Chapter 288: Repentance
Xiao Yanci weakly opened his eyes and looked toward the opposite direction.
When he saw Zhang Zhaodi, his eyes were full of hopeful gazes.
“Mom… Mom, you’re here… Mom, save me, I don’t want to die…”
“Who is your mom? Don’t randomly claim relatives.” Zhang Zhaodi was amused by Xiao Yanci’s shameless behavior.
“Mom, you always doted on me, how could you bear to treat me like this? Mom, persuade Yaoguang, tell her that I know I was wrong, and I’ll definitely be obedient from now on. I now know that I did something wrong.”
“I think he’s already gone mad.” Zhang Zhaodi said to Su Rende beside her, “Forget it, I actually deluded myself into thinking I’d hear something useful from a madman’s mouth.”
“Mom!” Xiao Yanci shouted unwillingly, “I am your son-in-law, Zhou Wangshu is an evil ghost, Yaoguang will be killed by him if she’s with him. Really! He was originally a person who didn’t exist. The person Yaoguang truly bought was me, the person she was to marry was me, you and she did so much work just to earn money to support my studies.”
“I became the Top Scholar and married Yaoguang… Really, all of this is true. Yaoguang clearly has these memories and knows that I am her true husband. Why did Yaoguang abandon me? Why treat me like this? She’s promiscuous, she’s shameless… she married two husbands as one woman…”
“You just let this madman spout nonsense here?” Su Rende was furious and asked the bailiffs nearby. “Since his tongue is superfluous, there’s no need to keep it.”
“Xiao Ci, Wangshu is now the youngest Prime Minister, and he and our Yaoguang are a loving couple, our Yaoguang is even pregnant. Fortunately, what you said is all fake, otherwise it’s really hard to imagine what would become of our Yaoguang if she married someone like you.”
“No… that’s not it… Yaoguang likes me very much, she loves me very much… I was wrong, I was wrong.”
“Cut out his tongue so he can never spout nonsense again.” Su Rende said.
“No… no… don’t come over… Yaoguang… save me… I was wrong…”
Xiao Yanci’s screams came from behind.
He was too weak, even his screams were feeble.
From his physical condition and mental state, he probably wouldn’t last much longer.
At night, Zhang Zhaodi woke up startled from a dream. She sat up and blankly looked ahead. At this time, Su Rende beside her was also sleeping restlessly, mumbling “daughter-in-law, Yaoguang” in his mouth.
Zhang Zhaodi pushed Su Rende to wake him up.
Su Rende opened his eyes and sat up, still shaken.
“What’s wrong with you?” Zhang Zhaodi asked.
Su Rende looked terrified: “Madam, I had a dream. In the dream, I hadn’t recovered memory, and you and Yaoguang weren’t as happy as now…”
“Yaoguang bought Xiao Ci, and you and she exhausted yourselves to support his studies. After Xiao Ci became the Top Scholar and married Yaoguang, it became a beautiful story for a time, but he was a hypocrite. Though he married Yaoguang, he didn’t treat her well. Yaoguang was very unhappy, while he had a child with Jiang Yihuan outside. Later, he sent people to kill me and also killed Yaoguang. We never met, and you and Yaoguang never met either; we never reunited from beginning to end.”
“Fortunately, it was just a dream, otherwise it would be too terrifying.”
“What if it wasn’t a dream? Do you still remember what Xiao Ci said before? He said Zhou Wangshu didn’t exist at all, and the person Yaoguang was to marry was him…”
“But this is too unbelievable.”
“If Yaoguang went through all that, how much pain she must have suffered! Our daughter is too foolish.”
“Once the Emperor’s reply comes, we’ll go find our daughter right away. Whether that dream was real or fake, we must dote on her well.”
A month later, the Emperor sent a reply, meaning he allowed Su Rende to go to the New Capital and settle in first.
When the couple arrived at the New Capital City, Su Yaoguang and Zhou Wangshu stood side by side at the city gate waiting for them.
Zhang Zhaodi got out of the horse-drawn carriage.
Su Yaoguang trotted over to greet her.
“Slow down…” Zhou Wangshu and Zhang Zhaodi said in unison.
Zhang Pandi, Zhang Yingdi, and others were also extremely nervous.
Su Yaoguang held Zhang Zhaodi’s hand and said, “Don’t worry, I know my limits. Mom, you and Dad had a hard journey; let’s go back and rest first.”
The General’s mansion and Prime Minister’s Mansion weren’t built yet, but behind Peach Blossom Workshop was a large residential area, part of which was staff quarters for employees to live in, and another part was the boss’s private residence.
However, Su Rende had brought a team of personal guards this time, and they needed to be settled. He and Zhang Zhaodi could stay in the backyard of Peach Blossom Workshop, while the personal guards had to live in the local military camp.
Su Rende went first to settle the people he brought, while Zhang Zhaodi and the child along with those trusted servants went to Peach Blossom Workshop first.
“Husband said the General’s mansion will be completed in half a month.” Su Yaoguang said, “Dad and Mom, make do at Peach Blossom Workshop for half a month; after half a month, you can move into the big house.”
“We didn’t feel aggrieved without a big house before, but now that life is better, we’re so easily aggrieved? Do you think your mom is that pretentious?” Zhang Zhaodi said, “Don’t hold your younger brother, give the child to the wet nurse.”
“No, it’s been months since I saw him; I have to take a good look.” Su Yaoguang looked at the child in her arms. “He’s only a few months old and growing so fast; I still remember he was just a tiny bundle when he was born.”
Xiao Yunji giggled toward Su Yaoguang.
Zhang Zhaodi’s arrival made Peach Blossom Workshop even more lively.
When their large procession entered Peach Blossom Workshop, passersby were all asking what was happening.
“That is the wife of the Great General Who Protects the Nation, the birth mother of the Prime Minister’s Wife.”
“The Prime Minister’s Wife’s dad is the Great General Who Protects the Nation; she seems so kind usually, you wouldn’t tell at all.”
“Her husband is the Prime Minister too! If we didn’t see her and the Prime Minister coming and going together every day, would you believe it?”
Zhang Zhaodi and Su Rende arrived at the New Capital City; Su Yaoguang and Zhou Wangshu held a bonfire party in the backyard of Peach Blossom Workshop to welcome them.
Zhou Wangshu poured wine for Su Rende and said, “The backyard isn’t big enough to accommodate too many people, so I didn’t invite the brothers Father-in-law brought. However, I sent over a hundred jars of good wine to the military camp for the brothers there to welcome them. Also, I invited the head chefs from the best local restaurants to the military camp to cook for them on site.”
“I’m very reassured about how you handle things. While we weren’t here, you took good care of Yaoguang. Come, let’s, father-in-law and son-in-law, drink a few cups.”
“This son-in-law can’t drink too much, lest I accidentally bump into Yaoguang; I’ll just have a little.”
“I can’t drink too much now either; sometimes I still have to get up to soothe Yun Ji. We father-in-law and son-in-law really share the same fate!”
The father-in-law and son-in-law looked at each other and smiled, clinked glasses, and drank together.
