Priceless: A widow with a baby asks the prince to marry again

Two or three days passed quickly, and it was time to leave Xingzhou City.

Liu Rusi was packing her luggage in the room. There were a few more items belonging to her, and she was checking if there was anything missing.

After shaking the quilt, Liu Rusi felt something heavy fall out of it! But it was too late to catch it!

"Ah!"

The crisp sound made Liu Rusi stunned for a moment. The moment the object fell to the ground, she realized what it was. It was the little porcelain cow she made herself at the porcelain factory...

The porcelain cow was not painted, so its entire body was white, which created large or small glaring white spots on the ground.

"What's wrong?!" The door was open, and Chu Shiyu and Xiao Qinhao outside heard the noise and hurried in.

"It's okay. I don't know why the porcelain cow got into my quilt. It shook a little and then fell down..." Liu Rusi sighed slightly and squatted down to pick up the large pieces of the main body.

"Don't touch it! Be careful of scratching!" The big hand grabbed the small hand and pulled her up. Chu Shiyu glared at Mei Hong next to him without any expression!

Mei Hong quickly picked up the broom and dustpan to clean up. She had just gone to get the tools... She hesitated for a moment when she came in, and was glared at...

"Well, collect the broken pieces and pack them up, maybe we can glue them together..." After all, it was the first time she made a porcelain doll by herself, and it was made very well, so Liu Rusi was reluctant to give it up.

Chu Shiyu felt a little bitter as she looked at the porcelain horse that he had forced to stay with her and placed on the antique shelf. It was in good condition, but she probably hadn't even looked at it carefully. The porcelain cow was broken, but it was shaken out of her quilt...

"Don't be sad, mom... Haohao gave you his little porcelain cow..." Little Qinhao suddenly said with a guilty conscience: "It was Haohao, who played with the porcelain cow for a while and put it on the quilt..."

Seeing her son's pitiful look, Liu Rusi put aside her reluctance to part with the porcelain cow and thought it was just an object.

"Mom does feel it's a pity, but Haohao took the initiative to admit his mistakes and think of ways to make up for it, which makes mom very happy." Liu Rusi smiled and touched his little head.

Chu Shiyu suddenly felt better. It turned out that she hadn't kept it in her bed to remind him of someone else at night.

Little Qinhao ran to get his slightly rough little porcelain cow and stuffed it into Liu Rusi's hand. Then he leaned on her clingingly and asked with a reluctant look in his eyes: "Mom, can Haohao still play with the little porcelain cow occasionally?"

"Of course you can. Even if you give it to mom, it will still be Haohao's." Liu Rusi thought it was funny at first, then added, "But you have to put it away after playing with it. You have to be careful to protect the things you like."

Little Qin Hao smiled and nodded repeatedly.

Meihong cleaned up the floor, holding the dustpan filled with debris, and looked at the prince and Madam Liu inquiringly.

Chu Shiyu did not express his opinion. Liu Rusi hesitated for a few moments, took out an old piece of clothing from the box, and wrapped up the pieces. She was still reluctant to part with them, so she decided to wait until she had time in the capital to try to glue them together.

After pressing the broken pieces under the box and placing Qin Hao's calf between layers of soft clothes, Liu Rusi was about to close the box...

"Put this in too." The little porcelain horse in front of her was equally white, but so delicate that it didn't seem to be from the same dimension as their porcelain dolls.

"You keep it yourself. My suitcase is not big."

Xue Fei's bowl and Cai Yun's porcelain flowers were kept by them, but Chu Shiyu insisted on leaving his horse with her.

"You can still put down this porcelain horse... I said it's a gift for you, so you have to keep it." Chu Shiyu insisted.

Liu Rusi was speechless and didn't want to argue with him on such a boring matter, so she just closed the box and said, "Then you can give it to Mei Hong, she can keep it for me."

After her things were packed, the guards came to help them carry the boxes into the car. Liu Rusi went to Xiao Qinhao's room to help him check if anything was left out.

Chu Shiyu stood quietly in the room for a moment, suddenly snorted, reached out to open the unlocked box, and hid the porcelain horse in a soft place next to Qin Hao's porcelain cow!

Then he closed the box again, and Chu Shiyu walked out leisurely and said to the guards outside the door: "Put all the luggage in the car, be gentle, and don't touch it."

Everything was ready, and everyone walked out of the yamen.

Most of the troops were waiting outside the city, with only a small number of carriages and horses waiting at the gate of the yamen. Among them was naturally the luxurious carriage with five horses pulling it abreast, which belonged to Prince Duan's ceremonial guard.

But little Qin Hao's eyes widened immediately! He shouted in surprise: "Godfather! Is this the carriage we drew?!"

The child ran over and circled the carriage, looking up and down, left and right. Liu Rusi couldn't help but show surprise on her face. She had seen them draw pictures, but she thought it was just a picture...

"We drew it. It just arrived yesterday and I haven't seen it yet. You can check to see if there are any differences with the blueprint."

Chu Shiyu smiled with narrowed eyes, quite pleased with the reaction. After drawing the blueprint, he sent it to the craftsmen to start manufacturing. However, he originally estimated that they would not be able to make it in time for use, but he did not expect that they would be stuck in Xingzhou for more than a month.

The carriage door that originally opened in front was changed to open on the side. It was still a carved and hollow wooden door, and servants moved the horse steps to the side.

Xiao Qinhao opened the car door, and inside was the seat he had proposed, at both ends. It was still in its initial state, and the table and other objects had not been arranged.

"Let's go. We'll study it slowly on the road." Chu Shiyu walked forward and pulled little Qin Hao, sitting together on the side of the carriage.

The two people, one adult and one child, who were in the car, all looked at Liu Rusi and Caiyun and waited for them to get on the car.

Liu Rusi's eyes narrowed slightly. Could it be that Chu Shiyu was so eager to build the car just to be able to sit face to face?! He wouldn't be so deliberate and scheming as this?

However, the carriage was very spacious, with a three-foot-wide gap between the seats at both ends. Sitting face to face was not much different from eating at a square table. Thinking of this, Liu Rusi did not hesitate to sit on the other side of the carriage with Caiyun.

But after the carriage door closed and the vehicle started moving, Caiyun, who had been in a transparent state, felt uncomfortable all over! She didn't pay attention to who she was sitting opposite, but now the cold eyes of the opposite side fell on her from time to time. Caiyun felt as if there were needles hidden in the soft cushion!

However, this state did not last long. As the carriage left the gate of Xingzhou City, a familiar girl's cry was faintly heard from a distance.

"Sister Si! Madam Liu! Take me with you, take me with you!"

A thin girl came running anxiously from a distance, carrying a bag on her back. Her nose and eye sockets were red and swollen, and her face was covered with traces of tears, leaving watery luster on her little face.

The girl staggered towards the carriage. The guards outside glanced at her face and did not stop her. Only when she got close to the carriage did a servant stretch out his arm to prevent her from getting closer. This distance allowed her to talk to the masters in the carriage.

The girl didn't try to move forward. When she got close, her legs softened and she knelt on the ground, crying hoarsely and begging, "Madam Liu, please accept me. Apart from you, I have nowhere else to go..."

The carriage was stable. Liu Rusi opened the door and asked in surprise and confusion: "Xue Fei, what's wrong with you?"

Yang Xuefei knelt on the ground, her mouth opening and closing but most of the sounds coming out were crying: "Wuwu... Ruan... Wuwu... Brother..."

Liu Rusi got off the carriage, squatted down and hugged the crying girl, patted her gently and comforted her softly: "Don't worry, tell me slowly, what happened to Ruan Qing?"

Yang Xuefei leaned weakly on Liu Rusi's shoulder, and her words became a little clearer: "... wuwu... a few days ago... Zhang Shide's family was escorted to the capital. I heard that the Ministry of Justice was going to review the case. Many people went to curse and watch, and I went too..."

"When the prisoner car reached the official road, many people were excited and threw dirty things. Brother Ruan Qing got a pot of hot oil from somewhere and poured it all over Zhang Shide's head! Zhang Shide's skin was torn and flesh was exposed. Seeing the seriousness of the situation, the officials who detained the prison car wanted to arrest Brother Ruan Qing..."

"Fortunately, there were many people around who hated Zhang Shide and helped stop the yamen runners, so Brother Ruan Qing escaped... Woo..."

"Wow... But later Brother Ruan Qing disappeared... Uncle Ruan and his family and I looked everywhere for him... After two days of searching... we found him..." Yang Xuefei began to cry again.

"Wow...Brother Ruan Qing...is gone..."

Liu Rusi was stunned. She just thought... Ruan Qing didn't want Xue Fei to replace the love in her heart, so she drove Xue Fei away...

“…Woo woo… It was me… I returned to the vacant old house… and saw… woo woo woo! I saw… he hanged himself… woo woo woo!”

Patting the girl's hand to calm her down.

Liu Rusi was stunned. It turned out that Yang Liuyi was not only irreplaceable to Ruan Qing... It turned out that his neglect of Yang Xuefei was not rejection... It was because he had no energy to care about worldly affairs other than revenge...

Wearing clothes that reveal sadness in every inch, dragging a body as thin as a corpse, just for revenge...

Perhaps, Ruan Qing had already died on the day Yang Liuyi passed away...

Only when I wait for the day of revenge, will my body follow my death...

Chu Shiyu stepped down from the carriage and stopped. He held onto the carriage frame with his hands and took deep breaths, but still felt suffocated.

Why? He also felt a heart-wrenching pain! It was so painful that he could hardly stand... He was obviously not a person who would feel compassion for others... He had heard of many families being torn apart, and witnessed many tragedies in the world, but it never stirred up too much in his heart...

Chu Shiyu staggered and hurried over, stretched out his hand and pulled Liu Rusi out! His arms held her tightly in his arms like a prisoner!

Liu Rusi was stunned for a moment, her arms were strangling her to the point of suffocation! She struggled and cried out with difficulty: "What... are you doing?!"

This way, it won’t hurt so much. Greedily absorbing the body warmth in his arms, Chu Shiyu regained some of his sanity. Maybe he had put himself too deeply into the story. Ruan Qing’s counterpart is... Liu Rusi.

"Let go! I'm really...going to be strangled to death by you..." Liu Rusi shouted with difficulty.

Hearing this, Chu Shiyu hurriedly relaxed a little, but still held the person in his arms and refused to let go. He pressed his big hands on the warm and tender body, pressing the person against his chest.

"What the hell are you crazy about?!"

Liu Rusi was filled with shock and anger. She tried her best to distance herself a little. She raised her eyes with anger and looked at the arrogant man. When she saw the face so close, her anger immediately turned into astonishment...

The handsome face in front of him was pale, and his pair of auspicious eyes were filled with gray despair.

The look on his face was like the one she saw when she saw the house collapse during the flood, except now the distance was very close, so she could see it more clearly, and just looking at it made her heart tremble with worry.

"What's wrong with you?" The tone was very gentle. Liu Rusi didn't understand why he was like this, but in this state, any stimulation would make him collapse and lose control.

Awakened by the gentle voice, a tear suddenly fell from Ruifeng's eyes. He immediately buried his head in the crook of Liu Rusi's neck and whispered in a low voice with a hint of tears: "I don't know."

Liu Rusi hesitated for a few breaths, then raised her hand around his waist, patted his back, and whispered to comfort him: "It's okay, just release your emotions."

Faced with his situation, Liu Rusi also showed some patience, allowing him to bow his head quietly and hug him to help him relieve his emotions.

But patience will wear off little by little, especially when the situation is awkward!

Chu Shiyu was half-kneeling on the ground, and she was almost completely covered by him, but he buried his head in her shoulder, so Liu Rusi could see the people around her and their expressions!

This is at the gate of Xingzhou City! There are people everywhere!

Although the clever guards had surrounded the place in circles to block the curious sight of the people outside, there were many people in the circle! The guards were also human beings!

When Madam Liu was rudely snatched away, Yang Xuefei was thrown away. She even forgot her own pain for a moment and looked at Prince Duan in astonishment as he took her place...

Caiyun had also shed tears when she heard about Xuefei's story, but now she was looking at him with a puzzled look on her face...

The servants, guards and Sun Zhizhao all looked as if they had seen a ghost. However, as subordinates, they could not look directly at him, so they could only stare at him secretly...

Little Qin Hao was lying on the seat of the carriage, his cheeks supported by his hands, his two little feet raised. Does his godfather really want to be his father?

The little hand with some dead skin still on it placed on the wrist around her waist and felt her pulse for a while. She put her hand down again. She looked very normal! Although it might be that she was not good at feeling the pulse, it shouldn't be a serious illness, right?

Or is it a mental illness? But even if he is mentally ill, you can't keep holding him like this!

"Are you feeling better?" Liu Rusi asked in a gentle voice.

The man with his head buried nodded slightly when he heard this, slowly loosened his arms, and finally let the person in his arms out.

The delicate face had regained its color, even the tips of the ears were red, and compared with the fair skin next to it, it looked as if blood was about to drip out. Liu Rusi pursed her lips and thought, forget it, she wouldn't bother with him this time.

"Why don't you lie down in the car for a while? I'll talk to Xue Fei." Although Liu Rusi didn't know how to counsel and treat mental illness, it would be right to treat patients with a gentle attitude.

Chu Shiyu looked a little uncomfortable. He pulled Liu Rusi to stand up, but did not move. He said very softly: "I just want to be here, by your side..."

These were words of deep feeling again. Liu Rusi avoided his gaze and looked at Yang Xuefei.

Reaching out and gently holding the girl's shoulder, Liu Rusi asked softly, "Have you been living in Ruan Qing's house these days? What is Ruan Qing's family's attitude towards you?"

Yang Xuefei hung her head and sobbed, "Uncle Ruan's family treated me very well. Aunt Ruan also said... woohoo... that Brother Ruan Qing needs someone who understands his feelings... let me and Brother Ruan Qing..."

“What about now? They won’t keep you…” The expression he gave the little girl was gentle, yet slightly complicated.

"They didn't say... wuwu... but when I saw their expressions, I knew... they were blaming me! They must be blaming me for looking for Brother Ruan Qing... and making him think of revenge..." The little girl burst into tears. Even if the Ruan family had the kindness to keep her, she could not face the looks in the eyes of the two elders.

"This is not your fault. Without you, Ruan Qing would never have given up on revenge." But Liu Rusi knew that people in grief are most likely to vent their anger on others. It was natural for Ruan Qing's parents to blame Xue Fei...

"Sister Si, please take me with you! Even if you take me in as your maid... I don't want to stay here... wuwu..." A pair of red and swollen eyes were full of pleading.

Liu Rusi quietly looked at the girl in front of her who was only slightly taller than her chin. After thinking for a moment, she said softly, "Then you follow me first. We'll talk about the specific arrangements later. Go get in the car with Mei Hong and the others now. You've already delayed your departure."