The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

Chapter 434: What Happened After the Fire

He Mansion.

"Old Master, Miss Sun has gone to bed."

General He turned around with a tired look on his face: "Well, in the future, she will be the eldest wife's child... and she will no longer have any relationship with the Yao family. My... daughter and two grandchildren are all dead."

When he divided the family property, he deliberately favored the eldest wife more so that his eldest son and his wife would adopt the child, who should have been their niece, as their own and raise her well.

He Sangrou burned to death dozens of people in the Yao family, including servants, in one breath. It was really too crazy and too sensational. As the main culprit, she was of course doomed to die. And in this era where collective responsibility is the most important, if her daughter did not change her identity before she grew up, then a dark road would be waiting for her.

"This rebellious girl, even if...even if she is dead, she will still cause trouble to me." Although General He scolded her, he did not abandon his little granddaughter.

His eyes were red. Although He Sangrou had many faults, she was still his beloved child. General He began to regret not stopping his daughter from marrying Yao San. As a result, the father and daughter had been separated from each other because of this man, and gradually drifted apart. In the end, they had reached this point...

Uncle Wu felt a little reluctant: "Old Master, I heard that before the young lady passed away, she was still very... concerned about her uncle. Anyway, it seems that the uncle is not going to survive. Should we make some arrangements to bury them together, and then ask a master to set up a formation and cast a spell, so that the uncle can only continue to serve the young lady in the underworld?"

General He was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and shook his head and said, "What kind of son-in-law is he... My daughter, she just knew that she would die after doing those things, and she didn't want Yao San to die too easily, so she deliberately said those hurtful words. She was born to be strong and face-saving. I'm afraid she was thinking that even if she died, she didn't want Yao San to have an easy life, and she didn't want to... face the sight of herself being thrown into prison, so..."

"You said, she was so cruel as to burn to death her own child after ten months of pregnancy, how could she really let go of this man who had let her down and bullied her?"

"It's just like before, leaving all the aftermath to me as a father." General He exhaled heavily, "Yao San must die, but after he dies, my daughter's peace cannot be disturbed. You should go and make arrangements with the Jinwu Guards and Jingzhao Prefecture so that my daughter's body can be returned home. As for Yao San... wait until he dies, find a few magicians to calm the souls of his family, and then throw him to Wild Dog Ridge to be eaten by those beasts."

A major case involving dozens of lives during the Spring Examination sparked countless discussions.

Everyone was speculating why the daughter of a general would suddenly go crazy. First, she confronted her own family and had a falling out with her own father. Then, she suddenly set her entire family on fire, and then committed suicide... Chu Liupo, who heard her last words, fell ill when she returned home and was unable to leave the house for several days.

The other person, Yao San, He Sangrou's husband, was also in a coma and in great sorrow. He was placed in a clinic by the Jinwu Guards. He aged a lot in just one day. He stared with bloodshot eyes. When he opened and closed them, all he saw was He Sangrou's sunken forehead and splattered blood. Her words "I love you" often echoed in his ears, and she emphasized countless times that it was because she loved him that she chose to vent her resentment on his closest relative.

However, He Sangrou's resentment was only caused by Yao San's cold observation and even his own personal promotion.

In other words, Yao San knew very well what He Sangrou wanted to express before her death - it was all because of him that He Sangrou chose such an extreme action in the end. The question of love or not was just a name used to hurt his heart. She was deliberately taking revenge on him and using the lives of her entire family to tell Yao San how angry and resentful she was.

Love?

Just a joke.

When everyone was speculating whether He Sangrou turned hatred from love, or her heart was corroded by jealousy, or she was possessed by some mountain monster or wild ghost, only the old General He who was sitting in the He Mansion, and Yao San, He Sangrou's former bedmate and good husband, knew clearly.

She just wanted revenge.

It's just to vent my dissatisfaction.

There is no other special reason, and He Sangrou doesn't need so many reasons. If you hate, then take revenge. How simple it is.

"...ruined..." Yao San stared upward with empty eyes, muttering, "It's all ruined...damn woman, my...home...ruined my whole family..."

Yao San is the third child in the clan, but the eldest in the family, with a widowed mother and younger brothers and sisters. After this fire, his branch is completely destroyed and he is the only one left. What's more, even if He Sangrou killed his entire family, he currently does not have enough ability to take equal revenge on the He family. In fact, because his only mother died, his plan against Lin Qiao this time is likely to fail.

Because even if his plan succeeds, he won't get much of the fruits of victory, because he has to observe mourning for his mother.

By the time Yao San was finally able to get up from his sickbed, that year's spring examination had ended and the ruins of the Yao family had been cleaned up. Because the corpses were burned too badly, the Jinwu Guards could only identify them through the jewelry that had almost merged with the charcoal, and placed them in the morgue of Jingzhao Prefecture, waiting for Yao San to claim them.

During this period, Yao San's old friends and accomplices came to visit him one after another. Huang Ming even offered to help Yao San find a good cemetery in the suburbs of Beijing to bury his family.

After Yao San gradually recovered, he first rejected Huang Ming's proposal, then grabbed him, and asked him with a somewhat crazy look about the recent situation inside and outside the court.

Huang Ming raised his hand and scratched his head: "I don't know anything else. I heard from my grandfather that because of your family's affairs, the memorial impeaching you from the Censorate has been temporarily suppressed. Oh, by the way, there is also the Spring Examination, which will be announced tomorrow, but Brother Zeng didn't seem to do well in the exam. I'm afraid it won't be possible to pass the imperial examination to become an official. You still have to be selected as a filial and honest official..."

After saying all this, Huang Ming clapped his hands and remembered the most important thing: "Hey! And that Lin is actually very skilled. The people we arranged for her are useless. Is the information you got really reliable? Is she really a woman? How can she be so good at fighting?"

"That thing didn't work out?!" Yao San struggled to get up, "Where are those old scholars?!"

"He was taken away." Huang Ming obviously didn't realize what this meant, and his eyes were filled with ignorance and stupidity.