eurekapd Chapter 379 Zhao Ning Wakes Up
Chapter 379 Zhao Ning Wakes Up
I used to genuinely believe that they were my family, and even though I thought their actions were absurd, I still felt a bit reluctant to let them go.
But now he knows that he didn't have a good life in the Jiang family before, and that's not all, they even treated his wife and daughters that way.
Letting them run wild for the past two years has been enough to repay that small debt of gratitude.
Prince Ning was a resolute man who was never swayed by inexplicable emotions. Besides, he had no feelings for the Jiang family.
However, the Jiang family did not think so. When they learned that Prince Ning was going to send them back, they immediately started making a scene, threatening to kill themselves and insisting on seeing Prince Ning.
Prince Ning also met with them.
Jiang's mother was imprisoned. When she saw Prince Ning, she burst into tears: "Jianqiu, you can't treat us like this! We raised you to adulthood, and now you're going to abandon us?"
Prince Ning looked at her calmly: "Although I have amnesia, it doesn't mean you can lie to me."
Jiang's mother firmly believed that Si Mutong must have told him about the past.
"It's Si Mutong, isn't it? Yes, we acknowledge that she used to be your wife, but she was unfaithful. After you left, she started having affairs with other men. Later, when she learned that you were gone, she..."
"Shut up!" Prince Ning shouted, scaring them into silence.
“I know her perfectly well. On the contrary, you have hurt her time and time again, and now you are spewing slander! If you dare to tell another lie, you will be punished for defamation!”
Jiang's mother dared not continue speaking and lay on the ground, wailing loudly.
Jiang's father stared at Prince Ning for a long time with a gloomy look before saying, "Are you really going to send us away? Do you know that the debt of gratitude for raising us is the greatest? Aren't you afraid that others will think you are unfilial?"
"Are you worthy of my filial piety?"
Prince Ning said no more and ordered that after they were executed, they be immediately escorted back to Lingnan.
Upon hearing this, Jiang's mother knew that there was no way to change the situation with Prince Ning. She collapsed to the ground, and a strong smell of urine wafted out.
Arun originally wanted to follow Prince Ning, but when he heard Jiang's father and Jiang Jianchun still cursing and saying that Prince Ning was unfilial, he couldn't help but stop and walk to the prison cell.
"Given what you did to the Prince, the fact that he didn't kill you is already an act of mercy on his part!"
Sister-in-law Jiang quickly forced a smile that looked more like a grimace: "My lord, my lord, please tell Prince Ning that he shouldn't believe everything Si Mutong says. We... we're not so great, but we still managed to raise him, didn't we?"
"You have the nerve to say you raised him?" Arun sneered. "You never really intended to raise him. You just used him as a slave and a punching bag because he could work. When he grows up, the whole family will be too lazy to support him!"
Sister-in-law Jiang waved her hand: "No, it's not like that..."
"Heh, you still think it was the second young lady of the Si family who said it? No, the prince has long been suspicious and ordered me to go there myself. I visited all the villages you stayed in, and these words were said by those villagers!"
Sister-in-law Jiang turned pale, only then realizing that Prince Ning had truly made up his mind this time.
The next morning, Prince Ning went to the Marquis of Anle's residence to request an audience with Si Mutong.
However, Si Mutong did not see him.
If Prince Ning waited outside for half an hour and then stopped him from leaving, the news would probably spread throughout the capital immediately.
Si Muyan then let him in.
“Your Highness’s actions are disturbing the peace of the Marquis’s residence and are also quite detrimental to my second sister’s reputation. I urge Your Highness not to be so forceful.”
Prince Ning said, "I only want to see her once, please... elder sister, let me see her once."
Si Muyan shook her head: "Please call me Miss, Your Highness."
Prince Ning took a deep breath: "But she and I... are still husband and wife."
"You've completely forgotten her, and you're no longer husband and wife."
Prince Ning didn't even know how he left. He couldn't remember his past, but Si Mutong's face was always in his mind.
He can't shake it off, and he doesn't want to.
Ever since Feng Zizhou visited Zhao Ning once, he has been going to the Princess's residence every day, rain or shine, to accompany Zhao Ning.
At first, both sides were a little awkward and reluctant.
But as time went on, they just let it be.
Feng Zizhou was unable to walk and needed to be carried across, but later he was able to walk with crutches.
They always told Zhao Ning about their lives from childhood to adulthood, without fail.
Later, he even found some toys they used to play with when they were little, and regardless of whether Zhao Ning was unconscious and couldn't see, he played with them in her room, forgetting his leg injury several times in his excitement. Standing up almost aggravated his injury.
The eldest princess looked at this scene through the window, and her eyes involuntarily reddened.
The old woman advised her, "Your Highness, the Fourth Young Master treats the County Princess so well; Your Highness should be happy."
The eldest princess wiped away her tears and said, "I'm not unhappy, I'm just thinking that I always thought Zizhou was unreliable, but now I realize that he's actually like this..."
To say that their feelings were deep would be inappropriate; Feng Zizhou himself probably didn't understand what his feelings for Zhao Ning were like.
The eldest princess prayed in the Buddhist hall: "I only pray that my son Zhao Ning will recover soon. From now on, I will follow her in whatever she wants to do."
On the afternoon of the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, Zhao Ning actually woke up.
When she woke up, she saw Feng Zizhou awkwardly slumped over the table, one hand lifting his injured leg and scratching it without any regard for his image.
Zhao Ning exploded: "Feng Zizhou, you're so ugly! What are you doing making such a racket in my room? Go back to your room and go crazy!"
"You're the one who's sick." Feng Zizhou retorted instinctively, but then he was overjoyed. "Zhao Ning, you're awake? You're finally awake! Someone! Quickly, get the imperial physician! Zhao Ning is awake!"
He didn't even need his crutches; he hopped to the bedside, grabbed Zhao Ning's hand, and burst into tears of joy.
"Zhao Ning, you're finally awake! Do you know how worried we've been about you for so long!"
Zhao Ning then realized that he was so weak that he couldn't even lift his hands.
She paused for a moment before recalling the banquet that day.
"What...what happened? I...you...you saved me?"
Feng Zizhou nodded frantically, then shook his head: "No, I wanted to save you, but I was too useless. It was Prince Ning who saved us both. Zhao Ning, you're awake, and you're not mentally impaired. That's good, that's good!"
"You're the one who's stupid!" Zhao Ning glared at her and cursed.
The eldest princess arrived in a hurry with her entourage. The imperial physician wanted to examine Zhao Ning, but Feng Zizhou couldn't stop him and simply waved his hand and said...
"Get well soon, let's play together."
He just kept grinning like an idiot, which made everyone present feel a great sense of relief.
Zhao Ning is better now. Apart from being weak from lying down for too long, there is nothing else wrong with her.
The princess was so excited that she lit several sticks of incense and donated a lot of money to various temples in the capital.
He took the prince consort to the Duke of Feng's mansion that very night, saying he wanted to thank Feng Zizhou for his care and companionship over the past few days.