Chapter 466 I Want to Be with Xiao Yan
Xiao Yan was eventually exiled to Qiongzhou.
The family property was confiscated, including the house where Lu Qiniang currently lived and everything in it.
All the shops that he had painstakingly run were closed down, and his prosperity vanished in the blink of an eye.
With nowhere else to go, Jiang Yi took Lu Qiniang and her daughter back to the Jiang family.
"The house is empty anyway, so please stay here peacefully, Qi Niang." Jiang Yi sighed, worry in his eyes. "Your family has gone through a huge change, and I know you're feeling bad. Now that things have come to this..."
"I'm not sad." Lu Qiniang raised a genuine smile at the corner of her lips. "Xiao Yan also saved his life. Our family is fine. Why should I be sad? I really don't know how to thank you this time."
This gratitude was even extended to the emperor in the deep palace.
Although he was the one who brought down the thunder, he was eventually spared.
The world is unpredictable, and everyone has their own reasons.
The final result was satisfactory, and Lu Qiniang was extremely grateful to the emperor.
"My husband has told me everything," Jiang Yi said with a bright smile, patting her hand. "Without you, he wouldn't be who he is today. Between us, there's no need for thank you. My husband has personally sent people to pick up Zhao Zhao and the others, and he told me to stay with you."
Lu Qiniang will always remember this timely help from her.
Mr. and Mrs. Jiang Yi are lifelong friends.
"Chi Chi is so pretty." Jiang Yi's eyes were fixed on the little Si Ya in Lu Qiniang's arms, full of amazement.
Although she was sleeping soundly with her eyes closed, her unusually thick and long eyelashes, like two small fans, cast thick shadows under her eyes with a natural curl. Her skin was like the finest cream, incredibly delicate and smooth, like a white jade ball.
"God really gave her the best. She is prettier than both you and Xiao Yan."
As he spoke, Jiang Yi couldn't help but stretch out his finger and lightly touched Chi Chi's delicate cheek. It was so soft and smooth to the touch that his heart melted.
"Everyone praises her for being born well. I hope she can live a good life in the future." Lu Qiniang looked at her daughter with a smile, her eyes full of tenderness.
Although this is not her biological child, Si Ya's background is worthy of pity, and she saved her own flesh and blood.
So Lu Qiniang secretly made up her mind to make proper arrangements and raise her well.
As for Xiaoman——
Lu Qiniang felt a pang in her heart and forced herself to suppress her surging thoughts.
Today is a day of reunion, and I cannot show my sadness in front of my daughters.
"Then I'm sure I'll be able to live a good life." Jiang Yi said, "With you as my mother, Chi Chi will be happy."
After a pause, she continued, "Abandoned Mother, please don't be offended by my frankness. What are your plans for the future? Xiao Yan's absence may last for three to five years, or even a lifetime."
In fact, in the minds of everyone, including Jiang Yi, exile to Qiongzhou was equivalent to a suspended death sentence - it only delayed the time of ultimate death.
That place is a living hell. It is very difficult to survive.
According to legend, there was rampant malaria, poisonous insects and ferocious beasts, and all kinds of unheard-of diseases, like ulcers attached to the bones, wildly breeding and spreading in the humid and hot environment, reaping fragile human lives.
Qiongzhou is isolated overseas, at the end of the world, a prison of eternal isolation.
The impossibility of leaving is like adding a shackle that can never be broken. There is no rule, no order, only endless despair and oblivion.
The land is barren and unfamiliar. The imagined Qiongzhou is filled with miasma, rain, and wild smoke, with primitive jungle covering the uncultivated land.
The exiles had to act like savages, fighting their way through thorns and bushes, and using slash-and-burn methods to cultivate the land, just to barely get a little bit of food that was not enough to fill their stomachs, surrounded by poisonous insects, snakes, and ants.
The living environment is even more unimaginable.
They could only live in simple thatched huts, which were windy and leaky on all sides and could not protect themselves from the invasion of poisonous insects and moisture.
Without clean drinking water, decent food, or even medicine, survival itself is a long and painful torture.
There are no relatives or friends, no comfort, only boundless loneliness and deep longing for homeland, which gnaw at the remaining mind day and night. The mental torture is a hundred times worse than the physical pain.
Lu Qiniang said, "Of course, wherever he goes, I will go."
How can a couple separate?
Jiang Yi was horrified and grabbed Lu Qiniang's wrist, unconsciously increasing his strength: "Qiniang, don't be impulsive! Do you know what kind of place Qiongzhou is? It's not a place for human beings!"
Her voice changed in tone with anxiety, and she poured out all the horrors everyone had imagined about Qiongzhou:
"The air is filled with miasma, and poisonous snakes, insects, and scorpions crawl everywhere. It's impossible to defend yourself! Plagues are rampant, and there's a shortage of medical care and medicine. Once you get sick, you're just waiting to die! You're isolated overseas, cut off from the world, and you can never return home. You can only live in a leaky thatched hut, eat wild fruits and vegetables, and have to open up wasteland like savages among poisonous insects... That's no way to survive! Xiao Yan, going there is a life-or-death situation. How can you go to such a place with Chi Chi?!"
Jiang Yi's voice grew increasingly anxious. "Abandoned Mother, if you stay in the capital, we'll take care of you and your four daughters. You and your four daughters won't have to suffer. You can reopen your shop, and I'll lend you the money. If you go to Qiongzhou... can you bear to let a child as young as Chi Chi suffer that same hardship, or even... die in that desolate land?"
"I've heard what you said before," Lu Qiniang said. "But no matter how terrifying a place is, as long as there are people, there's a way to survive. No matter how difficult the days are, as long as the couple is together, their hearts will be at peace."
"As for the four girls," Lu Qinniang finally showed a look of reluctance when she mentioned her daughters, "The capital is prosperous, and it's hard to raise girls in a place like this. The eldest girl is already married, Jiang Xuan is reliable, and the second girl can make money on her own. I didn't want to drag them down, but now that things have come to this - I can only leave the third and fourth girls behind and let them take care of them."
"Abandoned Mother, you are confused!" Jiang Yi said, "Have you abandoned your daughters for Xiao Yan?"
"They are all grown up, and I believe that Daya and Erya can take good care of their two younger sisters. The one who needs me the most right now is Xiao Yan. I can't let him go to such a wild place alone."
How can you have the best of both worlds?
It’s just that, among all the difficulties, we should weigh the pros and cons and choose the most important one.
Her daughter was important, but she could foresee that if she stayed in the capital, although her daughter would have the regret of not being able to see her parents, she would still be able to grow up in luxury.
Where is Xiao Yan?
Xiao Yan had to do his best to survive.
Lu Qiniang's lips curled up into her usual tenacious smile again. "To be honest, I wasn't sure about being a royal consort before, but luckily I was pregnant so I could avoid socializing. Now I'm not afraid of going to Qiongzhou. I can survive with my own two hands!"
This strength finally found a place to be used.
There is no need to engage in intrigue with others anymore, just fight for survival with the world, and together with Xiao Yan, cultivate a fertile land for survival in the wilderness.
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