63 Putting in Well (1/2)
The matriarch didn't need to ask her son any further. She could think of the things that the Qin family had done in the main hall today.
”Mother,” Grand Preceptor An said, ”It looks like the An clan will be destroyed by my hands.”
”Destroyed?” The matriarch replied, ”If our An clan is destroyed, what will happen to Yuanwen and the others? ”The An clan has hundreds of lives, yet they want to die just because of one of your words?”
”I,” Grand Preceptor An was rendered speechless by his words.
”Bring me a bogus corpse,” Matriarch said. ”It looks like His Majesty's going to keep that girl by his side.”
”This must not happen!”
”So?” The matriarch looked at her only son and suddenly felt disappointed. ”You've also been an official for many years. I thought you'd know a lot being in the Grand Preceptor's position.”
”She's his subject's wife, this isn't something an emperor should do!” Grand Preceptor An said angrily.
”Why didn't you say it was your girl's fault? ”Will the people of the world say that His Majesty stole the wives of ministers, or will they say that An Jinxiu did not follow the ways of a woman and recommended her own Dragon Couch?”
Grand Preceptor An's face turned red. ”You know this is not Ah Jin's fault”
”If the Son of Heaven gets angry, he'll take the corpse for ten thousand miles,” Matriarch said. ”If it's not her fault, then whose fault is it? Didn't you hear what Madam Qin said? ”The crown prince's consort also participated in this matter. From my point of view,Madam Qin doesn't have the ability to do so. I'm afraid our crown princess is the real mastermind.”
”She …” Grand Preceptor An didn't know what to say about An Jinyan.
”It's our family's misfortune that the eldest daughter of the An clan would do such a thing,” Matriarch said, but there was no anger on her face. ”However, she is our family's future hope. No matter how much you're angry, you can only help her at this time.”
”What about Ah Jin?”
”Ah Jin? Do you think she can still come out and meet people? How much do you think a married woman can gain from favors? ”
”That's not what your son meant,” Grand Preceptor An said anxiously. ”I meant …”
”An Jin's corpse is lying in that coffin,” Matriarch interrupted. ”There won't be another person like her left alive in this world. Your daughter is dead!”
Since things had already happened and they were powerless to change even the slightest bit, they might as well accept it all. They didn't want to do anything else, nor did they want to think about it any longer.
”We'll bury those three corpses in glory,” Matriarch added, ”This is our An clan's explanation to General Shangguan.” Natural disasters are not something that us mortals can avoid, so he can't blame us. ”
”Ah Jinyan's heart is too cruel!” Grand Preceptor An sighed. ”Ah Jinis her younger sister.”
”They don't come from the same stomach, what love can they possibly have?” The matriarch shook her head. ”In the future, you have to be nicer to Aunt Xiu. An Jinxiu is at the side of the emperor after all. I think she still have some feelings for her own biological mother.” ”Even if she were to be blessed in the future, as long as Aunt Xiu lives in our house, this girl will not be able to do anything to us.”
At this time, in the back yard of the Residence of An, Grand Preceptor second concubine wife, Lady Feng and Grandma Qian were holding umbrellas. They had searched the entire courtyard but had not found Aunt Xiu.
”Where can she run to under such heavy rain?” Lady Feng anxiously asked Grandma Qian. After hearing the news of An Jin's' death ', she was almost scared to death. When she came back to her senses and ran to find Aunt Xiu in the room, she didn't know that this person would be nowhere to be found.
”When she came back, she even took a bath. I was just going to pour a bath. Where can this person run to?”
”I can't get out of this courtyard,” Lady Feng said as she pulled Grandma Qian to the courtyard door. ”Go out and find her.”
”If you don't go out, won't it be the same for the Aunt Xiu?”
”You should just go and secretly search for her. If Matriarch and the Madam Qin find out, she'll be in big trouble!” As Lady Feng spoke, she took off a silver ring from her finger and stuffed it into the hands of Grandma Qian.
After receiving Lady Feng's gift, she didn't say anything else and left the courtyard with an umbrella.
Lady Zhou sat in her own room, listening to Lady Feng close to her. ”It looks like Aunt Xiu really did run away.”