Ruan Mansion Ruan Yueli strolled into Mrs. Ruan's room with her girl. Mrs. Ruan was lying on the bed with a pale face and fell asleep.
This time Mrs. Ruan was really ill. No one in the huge Ruan family knew why everything turned upside down overnight. The day before, the Ruan family was still the dignified residence of the Prime Minister, but overnight Prime Minister Ruan was thrown into a prison.
The entire Ruan family was surrounded by government officials and soldiers from the Zhenguo Army.
In the chaos of the whole family, Ruan Yueli remembered in a daze that just two days before the incident, his father suddenly asked his brother to leave the capital.
Could it be that at that time, my father already knew what was going to happen at home?
But he never told anyone. Did his brother really just go back to his hometown to repair the ancestral hall? When did his father care so much about the Ruan family's ancestral hall?
"Mom, are you feeling better?" Ruan Yueli sat on the edge of the bed and looked at Mrs. Ruan and asked softly.
Mrs. Ruan slowly opened her eyes, reached out and grabbed her hand, and asked anxiously: "Is your father back?"
Ruan Yueli was silent. His father was imprisoned in a prison for following Prince Ning in his rebellion. How could he be released so easily?
Ruan Yueli's silence seemed to irritate Mrs. Ruan. She let go of her daughter and buried her face in the quilt, crying loudly, "How could this happen?! The master must have been wronged! No...it's all that, that...it's all
That disaster star! Our family has always been fine, but something like this happened just after he came back! Where is that disaster star?! Drive him out!"
"Mother." Ruan Yueli looked at her hysterical mother calmly and said, "None of us can get out now. I'm afraid we have to wait for the outcome of my father's case before..."
"Shut up!" Mrs. Cairuan raised her head and said angrily: "Your father was wrongly accused!"
Looking at her calm expression, Mrs. Ruan's expression became more and more angry and hateful. Maybe she didn't hate her daughter, but she just didn't know how to vent the panic and fear in her heart, "Your father was sent to the sky prison! Your eldest brother is also in jail.
I don’t know what’s going on, are you not worried at all? Do you still have your heart?”
Ruan Yueli said: "How should I behave so that my mother will feel that I have intentions?"
Mrs. Ruan was choked by her and couldn't speak for a long time. She turned around and fell down on the quilt again and continued to cry bitterly.
Ruan Yueli sat on the sidelines for a while, stood up and walked out.
The girl waiting outside the door was relieved when she came out and whispered: "Girl, madam..."
Ruan Yueli shook his head and said, "Don't worry about her. Just deliver the medicine and food on time."
The girl was a little anxious and lowered her voice: "Miss, there has been some chaos in the house these days. Many people are privately complaining that the master has harmed everyone. They also said that... the master has committed a capital crime and will be beheaded, and I am afraid that the whole family will also be killed.
Being implicated.”
When something like this happens, people are already panicking, but now Madam can't take care of things.
There was no one to manage the servants in the house, and I was worried that I might be implicated by the master's family, so I naturally felt resentful. It had only been a few days, and it was okay for the people below not to work to the best of their ability. After all, I can't be demanding anything like this now, but many
He is quite disrespectful even to the madam and the girl in his words. If it goes on for a long time, there is no guarantee that something serious will not happen.
Ruan Yueli's beautiful face was slightly cold, and she said in a deep voice: "Let them make trouble, just let people take care of mother and our yard. No matter what happens to our father, the court will not keep us under house arrest here, and it will be soon."
Someone will be sent."
"Is the girl sending a letter to the Ninth Prince of the Qi tribe?" the girl suggested. After all, there is an engagement, so even if the Ninth Prince can't help the Ruan family, can he at least help a bunch of girls?
Ruan Yueli sneered and said: "Do you think that ninth prince really wants to marry me?" Not only did she not want to marry, but the ninth prince probably didn't want to marry either. Now that the Ruan family has been convicted, he can just use it.
I want to get out of this marriage.
The little girl didn't dare to speak. A girl from outside the door hurriedly came in and reported, "Girl, there are officials outside..."
If it were normal, let alone official duties, even the servants of the Prime Minister's Mansion would treat high-ranking officials indifferently. But it is different now. Even if those people are not of very high rank, the little girl in the Mansion has already treated them as if they were of high rank.
The bird was frightened.
Ruan Yueli paused for a moment, then said in a deep voice: "I know, I'll go see you."
They are not the only ones in the Ruan family. Although Ruan Ting was abandoned by his parents in his early years, after he became rich, he still did not completely abandon his parents and relatives who had abandoned him or even sold him. Perhaps he did not want others to know his past experience and whitewashed it.
Family harmony may also be due to the so-called filial piety.
This world is sometimes so absurd, even people who have risen to prominence in one day are not immune. In the eyes of the world, it is understandable that the Ruan family's parents sold their son, but if Ruan Ting refuses to recognize his parents and brothers, he will be regarded by the literati
If you are despised, you will never be able to integrate into the mainstream civil servants, let alone reach the current position of prime minister.
As the saying goes, if a person achieves enlightenment, a chicken or a dog will ascend to heaven. Similarly, if something happens, he will be implicated.
The Ruan family enjoyed prosperity and wealth by taking advantage of Ruan Ting, but now they have to suffer the consequences of being implicated by Ruan Ting.
Ruan Yueli hurried to the hall, only to hear voices coming from inside that were anxious to distance themselves from each other.
That was her second uncle, her father's younger brother.
Ruan Yueli stepped into the hall, and the originally noisy hall became quiet for a moment. Soon it became lively again, "Several officials, this is the eldest daughter of our family, the eldest daughter of Ruan Ting. Now the house is full of people
She is making the decision, we don’t know anything.”
Ruan Yueli ignored these voices and walked up to the strangers and smiled slightly, "My daughter is Ruan Ting's daughter. Please forgive me for my mother being seriously ill and unable to get up. I wonder what your orders are?"
"Miss Ruan, there is no need to be polite." The person who answered was a middle-aged man in his early thirties, wearing the uniform of a fourth-grade civil servant. Standing next to him was a young man wearing the uniform of a military commander.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The middle-aged man said: "I have been ordered to come to search the Ruan Mansion. Please cooperate with me."
Ruan Yueli nodded and said: "This is natural, but my mother is now...please don't scare her."
The middle-aged man smiled and said: "Don't worry about this Miss Ruan, the regent and your lords have to decide what the matter will be. We will not quarrel with the family members."
Hearing this, Ruan Yueli secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The attitude of these people at least showed that the regent did not take the opportunity to drive out the Ruan family. Otherwise, they would have been imprisoned in the sky prison, where would they be safe?
Safely under house arrest.
"Thank you, sir." Ruan Yueli said.
The middle-aged man said: "One more thing, why didn't you see the newly returned eldest son of the Ruan family?"
Ruan Yueli was startled for a moment and said: "He... seems to be in his own yard. He rarely goes out."
When the young general standing nearby heard this, he nodded towards the middle-aged man and said, "General, go over and take a look."
The middle-aged man naturally had no objection and nodded in agreement.
After the general went out, the middle-aged man said to Ruan Yueli: "My father, Miss Ruan, will take us to Prime Minister Ruan's study."
Ruan Yueli also knew that it was pointless to try to push back now. She had checked her father's study on the first day of house arrest, but unfortunately she didn't find anything.
She didn't know why these people thought of searching the Ruan Mansion after many days, but since they were here, she naturally had no choice but to lead the way.
"please."
Soon, the middle-aged man and his servants searched the entire Ruan Mansion and moved out many files and books from Ruan Ting's study. They also took away several people in the manor, including Ruan Yue, who had been away from home after something happened.
I never saw that "big brother" again.
When he was taken away, he looked very calm, neither panic nor angry.
Before leaving, she just looked at Ruan Yueli deeply. Ruan Yueli looked at the group's leaving figures calmly. She didn't know if he wanted to tell her something, and she didn't have the time to think about it now.
What she has to consider now is, how long can they survive?
The place in the sky jail where Ruan Ting and the three men were imprisoned was as quiet as ever. The advantage of this environment was that their stay was not so uncomfortable, but the disadvantage was that except for the three of them and the guard officials who came occasionally, they could not get any information.
Prince Ning had been shouting angrily for the first two days, but now he was gradually losing his energy.
If Xie Yan had interrogated them like a storm from the beginning, Prince Ning might not have been so worried. But now that he has been detained here for several days, only a few people have come during this period, and they all behaved calmly and unhurriedly.
His appearance actually made Prince Ning feel a little anxious.
What's going on in Prince Ning's Mansion? What's the situation outside? What's the trend in the court? Can those cronies who haven't been exposed yet be trusted? Will they try to save him?
The more he thought about it, the more anxious Prince Ning became.
"Bump, bump, bump!" Prince Ning banged the iron railing several times, and Xue Ya and Ruan Ting on the other side couldn't help but open their eyes and look at him.
After a while, the guard of the cell did not come. Prince Ning couldn't help but smashed it several times. After a while, the door of the cell was finally opened from the outside.
The person who came in was not the prison guard, Luo Jinyan, who was well-dressed and looked calm.
Prince Ning stared at the door and momentarily forgot what he had said.
Naturally, the person who made Prince Ning forget to speak was not Luo Jinyan, but the person who was escorted in behind Luo Jinyan.
"You...you, who are you?!" Prince Ning said in shock.
Ruan Ting couldn't help but turn his head and look over, and his pupils couldn't help but shrink when he saw the person's appearance clearly.
That man was dressed in white as snow, with extremely handsome features.
But his temperament is very peaceful, without the sharpness or danger that makes people wary at a glance.
Some things cannot be hidden. It may be possible to deceive ordinary people who don't know anything, but it has no effect on people like Ruan Ting who came from a humble family to become the prime minister. So Ruan Ting felt the snow almost at the first sight.
The danger of Mr. Ya. Also at the first glance, he could tell the difference between this man and Xue Ya.
