Cang Lan Dao - Chapter 2.1

Chapter 2.1
Miss, You’re Here

In that dream, she stood up and rushed over when the jailer called her.
This time, she was sluggish. Instead, Uncle Zhang saluted her first and respectfully said, “Miss.”

“Why are you not moving?” Seeing Luo Wanqing remain still, Yao Zelan couldn’t wait and pulled her up, saying happily, “Hurry up and go.”

Luo Wanqing couldn’t speak. She looked at the person standing respectfully at the door and felt she was walking towards the tiger’s den.
Her mind repeatedly played every detail of the dream, causing her body to tremble as she stood before Uncle Zhang.

Yao Zelan, who was dragging her, noticed her abnormality and turned her head in confusion, “Wanqing, what’s wrong with you?”

“Nothing.” Luo Wanqing forced herself to calm down and raised her eyes to look at Uncle Zhang, suppressing all her fears and using her response from the dream to say, “Uncle Zhang, did Shao Yan send you here? Where is he?”

“Young Master is busy with his affairs and has no time to spare. He specially ordered this old slave to come and visit Miss and Madam,” Uncle Zhang smiled and bowed towards Yao Zelan, spitting out the same sentence as in Luo Wanqing’s dream word by word, then looked at Luo Wanqing, “By the way, I’m handing over a message to Miss. I hope that Miss will be ready for it. “

Hearing this, Luo Wanqing raised her eyes in shock. Uncle Zhang did not hesitate. Luo Wanqing had expected his every move. He repeated every detail from the dream. First, he took out a golden vial that fit in the palm of his hand and a dark-bodied dagger. Then, he held the two objects in his hands, left and right, and handed them to Luo Wanqing.

“What does this mean?” Yao Zelan sensed that something was wrong and became suspicious.

Uncle Zhang ignored Yao Zelan. He only looked at Luo Wanqing, with traces of pity in his eyes, sighing, “Young Master said that he had tried his best in the Master’s case. But with concrete evidence, he is powerless. Now, the government has issued the verdict for the Luo family. They put Master on a death sentence and exiled the rest of the family to Lingnan. The only thing Young Master can do for Miss now is to give Miss choices. This bottle is highly poisonous, killing without pain and blood.”

The exact words as in the dream came out, and Yao Zelan’s eyes widened while Luo Wanqing slowly calmed down. Uncle Zhang probed the dagger and handed it to Luo Wanqing, continuing, “Or perhaps choose this dagger. It’s slash the iron like mud. Take it and use it as a defense.”

Luo Wanqing didn’t say anything. She quietly looked at these two things and only felt that the world was ridiculous.

Yao Zelan reacted and spoke anxiously, “Uncle Zhang, what does this mean? Does Shao Yan not care about us anymore? Uncle Zhang, ask Shao Yan to come over. The Luo family didn’t do these things. We still have room to turn around! Ask him to come over ……”

“Miss.”

Uncle Zhang didn’t care about Yao Zelan at all. He looked at the silent and calm Luo Wanqing and spoke seriously, “Don’t be too sad. Young Master has you in his heart. He’s giving you these things for your own good. He asked me to convey some words for you ……”

“In his heart, although he didn’t marry me, he already regarded me as his wife.”

Luo Wanqing spoke out straightforwardly. Uncle Zhang froze. Then, he looked at this woman who raised her eyes as if she was pressing fire in her eyes, gritting her teeth and inquiring one word at a time, “It’s a long way to go to the border, and he expects me to keep my chastity for him?”

“Ah …… right!” Uncle Zhang nodded in shock and opened his mouth in doubt, “How do you know?”

How did she know?

Fear completely overwhelmed her. She finally felt that this wasn’t a dream. She couldn’t help but grab her sleeve in a death grip, restraining her overly intense emotions.

In that dream, she believed in those words, took that bottle of poison, traveled a thousand miles, and spent her life trapped in Lingnan, waiting for him for the rest of her life! She had waited until her family died, until her disease haunted her, like a ghost on earth, waiting day and night for the pleasing news that he, Jiang Shaoyan, died a horrible death!
But she could not. She never succeeded and couldn’t leave Lingnan to see him again.

“I want to meet him!”

Fear and anger surged together, and the obsession came out of her mouth.

Uncle Zhang smiled helplessly and tried to continue to compensate her. “Miss, if Young Master could come to see you, he would have come. It’s just that he does have a busy schedule ……”

Before he finished the words, Luo Wanqing suddenly reached out and snatched the dagger from his hand. The crowd was shocked, and the jailer instantly drew his knife. Before he had time to make a sound, he saw Luo Wanqing put the dagger against her neck and move away from the periphery. She shouted, “Let me see him!”

“Miss.”

Seeing her pressing for her life, Uncle Zhang was not afraid. As if he was looking at a child, he helplessly said, “Don’t you make a scene. Put the dagger down.” Saying this, Uncle Zhang even pushed the bottle of poison forward and said gently, “If you want to seek death, use this. It won’t hurt.”

“What nonsense are you saying!”

Hearing this, Yao Zelan reacted and shouted angrily, then turned her head to look at Luo Wanqing, carefully saying, “Wanqing, don’t be impulsive. It’s just a man. You still have your father and mother. Don’t do anything stupid. Give me the dagger.”

“You tell him-“

Luo Wanqing ignored Yao Zelan and stared at the calm Uncle Zhang. She clenched her teeth and spoke: “He, Jiang Shaoyan, five years ago, saved by my Luo family. My Luo family regarded him as a half-son. Toward him, my family never had half a bit of negligence. He and I pledge our marriage under the matchmakers’ words. Now, my Luo family’s judgment has not yet come down. In a sense, he should come to see me. If he doesn’t come, I’ll take it as a sign that he’s moved on and is ashamed to see me. I will kill myself here today to tell him that he is shameless and ungrateful, and the hundreds of people present today can witness this,” said Luo Wanqing, suddenly raising her voice, “In the future, in the history of the Imperial Court, Luo Wanqing’s blood will stain Jiang Shaoyan’s reputation. He will never be able to get away with it!”

Uncle Zhang’s face dramatically changed when he heard this.