"Song’er, have you completely forgotten the past now? Don’t you even know how you ended up like this?"
Zong Jun’s thoughts were very complex at the mont, but it seed that saving Mianmian just now was instinctual.
He dared not trust people easily, but when he thought of Wen Yuan and his son, he was more willing to believe these won.
Especially Ruan Mian’s features, which indeed bore a striking resemblance to his own, made him feel at ease in their presence as if it was destined.
Zong Jun didn’t know how to appropriately describe that feeling.
After a mont of hesitation, he truthfully told them how, upon waking, Wen Qiang had inford him of his identity.
Upon hearing this, his eldest aunt laughed angrily, "Absurd!"
"Our Ruan Family’s legitimate first son, in her words, beca soone sold by foster parents to the Wen Mansion as a servant?"
"And she has the face to call you her husband? I’ve never seen such shalessness! No wonder she’s Wen Yuan’s daughter, indeed dragons birth dragons, phoenixes birth phoenixes, and a rat’s son knows how to dig tunnels!!"
"Neither father nor daughter are good people!"
Previously, Zong Jun felt Wen Yuan treated Wen Qiang poorly and wasn’t a good official. Over the past two days, he realized from Wen Qiang’s deceits that she had set him up deliberately.
Ruan Mian remained silent throughout, and only after her aunt finished venting did she take out a golden bracelet from her lapel.
The small bracelet was only half the width of Ruan Mian’s wrist.
"Brother, do you know what this is?"
Zong Jun was taken aback and, not understanding, looked over, picked up the bracelet, and scrutinized it, trying to recall sothing from his mory.
However, he couldn’t recall anything, but he did see a character inside the bracelet — Jing.
He abruptly raised his head and t Ruan Mian’s gaze.
Seeing his expression, Ruan Mian imdiately realized that he had noticed sothing.
So, she curled her lips and said frankly, "This is your own handwriting, written with ink ground from purple clay. You must recognize it as your own."
"When Jing was a full month old, you personally made this golden bracelet for him."
"He looks a lot like you, and during your disappearance, Jing has already learned to walk on his own."
"And sister-in-law has grown quite thin, thinking of you day and night."
Even though he couldn’t recall anything now, he undoubtedly recognized his writing.
Hence, his expression was like this.
It made people feel inexplicably heartbroken.
The eldest aunt hurriedly stepped forward to comfort him, "Song’er, we know your current situation. If you really can’t rember, don’t force yourself. Once you return with us and see so many familiar friends and family, you’ll surely rember."
"The current predicant is only temporary! You just need to believe that we’re not from the Wen Mansion and would never deceive you like Wen Qiang."
Despite saying this, they hadn’t anticipated the conflict now brewing in Zong Jun’s heart.
It was like a dagger constantly digging into his heart, torturing him.
If what they said was true, that he originally had a wife and child, then during his absence, he treated Wen Qiang as his wife, wasn’t he betraying his own wife and child?
The thought of his loved ones suffering from his disappearance, while he remained oblivious, created such a painful contrast that it nearly took his breath away.
The imnse sorrow almost engulfed him, and he hadn’t even rembered the past yet. The re thought of imagined repentance made his whole body feel cold.
Seeing him in this state, Ruan Mian quickly took him to their carriage, and the three of them left imdiately, heading quickly toward Runing City.
He half-reclined in the carriage as Ruan Mian took his pulse for a diagnosis.
His aunt and Shaoxi both anxiously watched her until the mont Ruan Mian put her hand down, prompting his aunt to quickly ask, "Did you find out anything? Is Song’er alright?"
But he was most concerned about whether Song’er could recover and rember the past.
However, Ruan Mian’s expression appeared heavy, as the pulse indicated no particular issues.
It might be due to sothing causing his brain to be struck or greatly stimulated, resulting in temporary amnesia.
After all, his body hadn’t suffered any severe injuries, so it shouldn’t lead to permanent amnesia.
She turned around and took out a water flask she carried with her, letting him drink so water.
The flask contained spiritual spring water.
Ruan Mian couldn’t be sure if the spiritual spring water would help his amnesia, as its most notable effect was healing external injuries.
Healing internally, whereas amnesia wasn’t a visible wound.
After he drank it, Ruan Mian checked on him periodically, but his body showed no reaction.
It seed that just drinking the spiritual spring water didn’t have much effect on him.
To help him rember everything from the past, it would likely take more than two or three days.
Seeing her grave expression, his aunt couldn’t resist asking more, "How is Song’er?"
The two of them were sitting outside the carriage at this point. Ruan Mian looked back into the carriage and spoke in a low voice, so only the two of them could hear.
"Not very optimistic, the spiritual spring water doesn’t seem to have much effect on his amnesia, but his body is fine."
His aunt just waved her hand, optimistically saying, "As long as he’s alright, losing a bit of mory is no big deal! Not important."
"Even if he never rembers, as long as we bring him back safely, he’ll eventually accept having so many family mbers. Don’t worry, we’ve already completed half of our task, and when we return to Runing, I’ll inquire about what Wen Yuan is doing now."
However, after returning to Runing City, there was no need for his aunt to ask around. They already heard from the people on the street speaking one after another.
There wasn’t a good word for Wen Yuan!
"That dog official deserves to be beaten to death!! A mont ago, Zhong Family’s son even paraded his corpse around the street, and I threw so many stones at him! Beat him to a pulp!"
"In my opinion, for soone as unscrupulous and immoral as him, even if he goes to Yellow Spring Road, he won’t enter the Reincarnation Path. King Yanluo will certainly cast him into the Beast Path!"
"Now that the corrupt official is gone, our Runing’s people surely have a way out. I wonder when the court will send grain to help us get through this winter safely."
"You don’t know, do you? Everyone thought that with the corrupt official down, there would be plenty of embezzled goods in their warehouse! But guess what? The Wen Mansion’s warehouse was empty, Mr. Wen had hidden it away long ago!"
"Really?!"
As the discussions among the people rose, Ruan Mian and the others learned that Wen Yuan ultimately died at the hands of the people.
Seeing his downfall, the public’s anger was aroused. None of the officials under him dared speak up, fearing they would get involved.
It’s said that he didn’t even leave a complete corpse, and as so people provided evidence of his cris, more and more people stepped forward.
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