“Mother, you’re awake.”
Hearing Song Wangyue’s voice, Shen Yan’s heart shook and he actually dared not look at Xu’s eyes.
“Little sister.”
Xu Yan immediately twisted around and asked expectantly, “Have you, have you, have you remembered?”
Xu’s gaze fell on Shen Yan.
Xu Yan thought she was blaming Shen Yan and hastily explained, “Little sister, don’t misunderstand, everything that happened today was a lie, it was Yue’er and I who came up with such a solution in order for you to regain your memory and had Shen Yan come and help ……”
Xu slowly nodded her head.
Xu Yan’s voice stopped abruptly, and then raised his voice violently, “You remembered?”
Xu’s eyes were already filled with tears, “Yes.”
She remembered, she remembered all of it.
She remembered her childhood love with Shen Yan; she remembered how she would come over to this mansion every day, carefully cleaning every corner, waiting with joy for Shen Yan to come back and marry her.
As her words fell, Shen Yan suddenly looked over and met her tearful eyes, and the pain was like a mountain overwhelming him.
He opened his mouth to call out to Wan’er, but he could not.
Xu’s eyes closed, tears running down her cheeks.
Shen Yan unconsciously stretched out his hand to wipe her tears, but slowly dropped it again just as he was about to touch her cheek, turning around violently and walking briskly outside.
Only when she heard the sound of footsteps did Xu open her eyes again, her teary eyes blurred as she watched his stumbling back, watching him walk further and further away until he disappeared from her sight.
She closed her eyes again and let the tears slide down.
Xu Yan wanted to say something, but was silently stopped by Song Wan Yue.
……
Heavy footsteps rang out in the courtyard as Song Lin ran in in panic. The guard’s handful of knives had literally knocked him out, and the first time he woke up and saw Meng Yang, he was terrified. He thought everyone had been kidnapped and it was only when Meng Yang told him it was all to stimulate Xu to be able to think about the past that he calmed down, but before he could say anything, Shen Yan went to the parlour with a very bad look on his face and he thought something had happened to Xu and pulled his legs out and ran over.
“The child’s mother!”
He rushed into the house like a gust of wind, and when he saw Xu’s face full of tears, he thought he was in distress somewhere and was terrified, “Yue’er, what are you still standing there for? Why don’t you take a look at your mother?”
“I’m fine.”
Xu spoke up, looking as if she was crying or smiling, “I’m just thinking of all the things that happened in the past, and I’m feeling a bit uncomfortable.”
“You’re really okay?”
Song Lin was uneasy.
For all the years they had been married, Xu had cried once, even when she was in pain for a day and a night when she gave birth to Yue’er, she was strong enough not to shed a single tear.
“Of course it’s fine.”
Xu held out her hand and Song Lin leaned down to help her sit up, lifting up her sleeve to dry the tears on her face, “Sit down for a while, I’ll go and pour you ……”
Before the words were finished, it occurred to him that this was not the Xu residence.
“No need, let’s go back to the house.”
……
Song Lin and Song Wan Yue helped Xu out as Xu Yan went to call for Meng Yang.
Upon entering the parlour, he saw Shen Yan sitting on a chair with a face full of pain. Xu Yan paused in his steps for a moment before walking over and patting him on the shoulder, “Although it’s about the family scandal of the Xu family, I still want you to come over with me and hear for yourself what Wan’er said about what happened back then.”
“Wan’er has remembered?”
Meng Yang stood up haughtily.
“Yes.”
“What did she say?”
“Nothing, just that it was back to the house.”
“Then don’t go yet.”
Meng Yang didn’t even greet Shen Yan and walked quickly outside, with Gu Yi following suit.
“I …… won’t be going.”
Shen Yan covered his chest, which was as painful as being pierced by ten thousand arrows, he did not dare to go for fear that he could not control himself on the spot and kill the person who had caused him and Wan’er and could not be together in this life.
“But ……”
His words were cold, full of killing intent, “I’ll wait here, big brother come and give me a word in person after hearing it.”
Xu Yan also did not force, once again patted his shoulder, also turned around and hurriedly walked out.
Several people got into the carriage and returned to the Xu residence.
As soon as they entered the house, Xu instructed Song Lin, “Dangjia, go and call for grandfather and ask Xu Liang to help him over.”
She also instructed Song Wan Yue, “Go and call out to your grandmother and ask her to go to the courtyard over there.”
Song Lin and Song Wan Yue each went to call for someone.
Only then did Xu stop and look at Xu Yan, the sadness she had just felt was gone from her face, replaced by a face full of anger, “Big brother, be prepared, we may not have a father from today onwards.”
Xu Yan’s hand hanging at his side tightly clenched into a fist.
Xu had already turned around and walked towards Huo’s courtyard.
Xu Yan followed closely behind her.
A bad feeling rose in Meng Yang’s heart.
After he came, Meng did not tell him that he suspected Mr. Big and Huo, he just felt strange, he had come for several days, he had not seen his brother-in-law, yesterday’s time casually asked a question, Meng then gave him that brother-in-law was sick, afraid of passing the sickness to him, only then did not come over, does it mean ……
He also quickly followed up.
Huo’s courtyard is dead silent.
Ever since Mr. Big had pretended to be sick on the day of his birthday, he had been much more depressed these days, often staying in his study for a whole day. Huo did not dare to disturb him, and the servants in the courtyard were aware of the atmosphere, so they did their work gingerly.
Xu barged straight into Mr. Big’s study, and the boy waiting at the door tried to stop her, but was dragged aside by Xu Yan’s boy and covered his mouth.
When he heard the noise, Mr. Big raised his head and saw the two of them barging in like that, his anger, which had been suppressed for so many days, came out, “Is this what my father taught you?”
As if she hadn’t heard him, Xu took one step closer and stood in front of the table, staring at him, asking word for word, “Father, my daughter wants to know, have you ever had peace of mind for all the years I’ve been missing?”
The great gentleman’s heart trembled, “You ……”
The sound of footsteps came from the courtyard as the old gentleman and Meng were hurried in with someone helping them.
“Grandfather, mother ……”
Xu looked at them and said slowly, “I remember, all of it, back then, I was victimised by Huo and her pair of children.”
“Someone …… come!”
Her words fell, and Meng ordered with anger and hatred, “Go and kidnap Huo for me.”
“How dare you!”
Mr. Big said angrily towards Meng, “You are not in charge of the house!”
Meng sneered, “Sister Wu, you take the men.”
Sister Wu answered and withdrew.
“Meng!”
Mr. Big was furious and pointed at her, “You ……”
The old gentleman took three or two steps over to him and slapped him across the face.
Mr. Big was dumbfounded by the blow and looked at Mr. Old incredulously.
“Rebel son, kneel down to me!”
Mr. Big froze and knelt down.
Huo was pushed in, tied up, and when she saw the scene in front of her, her brain exploded and her body went limp, falling to the ground.