yu Qizhe, and then the emperor wanted to move back to the capital. When Yu Qizhe and Lord Gu led the troops to Xianyang to pick up the emperor, they brought a petition from the people to get rid of the treacherous and corrupt officials and clear the emperor's side..."
It was unclear whether Cheng Ying believed it or not. She looked mysterious as she played with the ebony Buddhist beads hanging on her wrist which was as cold and white as jade.
Yang Jiyan glanced at the expression on Cheng Ying's face and said with determination: "You...you will die in Xianyang..."
Cheng Ying smiled without telling whether he was happy or angry, and said defiantly, "Interesting, it's quite interesting." He lowered his eyes as if looking at a funny ant, "You wanted to marry Yu Qizhe at first? How about I help you?"
Yang Jiyan opened her eyes wide, unable to figure out what Cheng Ying meant. She knew that this person was not used to being reasonable. Following her temper, Yang Jiyan shook her head vigorously and said, "I have fallen to this state today because of him. It's too late to hate him now. He is a cold-blooded man. If I were with him, I'm afraid I would only have one idea." She now only wanted Yu Qizhe and Liu Yujiao to be doomed and suffer more than her.
She had no choice but to surrender to Cheng Ying. Ji Wudao was plotting a rebellion and the Zhou family would have no way out. She couldn't just sit in the Dali Temple and wait for death.
Her father was heartbroken by her mother's death and no longer cared about her. She could only rely on herself to fight for a way to survive.
Yang Jiyan kowtowed vigorously to Cheng Ying, "Please bless me and spare my life."
During these days in Zhaoyu, Yang Jiyan thought a lot. It's not that she didn't regret it. If she had seen Yu Qizhe at the Yang family that day, she hadn't had those inappropriate delusions and intentions to get the upper hand before Yu Qizhe became successful. She wouldn't have ended up like this today. It was really one wrong step that led to another.
But she still felt unwilling to give in. God had given her a chance to start over. How could she fail miserably with such a unique opportunity?
Yang Jiyan firmly believed that God had other plans in mind.
Cheng Ying loosened the sandalwood Buddhist beads on her wrist and sneered, "Boring!" Then she called the butler over and asked him to take Yang Jiyan to settle down.
As the housekeeper left the room, Yang Jiyan's tense body relaxed slightly. She took a deep breath and was glad that she had finally escaped.
After Yang Jiyan left, Cheng Ying took out the note from her bosom that the East Factory guard had found during his investigation in Changkui. She sat in the room and read it for a long time, until the paper was wrinkled.
He worked out a rough timeline in his mind. Jiaojiao came to Taiyan around the middle of May in the tenth year of Mingzheng.
The note reads: The fifth son of my family is dying, so I bought a girl from the Meng family to bring him good luck. The girl from the Meng family hates the fifth son of my family, so she climbed into the bed with the fourth son of the third room of my family. The plan failed, and the girl from the Meng family fled in fear. Later, she was beaten and fell into a coma for several days before waking up...
After this, the second branch of the Yu family reversed its decline, Meng Yujiao showed her medical skills and won a place in the Yu family.
Cheng Ying rubbed the words with his fingertips. At that time, he was still in the Fahua Temple on Mount Chile. If he had gone down the mountain to Qingyu Village at that time, would everything have been rewritten? If his junior sister had met him when she first arrived in Taiyan, he would definitely have recognized her.
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