Chapter 16 Where to Go
After everyone left, Shen Yanrong checked his wife's health again.
Lu Yao rolled her eyes at him without hesitation: "Do you think there's anything wrong with me? The doctor isn't willing to bandage me."
If the man hadn't insisted on having the wound treated, the doctor would have left long ago.
Chen Yanrong said in a good-tempered manner: "It's not that the wound is not serious and does not need to be bandaged. It's clearly that you are looking down on others." He didn't want to dirty his noble hands.
"Are you still angry?" Lu Yao soothed him, "After tomorrow, no one will be more noble than anyone else."
Shen Yanrong sensed a hidden meaning in the words and, remembering what Yao Mei had said before the doctor came, asked, "Is there anything else?"
Lu Yao did not hide it: "Didn't I go to a strange world when I was unconscious? I lived there for many years, was helped by many people, and helped many people too. The immortal saw that I was kind and told us that the Shen family would soon be confiscated and all of us would be exiled to Ganzhou."
"Are you telling the truth?" Shen Yanrong was about to exclaim in amazement at his wife's adventure, but after hearing the rest of the story, his expression turned serious again. "The Shen family is now at its peak, and that man is a strong candidate for the Shangshu position. How could it be..."
"Powerful, but not the only one." Lu Yao extended her index finger and waved it left and right. "Many people are eyeing this position. That person has made many enemies over the years, and his backstory isn't entirely clean. He's not truly so powerful that no one can challenge him."
Shen Yanrong nodded, that's the truth.
only,
If everyone in the Shen family were to be exiled, wouldn't he, his wife, and his children...
His mind suddenly became confused.
"And..." Lu Yao hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "Back then, my grandparents were framed."
"What?" Chen Yanrong stood up suddenly. With a "bang", the chair behind him was knocked over with great force. He asked anxiously, "Sister Yao, are you telling the truth?"
"You heard right," Lu Yao couldn't bear it, but she didn't hide it. "Back then, it was the Shen family who conspired with others to make my grandparents take the blame."
However, it won't be long before the Rong family will be able to get rid of those charges and regain their freedom.
only,
After so many years, the wealth and glory of the past are long gone, and the huge family has fallen apart.
"You mean, back then, the Rong family..." He couldn't hide the rest of the words in his sobs.
The one who harmed his maternal grandfather's family was his own biological father. Even though he only had a shallow blood relationship with this so-called father, he still blamed himself.
Without the Rong family, the Shen family would never have been able to reach this height in such a short time.
How could that person, how dare he?!
Lu Yao knew this would happen.
She sighed softly, stepped forward, held the other person's hand, and gently comforted him: "It's not your fault, you are also a victim."
Over the years, the Shen family has put a lot of people through hardship, and it was only thanks to the man's luck that he managed to get through it.
"Sister Yao, actually, I had my suspicions back then, but I just had no evidence," Shen Yanrong said, his eyes red as he spoke out what was suppressed in his heart. "I've been investigating this for years, but due to my limited ability, I've made no progress."
He finally understood what Sister Yao meant by what she said in the study, and finally knew why that person suddenly became so easy to talk to.
This is a guilty conscience.
I am also afraid that they will ruin the current good layout.
Thinking of something, Shen Yanrong became anxious and worried: "If he suspects that you know something, will..."
He had no doubt that this person was capable of doing such a cruel thing as murder to silence witnesses, as he was able to trample the Rong family, who had wholeheartedly supported him, into dust.
"He has no chance," Lu Yao smiled, reassuring him. "Tomorrow morning, the soldiers will arrive, and we will all be thrown into prison." Her gaze fell on the direction where the two children slept. "It's nothing else, I'm just worried. The conditions in prison are terrible, and the two children will suffer."
When she talked about being in prison, she had no other emotions, just as calmly as when she was chatting about today's weather.
Shen Yanrong looked worried: "Tomorrow morning?"
I thought I would know the news in advance and have time to plan, but I didn't expect it to be so urgent.
"You have no doubts at all?"
Lu Yao looked Shen Yanrong up and down. He believed everything she said. This man didn't seem stupid.
Chen Yanrong shook his head and looked at Lu Yao without a trace of hesitation: "You and I are husband and wife, and we love each other deeply. You wouldn't, and there's no need to, lie to me about these things."
After hearing what his wife said, he had no other thoughts except shock and thought it was as he expected.
Apart from that, he was only worried about the situation and future of his wife and children, and felt very sorry for them.
"When the money is sent over, you can take the child and leave the Shen family. With that money, life shouldn't be too difficult." Shen Yanrong felt guilty and sad, and quickly made a decision. "It's my fault as a husband and father that I have implicated you and the child."
"What are you talking about?" Lu Yao rolled her eyes at him, very dissatisfied. She deliberately misinterpreted his meaning and started to make unreasonable demands: "Just now you said that we are husband and wife as one, sharing joys and sorrows and never leaving each other. Now you want to kick me out?"
Shen Yanrong was helpless: "You know that's not what I meant."
"Then why did you ask us to leave?" Lu Yao glared at him. "Do you think a woman and child without a husband and father can really live well? Keeping hold of the money is a problem, not to mention anything else. Also, can we really leave? Where can we go if we leave?"
Even in modern times, it is not necessarily easy for a single woman to raise two children, let alone in the feudal and backward ancient times where people were cannibalized without leaving any bones?
She also didn't want to live a life of hiding with her child.
"No matter what, we should go to Ganzhou," Chen Yanrong said anxiously, "Be obedient and take the child away from here... In this life, I owe you and the child. Only in the next life..."
Lu Yao: “…”
She slapped the man on the arm. "What are you talking about? Have you ever asked me and the child if we agree with your wishful thinking?"
"I……"
"Alright, stop talking nonsense," Lu Yao glared at the man. "Do you really think we, an orphan and a widow, can get away? All under heaven belongs to the king. I don't want to live in fear alone with my child in a dark corner."
"But..." That was exile. In Ganzhou, the land was barren, with dense forests and shrubs, snakes, ants, rats and insects. The environment was harsh. How could his wife and children adapt? The journey to the exile was long and bumpy, and who knew what would happen.
Lu Yao didn't intend to listen to him, but she was no longer the helpless child she used to be. Apart from anything else, she could definitely help her family suffer less.
Just as she was about to tell the other party about her trump card and life-saving talisman, someone else walked towards their yard.
The two looked at each other, thinking that they were here to deliver their mother's dowry.
The two men opened the door and walked out. The one leading the way was Chunxiang, Wang Yalan's maid. When she saw them, disdain flashed in her eyes and she asked with her nose turned up, "Where are the things, you two?"
Lu Yao didn't even glance at the other party and said directly to everyone, "Put it in the living room."
After saying that, he stepped aside to let the person in.
Chuanxiang: "..."
She gritted her teeth and cursed the man over and over again in her heart.
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