Chapter 454 What? Don't believe it? Then forget it
Lan Xiyue's face darkened completely, and there was a cold light in her eyes.
What the old lady said was true. Her previous life's brothers and sisters had indeed never lacked material things in the Marquis' Mansion.
However, Lan Zhenrong's misfortune today was also his own fault. If it weren't for him, she wouldn't have been so cruel.
Seeing Lan Xiyue's silence, the old lady thought there was an opportunity, so she hurriedly stepped forward, her voice suddenly softened, with endless pleading: "Lan Xiyue... No, Princess! I beg you! Now that the Marquis's Mansion is in ruins, the monkeys scatter when the tree falls, and the family is broken and dead. Isn't this retribution enough? Zhenrong... he was forced into a desperate situation and became confused! I only ask you to be merciful and let him out! I promise you that after he comes out, he will turn over a new leaf and never dare to have any bad thoughts towards you again! I only ask you to give him a way to live..." She hunched her back, her white hair disheveled in the cold wind, and her posture was humble to the dust.
Lan Xiyue remained silent, her eyes calm.
Seeing that she was unmoved, the old lady felt despair like a tide. She suddenly pushed away the old nanny who was supporting her, and her voice suddenly rose, with a tragic and heroic tone of desperate gamble: "Lan Xiyue! Are you really so heartless?! Do you... do you really have to make me, an old man with only his twilight years, kneel down for you?!" Before she finished her words, her body softened, and she was about to kneel down in front of Lan Xiyue on the shaft of the cart!
"Madam! You can't do this!" The old nanny beside her was so frightened that her soul was about to be shattered that she desperately tried to support the old lady's shaky body. She looked up at Lan Xiyue anxiously, her eyes full of pleading and grief. "Princess! Please have mercy! The old lady's health was not good to begin with, and the incident at the Marquis' Mansion has made it even more serious. She has only been able to get out of bed in the past two days... Can you... can you really bear to see an old woman with white hair kneeling in the street begging you?!"
Lan Xiyue stood on the high shaft of the cart, her eyebrows slightly raised. Her gaze swept across the old lady's face, which was filled with grief and anger, and then passed by the passers-by who were gradually gathering around her and pointing and talking. A subtle hint of sarcasm was lingering in her cold voice: "What? Are you trying to kidnap me with 'filial piety' and 'pity'?"
Qian Duoduo felt the pressure from the surrounding gazes, and quietly tugged at Lan Xiyue's sleeve, his voice lowered to a very low level: "Yueyue..."
The old lady, however, seemed to have grasped at straws and resolutely said to the loyal Matron Li, "Matron Li, please let go! As long as I can get Zhenrong out, I'll kneel down and kowtow to her. What's the harm? I've already lost all my dignity!"
Upon hearing this, Nanny Li's turbid old tears rolled down her face instantly. Instead of letting go, she knelt down heavily on the cold and hard ground with a plop, her forehead pressed against the frozen soil. Her voice was filled with tears, and every word was tearful: "Regent Princess! This old servant kowtows to you! Please have mercy! The old lady...she really can't hold on any longer! She has become ill from worry these days, and has been taking medicine continuously. She can barely walk just these past two days...Please consider the old lady's twilight years, and consider...consider the fact that the Marquis' Mansion once sheltered you and your siblings, please let the master go! This old servant is willing to kneel for the old lady until you agree!" Her skinny body shivered in the cold wind, and she was extremely humble.
An Yi frowned and took a half step forward. His voice was low but clear in Lan Xiyue's ears: "Princess, should I have my subordinates disperse the crowd and take them away?"
Lan Xiyue's gaze shifted from the kneeling Nanny Li to the old lady's face, who was struggling and on the verge of collapse. Beneath the forced strength in her cloudy old eyes was bottomless despair.
Her eyes were as dark as a frozen lake. After a long while, she spoke in an almost indifferent tone, without any emotion: "Okay, go back and wait."
These few light words sounded like thunder in the old lady's ears.
She suddenly looked up, staring at Lan Xiyue in disbelief. Her haggard face instantly lit up with ecstasy, and her voice shrill and cracked with excitement: "Are you...are you serious? Are you really willing to let Zhenrong come back?!"
Lan Xiyue raised the corner of her lips in a faint, almost playful arc, and said in a cold voice: "What? Don't believe it? Then forget it."
"No! No! Believe it! I believe it!" The old lady seemed to be afraid that she would go back on her word, and she promised hurriedly, her voice trembling with the trembling of surviving a disaster, "As long as Zhenrong can come out, we will leave immediately, leave the capital, go far away, and never get in your sight again! I... I will do what I say!" She promised anxiously, as if she had grasped a glimmer of hope.
Lan Xiyue stopped looking at her, turned around, lifted the curtain neatly, and stepped back into the warm carriage.
The curtains were drawn, blocking out everything outside.
Only then did Nanny Li stand up tremblingly and use all her strength to support the old lady who was almost exhausted.
The old lady looked at the magnificent carriage that symbolized power, and finally, turbid tears flowed unrestrainedly. She tightly grasped Li Ma's arm, as if grasping her only support, her voice choked with sobs as she murmured repeatedly: "The Marquis's Mansion is gone... Everything is gone... As long as Zhenrong comes back alive... As long as he comes back alive..."
Nanny Li looked at the direction where the carriage was leaving and whispered to comfort her, "Old lady, you heard it. The princess said it was true. The master will definitely come back. It's freezing cold out here, and your health is important. Let's go back first. If something happens to you again, what will happen to the master when he comes back?" She carefully supported the old lady and walked back step by step.
The old lady leaned almost all her weight on Li Ma, and walked unsteadily. The wind and snow blew her white hair into disarray, and her back looked desolate and sad.
"Madame Li... In this huge mansion, the monkeys scatter when the tree falls... All those maids and servants who used to be so attentive to me have all run away... It's so hard for you to still take care of a useless old bone like me..." Her voice was filled with the sadness of old age.
Nanny Li's eyes were red, her voice choked but firm: "Madam, you have wronged me! If you hadn't rescued me from the human traffickers and given me a bite to eat, I would have frozen to death that winter! How could I be here today? I can never repay you for this kindness even if I die!" The backs of the master and servant, supporting each other, looked particularly small and lonely in the empty and lonely streets, and gradually disappeared in the depths of the wind and snow.
Inside the carriage, the heater emitted warm air, but it couldn't dispel the chill that had just been brought in.
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