Zhutian: My skills are not serious

Chapter 463 Mother and Daughter

Day .

Bad news came from the Lin Mansion early in the morning. Seeing that Lin Ruofu was late in going to the dining hall to eat, the servants put the food into a lunch box and took it to the bedroom. However, when he walked to the bed and called for help, he was horrified to find that the prime minister of the time had died on the bed, leaving only a headless corpse.

There was chaos in the Lin family, and the news quickly spread throughout the officialdom.

You have to know that Lin Ruofu was the head of all officials. His death had an extremely huge impact on the court.

Lin Ruofu died in his own home, and his death was exactly the same as Ye Chong who died two days ago. Considering that he was Lin Wan'er's father and had a grudge against Chu Pingsheng in the past, and was an obstacle to Northern Qi's destruction of Qing, any sane person would look at Chu Pingsheng with suspicion.

The military leader Ye Zhong is dead, now it's the turn of the civil servant Lin Ruofu...

Ye Chong is Ye Ling'er's father, Lin Ruofu is Lin Wan'er's father. As I said before, what Chu Pingsheng said at the celebration banquet was 100% right. Being his father-in-law is definitely a very dangerous job.

Lin Wan'er's father died, and logically she should have been in mourning. However, she had to marry into the Chu family the next day because this was the deadline given by Chu Pingsheng. If she did not marry, the Qi army would not only operate a hundred miles south of the original border between the two countries.

Fortunately, she was the illegitimate daughter of Lin Ruofu and Li Yunrui, so legally speaking, she did not have to attend the wake.

……

The seventh day was also the deadline given by Chu Pingsheng, the wedding day of Lin Wan'er, Ye Ling'er and Fan Ruoruo.

At 3 p.m. on that day, the royal villa was just clearing up after the rain.

While the wind brought dampness and coolness, it also blew the scent of the big locust tree at the door into the courtyard, mixed with the sour and sweet aroma of crabapple, filling the whole building with fragrance.

There is a red carpet in front of the door, a red carpet behind the door, and a red carpet on the long road, extending all the way to the embroidery building where Lin Wan'er lives.

The window was open and the wind made the gauze curtains sway gently.

Li Yunrui was wearing a black dress, standing behind her daughter who was wearing a bright red wedding dress. She was slightly distracted as she looked at her beautiful daughter in the bronze mirror, who had a phoenix crown on her head, vermilion lips, and light rouge on her cheeks.

"Has Fan Xian been here?"

"Yes."

"Advise you to go with him?"

"Yes."

"Then why don't you go with him?"

"..."

It just rained a little, as if the heavens were crying for her fate - a woman who had been sickly since childhood, had a father but was not included in the family tree, had a mother but could hardly see her a few times a year, and when she grew up she had to marry a man she did not like, or rather, a bastard who had killed her brother and father.

The moisture formed a layer of mist on the mirror surface, and the faces of the mother and daughter were a little blurry, just like their family affection.

But she is Li Yunrui's daughter after all. At this important moment, it is natural for her mother to do the makeup and dressing herself up.

"Why don't you go with him? If you go with him, you won't have to marry someone you hate."

"..."

Lin Wan'er still didn't say anything, but just looked at herself in the mirror with an expressionless face, as if that was a stranger who had nothing to do with her.

"No, he is not only someone you hate, but also your enemy. Are you afraid? Are you afraid that Ye Ling'er's fate will happen to you? Or are you afraid that Chu Pingsheng will not be able to get you, so he will pour out all his anger on Fan Xian and kill him? But do you know that if you think you are protecting him, will he appreciate it? Will he watch you marry Chu Pingsheng?"

"..."

Lin Wan'er continued to remain silent. Not only did she not say anything, she also picked up the earrings on the table and held them in her palm, meaning that she wanted her mother to help her put them on.

Li Yunrui picked up the earrings in her hand very slowly.

"What on earth are you thinking about? Even today, you still won't tell me?"

Li Yunrui spoke a little fast, and her voice was trembling rather than rising and falling, which showed that she was very excited.

"mother……"

"what?"

"Do you like him?"

pat.

An earring fell on the ground. Li Yunrui brushed his hair, bent down, picked up the earring, wiped it again and again with the towel beside him, and made sure there was no dust on it before putting it on Lin Wan'er's left ear.

When she went to put the earring on her daughter's right ear, Lin Wan'er looked at her mother in the mirror and said quietly, "I've heard everything... He was the one who disobeyed the imperial decree and brought you back from Xinyang. He was also the one who, out of anger for you, killed Gong Dian who dared to stop you from entering the palace."

Li Yunrui continued to put on the earrings with gold leaves and crystal stamens for her. He looked at his daughter in the mirror and said frankly without denying, "Yes, I like him. Did Fan Xian tell you that too?"

"Dad told me."

"Is he jealous? Why is he telling you this?"

Lin Wan'er did not respond to her question and said to herself, "He died the next day."

"Oh."

Li Yunrui's expression was very cold. He just put his hand on his daughter's shoulder and looked at the beautiful girl who inherited her beauty from behind with admiration. "Today is the day of Dad's burial, and you didn't even go to the Lin Mansion to pay homage, just to please your little man."

"He didn't kill the person."

Li Yunrui fiddled with the phoenix crown, which was a circle larger than his daughter's head, to make it more rounded.

"It was him who killed the Queen Mother, killed my father, and killed my brother..."

"No, it was Bai Feng who killed the Queen Mother, it was Bai Feng who killed your brother, and it was Li Yunqian who killed your father."

“Mother, don’t you think you are deceiving yourself?” Lin Wan’er looked at the eldest princess in the mirror who rarely visited her but showed her mother’s tenderness when she got married: “Just to feel at ease liking him.”

Li Yunrui pressed her slightly uneven bun, looking at her as if examining a work of art: "Whatever you think."

This time it was Lin Wan'er's turn to be emotional. She took a deep breath and said, "You asked me to elope with Fan Xian so that after I left, you could legitimately marry him, right?"

"..."

Li Yunrui's hand stopped in mid-air and his eyes froze.

"He came to the palace to propose marriage to you, and you pushed your daughter to him for power and the inner treasury. Do you regret it now?" Lin Wan'er said coldly, with a look of satisfaction in her eyes: "Aren't you the most beautiful woman in Qing? Aren't all men unable to resist your temptation? In order to make Fan Xian sad, he would rather marry a woman who doesn't like him than marry you, the most beautiful woman in Qing. Mother, this time, you really shot yourself in the foot."

"..."

Lin Wan'er raised her head and looked at her profile which was filled with resentment: "Does it hurt? When I kill him, it will hurt you even more."

Snapped!
Li Yunrui's hand fell from the sky and slapped Lin Wan'er in the face.

pat!

The phoenix crown fell and Lin Wan'er was knocked down. She prostrated herself on the ground with her hands on her wedding dress, gasping for breath as she looked at her mother who had lost control of her emotions.

“Haha, heheha… cough cough… cough cough…”

Lin Wan'er coughed up a mouthful of blood, staining the sleeves of her wedding dress. She took several deep breaths before she calmed down a little. She said intermittently, "Mom, if I were you... I would definitely not be angry, because you should know that with my skills... the possibility of killing him is basically zero. Even if I don't die tonight... I don't have much time to live. You just need to wait. Wait until I die... Then you can marry into the Chu family legitimately."

Li Yunrui's expression gradually softened, and with a hint of heartache, he helped his frail daughter up from the ground, held her face and whispered, "Mom shouldn't be sad, shouldn't resent, and shouldn't hit you, because it was you, my daughter, who beat me."

After saying that, she picked up the phoenix crown on the ground and put it back on her.

"You are the most beautiful today."

……

at the same time.

Ye Mansion.

Today is the day when the eldest daughter of the Ye family is getting married, but from the front door to the back door, the entire courtyard is empty, there is no trace of joy, and few people come in and out.

This was not only because the head of the family, Ye Chong, had died a few days ago and his body was still being transported, but also because Ye Liuyun had issued an order to dismiss the slaves and allow the clansmen who were able to move to leave the city to seek refuge.

He didn't tell her the reason, but Ye Ling'er knew that the day of the decisive battle with Master Bai Feng and his apprentice had come.

Chen Pingping, Fan Jian and others, with Fan Xian as the core, were like this, because if they didn't take action, after tonight, Lin Wan'er would be Chu Pingsheng's person.

Ye Liuyun, Si Gu Jian and others, led by Emperor Qing, did so because they could join forces with Fan Xian's people.

No matter what differences or hatred they have, no one will deny that the biggest threats at the moment are Bai Feng and Chu Pingsheng.

If they are not killed, the Qi army will move south. Once the Qing Kingdom is destroyed, what will happen to the interests of the Ye family? Is Dongyi City far from being destroyed?
In the deepest part of the Ye Mansion, in the embroidery building which was different from that of other daughters of noble families, Ye Linger, wearing her wedding dress, held her face and cried bitterly. Her rouge, powder, hairbands, earrings, necklaces and other things were scattered all over the floor. Even the mirrors that came from the three major workshops and were only used by nobles were smashed.

The two maids who were helping her with her makeup were standing far away, next to the window facing south that allowed them to see the martial arts arena. They seemed a little overwhelmed by the scene before them.

Even though Ye Linger was going to marry into the Chu Mansion as a concubine, and it was impossible for her to be married in a formal way like Haitang Duoduo, she still had to dress up. In another hour or two, the sedan chair bearers would arrive, but she was still crying and refusing to cooperate. What could she do...

Of course, they could understand Ye Ling'er's behavior, but they could only understand Miss Ye's hatred, and could not understand her resentment and regret.

She kept asking herself why.

Why did things become like this?
Ye Wan died, Ye Chong died, two of her closest people died because of her. What did she do wrong?

She was knocked unconscious by Chu Pingsheng that night and did not hear the conversation between Li Yunrui and Ye Liuyun, so she still doesn't understand what the Ye family did wrong to end up like this.

"Miss."

The maid with a mole on her forehead took a half step forward and was about to persuade her to stop crying when a cloud of yellow mist suddenly floated in from the window. There was a faint fragrance, and then nothing happened.

puff.

puff.

The two maids fell to the ground one after another.

A figure flashed outside the window, and a man in a black robe and with curly hair jumped into the room.

"Ye Ling'er, you asked Wang Qinian to send me a letter, saying you wanted to see me?"

(End of this chapter)