Chapter 542 [Never expected]
A sneer flashed in Jiang Wanyue's eyes. She looked at Jiang Zhoulin with a cold and mocking voice: "Dad, if it weren't for you, how could I have ended up like this!"
"Have you forgotten? Three years ago, you sent me to frame Jiang Lili and have her hunted by wolves."
"Now all this is just retribution!"
Jiang Wanyue deeply regretted opposing Jiang Lili, but her hatred for her only deepened. "If Jiang Lili and I hadn't fallen out, with my contribution in making her the Crown Prince's Consort and all the kindness I'd shown her in the past, I'd definitely be sitting in the palace drinking tea, living in a magnificent bedroom, with countless servants waiting on me."
"At least I will be given the title of a princess or a county lady, and I can choose any husband I want from all over the world!"
Jiang Wanyue became more and more excited as she spoke, "It's all your fault. You made me kill Jiang Lili!"
Jiang Zhoulin's pupils suddenly contracted and his face turned pale in an instant.
Clearly... back when Jiang Lili was exiled, all Jiang Wanyue had to do to trick her into going to the grove was a handwritten letter from her. It was Jiang Wanyue who had said she wanted to see Jiang Lili tortured to death by wolves. Otherwise, how could he have let her risk her life and go to the jungle? Back then, he even borrowed elite soldiers from the emperor to protect Jiang Wanyue, to prevent her from encountering any danger in the jungle.
Jiang Zhoulin opened his mouth, as if he wanted to explain something, but in the end he just closed his eyes weakly.
"You...how could you..."
Put all the blame on him.
Jiang Zhoulin's voice was so weak that it was almost inaudible.
Jiang Wanyue didn't say anything else. She turned around decisively, dragging her disabled leg, and walked with difficulty into the depths of the forest.
Behind her, the howling of wolves sounded again, and she knew that Jiang Zhoulin had no chance of survival.
Jiang Zhoulin lay on the ground, feeling his life slipping away, his heart filled with despair and regret.
He thought of Jiang Wanyue, whom he had carefully nurtured, but now, at the critical moment of life and death, she abandoned him without hesitation.
"Li Li..." He murmured softly, tears flashing in his eyes.
He thought of his first daughter Jiang Lili, whom he had mistreated, the daughter who had been abandoned and exploited by him.
Today, Jiang Lili rules the world, but Jiang Wanyue, whom he carefully cultivated, betrayed him when he needed her most.
"Retribution...it really is retribution..."
Jiang Zhoulin's voice became weaker and weaker, and finally disappeared completely in the cold wind.
Jiang Wanyue dragged her crippled leg, struggling to move forward through the mountains and forests. She felt no guilt, only a desire to survive.
Jiang Wanyue stumbled and almost rolled in the woods before she saw the figure of her mother Lu Fangqin in the distance.
"mother!"
Jiang Wanyue used up all her remaining strength to shout loudly to Lu Fangqin, and then collapsed to the ground.
Lu Fangqin heard Jiang Wanyue's cry for help and quickly ran over to help her up. She looked behind Jiang Wanyue and her heart skipped a beat: "Wanyue, why are you alone? Where's your father?"
Jiang Wanyue's tears fell like beads from a broken string: "Dad... Dad said he had to go to the bathroom, so he left me alone there and never came back."
"Dad, could it be that he thinks I'm useless and deliberately abandoned me in the woods?"
Lu Fangqin was anxious at this time and couldn't tell whether what Jiang Wanyue said was true or false.
"No, your father wouldn't do that!"
When the Queen Mother heard that Jiang Zhoulin was gone, she became suspicious: "Well, the most important thing right now is to escape. We don't know when the wolves will catch up. Let's go quickly."
"Lord Jiang is the Minister of Personnel after all. He must have a way to protect himself. Let's ignore him for now!"
At the empress dowager's urging, Lu Fangqin supported Jiang Wanyue and walked down the mountain. They were sleepy, tired and hungry, but they could not stop.
They walked in the mountains for a day and a night, rarely stopping to rest. Their feet were covered with blisters and the soles of their feet were in excruciating pain.
All the supplies were burned, and the horses pulling the carts were gone. They could only take turns sleeping because they were tired, and one person was sent to stand guard. In just less than two days, the three of them were like wild ghosts in the mountains, exhausted, as if they had lost their souls, and their expressions were a little dull.
Especially Jiang Wanyue who was seriously injured. She had no time to rest and could only eat wild fruits when she was hungry.
Fortunately, the Queen Mother knew some pharmacology and picked some hemostatic herbs in the mountains, which barely saved Jiang Wanyue's life.
Lu Fangqin felt sorry for her daughter and stole bird eggs for her. As a result, her eye was pecked by a bird and bleeding profusely from her left eye. She was probably going to go blind.
It was not until dawn on the third day when the sky was slightly brighter that the three arrived at the foot of the mountain and met a herbalist who had gotten up early to collect herbs in the mountains. Lu Fangqin used her gold hairpin to exchange for food and accommodation with the herbalist and showed Jiang Wanyue the wounds on her body. Only then did the three of them escape from danger and finally see some hope.
Despite treatment by the herbalist and the village doctor, Jiang Wanyue still couldn't save his leg and arm, and became half-disabled.
In the herbalist's house.
Jiang Wanyue lay on a hard, jarring wooden bed, covered with a patched quilt, staring at the thatched roof with empty eyes, feeling the urge to end her life right then and there.
But when she thought about the fact that she had not yet taken revenge, and that she still had Master Zheng and the Haining Navy, this was the last glimmer of hope that kept her alive.
But she didn't know that the Master Zheng she was thinking about had been abducted and sold.
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"I told you, I'm Zheng Qin, the tyrant of the East China Sea! How dare you do this to me?"
"Tell your boss to come out and see me!"
Zheng Qin and Emperor Qingning were tied up with hemp ropes and thrown onto a donkey cart.
They never imagined that the villager they were staying with was a human trafficker who sold them for three taels of silver.
When Emperor Qingning saw that the villagers were so overjoyed at just three taels of silver, he felt humiliated and ironic.
"Zheng Qin?"
The burly man in charge of transporting them obviously knew the name. "Are you kidding me? How could Zheng Qin be reduced to being sold?"
Zheng Qin was delighted to hear that the other party knew his name, and quickly asked, "Where is this place? Is it close to the sea?"
The burly man sneered: "You are stupid, I told you so that you can run away, right?"
After saying that, he struck Zheng Qin and the other man unconscious with two slashes of his hands.
When he opened his eyes again, Zheng Qin was awakened by the water.
A man dressed as a waiter sneered at him and said, "Are you awake? Wake up and get to work! You and this eunuch will wash the dishes in the kitchen together. You can't eat until they're clean."
Emperor Qingning never thought that he, a dignified emperor, would fall to the point of washing dishes in a restaurant and being called a eunuch. He was sad, angry and humiliated, but he had even chewed wild grass during his days in the mountains. When he heard that there was food to eat, he swallowed his saliva and hesitantly picked up a plate of food.
But he had never washed dishes before, and within a quarter of an hour, he accidentally broke a plate.
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