Chapter 41 Huaiyu and Bone Jade

Xiao Tao's father was one of the first refugees who was helped by Li Ningshuang.

Among their group of people, most of them had the ability, expertise, and ability to sign an oath with Li Ningshuang.

He protected the three of them, mother and son, and lived well together. It was their duty to return to their homeland and live in Dalan.

Xiao Tao's father is not only in charge of the security of Shibalipu, but also a core member of Li Ningshuang's command.

She is in charge of the village's affairs, both big and small, and secretly trains people to do things for Wanwan that are inconvenient for her to do in person.

On the surface, he is under the control of Jiang Huai, but in his heart, he is towards Rui Xuerian and his two siblings.

They all thought that after Ruixue and Ji established their own business, they could take back the management rights of Shibalipu from Jiang Huai.

When the time comes, if the Ruixue siblings have land and money, they may not be able to compete with the leftists in the current government.

Even if they can't return to Bishui immediately, they must at least protect Ruixue and Ruian from Jiang Huai's control.

Everything was planned perfectly and thoroughly, and Wanwan was about to get her haircut.

The imperial edict granting marriage struck each of them like a thunderbolt.

Wanwan can refuse, but what about Ruian.

She wanted to wait until she got her haircut, but the three letters and six betrothals of the marriage contract started from the moment the marriage was granted.

She has been labeled as Prince Ning, and even if she is delayed until she reaches the age of hairpin, she will not be able to establish her own business.

Li Ningshuang is Jiang Huai's deceased and the first heir to those inheritances.

In such an era where husband's power and father's power are respected, as long as Ruixue Ruian doesn't let go of her relationship with Jiang Huai.

As soon as those things appeared, Jiang Huai could take them away from Ruixue in an open and fair manner.

Later, Wanwan died and Ruixue traveled through time, and things became what they are now.

Ruixue was lying on the bed, sorting out the causes and consequences of the incident over and over again, and she had vague memories of some things.

When Wanwan was in intense emotions, particularly happy or sad, Ruixue could recall those scenes.

But Ruixue couldn't remember any ordinary things.

She stood up and took out the lacquered wooden box that Li Ningshuang left for Wanwan, and opened the mechanism at the bottom of the box.

There is indeed something fishy inside. At the bottom of the box lies a cryptex as thick as three fingers.

Made of double-layered glass, there is light blue liquid flowing on the inner wall.

You can see that there are ciphertext inside, as well as a brass enlargement. If you don't dismantle it carelessly, the ciphertext inside will be destroyed.

It must be something very important if it is hidden so tightly. Ruixue took a closer look and decided to keep it well first.

She still hasn't figured out many things, and she's afraid that she might accidentally destroy these important things.

Thinking that Jiang Huai was worried about her, it was still not safe to keep her around. It would be better to secretly send her back to the village and wait for her to leave the Prime Minister's Mansion before making other plans.

Two flowers bloom, one on each side.

Here Ruixue is gradually falling asleep, over there the gatehouse is painted with boats, and the nightlife has just begun.

In an independent and exquisite small building in the backyard of Yunliang Pavilion, the guests are already drunk.

Jiang Huai was sitting in the main seat, his eyes were blurred, but his eyes were clear.

He gently pinched Huaiyu's neck with one hand and put his other hand on the table, playing the rhythm "ta da da da" to the piano player below.

Some of the people sitting below him were already drunk in the arms of the maid, while others were looking at the luthier who was playing frivolously.

Huaiyu felt like sitting on pins and needles, not even daring to raise his eyelids.

She had experienced such humiliation today. Jiang Huai treated her like an object and showed it off.

Every time she is said to be the most talented woman in Kyoto, she is asked to compete in poems and debates with those nonsense drunkards.

Finally, accept the envy and praise from those people.

Jiang Huai liked those admirations, even with jealous eyes, Huaiyu was used to it.

But today is different.

Bone Jade, her Bone Jade is sitting there, watching her being humiliated, watching her being teased, watching her being compared with those singers and dancers.

She was so ashamed that she was worse off than dead. Gu Yu shouldn't know that she was living such a life.

She still remembered how desperate she was when the Xiahou family was destroyed, all the women were reduced to official prostitutes, and the men were sent to the frontiers.

Her grandfather had been loyal and upright all his life and could not bear to be humiliated, so he committed suicide in the house to show his innocence.

Guyu, who was five or six years old, hugged her and refused to let go, and was dragged on the road to be dispatched.

To this day, Huaiyu sometimes still feels that Guyu's cries are echoing in his ears.

She once admired Jiang Huai and wanted to have children for him.

They used to enjoy the flowers and the moon together and talk about the philosophy of life. Jiang Huai was also a student whom her grandfather had praised, and she thought that Jiang Huai treated her special.

But she never expected that the person who ruined her family and slandered and framed her teacher would be Jiang Huai, this heartless bitch.

When Jiang Huai held out his hand to her in the filthy prostitute's boat in the posture of a superior, she wished she could pounce on him and bite off a piece of his flesh.

Jiang Huai just moved her body, and she saw the bone jade she hadn't seen for several years, like a skeleton, looking at her with its big eyes.

She wanted to hug and touch the bone jade, but Jiang Huai did not give her such a chance.

"I can save him, or I can destroy him. I know that you treat this brother like a sister and a mother, and you will not leave him alone. I relied on many connections to bring him back to Kyoto."

"What do you want? I can't give you anything now."

Huaiyu only had bone jade in her eyes. When her mother handed the infant bone jade to her before her death, she knew that the bone jade would be her responsibility for the rest of her life.

As long as she can save Guyu, even if Jiang Huai wants her to die now, she will not hesitate.

"As expected of you, Xia Huaiyu, you really can't give me anything now."

Huaiyu softly lowered his body and crawled at Jiang Huai's feet with begging.

"As long as you can make Guyu safe, I'll do whatever you want me to do."

Jiang Huai liked Huaiyu's attitude and leaned over to lift her chin.

"Li Ningshuang is dead, and the Prime Minister's Mansion now lacks a mistress. I think you are very suitable. After all, the Xiahou Mansion used to be a century-old family in Dalan, the head of the literati. You are also known as the most talented woman in Dalan, and you are not inferior in talent, intelligence and resourcefulness.

Mostly men.”

Huaiyu thought she heard wrongly. She met Li Ningshuang once in the Prime Minister's Mansion ten years ago. At that time, she was pregnant and advised her to get married early.

Only three years later, the Xiahou Mansion was ruined. If her mother had not promised to protect the bones and jade, she would have died in the mansion together with her grandfather.

When Gu Yu was just taken away, she also thought of many ways, but the trees fell and the hozens scattered. The once proud daughter of heaven has now been reduced to nothing more than dust.

She couldn't even find out where Gu Yu was, let alone protect him and take care of him.

But now that Guyu is back, she will seize this opportunity no matter what.

Even if she married Jiang Huai, a murderer with a human face and an animal heart who ruined her family.
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