NOVEL NEXT Chapter 105 - 105 Starts to Suspect His Own Daughter
Chapter 105: Chapter 105 Starts to Suspect His Own Daughter
General Fu and several others followed, and their purpose was to catch Nanny Fan in the act.
They wanted Treasure Bead to no longer be deceived by Nanny Fan.
They didn’t mind spending the eight thousand taels to let Treasure Bead see Nanny Fan’s true colors.
But upon arrival, they found that things might not be as they had thought.
Hearing the third brother ask why not directly question Treasure Bead, General Fu frowned and said, “Does Treasure Bead’s usual behavior in front of us seem like the same person you just heard?”
Fu Heng shook his head. Just by hearing Treasure Bead’s voice, he detected a hint of arrogance and meanness, and he was surprised just now: How could Treasure Bead seem like a completely different person?
After all, that was their sister, and it was possible that Nanny Fan had privately spoiled her temperament, or maybe she was simply too fed-up with the trouble Nanny Fan was causing.
General Fu was not an ordinary warrior. He was well-versed in military strategy and adept at inferring the enemy’s thoughts. The change in Treasure Bead made him suspicious.
He didn’t want to doubt his own daughter, whom he had watched grow up.
However, in recent years, he had distinctly felt some subtle changes in his daughter. He noted that she had become more adept at reading people’s expressions and that her affection toward him and her three brothers was less deliberately demonstrated.
At the time he didn’t think much of it, assuming that a girl changes a lot at eighteen and that his daughter was simply growing less attached to them.
But considering the conversation between Treasure Bead and Nanny Fan that he just overheard, General Fu believed that there were definitely secrets between the two that they did not know about, and they were not trivial matters.
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As opposed to asking outright, his nature was to investigate thoroughly; that way he could determine if anyone was lying.
He didn’t want to suspect his own daughter; he also preferred to think that something had happened without their knowledge, causing a change in Treasure Bead’s personality, with Nanny Fan surely being the primary culprit.
Fu Heng said, “Father, what about dealing with Nanny Fan?”
“Do not deal with her for now, just have someone watch her in secret.”
Outside the gambling house, Treasure Bead eventually gave up a gold hairpin to Nanny Fan.
Seeing that Treasure Bead truly did not wish to give any more, Nanny Fan had no choice but to accept the five hundred taels silver note and the jade bracelet and gold hairpin, and she promised Treasure Bead that she would send her family out of the city at once.
Treasure Bead nodded and told her to return to the mansion earlier, then she left ahead on her own; she had no desire to see Nanny Fan’s despicable family.
Once Treasure Bead was gone, her grandson said, “Granny, what’s this bit of silver good for? Get some more. And I don’t want to leave the Capital City—there’s no better place than the Capital City in this world.”
Nanny Fan slapped him on the head.
“You fool! Who told you to lose so much! If you gamble again, I will chop off your hands first!”
She was frustrated beyond measure, how could such a large sum of silver just be lost like that!
“No more gambling, no more gambling, Granny, don’t be angry! Don’t hurt yourself with anger!”
Her grandson was smooth-tongued, speaking sweetly before her; it was no wonder Nanny Fan doted on this grandson.
“Of course, I can’t let you leave the city, but I’ve already promised the young lady, so keep a low profile lately, don’t stir up trouble, and contact me after a while, understand?”
Nanny Fan, while taking her grandson to look for her good-for-nothing son and daughter-in-law, continued instructing her grandson.
After they left, General Fu and his men came out of hiding, their gazes heavily fixed on the departing direction of the two.
Fu Heng quickly made arrangements to investigate Nanny Fan’s background and had people follow closely to see where the two settled down.
This scene was fully observed by Jun Yuyan and Murong Jiu from the second floor of the gambling house.
The inconspicuous carriage was parked at the back door of the gambling house.
Before Treasure Bead and Nanny Fan’s arrival, the two had already been there, and by now, they had finished a whole pot of tea.
“General Fu’s way of handling affairs ensures that he won’t be deceived by a few words from Treasure Bead. Once he has suspicions, he will first investigate to uncover the truth. This is something I greatly admire,” Jun Yuyan said with a smile as he looked at Murong Jiu.
“Yes,”
But Murong Jiu’s tone carried a trace of melancholy.
Because she remembered her past life.
Murong Man and the Second Prince said her biological father and brother died because of her; therefore, they had already known she was their blood daughter before their house was raided.
Yet she was completely unaware, even about what they had done for her in secret.
They were executed for “treason and collusion with the enemy,” after the Prince had died a tragic death.
And on the eve of the discovery of the evidence, she was taken into the palace by the Second Prince, who had already become the Crown Prince, and he requested the Emperor’s decree to marry her as his Crown Princess Consort.
Before she died, the Crown Prince had told her that if not for being threatened, he would never have married her as the Crown Princess Consort.
What was the threat made with? Was it the lives of the several hundred members of the Fu Family?
Murong Jiu dared not think further.
“Ah Jiu, what’s wrong with you? Why are you so pale?”
When she looked up, she met Jun Yuyan’s worried gaze.
“Prince, General Fu wouldn’t have committed treason or betrayal, right?”
“Of course, General Fu isn’t that kind of person, no one loves Great Yan more than he does.”
Although Jun Yuyan didn’t know why Ah Jiu was asking this question again after so many days, he still gave her a very affirmative answer.
“Regardless of what you’ve heard or seen, you have to believe that General Fu is always loyal to Great Yan, and he is a hero of Great Yan.”
“I know, I know it’s impossible for them to commit treason.”
Yet after their deaths, they were branded as traitors, beheaded and thrown into common graves, with no one to claim their bodies.
In her past life, it was very likely that they had been coerced and enticed by the Crown Prince, who offered her the position of Crown Princess Consort; the enticement was her own life, and the coercion was the threat against them, finally forcing them to confess guilt.
Did they feel they owed her too much and could only compensate with such measures?
Murong Jiu’s heart ached. In this life, she would never give Jun Haoze the chance to threaten her family!
Furthermore, she wanted him to end in total disgrace, to die without a place to bury his body, to taste the suffering they had endured in the previous life!
She had stopped vomiting and had more energy than before; it was time to start laying out her nets.
Jun Yuyan was aware she harbored secrets, but he did not press further. He waited for the day Ah Jiu would open her heart to him.
“Ah Jiu, would you like to see how Bai Aoshuang is doing?”
He wanted to cheer up his Ah Jiu.
And Bai Aoshuang’s fate would undoubtedly please Ah Jiu.
Murong Jiu collected herself, “Alright.”
She wanted to see, after the extermination of the General’s Mansion, Bai Aoshuang, who became a woman of the Crown Prince’s harem, who had been snobbish and mocked her while she flaunted her wealth and jewels in her past life, could she still be so arrogant in this life?
Shortly after, the carriage arrived at a narrow, filthy alleyway.
“What do you think you are, daring to hit me! We’ll die together!”
“You, with your puny arms and legs, dare to talk back to me? You’re looking for death!”
A small courtyard was filled with the sounds of fierce quarreling and disorderly fighting.
Murong Jiu listened; the voice that was being hit and crying out in pain, could it be Bai Aoshuang?