Raiders of the Duke and Duchess

Chapter 959 He is not qualified to be angry

Miss Ji yawned as she followed Ning Xiuyuan down the roof and out of the yard, seeming to have forgotten that she had just cursed Qingshan inwardly for being unreliable...

Ji Wuyan didn't know at this moment that Lord Ning had already been jealous when she was still sleeping on the roof. Lord Ning, who was jealous, couldn't bear to bully his own little girl, so he could only bully Shangguan Chu and Qingshan reluctantly.

At this time, Ji Wuyan was still thinking about the old man who had drunk himself tonight, and asked Ning Xiuyuan if anything had happened while he was in the palace. After all, it was true that the emperor disliked his grandfather, and it was also true that his grandfather had disobeyed the emperor's order and entered the city. If His Majesty really wanted to make trouble, even his own merits in saving the emperor would probably not be of much use.

Ning Xiuyuan said, "Grandfather is happy."

"The Shangguan family fled to the south of the Yangtze River in compliance with the imperial edict of His Majesty, not because they had to go south with the whole family because they had offended the imperial concubine. Over the years, my grandfather has been in control of an unknown army. The number of people is small, but each one is brave and good at fighting... The emperor fell into a trap in the hunting ground that year and accidentally opened the treasures left over from the previous dynasty. There were countless gold, silver, and weapons... Your Majesty is suspicious by nature and doesn't trust anyone. But my grandfather and Lord Shen were with Your Majesty that year and became witnesses... So, one deliberately ignored his wife and daughter and hid his strength, just because he was afraid that Your Majesty would take advantage of the mother and daughter to attack his weak spot, and the other secretly followed the imperial edict to leave the city, just to use those treasures to build this hidden chess piece for Your Majesty that no one knows about."

Although she had never heard of this from anyone, Ji Wuyan had guessed most of it. She lowered her head and kicked the stones at her feet, nodding, "I know this. Li Yuqi went to great lengths to marry Shangguan Yuan because he heard from somewhere that the Shangguan family had a huge treasure."

Ning Xiuyuan lowered his eyes to look at her, and rubbed the top of her head with the hand on her shoulder.

Silent comfort.

At that time, she cried and asked her grandmother, what should she do in the future without her sister? Her grandmother also held her in her arms and sat on the highest step in the Ji family courtyard, watching the afterglow in the courtyard gradually disappear. She said, "Just wait a little longer... it will be fine." Ji Wuyan asked her again how long it would take to be long enough? Her grandmother held her in her arms and rocked her slowly, saying that she didn't know...

Ji Wuyan felt that this "a little longer" might be a little longer than her life, and Shangguan Yuan might be the pain in her life that she would never get over. It was always there, although it was no longer as heartbreaking as it was at the beginning, but when it was occasionally mentioned or thought of, it would still be like a needle suddenly piercing her heart, slightly painful, but with a long aftertaste.

She put aside her thousands of thoughts, sighed softly, and asked Ning Xiuyuan, "Then what is grandfather happy about?"

Ji Wuyan was very good at hiding her emotions, and it was dark at this moment. Ning Xiuyuan seemed to be unaware that his little action just now made her more sad. He just smiled and said, "How about you guess?"

How could I guess this? There really is nothing to be happy about recently, except that Lin Yi finally died. But this matter doesn't seem to be worthy of my grandfather bathing and changing clothes to go to the palace to meet the emperor... Such a grand ceremony, Ji Wuyan really didn't have the mood, and said self-deprecatingly, "It can't be that he gave away all the treasures?" Unexpectedly, Ning Xiuyuan nodded, "Yes. The old man handed over the military token in his hand."

Facing Ji Wuyan's incredulous expression, Ning Xiuyuan smiled and shook his head, then put his cloak on Ji Wuyan and continued to walk forward with her. "I thought he would have a conflict with His Majesty, so I followed him. We entered the palace one after the other, and when I passed by, I happened to see him kneeling on the ground with his hands holding up the military token, saying that he wanted to use the military token in exchange for everyone's safe departure...including your sister."

Ji Wuyan suddenly stopped there, staring blankly at the back of Ning Xiuyuan's head, her lips trembling and unable to speak - including, sister...

Ning Xiuyuan turned his back to Ji Wuyan and sighed deeply before turning back to her. He looked at her almost trembling pupils, smiled and said gently, "He had his difficulties and he had to do it. There are so many people in the Shangguan family, and he is the head of the family... So, when a girl died, he was heartbroken. He locked himself in the study and cried, but he endured it... You can blame him for being a coward and a coward. But people are gone, and he still has so many people on his shoulders... and you. He has no right to be angry."

"He was afraid that this matter would become too big, and eventually even your secrets would be dug out. By then, it would not just be his granddaughter who would be hurt... He always had to make plans for the people who were still alive. However, who would have thought that the little girl who was raised in Yunzhou would have a temperament very much like him. When she became stubborn, no one could stop her, and she went to Yanjing City alone. He sent Shangguan Chu, but he was still worried. No matter how many times he said 'everything is fine, don't worry', it was not convincing at all. In the end, he insisted on his own way and took the risk of deceiving the emperor to bring back his other granddaughter."

Ji Wuyan stood there and looked up at Ning Xiuyuan. The shadowy moonlight cast by the tree shadows fell into her eyes, making her pupils a little sore. She blinked and asked Ning Xiuyuan, "He told you all this?"

"Yes... at first he was really happy, saying that he was finally free from all worries and could live out his days in Jiangnan... after just a few drinks, he got drunk, and started laughing and crying while beating his chest and stamping his feet as he told me all these things. He said he knew that you had always blamed him in your heart, and that this time we were less intimate than in the past. As he was talking, he fell asleep hugging the jar of wine."

Should I blame her? Ji Wuyan asked herself... She should blame her, but she deliberately ignored the emotion that she herself didn't want to face. It was as if everyone was tacitly covering up the truth.

If you don’t say it, it means it doesn’t exist. If you don’t say it, it means it doesn’t exist.

Ji Wuyan stood there with his head down for a long while, muttering softly, "Didn't you say that I have no right to be so angry? Then why did you come anyway? He knew it was a crime of deceiving the emperor, and he knew that the emperor's mood was unpredictable, but he didn't even say hello when he came. He didn't say a word of his secrets, which made people worry for nothing... How can there be a grandfather like him..."

There was a hint of sob in the low voice, a hint of helplessness and a hint of stubbornness.

Ji Wuyan lowered her head and bit her lip. Even though it was dark and even though she was facing Ning Xiuyuan, she still chose to hide her expression at the moment.