vrcanaries Chapter 223: Having evil intentions
Chapter 223: Having evil intentions
The Zhao family members were settled in a side room in the backyard. Zhao Zhili, the prefect of Nanyi County, was already unconscious. Shang Ruoyi simply treated his wounds and left some medicine for the Huo family.
Mrs. Huo hugged the child in her arms and said with tears in her eyes, "Thank you very much, my dear." Then she was about to kneel down again.
Shang Ruoyi hurriedly helped her up: "No need to be polite, just stay here and feel at ease!"
As soon as she went out, she saw the three people who were exiled with the Zhao family standing not far away. When they saw her come out, they hurried over to her.
The three of them knelt on the ground and said, "Thank you for taking us in. We are very grateful."
"It's just a matter of convenience, no need to thank me. When the three of you have recovered, I will ask Zhang Hu to find a good place for you."
When the three heard this, they looked at each other and understood each other tacitly.
"Thank you for your help." Zhao Zhiwen looked at the closed door opposite and asked in a low voice: "What about my brothers?"
"Their injuries are quite serious." Shang Ruoyi looked at the three of them and smiled: "You are lucky, they are just minor skin injuries." She said to Shaoyao beside her: "Take them to clean up and find some warm clothes."
"Yes."
The woman standing opposite her looked at the warmth on Shang Ruoyi's body, and a light flashed in her eyes.
She took a step forward and bowed to Shang Ruo in a proper manner: "I am Zhao Xinyin, thank you for your rescue."
Shaoyao took them away, and Shang Ruoyi came to the study. Yunqi stood at the door and whispered, "Crown Princess."
"He Jingheng hasn't come out yet?"
Yunqi nodded, hesitated for a while, and said: "Lord Zhao used to be under the command of the prince. Now that the prince is in trouble, the court has punished all the officials who were once on good terms with the Dingguo Palace, implicated them, and the prince must be very sad."
Shang Ruoyi knew in her heart that He Jingheng must have had a reason for personally beating the bailiff to death; he was not an impulsive person.
Shang Ruoyi looked at the tightly closed door. He thought that what he had always believed in was collapsing bit by bit.
The three members of Zhao Zhiwen's family put on cotton-padded clothes. Zhao Xinyin touched the coarse cotton-padded clothes on her body, her eyes slightly sank, and her gaze fell on Shaoyao, who was wearing a cotton-padded clothes made of ordinary satin. Zhao Xinyin said, "Sister Shaoyao is so lucky to meet such a generous master like Sister Guiren."
Shaoyao saw her eyes fall on her clothes, smiled and said: "Indeed, our young lady has the best heart and is very kind to us servants."
"Is the man who saved us the brother of the noble sister?" Her eyes flickered slightly. Although the man was sitting in a wheelchair, his aura was even more noble than that of a royal family member. She only dared to glance at him secretly. The handsome face that seemed like an immortal made her feel dazed.
"That's our young lady's husband." Shaoyao looked at her strangely, but when she saw that she looked normal, she said nothing.
Zhao Xiyin's heart sank when he heard this. This man actually already had a wife and children. Shang Ruoyi's face appeared in his mind. Then he looked at himself in the mirror, looking pale and thin. The light in his eyes gradually dimmed.
How can I compete with her when I am in this state?
Any man knows who to choose.
When we arrived at the side room, Zhao Zhiwen and his wife were already waiting there.
"Yin Yin." Liu walked forward, looked at Shaoyao behind her, and said with a smile, "Thank you, young lady."
"You're welcome. Someone will bring some food over later."
When they heard that there was food to eat, the three of them's eyes lit up.
After all, during exile, even eating some coarse grain cakes required the charity of the officials.
Soon, two servants came in carrying trays.
When the three saw the plate full of meat, they couldn't help but drool.
"Her father, is it possible that my eyesight is damaged? Is there really meat on this plate?" Liu murmured, "I must have lost my mind due to hunger."
Zhao Zhiwen also stood there in a daze.
The servants couldn't help laughing when they saw this: "It is indeed meat, freshly cooked. Eat it while it's hot!"
The three of them gathered around the table, not caring about etiquette and started eating with big mouthfuls.
After eating and drinking, Zhao Zhiwen wiped the oil from his mouth and sighed, "I'm so satisfied." After he finished speaking, he burped very loudly.
Liu nodded: "How long has it been since you last had meat? I thought I would starve to death here, but I didn't expect to have such a good life."
Zhao Xiyin sat there, staring at the food on the table that had not been taken away. After a while, she said to Zhao Zhiwen and his wife, "Mom and Dad, do you want to live this good life forever?"
"Of course I do." Liu sighed, "But we are now guilty, how can we continue to live the kind of life that only a master can live? When the spring comes next year, we will start to farm."
"Farming?" Zhao Xiyin couldn't help but be shocked: "How to farm? Mother, my daughter is not in good health, how can I go to farm?"
"We have to pay taxes every year. If we don't pay enough, we will be flogged." Zhao Zhili said in a deep voice: "Now that your uncle has implicated us, there is nothing we can do."
"My uncle was the one who did the wrong thing, why do you want to implicate us?" She pouted, "Originally, I was also a cousin of the county governor's mansion, and I could have found a good husband. But now, I am in this desolate place of exile. What am I going to do in the future?"
"I think you can only find a husband here." Liu touched her head and said, "If I had known earlier, I would have promised you a husband earlier, and you wouldn't have to suffer so much."
Zhao Xiyin thought for a moment and whispered, "It's not like there aren't any good husbands here."
"Where are the good families here? The people here are either poor or exiled criminals. Where can they live like this..." Liu paused and raised her head suddenly: "You mean, this family?"
Zhao Xiyin nodded and whispered, "I have already found out everything. The man who saved us is the owner of this house, and the woman is his wife."
"Since he has already married, do you want to be his concubine?"
"Mother, what's wrong with being a concubine?" Zhao Xiyin sneered, "If you marry a poor man here, what's the point of being the main wife? You will just live a hard life. If you get sick, I'm afraid you won't even have the money to hire a doctor." She pointed to the room and said, "This is just a side room, where the servants live. Even the servants in their family live like this, so you can imagine how luxurious and comfortable the master bedroom will be."
When Liu heard this, she became more active.
"Mom, think about it, it's so good here, why should we go out and suffer?"
Zhao Zhiwen and his wife were not people who were willing to endure hardship, otherwise they would not have stayed in the county magistrate's mansion for so many years and lived and ate for free.