Chapter 104
Luo Shenyuan had just returned from the Dali Temple.
After talking with Xu Wei for a while, he felt a little tired. He led his men into the mansion, and soon his subordinate Lin Yong followed.
"Did Miss Sun take the letter away?" Luo Shenyuan asked him.
Lin Yong replied respectfully, "According to your instructions, I have asked Mother Jiang to give it to Miss Sun. I guess Miss Sun should be leaving the house by now."
Luo Shenyuan nodded and walked to the main hall, but found it quieter than usual. It would be more lively when Yi Ning was around. There were several maids in her room who loved to laugh and make noise, and she liked others to be lively. Luo Shenyuan didn't see her and frowned: "Where's Yi Ning?"
Lin Yong called over a guard. Seeing that it was Lord Luo, the guard hurriedly bowed and said, "Sir, the young lady has accompanied Miss Sun to the canal. Judging from the weather, I estimate that she should be back soon."
Luo Shenyuan suddenly opened his eyes when he heard this. The faces of the people standing behind him also changed slightly.
He looked at the guard coldly, and almost squeezed out these words from between his teeth: "--Didn't I forbid her to go out? Who allowed her to leave the house?"
Luo Shenyuan never showed his emotions, and the guards had never seen him so fierce. He quickly replied, "The young lady said she'll be back soon, and I've even sent guards to follow her, so I don't think anything will happen..." Seeing Luo Shenyuan's increasingly gloomy expression, he suddenly had a very bad premonition. His heart was pounding, and his tone was erratic. "How about... I'll send someone to look for her right now..."
As he spoke, Luo Shenyuan stood up, walked up to him, raised his hand and slapped him in the face.
He had what is commonly known as a broken palm, and his blows were extremely painful. The guard was stunned by the blow, and half of his face was numb when he turned his head away.
His voice was as cold as ice. "I've already told her not to leave the house when I'm not around. Do you think I'm being ignored?"
"I thought it was nothing..." The guard noticed his increasingly cold gaze and recalled the rumors about Lord Luo, how he treated the prisoners, and his inherent cruelty. He knelt on the ground, feeling a cold sweat break out on his back. His face was already swollen. He lowered his head and said, "It's my fault. Please punish me, please punish me..."
The subordinates had already put a cloak on Luo Shenyuan, and someone had already gone to prepare the carriage. He straightened his sleeves and said coldly to the person next to him: "Take him to kneel down, and I will deal with it when I come back." Then he immediately walked out of the main hall. Lin Yong had already prepared the carriage and manpower, and several people rushed towards the canal.
Luo Shenyuan's face looked very ugly along the way.
He wanted to cast a line to fish, but he was afraid that others would not be enough to convince Cheng Lang, so he even took Sun Congwan into account. The things written in that letter... were actually intended for Cheng Lang. Who knew that Yining would go to see the canal with Sun Congwan today! Didn't he accompany her to see it yesterday?
Although Cheng Lang is Yining's cousin in name, his mind is also changeable and hard to guard against. In order to achieve his own goals, who knows what he will do? The last time Shen Yu almost flirted with Yining, he almost ignored it. Besides, Wei Ling is not in the capital now, so who is he afraid of in the Duke of Ying's Mansion? Old Mrs. Wei is halfway into the coffin, and Wei Ting is still young.
Luo Shenyuan suppressed the anger in his heart and let out a sigh.
The carriage was running faster and faster.
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Yi Ning sat down beside Luohan's bed, straightened her clothes, and continued, "Would you like to kill me? Or tell Lu Jiaxue and let him kill me?"
Cheng Lang's lips moved slightly, he was almost in disbelief. He walked forward slowly and whispered: "You...you..."
Yi Ning smiled faintly at him and said, "Alang, if you want to kill me, do it now. You work for Lu Jiaxue, so you definitely don't need someone who knows his secrets..."
In fact, she knew that Cheng Lang would not kill him, and these words were just to test what he was thinking.
"No!" Cheng Lang suddenly interrupted her, walking up to her. He looked at her with a heavy sadness in his eyes, as if he had been pushed to the limit and was forbearing. He clenched the dagger in his hand, "Tell me... is it... how, how is it that you are..."
Yining nodded slowly. "I know, I remember those things. Don't ask me why. I live very cautiously. I've been murdered once, and if I continue to be so stupid, I probably won't live long." She continued, "If you hadn't forced me to do that, I wouldn't have told you. But why do you have to ask?"
In fact, she never forgot these.
The pain of being shattered to pieces after falling off a cliff, the powerlessness of being trapped in a hairpin. The feeling of being completely unaware of your existence, no matter what happens. The feeling of being unable to say a word, no matter how the world changes. Every time I think of it, it feels like a nightmare, the pain that clings to my bones, the terror of the person who cared for me by my side becoming a murderer.
That was because over twenty years had passed, so the feeling had faded. But the cold stone bricks of the side courtyard, Xie Min standing alone on a rainy night—these were the scenes she had seen most often in those twenty years. These scenes left her feeling desolate and frightened, so she had always tried to forget them. She truly wished she were this little Yining, not the Luo Yining of her previous life.
Cheng Lang said hoarsely, "You might say one or two things..."
Luo Yining sighed, looking out the window, and whispered, "When you were little, you loved eating those yam cakes and ate a lot of them. In the end, you had indigestion. I asked you to eat less, but you refused. You would eat them even if you didn't have any meals. Once, you vomited all over the bed, and I had to wake you up in the middle of the night to clean up for you."
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