Chapter 219: Happy Little Munchkins, Poor Brother Jiu
1Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Yu Wan was stunned when she heard this. What did Yan Jiuchao mean? What did he mean by not a dream? Was it true? Did he really say that?
“Your son is still alive. He’s in your arms.”
She only had three little munchkins in her arms… Could it be—
Yu Wan looked at Yan Jiuchao in disbelief. “What did you say? Repeat what you just said.”
Yan Jiuchao stopped talking. How could he, the young master of Yan City, repeat a sentence? He refused to admit that he did not dare to.!!
Yu Wan was not stupid after all. It was fine if she did not know that the children were not Yan Ruyu’s biological children, but now that she knew, it was not so sudden and difficult to accept that the children had another mother. It was not that she had not fantasized that that person might be her. She was pregnant three years ago. When she saw the three little fellows, she would also tell herself in her heart that if her children were born, they would be as old as them. However, she felt that the chances of this were too small.
It was difficult for her to give birth to one, so how could she have three? And with Yan Jiuchao?
“Yan Jiuchao, you’re not lying to me, right?” She looked at Yan Jiuchao again. Yan Jiuchao turned his face away. She held his face and forced him to turn his head and meet her gaze. Her fever had yet to subside, and her palms were burning.
“Yan Jiuchao.” She looked into his eyes with a burning gaze. “Look into my eyes and say it again. Are Dabao, Er’bao, and Xiaobao really my biological children? Am I really their mother?”
Yan Jiuchao had never seen such a scorching gaze, making his heart feel like it was being burned. He nodded. “Yes, they’re your biological sons.”
Yu Wan’s tears rushed out.
Yan Jiuchao was shocked. This was a woman who never cried even when she fell off a cliff, but she actually cried like a child after learning the truth about her children.
Yu Wan felt that she was not crying, but her tears were a little disobedient. She raised her hand to wipe her tears.
Yan Jiuchao handed over a handkerchief.
She choked as she took it. “Yan Jiuchao…”
“What?” Yan Jiuchao asked seriously.
Yu Wan did not answer him. After wiping her tears, she suddenly raised her hand and pinched his hand hard.
Yan Jiuchao gasped in pain. “Yu Ah Wan!”
“Does it hurt?”
“What do you think!” A red mark had already appeared on the back of his fair hand.
Yu Wan smiled through her tears. “Then it’s true. I’m not dreaming.”
Yan Jiuchao : “…” If you want to know if you’re dreaming, why don’t you pinch yourself…
Yu Wan’s emotions churned violently in her heart. She was pleasantly surprised, but she was also filled with resentment and anger. She was happy that she had found her children, the three babies she doted on the most. She was angry that her children, who were clearly her children, had been snatched away and become someone else’s children.
Yu Wan wiped the tears off her face. She knew how scary she looked without even looking.
“Do you want to see them? I’ll bring them over.” Yan Jiuchao read her mind.
Yu Wan shook her head with tears in her eyes. Although she really wanted to hug her children immediately, it was better not to scare them in her state.
Yu Wan tried her best to think of something rational to calm herself down. “Yan Jiuchao, what exactly is going on? Why were you the one back then? Why didn’t you recognize me?”
“Then why didn’t you recognize me?” Yan Jiuchao asked.
“I…” Yu Wan was speechless.
Yu Wan did not know that the Host’s memories had also been destroyed. She only thought that she had not inherited her memories, but how could she tell Yan Jiuchao?
Fortunately, Yan Jiuchao was only teasing her and did not really ask her anything. It was dark that night and Yan Jiuchao did not see what she looked like, so she naturally did not see Yan Jiuchao’s clearly. Although Yan Jiuchao had dropped the jade pendant, not everyone recognized that it belonged to the Young Master Manor. It was reasonable that she did not know his identity.
Besides, according to the information Yan Jiuchao had found, Xu Shao’s men had drugged her. She most likely didn’t remember that year.
“Don’t keep me in suspense,” Yu Wan urged him.
Yan Jiuchao had no intention of hiding it from her, but he hadn’t thought of how to tell her. The more information he found out, the angrier he became about what happened back then, especially since the reason she let the human trafficker kidnap her was actually because of that bastard Zhao Heng!
Zhao Heng had no money to study and had always relied on the Yu family to help him. At that time, the Yu family’s life was not bad. Even though Yu Shaoqing had been captured and sent to the border, Uncle worked at Tianxiang Restaurant. His monthly salary was enough for the family to eat well and drink well. However, it was still a little difficult to subsidize for the Zhao family. The Zhao family was a bottomless pit. The Yu family’s income was not enough for the greedy Mrs. Zhao, the greedy Zhao Baomei, and Zhao Heng’s monthly tuition.
One day, Ah Wan picked the cabbages from the fields and went to the market to sell them. She heard that a rich family was hiring maidservants to serve the eldest daughter of the family. The young miss had a good temper and the maidservants did not have much work. Her food and clothes could be settled in the manor, and her salary was five taels a month. If she pleased the young miss, she would be rewarded with ten taels at most. Ah Wan was tempted and immediately went with the auntie to the rich family she mentioned to see if she could be chosen.
In the end, she entered a wolf’s den.
When Yan Jiuchao heard Shadow Six talk about this, he almost died of anger. She didn’t look like such a stupid person. Why did she believe that there would be a free lunch?
“Ten taels a month, you really dare to believe!” Yan Jiuchao said resentfully. “Even the Yan Manor isn’t so generous!”
Two hours ago, someone asked Shadow Six—”Is ten taels a month a lot? Someone even wanted to apply for the job?”
Outside the door, Shadow Six silently pinched his shriveled purse and felt that it was necessary to mention the increase in salary to Young Master.
She’s indeed stupid, Yu Wan thought.
“And then?” Yu Wan asked.
“Then you were kidnapped to Prefecture Xu and entered the local brothel.” Yan Jiuchao glanced at her and said, “Don’t worry, no one has touched you. Your first man is me.”
Who was worried about this?!
Yan Jiuchao continued, “Back then, you accidentally ate poisonous grass on the way to Prefecture Xu and had poisonous spots on your face. The procuress found you ugly and sent you to be a servant. You slept in the woodshed. That’s where I met you.”
Yu Wan’s eyes were cold.
“Don’t think too much. I only went there because I was schemed against.”
Yu Wan nodded. She had seen her portrait back then. She was so ugly. Who would do that if he wasn’t schemed against?
“Who schemed against you? Yan Ruyu?” Yu Wan asked.
Yan Jiuchao snorted sarcastically. “She alone doesn’t have the ability. There’s also a local tyrant of Prefecture Xu.”
“The local tyrant of Prefecture Xu?” Yu Wan paused. “The Xu family?”
Yan Jiuchao looked at Yu Wan deeply and said, “If you had half your brain three years ago, you wouldn’t have fallen for the kidnapper’s trick. That’s right, it’s Xu Shao.”
Yu Wan was surprised. “Xu Shao? The owner of Tianxiang Restaurant, Worthy Consort Xu’s brother, and the Second Prince’s uncle? Why would he scheme against you? Did he receive instructions from Worthy Consort Xu and the Second Prince?”
Yan Jiuchao smiled faintly. “This is the most interesting thing. Worthy Consort Xu and Yan Huaijing don’t know about Xu Shao’s actions. They were kept in the dark by Xu Shao.”
Yu Wan did not know much about politics, but she also felt that Xu Shao’s behavior was very strange. He was a member of the Xu family, and the Xu family’s backers were Worthy Consort Xu and Yan Huaijing. It was impossible for him not to ask Worthy Consort Xu or the Second Prince about such a big matter like scheming against Yan Jiuchao. Did he make the decision on his own because he did not want to implicate them after the matter was exposed, or did he have other plans?
Even Yan Jiuchao did not have an answer, let alone Yu Wan.
Compared to this, Yu Wan was more concerned about how Xu Shao hooked up with Yan Ruyu.
Yan Jiuchao said, “Four years ago, someone reported that the Yan family had colluded with the enemy and committed treason. The authorities found a secret letter in Old General Yan’s study. It recorded evidence of the Old General’s rebellion. The Old General died to prove his innocence, but the evidence was irrefutable. The Yan family was still thrown into jail, and only Yan Ruyu escaped. The authorities searched everywhere for her, not knowing that she hid in a brothel.”
“A brothel?” Yu Wan frowned.
Yan Jiuchao nodded. “Only the unfamiliar women in the brothel won’t attract the attention of the officials. Besides, who would have thought that the high and mighty daughter of the Yan Manor would be willing to be a prostitute in exchange for her life?”
Therefore, Xu Shao met Yan Ruyu in a brothel.
Yu Wan had roughly guessed what happened after that. Yan Ruyu became Xu Shao’s woman and gave birth to two children for Xu Shao. Unfortunately, both of them died young. After that, their fate ended. They simply stopped being lovers and became allies.
They were really a speechless couple.
Yu Wan did not ask Yan Jiuchao how he planned to deal with them. Her mind was not on these two people now. She lifted the blanket with her sore arm.
“What are you going to do?” Yan Jiuchao asked.
“I need to take something,” Yu Wan said calmly.
“What do you want? I’ll bring it to you.”
“There’s no need. I have to carry this myself.” Yu Wan put on her shoes. Yan Jiuchao pulled a cloak over her. The weather at the end of March was not too cold, but she had caught a cold, so she could not get cold.
“Thank you.” Yu Wan put on her cloak and slowly walked to the dressing table.
Yan Jiuchao looked at her calm back and thought to himself, “My performance was not bad, right? I cleverly threw out a new contradiction and diverted her attention. See, she even forgot to be angry. Back then, she even said that she wanted to castrate me. Now, she only remembers to be happy.”
After all, she had been coveting him for a long time. Aiya, should he tell her that after the deed was done, Xu Shao had brought her out of the brothel? From the beginning to the end, he was the only man she had? Well, let’s not talk about it. She was already proud enough.
Young Master Yan raised his eyebrows and walked behind Yu Wan like a spring breeze.
Very good, the woman had turned around.
To be precise, she lunged at him.
That’s true. After a long time, she should have pounced into his arms and cried. Yan Jiuchao restrained his smugness and stood there openly, waiting for someone to throw herself into his arms. Unexpectedly, a pair of scissors appeared in Yu Wan’s hand.
Yan Jiuchao: “???”
Yu Wan’s scissors clicked as she glanced at his crotch. “Alright, the truth has been revealed. It’s time to settle the score between us.”
Yan Jiuchao: “!!!”
Yan Jiuchao finally saw what was the most terrifying thing about a calm woman. Earlier on, she was still talking to him politely without any warning. When she got off the bed and took his cloak, she even thanked him gently.
Who would have thought that she would go and get a pair of scissors to cut him!
“Yu Ah Wan!”
Yan Jiuchao flew into a rage!
Yu Wan was sick. She was not strong, but she was very determined. Yan Jiuchao was jumping up and down from the chase. Finally, he could not take it anymore and pressed her down on the bed, pressing her hand down.
Yu Wan panted and said, “Let go… If you don’t let go… I’ll ignore you…”
Yan Jiuchao let her go.
Yu Wan brought her scissors over.
Yan Jiuchao: He knew it!
Just as Yan Jiuchao was in a terrible fix, the three little lads slipped into the room.
When Yu Wan saw them, she hurriedly stopped in her tracks and stuffed the scissors in her hand under the pillow. The three of them stood there with snot bubbles hanging from their noses.
Yu Wan walked over and wiped their snot with a handkerchief.
Yan Jiuchao coughed lightly and tidied his messy hair and clothes.
The three little lads stared at Yu Wan and reached out their little hands to her.
Yu Wan felt an indescribable excitement in her heart. She squatted down and pulled them into her arms.
Yu Wan’s heart was filled with joy as she felt the thin and weak bodies in her arms. However, when she thought of what they had experienced under Yan Ruyu for the past two years, she felt as if a knife was cutting her.
Yu Wan’s throat ached. She hugged the three of them tightly and choked as she said, “Your mom’s back. I won’t lose you again… I won’t let anyone bully you again… I’ll always be by your side…”