"Su Liluo..."
Jiang Shiyuan stood outside the sea and witnessed her fall with his own eyes. It felt like something hit him hard, and even his breathing was choked.
Jiang Shiyuan wanted to understand whether the emptying of Chenxiangfang was an apology or a farewell from Su Liluo.
She opened her mouth to say something, but no words came out of her throat, and her tears kept flowing out.
She didn't know whether she was crying for Su Liluo or for something else.
The fire burned more and more fiercely, and all the military patrols and soldiers in the capital rushed over. The scene was mixed with various sounds, crying, talking, the sound of the wind, and the crackling of burning grass and wood beams.
Jiang Shiyuan felt a little tinnitus, as if she was back in the closed and burning study, with the tongue mercilessly burning her whole body. She thought, "This is it," and she wanted someone to come and save her.
Just when she was about to distinguish the present from the past, someone reached out and hugged her.
Pei Che noticed her strangeness, and without hesitation, he held her in his arms and took her away from the scene.
"Yuan'er, you go back home first."
Pei Che sent her to the carriage and kissed her forehead.
Jiang Shiyuan finally came back to his senses, but heard Pei Che say solemnly: "I will be busy these few days, wait for you at home, don't run around, do you hear me?"
There was a lot of noise and chaos outside, and Jiang Shiyuan nodded.
"good."
Pei Che touched her head, then lowered the curtain.
After ordering a few personal guards to escort him, Pei Che turned around and devoted himself to rescuing him.
"Man, I found this in the field!"
A guard suddenly ran out from the court and presented something that looked like account books.
Pei Che glanced at him and said, "Kill them first. I will present the rest to His Majesty in person."
"Yes!" The officers and soldiers took the order, turned around and led their men to join the annihilation.
Jiang Shiyuan returned to Taifu Mansion, but he kept thinking about the incident at Su's house. He slept all night, and finally received the news at dawn, and the incident was over.
But people didn't.
The attic was originally an abandoned warehouse, with old and flammable items piled underneath. Su Yutang's family, including Su Liluo, were all buried in the sea.
Hongdouxiao told the rumors she heard outside one by one.
"I heard that Miss Su's maternal family is in Jiangnan. When she was sent there, she was still loved by her grandmother. Later, when the two old people were gone, she fell into the hands of her uncle and aunt. But how did her uncle and aunt treat her?"
"Also, Su Yutang was originally a poor scholar. His first wife, who was a master of the zither, became a guest of honor in various mansions and helped him rise to prominence step by step. Who would have thought that Su Yutang was such an ungrateful scum! He married another man after his wife died, and he treated his first wife's child so harshly."
Everyone sighed along with them, but before they had long sighed, new news came from outside.
On the way to exterminate the Su family, the enemy suspected that they found several secret boxes in Su Yutang's burned study, which contained several volumes of account books.
The account books recorded many secret financial transactions between officials. The list involved six ministries, and the ones most often pointed to were the fifth prince Xie Jingxiu and Concubine Lan's brother Lu Feng.
These volumes of account books were immediately delivered to the emperor.
The emperor was furious and the fifth prince was summoned to the palace overnight and has not left the imperial study since then.
Jiang Shiyuan suddenly understood what Pei Che meant by 'being busy' and 'running around'.
She did not run around, but asked people to guard every corner of the Taifu Mansion. She went out of the first gate and the second gate, and Mai An was waiting for Pei Che to return home.
Even if things were peaceful, Jiang Shiyuan couldn't calm down at all.
Even if she was slow, she could sense the panic in the capital—the Fifth Prince was going to fall, and Imperial Concubine Lan and the Lu family were going to be wiped out.
She stayed at the Taifu Mansion, wondering if the Su family's account books had anything to do with Pei Che? What is the emperor's attitude? Did the emperor acquiesce to Pei Che's actions? Does the emperor want to see the elimination of the Fifth Prince's party?
Is my aunt doing well in the palace? Will my cousin be criticized?
She was thinking about many things, but she was thinking more about Su Liluo.
She closed her eyes and saw Su Liluo jumping down.
She thought, if she hadn't met Pei Che, she would have become the current Su Liluo...
Even though Su Liluo was very likable, she thought, it would be great if Su Liluo could meet her 'Pei Che'.
The situation in the capital city seemed to be about to get stormy. The weather seemed to sense it and it had been gloomy for several days, with a raging north wind, and it was already winter.
Pei Che did not come out of the palace until the night of the next day.
Jiang Shiyuan had already fallen asleep. When he was half asleep, someone came up behind him.
The embrace was warm, and the soft kisses on her cheeks smelled deliciously of citrus.
Jiang Shiyuan's ups and downs finally settled.
"Come back?"
She tried to turn around, but was hugged tightly by the person behind her.
"Um."
He responded softly, holding her tightly in his arms, quietly feeling her heartbeat and her breathing.
"I missed you so much." He said behind me.
In just a few words, in addition to tenderness and warmth, there are also some clear feelings.
It's a blessing.
Pei Che was very glad.
Fortunately, ten years ago, I rushed into the study without hesitation. Although I was confused, I still relied on my instinct to pull the tearful Jiang Shiyuan out of the sea.
Jiang Shiyuan couldn't turn around, but he could reach out and hold his hands around him, "I miss you so much."
"I still miss your pear soup. Mammy and Dad both cooked it in the style of yours." She said.
The soft whisper instantly calmed Pei Che's tense mood.
"I'll cook it for you tomorrow."
Pei Che chuckled, loosened his arms, pushed her over, lowered his head and kissed her lips.
This kiss was exceptionally gentle and long.
There are no strong emotions, but rather some tenderness and cherishment after rebirth.
After an unknown amount of time, Pei Che let go of the person and turned around to get something from the small table beside the bed.
There was a light on in the bedroom, and even though the light was dim, Jiang Shiyuan still recognized her at a glance.
Pei Che was holding a tassel in his hand, which was the tassel that Su Liluo had always been obsessed with.
Intact, no smoke or fumes.
Jiang Shiyuan sat up in surprise, reached out to take the tassel, and looked at Pei Che incredulously.
"Is it what you think?" she asked.
Although she didn't say it directly, Pei Che understood what she meant. He nodded and said, "She has been sent out of the city. She said she wanted to go to a place where no one knows her."
Jiang Shiyuan held the tassel in his hand, his expression dazed because he was so surprised and shocked.
Pei Che pulled her back into his arms and tucked her in.
"At that time, because of her interference, Su Yutang severely punished her and locked her in a dark room, eating only a bowl of cold fruit every day. After she came out, she almost contracted the plague."
Pei Che paused and said, "Su Lishi, have someone release rats and insects into the dark room."
"After Su Liluo was sent to her maternal family with illness, she barely lived a stable life for two days. After her grandmother passed away, she fell into the hands of her aunt. Her uncle's family had a stupid cousin, and her aunt raised her to take her as a wife. Su Liluo wrote several letters to Su Yutang begging her to return to Beijing, but Su Yutang refused every time. It was not until Su Liluo came of age that she said she could find a marriage for her sister, and then she was taken back."
Pei Che sighed. He dared not say that he was completely innocent. He did inadvertently intervene in Su Liluo's fate to some extent.
"Today's game can be regarded as correcting the mistakes made previously."
"Now she is free."
"She can be like you, a gust of unrestrained wind." Pei Che said.
Jiang Shiyuan suddenly wanted to cry. She held Pei Che's hand tightly and choked:
"That's great, Pei Che, you saved Jiang Shiyuan."
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