Gu Helian felt depressed when she thought about what happened back then.
He was a little drunk that day, and he was annoyed that Rongyue couldn't recognize people well. Rongyue, who woke up after being bumped into, didn't listen to his explanation at all. Everyone thought that he was jealous of Rongyue's engagement with Xie Tianyu and wanted to do something wrong. Rong Yue is innocent when things go wrong.
He was drunk at that time, and he said some things he shouldn't have said after being wrongly accused, and things got out of hand.
At that time, Rong Yue's marriage to Xie Tianyu could be said to have been finalized. She was already a confirmed crown princess. She insulted the royal daughter-in-law, and was witnessed by those princes and concubines. Once it spread, there would be no excuse for it.
Things almost broke out that night. It was the Crown Princess at that time who interceded for him, and a sister of the Rong family was speaking nearby. It was said that the royal family and Prince Cheng would be equally embarrassed if this matter spread. The marriage between Xie Tianyu and Rong Yue would definitely not be successful. May be continued.
Xie Tianyu couldn't let go of Rong Yue and said he didn't care about the matter. The crown prince stepped forward and told the other three princes and concubines not to speak to the outside world, so the matter was suppressed.
Gu Helian pursed her lips tightly. At that time, Taifu Rong didn't like this marriage at first, but after learning about it, Xie Tianyu pretended not to care about Rong Yue's reputation being damaged, and looked infatuated, which not only made Taifu Rong relent. , and Rong Yue was extremely moved.
Gu Helian said: "I made a big mistake. My adoptive father almost beat me to death and expelled me from the Rong family. I know it was not because he was heartless, but because of the situation that day. If he could not be punished severely, I would only end up in a worse place. awful."
Insulting the would-be princess and ruining the royal marriage, Xie Tianyu would not have made the slightest mistake even if he secretly killed him. However, Taifu Rong beat him half to death in advance, and personally ordered people to send him out of the capital when he was dying. He only said He has nothing to do with the Rong family from now on.
He just saved his life.
Gu Helian whispered: "I was in trouble for a long time after I left the capital, until I traveled to Zuozhou and met people from the Gu family. You also know what happened next."
Xiao Yan narrowed his eyes slightly: "You didn't investigate this matter afterwards?"
"Check, why didn't you check?"
Gu Helian gritted her teeth: "After I established a foothold in the Gu family, I sent people back to the capital. But in order to keep the reputation of Rongyue sealed, all the maids in her courtyard were replaced except for Nanny Jiang. I sent people all the way back to the capital. No one knew how Rong Yue got drugged in the first place, and even when I was drunk, everything seemed fine."
If he hadn't been wronged, even he would have suspected that he had evil intentions. Otherwise, how could he have broken into Rong Yue's boudoir drunk that day, and Rong Yue's Chinese medicine happened to be so messy that he was seen with him.
This is also why he has been unable to defend himself even though he has been wronged for many years.
Xiao Yan looked at him and asked sharply: "Did Xie Tianyu make you drunk that day?"
Gu Helian's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot.
Xiao Yan snorted: "So you later gained the power of the Gu family and ran back to the capital. You couldn't find any clues or evidence, but you were unwilling to marry Princess Cheng to another woman, so you had a fight with Xie Tianyu?"
He paused and said, "No, you wouldn't be so stupid as to ask someone out and try to trick him into opening the door, but in the end, Prince Cheng plotted to hurt the father and son, and asked him to use a bitter trick to make you and Princess Cheng fall out completely. Face?"
Gu Helian: "..."
Xiao Yan said with a venomous tongue: "You are so stupid."
Gu Helian glared angrily: "I was young and ignorant at that time."
Xiao Yan looked at him: "You don't know much now."
"Say another thing?!"
Seeing Gu Helian getting angry and rolling up her sleeves to beat someone, Song Tangning quickly pinched Xiao Yan, who had a shockingly venomous mouth: "Brother!"
Shut up now.
I also want to let my uncle get into trouble... Bah, let my uncle do the work.
Xiao Yan glanced at his little girl who kept winking at him, thinking that if this fool was really plotted by Prince Cheng, then after Prince Cheng was skinned and the love for many years was gone, Princess Cheng would be saddened by this Gu. Nine times out of ten, he will stalk him and take advantage of the situation, and maybe he will become his advantageous elder in the future.
In the end, he didn't provoke him any more and just asked him: "Which princes and concubines were the ones who discovered the affair between you and Princess Cheng back then?"
"Do you know how to speak? I told you that Rongyue and I have nothing!" Gu Helian forced a respectful gesture before saying, "Why do you ask?"
Xiao Yan said, "Just tell me if I ask you."
Gu Helian said: "Just the crown princess, the third prince's concubine, the fifth prince's concubine, and the future sixth prince's concubine who has just been engaged to the sixth prince."
"Is there anyone else?"
"No, it was just the four of them and a few servants following them."
Xiao Yanwei squinted his eyes thoughtfully for a moment, tapped the tea cup on the table with his fingers, and said to Tang Ning, "Okay, let's go."
"Why are we going!" Gu Helian said quickly: "You haven't said what to do about Rongyue yet, and why are you asking?"
Xiao Yan glanced at him: "Is the Gu family head really blocked by gold and silver?"
"Prince Cheng proposed marriage three times, and three accidents happened. Princess Cheng also had an accident and almost died. You were just an adopted son of the Rong family back then, with no power. Even if Prince Cheng didn't like you staying in the Rong family, there was no point in getting engaged. Princess Cheng’s innocence to frame you and embarrass himself.”
Gu Helian was stunned: "You mean..."
Xiao Yan said: "Prince Cheng may have made some despicable plot to get married, but he couldn't be the one who drugged you. You found the wrong person from the beginning, so how could you possibly find out the truth?"
Gu Helian froze for a moment. After going through Xiao Yan's words in her mind, she understood what he meant. Then she felt as if she was ignited with anger, and her eyes filled with venom.
Xiao Yan said: "Neither Tang Ning nor I can stop Princess Cheng from returning to the palace, but if Prince Cheng really planned her marriage and there is such a person standing behind her, then she may be in danger if she goes there..."
Gu Helian stood up with a whoosh, and before Xiao Yan could finish her words, she said angrily: "I'm going to find Rong Yue!"
Gu Helian hurried away without paying any attention to the two people who stayed behind.
Xiao Yan looked at his back as he almost rushed out and remembered what he just said about the things he missed with Princess Cheng.
He was obviously the closest to Rong's daughter, and he was the first to have feelings for her, but Gu Helian had been guarding Rong Yue for many years, and finally gave her up to King Cheng. All these years, she was unwilling but unable to do anything.
Xiao Yan suddenly glanced at Song Tangning beside him. They said that emotion can confuse the mind. Can he really see Xiao Haitang wearing a wedding dress and being in love with others?
He handed her over to someone else with his own hands, watched her get married and have children, watched her guard another man her whole life, and there was no trace of him again in the room of laughter and laughter.
Just thinking about that scene, Xiao Yan's heart suddenly clenched, and the dull suffocation almost made him unable to breathe.
Feeling like a beast had escaped from its cage, Xiao Yan whispered, "Tang Ning."
"Um?"
"You said earlier that you wanted to stay with me in Jiuyun Lane?"
Tang Ning was thinking about Princess Cheng and had already made up her mind not to marry. She subconsciously tilted her head when Xiao Yan asked, "I can take care of my brother. Don't you like it?"
When Xiao Yan heard this, his long eyelashes slightly lowered, and if there was a deeper meaning, he said, "I like it."
He reached out and brushed her forehead,
"If you want to stay, then stay."
The little girl was instantly delighted: "Okay!"
Xiao Yan's eyes darkened slightly, and then he smiled little by little.
He would not be as stupid as Gu Helian.
Since it is his, it can only be his.
After rubbing it with his fingers for a moment, it seemed as if he was caressing the girl's face. Looking at the little girl following him, Xiao Yan thought about it seriously: Raising a wife shouldn't be as difficult as raising a sister, right?
His...little Begonia.
