readytorunbook Chapter 257 Only One Witness
Chapter 257 Only One Witness
Liuyao staggered back with Liuzhu's corpse, accompanied by wind and snow, taking everyone away all the way.
Zhao Fangyun had woken up, but his eyes were extremely empty. It was not until he saw Liu Yao, who had been tortured to the point of being almost unrecognizable, that he suddenly shed a few tears.
There was ready-made warm water in the carriage. Zhao Fangyu helped Zhao Fangyun drink some, and then he and Mei Xunyin sat on each side and asked about the Song family.
"There has been no news from you since you got married. Your family is worried. When Mama Cui came to give you a New Year gift, I asked them to send her back."
Zhao Fangyu said as he took out the cakes from the secret compartment and sent them to Zhao Fangyun and Liuyao. He was thinking that Liuyao was so thin that he might not even have enough food to eat in the Song Mansion.
Zhao Fangyun was better. After all, she was pregnant with the Song family's child, and the Song family would not really let her starve.
Liuyao ate quickly and could finish a piece in two bites. Zhao Fangyun handed the hot water in his hand to her, and Liuyao gulped down a few gulps.
The carriage was very large, and the worst-case scenario had been considered when we arrived. Unexpectedly, everything was really prepared. There were quilts, soft pillows, and even an imperial physician was available.
Mei Xunyin saw that Zhao Fangyun's hair was messy, so she reached out to tidy it up for her. Zhao Fangyun looked at the two people in front of her, quietly, and suddenly she shed a few huge tears.
"I want a divorce."
Zhao Fangyun's voice was dry, even though he had just drunk some water, his voice still had a hoarseness that made one's teeth ache. It didn't sound like he was thirsty, but rather like something had damaged his throat.
Mei Xunyin held Zhao Fangyun's hand, frowned and asked, "What happened to you in the Song family? Divorce is not a trivial matter, and you are pregnant."
Zhao Fangyu glanced at Zhao Fangyun's exposed wrist, which was not only red and swollen from being tied with hemp rope, but also had several bruises of varying depths that had not faded for a long time.
"Song Yuan dares to hit you?"
Mei Xunyin looked up in surprise, while Zhao Fangyu's eyes were calm.
Among the aristocratic families, marriages are mostly arranged through alliances, and the couples are well matched, so domestic violence is indeed rare.
However, there is a huge gap between the rich and the poor among the people. Even if some families know that their daughters are suffering, they are unable to help them out of their difficulties, and they even don't want them to get out of their difficulties.
Zhao Fangyu tucked in Zhao Fangyun's quilt, opened the curtain and looked outside, then asked Chunshao, "Is there anyone following us?"
Chun Shao said honestly: "There was no one following us, but we met a few tenant farmers on the road. They were tall and strong and were spying on us."
Zhao Fangyu hummed: "Hurry up and hurry into the city."
Mei Xunyin couldn't help but raise her eyebrows when she heard this: "How dare they be so bold?"
"A desperate dog will jump over the wall."
Zhao Fangyu dared to come and pick him up in person, so he would not come empty-handed. After being assassinated once, Zhao Fangyu would not give him a second chance.
Besides, who are the Song family? Can they compare with the third prince?
Zhao Fangyu closed the window and added some benzoin to the incense burner: "Don't worry, if he dares to come, there will be no worries about this matter."
Zhao Fangyun stared at Zhao Fangyu with eyes similar to those of Aunt Song without blinking. Zhao Fangyu was open and honest, and did not make any mistakes in the work at hand. He just did what he was supposed to do.
"If you want to divorce and have made up your mind, I won't stop you. But you have to know that the world is very difficult. It's always difficult for a woman to be alone with a child."
Zhao Fangyun naturally knew it, she just didn't expect that it was Zhao Fangyu who said these words to her.
Even my sister-in-law didn’t say this.
For a moment, the air was eerily quiet. Zhao Fangyun slowly leaned back, touching her belly with her hand, feeling a little at a loss.
Outside, the wind and snow were howling, and the voices of servants could be heard from time to time. She sat in a warm carriage, with her eldest sister-in-law and elder sister by her side. Zhao Fangyun finally felt a sense of reality and strengthened her determination to divorce.
"I want to make peace."
The thin man sat under the quilt, but his hands were still very cold. Thinking of Song Yuan, sparks almost appeared in his beautiful eyes.
"In the third month after the wedding, my mother-in-law sent four maids to serve Song Yuan. Later I found out that they were clearly the concubines that Song Yuan had hidden at my mother-in-law's place."
"He took a fancy to Liuyao, but Liuyao refused and took Liuzhu away. He originally said that he wanted to open Liuzhu's face, but in fact, he took her away and never came back."
"Not long after Liuzhu left, I became pregnant, so Liuyao was also taken away by Song Yuan. I only had a little maid that the Song family bought from outside."
"That little maid wanted to report back to the Zhao family for me, but she went out and never came back."
"Since then, there have been a few more people guarding my yard. I couldn't get out, so I started banging around in the house. They got annoyed and tied me up."
When Zhao Fangyun said this, his whole body revealed an unspeakable sadness.
But her tone was so calm, so calm that it seemed as if she was not telling her own story.
"Song Yuan likes to drink. He gets drunk in the arms of his beautiful maids and concubines during the day, and goes to brothels at night. When he drinks too much and is unhappy, he will look for someone to vent his anger."
"He started by hitting the durian beads and durian medicine, but when the durian beads were gone, he started hitting me as well."
"The pomegranate medicine will protect me..." Later, she even lost the pomegranate medicine.
"I'm pregnant, but he has sent all my dowry away, and I don't know where it is. But I, as the master, live like a pig and a dog, how can they be any better?"
As he spoke, Zhao Fangyun slowly grasped Liu Yao who was sitting on the ground. His hands were skinny, with mud between his fingers. When he rolled up his sleeves, he saw bruises and purple scars all over them, which were both ambiguous and cruel.
Zhao Fangyun's tears fell again. She loved money, beauty and coquettishness. She was indeed not a smart person, but she hoped that the person she loved could live a good life.
These maids who came with her as a dowry had grown up with her. To put it bluntly, they were closer to her than Zhao Fangwei.
As a result, these people left her one by one, and before they had the chance to bloom, they withered because of Song Yuan.
She grew four pomegranate flowers, but none of them bloomed.
"I've caused you trouble."
If they had followed Zhao Fangwei and Zhao Fangyu, who are still cute and lovely now, how could they have encountered those dirty things?
Zhao Fangyu usually doesn't pay much attention to Zhao Fangyun. The only time he paid attention to her was when she was five or six years old. Now, more than ten years have passed, and he didn't expect that Zhao Fangyun has become like this.
Zhao Fangyu didn't want to make the master and servant sad, lest they cry and hug each other and get a miscarriage.
"Something big happened at home before, and I didn't have time to take care of you."
Mei Xunyin had never thought that Zhao Fangyun would live like this after getting married. She felt a little distressed for a moment, because the young girl had met the wrong man at such a young age and held him in her arms.
"Don't be afraid. When you get home, take a good shower and have a rest. Your family will support you."
"I will help you persuade your elder brother."
The Song family is a den of tigers and wolves. No matter how worried Mei Xunyin is about Zhao Zhihuai's career, she will not let Zhao Fangyun continue to return to the Song family and live in numbness and pain.
Zhao Fangyu had the same idea. He patted Liuyao on the shoulder with his white fingertips and said, "You are the only witness who can prove that what your master said is true."