Chapter 191 - Chapter 191: Chapter 191. Uninvited Guests 2
Chapter 191: Chapter 191. Uninvited Guests 2
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Yang Rubing handed Little Chen to her husband and walked into the house with the hem of her dress. She walked very quickly, just like her fiery personality. When Su Hanxuan chased after her, she was already at the door.
Su Hanxuan’s heart was in his throat, and his voice had lost its usual elegance.
“Second Sister, don’t go in.”
“I won’t make any noise. Don’t worry; I won’t wake Ruxue up.”
Yang Rubing turned around and said to Su Hanxuan, then reached out to push the door open. If she stepped over the threshold, she would enter the house.
Su Hanxuan’s eyes flashed with anxiety as he chased after her in giant strides, wanting to stop her before she entered the house.
“Second Sister is here.”
The door opened just as Su Hanxuan reached out to stop Yang Rubing. Yang Ruxue, wearing a plain lute top and a long brocade dress, stood at the door, blocking the door with her thin body.
Yang Rubing saw her sister and asked in surprise,
“Ruxue, you…Are you alright?”
“Thank you for your concern, Second Sister. I’m much better.”
Yang Ruxue smiled gently and closed the door as she spoke.
“Second Sister, I want to walk by the lotus pond. Will you accompany me?”
“Can you do it?”
Yang Rubing looked at her sister’s frail body and was worried that she couldn’t stand the wind by the pond.
Yang Rubing was a fiery person. She liked to wear warm colors, especially red. Today, she was wearing a red high-collared dress. Her tall and voluptuous figure stood next to Yang Ruxue, who was thin and dressed in plain clothes. One was bright and dazzling, while the other was gentle and moving. Time had never mistreated beauties, leaving no traces on their white jade-like cheeks.
“I can. I want to walk after lying down for a long time.”
Yang Ruxue said with a smile. Su Qing, who was in the room, was annoyed by the conversation between the sisters outside.
The days of hiding from people made her highly annoyed. If she returned to the Su family and lived like a rat in the future, she might as well run away.
Moreover, what she had done and wanted to do would bring disaster to the Su family. Their lives were originally very peaceful. They should not be trembling with fear because of her arrival. They lived like they were walking on thin ice every day.
The cute Little Chen should live a peaceful and prosperous life. Unless she could make them live a better life and have enough ability to protect them, she should leave immediately.
Yang Ruxue didn’t know that Su Qing had already intended to leave. She successfully took Yang Rubing away. Su Hanxuan was afraid that Little Chen would say something wrong, so he called the nanny and asked her to take Little Chen away.
“Chen’er is not leaving. Chen’er wants to play with sister.”
Little Chen pouted unhappily and frowned. His big eyes looked at his father with a grievance.
Su Hanxuan’s face darkened.”
“Go back and memorize the Three Character Classic. Daddy will test you tonight.”
“Uncle, let Chen play for a while!”
Luan Hong pleaded for Little Chen. She especially liked this cousin and thought that he was the most good-looking child in Luo City.
“Yeah, let Little Chen play for a while.”
Luan Qingshan was also reluctant to let Little Chen go, so he pleaded for him with his daughter.
“No, he has to study hard since he is young. If one doesn’t suffer, how can one bring honor to his ancestors?”
Su Hanxuan still stubbornly ordered people to take Little Chen away. When Little Chen left, his big eyes were filled with tears. He did not understand why his father did not let him play with his sister.
Seeing that nanny had taken Little Chen away, Su Hanxuan heaved a sigh of relief and invited Luan Qingshan to the front yard according to the original plan.
Yang Ruxue and Yang Rubing stood on the arch bridge feeding the koi in the pond. Seeing them swimming over, Yang Rubing threw out the fish food in her hand and looked at her absent-minded sister beside her.
” Ruxue, I was wrong this morning. The imperial court doesn’t want that portrait. I heard that that woman saved a high-ranking official of the imperial court. There’s a reward for finding her. We have to thank her heavily after we find her.”
“What? If that’s the case, then I can rest assured.”
Yang Ruxue looked up at her sister and replied casually.
Luan Hong was bored by herself and followed the small bridge to watch the koi fish fight for food. She was not as lively as before and stared blankly at the water’s surface.
Su Qing saw the situation in the courtyard through the crack in the door and decided to leave the Su residence while no one was around.
If she didn’t leave now, she wouldn’t be able to.
She and Ji Shuisheng wanted to execute their entire family, so they did not want to implicate them.
Before she left, Su Qing left a letter for her parents, saying that she would find a thousand-year-old Lingzhi for Yang Ruxue and return when she saw it to give them hope.
Worried that Yang Ruxue would fall ill again while she was away, Su Qing even asked Xiao Qi to prepare a calming powder for her mother.
“Ruxue, do you feel uncomfortable anywhere? Wiry don’t I send you back to your room?”
Yang Rubing had been nervously observing her sister. Seeing her tighten her clothes as if freezing, she couldn’t help but ask her with concern.
“Not cold, not cold at all.”
Hearing that her sister was going to send her back to her room, Yang Ruxue hurriedly let go of the hand that was grabbing her clothes and softly smiled at her sister.
Yang Rubing hadn’t seen her sister smile for more than ten years, so she couldn’t help but cry when she saw Yang Ruxue’s rare smile.
Yang Ruxue quickly took her handkerchief from her lapel to wipe her sister’s tears and asked with concern. “Sister, why are you crying?”
“It’s okay. Sister is happy.”
Yang Rubing took the handkerchief and wiped her tears. She rubbed her eyes hard, but no one was on the roof when she looked again. She looked back and saw a blue shadow jumping onto the roof.
Yang Rubing didn’t dare to say anything to her sister. She covered her face with her handkerchief and whispered to her daughter,
“Hong Hong, did you see anyone jump onto the roof?”
“No!”
Luan Hong wondered why Prime Minister Wan wanted to capture her and those girls. She was absent-minded even when looking at the fish on the bridge. How could she be in the mood to look around?
When she heard her mother’s question, she subconsciously turned to look at the roof of her aunt’s bedroom. Yang Ruxue saw the mother and daughter whispering behind her back and looking toward her bedroom. She was so scared that she quickly blocked their line of sight.
“Second Sister, it’s been long since I saw you and Brother-in-law. Let’s go to the front yard and catch up.”
“Alright, I’ll go to the toilet first.”
Yang Rubing felt uneasy if she didn’t go and take a look, so she lied to Yang Ruxue and asked Luan Hong to help her. Yang Rubing feared her sister would fall ill if someone sneaked into her sister’s room.
Luan Hong agreed and went over to help her aunt walk to the front yard.
Yang Ruxue was worried that her daughter was still in the room, but she didn’t dare say that she was going back to the room, fearing that her second sister would follow her and discover her daughter.
She wanted to tell her second sister about finding her daughter, but her husband’s attitude and her second sister’s lie made Yang Ruxue realize that her daughter had caused a lot of trouble outside, and her family couldn’t protect her.
Therefore, she could only hide this secret in her heart and let down her second sister, who loved her dearly.
Yang Rubing waited for Yang Ruxue to be helped away by Luan Hong before she withdrew her smile and walked toward her sister’s room. She didn’t enter the room immediately when she reached the door. She reached out, pushed open the two doors, and stood at the entrance to look inside.
Yang Rubing’s maid, Xiao Ping, saw that she was so cautious about entering Yang Ruxue’s bedroom, so she whispered,
“Madam, what’s wrong?”
“I think I saw a man in a blue robe on the roof just now. I suspect that he’s in
this room. Don’t alarm my sister. Go and find someone to search properly..”