RPAGF Chapter 131 Lin Dafeng's Departure
Chapter 131 Lin Dafeng's Departure
Upon hearing this, Ling Huanan immediately ordered his men to bring Lin Dafeng to him. His deputy also led his men to find her at another small gambling den, where they captured her and brought her back to the palace, where they threw her to the ground.
When Lin Dafeng saw Ling Huanan, she forgot to struggle. She looked like she had seen a ghost and almost blurted out that she was asking him why he was still alive.
When she finally came to her senses and saw Ling Huanan's unreadable expression, her legs went weak, and she knelt straight down on the ground: "Sister... Your Highness, you... you..."
"How am I? Why am I not dead yet?" Ling Huanan leaned closer to Lin Dafeng.
Lin Dafeng's eyes widened in alarm, and she hastily forced a fawning smile: "Your Highness is too kind. You...you are blessed with long life, how could...how could you...?"
"Is that so?" Ling Huanan smiled, a rare occurrence, but the smile was more terrifying than usual.
"Yes...yes..."
Before Lin Dafeng could finish speaking, Ling Huanan's deputy brought out the remaining chicken soup. She immediately felt guilty and at a loss for words: "What... what is this?"
The lieutenant, too lazy to argue with her, retorted directly, "What is it? You'll know once you take a sip."
He made a move to feed her the chicken soup, but Lin Dafeng was so frightened that she backed away repeatedly. Finally, with nowhere left to retreat, she stammered, "I...I was forced to...please...please me..."
After saying that, he fainted, followed by a strong smell of urine. The lieutenant immediately covered his mouth and nose as if he had seen a ghost and backed away, saying disgustedly, "Coward!"
Before he could even make a move, he fainted...
Ling Huanan also said with disgust, "Take him away, wake him up, and make sure to find out the source of the poison."
"Yes."
The rest of the people were also dismissed.
The interrogation results were obtained in about fifteen minutes, after all, Lin Dafeng was not a person with backbone.
Upon hearing the report, Ling Huanan clearly did not believe that Feng Qing possessed such intelligence and ability, and immediately dispatched secret guards to investigate Feng Qing's maid.
He then turned to Lin Dafeng, who had been brought over again, and said, "Did I ever tell you to behave yourself? Since you want to die, I will grant your wish..."
Just as she was about to deal with Lin Dafeng, she heard a servant report that Ji Yan had woken up and wanted to see her and Lin Dafeng.
Ling Huanan glanced back at Lin Dafeng, then turned and walked towards Ji Yan's room. As he stepped out of the room, he said to the deputy behind him, "Take her with you."
Once inside Ji Yan's room, Ling Huanan dismissed the servants. Du Ruo and the others had already been sent back to their own courtyards, leaving only the father and his two daughters inside.
Lin Dafeng rushed forward, grabbing Ji Yan's hand, tears streaming down her face, sobbing uncontrollably: "Waaah... Godfather... Godfather, you're finally awake..."
Ji Yan lay on the bed, looking sickly with lifeless eyes. He leaned weakly against the headboard, looking at Lin Dafeng with a complicated expression. It seemed that he was not entirely unaware of what had just happened.
Before he could say anything, another announcement came from outside the door, saying that Young Master Du and Young Master Zhu had died.
"Cough cough...cough..." Ji Yan coughed incessantly, aroused by the noise. The people who had just been eating with him were suddenly gone, and he was probably next...
"Godfather...you absolutely cannot be hurt..." Upon hearing that Du Ruo and the other two had died, a hint of fear flashed in Lin Dafeng's eyes, but then she spoke to Ji Yan with concern.
But Ji Yan finally understood. The person who was indifferent to the deaths of her husband and son-in-law was probably not genuinely concerned about her. Rather, she knew that if she were to die, Nan'er would likely make her pay with her life!
After thinking it through, Ji Yan pulled his hand away from Lin Dafeng's grasp, waved it, and said in a weak, hoarse voice, "Go down! Go see them..."
"They" here naturally refers to Du Ruo and Xiao Zhu Shi.
Upon hearing this, Lin Dafeng reflexively looked up at Ling Huanan, but seeing that he had no expression, she stumbled and ran outside.
Once the figure had completely disappeared, Ji Yan withdrew his gaze, looked at Ling Huanan, and extended a hand, saying gently, "Nan'er."
Ling Huanan stepped forward, grasped the hand Ji Yan offered, and said, "Father."
"Nan'er, let her go!" Ji Yan's weak voice reached my ears.
Ling Huanan paused in his grip on the other person's hand, then looked intently at Ji Yan, his refusal firm and resolute:
"Absolutely impossible! Father, do you know that she intended to kill me? And that she would also harm you!"
"Nan'er, you must already know, she is your own sister!" Seeing that Ling Huanan didn't seem to care about the refusal, Ji Yan continued with a somewhat complicated expression:
"She's suffered a lot outside, but she's not a bad person at heart; she just wasn't taught properly! In truth, it's my mother and I who have wronged her; she's probably been used by someone this time..."
“Even if she was being used, it was because she had ulterior motives and such intentions!” Ling Huanan couldn’t stand it anymore. He forcefully pulled his hand back, stood up, turned his back to Ji Yan, and continued, “Besides, I have not wronged her.”
"Nan'er, I'm begging you..." Ji Yan's voice was pleading.
Seeing that Ling Huanan remained unmoved and even tried to get up despite her illness to beg her, Ling Huanan quickly turned around and helped the other person lie down, finally saying coldly:
"Very well! I will spare her life!"
Whether she survives or not depends on whether she's lucky enough to live.
"Good! Good boy!" Ji Yan finally felt relieved.
"Father, please rest well. I'll come to see you another day." Ling Huanan felt uncomfortable and didn't reply to the other person's words. She didn't want to stay any longer and left after saying that.
Just as her hand touched the door frame, she heard Ji Yan's guilty voice behind her again:
"Nan'er, there hasn't been any happy occasion in the manor for a long time! Xue Wen is a good boy, so let's get the wedding done as soon as possible while I can still hold on for a while."
"Hmm." He left with that one word and walked away without looking back.
Marrying Awen is indeed something we should consider. To put it bluntly, if Father really passes away, then we certainly can't have a wedding for the next three years.
The two have been separated for eighteen years, and she is about to return to Shuomen Pass. Does she expect Awen to wait another three years?
……
Ling Huanan stepped out of Ji Yan's courtyard and went straight back to the main courtyard, sending someone to bring Lin Dafeng away.
After witnessing the deaths of Du Ruo and the other person, Lin Dafeng had no time to grieve for them. At this moment, she was terrified, fearing that Ji Yan was also gone, in which case she would surely die!
No, she doesn't want to die. She came to the capital to enjoy a life of luxury, and she hasn't enjoyed it for long yet. She can't die!
Therefore, when Lin Dafeng was brought to the main courtyard by Ling Huanan's personal guards, she knelt down and kowtowed, sobbing uncontrollably.
"Your Highness, I know I was wrong, I know I was wrong! Please spare my life! I have already lost my husband and son-in-law, which is my punishment, please forgive me!"
Upon hearing her words, Ling Huanan felt a pang of sorrow for Ji Yan's words. He then leaned forward slightly, gazing intently at her, and said:
"Rest assured! I have promised my father that I will not take your life..."
However, before Lin Dafeng could show any joy, she heard Ling Huanan order his deputy: "Give him thirty strokes of the cane, then cut off one of his hands and one of his feet, and expel him from the palace."
"No...no, I'll die..." Lin Dafeng quickly begged for mercy. Thirty strokes of the cane would surely bruise her buttocks! Not to mention breaking her arms and legs...
Unfortunately, no one will heed her cries of pain...
That night, Lin Dafeng, with her buttocks beaten bloody and mangled and her left hand and left foot broken, was thrown into an alley not far from the Prince's Mansion. Even the corpses of Du Ruo and the other person were thrown beside her.
Lin Dafeng's injuries had not been treated, and she was in excruciating pain, her face contorted in agony. She was also starving, but she had no money on her…
Then, as if she had thought of something, she looked down at the dead Du Ruo and the other person, reached out and rummaged through their bodies, and found a few taels of silver.
She cursed under her breath, then suddenly remembered that she had a daughter. Yes, she could rely on her daughter to support her in her old age... She would go to the Imperial College to find Lin Yue tomorrow!
After thinking it over, she lay down on the two nearly stiff corpses and fell asleep.
As dawn broke, a man got up in the alley and limped away, never once looking back at the corpse behind him...
Lin Dafeng waited outside the Imperial College for two days but did not see Lin Yue. Later, he asked the students inside and learned that Lin Yue had not appeared for almost a month.
In the end, Lin Yue disappeared without a trace, and she had very little money left. She had no choice but to ask someone to pass on a message that if Lin Yue returned, she should go to Peach Blossom Village to pick her up. After that, she returned to Peach Blossom Village by begging all the way.
She was lucky; after several months of wandering, she finally returned to Peach Blossom Village.
When she returned, she was shocked to find that the once little-known Peach Blossom Village had now quietly developed into a major village in Dongshan Town!
She was secretly pleased, thinking that coming back was a good thing, especially after hearing that the village was now taking in some widowed, orphaned, and lonely people.
But she didn't realize that she had offended the clan chief and the village head before, so how could she expect to have an easy time now?
Therefore, it's easy to imagine what Lin Dafeng's later life was like: she was always hungry and cold, and everyone took advantage of her, making her life worse than death...
Lin Yue never got to see Lin Dafeng's death!
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