Gao Jian’s hand rested on the stone table, carefully feeling around. He touched the warm teacup, then felt the rim before slowly picking up the tea. Bringing it close to his lips, he cautiously took a sip.
Shujun, with one hand propping up her cheek, appeared leisurely and content, the embodiment of languid comfort.
Her demeanor had been honed by her time conducting business in Qingfeng Prefecture. Perhaps because she had seen the outside world and experienced so many personal affairs, her perspective had broadened compared to before.
Thus, her mindset was very composed.
She inquired, "I wonder, for what reason do you two... look ?"
Her connections were wide, and even while away from Taihang Town, she could grasp the comings and goings, major and minor affairs here—yet there were some places that, no matter how far Liang Shujun reached, she could not penetrate.
For example, the He Mansion.
He Mansion, under the control of Pei Yu, was fully supervised by those women from The Outside, sealed tight like an iron barrel. Therefore, concerning the affairs within He Mansion, she was clueless.
But she was naturally clever. Having seen the miserable state of Luo Yang and Gao Jian, she had already guessed some of it.
Sure enough, Luo Yang let out a wry laugh, "What else could it be?" A few simple words, yet they couldn’t express the bitterness of his past.
Liang Shujun glanced at Gao Jian. Gao Jian’s eyes had been gouged out by Pei Yu, and looking at those sunken sockets, Liang Shujun couldn’t help but think of Yun Ge.
She remembered Yun Ge’s eyes, also gouged out like Gao Jian’s, but the difference was that Yun Ge had lost only one eye, while Gao Jian had lost both.
She felt deeply about it and was extremely puzzled.
Why on earth were there such cruel and merciless people in this world?
Actually interested in gouging out someone’s eyes?
Again, she couldn’t help recalling what her elder brother once told her. In that Premonition Dream of his elder brother’s, she too was without her eyes, just like Gao Jian, gouged out by Pei Yu.
But her case was more tragic than Gao Jian’s.
Because according to her elder brother, it seemed that many bones had been broken in her body, and she was indeed turned into human jerky by Pei Yu, hung on the wall of a city.
It was said that she died tragically.
Liang Shujun shivered with a start. She quickly rubbed her arms, murmuring to herself in her heart.
Her elder brother’s dream was really eerie!
"Shujun?" Meanwhile, her young wife came up behind her. "It’s time to eat."
Shujun returned the warmth with a heartfelt smile, then cast a sympathetic glance at Gao Jian. Standing up, she said to Luo Yang, "Please feel free to leave. I won’t see you out. We’re about to have our meal here!"
She was issuing a polite but firm dismissal!
Luo Yang was taken aback for a moment.
Shujun raised an eyebrow, "Do you perhaps wish to stay for the meal?" While saying this, her gaze darkened slightly. Her wife made extremely delicious meals, and if possible, she truly wanted to keep everything about her wife to herself. However, for her own brothers and those like Hong Fei who were close to her wife, she must show some respect.
But for outsiders like Luo Yang and Gao Jian... better not, they should know their place.
Otherwise if they really dared to stick around?
She wouldn’t mind grabbing these two by the collars and tossing them out like trash.
After the host had given the signal to leave, Luo Yang didn’t insist on staying. He quickly helped Gao Jian to his feet, but before leaving the courtyard, he turned back to give Liang Shujun a deep look.