Chapter 23, The Nightmare Feels Real
I casually picked up two beams of merit that happened to fly by.
[Ding dong, congratulations host, you have gained 20 merit points, balance 420]
"Okay..." Li Yunzhi smiled happily. The little girl looked so energetic, and he felt very gratified.
He patted the little girl's fluffy head, his eyes full of affection.
Jiang Huai'an grinned as he watched the interaction between the two.
Damn it, he actually saw kindness and doting on Li Yunzhi's face.
How did it become so kind...?
"Father, what's wrong with you? Don't die!" Jiang Ruanruan rushed towards Jiang Hou, who was delirious with fever.
The man shuddered as if struck by a stone, and seemed to faintly hear a cracking sound.
A sharp pain struck, his head lolled to the side, and he completely lost consciousness.
"Grandpa Imperial Physician, what's wrong with my father? Ah, could he be dead?" Jiang Ruanruan, the filial daughter, cried as if she were heartbroken, but not a single tear was shed.
Physician Liu...
"He's not dead yet..." but he might have broken his bones from being crushed just now.
What a solid child it must be to smash this out! With Jiang Ruanruan's small frame, he must be mistaken.
"Miss Ruan Ruan, why don't you go and rest first? Let the imperial physician take a look... If we don't save her soon, she might really die!"
The imperial physician touched it and thankfully it was just a hand bone, but how could it have broken out of nowhere?
The imperial physician was also puzzled. He thought it was probably from a fall yesterday, and that Jiang Ruanruan bumped into it just now and only noticed it when she heard the dislocated sound.
The imperial physician couldn't think of any other explanation besides this.
"Then please save my father, Grandpa Physician! You must save him!" Jiang Ruanruan glanced around and saw that Leng Dong had already gone behind the bed curtains and the black dreamcatcher had fallen to the top of the bed curtains before she felt relieved.
Haha, may her dad have a sweet dream.
"Okay..." The imperial physician felt that the child's speech was strange. Save him? Wasn't it supposed to be cured?
As soon as they left, Jiang Huai'an gave Jiang Ruanruan a thumbs up.
"Little sister, you've worked so hard!" It's all thanks to my little sister's sharp mind.
This scumbag dad is just lying here anyway, with nothing to do, so it's good for him to have a few sweet dreams.
It's a cold winter... I think he's the one doing the work.
However, he needed to wash his hands thoroughly; he didn't know what that thing was, it was really strange.
Zhang's madness yesterday must be related to this thing.
The three children went to the Imperial College happily, but when they arrived at the classroom, they found that the Lu siblings were already there.
"Damn it, they're done so quickly!" Jiang Ruanruan saw Lu Zirou and Lu Ziyuan already seated, chatting animatedly with the people next to them.
Upon seeing the three of them approach, he shut his mouth.
The three took their seats, and the 12th prince walked to Li Yunzhi's side.
"Those two were talking badly about you just now, saying that Jiang Ruanruan's mental illness is contagious, that their mother got it yesterday, and that Jiang Ruanruan is a jinx!"
The 12th prince came to complain.
"Not only that, they also said Jiang Huai'an was a bastard, just because they were jealous of how much Lord Jiang doted on them, and deliberately framed them." Chen Zihao also slipped over.
The five people huddled together, gossiping.
"Bullshit! Madness is contagious? Who would believe that?" Jiang Ruanruan said angrily.
"Yes, those guys over there were giving you weird looks. When you were walking towards them just now, you were carrying your stools and you even moved your butts away from them!"
The 12th prince pointed, and the three of them looked. Sure enough, the passageway they had come from was noticeably wider, and not only had the chairs been moved, but the table had also been moved.
"Alright, alright, you want to play the information war? That's interesting!" Jiang Ruanruan began to tell Li Yunzhi her plan.
Jiang Huai'an got the gist of it.
"Sister, your method is absolutely brilliant!" It's dirty, but it works!
Jiang Huai'an suddenly stopped being angry.
"Hmph, what I've done goes far beyond that..." Jiang Ruanruan laughed proudly upon hearing the praise.
Li Yunzhi went out to assign new tasks to Leng Dong.
The following morning classes were all about Zhihu (a Chinese Q&A website).
Jiang Huai'an was fine, listening attentively, but Jiang Ruanruan stared blankly at the system screen in mid-air.
The above is Lord Jiang's dream.
I almost burst out laughing when I saw it.
In his previous life, Jiang Hou's ending was not good; it could be described as quite tragic.
Once Zhang eliminated Jiang Huai'an, who was an obstacle, the entire Jiang family estate became her domain.
At this time, she even replaced the steward of the Jiang family.
Jiang Hou's health deteriorated day by day, but he had a son, which was a way of fulfilling his duty to the ancestors of the Jiang family.
At this moment, Jiang Hou was dreaming of that time.
One day, he woke up from his illness and, having not been out in the sun for a long time, took a walk in the garden.
Unexpectedly, they bumped into Madam Zhang and her cousin, the newly appointed steward of the Marquis's mansion, who were behaving very intimately.
There was even a third person among them, Jiang Hou's beloved youngest son, Jiang Yuanbao.
The child actually called the butler "father".
What a perfect example of a loving father and filial son.
"When will that old hag Yun Shu finally die? The medicine you gave her is too slow. When will our family be able to reunite? When will we be able to be together legitimately?" Butler Xia was also Xia Yurou's cousin.
So when this person was replaced, Marquis Jiang didn't think much of it.
"Don't be in such a hurry. The Marquis's mansion is almost wiped out one after another. If he dies too quickly, wouldn't it arouse suspicion? Anyway, he's a cripple now, so let him live a few more days... Why are you jealous about this? The child is yours, and I am yours too. What else are you worried about!"
The two of them then embraced, but Jiang Yuanbao seemed to be quite used to it and didn't even bother to look at them, instead playing with his toys on the side.
Jiang Hou was shocked to realize that he had been poisoned and had been raising other people's children for so many years, while his own children were either dead or dead.
It was all because of his indulgence that Zhang had the power to persecute his child.
Outside the window, Old Madam Jiang and the steward stood. As soon as they entered the room, they were suddenly drawn into Jiang Hou's dream.
She had only heard from the guards that Jiang Ruanruan had come by that morning and lowered a black net.
There are many suspicious points, such as when Lord Jiang's bones broke.
As soon as I entered the room, I became an observer of the dream.
Jiang Hou caught Zhang Shi and Steward Xia in the act of their affair.
Unexpectedly, the two were not afraid at all. All the servants in the Marquis's mansion were replaced with Zhang's people.
Jiang Hou was placed under house arrest in his room.
He was just poisoned, his health was poor, he was coughing up blood, had no appetite, and was getting thinner day by day.
Unexpectedly, Steward Xia harbored resentment when he thought about how Marquis Jiang had treated him so badly before.
Jiang Hou was beaten badly, and Zhang Shi wanted to distance herself from Jiang Hou in front of her lover.
They frequently subjected Jiang Hou to mixed doubles beatings, along with verbal abuse.
Jiang Hou had never suffered such humiliation and torment day after day.
Even more brazenly, Zhang revealed that she was the one who had Xia Yurou killed in the days leading up to his death.
Even his only biological son, Jiang Huai'an, and his daughter, Jiang Ruanruan, were killed by her.
Now her nephew has received all the dowry left by Jiang Ruanruan's mother.
And she used this illegitimate son to inherit the title of marquis.
Now we're here to avenge her abandonment by the Marquis's family back then, so that she'll have no chance of marrying again and will only be able to marry a sickly man as a concubine.
Hearing about how Jiang Hou was brutally beaten and subjected to mental torture, it was an unbearable ordeal.
In the end, he was covered in wounds and had no food, but he still managed to endure for several days because Jiang Hou was filled with regret.
In the end, he also wanted to climb out and expose the heinous crimes of Zhang and others.
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