Ning Dao Covered with Snow

Chapter 259 Protection
A Feng brought Yan Ci Wan and Xiao Wang to Meixiangju.

"This is where my wife lives."

There are many plum trees planted outside Meixiangju, but now it is past the beginning of spring, the plum blossoms have all faded, and only green buds are sprouting on the branches, which makes the house look full of vitality.

The three of them walked along the path to the bedroom door, where a maid was standing with a tray containing rice porridge and vegetarian dishes.

She first bowed to Yan Ciwan and Xiao Wang, and then spoke to Afeng.

"Uncle Feng, my wife won't open the door."

A Feng reached out to take the tray and asked the maid to go down first.

After everyone left, Ah Feng went forward and knocked on the door: "Madam, Xiao Liulang and Madam Ning are here. They want to talk to you about something. Please open the door."

The house was quiet and there was no response.

A Feng was about to continue knocking on the door when Yan Ciwan stopped him.

"Let me try it."

"Ok."

Yan Ci stepped forward at night and said to the closed door: "Madam Xie, I want to talk to you about what happened in the Xu family twenty years ago."

There was the sound of a chair being dragged inside the room, footsteps approaching, and after a moment the door was opened a crack.

Xie Chusong was wearing a loose white skirt, her black hair was all draped behind her, and her face was not made up. Perhaps because she had not had a good rest in the past few days, there was a dark color under her eyes and a lingering cloud of worry between her brows.

She observed the three people outside the door through the crack, and her eyes finally fell on Yan Ci Wan, and she asked doubtfully.

"How can you, an outsider, know what happened to the Xu family twenty years ago?"

"I don't know, but the people of the Five Gods Sect know. I sneaked into the black market before and learned about what happened twenty years ago from Manager Ge of the Five Gods Sect."

Xie Chusong had heard about the Five Gods Sect from Xiao Wang before.

After hesitating for a moment, she slowly opened the door a little.

"You come in."

Yan Ciwan, leaning on a cane, stepped over the threshold with difficulty.

Xiao Wang and A Feng wanted to follow in, but were rejected by Xie Chusong.

"You can't come in."

After saying that, she quickly closed the door.

The doors and windows of the bedroom were closed and the light was very dim.

Xie Chusong lit the oil lamp on the table. She pointed to the chair beside the table and motioned Yan Ciwan to sit there.

After Yan Ciwan sat down, Xie Chusong sat down in the empty seat opposite her. There was a table between them. There was a teapot on the table, but the tea in it had long since gone cold.

Xie Chusong had no intention of making tea for the guests. She stared at Yan Ciwan and asked.

"What did that Steward Ge tell you? Am I really Xu Hanshi's daughter?"

In fact, Manager Ge didn't know much, but Yan Ciwan couldn't tell the secret that her soul saw the past and the future after leaving her body. She had no better excuse at the moment, so she could only use Manager Ge as a shield for the time being. Anyway, he was dead and it was impossible for him to jump out and expose her lies.

Yan Ciwan nodded slightly: "Well, the Xu family was massacred by the rebels back then, and only Madam Xu escaped by chance. She passed away after giving birth to you. You became an orphan with no one to take care of you, and it was Governor Xie who adopted you." Although he had never met his biological parents, Xie Chusong still felt sad in his heart.

Her eyes were slightly red, and she said in a trembling voice: "When the palace coup happened, Prince Renxian and the Crown Princess hid in the Xu family to avoid being hunted down, but the rebels soon found the Xu family. It must be because someone secretly informed them, and the person who informed them must be Xie Tanyu! It was he who betrayed the whereabouts of Prince Renxian, which caused the entire Xu family to die tragically!"

It goes without saying that all these things were written in the secret letter of the Five Gods Sect. She learned these details through the secret letter, and it was precisely because of these details that the secret letter became more authentic.

Yan Ciwan asked, "If Xie Tanyu was really the accomplice who killed the entire Xu family, why would he adopt you, the daughter of his enemy?"

"Because he felt guilty! He wanted to make up for the mistakes he had made by adopting me."

Yan Ciwan did not deny this speculation. She felt that Xie Tanyu might really feel guilty, but his guilt was not because he betrayed his old master and friends, but because all his old friends had passed away and he was the only one still alive in this world.

She suddenly asked, "Do you remember how he reacted after you stabbed him with a paper cutter?"

Xie Chusong looked quite embarrassed: "He told me to get out."

"He wanted you to leave the study as soon as possible to prevent anyone from discovering that you had stabbed him. He would rather endure the pain and find medicine to stop the bleeding than call anyone in. He has been doing his best to protect you."

Xie Chusong looked at her hands. Her hands were clean at the moment, but she couldn't help but think of that night when she stabbed the paper cutter into Xie Tanyu's heart. The warm blood splashed on her hands. The sticky feeling was like a nightmare that kept haunting her and making her unable to sleep or eat.

She raised her hands to cover her face, her shoulders trembling slightly, and her voice coming through her palms sounded muffled and a little choked.

"He protected me so much because he felt guilty towards the Xu family."

Yan Ciwan looked at her steadily and said softly, "The time you stabbed him, it almost took his life."

Xie Chusong's body trembled even more violently.

Yan Ciwan continued, "You have lived with him for twenty years. You must know his character better than I do. If he is really the kind of villain who would betray his former master and friends for power and interests, how could he not care about his own life just because of a little guilt in his heart?"

Xie Chusong couldn't answer.

After a long while, she choked up and said, "If he had never helped the tyrant, why didn't he tell me the truth? I knelt down and begged him. As long as he said he didn't do it, I would believe him!"

"Because he knows his situation is very dangerous, he doesn't want to implicate you. You will be married soon, and in the future you will have a husband who loves you very much, and you may also have some lovely children. You will have a happy and complete family. He hopes that you can get married smoothly, and he cannot drag you into a dangerous vortex."

Xie Chusong slowly raised his head, his eyes were red and tears were flashing in the corners of his eyes.

She asked in a tearful voice, "He knew someone was trying to murder him?"

Yan Ciwan nodded.

"Then why didn't he take precautions earlier?"

Yan Ciwan thought that the fundamental reason why Xie Tanyu was murdered was because he was privately investigating the truth about the murder of Prince Renxian twenty years ago. As long as he did not stop investigating the truth, he would always be in a dangerous situation. Prevention would only be a temporary solution and would not be of much use.

But she couldn't tell Xie Chusong about these things.

Because the more you know, the more dangerous it is, and this is why Xie Tanyu is unwilling to tell Xie Chusong the truth.

Yan Ciwan couldn't destroy Xie Tanyu's good intentions, so she could only say it to Xie Chusong.

"Maybe he was on guard, but he never thought of guarding against you."

Xie Chusong's heart seemed to be tugged at, and the pain made her cry.

She lowered her head again, covered her face with her hands, and sobbed silently.

Yan Ciwan advised gently, "He's already dead. No matter how great your hatred is, it should fade away. Go and see him off for the last time. After you see him off, forget all these things."