Chapter 158
“Xiang Yi, don’t you recognize me? I’m Xiangmian.” Rong Xiangmian went forward and tried to hug her.
Yu Xiangyi dodged it and said with her eyes downcast, “I never thought that you would be brother Xian Yang’s wife. If you are so honorable and clean, it is better for you not to touch me, a humble person who has fallen into the dust. I’ve done what my father asked me to do, and I have nothing to worry about now.” Zhou Xianyang heard that she had a chance.
Zhou Xian Yang was anxious when he heard that she wanted to get rid of everything: “Xiangyi, don’t think about that, I will vindicate your father, and you will ……”.
He was already in so much pain that he couldn’t even say a complete sentence.
Xiang Xiang saw a few steps forward, hugged Yu Xiangyi tightly: “Good girl, wait a little longer, your brother Xian Yang has never forgotten you. One day, you will be able to live in the world with honor, just like me.”
“Really?” Yu Xiangyi imagined that scene, laughed out happily, and laughed and cried, “I’m sorry, Miss Rong, your good life, will be ruined by me.”
Rong Xiangxian held her hand, “Xiangyi, I’m in the same boat as your brother, Xian Yang, and I’ll try my best to do what he promised you. I don’t know what you’ve been through, so I can’t advise you to live a good life. If you don’t have any more attachments in the world, then let your hatred sustain you. Don’t you want to see those who caused the destruction of the Yu family pay in blood?”
“Pay in blood?” Yu Xiangyi had never thought about it, she was a bit confused. Rong Xiangxian clutched her hand tightly, “If you die, apart from making Xian Yang sad, your enemies won’t lament for you, and you’ll have died in vain. Stay alive and watch us take care of your enemy’s bones and ashes.”
Yu Xiangyi listened to her words and smiled bitterly, “So what? My father and mother are gone …… and I can’t go back to the old days.”
“My mother is still alive,” Zhou Xian Yang stroked her shoulder and tried his best to persuade her, “I will find a way to reunite you with your mother.”
“Aunt ……” Yu Xiangyi was lost in thought for a moment, her aunt really treated her like a mother and daughter, this was the only warmth she could find.
She snapped out of her trance and brushed off Zhou Xian Yang’s hand, taking a few steps back for fear of minding the meeting.
“I’ll wait for your good news. You guys risked so much to save me, and Gray Eagle was even more exhausted, escorting me all the way from Phoenix Immortal Pond to sneak across to the outskirts of the city, I won’t fail you guys.”
Yu Xiangyi tried to put on a sanguine smile and took her leave.
Gray Eagle saluted again, this time he was really going to take Xiangyi away from Jinling.
The Emperor, the Criminal Precepts Department, and the Feather Forest Guards, who had followed Yu Wang for so long, watched as they traveled the mountains and went out of the capital on business, coming and going without any abnormalities at all, and gradually they all let their guard down. No one expected that Zhou Xian Yang would get Yu Xiang Yi to meet in the back of Yü Wang’s mansion, thus Xiang Yi’s departure was smooth.
Finally, after a few days of running around, Rong Xiangmian and Zhou Xianyang are able to take a real break.
It was late fall, and Xiangmian always felt cold, so her arms and legs were curled up. Zhou Xianyang simply wrapped her up in his own body.
The warmth of her body was not the same as a soup dumpling. Xiangmian clung to him, closing her eyes and making sounds of enjoyment. Zhou Xian Yang belly laughs: this moment doesn’t mind that I’m hot.
“In this weather, Xiang Yi waded out of the garden river, how cold it should be.” Her warmth was quickly stirred up by these messy realities, “We ate together at a table, the life I have nowadays, originally she should have had it too. Now that she is suffering, she has to wander the world and hide, fate is really unfair.”
Zhou Xian Yang hmmmed, not wanting to say anything. How could he not be worried, but now was the best situation he could do. When she followed Gray Eagle to West Qin, it would be fine. It would be easy to hide there, and she could live some peaceful days.
Xiangyi knew that he was in a bad mood and was bored and unhappy, so he deliberately started a conversation: ”I have also heard some things in the palace about Kunning Palace back then. Back then, mother kept Xiang Yi in the care of Kun Ning Palace, she wanted her to be close to you, right?”
“I don’t know, I was too young at that time. Xiangyi’s own mother died a long time ago, her stepmother didn’t care much for her, mother was afraid that she would be wronged at home, so she took her to the palace and took care of her like a daughter, I think maybe mother didn’t think about it that much.”
“Oh ……” Rong Xiangmian asked again, “One day in the future when the Yu family is vindicated, let’s take Xiangyi back to our side, right?”
“That’s natural, she has no one to depend on, I should take care of her.”
Rong Xiang Xiang tightened his arm around Zhou Xian Yang’s waist, “At that time, your mother should have returned as well. You can go back to the days when you were reunited like in Kun Ning Palace, never to be separated again.”
Zhou Xian Yang was silent for a moment, wrapped his arms around Xiang Xiang and rolled over, wrapping her underneath him, “You’re afraid?”
“I’m afraid …… that I’ll become an outsider by then.”
Zhou Xian Yang laughed out loud, “What are you thinking? Xiang Yi is my cousin, you are my wife, her sister-in-law. Mother would never look at you like that either.”
“I know, I won’t say it again.”
Zhou Xian Yang kissed her forehead, “Don’t worry, I will definitely do what I promised you.”
Ashamed in her heart, Xiang Xiang caressed his face and asked, “Is it because you think I’m selfish? At this time, you still care about your own future.”
“In order to save Xiang Yi out, you have gone through so much effort, if I think of you like that again, am I still a human being? No matter what happens in the future, you are my wife, the only woman I cherish, the closest person in my heart.”
Rong Xiangxian’s heart was filled with tenderness, he didn’t know how to talk about it, he only raised his head and kissed Xian Yang, which was instantly exchanged for a more intense kiss back.
This cold night was not cold at all.
After a long night, Zhou Xianyang wrapped his arms around the person in his arms and hugged him a little tighter.
Sagami rubbed the scars on his back and asked, ”Do you really still want to take that medicine? You’re the one who said that medicine is three times poisonous.”
“Poison on poison, if the two of us always have one to take the medicine, I am better than your body, I should eat.”
Xiangmian heart sighs, just want everything to be settled early, can love with him without fear.
Running around for many days, this sleep until the sun rises high, when Sagami woke up, she found that Zhou Xian Yang was fiddling with her hair, parting her hair in strands and laying it out on the bedsheets to form a flower in full bloom, and her head was the heart of the flower.
“You’re so boring.” Aimi was just about to get up when Zhou Xian Yang said, “Don’t move.”
Saying that, he went and got a pen and paper and sat on the bed and started drawing.
“You can draw too?” After being married for so long, she never knew.
“Just drawing.”
When Zhou Xian Yang put down his brush, Rong Xiangmian got up and hugged him, resting her head on his shoulder and looking at the drawing in his hand.
Unlike the figure drawings she usually learned, Zhou Xian Yang drew her and the flower on her head with just a few simple, yet very evocative strokes.
“What a resemblance!” Rong Xiangmian laughed as Zhou Xianyang said, “Your drawing skills are better than mine, how come you’ve never drawn one for me?”
“Who said no?”
“You did? Why didn’t you show me?”
As the two were talking, they heard Fei Xue’s voice outside the house, “Your Highness, the people who went out to do the shopping brought back the news that Mama Song’s house and the residents in that neighborhood had been raided by a group of officials and soldiers of unknown origins, in the name of searching for roving bandits in the capital.”
Zhou Xian Yang put down the painting, put on his outer garment, and sat on the edge of the bed, looking at a field of morning sunlight, lost in thought.
“Mother Song is about frightened, I’ll go and look at her?” Xiangmian asked for advice, Zhou Xian Yang shook his head, “No need, a routine inventory, if we go and ask, we’ll look like a nuisance instead.”
It doesn’t take long for the palace to summon someone, saying that Guan Ning of the Imperial Palace, impeached King Yu in the morning court for conniving with his retainers to seize the women of good families, forcing people to die.
Xiangmian hummed, “The fish has taken the bait. Why are you fishing at this time?”
Zhou Xian Yang said, “A few days ago, Zhongqing told me that the Emperor is preparing to move the old cases of the Supervisory Court as a way to break the vicious habit of the Supervisory Court colluding with other officials in the court, such as the Imperial Historical Office, to use the cases as a sharp weapon to attack each other. Now, it’s just the right time to give a reason.”
Rong Xiangxian patted him on the shoulder, “Be careful when you go to the palace to talk.”
At the Chongzheng Hall, Zhou Xian Yang met several adults from the Imperial Historical Office and the Supervisory Court, and Chen Rixin was also there, his eyes somewhat helpless.
The Criminal Investigation Department had long since searched Da Qiu Zhuang after King Yu and his wife departed for the capital, and had even inquired about the events of the past few days. However, the emperor could not act as if he knew about it already, and still had to go through the motions, so he looked for Xian Yang to scold him.
Geng Zhongli, the commander of the Supervision and Investigation Yuan, brought the petition to the front of the palace, and told him all about it, questioning King Yu: “The Fourth Highness’s vassal is relying on the power of the royal family to do wrong, causing public discontent, so what does Your Highness think should be done about it?”
Zhou Xian Yang listens quietly, walks over and pulls the petition from Geng Zhong Li’s hand, asking, “Lord Geng, what do you think of this petition?”
Geng Zhongli said, “The words are concise, the font is strong, it is a good pleading.”
“You have good eyesight.” Zhou Xian Yang handed the petition to Shen Du Zhi and reported to the Emperor, “This petition was written by my son.”
The emperor took one look and realized it was Xian Yang’s writing, “Why are you writing a petition?”
Zhou Xianyang feigned ignorance: “A few days ago, I told my father that I was going to Daqiuzhuang to inspect the area. The head of the village is a distant relative of the late Duke of England’s hometown, who had no one to turn to and got the job of managing the village, relying on his surname, Rong, to run roughshod over the township. I found that Rong old head of the bank deducted money, his son bully men and women and other crimes.
But the local parents are afraid of the British Government and Yuhang House, and do not dare to care about anything. My son is in the way of the old man, can not directly dispose of him, had to ask the guards to bring the plaintiff and the petition to the Supervisory Court to sue. After all, the adults of the Supervisory and Inspection Yuan, each and every one of them is iron-faced and unforgiving.”
The Emperor was happy to hear this, “You are good at dispatching people.”
Seeing that the emperor was not offended, Zhou Xian Yang said, “Lord Geng, this case, you should judge it how you want, just don’t say that I know about it, so that I don’t offend the old Taishan, this is even a big favor for me.”
Geng Zhongli then let go, “With King Yu’s words, my humble servant will naturally deal with this case according to the law.”
Zhou Xian Yang glanced at the several members of the Imperial Court again, “Speaking of which, the cases handled by the Supervisory and Investigation Courts are large and numerous, so how come the Imperial Court is so quick to come to the court of this king? I have nothing to say if you guys are going to report me, but there’s no way to talk about harboring and conniving.”
Several royal historians naturally can’t imagine that this is something that King Yu himself has stirred up, so they have no choice but to say something grandiose, Zhou Xian Yang fulfills their wishes and asks the emperor to apologize: “The vassal committed a crime, the son is not competent, he should be punished, I ask my father to forgive me!”
The emperor raised his hand, signaling him to get up: “That is the dowry of the Duke of England, you can take the initiative to do them, this is a good thing, to the other princes and dukes of the house to set an example.”
He also said, “All of you are loyal and straightforward ministers who speak up for the people, this is a blessing for the country’s dynasty. In the future there will be such a thing again, the same impartiality to deal with, severely punished.”
The emperor lifted it up and put it down gently, and the Imperial Historian also knew that impeachment would not work, and that this would in turn allow King Yuh to compete in front of the palace, so he had to stop.
Zhou Xian Yang was relaxed, resigned from the Chongzheng Hall, went to the Empress Dowager to ask for peace. The Empress Dowager was pleased to learn that: “You know how to distinguish between public and private matters, which is good, so as not to let the people who are staring at you catch the handle. Several emperors have a lot of friends in the Imperial Historian’s Office, you also need to think about it, otherwise you will always be passive.”
Zhou Xian Yang is indifferent, the duty of the speech officer, he is not afraid of impeachment naturally.
When he left Cining Palace, Chen Rixin was preparing to return to the north palace gate duty. The two ran into each other in the Imperial Garden, and Zhou Xianyang knew that this was no coincidence.
He had something to say.
Originally, he thought it was about the Supervisory and Investigation Yuan or the Criminal Precepts Department, but Chen Rixin came to tell him, “Your Highness, recently, a short letter from outside the palace was sent into the Palace of Sublime Government, with no beginning and no end, so I was puzzled but did not dare to ask His Majesty. I’m afraid that this matter is related to King Yu, so please keep an eye out for it, Your Highness.”
Zhou Xian Yang frowned slightly, what did these notes say?
“Left is nothing more than some …… everything is normal in the house …… did not harbor.”
“Harboring?” Zhou Xian Yang’s first thought is Xiang Yi, his own side, there is the emperor’s eyes?