Chapter 350: Chapter 349: You Can’t Forget Miss Xie
The heart-wrenching cries of pain, suppressed between the lips of the Governor’s wife, as she bit hard on her lower lip, the right side of her face quickly forming a visible handprint and swelling hideously.
Xie Yinong was shocked beyond belief: Was that for real? ... Did he really hit her?
She got it right!
Shen Hua fell silent for a moment. She lifted her hand and looked at it over and over.
Yingwu seemed thoughtful, looking at the girl with admiration!
"Lady."
She lowered her voice.
"Can you calculate whether I could make a sudden fortune?"
Shen Hua: ... "Only in your dreams."
Yingwu felt a momentary pang of disappointment, then quickly asked about something she really cared about: "Then predict when Xiaoqi will pack up and leave."
Shen Hua gave her a look.
It’s hard to explain.
Soon, the noise from downstairs overshadowed Yingwu’s voice, drawing all three people’s attention.
"You hit me?"
"And why shouldn’t I? Look at what you’ve done over the years, and I’ve been putting up with it repeatedly! Isn’t it enough? Which other madam isn’t well-mannered and proper? How could you, a commoner woman, bring such a catastrophe upon our house!"
"The world outside has changed. Today, I knelt in front of the civil and military officials at Jinluan Hall, utterly humiliated! Totally disgraceful!"
These words brought the atmosphere down to zero.
Below, the Governor’s wife was crying and laughing, without her usual arrogance in front of others.
"This is humiliating? How did you assure me before? Now things are going poorly, and you take it out on me?"
A gentle breeze blew, brushing against the girl’s long black hair hanging to her waist. Shen Hua couldn’t help but take down another tile.
Her vision widened, just in time to see the woman collapsed on the ground.
"Yan Kun, do you forget the day I set aside my pride for you, caring nothing for my face?"
"Yes! Back in Shengjing my family was not presentable, but when I married into your Yan Family, you had nothing!"
"Now you’ve made it, but back then, it was you kneeling on the ground begging me! Sending me out to curry favor with others, do you really think all that fame was earned by yourself? Your success today also has my contributions."
These words apparently made Yan Kun bewildered. He withdrew the hand still midair, and then, with an extremely dejected posture, pulled it back.
The Governor’s wife did not get up and maintained a disgraceful posture.
"For your Yan Family, I ventured everything. What did I get in return? My mother-in-law looks down on me, thinking I’m dirty? Feeling that I’m too lowly to match you anymore. Always finding faults in me."
"And you! Stepping over my body, claiming to the outside that I died in an earthquake, and then proceeding to negotiate a marriage with Miss Xie!"
This was what she hated the most.
Yan Kun darkened his face immediately.
"Why bring up those things!"
"We now both have children. Why mention the past matters?"
He least wanted to hear this.
People, when they reach a certain position, always use pretense to cover up their own shame.
Therefore, he had ’indulged’ the Governor’s wife, becoming the world’s image of consideration in everything.
"Why should I not mention it?"
Yan Kun stepped forward to help her, but she dodged away.
"Qu Niang." He sighed deeply.
"I’m just under a lot of stress, and I’m distressed about Mi, also hating how seriously the Wei Family is bullying us, forcing our Yan Family to marry off our daughter, and that made me rough with you."
The Governor’s wife merely scoffed.
"You must be very frustrated, master, don’t think I don’t know, you’re still infatuated with Miss Xie to this day, she’s dead, yet you still dwell on her!"
"Indeed, initially, who didn’t say how well-matched you and Miss Xie were, you even, because she said she wanted to eat the Thousand-Layer Cake from a specific shop in Hengzhou, went thousands of miles to buy it for her! Indeed, she was placed at the top of your heart! Yet over the years, you don’t even know I’m allergic to goat milk!"
Yan Kun completely did not want to deal with her anymore, even his brows were impatiently furrowed: "You’re unwell, do not go out these days, and just stay inside the house!"
"When you have thought it through, then come out!"
This was essentially a form of soft imprisonment.
After he finished speaking, he left with a flick of his sleeves.
As soon as he left, the old woman waiting outside the room nervously entered, sympathetically helping her up.
"Lady, why must you quarrel with the master?"
"The master can least tolerate that person from the Xie Family, why must you bring it up and hurt the affection between husband and wife."
The Governor’s wife’s eyes were rimmed red. She buried her head on the old woman’s shoulder, but she held back from shedding a single tear.
"Back then, it was he who supported me, and step by step, I climbed higher! The Yan Family wouldn’t even let me in their door. No one in the entire household acknowledged me! All because they were afraid I would hinder his opportunity to climb up the ladder by marrying into nobility."
"If it wasn’t for the upheaval I caused throughout the city, I probably would have ended up as another second wife in Jing Mansion!"
She dazedly touched her swollen cheek: "His study still keeps Xie Fu’s portrait, before I could pretend I didn’t know, but why is it that now everything wrong is placed on me?"
Xie Fu.
Every time she closed her eyes, she saw the girl’s bright, captivating smile.
That was the girl raised in indulgence by the Xie Family.
Indeed, she could not compare with someone so unrefined like her.
She still remembered that time, on the boat she specifically approached Xie Fu, begging like a clown without any dignity.
"Lady Xie, you are of noble status, I only have my young man, could you marry someone else?"
Xie Fu’s complexion turned deathly pale.
She was not angry, but spoke softly.
"Mrs. Yan, my marriage agreement with Yan Kun was nullified a month ago in the presence of officials. Meeting today at the lake was merely a coincidence."
"I should maintain the pride of a Miss Xie, I absolutely can’t have any further involvement with him, you can be assured of that."
But who knew that the person who just assured her would disappear right after.
At that time, Yan Kun despised her!
While everyone was watching the Xie Family’s drama, they also blamed her for causing a death.
Shen Hua never expected to personally hear such sordid affairs.
She never imagined that Yan Kun and Shen Qu were of the same ilk, using the girl to advance their careers, treating it as a ladder to the clouds.
She was shocked, her eyes widened, then looking at Xie Yinong, she was dazed and her nose was a bit red, visibly upset.
Xie Yinong murmured, "The Yan Family has always been deceiving the Xie Family, deceiving my cousin."
She sniffled, "Initially, the officials were pressing hard, and it was Yan Kun himself who said his wife died from the earthquake, that’s when my grandfather agreed to this marriage."
Xie Yinong lost control of her emotions: "He even dares to keep my cousin’s portrait, grieving daily, it’s truly disgusting!"
The more she thought about it, the more she hated it, tightly clenching a tile shard Shen Hua had pulled out, breaking it into two halves. Her grip tightened uncontrollably as if she did not feel the pain, letting the sharp edge pierce into her palm.
Blood started oozing out.
Shen Hua suppressed the thoughts in her mind and went forward to snatch it away.
"For such a beast, it’s not worth it, not worth it."
Having snatched the item, Shen Hua found it uncomfortable in her hand, and without thinking, she ungracefully threw it towards the gap in the roof eaves.
"Ah!"
The Governor’s wife felt pain on her head and screamed.
"Who!"
Old woman: "What’s wrong with this roof eave? Such a big gap, hasn’t it been repaired for years? Oh dear, Madam, you’ve scraped your skin, don’t move, let me apply medicine for you."
Yingwu, looking at Shen Hua, who was unafraid of inviting trouble on herself, muttered to herself: "Hit the target."
Yingwu stated, "What’s so special about this? I can knock someone out."
Shen Hua could not do it, she handed the other half to her: "Come on, show your skills."