12dz Chapter 118 Li's Parents
Chapter 118 Li's Parents
In another house in Kyoto City, the night also remained lit all night long.
In the backyard of the Shangshu Mansion, the old lady cried so hard that she fainted several times while holding her grandson Yun Xueji.
Three months ago, Minister of Personnel Li Wanqing and his wife Tian returned to their hometown to worship their ancestors. It was supposed to be a leisurely trip to visit their relatives, but they received a few letters from home saying that Prime Minister Yun wanted to divorce his wife. They hurried back, but on the way they received news that their daughter was imprisoned and beheaded at Caishikou. The two fell ill and could not get up.
I stayed in the inn for more than a month and just returned to Kyoto today.
They quickly asked servants to go to the Yun Mansion to pick up their grandson Yun Xueji. Looking at her listless grandson, the old lady hugged him and would not let go, crying bitterly.
"Yun Xuanzhi, I have supported you for half my life, and this is how you repay me? You dare to ignore my daughter's death and neglect my two grandchildren."
Li Wanqing has taken good care of himself and does not look old at all despite being in his sixties. Although his eyes are bloodshot, he still looks sharp.
"Father has not neglected me. The food and clothing expenses in the mansion are still sufficient. It's just that mother had those things, and everyone knows about it. I didn't want to leave the mansion and stopped the classes in the Imperial College."
Yun Xueji lowered his head and whispered timidly.
In the past two months, he went from being a nobleman who was praised by everyone inside and outside the mansion to being pointed at and criticized wherever he went. He felt a huge gap in his heart.
He was totally at a loss and just wanted to hide himself so that no one could see him.
"Son, you and your sister have been wronged."
Tian held her grandson's head and stroked it again and again. Looking at his face that resembled his mother, tears began to flow again.
"Master, you have to avenge our daughter. My daughter cannot die in vain!"
"She poisoned all the concubines and illegitimate children in the backyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion. It's no wonder that Yun Xuanzhi was angry. But his mistake was that he didn't deal with the matter behind closed doors in the backyard, and the whole city knew about it. In addition, the murder was committed by hired killers, and Prince Sheng and Prince Ning were present at the time. The government couldn't just sit back and watch."
The eldest son Li Liyan comforted and counselled him.
The eldest sister Li Yalan has been married to Yun Xuanzhi for twenty years and has lived a smooth life.
Her husband was a high-ranking official, and had been blessed by the emperor's grace for many years. His son and daughter were well-behaved and grew up well. Although he had a concubine in the backyard, the food and clothing of the Prime Minister's Mansion had never been left to others. He really didn't understand why his eldest sister wanted to kill them all.
No matter which man you are with, if you disturb his incense, he will no longer tolerate you.
This is also the reason why, even though he knew that Prime Minister Yun had divorced his wife and his eldest sister had died, he never stood up for her.
"What's the matter with that little concubine? I've never heard Lan'er talk about her before."
He and his wife could not understand why their daughter died at the hands of a little girl from the country who had just come of age.
"I heard that fifteen years ago, a girl born to an aunt was sent to the countryside as soon as she was born.
The eldest sister thought about asking her to break off Qing'er's engagement with the old prime minister's family, and only brought her back to the prime minister's family more than half a year ago.
I didn't expect that such a small person harbored such a big evil intention and destroyed Lan'er and her daughter with just one move.
The replacement marriage failed, and Qing'er still entered the Song Mansion.
On the day of her return, she displayed so much evidence at the gate, directly proving my elder sister's guilt, and forced Yun Cheng to divorce his wife on the spot. The government directly convicted her and she was executed within three days. We had no room for maneuver."
Li Liyan was also shocked when he heard what happened in the Prime Minister's Mansion.
He didn't expect that a little concubine's daughter could have such great ability that she dared to question the mistress of the house and make others unable to refute her.
"Is it that woman's child?"
My old wife, Mrs. Tian, had a vague look in her eyes, as if she was trying hard to recall something.
Fifteen or sixteen years ago, Lan'er, who had just given birth to Qing'er, ran home crying and asked her father to help her check the identity of a woman.
However, after searching for more than a month, we only knew that the woman's name was Yi Yi, and no one knew her family background.
They couldn't interfere too much in their son-in-law's family affairs. They could only comfort their daughter to be more open-minded. Every man has three wives and four concubines. Just get used to it.
Later they heard that the woman died of childbirth, but they didn't pay much attention to the reason.
It turns out that it was my daughter who did it. This is possible. Lan'er must have been pushed into a corner.
But, that child is just a baby!
I heard that she was taken away by a servant.
Could it be possible that after fifteen years, she could still find clues and avenge her mother?
"Have you seen that child? Where is she now?"
Tian asked with a frown.
"I haven't seen her. I heard that the woman was extremely beautiful. After Lan'er's affair was confirmed, she immediately proposed to leave the Xiangfu and severed her father-daughter relationship with Yun Xuanzhi."
Li Liyan replied.
"What? She took the initiative to leave the Prime Minister's Mansion?"
Li Wanqing was also very surprised. How could a young girl survive without the protection of her family?
"Where does she live? I will never forgive her. I cannot let my Lan'er die in vain. I will make her live a life worse than death."
Tian became excited again.
In the past few months, whenever she closed her eyes, she would see her daughter, who had grown up around her, and she would pamper and protect her.
But she had been away from home for just over three months, and she had to see her son die before her. How could she bear to do that?
"I also asked around and even sent people to Anxi Town where she used to live, but no one saw her go back. It was as if she had disappeared into thin air."
Li Liyan said frustratedly.
He was also puzzled by this.
This little girl was like mist, appearing suddenly and disappearing suddenly.
"Send more people, I want to find her. Give Prime Minister Yun a visiting card for me, I want to meet him."
Li Wanqing's old face was tense.
How could he swallow such a huge loss?
"Okay, father, I'll do it tomorrow morning."
"How is your sister now?"
Tian hugged Yun Xueji and felt a pang of pain in her heart when she thought of her beautiful and lovely granddaughter.
"When my younger sister came back for her wedding, she was said to be crazy. After seeing our mother being taken away that day, my eldest sister fainted. She was then kept in the mansion for more than ten days. She was so weak that I could hardly recognize her. Now my father asked Song Qingfeng to take her back. I heard that she is quarreling every day and is not doing well."
Yun Xueji opened his lifeless eyes and looked at his grandparents pitifully.
The Yun Qianyou they were talking about, the concubine's sister, looked so delicate and pretty, but was she really that powerful?
When he heard that his mother was divorced and imprisoned, he hurriedly asked for leave from the Imperial College and ran home.
The prime minister's residence was eerily quiet.
My father locked himself in the study and refused to come out.
My sister is lying in the Yanyu Pavilion, and there is a doctor looking after her.
My mother's Jinghua Pavilion is empty.
Throughout the prime minister's residence, servants kept their heads down while doing their work, and no one dared to speak.
He was extremely panicked and couldn't find anyone to rely on, so he had to hide himself.
"My dear granddaughter, how pitiful!"
Tian burst into tears again.
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Song House.
As always, it was filled with women's shouting.
"Mom! That Yun Wanqing is so noisy. My yard is so far away, but I can hear the quarrels in Ye Shengge every day, and you don't care about it."
Song Mingyue ran to her mother Wei's yard wearing only her middle clothes, opened the door and climbed onto her mother's couch.
Wei's frown deepened, she rubbed her eyebrows with her hands, and looked at her girl helplessly.
Ever since Yun Wanqing came into the family, she has not had a comfortable day. It was really a marriage that resulted in enemies. If she had known earlier, the Song family would have taken the initiative to cancel the engagement.
With a prime minister putting pressure on her, she didn't dare to be too harsh on Yun Wanqing, but the scandal caused by the Li family brought shame to them as well.