Su Qingyu's heart skipped a beat when she heard Li Chaoyun ask this. She had said she had caught a cold this morning, and had brought Princess Rong with her just after the incident. Now she was asking about Shen Yue again.
Could Li Chaoyun be involved here?
She said casually, "I didn't see Shen Yue when I came here." Then she turned to look at Rong Huai, "Did she come this morning?"
Rong Huai noticed Su Qingyu's warning look and said, "My third aunt did come this morning, but she left after sitting for a while."
Li Chaoyun became even more suspicious, wondering what had happened.
While they were talking, they heard Princess Rong start cursing again.
"My daughter-in-law went back to her parents' home and had a miscarriage and died. You, the Shen family, must give us an explanation."
"If this matter is not clarified today, I will go and beat the drum to report it tomorrow."
Su Qingyu said to Rong Huai meaningfully, "Prince Rong should persuade the princess. If this matter gets out of hand, both our families will lose face."
Rong Huai hurriedly walked to the side of Princess Rong, "Mother, let's discuss the funeral first."
Shen Zhiheng suppressed his grief and said, "Let's go to the side hall of the outer courtyard and talk."
Everyone filed out. Before leaving, Su Qingyu instructed Jiang Qi to take his men to guard the Orchid Garden.
At this time, in a secluded room behind Lanyuan, Shen Yue was curled up on a mahogany armchair, holding a cup of warm ginseng tea in her hand and sipping it with her head down.
Li Yunzhou sat opposite her. After she finished drinking the ginseng tea in her hand, he took it and carefully placed it on the high table beside her.
Shen Yue lowered her eyelashes and hadn't spoken since she came in. In her mind was the desperate struggle with Rong Huai and the scene of Shen Wu's death.
She had just learned a few days ago that her biological mother was murdered by her stepmother. She had been upset over this matter for the past few days, and now she had suffered another such a nasty incident.
Li Yunzhou hesitated for a long time before asking softly, "Are you scared?"
Afraid that she would worry about the negative impact of this matter, he spoke to comfort her, "Don't worry, I won't let Rong Shizi spread rumors about what happened today. Master's wife asked us to leave because she didn't want you and me to be involved."
Shen Yue shook her head, "I'm not afraid."
"I just can't understand...why would they want to harm my aunt? Not only did they harm my aunt, but now they want to harm me too."
"I know they are bad people and deserve to die. But Chen Wu died in front of me, and I still ask myself over and over again, did she die because of me?"
"And Chen Ying from before..."
Shen Yue's tone was hollow and emotionless. She seemed to be speaking to Li Yunzhou, but also to herself.
A layer of mist appeared in Li Yunzhou's eyes, and he reached out and rubbed Chen Yue's messy hair.
"Some people are just bad and will do anything to achieve their goals."
"This isn't your fault. If you hadn't dodged, you would have been the one to die. Chen Wu won't blame himself for your death."
Li Yunzhou spoke softly and in a coaxing tone.
He knew that Shen Yue was frightened. A living person died in front of her eyes. Shen Yue had never experienced such a scene before.
Shen Yue's suppressed emotions seemed to have suddenly found an outlet, and she continued speaking.
"When I was little, I always thought the eldest lady was my biological mother. I thought Shen Wu and Shen Ying were the same."
"But I could tell she didn't like me very much. I thought I had done something wrong, so I tried my best to please her and everyone in the eldest house."
She stretched out her wrist and gently rolled up her sleeve. There was a thumb-sized scar on her wrist.
"The eldest lady was ill, and I saw the servants had prepared some medicine, so I rushed to bring it to her. She took a sip, said it was too hot, and then threw it on me."
"I blamed myself so much at the time, I just hated myself for being useless and not knowing how to blow her up."
"Later, they became even more aggressive, so my grandmother took me in."
"It wasn't until I was a little older that I realized I wasn't her biological child. When I found out, I actually felt relieved."
At this point, she laughed at herself, "Fortunately, my grandmother and third uncle protected me later, otherwise..."
Shen Yue was originally laughing, but suddenly she covered her face and started crying.
She curled up in a ball on the mahogany armchair, and the only sound she could hear was her suppressed sobbing.
Li Yunzhou stood up, walked to her side, put his arms around her head and let her lean on him.
"Don't cry, it's all over. No one can bully you in the future."
Speaking of this, Li Yunzhou recalled the scene of breaking into the house today, Rong Huai holding down Shen Yue, and Shen Yue holding a piece of porcelain in her hand with a determined look on her face.
The murderous intent in his eyes flashed by, and then turned into tenderness amid Shen Yue's crying.
Shen Yue leaned on Li Yunzhou unconsciously, crying even harder than before.
Li Yunzhou felt sorry for her grievances and understood her despair of having nowhere to vent.
Patting her shoulder gently, he said, "If anyone bullies you again, just tell me."
He will also avenge her today.
Knowing that Shen Yue was still immersed in her emotions and unable to come out of it, Li Yunzhou tried to divert her attention.
"Actually, I'm the same as you. When I was little, I also thought Princess Yongjia was my biological mother."
"My childhood memories are confused. I remember how my mother died, but I also feel that Princess Yongjia is my mother."
"Don't you think it's strange? I still remember the tragic scene when my mother died. But my mother's appearance is exactly the same as Princess Yongjia's."
After hearing what Li Yunzhou said, Shen Yue's crying stopped abruptly. After sobbing hard for a few times, she raised her head and asked Li Yunzhou, "Then did you remember it wrongly? The princess is your biological mother?"
Li Yunzhou lowered his head and looked at Shen Yue's face, crying like a cat, and couldn't help laughing out loud.
He took out a clean blue-green cotton handkerchief from his arms and gently wiped the stains off Shen Yue's face.
"She's not my biological mother. When I was a child, I didn't live in the palace. The place I lived in was very beautiful. There were butterflies in the summer and plum blossoms of various colors in the winter."
Besides, how could a mother beat her own son to death? His father and stepmother looked at him as if he were an enemy.
He actually didn't understand. If she didn't like him, why did she take him back to the palace?
And whenever Princess Yongjia mentioned that he was not her biological son, his father would feel guilty as if he had done something shameful.
But there was one thing he was sure of: his mother's death was closely related to Princess Yongjia.
He dispelled the messy thoughts in his mind and continued to wipe Shen Yue's face.
At this moment, Li Yunzhou leaned forward, his scholarly, gentle face filled with tenderness.
Wiping Shen Yue's face was like wiping some rare treasure.
Shen Yue looked up at him, remembering what they had said in the carriage last time, and also thinking of the families that her grandmother had found for her these days.
She suddenly spoke in a low voice.
"Brother Yunzhou, my family has started arranging a marriage for me."
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