Chu Yunli opened the curtain and looked at the people coming and going outside, "Is there something wrong, Mr. Sun?"
"Ruyi, I have something to say to you." Sun Yan looked serious.
This place is very close to Sun Yan's shop, and opposite is a restaurant. She pointed, "Go to that upstairs.
When Sun Yan arrived, the waiter had already brought tea and snacks, and Chu Yunli also ordered porridge and side dishes and was eating them slowly.
His eyes fell on the bowl of white porridge, and he hesitated and said, "So it's not like you don't drink white porridge, right?"
"Hey, did she tell you this?" Chu Yunli was curious, "You two didn't fight when you went back?"
Sun Yan was silent for a moment, "Can I ask why you were so wary as soon as you got married?"
If she didn't know anything, the bride would not think about the ingredients in the first meal she got married, especially since she was marrying young, so the Sun family would not dare to neglect it. Chu Yunli raised her eyebrows, did not answer, and asked, "
What do you want to say?"
After a long while, Sun Yan said seriously, "The relationship between my sister-in-law and me is not what you think."
"I wasn't the only one who saw you two disheveled that day. That can explain it, so what are you like?" Chu Yunli spread her hands, "You can tell me."
"My eldest brother and I and she have been childhood sweethearts since childhood. I have always regarded her as my younger sister. Later, my eldest brother proposed to my parents that he wanted to marry her, and the marriage was quickly decided. It was also at this time that she told me that she had always liked her.
It's me, I don't want to marry my eldest brother, so let me take her away." Sun Yan lowered his eyes and continued, "My eldest brother and I have a deep relationship, and I know that my eldest brother really likes her. The most important thing is that I only regard her as my sister.
I refused at that time.”
"She couldn't resist and became my sister-in-law. Later, my parents died of serious illness, and my eldest brother also passed away. Then one day she invited me to drink. All my relatives were gone. I was depressed for a while, so I drank too much. Waiting for me
When I woke up again..." He paused, "I found us lying naked on the same bed. After that, she threatened me and refused to allow me to marry."
"Fortunately, I was still in Xiaozhong, so no one felt wrong if I didn't marry a wife. Then I brought her to Tongcheng, and then I met you..." He raised his eyes and looked at Chu Yunli, "I'm serious
I like you. The moment I saw you, I wanted to marry you."
Chu Yunli held her chin up and listened to the story, "Then can she be willing?"
"Originally I was unwilling, but I told her that the Wen family has deep roots in Tongcheng and it will be very useful for us to settle down. Besides, I will get a wife sooner or later." Sun Yan was silent for a moment, "She finally agreed. But I didn't expect her
I’ll give you medicine.”
Chu Yunli answered, "I didn't expect that the medicine would fall into your own mouth, right?"
Sun Yan acquiesced.
"I think you are very dishonest." Chu Yunli stared at him with burning eyes, "You didn't say where you moved from before, nor why you took her away from home to Tongcheng. Also,
Are those rouge recipes really from your Sun family?"
When he heard the last sentence, Sun Yan's pupils shrank.
Chu Yunli immediately had an idea in her mind. It seemed that the previous experiences of these two people had not been checked. She should find someone to check.
"I took her away from there because a woman accidentally found out what happened between us. So, even if that place is the ancestral land, we can't stay there." Sun Yan said in a serious tone, "This is not a glory.
I have told you everything frankly. I really treat you as a relative and can confide in you."
"So what do you want to do when you tell me this?" Chu Yunli said with a smile, "You don't think I will change my mind, do you?"
Sun Yan looked at her, his eyes full of tenderness, "I know you love me deeply, and you will only leave me if you are disappointed in me. My heart for you will never change. I only ask you to give me another chance."
.”
"It's impossible." Chu Yunli stood up, "If you had a woman outside, maybe I would forgive you, but you and your sister-in-law... I feel so disgusting just when I think about it."
She walked towards the door. Sun Yan behind her suddenly stood up and hugged her from behind, "Ruyi, I really like you. Are you disappointed in me because we didn't consummate the marriage after we got married? I can do that too now."
"..." He said and reached out to touch her collar to take off her clothes.
Chu Yunli was stunned for a moment. The dirty hand behind her had already touched the collar. She subconsciously stretched out her hand to catch it. The other hand had already gone to pull out the hairpin on her head. She pricked it back fiercely without hesitation, and then there was a sound.
Screaming, the hands around his waist loosened unconsciously.
She turned around and saw Sun Yan holding his stomach with a face full of pain and looking at her with a deep look in his eyes, "Ruyi, we are husband and wife. It's normal to be close. You don't need to be so cruel."
couple?
Chu Yunli sneered, "If you dare to touch me again, I will chop off your claws. If you don't believe me, try it."
After saying that, she walked over and pulled out the hairpin from his belly. The hairpin was not a sharp thing and penetrated two inches into the flesh. When she pulled it out, there was a trace of blood. She went upstairs with him just to trap him, so she felt that these two people
Something happened before, but I didn't expect that he would take advantage of me. Finally, I couldn't get angry and kicked him twice more in the calf.
Sun Yan frowned and became angry, "What are you doing? If you do this again, I will fight back!"
Chu Yunli raised her eyebrows, "Do you want to give it a try?" She practiced that basic internal skill every time. It wasn't very advanced, but it was enough to beat him.
Sun Yan looked away, "I won't argue with you."
See what you can do.
Chu Yunli stood up and went out. Behind him, Sun Yan spoke again, "Do you really think that man will come back and wait for him to marry you? How can you reach the dignified Dingguo Palace? I'm afraid that he will go back.
It won’t be long before I get married and take concubines, and I won’t remember you anymore.”
Hearing this, Chu Yunli paused slightly when opening the door. Without asking any more questions about how he knew Feng Shao's identity, he opened the door and went downstairs. After getting Caiyun into the carriage, he saw Sun Yan coming downstairs holding her stomach. She
His eyes fell on the attendant supporting him, and after a while he lowered the curtain.
After returning, she went to find Mrs. Wen, "I suspect that Sun Yan came from the capital. Let me ask someone to ask his entourage."
All the servants of the Sun family were bought after they arrived, except for the forty-year-old entourage that Sun Yan occasionally brought with him.
Mrs. Wen was surprised, "Just leave the Sun family. It's not disgusting enough to find out what they do and entangle with them."
"It still needs to be investigated." Chu Yunli said seriously, "If you dare to lie to me, I will find out the eighth generation of his ancestors, so I won't believe that he has not done anything bad. When the time comes..." After a pause, she continued, "
I suspect that he and his sister-in-law are not in such a relationship at all, but they are just making up nonsense to deceive the people of Tongcheng. In order to find a good marriage for themselves, after all, he is indeed good-looking."
Mrs. Wen's face also became cautious and she said in a loud voice, "Here comes someone."
After giving orders, Mrs. Wen looked at her sideways and said, "Send the person away?"
Chu Yunli hummed.
Mrs. Wen asked tentatively, "Will he come again?"
"Probably." Chu Yunli answered casually and asked, "Is there no news from my sister-in-law?"
"Yes." Mrs. Wen sneered, "I asked someone to pick up Hu'er this afternoon. She said she missed him. I didn't let him be picked up. By the way, the housekeeper who came to pick her up told her to come back and see by herself."
"This is to remind her of the child she gave birth to for our Wen family. I'm not used to this problem of hers. She can live in her parents' house as long as she likes. It's just that the Lin family is of the same blood, so I'm afraid her sisters-in-law and younger siblings will kick her out...
"At the end of the sentence, Mrs. Wen's eyes and eyebrows already had a sarcastic smile.
The following days were quiet, and Chu Yunli did not go out. Even if the prefect's wife sent a message inviting Mrs. Wen to come over, she did not follow, and the people who checked Sun Yan had already packed up and left for the capital.
A servant of the Wen family spent two thousand taels of silver to learn from the servant that Sun Yan was indeed not his uncle and sister-in-law, and that they had really moved from the capital. No matter how much more, they refused to say a word.
However, just these things obtained revealed enough information, so Mrs. Wen sent a few people to follow the caravan to the capital.
The weather gradually cooled down, and when the New Year was approaching, Chu Yunli received a letter from the capital, which was sent by Feng Shao.
He first said how much he missed her, and then said that after the New Year's Eve party, he would take his mother to Tongcheng to propose marriage as soon as possible, so that she could wait with peace of mind. At the end of the letter, Yan had found out Sun Yan's identity. He was a fifth-rank official in the capital.
The head of the department is Sun Changlun's concubine, and Mrs. Wu is his biological mother's maid. The source of their rouge prescription has not yet been found out, but it is definitely not what Sun Changlun and his biological mother should have.
Chu Yunli read it over and over again, carefully reading the words about missing her that she had written before. When she saw the last few sentences about Sun Yan, she was silent for a long time. Therefore, Wen Ruyi chose such a person to bring her with her.
The Wen family was destroyed step by step.
After the New Year, the weather was cold, and Chu Yunli still didn't go out. When she visited various houses during the New Year, she didn't go either. Mrs. Wen said that the prefect's wife asked about her several times.
Mrs. Lin finally came back two years ago. One day when the eldest brother of the Wen family was out on business, they met by chance and came back together. For those who didn't know, they thought it was the eldest brother of the Wen family who picked her up.
He came back as soon as he came back, and Mrs. Wen didn't mean to blame him. She didn't bother to care at all now.
Mrs. Lin seemed to be angry too. She used to stay with Mrs. Wen for most of the day, but now, except for the necessary greetings in the morning and evening, she stayed in her yard. And she seemed to have broken up with Chu Yunli, except to say hello.
, not a single superfluous word.
It was also because of her attitude that when Mrs. Wen was angry, she also had an equally harsh attitude towards her, and the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law became increasingly cold.
In the blink of an eye, it is the end of the first month, the weather is getting warmer, the mountains in the suburbs are green and full of spring.
Chu Yunli was planning to pick a day to take Mrs. Wen out for an outing. The mother and daughter were chatting enthusiastically when the woman outside hurriedly came in, "Madam, there is someone visiting outside, claiming to be..." She glanced at
Chu Yunli, "She is the Duke's wife."
Mrs. Wen stood up immediately, looking at Chu Yunli with surprise on her face, "He's really here."
Then he told his mother-in-law, "Please come in quickly." After saying this, he seemed to feel that it was inappropriate, "I will go and greet you personally."
Pulling Chu Yunli along with him, he told her halfway, "It doesn't have to be a proposal of marriage. It could also be to find a way to make you not want the marriage. Or to make you a concubine. No matter what it is, you should keep calm." Again.
He sighed and said, "It's not your fault that you don't belong to the right family. If you want to blame it, blame yourself for your bad background and blame your parents for bringing you here."
Although Chu Yunli felt that it was a bit mysterious that the Duke's wife came to the house in person, Feng Shao was still very reliable, so he was not too anxious. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "Mom, you gave birth to me and took care of me carefully.
I raised you up, and I left you without any blame for taking me home, and because my sister-in-law and I refused to give in, making the house uneasy. I keep these in my heart, and there is no one who treats me better than you and my father.
If I continue to be unfilial, I will be worse than a pig or a dog."
As she spoke, she had already arrived at the door. At this time, the door of Wen's house was wide open, and a group of people were standing at the door. The woman in charge was dressed in dark purple clothes, full of majesty, but her eyes were gentle, and she did not look like someone who came to find trouble. Mrs. Wen secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
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When the Duke's wife saw the mother and daughter, her eyes focused on Chu Yunli, and she said with a smile, "Madam, don't be surprised if you come unexpectedly."
Mrs. Wen hurriedly said she didn't dare, and led her in again, casually introducing the scenery on the roadside. The Duke and Mrs. Wen listened with a smile, and there was no silence at all.
After entering the door, the guests and the host sat down, and the maid served tea and left. The Duke's wife smiled and said, "I came here today for the purpose of my son's marriage."