Chapter 272 Imperial Edict Arrives from the Capital
Zhao Xuan, having drunk himself into a stupor all night, slept until evening. When he woke up, he found the estate mostly empty. He was furious with Yun Jiaoyue, berating her for being utterly useless and a complete hindrance...
It was only when the Marquis of Jiangling came to propose marriage that Zhao Xuan suppressed his anger.
Li Yuying made a huge scene at home, demanding to get married.
After discussing it, the Marquis of Jiangling and his wife decided to marry her off immediately so that she could go to Lingnan to live with Yun Yanzhe.
Out of sight, out of mind. If she dies there, it's her fate. They gave birth to her and indulged her for seventeen years, fulfilling their duty as parents.
They chose a date for the wedding, didn't ask for a bride price, and even gave the bride price of 20,000 taels of silver. In order not to arouse suspicion that Empress Jiangling was colluding with Zhao Xuan, they did not invite guests or hold a banquet.
Once Li Yuying gets married, the Li family will remove her from the family genealogy.
Both Wang and Yun Jiaoyue were happy for him. From an exile to the son-in-law of the Marquis of Jiangling, this was a marriage that many people would rather die for.
Yun Yanzhe's handsome face was tense, showing no joy whatsoever as a groom-to-be.
He didn't want to marry Li Yuying, so he used Yun Xiuwen's funeral as a shield, saying, "My father just passed away, and I need to observe three years of mourning for him. I can't hold any weddings during those three years, so I can't marry her."
Madam Wang's face darkened. "Ze'er, what nonsense are you talking about? You and your cousin are in love. You are already twenty years old, the perfect age for marriage. In three more years you will be twenty-three."
Yun Yanzhe insisted, "I must observe three years of mourning for my father."
“I grant you permission to skip mourning for him! You must marry your cousin Ying, or you just want to drive your mother to her death…”
Wang became agitated, her chest heaving violently. She clutched her chest and vomited a mouthful of black, toxic blood. "Pfft..."
"Mother……"
Yun Jiaoyue rushed over to support Wang Shi and ordered her maid to fetch a doctor.
"Brother, please agree to Mother's request! Do you want to see her die of anger?"
Yun Yanzhe loosened his clenched fist, closed his eyes tightly, and when he opened them again, his eyes were lifeless. He relented and said, "Fine! I'll marry you!"
The doctor examined Wang's pulse and diagnosed her with poisoning. It was not life-threatening for the time being, but prolonged poisoning would cause great damage to her body. The doctor recommended that she be treated for poisoning as soon as possible.
Wang refused to seek an antidote, unwilling to relinquish the mysterious power within her body after being poisoned.
She wanted to save her strength to kill that vile woman Chen, and after her son married Li Yuying, she would use the power of the Marquis of Jiangling to kill Yun Zhaoxue, take revenge, and then slowly detoxify herself.
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In the evening, Yun Zhaoxue's manor was attacked by a gang in Jiangling City. Before they could even reach the manor's gate and walls, they were dealt with by the secret guards and personal guards.
That evening, in a courtyard of Prefect Wang's residence, curses rang out: "Useless trash! They're all a bunch of useless trash. I wasted hundreds of taels of silver. I usually walk around Jiangling City like a madman, but when I sent them to deal with a few people, they didn't even see a shadow of the other party before they were taken care of."
Li Yuying walked out from the outer room, wearing a thin gauze dress that reached her chest, revealing most of her breasts. Ignoring the presence of servants, she boldly sat on Wang Jun's lap.
"Ah Jun, they won't be leaving Jiangling anytime soon, why get so angry? We can think of other ways. I'm not in a hurry, why are you?"
"You slut, you're in such a hurry to get married, how could you possibly have any time for revenge? In the past, you would have been even more eager for revenge than I am." Wang Jun was about to lower his head and bury his face in her soft breasts when the movement aggravated the wound on his neck, making him wince in pain. A murderous glint flashed across his brows as his large hand tightened around her chest.
Li Yuying let out a soft moan from her red lips, slapped his chest with her hand, and said reproachfully, "Ouch~ you naughty devil, can you be a little gentler? I'm getting married soon, if I leave a mark and my new husband sees it, he'll be jealous."
"Who doesn't know that you, Miss Li, have countless suitors? If he disliked you, he wouldn't have married you. He clearly only cares about your family's power. How could a convict like him dare to dislike you?"
He wanted the government to arrest the person, but his father stopped him. In addition, the Marquis of Jiangling was also pressuring him, so they couldn't mobilize the government to take action. They even said that they couldn't touch the other side.
This was the first time he, the son of a prefect, had felt so aggrieved. What was a mere exiled prince compared to him?
The person in Jiangling who dares to choke him hasn't been born yet. After he kills that guy surnamed Xiao, he'll snatch his pregnant, beautiful wife and pamper her day and night, leaving him to fret in the underworld, hahaha!
The guards were already used to this, so they did not retreat but remained standing in place, waiting for their young master's orders.
"They have skilled protectors around them, and we can't beat them in a fight, so how can we take revenge?"
Li Yuying hooked her arm around his neck, her red lips brushing against his cheek, then whispered in his ear, "Find a skilled person to poison their well and kill them all!"
"Poisoning? Poisoning is good, how come I didn't think of that? Ying'er is so smart, haha, let's go back inside and continue." A wicked smile flashed across Wang Jun's fat face, his fat cheeks squeezed together, and his eyes narrowed into slits.
He reached out and slipped his hand under Li Yuying's knees, intending to pick her up, but before he could exert any force, he fell back down. He clutched his back and said, "Ouch, I'm too weak. You can walk by yourself."
Seeing his appearance, Li Yuying immediately lost interest. "You should take good care of your injuries. I'm going back."
On the night of Yun Yanzhe and Li Yuying's wedding.
The wedding was held behind closed doors at the Jiangling Marquis's residence, right when the newlyweds were exchanging vows.
Suddenly, a eunuch's shrill voice rang out, "Imperial edict has arrived!—"
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