Chapter 33 Chapter 33

It was a dark moonlit night, with the silvery moonlight shining on the two of them.

Gu Huaisheng followed Jiang Jingchun all the time. He knew she was upset, but he just followed her without making any sound. When they finally arrived at Rongde Hall, Jiang Jingchun went straight to the old lady's bedroom. He did not follow her and waited outside.

It is almost midnight now, and Old Madam Jiang was preparing to go to bed at this time. In the past, Jiang Jingchun would not have disturbed her at this time, but today, she really can't wait. How can she sleep well if she doesn't know the answer?

The old lady knew that she had gone to Miao'en Temple today, but she didn't expect that she would come back at this time. When she heard the nanny outside come in to report that Jiang Jingchun had seen her crying and insisted on coming in to see her, she probably knew something.

She did not hide, but asked the nanny to go out and bring the person in.

She sighed deeply, and finally sat up from the bed. Her eyes, which were usually clear, were now staring blankly at the bed curtain in front of her. No one knew what she was thinking about.

What is supposed to come will come.

Having done such a thing, there is no way I can hide it for the rest of my life.

But she didn't expect it to come so soon.

The old lady didn't notice until Jiang Jingchun entered the house.

She called her, "Grandma."

The old lady came back to her senses, and when she heard her calling her grandmother, her eyes suddenly became moist.

Is she still willing to call her grandmother? Is she still willing to recognize her?

Mrs. Jiang's voice was trembling a little. She said, "Child, do you know everything?"

Jiang Jingchun nodded. Her tears had been flowing all the way, and now she only had a pair of dry and red eyes, and she couldn't even cry anymore.

Madam Jiang asked again: "Are you still willing to recognize me?"

Jiang Jingchun had no expression on his face. He just looked at her and replied, "Did grandma let me down too?"

Her grandmother had never let her down, so why didn't she acknowledge her?

This simple question made the old lady tremble with fear.

Jiang Jingchun was no longer in the mood to explore the old lady's mood, so she stated her purpose directly.

"My mother, where is she now?"

Is she really dead?

Jiang Jinghui said she was dead, but she refused to believe it.

Perhaps no one could give her the answer to this question, so she could only ask the old lady.

Now perhaps she is the only one who knows the truth and is willing to tell her the truth.

When the old lady heard this, her eyes felt a little dizzy. Thinking of that woman, she slowly closed her eyes, and a tear seemed to roll out of the corner of her eye.

After a long time, she opened her eyes again, as if she had made up her mind. She said to her, "Sit down. I will tell you slowly about what happened back then."

Since she knows everything, what is there to hide?

Jiang Jingchun sat down beside the bed as she was told, and the old lady began to talk about the past.

It was basically the same as the story told by Jiang Jinghui.

It's just a story about a mad woman stealing a sick woman's child.

After Li took the child away, Jiang Nan went to see the frail woman again. He told her that she was in poor health and had no husband. If she really raised the child, it would probably not live long. But if they raised the child, her life would be much better.

The woman didn't have the energy to make a fuss in the first place. She was in poor health, and after what happened, her condition deteriorated drastically. After hearing what Jiang Nan said, she was completely disheartened.

She knew she couldn't win against them.

Back then, the old lady also met that woman several times. She knew that it was the Jiang family who was so crazy about this, but... in the end she let them do this murder. If you want to count, she is also the murderer.

Jiang Jingchun asked her, "Where is her husband?"

Where is her husband?

The old lady recalled something that happened long ago.

At first, the woman didn't want to see anyone from the Jiang family, but later, the old lady kept looking for her. Although she couldn't bring Jiang Jingchun to see her, she would tell her about her recent situation, so later, the woman didn't resist her so much. However, losing her child was a huge blow to her, and her health deteriorated. In the end, she was so thin that only bones were left.

The old lady also asked the woman where her husband was.

The sick woman gave her the answer before she died.

The old lady said to Jiang Jingchun, "Your father's name is Qiong Zhang. She said that he was not her husband. The man had been raising her on a farm outside. They even only worshipped heaven and earth by themselves, and she had never even seen her parents. After she became pregnant and gave birth to the child, the man stayed with her for almost a year. He kept saying that he would take her to meet his parents and marry her. But when you were one year old, Qiong Zhang disappeared completely, as if he had evaporated from the world. She never saw him again. He told her that the outside world was terrible and asked her not to go out, so she waited for him on the farm for two whole years. However, she really missed him, so she still took you to the famous temple to burn incense. She wanted to see him again."

Later, during that trip, she lost her child.

If her husband had been by her side, she would not have ended up in this situation.

Who is Qiong Zhang?

The old lady had sent people to investigate, but no one in the capital had ever seen a family with the name Qiong Zhang.

But Qiong Zhang really looks like the son of a wealthy family.

The old lady could see that the manor where the woman lived was very luxurious, even more luxurious than the Jiang family's. An ordinary family would definitely not have the financial resources to afford such a thing. Qiong and Zhang both mean gold and jade, and ordinary people could not resist such a name.

They loved each other very much, and the old lady could see it just from the details. There were many wooden sculptures in the room that Qiong Zhang had carved himself, all of which were little toys he made to amuse women. He was obviously very rich, but he was still willing to spend his energy on those things. Moreover, everything used in the manor was of the highest quality, which further showed how much he valued that woman. And that woman, even though he had ignored her for two years, still wanted to see him again.

But if they loved each other so much, why did he abandon her for two whole years?

The old lady still doesn't understand.

Jiang Jingchun thought she had shed all her tears, but after hearing the old lady's words, she started crying again.

She had never felt so tearful before.

Tears could not stop flowing out of his eyes. Jiang Jingchun asked Madam Jiang, "So, she died in the end, right?"

When the old lady saw her crying, she couldn't help shedding tears, and her voice at this moment also carried a hint of grief and sadness.

"She couldn't make it. She finally couldn't make it. One year... one year after you left, she passed away."

Jiang Jingchun finally couldn't help but burst into tears.

From the initial repression to the subsequent recklessness, it was almost impossible to breathe.

For more than ten years, she was deceived for more than ten years and betrayed her biological mother for more than ten years.

She had no husband, no children, and was plagued by illness. She was so desperate.

"She died without ever seeing me for the last time."

She was lying alone on the sickbed, and at most she could only hear the old lady bringing her the latest news about her. Could she still see her? Would Li agree? If she snatched her away and took her for herself, could she still let her biological mother see her?

However, to her surprise, the old lady wiped the tears from her eyes and choked up and said, "Yes, I have. I saw you once before I died."

Why did Jiang Jingchun have no memory of this? She died when she was only four years old. At the age of four, she was able to remember some things, but Jiang Jingchun had never seen anyone with a terminal illness in her memory.

But after the old lady's reminder, she suddenly remembered an event from the past. Her pupils suddenly widened and she looked at her, "Is it that time?"

When she was young, the old lady suddenly said that she wanted to take her to the outskirts of Beijing to play. Li was reluctant at first and insisted on going with them. In the end, it was Jiang Nan who persuaded her and finally let her go. In addition to the old lady, her cousin Gu Huaisheng also went with her to the outskirts of Beijing.

The old lady took her to a manor in the suburbs of Beijing, and they took her into a room and blindfolded her. She asked Gu Huaisheng to play hide-and-seek with her, and Gu Huaisheng hid and asked her to find him.

Jiang Jingchun was young and didn't think about anything else. She thought it was a new game played by the old lady and her cousin, so she started to explore with her eyes blindfolded.

But before she touched it for long, she suddenly grabbed a hand. Jiang Jingchun was stunned. She didn't expect it to happen so quickly. She wanted to reach out and take off the laces, but was stopped by Gu Huaisheng. He said, "You can't take it off yet. You have to hold it for a cup of tea before you can take it off."

A cup of tea... that would take a long time. Although Jiang Jingchun was not happy, she always listened to the words of her cousin who was a few years older than her.

She obeyed and did not move, but for some reason, the hand holding her became tighter and tighter, and she seemed to hear the woman sobbing...

She felt that everything was strange, but Gu Huaisheng kept talking to her to distract her, saying that a new bakery had opened on the street, and then that there were fun toys at home...

Jiang Jingchun was not smart enough at that time and could not detect the strange atmosphere there.

However, it was not until today when I thought about it again that I realized that everything about that day was unusual.

The old lady said she saw her once before she died, so it must have been that time.

No wonder, that day Gu Huaisheng grabbed her hand so hard that her fingers were about to break, it turned out that it wasn't him at all.

Jiang Jingchun buried her face in her palms, tears flowing out through her fingers, and her sobs sounded like complaints and sobs.

Seeing her like this, the old lady knew that she had remembered something. She said, "She was very ill that day and couldn't even get up. She said she wanted to see you. She told me that you should at least let her see you for the last time before she died."

That was the first time she spoke to her. In the past, when the old lady talked to her about Jiang Jingchun's recent situation, she just listened and never said a word to them. She lay on the bed, facing the wall, just listening, not wanting to pay attention to anyone.

It was also at that time that the woman told the old lady about her affair with that bastard man.

"I lied to you and said your cousin wanted to go to the farm with you to play hide-and-seek, but it was just to let her see you for the last time. Later, not long after you left that day, she died of illness..."

The memories of the past are too dark, so dark that every time they are brought up, it feels cruel.

Life is like a mayfly, born in the morning and gone in the evening.

The frail woman eventually died on her bed. Her life was too short and she remained forever at the age of twenty.

It's so scary.

Jiang Jingchun thought it was a little too scary.

She felt a chill running through her body, and now everyone she looked at looked hateful.

Some people look beautiful on the outside, but they are actually rotten inside.

The people in the Jiang family are more filthy and cold-blooded than each other.

Her last name is also Jiang. She has lived here for more than ten years and she is the same.

She cried hard, perhaps because her emotions fluctuated greatly today. Later on, she was exhausted and powerless, and fell on the edge of the bed. She no longer had the strength to cry loudly, and only tears rolled down the corners of her eyes.

Later, she gradually became silent and seemed to be too exhausted. She lay on the bed, half asleep and half unconscious.

The old lady was extremely uncomfortable watching this, and after a long time she finally called someone in. She asked someone to take off her shoes, and because she was afraid of waking her up, she didn't take off her outer clothes, and then she directly carried the person to the bed and lay down.

Then she asked the servant to fetch a basin of hot water.

After the servant left, someone else came in to report that Gu Huaisheng was still outside.

Although the old lady didn't know why he was there, she still asked someone to call him in.

After Gu Huaisheng entered the room, his sight fell on Jiang Jingchun. She was lying on the bed, her forehead covered with sweat, her pale face full of tear marks, her brows tightly furrowed, her body trembling uncontrollably, and she looked extremely painful.

Seeing this, Gu Huaisheng's eyebrows began to ache.

The old lady noticed Gu Huaisheng's gaze and also looked at Jiang Jingchun's face. She felt heartbroken again.

"She knows everything." She frowned. "The truth hurts. If she can't bear it, it's good enough that she can keep it secret."

Gu Huaisheng was silent for a moment, then spoke, "But one can't just live in obscurity all his life."

In this context, this voice actually carried a hint of indescribable sadness.

What happened back then was unfair to her. Even if the truth hurts, it is unlikely that she will be kept in the dark forever.

After hearing what Gu Huaisheng said, the old lady looked up and asked him, "So, did you tell him that?"

The reason why Gu Huaisheng knew about this matter was because the old lady really needed his help to deceive Jiang Jingchun. She knew that Gu Huaisheng was a tight-lipped person and would not tell anyone even if he knew about it. Moreover, he was also very smart, so it would be impossible to deceive him. So the old lady simply told him.

Not many people knew about the past, not even Jiang Runchu.

Wasn't he the one who talked to Jiang Jingchun?

But Gu Huaisheng shook his head and said, "I didn't say that. She was fine in the afternoon. I don't know who told her that later."

Who said it? They would only know after Jiang Jingchun woke up. It was useless for them to guess now.

But what Gu Huaisheng said is indeed right. Should people be kept in the dark forever?

In the past, Jiang Jingchun always felt that everything was her fault and she always felt sorry for it, but now...

The Jiang family was the murderer who killed her mother, but she was in a thief's den, calling the murderer father and mother, and treating the murderer as her closest person.

The room fell into a dead silence, and no one spoke for a while.

The servant quickly brought a basin of hot water. She placed the water on the table and prepared to wash the towel. Gu Huaisheng stood up and said, "Let me do it."

Upon hearing this, the servants also retreated.

Gu Huaisheng went to wash the handkerchief. His clean and beautiful hands made such a simple action seem like he was doing something very solemn and dignified.

He washed the towel and walked to the bedside. The old lady reached out to take it, but she heard Gu Huai say, "Grandma, help her up and I will wipe it."

The old lady didn't think much of it. Gu Huaisheng looked so serious that no matter what he did, others would not think of him doing anything else. She just regarded his behavior as a brother's love for his sister.

She did as she was told and gently lifted Jiang Jingchun's upper body and leaned against him.

"Be gentle."

Gu Huaisheng placed the clean white towel on her forehead, and began to wipe the sweat off her face gently. He moved the towel down to wipe her fair and tender skin.

When the fair skin came into view, he suddenly recalled what happened two years ago.

Jiang Jingchun sneaked out to play and got into trouble, so he saved her.

After he brought her back to the Jiang family that time, he wanted to hand her over to Li.

However, the girl, who was so tired that she had fallen asleep in his arms, held on to his sleeves tightly and refused to let go. No matter how others pulled, they couldn't pull her free. If they tried to pull her away by force, her brows would frown and she would cry out in fear the next second.

There was no other choice but for Gu Huaisheng to carry Jiang Jingchun into the house and stay by her side until she woke up before leaving.

He was being dragged by her, doing nothing but watching the servants wipe the mud off her face.

At that time he was wondering why the little girl's face was so white, as white as a piece of tofu. He thought with mischievous humor that if he pinched her lightly, he would be able to make her cry.

Two years later, he was the one wiping her face, but now looking at her almost pale face, he wondered why people could be so pitiful.

Poor him, he's in so much pain.

She cried so hard that Gu Huaisheng's heart ached as well.

The old lady said: "She liked you very much before and listened to you very much..."

Gu Huaisheng said, "Let my cousin come to Gu's house."

They both spoke almost at the same time.

After hearing what Gu Huaisheng said, the old lady was silent for a while.

Just as she wanted to say just now, Jiang Jingchun used to like him, but in recent days, she seemed to rarely mention Gu Huaisheng, as if she had let it go.

She would definitely not be happy staying in the Jiang family in the future, but would she be willing to go to the Gu family?

The old lady was silent for a long time before she finally spoke. She said, "In the past, she would definitely be happy to be with you, but now, she probably doesn't like it. Besides, in what capacity should she go to the Gu family?"

After hearing what the old lady said, Gu Huaisheng paused his movements slightly and the towel stopped just above her neck. If he wiped it further down, he would be crossing the line.

He stopped what he was doing and replied to the old lady, "Any identity is fine."

If she wants.

He thought it through and realized that if he couldn't bear to see her cry, if he was always worried about others bullying her, then he would just stay by her side and watch over her.

The old lady shook her head. "I can't make the decision for her. Wait until she wakes up and ask her yourself."