Xu came out of the courtyard and saw that the coachman looked anxious, and the uneasiness in her heart grew stronger and stronger.
“Miss.”
The coachman gave her the note he had been clutching tightly in his hand, panic in his lowered voice, “Shen Shizi has taken the aunt captive, saying that you should go to this place alone to meet him.”
Xu did not hesitate to head out.
After she had returned, Meng had wanted to give her two maids, but she had not allowed them, saying that she was not used to being served, so she was now going out without even one follower.
The coachman hurriedly turned around and followed her. After leaving the door, he untied the reins and waited for Xu to go up, driving as anxiously as he could to the place where the note was written.
It was a large mansion, not far from Xu’s house.
The carriage stopped and Xu got down, walking inside without hesitation, instructing the coachman as she went, “Wait here.”
There was no one guarding the door, so Xu pushed the door straight in.
The mansion was large, but there were no subordinates in sight, it was empty.
Xu took a deep breath to calm herself down and walked down the long corridor, seeing someone standing there at the end of the corridor.
Before she could get there, the man had already turned around and was walking towards one of the courtyards, and Xu followed quickly.
When she reached the door of the courtyard, the man stopped and raised his hand to gesture for her to enter.
Xu walked into the courtyard.
Shen Yan was sitting on a chair under the veranda, full of chills.
Song Lin was thrown on the ground in front of him.
“Dangjia!”
Xu tried to run up to him, but was stopped.
“What do you want to do?”
Xu questioned.
Shen Yan did not answer and pushed open the door of the room with his backhand, and what he saw was a red colour.
There was an extreme chill in his voice, “Xu Qingwan, do you still remember what this place is?”
Xu looked over in bewilderment, everything in the room was covered with red silk, so she could not see what it was.
“Our new room.”
Xu froze slightly.
“Back then, your Xu family couldn’t let you marry far away, so I set up this mansion between the State House and the Xu House, and the two of us personally went and got every table and chair, every pot and lamp inside, even these ……”
He pointed to the red silks, “I chose them all together with you before I left for war, when we agreed that when I returned, the two of us would lift these red silks together and get married, never leave each other for the rest of our lives and grow old ……”
He stared at Xu and asked word for word, “Xu Qingwan, I’m back, what about you?”
Xu took a step back, her mind all filled with the rosy red.
Shen Yan looked at her coldly.
Unlike yesterday’s eyes which were full of warmth, at this moment his eyes were all filled with hatred.
Xu took another step back, and something seemed to flash vaguely in her mind, but nothing seemed to flash at all.
She looked at Shen Yan hastily, her lips wriggling several times before she made a sound, “You, what do you want?”
Shen Yan did not answer her, his gaze fell on Song Lin who was lying on the ground.
“You can’t hurt him!”
Xu eagerly took a step forward.
Shen Yan raised his eyes and looked over, coldness all around him, one word, as cold as frost, “If you don’t want him to be hurt you can, you and he can make a divorce.”
“No!”
Xu refused without even thinking about it.
Shen Yan coldly hooked the corners of his mouth and waved his hand.
A man with a guard’s rope came forward, tied Song Lin up and dragged him outside.
Xu tried to rush forward, but was once again stopped.
Unable to struggle, she shouted towards Shen Yan, “He’s innocent, you can’t hurt him!”
“He’s innocent ……”
Shen Yan stood up and stepped closer to her, “What about me? I’ve been with you since I was a child, I’ve been waiting for you to grow up, do you know that the moment I heard you were missing, I almost went crazy, I defied military orders and ran a dozen horses back to the capital, I scoured every place in the capital, I prayed day and night to see you, I thought, as long as you were alive, I wouldn’t care no matter what I suffered, but God didn’t even give me that hope! ”
“Xu Qingwan, do you know how I’ve come through all these years? I lived every day in self-blame and pain. I blamed myself that I should not have gone to the battlefield, I should have waited for you honestly in the capital until I was seventeen; I blamed myself that I did not come back by the day of the promised marriage ……”
He pointed at his chest, “For so many years, there hasn’t been a moment where I haven’t had pain here, but I have nowhere to vent it, because it was your Xu family that caused your disappearance, if it wasn’t for the fact that they were selfish in the first place and had to keep you for two more years, we would have married early, you wouldn’t have disappeared, and your husband would have been me, not that country bumpkin!”
When he took a step forward, Xu took a step back.
But Shen Yan did not let her go, he went close and grabbed her arm, pulled her into the house, grabbed her hand and pulled off all the red silk covering everything in the house.
“Xu Qingwan, look carefully, we chose all these together, it was you who told me yourself that you would wait for me to come back, marry me, have children for me and make me the clothes I like, but now what? And yet you call that man householder with your mouth and bear his daughter for him, tell me, am I not innocent?”
Xu covered her mouth, tears streaming down her face, and a voice seemed to echo in her head:
“Brother Yan, this is nice to look at, shall we buy it?”
“This one looks good too.”
“And this one too ……”
“Brother Yan, don’t worry, I’ll come over and clean it every day, and when you come back, we’ll get married.”
……
“Yan ……”
Without finishing a word, she fell backwards.
Shen Yan’s face was panicked as he held her in his arms, “Someone, someone come quickly!”
Song Wangyue and Xu Yan ran in from outside the courtyard.
Shen Yan had already put her on the bed, Song Wan Yue went over and put her finger on Xu’s pulse, which was beating fast and furiously.
“How is it?”
Xu Yan asked anxiously.
They had come this way in a carriage after leaving the Xu Mansion and had been waiting for Shen Yan’s movement.
“It’s different from yesterday’s pulse.”
“You mean ……”
Xu Yan was surprised.
Song Wangyue shook her head, “It’s hard to say, everything still has to wait until my mother wakes up.”
Several people waited anxiously.
A short while later they saw Xu’s body tremble and her lips wriggle violently, as if she had been frightened.
“Little sister.”
Xu Yan shouted urgently.
Xu’s eyes were closed and cold sweat broke out on her forehead for a moment, her hands waved up and her voice was harsh, “Let go of him, you guys, let go of him!”
“Little sister!”
“Mother!”
……
Xu Yan and Song Wan Yue shouted several times, but Xu still showed no sign of waking up.
Song Wangyue took out silver needles and stuck them in several major points on her head, and only then did Xu slowly calm down.
The room also fell silent.
Looking at the red silk all over the floor, Xu Yan sighed in his heart and patted Shen Yan’s shoulder, “It’s been hard for you.”
The corners of Shen Yan’s mouth hooked bitterly.
Xu on the bed slowly opened her eyes.