Farmer girl swaps husbands: buys a sickly villain and pampers him

Chapter 288 Confession
Xiao Yanci weakly opened his eyes and looked in the opposite direction.

When he saw Zhang Zhaodi, his eyes were full of hope.

"Mother... Mother, you're here... Mother, save me, I don't want to die..."

"Who's your mother? Don't make up relatives randomly." Zhang Zhaodi was amused by Xiao Yanci's shameless behavior.

"Mother, you've always loved me dearly, how could you be so cruel to me? Mother, please talk to Yaoguang and tell her that I know I was wrong, and I promise I'll behave from now on. I know I did something wrong now."

“I think he’s gone mad,” Zhang Zhaodi said to Su Rende beside her. “Forget it, I never expected to hear anything useful from a madman.”

"Mother!" Xiao Yanci shouted unwillingly, "I am your son-in-law. Zhou Wangshu is a demon. Yaoguang will be killed if she stays with him. It's true! He was originally a non-existent person. The person Yaoguang truly bought is me, and the person she is going to marry is me. You and she did a lot of work just to earn money to support my studies."

"I passed the imperial examination with top honors and married Yaoguang... It's true, all of this is true. Yaoguang clearly has these memories and knows that I am her true husband. Why did Yaoguang betray me? Why did she treat me like this? She's promiscuous, she's shameless... She married two husbands..."

"Are you just going to let this madman spout nonsense here?" Su Rende asked the constable beside him angrily. "Since his tongue is superfluous, there's no need to keep it."

"Xiao Ci, Wang Shu is now the youngest prime minister, and he and our Yao Guang are deeply in love. Our Yao Guang is even pregnant. Fortunately, what you said is all false, otherwise it's hard to imagine what would have happened to our Yao Guang if she had married someone like you."

"No...no...Yaoguang likes me very much, she loves me very much...I was wrong, I was wrong."

"Cut out his tongue so he can never talk nonsense again," Su Rende said.

"No...no...don't come any closer...Yaoguang...save me...I was wrong..."

The sound of Xiao Yanci screaming came from behind.

He was too weak; even his screams were feeble.

Judging from his physical and mental state, he probably won't last much longer.

At night, Zhang Zhaodi woke up with a start. She sat up and stared blankly ahead. At this moment, Su Rende, who was sleeping restlessly beside her, muttered "wife, Yaoguang".

Zhang Zhaodi nudged Su Rende to wake him up.

Su Rende opened his eyes and sat up, still shaken.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Zhaodi asked.

Su Rende looked shaken: "Madam, I had a dream. In the dream, I didn't regain my memories, and you and Yaoguang weren't as happy as you are now..."

"Yaoguang bought Xiao Ci. We did everything we could to support his studies. After Xiao Ci became the top scholar in the imperial examination, he married Yaoguang, which was a widely celebrated story. However, he was a hypocrite. Although he married Yaoguang, he treated her badly. Yaoguang was very unhappy, and he had a child with Jiang Yihuan outside the marriage. Later, he sent someone to kill me, and he also killed Yaoguang. We have never met, and you and Yaoguang have never met either. We have never met again."

"Thank goodness it was just a dream, otherwise it would have been terrifying."

"What if it's not a dream? Do you remember what Xiao Ci said before? He said Zhou Wangshu doesn't exist at all, and the person Yao Guang is going to marry is him..."

"But this is just too unbelievable."

"If Yaoguang had gone through all that, how much pain she must have suffered! Our daughter is so foolish."

"Once we receive the Emperor's reply, we'll go find our daughter immediately. Whether the dream was real or not, we must cherish her." A month later, the Emperor sent a reply, granting Su Rende permission to move to the new capital.

When the couple arrived at the new capital, Su Yaoguang and Zhou Wangshu stood side by side at the city gate waiting for them.

Zhang Zhaodi got off the carriage.

Su Yaoguang jogged over to meet her.

"Slow down..." Zhou Wangshu and Zhang Zhaodi said in unison.

Zhang Pandi, Zhang Yingdi, and the others were also extremely nervous.

Su Yaoguang held Zhang Zhaodi's hand and said, "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. Mother, you and Father must be tired from your journey. Let's go back and rest for a bit."

The General's Mansion and the Prime Minister's Mansion are not yet completed, but there is a large residential area behind Taoyaofang. Part of it is an employee area for staff, and the other part is the owner's residence.

However, Su Rende brought a troop of personal guards with him this time, and these guards still need to be settled. He and Zhang Zhaodi can stay in the backyard of Taoyaofang, while the personal guards will have to live in the local military camp.

Su Rende went to settle the people he brought with him first, while Zhang Zhaodi, the children, and the trusted servants went to Taoyaofang first.

“My husband said the General’s Mansion will be completed in half a month,” Su Yaoguang said. “Father and Mother will stay in Taoyao Lane for half a month, and then they can move into the mansion.”

“We didn’t feel wronged when we didn’t have a big house to live in. Now that life is better, why are you so easily wronged? Do you think your mother is such a pretentious person?” Zhang Zhaodi said. “Don’t hold your brother. Give the child to the wet nurse.”

“No, that won’t do. I haven’t seen him for months. I have to take a good look at him.” Su Yaoguang looked at the child in her arms. “He’s only a few months old, but he’s grown so fast. I remember when he was born, he was just a tiny little bundle.”

Xiao Yunji giggled at Su Yaoguang.

Zhang Zhaodi's arrival made Taoyaofang even more lively.

When their grand procession entered Taoyaofang, everyone passing by asked what had happened.

"That is the wife of the General Who Protects the Nation, who is also the mother of the Prime Minister's wife."

"The Prime Minister's wife's father is the Grand General Who Protects the Nation. She always seems so kind and gentle. You would never guess it."

"Her husband is the Prime Minister! If we didn't see her going in and out with the Prime Minister every day, would you believe it?"

Zhang Zhaodi and Su Rende arrived in the new capital, and Su Yaoguang and Zhou Wangshu held a bonfire party in the backyard of Taoyaofang to welcome them.

Zhou Wangshu poured wine for Su Rende and said, "The backyard isn't big enough to accommodate too many people, so I didn't invite the brothers my father-in-law brought. However, I sent over a hundred jars of fine wine to the military camp so the brothers there can host a welcome feast for them. In addition, I invited the chefs from the best restaurants in the area to the military camp to prepare delicious food for them on the spot."

"I trust you to do things right. While we were away, it was all thanks to you taking care of Yaoguang. Come, let's have a few drinks, father-in-law and son-in-law."

"I can't drink too much, lest I accidentally hurt Yaoguang. I'll just have a little."

"I can't drink too much now either, and sometimes I have to get up to coax Yunji. We father-in-law and son-in-law are really in the same boat!"

The father-in-law and son-in-law looked at each other and smiled, then clinked glasses and drank together.