Chapter 69 He said: Don't cry

The Chu family had eight carriages in total. The two elders' carriage was in the front, followed by Mrs. Jiang's carriage, and the families of Mr. Chu and Mr. Chu were behind.

In order to avoid being searched by soldiers, the Chu family's carriage was mixed with that of a wealthy merchant in the city. The pass to leave the city was also borrowed from that wealthy merchant. The carriages for people and goods were mixed together, and there were more than 20 carriages.

Too many people standing around the carriage would arouse suspicion, so the guards dressed in disguise stood apart.

After Mrs. Jiang got off the carriage, she walked towards Mr. Chu's carriage.

According to her previous temper, if her eldest sister-in-law Liu dared to stab her in the back like this, Mrs. Jiang would have reported it to the old lady. But now she was living under someone else's roof. If she made trouble in front of the old lady and made things difficult for her sister-in-law, her son would need medical treatment and medicine when they arrived in Xizhou. She had no money and would still have to live under the control of her sister-in-law.

The two elders of the Chu family were old. Even if they always protected her, when they passed away, her son would be disabled and her daughter's reputation would be ruined. She would have no hope of getting married in this life. She and her two children would have to rely on the Chu family. At that time, the Chu family would still be ruled by her sister-in-law. If she offended her sister-in-law now, she would have a hard time in the future.

Madam Jiang concealed her anger, knocked on the window and called out, "Brother."

Master Chu and his wife were sitting in the carriage. When Master Chu opened the curtain, Madam Jiang saw the hand warmer and thick mattress in their carriage at a glance.

The items in the carriage were naturally all provided by Liu. Mrs. Jiang thought of the thin quilt her son covered himself with, and she was about to quarrel with her sister-in-law in anger. In the end, she held back. She softened her tone and said, "Yan Gui's medicine is gone, and the carriage is bumpy, and he is sweating coldly from the pain. Brother, he is your nephew, why don't you send someone to buy some painkillers for him? Otherwise, he will probably die of pain on the road?"

Master Chu said impatiently, "What were you doing earlier? Where can I buy medicine for him at this critical moment?"

Master Chu's first wife, Liu, dodged her gaze.

Madam Jiang knew that she was now living under someone else's roof, but she couldn't change her bad temper after decades of being a firecracker. After being scolded by Master Chu, she became angry and sneered:

"Do I want to cause trouble at this time? The day before yesterday, I told my sister-in-law that I would buy medicine for Yan Gui! It was my sister-in-law who didn't let the people buy it. I know you and my second brother are annoyed with me, but we are siblings after all, and we are still connected even if our bones are broken! If I had a way, I would not bother you and my second brother, but I can't just watch Yan Gui die in pain..." When

Master Chu heard her say this, he couldn't help but look at his wife.

Liu said embarrassedly, "I told my subordinates to do it. I think the servant in charge of purchasing was lazy and forgot about it."

This was obviously Liu's excuse.

Madam Jiang looked at Liu's face and wanted to give her two slaps. She said angrily, "Forgot? How could you forget a matter that concerns human life?"

Master Chu did not give Liu face at this time. He said to Madam Jiang unhappily, "I will order people to buy it now. You hurry back to the carriage. There are many people on the street. If you are recognized, you will probably want to take your whole family to death! Don't you think it's not enough to bring disaster to this family?"

Master Chu quickly called a guard, handed his purse over, and told the guard a few words. The guard ran away quickly.

Madam Jiang then walked back, but she couldn't help but tears welling up in her eyes.

It was obviously the eldest sister-in-law who was not kind in what happened today, but the eldest brother still kept scolding her. What flesh and blood? At this moment, Madam Jiang really felt that she was an outsider in the Chu family.

As soon as the curtain was lowered, Mr. Chu turned his face coldly to Liu: "Yan Gui is my nephew after all. How do you act as his aunt?"

Liu put the hand warmer down heavily and said: "How do I act as his aunt? You don't know how precious his small bottle of medicine is. Don't you know what the situation is at home now? My daughter's marriage is over, and I can't take away such a big family business in the capital. I don't know how to save the dowries of my two daughters in the future! If we don't spend the little money at home, will our whole family starve to death in Xizhou? He applied external and internal medicine. "I didn't stop him from taking the medicine, did I? It's just a bottle of painkillers, and you make it sound like I'm sorry to your nephew. A grown man, he can just bear the pain and it will pass!"

She changed the subject and said, "Do you think your sister is simple-minded? She came to you to buy medicine on purpose at this time, isn't it just to show you? It seems that I was mean to them. She didn't bring any money when she came back from the Jiang family. I don't believe that the two elders in the family would not secretly give her pocket money."

Liu was eloquent and Master Chu couldn't argue with her.

But when he thought of the two elders of the Chu family who were so partial to him, he felt quite indignant: "When she got married, her parents wanted to give her half of the Chu family as a dowry. Now, all the dowry has been taken advantage of by the Jiang family."

Liu was also very dissatisfied: "Let's not talk about the past. I think the two elders are still interested in giving our grandmother a share of the family property."

When talking about the division of the family property, the couple's faces became even worse.

At this time, Mrs. Jiang also walked to Jiang Yangui's carriage. She was about to get on the carriage, but someone called her from behind: "Chu Wanping?"

Mrs. Jiang thought she was hallucinating at first. She turned around and saw that it was not Minister Jiang standing not far away.

Thinking of the plight of her two children, she was filled with grief and resentment, and wanted to slap him in the face, but she still had some reason in her heart, knowing that the family was at a critical moment of leaving the city. Madam Jiang did not respond, pretending not to know him, and got on the carriage directly.

Madam Jiang's attitude made Minister Jiang frown.

And... the Chu family was under the guard of the imperial guards, how did she appear here?

These carriages were all going out of the city.

Minister Jiang's eyelids moved. He had been immersed in the court for many years and quickly guessed everything. The Chu family had angered the emperor, and it was only a matter of time before the emperor dealt with them. Now it was the best policy to leave the capital while the chaos was going on.

Although he did not know how the Chu family left the house, his only son was still in their hands. When the emperor dealt with the Chu family, as long as Jiang Yangui was still in the Chu family, his Jiang family would also suffer.

For a moment, he was actually somewhat relieved. Fortunately, he had made an appointment with Master Lin at the teahouse near the city gate today. Otherwise, if the Chu family were to pull off a trick, he would still be kept in the dark.

Minister Jiang stepped forward, and the disguised guards quickly stopped him. The attendants beside Minister Jiang and the guards were on the verge of a fight.

The secret sentry on the wine shop also noticed the movement here and quickly signaled the people below.

Minister Jiang was a third-rank official, and the people sent by Feng Shuo to meet him naturally knew him. That was why they did not dare to start a fight in the street.

Minister Jiang also brought a few martial artists with him. If a fight broke out and attracted the guards at the city gate, all the efforts would be wasted.

The leader who came forward to negotiate with Minister Jiang: "Master Jiang, you and the Chu family are relatives after all, so please forgive them if you can."

Minister Jiang took a look at the man. He looked unfamiliar and had a fierce look in his eyes. He wondered if the Chu family had found this man or if the Chu family had contact with some important person.

He said, "Please tell the old man of the Chu family that as long as you leave my son here today, I will pretend that I have never seen these carriages."

No one else could interfere in the family affairs of the Jiang and Chu families.

The leader who was on duty quickly gave a look to the guards on the side, and the guards hurriedly ran to the carriage where the two elders of the Chu family were riding.

A moment later, Old Lady Chu got off the carriage with a cane. It was obvious that the changes in the past few days had made his back hunched, and he looked even more haggard in plain clothes. Arriving in front of Jiang Shangshu, Old Mrs. Chu said: "Best greetings."

Jiang Shangshu cupped his hands and said, "Father-in-law."

Old Mrs. Chu waved his hands: "I can't afford to call you father-in-law. Our Chu family treats you well. When you were promoted to the household department , it was Sanlang who took care of you. Not because of our ten-year friendship with Ping'er, but because of Sanlang's kindness back then, let me, the whole Chu family, go out of the city today."

This is not an accusation, but it is better than an accusation.

Jiang Shangshu has an upright posture, ignoring his long beard. He seems to be the handsome number one scholar who walked around and saw the flowers in Chang'an just a few years ago.

However, after several ups and downs in the officialdom, his eyes were full of shrewdness that others could not see through. Minister Jiang said:

"Old Master Chu, as the head of the same family, you should know how heavy the burden is. The Chu family's ancestral home is in Huai'an, and its roots are not in the capital. When a disaster is imminent, the whole family can still escape. My Jiang family has a hundred-year-old foundation in the capital. If my son follows you out of the city, who will be willing to show mercy to my Jiang family when the beheading knife is hanging over my head?"

The Jiang family was originally an old minister of the previous dynasty, and it had passed its most prosperous time. When the family was weak, it happened to be a coup. The Jiang family was the first batch of old ministers to defect. It was precisely because of this that Minister Jiang has been criticized until now.

Old Master Chu knew that if they did not hand over Jiang Yangui today, they would not be able to leave the city.

The carriages jammed in front of him were slowly moving forward, and they would soon reach the city gate, so they couldn't delay any longer.

He hardened his heart and gave a few instructions to the guard beside him, who ran to the carriage where Madam Jiang was.

Old Lady Chu then said to Minister Jiang, "Since you and my daughter are already a couple with bad blood, this marriage should be called off. You should write a letter of divorce to her."

Minister Jiang did not respond immediately. He paused for a while before saying, "Yes."

Madam Jiang has been restless since she got on the car. She has been holding her son's hand and muttering, "Yan Gui, we will definitely be able to get to Xizhou..."

Jiang Yangui noticed that his mother was abnormal, but he could not guess why. The injury on his leg was still throbbing. He said weakly, "Mother, what's wrong? Is it because my uncle refused to give money to buy medicine? It's okay. , my son doesn’t love me.”

Madam Jiang hugged her son with heartache: “My poor son, I shouldn’t have done so many evil things in the past. Why did God punish you and your sister for all of it! I regret it…”

Madam Jiang was crying when the car window was knocked twice. The guard of the Chu family said: “Aunt, Minister Jiang wants you to get out of the car.”

Madam Jiang hugged Jiang Yangui tighter and said with a crazy look: “No one is allowed to take my son away! My son must stay with me!”

Jiang Yangui finally understood why Madam Jiang was restless after she came back. Minister Jiang found them!

He was also shocked for a while.

Madam Jiang was very tough and the guard had no choice but to tell Old Lady Chu.

Old Lady Chu personally walked to the carriage and said earnestly, "Ping'er, Yan Gui is the only son of the Jiang family. If he stays in the capital, the Jiang family will not treat him harshly."

Madam Jiang held Jiang Yan Gui tightly and cried, "Dad, Yan Gui is my lifeblood. If Yan Gui can't leave, then I won't leave either!"

At this time, Master Chu and Master Chu, who were sitting in the carriage behind, also knew that Minister Jiang had come to ask for his only son. Master

Chu and his wife were afraid of something going wrong, so they got off the carriage to take a look and happened to hear Madam Jiang say this.

Seeing that there were fewer and fewer carriages in front, it would be their turn to leave the city soon. Master Chu was extremely anxious and almost growled immediately:

"Obey your husband. You are a wife of the Jiang family! Just go back to your Jiang family! Do you really think the Chu family owes you something? If we delay any longer, none of us will be able to leave the city. Yan Gui will still be the young master of the Jiang family when he returns. If we can't leave, will this family be beheaded? You have been a selfish person since you were a child, and now you want to drag everyone to die with you! You have children, but my second brother and I don't? Chu Wanping, you don't care about the life and death of others, but at least think about your parents!"

Madam Jiang was speechless after being scolded by Master Chu, but she still refused to get off the carriage and just kept crying.

She knew all that Master Chu said, but she couldn't bear to leave her son alone!

The guard who bought medicine for Jiang Yangui came back, and Liu saw it with her sharp eyes. While Master Chu was scolding her, she avoided Old Lady Chu and asked the guard to give her the medicine.

She and Master Chu were husband and wife, and the guard didn't think much after completing his mission. When Liu asked for medicine, he gave it to her.

In the carriage, Jiang Yangui's eyes were full of tears. He pried Madam Jiang's hands open with force: "Mother, I'm going back to the Jiang family. You go out of the city with grandpa and the others."

He turned his head and said to Old Master Chu, "Grandfather, I'm going back."

Old Master Chu turned his back with tears in his eyes and ordered the guard beside him in a trembling voice: "Chu Zhong, carry the young master out."

A big man with a yellow face and wearing a short brown shirt came into the carriage and forcibly carried Jiang Yangui out. Madam Jiang refused to let go and almost fell out of the carriage holding the corner of Jiang Yangui's clothes.

She cried bitterly: "Yan Gui... my son... I will stay with you!"

Jiang Yangui's face was also covered with tears. He choked and shook his head: "Mother, please go to Xizhou! My sister is still waiting for you there, please go and take good care of her! I have everything I need in the capital, and my sister can only wait for you to go to Xizhou!"

On one side was her son, and on the other side was her daughter. Madam Jiang's heart was about to break. She cried and beat her chest: "Oh, God, please let me be the one to pay for my sins, don't torture my children like this..."

Minister Jiang watched this scene from a distance, and there seemed to be some sadness in his eyes, but it was quickly covered up.

After the Chu family's guards carried Jiang Yangui off the carriage, the attendants beside Minister Jiang took Jiang Yangui.

Minister Jiang looked at this young man with delicate features and suddenly realized that he had never looked at him carefully before. So when he suddenly saw this face, he felt a little strange.

He ordered, "It's snowing outside. Take the young master into the carriage."

Jiang Yangui cried like a baby when he said goodbye to Madam Jiang, but now his face was tightly tied and indescribably cold. After Minister Jiang said this, he almost immediately retorted: "I'm outside."

Minister Jiang glanced at his son.

Jiang Yangui did not look at him, but just looked at the Chu family's carriage going farther and farther away: "I want to watch my mother leave the city." They

were about to pass the city gate, and Madam Jiang couldn't even lift the curtain to look at him again. Jiang Yangui gritted his teeth and didn't let the tears fall out.

Minister Jiang didn't say anything else, which was considered tacit consent.

He also looked at the Chu family's carriage getting farther and farther away. There seemed to be something hidden in his eyes, but no one could see it clearly, maybe even he couldn't see it clearly. Suddenly,

the sound of horse hooves in the distance was like thunder, and everyone along the street looked towards the end of the long street.

A team of imperial guards came at full speed, knocking over countless stalls and pedestrians along the way.

"Your Majesty has an order! Arrest the Minister of Revenue Jiang Jing'an!"

The leading imperial guard shouted on horseback, and the voice was carried by the cold wind to the other side of the city gate, sharp and piercing.

Minister Jiang's face changed slightly, and all his followers were shocked.

At this moment, the Chu family's carriage was slowly passing through the city gate. After Jiang Yangui was taken away, Mrs. Jiang's emotions fluctuated too much, so Mrs. Chu let her get on their carriage and comforted her daughter all the way.

Madam Jiang suddenly heard that a group of imperial soldiers were going to arrest Minister Jiang. She was terrified, broke free from Madam Chu's hand, and stumbled out: "Jiang Jing'an is in trouble, what about my son Yan Gui! I'm going to bring Yan Gui back!"

Madam Jiang's feet were unsteady, and she almost fell off the carriage. Fortunately, the carriage was not moving fast, so she didn't get hurt.

However, this movement alerted the guard at the city gate, who pointed a spear at her: "Who are you!"

Madam Jiang ignored the guard who pointed the spear at her, got up and ran back to the city. The Chu family members in the carriage almost stopped beating their hearts.

The guard wanted to stab Madam Jiang's leg with a spear, and the Chu family guards following the carriage immediately knocked the guard down.

Upon seeing this, the chief guard shouted in a loud voice: "Stop these carriages!"

The driver of the carriage carrying the two elders of the Chu family was also a guard in disguise. He shouted: "Sit tight, master and madam!"

He whipped the horse whip hard and drove the carriage out of the city at high speed. The gate guards on both sides wanted to kill the horses with spears, but were stopped by the other guards in disguise.

After the carriage left the city, Mrs. Chu dared to stick her head out of the window and cried out with tears in her eyes: "Ping'er!"

At this time, Mrs. Jiang was running towards Minister Jiang and his party without paying any attention. The abnormality under the city gate alarmed the guards on the city tower. The armored guards stood on the city tower and commanded: "Close the city gate!"

The guards downstairs had just been knocked down by the Chu family guards and Feng Shuo's men, and a group of guards from the city tower rushed down like an ant nest.

The two groups of people fought each other, and Master Chu and his wife had not yet left the city. They sat in the carriage, listening to the fighting outside, and were so scared that their hands and feet were cold.

Swords and knives would occasionally hit the walls of the carriage. Master Chu and Lady Liu had never experienced anything like this in their lives, and they were almost scared out of their wits.

Lady Liu burst into tears and cursed, "Debt collector! Your Chu family has a debt collector! She wants to take the whole family with her to be buried with her! Chu Wanping is a deadly jinx! She'd better die here!"

She was so angry that she threw the medicine that the guards had bought for Jiang Yangui out of the window.

Feng Shuo's men and the Chu family guards were few in number, but they were all highly skilled in martial arts. The city gate was in a stalemate for a while. The Chu family's drivers were all guards, and they were all brave. They were not frightened by the situation, and took advantage of the chaos to whip the carriages out of the city.

The city gate was in chaos. The attendants and secret guards beside Jiang Shangshu in the city also appeared one after another and fought with the imperial guards.

The head of the imperial guards shouted: "Jiang Jing'an, do you still want to rebel?"

Jiang Shangshu's expression was calm, his back was straight, and he still had the demeanor of a third-rank official: "I don't know what crime Jiang has committed."

The head of the imperial guards sneered: "You will know when you come to His Majesty!"

"Master, you and the young master, get in the car and leave the city!" The attendant beside Jiang Shangshu urged.

It is indeed a good idea to leave the city during the chaos.

But once he leaves, all the branches of the Jiang family who remain in the capital will probably have to bear the emperor's wrath for him.

At his position, he can't just take care of himself in everything, because there are hundreds of lives of big and small branches behind him.

Minister Jiang remained silent, and just in time he saw Madam Jiang stumbling over here: "My son——"

Madam Jiang's face was covered with tears: "Don't be afraid, Yan Gui, mother is here to pick you up..."

Jiang Yangui's tears also burst out: "Mother!"

Minister Jiang looked at this scene, closed his eyes, and ordered the confidant who was holding Jiang Yangui: "Well, you protect the young master and go with the Chu family."

The confidant's eyes were red: "Master!"

Minister Jiang said in a deep voice: "Go quickly!"

The confidant made up his mind, held Jiang Yangui and turned to the city gate.

Madam Jiang was also very happy to see him holding Jiang Yangui to reunite with her, but after the joy, a wave of sadness surged in her heart.

She turned her head to look at Minister Jiang who was standing there. The snow was falling heavily, and a thin layer of snow had fallen on the shoulders of his black brocade robe. He was also looking over here, but through the flying snow, her eyes were not clear.

This man, he had obviously changed, but he was still the same as when she first met him.

Just this one glance, it became a farewell forever, but it was her farewell forever.

The moment the sharp arrow pierced her chest, Madam Jiang did not feel any pain, but her heart was too cold.

The Jiang family confidant who was holding Jiang Yangui was also hit by an arrow and staggered to the ground.

Jiang Yangui was shouting something heartbreakingly, but at that moment Madam Jiang could no longer hear any sound in her ears. She looked at the arrow that pierced her chest and the blood that stained a large area of ​​her clothes red, and tears rolled down her eyes.

She couldn't make it to Xizhou after all.

A Chu family guard rushed to the city gate. Madam Jiang used up all her strength, pointed at Jiang Yangui who had fallen to the ground with the Jiang family's confidant, and said with difficulty: "Take... him... away..."

Madam Jiang had been shot by an arrow and there was no hope of recovery. The Chu family guard picked up Jiang Yangui and ran to the city gate.

Jiang Yangui lay on the guard's shoulder, his eyes bloodshot, and cried out with tears in his eyes: "Mother——"

Mrs. Jiang looked at her son's receding back, and finally stumbled and fell in the snow. The splashing snow fell on her body, but she didn't seem to feel cold at all. She seemed to have just fallen down when she was fifteen years old.

"Chu Wanping!"

Someone called her, and there was a hint of sadness in the voice.

But she couldn't open her eyes anymore. All her memories of her life, from childhood to being a girl, to getting married, to being a mother, emerged in front of her like a revolving lantern.

It was like a big dream, and she couldn't tell which was reality and which was a dream.

She didn't want to tell the difference anymore, so she just went to sleep...

This winter in Shengjing is really cold.

Xizhou.

Jiang Yanyi was making breakfast. The mushroom and chicken porridge in the clay pot was already fragrant and thick. She took a bowl to serve the porridge and called Qiukui who was sweeping the snow outside the yard: "Qiukui, it's time to eat."

Qiukui quickly ran into the house.

Jiang Yanyi handed her the bowl of porridge, "Pass me another bowl."

Qiukui took a bowl from the cabinet and handed it over.

When handing it over, she let go too early, and Jiang Yanyi didn't catch it. With a "clang", the porcelain bowl with Ruyi pattern glaze fell to the ground and shattered.

Jiang Yanyi frowned, while Qiu Kui was a little at a loss: "I'm sorry, Huahua, I thought you had secured it."

"It's okay, everything is fine." Jiang Yanyi squatted down to pick up the pieces of the plate, but a big cut was made on her fingertips by the broken porcelain, and bright red blood instantly overflowed. One drop fell on the white porcelain fragments, which was shocking.

The older generation said that it was unlucky to break things early in the morning. Although Jiang Yanyi was not superstitious, she still felt inexplicably uneasy.

Chu Changping had returned to Beijing for several days. There was no news from Feng Shuo after he went to the Xizhou camp. She was worried that something had happened in the capital, and she was also worried about Feng Shuo's injury.

I just hope this is not an omen.

After another four or five days of worrying, Jiang Yanyi had almost finished packing the newly bought house. Finally, she received the news that Chu Changping had come to Xizhou to pick up the Chu family. As soon as

Chu Changping's confidant came to deliver the message, she left the business in the store, took the gifts she had bought in advance, and hurried to the new house.

On the way, she asked the confidant who was catching the car how Madam Jiang and Jiang Yangui were doing. The confidant seemed to have no idea how to answer her for a while, and only said: "Miss, you will know when you go there."

Jiang Yanyi heard something bad from his words.

When she arrived at the new house, she ran into Chu Changping coming out of the front hall as soon as she entered the yard. Compared with before going to the capital, Chu Changping seemed to have lost a lot of weight, his cheeks were a little sunken, and there were obvious white hairs on his temples.

"Uncle." Jiang Yanyi called him.

"Hey." Chu Changping responded, and then said, "Your grandmother and uncle are in there, go in and see them."

Jiang Yanyi felt more and more uneasy, and asked, "Uncle, did something happen on the way?"

Chu Changping shook his head, but couldn't help but redden his eyes. He said, "Your mother is gone."

Jiang Yanyi's mind was blank for a moment, and it took a while to recover.

She had the memory of her original body, but she hadn't had time to establish an emotional bond with Madam Jiang.

As for sadness, she hadn't even met Madam Jiang, so she couldn't say how sad she was. But her heart was still stuffy, which was the instinctive reaction of this body when hearing the death of a loved one.

She asked, "How come it disappeared?"

Chu Changping looked up at the sky, took a deep breath and said, "When I was leaving the city, I met Jiang Jing'an. He wanted to take Yan Gui away, but somehow he alarmed the imperial guards, who wanted to arrest him. Your mother died under the arrows of the imperial guards in order to go back to save Yan Gui."

He stretched out his big palm like a palm leaf fan and patted her shoulder, "If you want to cry, cry here. Don't cry after you go into the house. Your grandmother has been crying all the way and fainted several times. She is old and very sad."

Jiang Yanyi nodded. After Chu Changping left, she stood outside the house for a while before she went in.

Her footsteps were light, and she happened to stand at the entrance when she entered. No one in the house noticed her for a while.

Madam Chu was sitting on a Luohan bed, with several soft pillows behind her. A beautiful middle-aged woman was helping her with medicine, and there were several young girls sitting around her.

Jiang Yanyi recognized that woman as Mr. Chu's first wife, Liu. The three girls next to her, the two who looked like Liu were from the first wife, and the younger one was from the second wife.

"Mother, please drink another sip. How can you live without food?" Liu comforted her in a gentle voice.

Old Madam Chu turned her face away, tears rolling down her eyes again: "I can't eat, I'll just go with my poor Ping'er."

When Mr. Chu, who was sitting next to her, heard her say this, he couldn't help but get angry: "Mother, don't mention her! Hasn't she caused enough trouble to the family since she was a child? If you and third brother hadn't been accustomed to her, would she still act without measure even as a mother? The children she raised are more capable of causing trouble than the other! We moved to Xizhou with our whole family in disgrace! Don't forget who gave us this! She was crazy when we left the city, and our whole family almost died there!"

"You...rebellious son!" Old Madam Chu was so angry that her heart ached.

After the outburst, Master Chu walked out angrily. He bumped into Jiang Yanyi at the entrance. He paused, walked past her without saying a word, and went out.

It was at this time that the people in the room realized that Jiang Yanyi was standing there.

Mrs. Liu was helping Mrs. Chu to smooth things over. When she saw Jiang Yanyi, she looked a little embarrassed, but soon smiled: "Ayi is here. Don't listen to your uncle's nonsense. He is a jerk on weekdays."

When Mrs. Chu heard that Jiang Yanyi was there, she hurriedly raised her eyes and looked over here. When she saw Jiang Yanyi, she burst into tears again: "Ayi, come to grandma quickly."

Jiang Yanyi stepped forward, and Mrs. Chu hugged her and cried bitterly, "Your mother has a miserable life. She has been looking forward to seeing you, but in the end she didn't see you..."

Mrs. Liu also wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief. , and advised: "Mother, stop crying, you have been crying all the way, if you cry any more, your eyes will be damaged."

Jiang Yanyi didn't know how to comfort Mrs. Chu, but at this moment, she was infected by Mrs. Chu's emotions. She really felt sad, and her eyes gradually became wet: "Grandma."

When she cried, Mrs. Chu panicked: "Don't cry, Ayi, you still have your grandmother. If anyone dares to bully you two siblings in the future, it will be your grandmother who will die and follow your mother."

Liu, who was standing by, heard Mrs. Chu say this, and a hint of displeasure flashed in her eyes.

Seeing that Mrs. Chu didn't cry anymore, she handed the soup in her hand to Jiang Yanyi: "Mother doesn't want to eat, you should persuade her to eat something."

Jiang Yanyi nodded: "I don't need to."

Liu knew that Mrs. Chu must want to talk to Jiang Yanyi alone, so she said: "Mother, I will go down first. If you have anything, please send someone to call me."

Mrs. Chu seemed to be still angry and ignored her.

Liu's face froze. After she left, her two daughters and Chu Jiabao, the only daughter of Mr. Chu, followed her out. However, Chu Jiabao seemed to be quite hostile to Jiang Yanyi and glared at her before leaving.

Jiang Yanyi noticed it, but said nothing.

When only the grandfather and grandson were left in the room, Madam Chu couldn't hold back her tears again: "Jiang Jing'an is a worthless person! If he hadn't stopped her, why couldn't your mother have reached Xizhou?"

"I regret it so much. Why was I so blind back then that I let Ping'er choose such a heartless person? She has suffered all her life!"

"Grandma, don't think about it anymore. Mother doesn't want to see you sad." Jiang Yanyi took a deep breath to hide the sadness in her heart, scooped a spoonful of soup and fed it to Mrs. Chu: "How can you not eat all the time? Yan Gui and I are still counting on you to live a long life."

Mrs. Chu covered her eyes with a silk handkerchief and wiped her tears: "Eat, of course, I have to take good care of you two siblings for her. I think of Ping girl and my heart feels like it's being cut by a knife..."

Jiang Yanyi coaxed and deceived Mrs. Chu, and finally made her drink the bowl of soup. The old lady was exhausted after traveling all the way, but she still pulled Jiang Yanyi to talk a lot. Jiang Yanyi coaxed the old lady to sleep before leaving.

When she walked out of the yard, she sighed softly.

There is no greater sorrow in the world than the old man sending the young man away.

When passing by the courtyard originally prepared for Madam Jiang, Jiang Yanyi felt even more depressed when she saw that it was empty.

Thinking of her younger brother whom she had not yet formally met, she went to the next courtyard.

Jiang Yangui's legs could not get up, so he sat on the bed, staring blankly ahead. His skin was a sickly pale color, and his delicate eyebrows were lifeless.

The guards who served in the room were those who had followed from the Chu family in the capital. They had been serving Jiang Yangui all the way, and now they had figured out his temper. The sounds they made when serving tea and pouring water were extremely small.

When Jiang Yanyi entered the room, the guard called out "Miss Cousin" and bowed and left.

Jiang Yanyi sat down on the embroidered cushion in front of the bed, looking at the young man lying on the bed with a dead heart, feeling uncomfortable: "Yan Gui."

Jiang Yanyi's eyes moved then, and he looked over, his eyes were dark, but without any spirit: "Sister."

Jiang Yanyi held his hand: "I'm here."

"We don't have a mother anymore."

When he said this, a trace of tears slid down the corner of his eyes, quickly and urgently.

Jiang Yanyi leaned over and hugged the half-grown boy: "Don't cry, mother is always here, she is in heaven."

Jiang Yangui's dark but lifeless eyes kept slipping into the water: "I am the one who deserves to die, I am a useless person, I can't do anything... It's obviously me who deserves to die..." The

approaching imperial guards, the overwhelming rain of arrows, the cold body that fell to the ground with arrows, the deafening roar of killing, the gradually closing city gate... Everything that day turned into a nightmare that tormented him for countless nights.

Jiang Yangui closed his eyes in pain, shaking all over.

If only he were not a useless person, then his mother would not die at the hands of the imperial guards in order to go back to save him!

He murmured, "It's me who deserves to die... It's me who deserves to die..."

Seeing his crazy and distracted look, Jiang Yanyi felt distressed and sad, and slapped him cruelly.

Jiang Yangui's face was tilted to one side.

Jiang Yanyi said, "You live well for me! Live like a human being! What's the point of your death? Can you bring my mother back? Or can you make the person who killed my mother pay with his life?"

"Sister, I hate it so much! I hate it so much!" Jiang Yangui finally broke down and cried, his fists clenched so tightly that his nails dug into the flesh but he didn't feel any pain.

He really hated it!

Jiang Yanyi watched him cry heart-wrenchingly, and tears also oozed from her own eyes. She raised her hand to wipe them away, looked up at the sky and said: "If you hate, you have to live better. The more you make yourself miserable, the happier those who want to destroy you will be. If you live, you will have the opportunity to take revenge. If you die, you will have nothing."

She didn't know that it was her words today that allowed the young man in front of her to use all kinds of tricks in the future to sit in a position above everyone else.

After leaving the Chu family's new house, Jiang Yanyi didn't rush back to the store.

The snow was flying like goose feathers, and she walked aimlessly in the white world.

When she passed by the eaves of a house with the door closed, she suddenly didn't want to leave, so she sat down on the steps at the door of the store, hugged her knees with her hands, rested her chin on her arms, and stared at the snow in a trance.

"Do you want to catch cold?"

Jiang Yanyi didn't know how long she had been sitting there. When she was pulled up and wrapped in a warm embrace, she smelled the familiar scent of soapberries. Her nose suddenly felt sore and tears fell without knowing why.

Feng Shuo felt her shoulders trembling. He stroked her back gently and said after a moment of silence, "I'm sorry."

As soon as he received the news, he knew something was wrong and rushed over from the Xizhou camp.

It was his people's fault that they failed to bring all the people of the Chu family to Xizhou safely.

Facing his apology, Jiang Yanyi shook her head, but her tears did not stop.

She couldn't tell how many of these tears were the instinctive emotions of this body and how many were her sorrow.

She sobbed and Feng Shuo's brows wrinkled even tighter.

"Don't cry." He doesn't know how to comfort people. The wind and snow chilled people to the bone. This sentence, which didn't sound like comfort, had used up all his tenderness.

He has lived for more than 20 years, and only today did he realize that it really hurts to see someone crying.