Li Xianglan's expression slowly became calm. She stood up, picked up the bottle of poison on the table and drank it in one gulp.
"Remember your words and spare Shu'er's life, otherwise I will not let you go even if I go to the eighteenth level of hell!!!"
Li Xianglan sighed, walked to the bed and lay down on her own, wanting to die peacefully.
Unexpectedly, at the end of the day, the unwillingness in my heart rushed forward and turned into tears flowing out of my eyes.
"Hey, I really want to see Mr. Hou again..."
"I still don't understand until now. It was obviously me who married the Marquis first, and it was my husband who gave birth to Shu'er, but the Marquis never took another look at me."
"Is it just because I am Li's daughter?"
"I don't understand even more. Your mother is just a female official in the palace, and she still has such a deep relationship with the emperor, but the Marquis still likes her."
"Why is she the principal wife! Why is she favored by the Marquis? Why is it that you, the child of her, are so favored by the Marquis..."
"Later, she finally died. I thought that Mr. Hou could finally treat me and Shu'er better..."
"But...but he..." As he spoke, Li Xianglan's lips turned black, and she suddenly vomited a mouthful of blood, which flowed down the corner of her mouth onto the pillow.
In the end, he only said one thing, "No..." and passed away.
Yu Nianchu stood up indifferently, still not fully believing what Li Xianglan said to Cai Cai.
She glanced at Li Xianglan and said calmly, "It's a good death."
"Go underground and confess to my mother-in-law."
After saying that, she left Li Xianglan's room.
…
Since returning to the Hou Mansion, Yu Chengguang has locked himself in the room alone.
There was no electric light in the house and it was pitch dark, but his heart could not remain calm.
As a ray of moonlight shone on the edge of the bed, the door was clicked, and Yu Nianchu's voice came from outside.
"Dad? Chu'er came to see you."
Yu Chengguang wiped away his tears and said softly, "Come in."
Yu Nianchu was carrying a bowl of ginseng soup and lit the candle in the lampshade as soon as he came in.
She put down the ginseng soup and sat next to Yu Chengguang, "Dad, you haven't eaten anything for a day. Chu'er made the ginseng soup specially for you. Why don't you drink some?"
Yu Chengguang nodded, and his heart tightened again when he saw the gauze wrapped around his daughter.
"Why do you have to go to the kitchen with so many injuries on your body? You should take good care of yourself."
He gently held his daughter's cold hand, his eyes filled with tears even more.
"Chu'er, I'm sorry for you. If I hadn't insisted on releasing Mr. Li and your eldest sister from their confinement, you wouldn't have..."
"Dad, I really feel like a failure. I couldn't protect your mother in the past, but now I can't protect you. Even Li and Shu'er, I feel guilty..."
"By the way, Ms. Li..."
Yu Nianchu nodded, "Chu'er went to see her just now, but she has already left."
Yu Chengguang buried his head low, feeling mixed emotions in his heart.
"Chu'er, in fact, dad has found out everything. What happened last night was obviously directed at you."
"Daddy didn't expect that the Li family and their daughter would be so cruel to you..."
"If I had known this, my father should never have agreed to marry Mr. Li..."
Yu Chengguang talked a lot, but the ginseng soup on the table had cooled down and he had not yet drank it.
He was clearly not drunk, but he seemed to be drunk, telling the pain in his heart over the years.
And his love for Feng Yuan.
Seeing that the atmosphere had reached this point, Yu Nianchu couldn't control it anymore and finally asked.
"Dad, since you care so much about grandma, why did you turn a blind eye to her death?"
"At that time, my mother's mouth and nose were full of black blood. She was obviously poisoned to death!"
Yu Nianchu was very excited, and tears were falling down.
This was the first time in so many years that she confessed to Yu Chengguang about this matter, and her grief-stricken look made Yu Chengguang even more heartbroken.
"Chu'er... Dad didn't turn a blind eye."
"My father tried to stop me. He wanted to seek justice for your mother after her death, but the result was that my father was demoted to guard the border. He stayed there for three years!!!"
Yu Nianchu's eyes sparkled. She used to think that her father was in a hurry to fight on the battlefield, so he left for the war less than ten days after her mother's death.
But didn’t expect that my father was demoted because of my mother-in-law?
If this is the case, wouldn’t it mean that I have resented my father for so many years...
Yu Nianchu's heart felt cold. She had already reached this point, so she decisively continued to ask.
"So, is it true that A Niang was sent to death by His Majesty?"
Yu Chengguang shook his head, "Dad is not sure."
"There was indeed a secret edict coming at that time, saying that your mother was going to be killed, but my father did not follow the edict..."
"My father even threw away the poison he brought. I really don't know why your mother-in-law still..."
Yu Nianchu paused. According to the current situation, my father had received the secret order and did not kill my mother-in-law. Instead, my mother-in-law was poisoned to death by Mrs. Li.
Li Shi identified the emperor before his death. Could it be that the emperor issued two secret edicts?
This is very strange.
And Yu Nianchu remembered that Xie Yu said at that time that the emperor had no motive for killing his mother.
Was one of the three lying, or was there more than one person who wanted to kill A Niang?
Yu Nianchu was extremely confused now. At this moment, Yu Chengguang patted her on the back and changed the heavy topic.
"Chu'er, don't dwell on the past. Your mother is in heaven and she definitely wants you to be happy."
With that said, he stuffed the piece of ancient jade given by Fu Zhao into Yu Nianchu's palm.
"Tomorrow Zhao'er will come to offer you a job, but I won't marry you right away. Please wait for another two years."
"My father is getting old. I miss you a lot. I want to keep you by my side for a long time and make up for all the debts I owe you in the past."
Just as Yu Nianchu was about to retort, Yu Chengguang made a shushing gesture towards her.
"Chu'er, stop saying you don't want to marry Zhao'er, just treat me as my father and beg you, okay?"
"Zhao'er will be kind to you. You were humiliated last night and everyone was laughing at you. Only Zhao'er came to me immediately and begged me to marry you to him."
"He said he didn't want you to suffer any injustice! He will love you forever! He even exchanged the ancient jade passed down from his family as a token."
"My dad can trust people like this."
Yu Nianchu sighed. Now that her father was in trouble, she just had to use another way to persuade him.
"Dad, would you like to make a bet with your daughter?"
"If dad wins, Chu'er will listen to dad. But if Chu'er wins, dad will respect Chu'er's wishes and let Chu'er enter the palace."
Yu Chengguang did not agree to her immediately, but raised his chin, "First tell me what the bet is."
Yu Nianchu said firmly, "Let's bet on whether Fu Zhao will come to hire me tomorrow."
