swear not to be concubine
Chapter 138
Chapter 138
Jian Yan asked Xu Zhongxuan to meet in the flower hall in the front yard.
She took Si Yue with her, and Ting Tong and Ting Feng went there together.
At this time, Aunt Wan was thinking of ways to find her fault, so even if she wanted to be alone with Xu Zhongxuan again, throwing herself into his arms and telling him what happened during this period of time, that would still be the same. unable.
After arriving at the flower hall, she let Ting Tong and Ting Feng stay in the yard, and she brought Si Yue into the flower hall.
Mr. Xu Zhongxuan was still able to sit there calmly and wait for her to come over, but when he saw her, he couldn't calm down immediately.
He got up and stood up, rushed over in one stride, held her shoulders with both hands, and called her in a low voice: "Yan'er."
Since the last time we met, he held her ear in his mouth and murmured to her Yan'er. These days, these two words have been carved in his heart like a knife and an axe. Deep imprint.
He would call these two words softly in his heart every day.
Since Nie Qingniang's accident, Jian Yan has been extremely calm these few days.
She had to take care of Nie Qingniang's funeral, to appease Li Xin, and to prevent Aunt Wan from making trouble for her. Her nerves were tense day and night, and she never let up for a moment, so she didn't bother to cry.
But this time, seeing Xu Zhongxuan in front of her and hearing him calling her name softly, she suddenly felt aggrieved and sad.
At first, I was thinking of sitting down and having a good talk with Xu Zhongxuan, and I couldn't do any intimate behavior to let Aunt Wan find her fault, but now she couldn't help it, and didn't say a word yet. , but first threw herself into his arms and cried out.
Seeing this in April, she walked to the door.
In order not to be misunderstood, the two doors were wide open. Si Yue turned her back to Jian Yan and Xu Zhongxuan, huddled behind one of the doors, and looked outside intently.
If someone came, she could report it in time.
At this time, Xu Zhongxuan held Jian Yan tightly in his arms. Hearing her suppressed crying, he felt as if a huge stone weighing a thousand catties was pressed in his heart, it was so dull.
Jian Yan grabbed the front of his robe and wept bitterly, and said intermittently, choked with sobs: "My mother committed suicide. She committed suicide by swallowing gold. She did it all for me, she did it all for me."
Xu Zhongxuan was shocked.
Although he had already guessed that Nie Qingniang's death was probably a suicide, rather than dying of a disease as said to the outside world, but now hearing this sentence from Jian Yan's mouth, he was still shocked.
Although Nie Qingniang was thinking of Jian Yan wholeheartedly, but since then, his little girl might not be able to let go of this matter for the rest of her life.
He lowered his head and looked at Jian Yan who was crying in his arms with tears all over her face.
When we met last time, she was still in high spirits between her brows and eyes, but now her face is full of haggardness, and her appearance has decreased a lot.
There was a sudden pain in my heart.
He tightened his arms, put his chin on her head, and said in a low voice: "It's my incompetence that caused you to suffer such pain."
After Zheng Hua told him the news that day, he originally wanted to go back and wrote a chapter, asking the emperor to marry him and Le'an Township Lord, and then rushed to submit it tomorrow morning.He thought at that time, even if the emperor did not allow this matter, it would not matter.
It is a long way from the capital to the northwest, so he will naturally think of a way to tamper with this journey, in short, he will never let Jian Yan marry the prince of Xingping.It's just that he didn't expect that he received a message that night, saying that Zheng Guogong's wife was gone.
At that time, he guessed that Mrs. Zheng Guogong's death had an inside story.Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that she just disappeared at this time?It just solved the dilemma Jian Yan was facing.
But now hearing what Jian Yan said so personally, what else does he not understand?
At this moment, he was only full of self-blame.
It's all because of his incompetence, otherwise why would Jian Yan suffer such pain?
He tightly held Jian Yan in his arms, his lips were tightly lined, and his deep pupils were full of self-blame.
But at this moment, Siyue turned around suddenly, and whispered quickly: "Girl, the colorful beads are outside."
Caizhu is the big maid beside Aunt Wan.
When Jian Yan heard this, she hurriedly left Xu Zhongxuan's embrace, got up and walked outside the door.
Tingtong and Tingfeng were grabbing colorful beads in the courtyard, asking her what she was doing outside.
Caizhu hesitated and couldn't speak.
But in fact, someone just said that Xu Zhongxuan came over, and the third girl went to see him.Thinking of the last time Xu Zhongxuan came to propose marriage, Aunt Wan thought that there must be an affair between Xu Zhongxuan and Jian Yan, so she hurriedly sent Caizhu over to inquire.
Aunt Wan only thought that if she could catch Jian Yan and be alone with Xu Zhongxuan at this time, she would naturally be able to make a fuss about it.
At this time, there are other guests who came to express their condolences in the mansion. If this matter is yelled out, not to mention people's words, Jian Yan will be ashamed and angry to death, but at least her face can no longer be preserved. See how she still has the nerve to hold the right to head the house in her hands.
But who would have thought that Caizhu was just posing outside the courtyard, before she sneaked in to inquire about the situation, she was discovered by Tingtong and Tingfeng.
Jian Yan has become more cautious in doing things recently.Even if she came to see Xu Zhongxuan, she still brought several maidservants with her, so if someone wanted to use this matter as an argument, what was she afraid of?
These several maidservants accompanied her by her side, and she did not get along with Xu Zhongxuan alone.
At that moment, Jian Yan led Si Yue out of the flower hall, and stood on the bluestone platform with her hands folded, with a calm face, and only slowly ordered: "Ting Tong, Ting Feng, let her go."
Hearing Tong Tingfeng's words, he dropped his hands and stepped aside.
Jian Yan raised her chin at this time, signaling Cai Zhu to come over.
When Caizhu met her cold gaze, her calves trembled a little.
Just now Jian Yan called the guards to go in, and the news that the two managers were beaten to death had already spread throughout the Duke's Mansion, everyone was afraid that they would be the next one to be beaten on the bench.
And Aunt Wan heard about this just now, and she became anxious, thinking that under Jian Yan's thunderous means, she would never get back the right to head the house from Jian Yan's hands, so she sent her away. Caizhu came to inquire about the meeting between Jian Yan and Xu Zhongxuan, thinking about making a big fuss about it.
At this time, Caizhu was complaining about Aunt Wan in her heart, and walked forward with trembling legs, knelt down, and said in a low voice: "Caizhu has seen the girl."
Jian Yan didn't ask her to get up, but only asked: "You are the servant girl serving my aunt in the backyard, so you can't come to the front yard without orders. Why are you here in the flower hall now?"
Caizhu hesitated and couldn't answer.
There is indeed such a rule in Zheng Guogong's mansion that the maids in the backyard cannot come to the front yard at will.Because there are servants and guards in the front yard, if they can walk around freely, it will be embarrassing if something happens that corrupts the moral order.
Seeing that she couldn't answer, Jian Yan's voice became cold.
"Can't answer? Then I'll call the guards over now, beat you a few times to wake you up, and then come over and answer me?"
Caizhu was terrified when she heard the words, and the blood on her face faded instantly.
Just now she heard people say that the two stewards who were beaten had bruises four fingers wide from their buttocks to their legs, and there was no good skin left.
She hurriedly bent down and kowtowed, and said, "Girl, please forgive me. Slave, servant, it's just..."
"Just what?" Jian Yan asked, "You have to weigh the consequences when you lie in front of me. Otherwise, it would be light to beat you up, do you believe it?"
How dare Caizhu not believe it?Now everyone in the Duke's Mansion is saying, don't look at this third girl who is soft and weak, but she is vicious and vicious when she does things.
Caizhu was heartbroken at the moment, closed her eyes, and could only tell the truth: "Servant, this servant was sent by Aunt Wan to see what the third girl and Xu Shilang are doing and what they are talking about."
Jian Yan sneered when she heard the words, and then said: "Your aunt misses me very much. Go back and tell her, if she really wants to know what Xu Shilang and I are doing in this flower hall, what are we talking about, my courtyard gate and flower hall The doors are all open, so she can come and sit here to watch and listen openly, instead of sending a servant girl to come over secretly to inquire."
After she finished speaking, she let out a low voice: "Get lost."
Caizhu kowtowed to her, got up and ran away quickly.
After Jian Yan left the flower hall, Xu Zhongxuan also stood by the door.Seeing that Caizhu had left, he came out and stood beside Jian Yan with cold and sharp eyes.
This Aunt Wan actually kept Jian Yan under surveillance.
But when Jian Yan turned around, the coldness and sharpness in Xu Zhongxuan's eyes disappeared immediately, and replaced by a thick tenderness that couldn't be melted away.
Jian Yan nodded slightly to him, signaling him to follow her into the flower hall.
As usual, Tingtong and Tingfeng stood in the yard looking at the wind, while Siyue stood behind the door in the flower hall, with their backs turned to look out.
Time is running out, and it is too late to say goodbye for the time being.
So Jian Yan quickly said what Li Nianlan said that day, and then Nie Qingniang committed suicide by swallowing gold.
When Xu Zhongxuan heard the words, the expression in his dark eyes became more and more deep and cold.
"What do you want me to do?" He asked in a low voice, "Yan'er, as long as you tell me, I will do anything."
Jian Yan leaned closer and said in the same low voice: "I want you to do three things. First, King Ning cannot be allowed to inherit the throne. I will never let Li Nianyi become a concubine, Wan Auntie refers to the day when she showed off her power in front of me. Second, Li Jing is currently serving in the Wucheng Army Division. You should check his affairs. If you can, let him lose his position and have no future. Li Nianyi and Li Jing are Aunt Wan's most valued children, and they are also her reliance. I just want to make all her reliance fail. And the third, Li Yi has been ill for the past two days. Doctor Wang. You think of a way to say hello to Doctor Wang, so that Li Yi's illness will continue to be sick. It is best to stay in bed every day and do things carelessly. I can let go of him in the backyard work."
Xu Zhongxuan nodded: "I know. Don't worry about these things, I will take care of them naturally."
Then he thought about it, and said: "I heard that Auntie Wan has been in charge of the family for many years, and most of the people in Zheng Guogong's mansion are her confidantes. Even if you can shock these servants for a while, I'm afraid they will remain the same for a long time." You may not be obedient to you. And if you want to make Li Yi empty, it’s not enough to let him linger on the sick bed. In this way, after a few days, after your mother’s funeral, you only say in front of Li Yi that you want to pray for your mother , I want to let a group of family members and servants go out. I think Li Yi still feels a little guilty about your mother committing suicide. Auntie's confidantes are all expelled, and then Zaian inserts her own people in. At that time, both Auntie Wan and Li Yi will naturally be excluded, and every move will be under your control. At that time, what do you want to do? They won't know anything."
Although such a one-size-fits-all approach is simple and rough, it is the most trouble-free and most effective.
Jian Yan nodded: "I understand."
Xu Zhongxuan was a little worried after all.
Even though he knew that Jian Yan was a strong and capable person, in his heart, she was just his little girl.
His little girl, just be carefree forever, why let her bear so many things.
Xu Zhongxuan sighed, stretched out his arms to wrap her in his arms, and said in a low voice: "Yan'er, this kind of thing should not have been done by you. I hate myself for being incompetent because I didn't protect her well." you."
Jian Yan buried her head in his arms, tears streaming out uncontrollably again.
But even though she was crying, her voice was still firm and calm: "I will pay back all the suffering my mother has suffered, and no one can replace it."
Xu Zhongxuan sighed again, and then said: "I understand. I will arrange for Bai Wei and Qi Hui to enter Zheng Guogong's mansion. Bai Wei will accompany you, and Qi Hui will be in the front yard. If there is anything, you can order He will do it, and if he has anything to say to me, he can also tell him."
Since she decided to seek justice for her mother with her own hands, he had no choice but to support her silently behind her back.
Jian Yan nodded silently in his arms, and hugged his waist even tighter.
But after a while, she stretched out her hand and pushed him away, with a forced smile on her face, she said: "You should go. If Aunt Wan really rushed over later, although I am not afraid Hers, but she always doesn't want my mother's house to be restless before the funeral, so that she can't finish her last journey peacefully."
Xu Zhongxuan held her face firmly in both hands, then suddenly lowered his head, and pressed a soft kiss on her forehead.
"Yan'er," he said in a low voice, "don't be afraid, I will always be behind you. When things are over here, I will think of a way to pick you up. Wait for me."
Jian Yan nodded her head desperately, tears filled her eyelashes again.
But she immediately turned around, turned her back to Xu Zhongxuan, and refused to look at him again, but said in a hoarse voice: "You go."
The steady footsteps behind her got farther and farther away until they could no longer be heard, Jian Yan just took a deep breath, turned around, and walked out the door.
It was the end of spring, and a tulip in the courtyard was in full bloom.Where the wind passed by, the racks full of white tulips swayed slightly.
One year, the spring events are in full swing, and the flowers are blooming, and the colorful spring has passed like this.
Nie Qingniang's ceremony lasted for 49 days, which was extremely beautiful.The people from the capital city inquired about the funeral, and it turned out that Nie Qingniang's daughter Le'an Xiangjun, who had not left the court, was in charge of the funeral. They were all amazed and admired.
And after July 49, at dawn, Nie Qingniang's coffin was finally buried in the ground.So this turmoil was gradually annihilated in the mouths of the people in the capital.
But in Zheng Guogong's mansion, Jian Yan has just started to act.
According to what Xu Zhongxuan said, she thought that in the name of Nie Qingniang praying for blessings, she said that she would send out some of the servants and let them go home.Although Li Yi was lingering on the sick bed, injured, and had a new appointment and couldn't manage, but he agreed to this matter immediately.
Nie Qingniang's mother had already traveled to the west of Hexi a few years ago, and the remaining old father was far away in the northwest, unable to travel far.And although her two elder brothers were officials in other places, they rushed over non-stop after hearing the bad news to see Nie Qingniang off for the last time.
At first, they only thought that Nie Qingniang died of illness. After all, they knew that Nie Qingniang had been in poor health for these years, but then Jian Yan secretly let them know that Nie Qingniang actually committed suicide by swallowing gold. And the reason behind the suicide was also told to them. When Nie Qingniang's two elder brothers heard this, they were immediately furious, and immediately went to find Li Yi regardless, and beat him up with their fists.
Even though these two elder brothers are both literati, Li Yi was severely beaten with a fist in a fit of rage.
Then they scolded Li Yi, and only asked him if he still remembered how he went to their house to ask Nie Qingniang to marry him, and why he spoiled his concubine and killed his wife now, and let the concubine and the children of the concubine live like this Killed the mistress?Could it be that she really thought that there was no one in her Nie family?
Li Yi naturally couldn't resist.
These days, his illness has been repeated, his body has lost a lot of weight, and the two uncles shot, how dare he resist?As long as they beat him up, flesh and blood injuries would be fine, but the cursing was like a knife, pulling a hole in his heart one after another.
He couldn't even argue.But since then, he treated Aunt Wan, Li Nianlan and the others a lot more indifferently than before.
It turned out that when Nie Qingniang's two elder brothers left the capital, they asked Jian Yan and Li Xin if they wanted to leave with them and go to Wudinghou's Mansion in the northwest to live with their grandfather, but Jian Yan refused.
Now that the mother has been buried in the ground, it is time for her, Aunt Wan and others to settle accounts.
She first came to trouble Li Nianlan.
The pear blossoms and begonias in Yuxueyuan have long since bloomed, but only the two plantains are still green.
It was night time, and the main room of Yuxueyuan was brightly lit.
Jian Yan brought Bai Wei, Si Yue, Ting Tong, Ting Feng, a group of little maids, and several strong and powerful servants to Yuxueyuan.
After the little maid opened the door, a servant woman stepped forward and pushed the little maid away, and bowed to invite Jian Yan in.
Jian Yan lifted her foot, walked in slowly, and then ordered in a deep voice: "Close the courtyard door, and don't let anyone out. If anyone breaks in, just beat them to death with a stick."
Immediately, a servant woman went up to close the door, dropped the latch, and took a long stick in her hand, guarding the door with a fierce face.
As soon as such a big battle was staged, the little maid in Yuxueyuan didn't know what happened, but her heart skipped a beat, and she hurriedly reported it to Li Nianlan.
At this time Li Nianlan had already taken off her clothes and makeup and was ready to rest.Hearing this, she didn't have time to get dressed, and rushed out of the bedroom wearing only a pink undershirt.
At this time, Siyue had already opened the soft curtain of plum blossoms in the open room, and invited Jian Yan to go in.
Jian Yan lowered her head slightly, and walked into the bright room with a low body.
Li Nianlan was standing by the side of the Bisha closet at this time. Seeing Jian Yan, she was full of anger, and only asked loudly: "Jian Yan, what are you doing? Are you going to kill someone with open flames?"
However, Jian Yan ignored her, and only waved her hand to signal the maid beside her to step forward and hold Li Nianlan down.
Immediately, two maids stepped forward, one on the left and the other on the right, pressed Li Nianlan's shoulders, pulled her aside, and let the door on the green gauze cabinet come out.
Jian Yan walked into Li Nianlan's bedroom, and then sat down on the wooden kang by the window, Bai Wei, Si Yue, Ting Tong, and Ting Feng stood beside her.
At this time, the two servants followed Li Nianlan and entered the bedroom.
The bright lights in the bedroom only illuminated Li Nianlan's peach-red undershirt with gold and silver thread embroidered acacia patterns on the collar, cuffs, and cuffs, making it even more eye-catching.
Jian Yan frowned, and said with a blank face: "During the filial piety period of your aunt, as a concubine, you don't feel sad, but you wear such brightly colored clothes, what do you look like?"
Immediately, his face darkened, and he shouted: "Take off her underwear for me."
The maids on both sides took the order, and immediately ignored Li Nianlan's struggle and scolding, directly took off her underwear.
So there is only a belly pocket and a pair of trousers left inside.
Although it is midsummer, the rain has been lingering for the past few days, and it is still a bit chilly after nightfall.Now Li Nianlan is only wearing these two thin clothes, and most of her body is still exposed, how can anyone not be cold?What's more, in front of so many maids and servants, I am ashamed to death.
So at that moment, her face turned into a pig's liver, and she cursed loudly: "Jian Yan, how dare you treat me like this? I'm going to tell daddy right now, and let him treat you well."
Jian Yan sneered when she heard the words: "Are you planning to find your father in such a belly, pocket, panties, and trousers? There are so many maids and servants along the way, and there are servants and guards in the front yard. Do you want to be here all over the capital tomorrow?" There is such a news circulating that the second girl of Zheng Guogong's family got naked on a whim last night and ran away. If you don't mind that such news spreads all over the capital tomorrow, then you can go to your father right now. I will never stop."
Li Nianlan didn't expect that Jian Yan could even say such a thing.She only blushed at the moment, and said angrily: "After all, she was born as a business woman, and she is so outspoken. You can say such things. If I were you, I would be so ashamed and ashamed to death."
"What do I have to be ashamed of?" Jian Yan looked at her and said leisurely, "It's not that I'm wearing belly, pockets, panties, and trousers to be surrounded by people. Or, do you think this belly on you The pockets, panties, and trousers are also redundant? Then I can have someone pick them up for you right now."
Li Nianlan was so pissed off by her words.At the moment, he only ordered his maid to bring him a dress.But since Jian Yan entered this Yuxue Garden, the dozen or so maids here have long been controlled by the people brought by Jian Yan. No matter how Li Nianlan yells, there are no maids here.
Li Nianlan's expression changed.
She was not afraid, even now, she was only filled with anger.
"Jian Yan," she yelled loudly, "I'm also a girl from the duke's mansion, and I'm still your sister, how dare you bring someone over to restrain my maid, and humiliate me like this? What are you going to do? It's really against the sky. You are not afraid that I will tell Dad about this? Do you know what will happen to you then? "
"It's hard to talk to someone with an IQ like you." Jian Yan stood up from the kang, looked down at her, and sneered, "Today, I will teach you a word for free. Do you understand? I'm not afraid to tell you the truth. Right now, the entire Zheng Guogong's mansion is filled with my people, even my father. I've already emptied them out. He can know the news I want him to know, but I don't want to let him know. He won't know a word of the news he knows. You said you want to tell your father about it, do you think you will have a chance to see your father again?"
Li Nianlanzi's face was full of shock and disbelief.
How could Jian Yan say such a thing?How dare she do such a thing?Not to mention that she has never thought about such a thing, or even heard of it.
She glanced at the maids and servants standing in the room, they were all brought by Jian Yan, and she saw that Jian Yan was the only one who obeyed her orders, and her maids had long since disappeared.
If it is said that she still didn't believe it before, but this time, she believed it.
The entire Yuxueyuan, or even the entire servants in Zheng Guogong's mansion are really controlled by Jian Yan.
Does that mean that she can do whatever she wants in Zheng Guogong's mansion now?
Thinking of this, Li Nianlan finally began to feel fear belatedly.
She was shivering all over, a small part was due to the coldness of the two clothes on her body, while the other part was due to fear.
At this moment, she only felt that the eyes of Jian Yan standing in front of her were dark, sharp and terrifying.
"You," she softened and fell to the ground, then looked up at Jian Yan and asked with a trembling voice, "What do you want to do?"
Jian Yan squatted down, came forward, stretched out her right hand, and tightly pinched her chin.
Then she sneered, and said: "I don't want to pay attention to the shitty things between you and your mother. No matter how much you dance around in Zheng Guogong's mansion, I will just treat you as clowns and just ignore it." That's all. But you shouldn't have plotted against me, and indirectly forced my mother to death. You have touched my bottom line, how can I let you live like this every day? Then you are wrong Got an idea."
Sensing the fear in Li Nianlan's eyes, Jian Yan pulled the corners of her lips slightly, showing a cold smile, and said slowly: "But don't worry, I won't let you die right away. Death is cheap I want you to live. I want you to live in pain every day, and life would be worse than death to atone for my mother."
Having said that, she stood up and walked slowly to Li Nianyan's dressing table.
On the dressing table are the things that the girl should use for dressing up, including rouge powder, lipstick and hair oil, and three dressing boxes of rosewood black lacquer and mother-of-pearl.
Jian Yan stretched out her hand to open the dressing box, and there were all kinds of hairpins, rings, and necklaces in it.
She casually took out a ruby dripping bead crested golden silk step, and commented: "This step is exquisitely made even when turned upside down. What's rare is that the ruby on it is pure in color. It looks good."
Afterwards, she turned around, took this walking swing in her hand, and asked Li Nianlan with a smile: "Is this walking swing your favorite thing?"
This is naturally Li Nianlan's favorite.
She thought she had seen this walking swing in the Treasure Room at the beginning, but she thought about it for a long time, and finally begged Aunt Wan for a long time, and Aunt Wan finally let go and bought it for her.
But she hadn't had time to nod her head, nor had she had time to speak, when she saw Jian Yan beckoning Bai Wei over, raised her hand and placed the walking hairpin on her head.
"It's not bad for you to wear this swing." Jian Yan looked at it with a smile, and then said with a smile, "From now on, this swing will be yours."
Bai Wei knows Jian Yan's temperament.So no matter how expensive this step is, she didn't shirk it, she just bent down and saluted, saying: "Thank you for the reward, Miss."
Then Jian Yan turned around again, stretched out her hand to pick out a pair of red gold bracelets with bells in the jewelry box, and said with a smile: "This pair of bracelets is quite interesting. Come here in April, and I'll give it to you."
Si Yue didn't refuse either, she took it with both hands, and knelt down to thank Jian Yan for her reward.
Then Jian Yan successively picked out a gold sparrow hairpin with emerald green and a gold eight-treasure emerald chrysanthemum hairpin from the jewelry box, and gave them to Ting Tong and Ting Feng respectively.As for the other maids in the room, or the red gold gourd-shaped gold earrings, or the red gold magnolia flower hairpins and lilac flower hairpins, within a short time, a jewelry box was empty.
If it was said that Li Nianlan still had a little fear of Jian Yan in her heart before, but now this little fear has all turned into monstrous anger.
No matter who it is, it is unbearable to see one's beloved jewelry being treated as a favor and given to others.
"Jian Yan," Li Nianlan yelled, and wanted to rush over to hit her, but she was stopped by a servant woman with sharp eyes and quick hands, "How dare you touch my jewelry box? These are my favorite jewelry , but you actually rewarded them to a group of lowly servants, how could you do this?"
"Why can't I do this?" Jian Yan sat down again on the kang by the window, and asked with a smile on her face, "Could it be that you still can't see the current situation clearly?"
Immediately she leaned forward slightly, and said with a smile: "People are knives, I'm fish, idiot."
Li Nianlan's pupils contracted violently, and for a moment she was so angry by Jian Yan that she couldn't speak a word, but her chest heaved violently.
"It was you who said those words that day. Without your words, my mother would not have died afterwards. And I have asked people who have followed Xin'er, you have not regarded Xin'er as a person at all these years. My own younger brother, seeing that he has a good temper, would ridicule and ridicule him when he saw him. Why, no one is behind Xin'er after looking at him? Today I will settle all these accounts with you. "
She sneered, and then yelled: "I opened all her wardrobe and suitcase, took the scissors, and cut all her dresses to pieces."
The little maid and the maid agreed, and then quickly opened the wardrobe and suitcase, took the scissors and began to cut those dresses that Li Nianlan was so proud of.
Li Nianlan screamed and wanted to rush over to stop her.But two servants held her tightly.
She wanted to turn her head not to look, but Jian Yan ordered the two maids: "Bring her head back to me, and let her see with her own eyes how all her favorite things are destroyed. If she closes her eyes , let me hold her eyes open with my hands."
Under the bright candlelight, it can be seen that the exquisitely embroidered dresses of various colors have been cut into strips of cloth.The sound of the scissors cutting the cloth and satin was so clear.
Li Nianlan was on the verge of going crazy, but she kept screaming and crying.
She wanted to rush over and beat Jian Yan, but the two servants held her tightly.She didn't want to see or hear, but the two servants opened her eyelids one by one.
In the end, all she could scream and cry was hoarse, and she could only say in one voice: "Jian Yan, you are not human. You are not human."
Jian Yan slowly walked up to her, condescendingly looking down at Li Nianlan who was limp on the ground like a puddle of mud.
"When you forced my mother to death, you should have thought of the consequences like today." Jian Yan sneered, and asked in a cold voice, "Is it right to see the things I love and cherish being destroyed in front of my eyes?" What does it feel like?"
Then she raised her voice again, and said coldly: "But how can these compare to one ten-thousandth of the moment when I watched my mother being forced to commit suicide by swallowing gold?"
Li Nianlan's eyes were a little distracted.She just struggled to stand up, and kept saying, "I'm going to find my father, I'm going to tell him that you insulted me like this, and I'm going to let him kill you."
"You'll never see your father again," Jian Yan sneered, and then said slowly under Li Nianlan's vicious eyes looking up at her, "Don't you know something? I have already told my father Well, it was because of what you said that day that you indirectly forced my mother to death, so you felt guilty in your heart, so you thought about going to the Shuiyue Nunnery in the suburbs to practice penance for a period of time, for my sake. Mother prayed for blessings. Daddy naturally agreed. And of course, when you go to Shuiyue Temple, how can I let you go back to this country's mansion again?"
"No, no, I don't believe it." Li Nianlan got up from the ground like a madman and was about to rush out the door, screaming, "I'm going to find my father, I'm going to ask him myself."
But the servant woman behind her had already held her down with sharp eyes and quick hands.
Then Jian Yan waved her hand, and saw Tingtong bring a bowl of dark brown concoction over with both hands, and brought it to her lips.
Li Nianlan raised her head in horror and asked Jian Yan: "What is this? What do you want to drink for me?"
"You don't have to be afraid," Jian Yan smiled at her terrified appearance.But that smile is really not warm at all. On the contrary, looking at it makes people sweat on the back, "I won't let you die right now. It's so boring to die. It's just a bowl It's just medicine that can make you unable to speak in the future. Who made you the most talkative in the past."
Dumb drug!How dare she give her dumb medicine!
Li Nianlan struggled not to drink, and kept yelling: "I won't drink, I won't drink. I am a girl from Zheng Guogong's mansion, my father is Zheng Guogong, and my sister is a concubine of Ning Wang. She will be a noble concubine in the future. Jian Yan, how dare you treat me like this. I will definitely make you die."
Jian Yan ignored her and waved her hand lightly.
Then a servant woman reached out and pinched Li Nianlan's chin, forcing her to open her mouth.
Immediately after Ting Tong raised his hand, the bowl of medicinal juice was poured down Li Nianlan's throat.
Immediately, Li Nianlan only felt a spicy and bitter medicinal juice slip down her throat.She coughed loudly, trying to spit out the medicine juice, but she heard Jian Yan laughing again: "It's useless even if you spit it out again. I still have a big jar here."
Li Nianlan was really desperate at this moment, and also really scared.
She jumped down, crawled to Jian Yan's side, and begged: "I was wrong, I know I was wrong. Please, please forgive me. After all, we are sisters after all."
But Jian Yan looked indifferent.
"What kind of thing are you?" She looked down at her with disdain in her eyes, "You deserve to be my sister?"
Li Nianlan opened her eyes wide.
And Jian Yan stood up at this time, and ordered the two servants who supported Li Nianlan: "Take her to the Shuiyue Nunnery in the suburbs. Then take good care of her."
Naturally, this care will not really be a good care.
Then she ignored Li Nianlan's crying and cursing, and led a group of maids out of the gate of Yuxueyuan.
The sky above the head is dark, with sparse stars and pale moon.Occasionally, the wind blows, rolling up the leaves of the ginkgo trees on the roadside, rustling softly.
Jian Yan folded her hands in her sleeves and looked up in the direction of Ya'anju.
There were no more lights, and it was silent.
Her mother is now lying alone in the dark and cold ground.
Would a weak and timid person like her feel cold?Will you feel scared?
Jian Yan's eyes were hot and her nose was sore.
The enmity between her parents is irreconcilable, and she will never let the person who forced her mother to death feel better.
Now Li Nianlan has solved it.Next it was Aunt Wan's turn.
She wants to make Aunt Wan's life more difficult than Li Nianlan's.
(End of this chapter)
Jian Yan asked Xu Zhongxuan to meet in the flower hall in the front yard.
She took Si Yue with her, and Ting Tong and Ting Feng went there together.
At this time, Aunt Wan was thinking of ways to find her fault, so even if she wanted to be alone with Xu Zhongxuan again, throwing herself into his arms and telling him what happened during this period of time, that would still be the same. unable.
After arriving at the flower hall, she let Ting Tong and Ting Feng stay in the yard, and she brought Si Yue into the flower hall.
Mr. Xu Zhongxuan was still able to sit there calmly and wait for her to come over, but when he saw her, he couldn't calm down immediately.
He got up and stood up, rushed over in one stride, held her shoulders with both hands, and called her in a low voice: "Yan'er."
Since the last time we met, he held her ear in his mouth and murmured to her Yan'er. These days, these two words have been carved in his heart like a knife and an axe. Deep imprint.
He would call these two words softly in his heart every day.
Since Nie Qingniang's accident, Jian Yan has been extremely calm these few days.
She had to take care of Nie Qingniang's funeral, to appease Li Xin, and to prevent Aunt Wan from making trouble for her. Her nerves were tense day and night, and she never let up for a moment, so she didn't bother to cry.
But this time, seeing Xu Zhongxuan in front of her and hearing him calling her name softly, she suddenly felt aggrieved and sad.
At first, I was thinking of sitting down and having a good talk with Xu Zhongxuan, and I couldn't do any intimate behavior to let Aunt Wan find her fault, but now she couldn't help it, and didn't say a word yet. , but first threw herself into his arms and cried out.
Seeing this in April, she walked to the door.
In order not to be misunderstood, the two doors were wide open. Si Yue turned her back to Jian Yan and Xu Zhongxuan, huddled behind one of the doors, and looked outside intently.
If someone came, she could report it in time.
At this time, Xu Zhongxuan held Jian Yan tightly in his arms. Hearing her suppressed crying, he felt as if a huge stone weighing a thousand catties was pressed in his heart, it was so dull.
Jian Yan grabbed the front of his robe and wept bitterly, and said intermittently, choked with sobs: "My mother committed suicide. She committed suicide by swallowing gold. She did it all for me, she did it all for me."
Xu Zhongxuan was shocked.
Although he had already guessed that Nie Qingniang's death was probably a suicide, rather than dying of a disease as said to the outside world, but now hearing this sentence from Jian Yan's mouth, he was still shocked.
Although Nie Qingniang was thinking of Jian Yan wholeheartedly, but since then, his little girl might not be able to let go of this matter for the rest of her life.
He lowered his head and looked at Jian Yan who was crying in his arms with tears all over her face.
When we met last time, she was still in high spirits between her brows and eyes, but now her face is full of haggardness, and her appearance has decreased a lot.
There was a sudden pain in my heart.
He tightened his arms, put his chin on her head, and said in a low voice: "It's my incompetence that caused you to suffer such pain."
After Zheng Hua told him the news that day, he originally wanted to go back and wrote a chapter, asking the emperor to marry him and Le'an Township Lord, and then rushed to submit it tomorrow morning.He thought at that time, even if the emperor did not allow this matter, it would not matter.
It is a long way from the capital to the northwest, so he will naturally think of a way to tamper with this journey, in short, he will never let Jian Yan marry the prince of Xingping.It's just that he didn't expect that he received a message that night, saying that Zheng Guogong's wife was gone.
At that time, he guessed that Mrs. Zheng Guogong's death had an inside story.Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that she just disappeared at this time?It just solved the dilemma Jian Yan was facing.
But now hearing what Jian Yan said so personally, what else does he not understand?
At this moment, he was only full of self-blame.
It's all because of his incompetence, otherwise why would Jian Yan suffer such pain?
He tightly held Jian Yan in his arms, his lips were tightly lined, and his deep pupils were full of self-blame.
But at this moment, Siyue turned around suddenly, and whispered quickly: "Girl, the colorful beads are outside."
Caizhu is the big maid beside Aunt Wan.
When Jian Yan heard this, she hurriedly left Xu Zhongxuan's embrace, got up and walked outside the door.
Tingtong and Tingfeng were grabbing colorful beads in the courtyard, asking her what she was doing outside.
Caizhu hesitated and couldn't speak.
But in fact, someone just said that Xu Zhongxuan came over, and the third girl went to see him.Thinking of the last time Xu Zhongxuan came to propose marriage, Aunt Wan thought that there must be an affair between Xu Zhongxuan and Jian Yan, so she hurriedly sent Caizhu over to inquire.
Aunt Wan only thought that if she could catch Jian Yan and be alone with Xu Zhongxuan at this time, she would naturally be able to make a fuss about it.
At this time, there are other guests who came to express their condolences in the mansion. If this matter is yelled out, not to mention people's words, Jian Yan will be ashamed and angry to death, but at least her face can no longer be preserved. See how she still has the nerve to hold the right to head the house in her hands.
But who would have thought that Caizhu was just posing outside the courtyard, before she sneaked in to inquire about the situation, she was discovered by Tingtong and Tingfeng.
Jian Yan has become more cautious in doing things recently.Even if she came to see Xu Zhongxuan, she still brought several maidservants with her, so if someone wanted to use this matter as an argument, what was she afraid of?
These several maidservants accompanied her by her side, and she did not get along with Xu Zhongxuan alone.
At that moment, Jian Yan led Si Yue out of the flower hall, and stood on the bluestone platform with her hands folded, with a calm face, and only slowly ordered: "Ting Tong, Ting Feng, let her go."
Hearing Tong Tingfeng's words, he dropped his hands and stepped aside.
Jian Yan raised her chin at this time, signaling Cai Zhu to come over.
When Caizhu met her cold gaze, her calves trembled a little.
Just now Jian Yan called the guards to go in, and the news that the two managers were beaten to death had already spread throughout the Duke's Mansion, everyone was afraid that they would be the next one to be beaten on the bench.
And Aunt Wan heard about this just now, and she became anxious, thinking that under Jian Yan's thunderous means, she would never get back the right to head the house from Jian Yan's hands, so she sent her away. Caizhu came to inquire about the meeting between Jian Yan and Xu Zhongxuan, thinking about making a big fuss about it.
At this time, Caizhu was complaining about Aunt Wan in her heart, and walked forward with trembling legs, knelt down, and said in a low voice: "Caizhu has seen the girl."
Jian Yan didn't ask her to get up, but only asked: "You are the servant girl serving my aunt in the backyard, so you can't come to the front yard without orders. Why are you here in the flower hall now?"
Caizhu hesitated and couldn't answer.
There is indeed such a rule in Zheng Guogong's mansion that the maids in the backyard cannot come to the front yard at will.Because there are servants and guards in the front yard, if they can walk around freely, it will be embarrassing if something happens that corrupts the moral order.
Seeing that she couldn't answer, Jian Yan's voice became cold.
"Can't answer? Then I'll call the guards over now, beat you a few times to wake you up, and then come over and answer me?"
Caizhu was terrified when she heard the words, and the blood on her face faded instantly.
Just now she heard people say that the two stewards who were beaten had bruises four fingers wide from their buttocks to their legs, and there was no good skin left.
She hurriedly bent down and kowtowed, and said, "Girl, please forgive me. Slave, servant, it's just..."
"Just what?" Jian Yan asked, "You have to weigh the consequences when you lie in front of me. Otherwise, it would be light to beat you up, do you believe it?"
How dare Caizhu not believe it?Now everyone in the Duke's Mansion is saying, don't look at this third girl who is soft and weak, but she is vicious and vicious when she does things.
Caizhu was heartbroken at the moment, closed her eyes, and could only tell the truth: "Servant, this servant was sent by Aunt Wan to see what the third girl and Xu Shilang are doing and what they are talking about."
Jian Yan sneered when she heard the words, and then said: "Your aunt misses me very much. Go back and tell her, if she really wants to know what Xu Shilang and I are doing in this flower hall, what are we talking about, my courtyard gate and flower hall The doors are all open, so she can come and sit here to watch and listen openly, instead of sending a servant girl to come over secretly to inquire."
After she finished speaking, she let out a low voice: "Get lost."
Caizhu kowtowed to her, got up and ran away quickly.
After Jian Yan left the flower hall, Xu Zhongxuan also stood by the door.Seeing that Caizhu had left, he came out and stood beside Jian Yan with cold and sharp eyes.
This Aunt Wan actually kept Jian Yan under surveillance.
But when Jian Yan turned around, the coldness and sharpness in Xu Zhongxuan's eyes disappeared immediately, and replaced by a thick tenderness that couldn't be melted away.
Jian Yan nodded slightly to him, signaling him to follow her into the flower hall.
As usual, Tingtong and Tingfeng stood in the yard looking at the wind, while Siyue stood behind the door in the flower hall, with their backs turned to look out.
Time is running out, and it is too late to say goodbye for the time being.
So Jian Yan quickly said what Li Nianlan said that day, and then Nie Qingniang committed suicide by swallowing gold.
When Xu Zhongxuan heard the words, the expression in his dark eyes became more and more deep and cold.
"What do you want me to do?" He asked in a low voice, "Yan'er, as long as you tell me, I will do anything."
Jian Yan leaned closer and said in the same low voice: "I want you to do three things. First, King Ning cannot be allowed to inherit the throne. I will never let Li Nianyi become a concubine, Wan Auntie refers to the day when she showed off her power in front of me. Second, Li Jing is currently serving in the Wucheng Army Division. You should check his affairs. If you can, let him lose his position and have no future. Li Nianyi and Li Jing are Aunt Wan's most valued children, and they are also her reliance. I just want to make all her reliance fail. And the third, Li Yi has been ill for the past two days. Doctor Wang. You think of a way to say hello to Doctor Wang, so that Li Yi's illness will continue to be sick. It is best to stay in bed every day and do things carelessly. I can let go of him in the backyard work."
Xu Zhongxuan nodded: "I know. Don't worry about these things, I will take care of them naturally."
Then he thought about it, and said: "I heard that Auntie Wan has been in charge of the family for many years, and most of the people in Zheng Guogong's mansion are her confidantes. Even if you can shock these servants for a while, I'm afraid they will remain the same for a long time." You may not be obedient to you. And if you want to make Li Yi empty, it’s not enough to let him linger on the sick bed. In this way, after a few days, after your mother’s funeral, you only say in front of Li Yi that you want to pray for your mother , I want to let a group of family members and servants go out. I think Li Yi still feels a little guilty about your mother committing suicide. Auntie's confidantes are all expelled, and then Zaian inserts her own people in. At that time, both Auntie Wan and Li Yi will naturally be excluded, and every move will be under your control. At that time, what do you want to do? They won't know anything."
Although such a one-size-fits-all approach is simple and rough, it is the most trouble-free and most effective.
Jian Yan nodded: "I understand."
Xu Zhongxuan was a little worried after all.
Even though he knew that Jian Yan was a strong and capable person, in his heart, she was just his little girl.
His little girl, just be carefree forever, why let her bear so many things.
Xu Zhongxuan sighed, stretched out his arms to wrap her in his arms, and said in a low voice: "Yan'er, this kind of thing should not have been done by you. I hate myself for being incompetent because I didn't protect her well." you."
Jian Yan buried her head in his arms, tears streaming out uncontrollably again.
But even though she was crying, her voice was still firm and calm: "I will pay back all the suffering my mother has suffered, and no one can replace it."
Xu Zhongxuan sighed again, and then said: "I understand. I will arrange for Bai Wei and Qi Hui to enter Zheng Guogong's mansion. Bai Wei will accompany you, and Qi Hui will be in the front yard. If there is anything, you can order He will do it, and if he has anything to say to me, he can also tell him."
Since she decided to seek justice for her mother with her own hands, he had no choice but to support her silently behind her back.
Jian Yan nodded silently in his arms, and hugged his waist even tighter.
But after a while, she stretched out her hand and pushed him away, with a forced smile on her face, she said: "You should go. If Aunt Wan really rushed over later, although I am not afraid Hers, but she always doesn't want my mother's house to be restless before the funeral, so that she can't finish her last journey peacefully."
Xu Zhongxuan held her face firmly in both hands, then suddenly lowered his head, and pressed a soft kiss on her forehead.
"Yan'er," he said in a low voice, "don't be afraid, I will always be behind you. When things are over here, I will think of a way to pick you up. Wait for me."
Jian Yan nodded her head desperately, tears filled her eyelashes again.
But she immediately turned around, turned her back to Xu Zhongxuan, and refused to look at him again, but said in a hoarse voice: "You go."
The steady footsteps behind her got farther and farther away until they could no longer be heard, Jian Yan just took a deep breath, turned around, and walked out the door.
It was the end of spring, and a tulip in the courtyard was in full bloom.Where the wind passed by, the racks full of white tulips swayed slightly.
One year, the spring events are in full swing, and the flowers are blooming, and the colorful spring has passed like this.
Nie Qingniang's ceremony lasted for 49 days, which was extremely beautiful.The people from the capital city inquired about the funeral, and it turned out that Nie Qingniang's daughter Le'an Xiangjun, who had not left the court, was in charge of the funeral. They were all amazed and admired.
And after July 49, at dawn, Nie Qingniang's coffin was finally buried in the ground.So this turmoil was gradually annihilated in the mouths of the people in the capital.
But in Zheng Guogong's mansion, Jian Yan has just started to act.
According to what Xu Zhongxuan said, she thought that in the name of Nie Qingniang praying for blessings, she said that she would send out some of the servants and let them go home.Although Li Yi was lingering on the sick bed, injured, and had a new appointment and couldn't manage, but he agreed to this matter immediately.
Nie Qingniang's mother had already traveled to the west of Hexi a few years ago, and the remaining old father was far away in the northwest, unable to travel far.And although her two elder brothers were officials in other places, they rushed over non-stop after hearing the bad news to see Nie Qingniang off for the last time.
At first, they only thought that Nie Qingniang died of illness. After all, they knew that Nie Qingniang had been in poor health for these years, but then Jian Yan secretly let them know that Nie Qingniang actually committed suicide by swallowing gold. And the reason behind the suicide was also told to them. When Nie Qingniang's two elder brothers heard this, they were immediately furious, and immediately went to find Li Yi regardless, and beat him up with their fists.
Even though these two elder brothers are both literati, Li Yi was severely beaten with a fist in a fit of rage.
Then they scolded Li Yi, and only asked him if he still remembered how he went to their house to ask Nie Qingniang to marry him, and why he spoiled his concubine and killed his wife now, and let the concubine and the children of the concubine live like this Killed the mistress?Could it be that she really thought that there was no one in her Nie family?
Li Yi naturally couldn't resist.
These days, his illness has been repeated, his body has lost a lot of weight, and the two uncles shot, how dare he resist?As long as they beat him up, flesh and blood injuries would be fine, but the cursing was like a knife, pulling a hole in his heart one after another.
He couldn't even argue.But since then, he treated Aunt Wan, Li Nianlan and the others a lot more indifferently than before.
It turned out that when Nie Qingniang's two elder brothers left the capital, they asked Jian Yan and Li Xin if they wanted to leave with them and go to Wudinghou's Mansion in the northwest to live with their grandfather, but Jian Yan refused.
Now that the mother has been buried in the ground, it is time for her, Aunt Wan and others to settle accounts.
She first came to trouble Li Nianlan.
The pear blossoms and begonias in Yuxueyuan have long since bloomed, but only the two plantains are still green.
It was night time, and the main room of Yuxueyuan was brightly lit.
Jian Yan brought Bai Wei, Si Yue, Ting Tong, Ting Feng, a group of little maids, and several strong and powerful servants to Yuxueyuan.
After the little maid opened the door, a servant woman stepped forward and pushed the little maid away, and bowed to invite Jian Yan in.
Jian Yan lifted her foot, walked in slowly, and then ordered in a deep voice: "Close the courtyard door, and don't let anyone out. If anyone breaks in, just beat them to death with a stick."
Immediately, a servant woman went up to close the door, dropped the latch, and took a long stick in her hand, guarding the door with a fierce face.
As soon as such a big battle was staged, the little maid in Yuxueyuan didn't know what happened, but her heart skipped a beat, and she hurriedly reported it to Li Nianlan.
At this time Li Nianlan had already taken off her clothes and makeup and was ready to rest.Hearing this, she didn't have time to get dressed, and rushed out of the bedroom wearing only a pink undershirt.
At this time, Siyue had already opened the soft curtain of plum blossoms in the open room, and invited Jian Yan to go in.
Jian Yan lowered her head slightly, and walked into the bright room with a low body.
Li Nianlan was standing by the side of the Bisha closet at this time. Seeing Jian Yan, she was full of anger, and only asked loudly: "Jian Yan, what are you doing? Are you going to kill someone with open flames?"
However, Jian Yan ignored her, and only waved her hand to signal the maid beside her to step forward and hold Li Nianlan down.
Immediately, two maids stepped forward, one on the left and the other on the right, pressed Li Nianlan's shoulders, pulled her aside, and let the door on the green gauze cabinet come out.
Jian Yan walked into Li Nianlan's bedroom, and then sat down on the wooden kang by the window, Bai Wei, Si Yue, Ting Tong, and Ting Feng stood beside her.
At this time, the two servants followed Li Nianlan and entered the bedroom.
The bright lights in the bedroom only illuminated Li Nianlan's peach-red undershirt with gold and silver thread embroidered acacia patterns on the collar, cuffs, and cuffs, making it even more eye-catching.
Jian Yan frowned, and said with a blank face: "During the filial piety period of your aunt, as a concubine, you don't feel sad, but you wear such brightly colored clothes, what do you look like?"
Immediately, his face darkened, and he shouted: "Take off her underwear for me."
The maids on both sides took the order, and immediately ignored Li Nianlan's struggle and scolding, directly took off her underwear.
So there is only a belly pocket and a pair of trousers left inside.
Although it is midsummer, the rain has been lingering for the past few days, and it is still a bit chilly after nightfall.Now Li Nianlan is only wearing these two thin clothes, and most of her body is still exposed, how can anyone not be cold?What's more, in front of so many maids and servants, I am ashamed to death.
So at that moment, her face turned into a pig's liver, and she cursed loudly: "Jian Yan, how dare you treat me like this? I'm going to tell daddy right now, and let him treat you well."
Jian Yan sneered when she heard the words: "Are you planning to find your father in such a belly, pocket, panties, and trousers? There are so many maids and servants along the way, and there are servants and guards in the front yard. Do you want to be here all over the capital tomorrow?" There is such a news circulating that the second girl of Zheng Guogong's family got naked on a whim last night and ran away. If you don't mind that such news spreads all over the capital tomorrow, then you can go to your father right now. I will never stop."
Li Nianlan didn't expect that Jian Yan could even say such a thing.She only blushed at the moment, and said angrily: "After all, she was born as a business woman, and she is so outspoken. You can say such things. If I were you, I would be so ashamed and ashamed to death."
"What do I have to be ashamed of?" Jian Yan looked at her and said leisurely, "It's not that I'm wearing belly, pockets, panties, and trousers to be surrounded by people. Or, do you think this belly on you The pockets, panties, and trousers are also redundant? Then I can have someone pick them up for you right now."
Li Nianlan was so pissed off by her words.At the moment, he only ordered his maid to bring him a dress.But since Jian Yan entered this Yuxue Garden, the dozen or so maids here have long been controlled by the people brought by Jian Yan. No matter how Li Nianlan yells, there are no maids here.
Li Nianlan's expression changed.
She was not afraid, even now, she was only filled with anger.
"Jian Yan," she yelled loudly, "I'm also a girl from the duke's mansion, and I'm still your sister, how dare you bring someone over to restrain my maid, and humiliate me like this? What are you going to do? It's really against the sky. You are not afraid that I will tell Dad about this? Do you know what will happen to you then? "
"It's hard to talk to someone with an IQ like you." Jian Yan stood up from the kang, looked down at her, and sneered, "Today, I will teach you a word for free. Do you understand? I'm not afraid to tell you the truth. Right now, the entire Zheng Guogong's mansion is filled with my people, even my father. I've already emptied them out. He can know the news I want him to know, but I don't want to let him know. He won't know a word of the news he knows. You said you want to tell your father about it, do you think you will have a chance to see your father again?"
Li Nianlanzi's face was full of shock and disbelief.
How could Jian Yan say such a thing?How dare she do such a thing?Not to mention that she has never thought about such a thing, or even heard of it.
She glanced at the maids and servants standing in the room, they were all brought by Jian Yan, and she saw that Jian Yan was the only one who obeyed her orders, and her maids had long since disappeared.
If it is said that she still didn't believe it before, but this time, she believed it.
The entire Yuxueyuan, or even the entire servants in Zheng Guogong's mansion are really controlled by Jian Yan.
Does that mean that she can do whatever she wants in Zheng Guogong's mansion now?
Thinking of this, Li Nianlan finally began to feel fear belatedly.
She was shivering all over, a small part was due to the coldness of the two clothes on her body, while the other part was due to fear.
At this moment, she only felt that the eyes of Jian Yan standing in front of her were dark, sharp and terrifying.
"You," she softened and fell to the ground, then looked up at Jian Yan and asked with a trembling voice, "What do you want to do?"
Jian Yan squatted down, came forward, stretched out her right hand, and tightly pinched her chin.
Then she sneered, and said: "I don't want to pay attention to the shitty things between you and your mother. No matter how much you dance around in Zheng Guogong's mansion, I will just treat you as clowns and just ignore it." That's all. But you shouldn't have plotted against me, and indirectly forced my mother to death. You have touched my bottom line, how can I let you live like this every day? Then you are wrong Got an idea."
Sensing the fear in Li Nianlan's eyes, Jian Yan pulled the corners of her lips slightly, showing a cold smile, and said slowly: "But don't worry, I won't let you die right away. Death is cheap I want you to live. I want you to live in pain every day, and life would be worse than death to atone for my mother."
Having said that, she stood up and walked slowly to Li Nianyan's dressing table.
On the dressing table are the things that the girl should use for dressing up, including rouge powder, lipstick and hair oil, and three dressing boxes of rosewood black lacquer and mother-of-pearl.
Jian Yan stretched out her hand to open the dressing box, and there were all kinds of hairpins, rings, and necklaces in it.
She casually took out a ruby dripping bead crested golden silk step, and commented: "This step is exquisitely made even when turned upside down. What's rare is that the ruby on it is pure in color. It looks good."
Afterwards, she turned around, took this walking swing in her hand, and asked Li Nianlan with a smile: "Is this walking swing your favorite thing?"
This is naturally Li Nianlan's favorite.
She thought she had seen this walking swing in the Treasure Room at the beginning, but she thought about it for a long time, and finally begged Aunt Wan for a long time, and Aunt Wan finally let go and bought it for her.
But she hadn't had time to nod her head, nor had she had time to speak, when she saw Jian Yan beckoning Bai Wei over, raised her hand and placed the walking hairpin on her head.
"It's not bad for you to wear this swing." Jian Yan looked at it with a smile, and then said with a smile, "From now on, this swing will be yours."
Bai Wei knows Jian Yan's temperament.So no matter how expensive this step is, she didn't shirk it, she just bent down and saluted, saying: "Thank you for the reward, Miss."
Then Jian Yan turned around again, stretched out her hand to pick out a pair of red gold bracelets with bells in the jewelry box, and said with a smile: "This pair of bracelets is quite interesting. Come here in April, and I'll give it to you."
Si Yue didn't refuse either, she took it with both hands, and knelt down to thank Jian Yan for her reward.
Then Jian Yan successively picked out a gold sparrow hairpin with emerald green and a gold eight-treasure emerald chrysanthemum hairpin from the jewelry box, and gave them to Ting Tong and Ting Feng respectively.As for the other maids in the room, or the red gold gourd-shaped gold earrings, or the red gold magnolia flower hairpins and lilac flower hairpins, within a short time, a jewelry box was empty.
If it was said that Li Nianlan still had a little fear of Jian Yan in her heart before, but now this little fear has all turned into monstrous anger.
No matter who it is, it is unbearable to see one's beloved jewelry being treated as a favor and given to others.
"Jian Yan," Li Nianlan yelled, and wanted to rush over to hit her, but she was stopped by a servant woman with sharp eyes and quick hands, "How dare you touch my jewelry box? These are my favorite jewelry , but you actually rewarded them to a group of lowly servants, how could you do this?"
"Why can't I do this?" Jian Yan sat down again on the kang by the window, and asked with a smile on her face, "Could it be that you still can't see the current situation clearly?"
Immediately she leaned forward slightly, and said with a smile: "People are knives, I'm fish, idiot."
Li Nianlan's pupils contracted violently, and for a moment she was so angry by Jian Yan that she couldn't speak a word, but her chest heaved violently.
"It was you who said those words that day. Without your words, my mother would not have died afterwards. And I have asked people who have followed Xin'er, you have not regarded Xin'er as a person at all these years. My own younger brother, seeing that he has a good temper, would ridicule and ridicule him when he saw him. Why, no one is behind Xin'er after looking at him? Today I will settle all these accounts with you. "
She sneered, and then yelled: "I opened all her wardrobe and suitcase, took the scissors, and cut all her dresses to pieces."
The little maid and the maid agreed, and then quickly opened the wardrobe and suitcase, took the scissors and began to cut those dresses that Li Nianlan was so proud of.
Li Nianlan screamed and wanted to rush over to stop her.But two servants held her tightly.
She wanted to turn her head not to look, but Jian Yan ordered the two maids: "Bring her head back to me, and let her see with her own eyes how all her favorite things are destroyed. If she closes her eyes , let me hold her eyes open with my hands."
Under the bright candlelight, it can be seen that the exquisitely embroidered dresses of various colors have been cut into strips of cloth.The sound of the scissors cutting the cloth and satin was so clear.
Li Nianlan was on the verge of going crazy, but she kept screaming and crying.
She wanted to rush over and beat Jian Yan, but the two servants held her tightly.She didn't want to see or hear, but the two servants opened her eyelids one by one.
In the end, all she could scream and cry was hoarse, and she could only say in one voice: "Jian Yan, you are not human. You are not human."
Jian Yan slowly walked up to her, condescendingly looking down at Li Nianlan who was limp on the ground like a puddle of mud.
"When you forced my mother to death, you should have thought of the consequences like today." Jian Yan sneered, and asked in a cold voice, "Is it right to see the things I love and cherish being destroyed in front of my eyes?" What does it feel like?"
Then she raised her voice again, and said coldly: "But how can these compare to one ten-thousandth of the moment when I watched my mother being forced to commit suicide by swallowing gold?"
Li Nianlan's eyes were a little distracted.She just struggled to stand up, and kept saying, "I'm going to find my father, I'm going to tell him that you insulted me like this, and I'm going to let him kill you."
"You'll never see your father again," Jian Yan sneered, and then said slowly under Li Nianlan's vicious eyes looking up at her, "Don't you know something? I have already told my father Well, it was because of what you said that day that you indirectly forced my mother to death, so you felt guilty in your heart, so you thought about going to the Shuiyue Nunnery in the suburbs to practice penance for a period of time, for my sake. Mother prayed for blessings. Daddy naturally agreed. And of course, when you go to Shuiyue Temple, how can I let you go back to this country's mansion again?"
"No, no, I don't believe it." Li Nianlan got up from the ground like a madman and was about to rush out the door, screaming, "I'm going to find my father, I'm going to ask him myself."
But the servant woman behind her had already held her down with sharp eyes and quick hands.
Then Jian Yan waved her hand, and saw Tingtong bring a bowl of dark brown concoction over with both hands, and brought it to her lips.
Li Nianlan raised her head in horror and asked Jian Yan: "What is this? What do you want to drink for me?"
"You don't have to be afraid," Jian Yan smiled at her terrified appearance.But that smile is really not warm at all. On the contrary, looking at it makes people sweat on the back, "I won't let you die right now. It's so boring to die. It's just a bowl It's just medicine that can make you unable to speak in the future. Who made you the most talkative in the past."
Dumb drug!How dare she give her dumb medicine!
Li Nianlan struggled not to drink, and kept yelling: "I won't drink, I won't drink. I am a girl from Zheng Guogong's mansion, my father is Zheng Guogong, and my sister is a concubine of Ning Wang. She will be a noble concubine in the future. Jian Yan, how dare you treat me like this. I will definitely make you die."
Jian Yan ignored her and waved her hand lightly.
Then a servant woman reached out and pinched Li Nianlan's chin, forcing her to open her mouth.
Immediately after Ting Tong raised his hand, the bowl of medicinal juice was poured down Li Nianlan's throat.
Immediately, Li Nianlan only felt a spicy and bitter medicinal juice slip down her throat.She coughed loudly, trying to spit out the medicine juice, but she heard Jian Yan laughing again: "It's useless even if you spit it out again. I still have a big jar here."
Li Nianlan was really desperate at this moment, and also really scared.
She jumped down, crawled to Jian Yan's side, and begged: "I was wrong, I know I was wrong. Please, please forgive me. After all, we are sisters after all."
But Jian Yan looked indifferent.
"What kind of thing are you?" She looked down at her with disdain in her eyes, "You deserve to be my sister?"
Li Nianlan opened her eyes wide.
And Jian Yan stood up at this time, and ordered the two servants who supported Li Nianlan: "Take her to the Shuiyue Nunnery in the suburbs. Then take good care of her."
Naturally, this care will not really be a good care.
Then she ignored Li Nianlan's crying and cursing, and led a group of maids out of the gate of Yuxueyuan.
The sky above the head is dark, with sparse stars and pale moon.Occasionally, the wind blows, rolling up the leaves of the ginkgo trees on the roadside, rustling softly.
Jian Yan folded her hands in her sleeves and looked up in the direction of Ya'anju.
There were no more lights, and it was silent.
Her mother is now lying alone in the dark and cold ground.
Would a weak and timid person like her feel cold?Will you feel scared?
Jian Yan's eyes were hot and her nose was sore.
The enmity between her parents is irreconcilable, and she will never let the person who forced her mother to death feel better.
Now Li Nianlan has solved it.Next it was Aunt Wan's turn.
She wants to make Aunt Wan's life more difficult than Li Nianlan's.
(End of this chapter)
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