Chapter 466 Murderous Heart
The man in black cloak sat in the carriage and took off his hood, revealing a handsome face. It was Liang Chaozong in disguise.
Liang Bai, Liang Chaozong's confidant, drove the carriage while asking, "Why don't you just stay and get closer to that woman?"
Liang Chaozong sneered and said, "You don't understand the affairs of love. Love is something that cannot be given too much, so that it will not be satisfied."
The carriage sped away and disappeared into the night.
The courtyard where Jiang and Yao Jinse are currently living.
In the guest room, Yao Jinse sat under the lamp, yawning, waiting for Liang Chaozong to return home.
The maid advised: "Miss, you should go to bed first. Who knows when the aunt will be back?"
"He has been late eight out of ten days recently. You have been waiting like this every day. Your body is exhausted."
Yao Jinse shook her head, "It's okay, I'll wait a little longer."
The maid walked to Yao Jinse with concern and rubbed her shoulders, "Miss, the aunt has been coming back late recently. Could it be that he has kept a concubine outside..."
The maid originally wanted to say "he has kept a concubine outside", but then she thought, the old lady Jiang in this mansion is the concubine kept by Lord Han.
She was really stupid. So she quickly swallowed the second half of the sentence.
Yao Jinse was silent for a moment, and did not answer the maid's words, but said: "Xiang'er, please pick up a storybook from the bookshelf for me to read."
The maid hurriedly did as she was told, took out a newly bought storybook, and handed it to Yao Jinse.
Yao Jinse casually turned a page and saw that it was written, "Since the prince hooked up with the courtesan of Xinyue Tower, he has been coming home late every day. When the prince's wife asked about it, he said he was busy with official duties."
Yao Jinse felt her heart tighten, closed the book and threw it on the tea table.
In the main room, Han Lie was sitting on the bed in his pajamas, and Jiang brought him a bowl of sobering soup.
"Changqing, take a bath and drink the sobering soup, you won't feel so bad." Jiang's voice was gentle.
Han Lie took a sip of the sobering soup, rubbed his temples with his other hand, and sighed, "Oh, time is really unforgiving. I'm getting old. I just drank two more glasses, and I feel so uncomfortable."
Jiang sat down by the window, stretched out her hand to rub Han Lie's head, and said softly, "Oh, it's not easy to become an official. There are quite a lot of social banquets, and I can't help drinking." Han
Lie closed his eyes comfortably and murmured, "That's right."
Jiang's hands did not stop moving. Her eyes flashed and she continued, "Changqing, you are the prime minister now, and it's still so hard. I think it must have been even more difficult when you first entered the officialdom in Dai Viet?"
These words seemed to bring back Han Lie's unbearable past. He opened his eyes, pulled Jiang's hand down, frowned and sighed.
"Thinking back then, I passed the imperial examination and became the top scholar as a commoner with no background. It was so difficult to enter the officialdom!"
Jiang said, "Didn't you later find a father-in-law who came from a family of officials? Was that helpful to you?"
Han Lie smiled bitterly and said, "Hey, you say he is from a family of officials, but my father-in-law was just an assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites with no real power. The official positions of other people in the family were even lower."
"To say it was of no help is not to say, but the help was really too small."
"It took me eight years to get a position as a Censor of the Ministry of Personnel, and I stayed in this small position for another five years without getting promoted."
Jiang said at the right time, "What happened later? Why did you get promoted?"
Han Lie's face looked a little ugly when he heard this, and he suddenly shut up as if a door had been suddenly slammed shut.
"Oh... of course I was promoted by the late emperor because of my meritorious service." Han Lie said perfunctorily.
Jiang deliberately pretended to be very interested, took Han Lie's hand, and continued to ask: "What merits did you make? You didn't get promoted for five years, but you got promoted all of a sudden."
Han Lie laughed a few times, looked away, looked at his hand, and said: "That was in the twelfth year of Pingchang, when the Jinghe River flooded, and I was promoted for my meritorious service in flood control."
"I was promoted from the Secretary to the Minister of Personnel all of a sudden."
Jiang looked at Han Lie with admiration and smiled: "My brother Changqing is really amazing."
But if you look closely, Jiang's smile does not reach the bottom of her eyes.
Jiang was sure at this time that Han Lie had deceived him.
Since she learned from the second prince that it was Han Lie who came up with the poisonous plan and killed her son, Jiang had thought of a countermeasure and wanted to test him personally.
Some time ago, Jiang proposed that he kill his wife and marry her. That was the first test.
After finding out that Han Lie was perfunctory, Jiang went to investigate the national events that happened in Dai Viet around the twelfth year of Pyeongchang. She even went to places that sold ancient books and found the court reports of those years.
Han Lie just told him that in the twelfth year of Pyeongchang, Jinghe River flooded and he had made contributions to flood control, but Jiang remembered that Jinghe River flooded in the thirteenth year of Pyeongchang.
Therefore, this is enough to show that Han Lie deliberately deceived herself, that is, the real reason for Han Lie's promotion could not be told to her.
Then, what the second prince said was true. The only son in her life, Xia Zhengze, was killed by him, Han Lie.
Jiang suppressed her emotions, and used the excuse that she had to go to the mansion for something, so she asked Han Lie to sleep first, and walked out of the main room with her hands on her chest. Jiang
walked to the Bodhi tree in the courtyard, and she could no longer move. She covered her chest in pain, feeling heartbroken.
The man she had loved for decades, the man kept saying that he had loved her for decades, but he killed his son.
Even if the son was not his, Han Lie's, he was her, Jiang Hui's after all! How could Han Lie bear it!
How painful would it be for a mother to lose her child? Han Lie was also a father, and he would know it.
If a queen lost her only son, what kind of situation would she face in the court? Han Lie had been an official in the court for many years, and he would know it.
Even though he knew the terrible consequences, Han Lie did it without hesitation for his own future.
This man was really terrible.
This man's care for her now was probably just to make up for the regret that they could not be together more than 30 years ago.
He only cared about his career and official position, and was no longer the elegant gentleman he used to be.
As for Jiang Hui, now that she knew his true face, she would not be fooled by him anymore.
She wanted to avenge her son!
Thinking of this, Jiang called her personal nanny. She whispered, "Go and find out where the ghost market in the capital is. Let's go there tomorrow night."
As the master and servant were talking, they heard the sound of a carriage in the front yard.
Because their house was not big, any sound made in the front yard could be heard clearly in the back yard.
Jiang asked, "Is the aunt back?"