After Hua Junyi left, I don't know how long it took, Jiao Niang was still crying while holding the pile of clothes, she was crying darkly, as if all the tears of the two lives were vented in one go, just listening to this cry was heartbreaking.

It wasn't until a hand gently stroked her head that she gradually stopped crying and turned to sobbing.

That hand used to make her feel warm, but now it only felt cold.

"Are you blaming your father?" his deep voice exuded helplessness.

Jiao Niang didn't answer, twisted her head away and left his hand.

"How come I never saw this from your aunt? Hua Jintang picked up his clothes and looked at them.

Because she cried for too long, her voice became hoarse, and Jiao Niang said: "She never shows her suffering, she secretly did it for Hua Junyi behind your back." Hide it when it's done, she's afraid you'll see it. ”

She didn't care about it before, but she recalled that once, her aunt shed tears while sewing clothes, and the maid outside informed her uncle that she was coming, she quickly wiped her tears and re-powdered them, and then raised a smile to greet him, as if sadness had never stayed in her heart.

Hua Jintang hung his head guiltily, "I'm sorry for your aunt, I shouldn't have taken her into the house." ”

She is his beloved, he always thought that he gave her happiness, let her have no worries about food and clothing, and have children to accompany her, but at this moment he suddenly found that he had never really understood her heart, and never knew the bitterness in her heart.

"You shouldn't have done that, you shouldn't have met her again in the first place. Jiao Niang stood up, walked to the screen, and gently stroked the person on the screen with her fingers, "If I don't meet you again, she may marry a flat-headed commoner." Although he is poor, and even eats chaff vegetables, he can at least live a happy life. And what did she get with you? The identity of the concubine, the separation of flesh and blood, and the death of Huangquan?"

"You hate me?" Hua Jintang looked at Jiao Niang fixedly, as if there was a pair of scissors in his chest that had shattered his internal organs.

Jiao Niang looked at him and shook her head, "I am not qualified to hate you, but the person who is qualified to hate you has no regrets for you." ”

Hua Jintang was sad, "But you still complain about me." Jiao Niang has been close to him since he was a child, and this is the first time he feels that she is so far away from him.

"How can I not blame you?" Jiao Niang tore her voice and drew a crack in the air, "My aunt is only thirty-five years old, such a beautiful face, such a beautiful person, in this deep mansion compound withered and fell to dust, but the murderer who killed her is still alive and well, sit back and relax." ”

Being stared at with such sharp eyes, Hua Jintang didn't dare to look directly at it inexplicably, and only stated the facts, "Mother Li has already admitted that she killed your aunt, and there is no evidence pointing to the Ji family, what do you ask me to take to treat the Ji family?"

"Come on, my father, don't say these high-sounding words again. The way he didn't dare to face her made Jiao Niang feel ridiculous, she looked up to the sky and smiled, "You have already seen everything clearly, you are not pretending to be deaf and dumb, you know that it was the Ji family who did it, but you chose to end everything with the death of Mother Li, you keep saying how much you love your aunt, don't you let the murderer who killed her go." ”

Being questioned by his daughter like this aroused Hua Jintang's anger, "There are some things you don't understand." ”

"I don't understand?" Jiao Niang giggled, her eyes full of sarcasm, "Why don't I understand? I understand, I understand, even if there is evidence? As long as she has the Ji family as a backer and Hua Meiniang, the concubine of Rui Wangye, as the backing, you can't move her." To put it bluntly, you don't dare to touch her, you are afraid of the Ji family and Lord Rui. And my aunt is just a concubine, you can't offend them for a concubine!"

"You bastard!" her questioning, her ridicule, her bitter words like a sharp blade punched Hua Jintang's heart, he didn't think about it, and slapped Jiao Niang's face.

Anger made the green tendons on his forehead crack fiercely, and his mouth was boiling, "You have always been sensible and obedient, when did you become so perverse and arrogant? You made trouble in Bailing Hall today, I thought that you first learned that your aunt was mutilated, and it was inevitable that you would be emotionally disturbed, and I didn't want to deal with you, and I was worried that you would come to appease you, but I didn't expect you to be so disrespectful to me! Jun Yi is right, you are indeed becoming more and more presumptuous, and more and more ignorant of the rules!"

Although he was angry, what Jiao Niang said was not the truth. But he didn't want to face it, unwilling to admit that he was still that kind of ruthless and unrighteous man.

He couldn't face Jiao Niang for a moment, her sharp eyes seemed to expose his hypocritical lies layer by layer, "You are facing your aunt here, reflect on it." ”

With that, he turned around and brushed his sleeves away, without a moment's pause.

Jiao Niang looked at his departing back, and slowly fell to the ground, tears gushing up.

She was slapped twice today, but this slap hit her heart and hurt her heart.

Shui Xiang brought a hot towel to her face, and her fingers were still printed on it, so she knew how hard she was beaten.

Jiao Niang pushed her hand away, looked at Chuantang, who no longer had Hua Jintang's figure, and laughed, "Look, this is a man." Women have always been only their subordinates, far less important than his powerful family, and it is not a pity to die. ”

There is still a little bit of beautiful imagination about love, which is also extinguished by his father's ruthlessness. She clearly remembered that at the moment when Li's mother swallowed her breath, her father breathed a sigh of relief.

He breathed a sigh of relief, because he was afraid that Li's mother would confess to Ji.

Maybe he didn't think about it so much at first, and he really wanted to find out who instructed Li's mother. But slowly he realized that if that person was Ji, he would be in a kind of stalemate.

The marriage of high-ranking officials and nobles has always been not simply a matter of two people, but a matter of two families, and even more powerful interests that are intertwined with the family. Using a concubine to pry this network of interests, he has to think about whether it is worth it.

Naturally, in his heart it is not worth it.

It was also at that moment that Jiao Niang clearly realized that as long as the Ji family and Hua Meiniang were there, the Ji family would stand tall.

"Girl, why are you doing this?" Shui Xiang couldn't help sighing, "I offended the eldest lady, and now I have a falling out with the lord again, who can protect you in this mansion." ”

Jiao Niang's eyes were full of despair, "In this world, no one can count on it, and the only one who can shelter you is yourself." ”

She helped Shui Xiang to stand up and walked out of the room slowly, the sun was setting, leaving a blood-stained red glow condensed in the sky for a long time, and a faint afterglow fell on her body, giving her pale face a little ruddy luster.

Jiao Niang's gaze Yao went in the direction where Ji was, and her hands were clenched into fists.

Ji Shuning, my Hua Jiaoniang lost to you today, it doesn't mean that I will lose to you forever, one day, I will make you pay a tragic price for my mother's death!