On Our Wedding Night, I Discovered the Crown Prince's Hidden Illness-Chapter 163 - : Thunderous Rage
Chapter 163: Chapter 163: Thunderous Rage
Fearing she would be unwilling to follow him, Ji Qingyu ordered his men to bring out Zhang Ruohai, whom they had encountered halfway earlier.
“Child!” Zhang Ruohai waved to Leng Yu Yan from Ji Qingyu’s boat.
Upon seeing him, Leng Yu Yan called out joyfully, “Uncle, how did you come?”
Zhang Ruohai responded with a smile, “I just ran into Prince Qing, and he said he was here to pick you up, so I followed along.”
“Wait for me a minute, I need to pack up my things,” Leng Yu Yan said, lifting her skirt and hurrying back to her room.
Remembering that she had promised to pay boat fare to someone, Leng Yu Yan had Miao Zhu take out two silver notes and add them to the case of pearls, along with the one previously placed in her wallet, packing them all into the case.
At the same time, she wrote a few lines on a piece of paper and left it on the table in the room.
Immediately afterward, she left the room with Mrs. Zhao and Miao Zhu.
At the door, Leng Yu Yan nodded slightly to Song Guo, and then continued on her way without stopping.
Rain began to fall again on the river’s surface.
The rain soaked the deck.
Between the two boats, a plank was laid down, allowing only one person to cross at a time, not two abreast.
Seeing this, Miao Zhu expressed her worries, “Prince Qing, my mistress has been terribly seasick these past few days. Do we have a wider plank? I’m afraid she might fall into the river.”
Hearing this, Ji Qingyu glanced at Leng Yu Yan’s pale face and without a word, bent down and scooped her into his arms.
The sudden action startled Leng Yu Yan.
“Qingyu, put me down.”
“Don’t move!” Ji Qingyu held on firmly, “Otherwise, the two of us will both fall into the water, and then you’ll have no choice but to marry me!”
Zhang Ruohai also chimed in to persuade, “In an emergency, do what must be done, child. Please don’t fidget. The plank is slippery; it didn’t rain earlier, and your uncle nearly slipped into the water when getting on the boat.”
With the rain splattering on the plank, making it slippery, what they said was true.
Leng Yu Yan had no choice but to remain still, stiffly allowing him to carry her from one boat to the other.
Her body was soft and light, and she carried a faint fragrance. Ji Qingyu wished the plank were even longer.
In just a moment, he had carried her from that boat onto his own.
At that moment, Ye Yiheng, as luck would have it, could vaguely make out figures through the window of his room, just in time to see Ji Qingyu carrying her across the plank.
Although he couldn’t see clearly, he recognized the figures of Ji Qingyu and Leng Yu Yan.
Ha, she had just disavowed her relationship with him and was already so eager to throw herself into another man’s arms.
Angered, he darkened and collapsed to the ground.
For the whole day and night, Ji Qingyu’s boat had been chasing Ye Yiheng’s, hence the boat sailed swiftly.
Leng Yu Yan’s seasickness worsened, and, noticing this, Ji Qingyu immediately ordered the boat to slow down and accompanied her, chatting about everything under the sun.
Zhang Ruohai, meeting his niece after a long absence and seeing her grow into such beauty, was quite relieved, so he became more talkative than usual.
The random chattering of the group managed to lessen Leng Yu Yan’s discomfort from seasickness to a minimum.
By the time Ye Yiheng woke up, Ji Qingyu’s boat had already sailed onto another course.
Ji Qingyu’s men were not incapable of defeating Mo Chen and his group; it was just that their Crown Prince had not given the order, and besides, the Crown Prince had told her to get lost.
As subordinates, how could they make decisions for their Master?
Now that she had been taken away by Prince Qing, everyone remained silent.
Even the usually talkative Young Master seemed as if someone had choked him, not daring to utter half a word.
Seeing that everyone was silent, Song Guo cautiously picked up the case of pearls Leng Yu Yan had left on the table.
“Your Highness, this was left in her room; it contains a full case of pearls,” Song Guo reported. “I just counted them—exactly one hundred pearls, not one more, not one less.”
“Together with the case, there are two silver notes of a hundred silver taels each.”
“Oh, right, there’s also a letter she wrote to Your Highness.”
Song Guo, feeling anxious, unfolded the letter, “Your Highness, would you like me to read it aloud for you?”
Ye Yiheng pinched the bridge of his nose. At this moment, he could only see the outlines of people, and things like handwriting were still unclear to him, so he nodded.
Taking a deep breath, Song Guo read aloud, “Wishing Your Highness peace, the pearls I return to you, and the silver note for the ship fare. The two boxes of ointment previously gifted by Your Highness remain at the Eastern Palace; I did not carry them with me. With this, Your Highness and I are settled, with no further ties. When I return to the capital, I will move out all possessions from Tingfeng Garden. Wishing you well!”
“The signature is Leng Yu Yan,” Song Guo said as she put away the letter, looking uncertainly at the Crown Prince’s expression.
Ye Yiheng remained very calm, his face unruffled.
He sat quietly.
Everybody knew this was a sign of the storm to come from their Highness.
True enough, Yiheng’s slender fingers grasped the wooden box and flung it to the ground along with the pearls.
The box split from its lid.
Crackling and rolling, the pearls inside scattered in all directions.
Everyone hurriedly bent down to collect the pearls.
There were exactly one hundred pearls, and initially, they were quickly retrieved.
But many had rolled into the gaps in the floorboards, some even into the bottom cabin of the room.
By the time they had found all one hundred pearls, it was already evening.
The pearls were gathered up, and the wooden box was nailed back together.
The group discussed what to do next.
Mo Chen and the others looked collectively at Jian Lecheng, who sighed and tapped his own forehead with a folding fan, “We won’t return to the capital. Let’s go directly to Jiangzhou!”
Two days later, two ships arrived at Jiangzhou one after another.
Jiangzhou City was situated on higher ground and was surrounded by floods, but the city area was still intact.
The Crown Prince and his party arrived first, then went to the hostel within Jiangzhou.
Three hours later, Ji Qingyu and his group also reached the Jiangzhou dock.
Ji Qingyu returned to the hostel for official business, while Leng Yu Yan followed Zhang Ruohai back to the Zhang Family.
Upon reaching Elder Mrs. Zhang’s courtyard, Zhang Ruohai called out, “Mother, Yu Yan is here.”
Hearing this, Elder Mrs. Zhang rose from her couch and came out to greet her.
“Nannan, my dear granddaughter!”
With teary eyes, Elder Mrs. Zhang looked towards the young girl standing tall before her. It had been five years since their last meeting.
In her memory, she was still a little girl, but now seeing her again, she had blossomed into breathtaking beauty, showing no signs of the blotchy skin and excessive weight mentioned in previous letters.
“Grandmother!” Leng Yu Yan hurried forward.
The elderly lady had a head full of silver hair and a kind face; seeing her for the first time in so long felt exceptionally warm.
In an instant, driven by instinct, tears welled up in Leng Yu Yan’s eyes.
Elder Mrs. Zhang pulled her close for a careful look.
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“It’s good to be home. I am aware of the happenings in the capital. If that’s the case, let’s find a household here in Jiangzhou. It would be good for your aunt and me to see you from time to time.”
Leng Yu Yan was about to speak when they heard a maid’s shout from outside the courtyard.
“Old Madam, it’s terrible, the news is spreading outside. They say our family’s Lady chased after the Crown Prince to Jiangnan unwilling to accept being rejected by the Tian Family, trying to salvage the engagement.”
Gasping for breath, the Maid rushed in and, seeing Leng Yu Yan, her eyes immediately filled with amazement…
A Heavenly Immortal in human form!
She was so stunned that she stared, forgetting even to continue her speech, and neglected to observe the proper courtesies.
Elder Mrs. Zhang frowned, “How is this being spread?”
