Jiang Lianzhi also heard from the housekeeper of the Cao Mansion that Shen Yu looked very unhappy when she left. The housekeeper said that she was probably unwell.
Now that I think about it, the butler is also a good person. Shen Yu probably made an excuse to leave because she didn't want to eat with him. But the butler didn't dare to say anything, so he found an excuse to stop her.
"Why are you talking to him so much?" Changliu ran out from inside, "He took the lead and sent him away."
"You." Changliu pointed confidently towards the end of the alley, "Let's go."
"Shuzi is rude." Gao Jin, the follower behind Jiang Lianzhi, held the knife.
Jiang Lianzhi raised his hand to stop him. Just as he was about to speak, he looked across the gap between the two of them and saw the person coming.
Changliu turned around and said, "Princess, why are you out here? You are not needed here. I can get rid of them."
Shen Yu smiled slightly and said, "I know you can do it. You two go and have a rest. I'll go out for a while."
"But...then, let me get the cloak." Changliu babbled as he ran: "The wind is very strong at night. The prince said that if the princess is sick, he will make soup with my little turtle to drink. The prince is afraid. If you can’t tell the difference between a soft-shelled turtle and a turtle, the turtle soup will definitely not taste good.”
Shen Yu stood at the door and waited for a moment, put on her cloak, glanced at Jiang Lian, then walked out and walked towards the city gate.
Jiang Lianzhi received the signal from her eyes.
"No need to follow." He said to Gao Jin.
Gao Jin was worried, "Sir..."
"No need to follow." This time the tone was more serious than the previous one.
It was wartime and it was a cold winter day. Although it had not snowed yet, it was no warmer than snow. There were not many pedestrians on the street.
There were still soldiers patrolling the city wall. The two of them climbed up the city wall one after another and walked to the uninhabited side.
Shen Yu didn't speak, so Jiang Lianzhi didn't speak.
He quietly looked at her thin and tall back standing by the female wall, his palms sweating slightly, but he didn't know where this uneasiness came from.
"What kind of gifts did you send to Beilin?"
Jiang Lianzhi was stunned when she asked, "It's just household items."
Shen Yu didn't look back, "Do you remember what they were all about?"
If you don’t remember, how can you collect them one by one?
In the years after her death, Jiang Lianzhi walked through their bedroom over and over again, touching the dining tables, bookcases, screens, and mirrors again and again...
I want to touch my dead wife in time through those things.
"Remember." Jiang Linzhi's gaze became profound, and he named the things one by one.
Shen Yu closed her eyes.
At this moment, she was finally able to be completely sure that he was the Jiang Lianzhi from her previous life.
"I heard from the housekeeper of the Cao Mansion that your late wife drowned in the lake."
Jiang Lianzhi was instantly pricked with holes by these words, just because these words came from her mouth.
"...Yes." He said with difficulty.
Shen Yu still didn't look back, "Master Jiang hasn't married yet, so where did he get his dead wife?"
Jiang Lianzhi concentrated his attention, and at this moment, he had some kind of guess in his mind.
Before she could think about it, Shen Yu turned around and smiled at him in the firelight, "Tell me about her, what kind of person is she?"
That smile made him feel that if it was true as he guessed, her knife should have been placed on his neck at this moment, how could she give him such a good look.
Or maybe, he already vaguely knew the answer in his heart, but he just didn't dare to admit it.
Jiang Lianzhi's eyes moved slightly, as if he was lost in memories, "She...she is gentle, kind, and respectful. She is gentle to everyone. She never gets angry with the servants. She will stand at the door waiting for me with a lantern."
"anything else?"
"She used to be the darling of the family, but something happened. She was in very bad health. She had to drink medicine every day. There was always a faint smell of medicine on her body. I didn't like it, so she used incense."
Shen Yu felt self-inflicted in this answer, as if she had relived her short and humid life in his description.
"Any more?"
"She..." Jiang Linzhi stopped suddenly. He searched repeatedly in his mind, but it was difficult to find any words about her.
"No more?" Shen Yu looked at him, "You don't seem to understand the wife you talk about."
Jiang Lianzhi was visibly panicked and frowned.
There are obviously so many memories, and he can obviously recall those things over and over again at night, but why can he only summarize them in a few sentences?
"I……"
"She drowned, did you see that?"
"I saw it." Jiang Lianzhi's voice trembled slightly.
Shen Yu stared at his expression intently, "Then you didn't save her?"
Jiang Lianzhi: "I..."
As Shen Yu walked closer to him, Jiang Lianzhi gradually saw the fire and himself in her eyes, but the eyes were so unfamiliar.
"Why don't you save her?"
"What was it like watching her die before your eyes?"
"She died, you should be very happy, right?"
As if struck by lightning, Jiang Lianzhi involuntarily backed away as she pressed her one question after another.
"You don't understand her, you don't love her, you can just watch her die, but why?" A strange light flashed in Shen Yu's eyes, "Why are you going to propose marriage to her again? Do you want to drag her into eternal damnation again? The abyss?”
Jiang Lianzhi's eyes widened for a moment, but only for a moment before his eyes returned to calmness.
He was not stupid because he had expected the result. He had already found the answer in the details.
Her dream, her going to Yanliang Pass against her previous life, her drastically changed temperament, her inexplicable hostility towards him...
What surprised him was that she would pierce the window paper so simply.
Jiang Lianzhi suddenly laughed, and even he didn't know whether it was a bitter smile or sarcasm.
Shen Yu watched him go crazy quietly.
Jiang Lianzhi's smile gradually faded, "Since you know that I am still the same person, don't you want to kill me? Avenge yourself."
"I have thought about it." Shen Yu said without hesitation: "When I sank into the water, I wanted to cut you into pieces. But after I was reborn, I felt that life was precious. It was not you who pushed me into the water. You don't matter to me at all." It's important and not worth my time. You chose to save her instead of me, but just do whatever you want. If you fall into the water with Ting Zhou, I will save him without hesitation and won't even look at you."
Jiang Lianzhi was hurt by such words.
"No." Jiang Lianzhi said eagerly: "No, I wanted to save you, but I didn't see that the person in the water was you. They told me that Qingli and the maidservant fell into the water. I really didn't expect that it was you. You, if I knew it was you..."
"Are you using these words to frustrate me or to deceive yourself?" Shen Yu finished the second half of the sentence for him, "Whether you see it clearly or not, you will still choose to save her."
Jiang Lianzhi was stunned, and for a moment he didn't know how to refute.
