Yang Lun tried to find some words to explain.
But Yang Wan smiled helplessly at Yang Lun.
"If you don't want to save me, then don't save me."
She couldn't help but spit out, "Why are you cursing your sister to death?" After saying that, she even wanted to tell him that his sister must really be dead.
Li Shan took advantage of Yang Lun being pushed and kept silent, and quickly came up to help Yang Wan up, "Hey, here... I have to go get a cloak for the third lady. Look at the third lady's hands are frozen. If Concubine Ning knew that the third lady suffered so much injustice here, we really can't get up to heaven."
Yang Lun saw that Yang Wan had been pressing her neck, and then he noticed that her body was covered with a mess of scratches.
"How did you do that?" he said, grabbing Yang Wan's arm.
Yang Wan recalled that when she just woke up, she seemed to be lying in a haystack. Above her head was a not-too-high earth slope, and the crops on the slope showed signs of being crushed. This girl named "Yang Wan" must have slipped and fallen from the top of the slope.
"I fell down the slope and got hurt."
She told the truth, pulling her hand back forcefully and pulling the sleeve around her wrist to cover the scrape. "I'm sorry, I fell and hit my neck. If I had fallen harder, I might have died."
Yang Lun was stepped on a sore spot, and was stunned, "How dare you talk like that!"
Yang Wan said nothing.
The person in front of her is "Yang Wan's" brother, but not her brother.
Her brother is an IT tycoon in the 21st century. Although he always tries to introduce her to bald guys, after all, they have been in love and hate with each other for almost 30 years. She can say whatever she wants in front of her brother.
Yang Lun was just a long passage of resume and political achievements in historical records. To Yang Wan, he had no human warmth at all.
Yang Wan didn't know how to face her. After all, brother and sister should have their own feelings for each other. It didn't make sense for them to make decisions on their own and interrupt everything just because she came through inexplicably.
So she could only remain silent for the time being, just like Deng Ying had done before.
She pulled her clothes tightly around her body and pressed quietly on the place where he had hurt her. She was choked by the snow and started coughing, hunching her shoulders.
Yang Lun originally felt that he had said something too much because he was too angry. Now he heard that she had fallen from the mountain and injured her neck, and he felt really regretful.
He used to be Yang Wan's patron saint.
Although there were many sisters in the family, he loved Yang Wan the most. This sister had always been very kind. When she was young, she never quarreled with other sisters. She played with him quietly, sent him to school, and sometimes waited for him outside the school with cakes made by her mother. When she grew up, she also listened to Yang Lun. When Old Master Yang first wanted to marry her to Zhang Luo, she was not very willing, but Yang Lun told her once and she listened.
This time she had been missing in Linggu Temple for half a month, and even her mother felt that she was useless. Only Yang Lun was struggling outside Linggu Temple, determined to see her alive or dead. However, when he saw her now, she seemed like a different person.
But being alive is a blessing.
Yang Lun forced himself to slow down his tone, "Come here and take the cloak."
Yang Wan raised her head and looked at him, then stood there without moving.
Yang Lun had no choice but to take off his cloak and wrap it around her.
"Come back with me."
"Wait a moment."
She actually dared to resist. Yang Lun's forehead was bulging with veins. He suppressed his anger and lowered his voice, "Mother has cried so much for you at home, what else do you want to do?"
Yang Wan turned around and looked towards the torture chamber, "I want to say something to him."
Yang Lun twisted her arm and dragged her back, "Don't go!"
Yang Wan stumbled after him, trying desperately to break free.
"Just say one word, and I'll go with you."
Yang Lun almost broke her wrist.
"No!"
"Isn't he your best friend?"
Yang Lun paused and became speechless.
Unlike other people who took advantage of others' misfortunes, Yang Lun had never dared to think seriously about Deng Ying's current situation since Deng Yi's entire family was beheaded. On the one hand, he did so to avoid suspicion, and on the other hand, he felt personally ashamed. Deng Ying was innocent, and the punishment she received was too cruel. He knew all this in his heart, but all he could do was give Li Shan a silver ingot without even telling him the reason.
The friendship of friends had to be guessed by eunuchs, and Yang Lun felt that he was no better than those who took advantage of others' misfortunes.
Now, in the snow, separated from Deng Ying by a door, he could not help feeling ashamed and angry when Yang Wan asked him this question out of the blue.
"I won't go in, I'll just talk to him through the window, okay."
Yang Lun was speechless.
Yang Wan thought he had agreed, and while he was stunned, she struggled to break free from him, wrapped in her cloak, turned around and ran to the wall of the torture room, then stood on tiptoe and climbed onto the windowsill next to Deng Ying's couch.
"Deng Ying."
She called out to the window.
Deng Ying raised her head and saw only Yang Wan's faint shadow on the window paper.
"General Yang Lun... did you hear what my brother said outside?"
Deng Ying actually heard most of what was said, but she still said to Yang Wan, "No."
Yang Wan stood on tiptoe higher. "I don't know what else to say to you, but remember what I said. It is the court that is ashamed to face you. You have not let anyone down."
"good."
Yang Wan bent down and moved two stones to place under her feet, then she lay down on the windowsill.
"Can you raise your hands?"
Deng Ying looked at her arms, which felt a little numb, and the marks of being tied up were still there.
He tried to pinch it, and following Yang Wan's instructions, he climbed up the window sill and slowly reached his hand to the window.
A delicate finger stretched out from the hole in the paper he had peeled open and gently hooked his index finger. Deng Ying was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously wanted to take his hand back, but Yang Wan exerted force to hold him back in time.
"Deng Ying, I'm leaving, but I'll come to see you. I still have some questions for you. Make a promise. Next time you see me, don't be mute again."
Look.
When people suffer great disasters, their wishes will generally be fulfilled in some mysterious way.
The person he wanted before the execution, someone whose body was a little warmer than his, came.
Yang Wan touched him.
Before he couldn't figure out his situation and almost hated himself.
**
Yang Wan was brought back to the Yang Mansion by Yang Lun.
Late at night, there was heavy snow in the capital.
The snow piled up on the carriage road was as high as half a horse's leg. When the servants who were sweeping the snow in front of the Yang Mansion saw Yang Lun and Yang Wan coming back on horseback, they threw down their brooms in surprise and crawled back to report. The snowy wind on Chengmen Street carried the sound far away, echoing in the quiet snowy night in the capital.
Yang Lun dismounted, turned around and reached out to help Yang Wan get off the horse.
"I can get down by myself."
Yang Lun did not answer. He put Yang Wan's arm around his neck and hugged her down. Then he said to the family members at the door, "Let Yin'er come out to help the young lady. You take my note and go to Zhengjue Temple to invite Doctor Liu."
Just as she finished speaking, the east door opened halfway, and the soft clothes of the women billowed like clouds. Four rows of lanterns came down in a hurry. Chen got the news and walked out in the snow with the help of a group of female relatives. When she saw Yang Wan, she hugged her in her arms and said, "My daughter, how did you become like this? You've broken your heart."
Yang Wan tilted her neck and let Chen hold her motionlessly.
She was really caught off guard by suddenly becoming the object of affection for so many people.
Yang Lun's wife Xiao Wen hurried forward to support Chen, "Mother, let's not talk here, go in and help Third Sister wash and change her clothes, then you can ask her slowly."
Chen then released Yang Wan with a distressed look, "Yes, look how cold you are, hurry in with your mother. Yin'er, bring me a cup of tea, the young lady will follow me tonight, you all come and serve her."
After Xiao Wen and the Chen group brought Yang Wan in, they bowed to Yang Lun.
"Have a safe journey."
Yang Lun had a stern face and was in no mood to talk, but when he heard Xiao Wen's gentle voice, he forced a smile and said, "Let's not talk about it for now, let's go in."
Xiao Wen followed behind Yang Lun, "It's late tonight. I wanted to tell you tomorrow, but this matter is still on my mind."
Yang Lun said "hmm" as he walked, motioning her to continue.
"You were not at home today, and someone from the Zhang family came. I can't let go of what they said."
Yang Lun turned around and helped Xiao Wen across the threshold. Seeing a hint of anger on her face disappear, he couldn't help but ask, "Is this disrespectful to you or something?"
Xiao Wen smiled and said calmly, "It's okay for me. I've been with you for so many years, what words can hurt me? Besides, most of those words were directed at Wan'er."
Yang Lun stopped and asked, "Who did the Zhang family send here?"
"Who else? The eldest daughter-in-law Jiang."
"What exactly did they say?"
Xiao Wen sighed, "I don't want to repeat those things to you like a parrot. You just need to know that they heard some bad things from outside, saying that even if Wan'er is found, she might be frightened and need some time to recover. It's a big deal for the Zhang family to marry a daughter-in-law, so they are not in a hurry to do it right now."
Yang Lun stepped into the main room, and the warm air rushed up to his head, making his face red.
He took off his robe and threw it on the armchair, then asked someone to bring tea.
"What kind of charades are you women playing among yourself?"
Xiao Wen bent down to pick up Yang Lun's clothes and hung them on the wooden board in the inner room. She walked out and said, "It's not that he's mute. From what I heard, he felt that our Wan'er couldn't be Zhang Luo's principal wife, but he couldn't say it directly, so he came here with such white eyebrows and red eyes and said those hypocritical words."
After hearing this, Yang Lun angrily slammed the table and said, "These bastards!"
Xiao Wen looked at the tea shaking on the table, took out her handkerchief to wipe it clean, then lifted Yang Lun's hand and wiped it for him.
"You may be angry, but you have to keep it to yourself. I haven't returned to my mother yet."
"What can't be returned?"
Yang Lun pulled his hand out of Xiao Wen's handkerchief and said impatiently, "Stop it."
Xiao Wen knew that he was unhappy, but she didn't care about his bad tone. She put away her handkerchief and stood up. "I'm a confused person. I think we should wait for you to come back to discuss and make a decision. I know you are busy in the department, and there are a lot of things to do at the beginning of the year. But the Zhang family is so arrogant, and Jiang came to talk to me as the eldest daughter-in-law, but she is just a tongs to stir up the fire. This matter, both inside and outside, is not something that we women can mediate."
There is a lot of depth to this statement.
Yang Lun raised his head and thought silently for a while.
"Zhang Luo is still in Zhejiang. He may not have any interest in this matter. I will meet him outside the court when he returns from the south. You and mother should not be anxious for now. This kind of thing is not something my family would do."
After that, he held her wrist and said, "Sit down."
Xiao Wen followed his instructions and sat down beside him. "I'm relieved that you have an idea. By the way, I haven't asked you yet, how did Wan'er become like that?"
Yang Lun raised his hands and slapped his knees hard twice, and he became angry again.
After only being missing for more than ten days, the Zhang family began to question Yang Wan's chastity. If word got out about her and Deng Ying's affair in the lake, he wouldn't know how to meet Zhang Luo. "
"The injury was caused by falling down the slope."
"Did you fall down the slope?"
Xiao Wen took a breath and said, "No wonder she was covered in wounds. Thank God, she's not seriously injured. But why doesn't she come back?"
Yang Lun waved his hand, "I didn't say anything today because I didn't want to hurt my mother's feelings. Otherwise, I would have beaten her up."
"You're not caring again."
"What do you mean by don't care? This time, no matter if the Zhang family makes trouble or not, she has made a big mistake. It's ok for mother to protect her, but you and I must not indulge her."
Seeing that he was really angry, Xiao Wen lowered her voice.
"What are you going to do?"
Yang Lun looked at the bowl of tea beside him and suddenly asked, "How should I know?"