Chapter Seventy-Six: Withering
Jiang Wan was heartbroken, Xia Yahan still has no repentance, she looked down on Lin Yao the kind of person the most, but now she has become the second Lin Yao.
"IāI."
Xia Yahan was speechless by Jiang Wan's words, she seemed to be sober and struggled out of the whirlpool called jealousy.
Yes, what did she do, she was originally the pearl of her palm, but now she has done this kind of thing. She is also a woman, and she knows how important chastity is to a woman, but because of her selfishness, she went to harm Jiang Wan and Prince Ye.
Xia Yahan knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, it was she who pushed the sister who had nothing to say to her away. Jiang Wan looked at Xia Yahan and said coldly, "From now on, there will be no sisterhood between this palace and you, so you can do it yourself." ā
After saying that, Jiang Wan was about to leave, and was bumping into Mo'er who came back with something.
"Anhui, Anhui concubine."
Mo'er didn't expect Jiang Wan to appear here, and saw Xia Yahan who was kneeling on the ground and embarrassed, and hurriedly went over to help her up.
"Master, what's wrong with you, master?"
"Mo'er, what are you holding in your hand?"
Jiang Wan noticed the bottle in Mo'er's hand and asked. Mo'er was stunned for a moment, and then wanted to hide the bottle behind her. Jiang Wan directly squatted down and snatched the bottle.
Jiang Wan was about to open it, when he heard Mo'er hurriedly shouting, "Don't open it!" ā
Jiang Wan shook it, it was a liquid inside, and it didn't seem to be an ordinary medicine. Jiang Wan had a very bad idea, she looked at Xia Yahan on the ground with a gloomy face.
"I'm always there, but I want to explain what it is?"
"There's poison in there, a poison that seals the throat with blood."
Xia Yahan raised her head, with tears on her face, her eyes looked at Jiang Wan blankly, and her voice was hoarse from crying.
Jiang Wan frowned, the poison in Xia Yahan's hand was definitely not prepared for herself. I slandered myself and the Prince of Night before, but I can't do it, I'm afraid I want to poison myself to cover up the truth.
"Say, is it for the palace, you are so desperate to hope that the palace will fall into the yellow spring?"
"No, mother, it's not poison, it's a fake death drug."
Mo'er was afraid that Jiang Wan would directly execute Xia Yahan, so she hurriedly told the truth, wanting to ask for a trace of forgiveness from Jiang Wan.
"Lin Guifei wanted to poison Niangniang, but the master was unwilling, so she asked the slave to find a fake death medicine, wanting to get through the trick, and then the master would arrange someone to send Niangniang out of the palace."
Xia Yahan was silent, acquiescing to Mo'er telling Jiang Wan everything. But what can I do if I tell Jiang Wan, now that Jiang Wan knows everything, where will she follow their wishes. Jiang Wan is not dead, it is her Xia Yahan who is dead.
"What Mo'er said, but it's all true?"
Jiang Wan held the bottle in his hand and looked at Xia Yahan with suspicion in his eyes. Xia Yahan looked at Jiang Wan's eyes, her heart was cold, Jiang Wan had never looked at her with such eyes.
"Is it true, what if it's fake, is it true that Concubine Wan Niangniang can drink this fake death medicine?"
Xia Yahan smiled miserably, she was the most failed one after all, she didn't have Lin Yao's ruthless methods, and she didn't have the luck to get the holy grace. In this deep palace, she can't fight anyone, and if she is as stable as before, she may not end up like this.
"You hate me so much, you'd rather join forces with Lin Yao, what's the difference between this and seeking skin with a tiger!"
Xia Yahan shook her head, not knowing what she was denying.
"What you don't understand, you won't understand."
Jiang Wan put the bottle of fake death medicine into his sleeve and said to Xia Yahan, "This palace is gone, you can do it yourself." ā
"Wan Concubine Niangniang." Xia Yahan stopped Jiang Wan, Jiang Wan paused but didn't look back, "Wangwan concubine, be careful of Concubine Lin." ā
"Hongu, I've written it down."
"Congratulations to the concubine."
Xia Yahan knelt on the ground and bowed heavily to Jiang Wan's back. Mo'er knelt beside her, tears streaming from her eyes.
"Master, get up quickly."
Mo'er helped Xia Yahan up, tidied up her clothes, and patted the dust.
"Mo'er, go and take out what Concubine Lin gave me."
"Master?"
"Go ahead."
"Yes, master."
Mo'er seemed to understand what Xia Yahan was thinking, and walked towards the cabinet where the real poison was placed with a heavy face. Her hands trembling when she opened the cabinet, and she took out the box and put it on the bookcase in front of Xia Yahan.
Xia Yahan still had a bleak smile on her face, and she picked up the pen and wrote something word by word on the paper. At last she walked to the head of the bed, opened the hidden compartment at the bedboard, and took out a knick-knack wrapped in a handkerchief.
"Master, do you still have this thing?"
"It's my most precious memory."
Xia Yahan put things in the corner of the paper, afraid that the wind would blow the paper off. Xia Yahan left the windows and doors open, and she stood in front of the window, looking at the clear blue sky, floating boat-like white clouds, and a few birds flying by from time to time.
"I'm finally going to be free, Mo'er, after so many years, you have followed me and wronged you."
Xia Yahan looked at Mo'er with a smile, the previous madness had disappeared, and she seemed to be the kind and gentle woman she was at the beginning.
Mo'er trembled slightly, holding tears in her eyes, she held Xia Yahan's hand, choked up and said, "Mo'er is not aggrieved, it is the greatest honor of Mo'er to serve by the master's side." ā
"You can find a good master in the future, and the concubine will not treat you too harshly."
Mo'er was speechless, just kept shaking her head. Xia Yahan patted her head lightly and glanced at the sky of the palace again.
"This place, there will be no goodbye."
"The most wrong decision I made in my life was to find Lin Yao and become a blade in her hands."
Xia Yahan picked up the porcelain vase in the box, opened it without a trace of hesitation, and poured it straight into her mouth. The poison burned her mouth, throat, and internal organs. Xia Yahan's vision began to blur, and the scenes of the past began to flow in front of her eyes like a marquee.
"Forgive me, Jiang Wan."
These were the last words that Ju Chang left to this palace, and the last words to her once close friend.
"Master!"
Seeing Xia Yahan in front of her falling to the ground weakly, watching the blood keep flowing from the corners of her mouth, Mo'er could no longer suppress the grief in her heart and cried.
"Master, you wait for Mo'er, Mo'er will accompany you."
Mo'er held Xia Yahan in her arms and reached out to take the porcelain bottle that had fallen to the ground, which contained poison. Mo'er drank the rest of the poison, and the poison consumed her life as well.
Jiang Wan, who returned to Luoyun Xuan, suddenly felt suffocated, as if something important had left her forever. She frowned and looked in the direction of Xia Yahan's courtyard, hoping that it was her delusion.
On the second day, the news of Xia Yahan's suicide spread throughout the palace, and when Jiang Wan learned about it, the tea cup in his hand slipped from his hand. The hot tea splashed on her body, but she didn't care at all on her hands.
"What, who did you say died?!"
"Master, Ju Chang and Mo'er, dead."
Hio'er is also very sad, she and Mo'er are also good sisters who are like siblings, but unfortunately later because Xia Yahan and Jiang Wan turned against each other, they broke off their friendship.
Jiang Wan didn't believe all this, obviously she only came back from Xia Yahan's courtyard yesterday, why did the news of her death come out today?! Wan didn't care about changing clothes, and quickly went out to Xia Yahan's other courtyard.
When she arrived, a white paper lantern had been hung in front of Xia Yahan's house. Because of the relationship between Jiang Wan and Xia Yahan, Jiang Wan wanted to go in, but no one dared to stop him.
The bodies of Xia Yahan and Mo'er had already been sent to the righteous room to be shelved, and there was no difference between the room and the time she left yesterday.
"What is this?"
Jiang Wan noticed the things on the bookcase, and she opened the object wrapped in the handkerchief, and inside was the bamboo dragonfly she had made for Xia Yahan.
The joys of the past seemed to return to her, but the people who used to be were gone forever.
"We'll be good sisters from now on!"
"Yes, good sister!"
There are two words embroidered on the handkerchief, Wan and Han, and there is also a pattern embroidered, which is rosemary, which is the rosemary she pointed out to Xia Yahan. Rosemary, loyal friendship, eternal remembrance. Xia Yahan violated the loyal friendship and only left Jiang Wan with eternal nostalgia.
"Yahan."
Jiang Wan's hand holding the handkerchief and the bamboo dragonfly trembled, tears couldn't stop flowing, Jiang Wan rarely cried, but now he couldn't cry. Ping'er also wept silently behind her, and Mo'er was also a faithful girl.
Jiang Wan noticed the piece of paper with the words written on it, picked it up and looked at it word by word.
"Jiang Wan, when you read this letter, I must have left. We've known each other for a long time now, but I'm obsessed and crazy, and I've done things to hurt you many times. It's not mine, and I shouldn't have forced it. In the end, I didn't gain anything, but lost the most precious friendship with you. In this palace, you are the only one who treats me with sincerity and treats me like a sister. but I am jealous of you, and hate you, and break your heart, and make you disappointed in me. Jiang Wan, now that I have been driven by demons, I am guilty of sin, and I can't stay in this world anymore. Jiang Wan, my good sister, I hope you can forgive me. Mo'er is a good girl, and I hope you can find a good place for her when I leave. Yahan is a masterpiece. ā
At the end of the letter, Xia Yahan made the truth public. "I, Xia Yahan, am here to explain that the previous theft of the palace and the fornication between Concubine Wan Niangniang and Prince Ye a few days ago were all facilitated by me, and Concubine Wan Niangniang is innocent."
Jiang Wan held the letter in his hand, "Yahan, Mo'er is a good girl, she has already gone with you, you must have met in Huangquan." ā
Jiang Wan wiped the tears from her face, and she handed the letter to Hi'er.
"Go, and put this letter into the hands of His Majesty."
"Yes, master."
Ping'er left with the letterhead, and Jiang Wan stood in Xia Yahan's room, as if the person had not passed away, but was just out. The scene of sitting by the window and chatting with Xia Yahan once appeared in front of me.
"Jiang Wan, I'm leaving, you must be careful of Lin Yao."