Chapter 247
Jiang Lianzhi also heard from the housekeeper of Cao's mansion that Chen Yu looked very bad when she left, and the housekeeper said that she was probably feeling unwell.
Now that I think about it, the housekeeper is also a shrewd person. Most likely, Shen Yu didn't want to have dinner with him and made an excuse to leave. However, the housekeeper didn't dare to say it directly, so he found a reason to prevaricate.
"Why are you talking to him so much?" Chang Liu ran out, "Just send him out."
"You." Chang Liu pointed to the end of the alley confidently, "Go."
"You are so rude." Gao Jin, the follower behind Jiang Lianzhi, grabbed the knife.
Jiang Lianzhi raised his hand to stop him, and was about to speak when his eyes passed through the space between the two of them and saw the person approaching.
Chang Liu turned around and said, "Princess, why did you come out? You are not needed here. I can send them away."
Chen Yu smiled slightly, "I know you can, you two go and have a rest, I'll go out for a while."
"But... then, I'll go get the cloak." Chang Liu ran and muttered, "It's so windy at night. The prince said that if the princess is sick, he will use my little turtle to make soup. The prince is afraid that he can't tell the difference between a turtle and a soft-shell turtle, so the turtle soup must not taste good."
Chen Yu stood at the door and waited for a moment, then put on her cloak, glanced at Jiang Lian, then walked out and headed towards the city gate.
Jiang Lianzhi received a signal from her eyes.
"No need to follow." He said to Gao Jin.
Gao Jin was worried, "Sir..."
"No need to follow." This time the tone was more serious than the previous one.
It was wartime and a cold winter day. Although it had not snowed yet, it was no warmer than if it had snowed, and there were few pedestrians on the streets.
There were still soldiers patrolling on the city wall. The two men climbed up the wall one after another and walked to the empty side.
Since Chen Yu didn't speak, Jiang Lianzhi didn't say anything.
He quietly looked at her thin and tall back standing by the parapet, his palms slightly sweaty, but he didn't know where this uneasiness came from.
"What gifts did you send to Beilin?"
Jiang Lianzhi was stunned by her question, "It's just a household item."
Chen Yu didn't look back, "Do you remember what they were?"
If you don't remember, how can you collect them one by one?
In the years after her death, Jiang Lianzhi had walked through their bedroom again and again, touching her again and again.
Past those dining tables, desks, screens, mirror tables...
I want to touch my deceased wife in time through those things.
"Remember." Jiang Lianzhi's gaze became profound and he said the names of those things one by one.
Chen Yu closed her eyes.
At this moment, she was finally able to be completely sure that he was the Jiang Lianzhi from her previous life.
"I heard from the housekeeper of Cao's house that your late wife drowned in the lake."
Jiang Lianzhi was instantly devastated by these words, just because they came from her mouth.
"...Yes." He said with difficulty.
Chen Yu still didn't look back, "Master Jiang hasn't married yet, so where does the dead wife come from?"
Jiang Lianzhi concentrated his mind, and at this moment, some guesses arose in his mind.
Before he could think about it, Chen Yu turned around and smiled at him in the firelight, "Tell me about her, what kind of person is she?"
That smile made him feel that if it was really as he guessed, her knife should have been on his neck at this moment, so how could she give him such a good treatment.
Or maybe, he already knew the answer in his heart, but he just didn't dare to admit it.
Jiang Lianzhi's eyes moved slightly, as if he was lost in memories. "She...she is gentle, kind, and respectful. She is very gentle to everyone and never gets angry with servants. She will stand at the door with a lantern and wait for me."
"What else?"
"She was once the apple of our eye, but she suffered a tragedy. Her health is very poor and she has to take medicine every day. She always has a faint smell of medicine on her body. I don't like it, so she uses incense."
Chen Yu felt self-harm at this answer, as if she was reliving that short and damp life through his description.
"Anything else?"
"She..." Jiang Lianzhi stopped suddenly. He searched his mind again and again, but it was difficult to find any words about her.
"No more?" Chen Yu looked at him, "You don't seem to know much about the wife you mentioned."
Jiang Lianzhi was visibly panicked and his brows were frowned.
There are so many memories, and he can recall them over and over again at night, but why can he only summarize them in a few sentences?
"I……"
"She drowned. Did you see that?"
"I saw it." Jiang Lianzhi's voice trembled slightly.
shake.
Shen Yu stared at his expression intently, "Then you didn't save her?"
Jiang Lianzhi: "I..."
Chen Yu walked towards him, and Jiang Lianzhi gradually saw the fire and himself in her eyes, but the look was so strange.
"Why didn't you save her?"
"What was it like to watch her die in front of you?"
"She's dead. You should be very happy, right?"
Jiang Lianzhi felt as if struck by lightning, and stepped back involuntarily as she pressed him one question after another.
"You don't understand her, you don't love her, you can watch her die, but why?" Chen Yu's eyes flashed with a strange light, "Why do you want to propose to her again? Do you want to drag her into the abyss of no return again?"
Jiang Lianzhi's eyes widened instantly, but only for a moment, and then his gaze returned to indifference.
The result was already expected. He was not stupid. He had already found the answer in the details.
Her dream, her going to Yanliang Pass against her past life, her drastic change in temperament, her inexplicable hostility towards him...
What surprised him was that she would break the window paper so easily.
Jiang Lianzhi suddenly laughed, and he himself didn't even know whether it was a bitter smile or sarcasm.
Shen Yu watched him go crazy quietly.
Jiang Lianzhi's smile gradually faded. "Since you know I am still the same me, don't you want to kill me? To avenge yourself."
"I have thought about it." Chen Yu said without hesitation: "When I sank into the water, I wanted to tear you into pieces, but after being reborn, I felt that life was precious. It was not you who pushed me into the water. You are not important to me at all and not worth wasting my time. You chose to save her instead of saving me, but it was up to you. If you and Ting Zhou fell into the water together, I would save him without hesitation and would not even look at you."
Jiang Lianzhi was hurt by such words.
"No." Jiang Lianzhi said anxiously: "No, I wanted to save you, but I didn't see clearly that the person in the water was you. They told me that Qingli and the maid fell into the water, and I really didn't think it was you. If I knew it was you..."
"Are you trying to fool me or deceive yourself?" Chen Yu finished the second half of the sentence for him, "Whether you see clearly or not, you will still choose to save her."
Jiang Lianzhi was stunned and didn't know how to refute for a moment.
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