HLnovel Chapter 551 Extra Thank You Banquet (8)
Chapter 551 Extra Thank You Banquet (8)
The night is as dark as ink, and the dew is heavy...
In the courtyard, the light-colored figure was still sitting alone in front of the stone table in the courtyard, with the hem of her plain white skirt spread on the bluestone bricks, like a pool of condensed moonlight.
Jiang Wantang sat there motionless, wondering what she was thinking...
Only the two plain hairbands on her head rose and fell in the night breeze, sometimes intertwining and sometimes separating, just like the tangled and confusing emotions she was feeling at the moment...
However, she sat blankly in the yard, and Xie Zhiyan watched her quietly in the shadows outside the yard.
He stood and watched for as long as Jiang Wantang sat.
The spring air was chilly and the night wind was cool. Her thin figure seemed even more desolate and lonely in the darkness...
Xie Zhiyan looked at her thin and tough figure, and there was a strong and clear heartache in his deep and dark eyes.
My heart feels like it's being pricked by needles, and it hurts so much.
But he could do nothing except accompany her silently.
In the past, I only knew that it was because of the suffering and hardships she had experienced in the past that she developed such an unyielding and prickly character.
But when I came back to see it with my own eyes, I realized it was more than just difficult...
Even Zhang Long, who was standing by, couldn't help but feel emotional when he saw this.
But he didn't understand why his master suddenly fell in love with such a weak and soft-tempered woman?
Isn't he more gentle and virtuous?
After a long time, when the moon disappeared behind the treetops, Jiang Wantang in the yard finally got up and returned to the house.
Soon, the candles in the house went out, and the already dim courtyard became dark in an instant.
It seems that the people in the house should be asleep.
But Xie Zhiyan still stood outside the yard looking at the house and did not leave.
Zhang Long saw that he looked unhappy, so he did not say anything to disturb him.
However, after a while, a rustling sound suddenly came from the silent air, and the sound came from the direction of the back door of the courtyard.
Several people's expressions became stern and they held their breath again.
The next moment, the wooden door creaked open, and a burly, overweight middle-aged man sneaked in through the crack of the back door...
Under the moonlight, the man had an ugly face, with a pair of small green eyes on his greasy pockmarked face, which were rolling around.
He has a lustful look on his face, and it's obvious that he is not a good person.
What's more, it's so late at night, sneaking around...
Zhang Long subconsciously looked at Xie Zhiyan who was standing beside him, only to see that the latter had his lips slightly curled up, and his eyes were full of fierceness.
But he didn't say anything, so Zhang Long could only keep his troops in place.
Then, the wretched man smacked his thick lips and tiptoed into the house, unbuttoning his belt as he walked...
He is going to...
Zhang Long's pupils suddenly shrank, and he suddenly looked at Xie Zhiyan beside him, but the latter still did not move.
Seeing that the thief had already sneaked into the house, Zhang Long could no longer hold back and whispered, "Sir, you..."
However, as soon as he opened his mouth, Xie Zhiyan raised a finger to his lips, signaling him to be silent.
Zhang Long clenched his fists when he saw this, extremely anxious.
He thought to himself: Sir, if you don’t take action, this future wife will be bullied by this despicable thief!
When Zhang Long thought of Jiang Wantang's delicate and weak appearance, he wondered how she could be a match for this thief.
just in case...
He was so anxious!
Sure enough, the next moment, a scream was heard from inside the house...
Immediately afterwards, there was another loud "bang" and the wretched and ugly man was kicked out of the house and fell heavily to the ground.
Zhang Long's pupils widened...
Afterwards, he saw the future Crown Prince's wife, who seemed so weak in his eyes, walking out of the house with a cold face and a strong aura.
The ugly man lying on the ground screamed before Xiuzhu blocked his mouth with a dirty tablecloth...
Zhang Long blinked, and before he could recover from the shock, he saw a cold light flash on Jiang Wantang's wrist, and a dagger flew out quickly. Blood splattered, and the dirty thing under the ugly man fell to the ground with a "click".
The knife came up and fell, the movements were clean and neat, fast and fierce...it was definitely not something that ordinary people could do.
At this time, Zhao Hu, who heard the noise, also walked over from a distance. When he saw this scene, he was stunned on the spot with his mouth wide open.
Jiang Wantang, on the other hand, wiped the blood-stained dagger with a handkerchief, a cold smile on his face. The blood-red light made his cold smile even more eerie, making people's hair stand on end...
The female devil in front of me is completely different from the delicate and easily bullied little girl I saw during the day.
Especially when Zhang Long and Zhao Hu saw the bloody mess on the ground, they felt a chill beneath their bodies, and the night breeze blew past, suddenly tightening their grip a little...
The two of them unconsciously looked at Xie Zhiyan beside them, with different expressions.
Zhang Long was thinking: Did the adults already know...
Zhao Hu thought to himself: Oh my god, my master is the only child in the Marquis's family. Will he die in her hands in the future?
At this time, Xie Zhiyan's gaze was still fixed on Jiang Wantang in the courtyard, and there was a hint of tenderness in his cold eyes for no reason.
The ugly man was so scared that he confessed everything. He was a butcher selling meat in the south of the city. Jiang Wanfu's maid paid money to find him, and then the people in the Jiang Mansion arranged for him to sneak into this yard at night. His purpose was to destroy her innocence. When the people from the Marquis' Mansion came to propose marriage tomorrow morning, the news would be known to everyone.
By then he will have both beauty and money.
When Jiang Wantang learned that all of this was tacitly approved by her kind parents, there was no surprise on her pale face. She said nothing, just smiled self-deprecatingly...
That night, the candle in the cottage was lit all night, and Xie Zhiyan stood with his back against the courtyard wall, looking at the figure reflected on the carved window, all night.
The night gradually faded away, and when the first trace of dawn appeared in the sky, Jiang Wantang walked out of the house.
She asked Xiuzhu to secretly throw the ugly man into Jiang Wanfu's boudoir.
Outside the courtyard, Xie Zhiyan curled his lips, breathed a sigh of relief, and a hint of relief flashed across his eyes.
Because today is the day Jiang Wanfu and Xiao Jingheng return home...
And his little fox finally...came out.
......
At dawn, Xie Zhiyan rode a tall horse, wearing a purple-red official robe of the Dali Temple, and personally led the people of the Dali Temple to post all the evidence of Jiang Wanfu's crimes, including selecting her second sister Jiang Wantang to marry in order to enter the palace, and deliberately spreading rumors to slander Jiang Wantang, on the notice boards in the streets and alleys of the capital.
As happily as Jiang Wanfu cried out for injustice yesterday, the slap in the face this morning was as painful as it was.
In just an hour, the shocking scandal of Jiang Wanfu spreading rumors that Jiang Wantang was ugly, vulgar... and forcing his sister to marry him and then biting back spread throughout the streets and alleys of the capital.
Jiang Wantang also took the opportunity to spread the news that Jiang Wanfu had gone on a hunger strike and threatened to commit suicide in order to enter the palace selection.
In one day, Jiang Wanfu went from being praised as the most beautiful woman in the capital to being infamous.
Jiang Wantang became famous because of this.
So, as Jiang Wanfu and Xiao Jingheng rode in the carriage back home, they were filled with curses from the people of the city, and some even started throwing rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs at them.
Xiao Jingheng was so angry that he left her halfway and went home.
On the contrary, when Xie Zhiyan rode on horseback and led a group of people from the Yong'an Marquisate to the Jiang Mansion to propose marriage, he received cheers and blessings from the people of the city!
He was also in high spirits, unlike his former indifference. He was dressed in a dark purple brocade robe, with a handsome face, and an air of high spirits and unparalleled elegance...
The flower from Gaoling Mountain was deified, which made all the girls in Beijing jealous.