Chapter 247: Making It Clear

Jiang Lianzhi also heard from the housekeeper of Cao's house that Shen Yu looked very bad when she left. The housekeeper said that she was probably not feeling well.

Now that he thought about it, the housekeeper was also a shrewd person. Most likely, Shen Yu didn't want to have dinner with him and made an excuse to leave. However, the housekeeper didn't dare to speak directly, so he found a reason to prevaricate.

"Why did you say so much to him?" Chang Liu ran out from inside, "Just send him out."

"You." Chang Liu pointed to the end of the alley with confidence, "Go."

"You are rude." Gao Jin, the follower behind Jiang Lianzhi, held the knife.

Jiang Lianzhi raised his hand to stop him. Just as he was about to speak, his eyes passed through the gap between the two of them and saw the person coming.

Chang Liu turned back, "Princess, why did you come out? You are not needed here. I can send them away."

Shen Yu smiled slightly, "I know you can do it. You two go and rest. I'll go out for a while."

"But...then, I'll go get the cloak." Chang Liu ran and grumbled: "The wind is so strong at night. The prince said that if the princess is sick, he will use my little turtle to make soup. The prince is afraid that he can't tell the difference between turtle and tortoise, and the turtle soup must not taste good."

Shen Yu stood at the door and waited for a while, put on the cloak, glanced at Jiang Lianzhi, and then went out and walked towards the city gate.

Jiang Lianzhi received a signal from her eyes.

"No need to follow." He said to Gao Jin.

Gao Jin was worried, "Sir..."

"No need to follow." This time the tone was more serious than the previous one.

It was wartime and a cold winter day. Although it hadn't snowed yet, it was no warmer than snowing, and there were few pedestrians on the street.

There were still soldiers patrolling on the wall. The two of them climbed up the wall and walked to the side where no one was.

If Shen Yu didn't speak, Jiang Lianzhi wouldn't speak either.

He quietly looked at her thin and tall back standing by the parapet, his palms slightly sweating, but he didn't know where this uneasiness came from.

"What gifts did you send to Beilin?"

Jiang Lianzhi was stunned by her question, "Just household items."

Shen Yu didn't look back, "Do you remember what they were?"

If you don't remember, how can you let people collect them one by one.

In the years after her death, Jiang Lianzhi had walked through their bedroom again and again, touching those food tables, desks, screens, mirror tables... again and again...

He wanted to touch his deceased wife in time through those things.

"Remember." Jiang Lianzhi's eyes became far-reaching, and he said the names of those things one by one.

Shen Yu closed her eyes.

At this moment, she was finally able to be completely sure that he was the Jiang Lianzhi in her previous life.

"I heard from the housekeeper of Cao's house that your late wife drowned in the lake."

Jiang Lianzhi was instantly pierced by this sentence, just because it came from her mouth.

"...Yes." He said with difficulty.

Shen Yu still did not look back, "Lord Jiang has not married yet, so where did his late wife come from?"

Jiang Lianzhi concentrated his mind, and at this moment, he had some guesses in his heart.

Before he could think carefully, Shen Yu turned around and smiled at him in the firelight, "Tell me about her, what kind of person is she?"

That smile made him feel that if it was really as he guessed, her knife should have been on his neck at this moment, so how could she give him such a good color.

Or perhaps, he already knew the answer in his heart, but he just didn't dare to admit it.

Jiang Lianzhi's eyes moved slightly, as if he was lost in memories, "She... She is gentle, kind, and respectful. She is gentle to everyone and never gets angry with servants. She will stand at the door with a lantern and wait for me."

"What else?"

"She was once the treasure of the family, but she suffered a change. Her health is very bad. She has to take medicine every day. There is always a faint smell of medicine on her body. I don't like it, so she burns incense."

Shen Yu felt self-harm in this answer, as if she had relived that short and wet life in his description.

"Anything else?"

"She..." Jiang Lianzhi stopped suddenly. He searched repeatedly in his mind, but it was difficult to find a word about her.

"No more?" Shen Yu looked at him, "You don't seem to know your first wife."

Jiang Lianzhi was visibly panicked, and he frowned.

There are so many memories, and he can recall those things over and over again at night, but why can he only summarize them in such a few sentences?

"I..."

"She drowned. Did you see it?"

"I saw it." Jiang Lianzhi's voice trembled slightly.

Shen Yu stared at his expression intently, "Then didn't you save her?"

Jiang Lianzhi: "I..."

Shen Yu approached him, and Jiang Lianzhi gradually saw the fire and himself in her eyes, but the look was so strange.

"Why didn't you save her?"

"What does it feel like to watch her die in front of you?"

"She died, you should be very happy, right?"

Jiang Lianzhi was struck by lightning, and he retreated involuntarily in her questioning.

"You don't understand her, you don't love her, you can watch her die, but why?" Shen Yu's eyes flashed with a strange light, "Why do you want to propose to her again? Do you want to drag her into the abyss of no return again?"

Jiang Lianzhi's eyes widened instantly, but only for a moment, and his eyes returned to indifference.

The result was already expected. He was not stupid. He had already found the answer in the details.

Her dream, her going to Yanliang Pass against her previous life, her drastically changed temperament, her inexplicable hostility towards him...

What surprised him was that she would pierce the window paper so simply.

Jiang Lianzhi suddenly laughed, and even he didn't know whether it was a bitter smile or sarcasm.

Shen Yu watched him go crazy quietly.

Jiang Lianzhi's smile gradually faded, "Since you know that I am still the same person, don't you want to kill me? Avenge yourself."

"I have thought about it." Shen Yu said without hesitation: "When I sank into the water, I wanted to cut you into pieces. But after I was reborn, I felt that life was precious. It was not you who pushed me into the water. You don't matter to me at all." It’s important, it’s not worth my time. You chose to save her instead of me, but just do whatever you want. If you fall into the water with Ting Zhou, I will save him without hesitation and won’t even look at you.”

Jiang Lianzhi was hurt by such words.

"No." Jiang Lianzhi said eagerly: "No, I wanted to save you, but I didn't see that the person in the water was you. They told me that Qingli and the maidservant fell into the water. I really didn't expect that it was you. You, if I knew it was you..."

"Are you using these words to frustrate me or to deceive yourself?" Shen Yu finished the second half of the sentence for him, "Whether you see it clearly or not, you will still choose to save her."

Jiang Lianzhi was stunned, and for a moment he didn't know how to refute.