The Fourth Lady novel Chapter 98

Just then, a shrewd voice sounded, and when Qingyan turned to look, she saw Murong Jingxuan and Xuanyuan Yuzhen with a bunch of people standing behind them. Those people behind them she was rather familiar with, they seemed to be the cooks she'd reserved from Julong Zhai. But to make this big of a clamor...

Could it be that Murong Jingxuan and Xuanyuan Yuzhen were here to watch a show?

Qingyan glared to Murong Jingxuan, her gaze seemed to be saying, 'I can't believe you brought the Fourth Prince to my house to watch a show."

Murong Jingxuan helplessly shrug his shoulders. The eunuch beside Xuanyuan Yuzhen already began to read the imperial edict, saying that for Su Yun's return, this delicious meal from Julong Zhai was specially bestowed to him. The imperial edict even emphasized that this meal was for Su Yun.

After reading out the imperial edict, the eunuch left. And yet, Xuanyuan Yuzhen and Murong Jingxuan remained behind.

Qingyan saw the dishes in the cooks' hands standing before her and looked to Su Yun with a smile, "Father, do you want to eat in the main hall or in my yard?"

Su Yun glanced to the eager Su Ming and Su Yan and unwittingly thought of those things. He'd always felt he was sorry towards Qingyan, and seeing their expectant gazes, he simply said, "I'm a bit tried from the journey today, since second sister-in-law didn't prepare anything, then I'll just go to Yan'er yard."

With that said, Su Yun went ahead and left, pulling Qingyan away, and following after was Luo Bing and Su Qingyu. As for Murong Jingxuan and Xuanyuan Yuzhen, they naturally followed as well.

Seeing the crowd's back walking away in the distance, Su Ming and Su Yan could only angrily grind their teeth, but couldn't do anything about it.

Ning Siyao watched their retreating backs and could only claw into her skin. Didn't her elder brother say everything was already arranged so that Su Yun and Luo Bing won't be able to return alive. So then why did it become like this now?

Not only returning safe and sound, they even received his Majesty's bestowment of honor. Even though it was only a table of dishes, it was still his Majesty's immense favoring.

"Just what in the world is going on, second brother?" Su Yan looked to Su Ming with a look of doubt.

Su Ming didn't know the reasoning behind this either. He glanced to the figures in the distance and fell into thought. Soon after he noticed that Ning Siyao had a look of disbelief.

Chai Yiyun wouldn't personally try to invite bad luck, so she turned to leave as well.

Su Ming looked to Ning Siyao and coldly spoke, "Come back with me."

When Ning Siyao heard Su Ming's voice, she couldn't help but tremble. They've been married for this many years, and Su Ming seemed to have never used that kind of tone with her before. She could imagine what Su Ming wanted to ask.

But this matter, she didn't know whether she should tell him or not.

Su Ming brought Ning Siyao back to her own yard. When they returned to the room, he closed the doored and turned to Ning Siyao, "Tell me, just what in the world happened? Seeing big brother like that, something unpleasant must have happened on the way back to the capital."

Ning Siyao looked to Su Ming with a bit of a guilty conscious, "How would I know? My lord, don't tell me you're suspecting me?"

Su Ming walked up next to her, "You're my wife, your personality, I understand well enough. That's why it's best if you tell me just what is going on."

Ning Siyao knew that this matter she could no longer keep hiding anymore. So she could only confess everything to Su Ming. Su Ming never would have thought that Jingguo Marquis manor would dare to try go after Su Yun's life.

But the reality of it proved that they'd failed, moreover they lost terribly.

At the moment, Su Yun, Luo Bing, and Su Qingyu were all in Yingshuang yard. Zizhu placed all the dishes from the food containers one by one onto the table. Seeing Qingyan's smiling expression, they also felt this moment was great.

"General Su, my father heard you've returned in triumph, so especially ordered me to send you this table of delicacy." Xuanyuan Yuzhen looked to Su Yun with a warm smile.

However, Su Qingyan still didn't like this kind of false front Xuanyuan Yuzhen had.

"Thank you Fourth Prince for the trouble of specially delivering it, I'm not worthy of such honor." Su Yun looked to Xuanyuan Yuzhen with a polite look.

Xuanyuan Yuzhen waved his hand, not minding, "Today is your daughter's welcoming dinner for you, there's no need to be this courteous."

Su Qingyan looked to Xuanyuan Yuzhen, unable to hold back her glare. She spoke in a sneering tone, "For the Fourth Prince to come without being invited, you've really opened my eyes."

Su Yun didn't think that Qingyan would say something so shocking. Just when he was afraid that Xuanyuan Yuzhen would get angry, he instead heard Qingyan's voice, "Father, today you're the honored guest." She said as she added some food on Su Yun's plate.

"Yan'er, you really have grown." Luo Bing looked to Qingyan and said with a smile, "Mother hasn't seen you in three years, I'd thought you really don't want to be close with us anymore."

That perhaps was the former Su Qingyan.

"Mother, I've really missed you." Qingyan looked to Luo Bing and said in a child-like manner. "You and father are protecting the country, naturally I need to learn to be understanding of you two."

Su Yun felt that his daughter really has become different than before. But just thinking about it also made his heart ache. He didn't know what Qingyan has experienced in this manor to have made her like this now.

"Yan'er, in this manor, your second and third aunt, have they treated you well?" Su Yun looked to Qingyan and still couldn't help but ask the question he had suppressed in his heart for a long time.

If he couldn't get to the bottom of this question, he wouldn't be able to rest easy.

Qingyan listened to Su Yun's words and smiled, "Father, I'm not their real daughter after all. If it were to be like eldest sister and second sister, that's not too possible."

In other words it meant: 'Over there, I was nothing more than an outsider.'

And who would really sincerely take care of an outsider, furthermore, an ignorant idiot.

"Yan'er, this time father's returned, do you have any wishes?" Su Yun grasped Qingyan's hand as he said this. In the end, it was all this father's fault. All these years, he's overlooked this daughter of his.

"Father, I really have been well." Qingyan looked to Su Yun with a smile, "Grandmother treats me really well too."

Su Yun didn't let anyone go invite Su Jiashi, which made Qingyan feel rather odd. Su Jiashi was Su Yun's biological mother after all, but Su Yun didn't go report to the old madam when he returned, nor take any other course of action.

And at that moment, Qingyan had invited over Su Yan's Deng Yan.

Deng Yan looked to Su Yun and Luo Bing and faced them with a bow, "Greetings elder brother, sister-in-law."

Su Yun and Luo Bing didn't have much of an impression of Deng Yan. Seeing this, Qingyan instead walked over to Deng Yan's side and spoke with a smile, "Father, mother, Deng yiniang treats me just like her own daughter."

Su Yun, seeing Qingyan and Deng Yan's intimate appearance, grew a more favorable impression of Deng Yan. "Since that's the case, then sister-in-law have a seat."

Qingyan liked Su Qingcong and Su Qingxue very much, so she called them over to sit next to her. She looked to Qingcong with a smile, "Cong'er if you like, you can eat lots today."