bayedsolid Chapter 833 The dust has settled!
Chapter 833 The dust has settled!
Even so, General Chu did not go too far. Knowing that Chu Yan had greatly humiliated Madam Chu this time, he secretly gave them more than ten acres of land. As long as they lived peacefully, they would be able to find a good marriage in the countryside in the future.
However, when Chu Yan fully regained consciousness and saw where she lived, she knew that they had been kicked out by the Chu family.
He snorted coldly, "Hmph! Everyone says General Chu is loyal and righteous, but is this the kind of loyalty he is? His own niece was schemed against, and he didn't even dare to utter a sound. What is he trying to do?"
When Chu Yan's mother saw that her daughter was awake, she wiped away her tears, hugged her, and cried, "My poor child, you're finally awake! Please don't do anything foolish again. This time, if it weren't for General Chu's help, you wouldn't even be able to get out of prison!"
Can't get out?
How could that be? Even if she had an affair, it would only be a matter of her own reputation, how could she go to jail?
Chu Yan fainted halfway through the trial. When she woke up, she was already in jail, so she didn't know how much the Prefect of the Capital was taking this incident seriously.
“Mother, General Chu was just trying to scare you. If he hadn’t said that, wouldn’t you have thought he hadn’t done anything? Humph! I was tricked. I’m the victim.”
Chu Yan had just woken up.
Her two days in prison were extremely miserable, so when she finally left the cell, she lay down in the carriage and fell asleep immediately.
"My daughter, it's not that he's lying to me, but what have you been doing all this time?"
Even knowing that her daughter had done something wrong, as a mother, she still couldn't bear to be too harsh on her.
"Mother, what do you mean?"
“I ask you, why did you try to harm that Young Master Mu? Do you know that he is the Crown Princess’s brother? Now the matter has even involved the Eastern Palace. Not only are you not General Chu’s biological daughter, but you also cannot stay in the capital.”
Things seemed to be worse than she had imagined.
These past few days, Chu Yan has been thinking about what she might have overlooked.
It obviously shouldn't be like this.
Back at the Fugui Restaurant, the person I was with was clearly Mu Qingxuan, so how did he end up being Xie Si?
Who is Xie Si? How could she not know?
Given her lowly status, it was already quite an achievement for her to have managed to climb up to someone like Xie Si.
Therefore, before her affair with Mu Qingxuan was settled, she didn't dare break up with Xie Si at all. Furthermore, she vaguely sensed that there seemed to be someone behind Xie Si, but she didn't know who that person was.
She admitted that it was the fourth young master of the Xie family who asked her to seduce Mu Qingxuan and attract his attention.
But she couldn't understand it. Given her status, there was absolutely no way she could become the eldest young mistress of the Mu family. Yet, after a few interactions, Mu Qingxuan had indeed fallen in love with her.
Therefore, Chu Yan gradually developed the confidence that she could become Young Master Mu's wife.
As time went on, Mu Qingxuan indeed treated her better and better. In fact, he even took the initiative to confess their relationship in order to help her with her engagement.
Chu Yan isn't stupid; on the contrary, she's too smart.
The marriage she was engaged to was not bad to begin with.
But in her opinion, that was simply no match for Mu Qingxuan.
One was a newly appointed Jinshi (a successful candidate in the highest imperial examinations), and the other came from a prominent family in the capital.
It is obvious which one is better.
If she marries that fiancé, she'll probably be sent away to another place right after the wedding. Don't expect to return for at least ten or twenty years.
Moreover, she might not even earn a title before she dies, and at best, she would only be a minor noblewoman.
But if she could marry Mu Qingxuan, things would be different.
Even if she were a concubine, she would still live a life of luxury, like a god.
Most importantly, Mu Qingxuan cares about her and would never let her suffer any injustice.
I never expected things to turn out this way.
If she had known this would happen, she probably would have obeyed Madam Chu's wishes and obediently married someone, and then she would have lived a peaceful life.
Unfortunately, there's no medicine for regret in this world.
Chu Yan herself knew this, so now she was even more eager to come up with a way to get away from this dirty countryside.
She hadn't lived in the Chu residence for long, yet she actually thought she was a young lady from a wealthy family?
Someone like her can't even get into the Xie family now.
As long as the Xie family spreads a message that Chu Yan was shameless and actively seduced someone just to ensure a comfortable life for herself, men and women will naturally believe them. To Chu Yan, this would be nothing short of kicking her while she's down.
No matter how noisy it was outside, not a single word that shouldn't have been heard could be heard inside the Eastern Palace.
"Anuan, how are you today? I heard you haven't been eating much lately, what should we do?" When Li came to the palace to see her, she noticed that her daughter's belly was quite round, but her little face was noticeably more pointed.
"Mother, I'm fine. It must be Aze talking nonsense in your ear again. Don't pay attention to him. He always makes a mountain out of a molehill."
"You silly girl, you're a mother now, and you're still so careless. Let me tell you, the child needs to be well, and the adults need to be even better off."
"Yes, mother."
As Li accompanied her for a walk in the garden, she noticed that Mu Xin Nuan was surrounded by more than a dozen palace servants. The two in front of her were walking while keeping their eyes on the ground, clearly afraid that some stones or other objects might startle her.
This also showed Duanmu Chuze's thoughtfulness. Li was pleased and briefly recounted the matter of Mu Qingxuan.
"Yes, Ah Xuan has grown up. This matter doesn't seem like Ah Ze's doing. It seems more like Ah Xuan handled it himself. Mother can rest assured. After this incident, it won't be so easy for those pretty or beautiful women to stir up trouble again."
Li nodded in agreement.
"So, what do you think about Ah Xuan's marriage?"
Did he say anything himself?
"When she came to pay her respects to me yesterday, she only said that I would make all the decisions regarding the marriage."
"That's good. I've been secretly observing Qing'er these past few days, and it's not bad. Although she's a princess, she doesn't seem spoiled at all. Most importantly, she has our Ah Xuan in her heart, and in the future, she will naturally side with Ah Xuan, which is a good thing for our Mu family."