"It's okay. The Prince of Wei is now immersed in the Princess's illness and won't notice it for a while. When he sees it, he can go find Wen Conglin. I will clean up all the traces."

"What if someone suspects you?" Jiang Wan couldn't help but worry.

Fu Yan patted Jiang Wan's shoulder and said, "No, the prince will testify for me."

Jiang Wan's pupils trembled. In the previous life, when the prince ascended the throne, Fu Yan did not show any favoritism towards the prince.

Have you decided to support the prince so quickly?

Fu Yan also thought of what Jiang Wan was thinking. "Since we know that the one who will take that position in the future is the Crown Prince, I don't have to worry about it. However, my relationship with the Crown Prince is still the same as usual. After all, now is not the right time."

Jiang Wan squeezed Fu Yan's hand and said, "How are you going to talk about our affairs? I talked to Dad today, but I didn't say that the person was you."

Fu Yan was overjoyed and told Wu Linghou about it, which proved that Jiang Wan really acknowledged him.

He smiled faintly, "Wait until the matter of Zhao Yue is dealt with."

"Zhao Yue?"

"That's the person living in your house. I have sent people to find out her identity. This person cannot be trusted. Her family used to be wealthy merchants, but later fell into poverty. Her father died of illness, her mother is also bedridden, and there is an old man who has caught a cold, and a five-year-old child. Not only did she take the family's money and run away, but after being favored by the emperor, she gained a lot of wealth, but she never thought about her family. When my people went there, her mother had already died. I asked a doctor to examine the old woman, but she didn't have much time left..."

Jiang Wan just thought that Zhao Yue might be a little greedy, but who in this world doesn't like money and power?

But people have to have a limit.

"Then, the five-year-old?" Jiang Wan's voice gradually weakened. There were no elder relatives in the family, and even eating and drinking became a problem for the elderly.

How would she, a child, survive?

Fu Yan's expression paused. He investigated Zhao Yue's affairs only for Jiang Wan. As for the rest, it had nothing to do with him.

"Do you want to go and see?" Fu Yan asked this, thinking in his heart that if Jiang Wan wanted to go and see the girl, he could stay with her for a while longer.

"I want to send her to a good family or give her some money to have someone take good care of her until she grows up, which will be better than what she is now."

Fu Yan nodded, "Why don't we go see her together?"

Jiang Wan had no relatives or friends with that person, he just wanted to settle him down. Fu Yan could just assign anyone to do this.

Not knowing why he kept asking her to go see her, Jiang Wan glanced at the still bright day outside and said, "Then... go ahead."

Fu Yan's eyebrows were filled with satisfaction, "Okay, let's go together."

Fu Yan pulled Jiang Wan into a place with a muddy ground in front of the door.

He used to be a wealthy businessman, but now he lives like this.

The door was also extremely dilapidated. Fu Yan just pushed it lightly and the door creaked open.

There was nothing in the yard except a broken water tank and overgrown weeds.

Suddenly there was a sound of breaking tiles in the room.

Jiang Wan took a few quick steps towards the source of the sound.

It was a dilapidated house, and on the couch lay an old man, dying. The old man was like a dry branch.

Even the shape of the bones can be seen clearly, with skin covering the bones.

"Grandma...open your mouth."

A pair of thin and small hands with uneven nail edges held a slightly broken spoon and fed water with only a few rice grains visible into the tightly closed mouth of an old man.

The back of the child's other hand, which was holding the bowl, was swollen, and it was obvious that it was burned.

She was young and didn't understand anything, so she could only let the wound heal on its own.

Jiang Wan's heart sank and he walked over lightly. There were broken bowls on the ground next to him, and there was water and a few grains of rice on the ground.

I guess that was the child's meal.

She tried her best to feed the old man on the bed, but he didn't open his mouth at all.

She put the porridge down again and walked to the table next to her.

She was clearly five years old, but she looked like she was three. She couldn't even reach the bench, so she climbed up with her little feet and picked up half of something that looked like a steamed bun.

She tore off a piece and put it in the bowl of porridge to soak. Then she put the bowl on the bed, climbed up, stuffed the soaked thing into the old man's mouth, and then scooped a spoonful of porridge into the old man's dry mouth.

But the clear juice slid from the corner of the old man's mouth and flowed into his yellow and thin neck.

"Wow... Grandma, drink it. I only have you..."

If such a young child were placed in someone else's home, she would know nothing and would only know how to eat, drink and play all day long. But she wiped her tears and patted her grandmother's chest.

The old man slowly opened his eyes, "Jiaojiao..."

She moved her hands but couldn't lift them.

Jiaojiao reached up with her two little hands and just managed to grab two fingers of the old man.

"Don't leave Jiaojiao again, wuwu..."

"You... go find your sister, go find Sister Yue, okay?" The old woman was always worried about the child, and she stroked Jiaojiao's little hand with her fingertips, "She has no conscience, you go kneel in front of the official, she took our money and went out, you suffered..."

Jiang Wan felt as if his heart was being grabbed by someone.

I thought I had become a complete vicious woman after going through so much, but I didn't expect that I would be so hurt just by seeing a child.

Fu Yan lowered his eyes and looked at Jiang Wan. He saw that Jiang Wan was squeezing his hand tighter than ever before. Even if Fu Yan wanted to break free, he couldn't.

Of course, he would not break free. He liked being held tightly by Jiang Wan, being controlled by her, and being bound by her.

I like this feeling of belonging to her completely.

"No...she won't want me...wuwu..." Jiaojiao wiped her dry and swollen eyes.

"I'll go find someone to save you. The older brothers who came here before will come to save you. I'll go find them."

She stood up from the bed and tried to get off the bed with her short legs, but she missed a step and fell down.

Jiang Wan's heart was tightening when she suddenly saw a space beside her. Fu Yan took a long step forward and caught her thin and small body.

Jiang Wan also ran forward and pulled Fu Yan's sleeve.

The child, whom he could hold with one hand, now had his eyes quietly closed, with a few tears leaking out of the corners of his eyes.

Falling down seemed to be a common thing for her, and she just waited for the pain to pass so that she could stand up again.

She continued to take care of her only relative, who was lying in bed and didn't know how long he would live.

But this time, unlike the past, the expected pain did not come.

The swollen skin on my back no longer felt cold and hard like the floor, but soft and warm.

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