The Mute Wife Who Brings Prosperity-Chapter 802 - 762: Sixth Son, My Hand Hurts So Much
A few people chatted for a while, and Xu Jia looked at the sky, "Okay, I won’t delay anymore, otherwise I won’t make it to the Northern Border before dark if I miss noon. Master Yun, farewell."
Following the customs of Jianghu, Xu Jia gave a farewell salute.
"Hey..." Yun Shisan wanted to call her back, but Xu Jia had already gone downstairs.
Yun Shisan looked at Yun Huai, "Master, you’re just letting her go like that?"
"Let her go, it’s her freedom." Yun Huai took the letter Zhao Xi wrote, burned it beside the candle stand, and then calmly spread paper to prepare ink, writing a few words back to Zhao Xi.
Yun Shisan whispered, "The epidemic area is so dangerous, what if she catches the disease when she goes?"
Yun Huai seemed completely absorbed in writing the reply to Zhao Xi, remaining silent without further commenting.
...
Xu Jia checked out at the lobby downstairs, then went to the backyard stable to lead her horse, preparing to head to the Northern Border. She unexpectedly encountered someone outside—a person she’d never have imagined, Tang Yuan.
The other seemed to have been waiting outside for a long time and lit up with joy upon seeing her, rushing over.
Xu Jia halted, holding the horse, looking at the person growing closer, eyebrows slightly furrowed, "Why are you here?"
"I came specifically to find you," Tang Yuan’s eyes softened.
Without waiting for Xu Jia to speak, he continued, "Suzhou is not far from here; I heard you came to Liangzhou City and worried you might catch the plague, so..."
Xu Jia couldn’t understand how she kept crossing paths with him despite breaking things off, and adjusted her emotions, "If there’s something, say it. If not, I’m leaving."
"Jiajia." Tang Yuan suddenly grabbed her wrist.
Xu Jia’s face sank, forcefully shaking him off, "What are you doing?"
"I know you’re worried about your father, but you can’t go to the Northern Border." Tang Yuan said, "The place is rife with plague, even the citizens of Liangzhou City are too frightened to go out. If you, a woman, get infected, what will happen?"
"That’s my business, not yours," Xu Jia looked at her slightly reddened wrist, deeply displeased.
"I’m worried about you." Tang Yuan said, "Can you consider my feelings?"
Xu Jia felt he was completely ridiculous, "Second Young Master Tang, please wake up, okay? We are divorced; we agreed long ago to go our separate ways—you can pursue anyone, marry as many wives, take as many concubines as you wish, that’s your own business, not mine. Whether I remarry or die alone, or cut my hair to join a nunnery, is up to me. My life and death are my decisions, why consider your feelings?"
"Jiajia." Tang Yuan looked at her earnestly, "I know I was wrong before. I’ve changed since coming to Suzhou; I didn’t marry again. Half a month ago, I solved a major case, the performance appraisal this year has prospects for promotion, as soon as I return to the Capital, I’ll invite matchmakers to propose marriage again, and have you brought in with grandeur, I won’t miss out on you this time."
These words had been spoken countless times when Tang Yuan came to the entrance of the Western Marquis Mansion to apologize. Xu Jia’s ears were nearly calloused, "Promotion, huh? Congratulations, congratulations. I have other things to do, so I’ll say goodbye now."
She was in a hurry to go to the Northern Border, lacking energy to waste on him.
Besides, in Xu Jia’s heart, the affair between Tang Yuan and Jiang Qingyu was past; she couldn’t live in hatred forever, nor did she want to remember them for life.
"Jiajia, you can’t go to the Northern Border." Tang Yuan persisted; seeing she was dead set on leaving, he anxiously grabbed her wrist again.
Xu Jia was genuinely furious now; she intended to punch him away, when a gentle and refined voice called out from behind, "What is this?"
Hearing that, Xu Jia hesitated her force on the wrist, her back stiffened, she didn’t turn, merely glared at Tang Yuan, lowly demanding, "Let go!"
"I won’t let go." Tang Yuan gripped tighter, "Unless you go with me, not to the Northern Border."
"Are you insane?"
Yun Huai stood not far behind, Xu Jia dared not speak too loudly.
Tang Yuan, though, was oblivious, eyes bloodshot, loudly speaking, "Even if insane, it’s you who drove me there! Told you to wait in the Capital, why did you come to Liangzhou City?"
At this, Yun Huai strolled over to Xu Jia’s side, "Are you alright?"
Xu Jia found herself tangled with a madman, hard to shake off; now on the street in front of Yun Huai, she couldn’t use violence, and violence might not stop Tang Yuan. She apologizes in her heart to Yun Huai and then hesitates, suddenly sobbing, "Sixth Son, look at him... my hand hurts!"
As soon as she said this, Xu Jia clearly saw Yun Huai’s eye twitch slightly.
Tang Yuan didn’t recognize Yun Huai, but as soon as this person appeared, a sense of oppression washed over him—a high-ranking aura naturally and steadily emitted, urging submission.
Moreover, the person’s unparalleled, jade-like appearance invoked fear and a bit of inferiority in him.
Tang Yuan had people in the Capital keeping close watch on Xu Jia, yet no report mentioned when she met this man.
Now sensing some suspicion between them, he was furious.
"Grabbing a lady in broad daylight is not gentlemanly, Second Young Master Tang, can you let go?" Yun Huai asked, his voice gentle yet firm, sounding like a request but actually a command.
Yun Huai’s opening fueled Tang Yuan’s jealousy further, his gaze piercing Xu Jia, "Who is he to you?"
"He’s my..." Xu Jia dared not look at Yun Huai, boldly declared, "fiancé, what, any objections?"
Saying that, she unexpectedly broke away from Tang Yuan’s grip, massaged her aching wrist, internally cursed Tang Family’s ancestors.
Tang Yuan looked hurt, "Jiajia, why treat me this way? Why betray me? I’ve been in Suzhou thinking of earning promotion to return to marry you, but you? So short after divorce, getting involved with Ye Family, now attracting a pretty boy, thinking one woman can wed several?"
Tang Yuan’s words with "pretty boy" and "one woman wed several" totally enraged Xu Jia, her gaze icy, "Tang Yuan!"
Her shout unfinished, Yun Huai interjected, "As long as Suzhou Yun Family’s genealogy remains, even the Holy Emperor must acknowledge your ex-wife, now as Yun Family."
Tang Yuan was stunned, "You’re from Suzhou Yun Family?"
He recalled she called him Sixth Son; he was, he was...
Tang Yuan suddenly felt his calves tremble, speech stammered, sweat heavy on his brow.
Yun Huai stood upright, a foot away, his demeanor gentlemanly, though his words chilling to the bone, "Second Young Master Tang’s effort on promotion included murder, case-solving, diligent work—if the Crown Prince learns, what reward awaits?"
"No, it’s not like that!" Secret exposed by a stranger, Tang Yuan frightened, forgot Xu Jia, bloodless, wet temples sinking knees, "Before I was ignorant and rash, offending Master Yun, deserving punishment, just plea, plea on my reform, spare me, hide this matter, not inform the Crown Prince. I—I am beyond grateful."
Moved to kneel before Yun Huai.
Yun Huai coldly stated, "To abandon duty over romance, fleeing to Liangzhou, treat human life cheaply—how do you ensure citizens’ safety?"
"I’ll just go, immediately." Tang Yuan stood, forgot Xu Jia, swiftly leaving in the direction he came.
Xu Jia watched his cowardly escape, silently rolling her eyes, relieved, before recalling her earlier words left her speechless, choked.
Until Yun Huai called, "Not going upstairs, want to be grabbed again?"
Xu Jia intended to explain herself, then discuss going to the Northern Border, only to see, at the inn’s backyard entrance, Yun Shisan clinging to Yun Shiliu’s hand, sobbing, "Sixth Son, look, my hand hurts!"
Yun Shiliu, "Come, Sixth Son will blow."
Xu Jia: "...!!!"
