Chapter 27 Thinking about Someone Else's Wife

Pei Zhouwu took the firefly wood hairpin in his hand and held it tightly in his palm.

"I didn't expect that the person who came was you. If it was you..."

Pei Zhouwu paused, and an ambiguous smile appeared on his pale face.

"If it were me, what would it be like?"

Pei Zhouwu turned his eyes to look at the door and said lightly, "How is the investigation going?"

Hearing him ask this, Shen Xiunian's eyelids twitched, thinking that Pei Zhouwu was really smart. He could see the key to the matter so quickly just by looking at who the visitor was.

Chen Xiunian showed the incense in his hand and spoke again calmly.

"This shouldn't belong to the emperor's uncle, right?"

Pei Zhouwu glanced sideways but didn't answer.

The answer is of course obvious. He has been imprisoned here, so where can he get such a thing?

"I guess the guards outside don't know about the incense either." Chen Xiunian already had an idea in his mind and didn't hide it. "Otherwise, they would have come in and cleaned it up long ago. It's impossible for it to be left in the house and discovered by someone."

“Eighty percent…”

As Shen Xiunian spoke, he kept carefully watching the changes in Pei Zhouwu's expression.

"Eighty percent of the people who used this incense are already dead, so there is no time to clean up the sinners."

Looking at it this way, it's very obvious.

The person who used the knockout gas was the guard leader who was killed by Pei Zhouwu last night. I don't know whether this was his own idea or someone was behind it.

It seems clear, but in fact it is full of strangeness.

Pei Zhouwu's expression remained cold and no matter what Chen Xiunian said, he did not change.

Only the wooden hairpin in his palm was held even tighter by him.

These two people have their own thoughts, which is also very interesting.

One, suspects that the man opposite is having an affair with his wife.

The other one's mind is full of thoughts about the other's wife.

If the person who kept these two people in the dark knew about this situation, I wonder how happy he would be.

Pei Zhouwu had no intention of listening to Shen Xiunian's words, nor did he care much about the outcome of today. He only knew that the people who came to Xiangshan today were not the death row imperial guards who wanted to capture him. This must be because Su Yueying helped.

When she left, she said she would definitely help him.

She is really brave.

If she makes the slightest mistake, she will lose her head at least.

How could she...how could she do this for him!

Su Yueying.

Stupid or not...

She was in Prince Qi's mansion and couldn't even protect herself.

Shen Xiunian's subordinates came in from outside and reported to him: "General, the guards have been interrogated. The guard captain who died last night had just taken office. He had a conflict with Uncle Pei yesterday. After being defeated, he was indignant and vowed to take revenge. At night, he came alone to find Uncle Pei while they were all asleep. The fight was so noisy that the soldiers found out."

"I see."

Shen Xiunian thought that it was just as he guessed.

After everyone left, Shen Xiunian said to Pei Zhouwu again: "I will report to His Majesty the truth about what happened here when I return."

After a moment, Pei Zhou Wu said solemnly, "Then I'll have to trouble you, General."

It seems that he doesn't really expect to be able to clear the injustice of defection.

In his heart, he was only thinking about his Su Yueying, hoping that she was safe and nothing would happen to her.

Chen Xiunian opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but finally closed it slowly. When his eyes fell on the firefly wood hairpin exposed in Pei Zhouwu's palm, he felt a lot of regret. How was this different from the suffering he had to endure every day while hugging the tablet before falling asleep?

But some words spoken out loud are too profound to be taken seriously.

After thinking for a long time, he finally said only two words, "take care", and then went out.

He stood in the yard for a while, his attention drawn to the pool of water behind the bedroom, and he unconsciously walked over there.

The surface of the lake was calm and peaceful, with a lot of hot steam coming out from the scorching sun.

Looking at his own reflection in the water, he suddenly thought of Liu Fuying for some reason. The reflection in the water also had an illusion and turned into the appearance of Liu Fuying. He stared at it and felt as if Liu Fuying would emerge from the water in the next moment.

The surface of the water remained calm, but his heart was in turmoil.

He shook his head. For some reason he suddenly thought of Liu Fuying, as if she had been to this deep pool before and there were traces of her there.

It’s ridiculous to think about it. The mountain is high and heavily guarded, so how could Liu Fuying get in?

After thinking about it, he turned around and left without looking back.

*

Liu Fuying had just woken up from a nap and looked at the setting sun outside the window. He was surprised to find that he had slept until sunset.

There was a knock on the door, and Jin Li pushed it open and walked in.

"Madam, guess what I heard?" Jin Li told Liu Fuying with her surprised and terrified look that she had learned something big.

Liu Fuying tidied up the hair that fell on her chest, and instinctively thought of Pei Zhouwu.

"Is there bad news from Xiangshan?"

"Yes, but no. Madam, do you know who is the one who was ordered to go to Xiangshan?"

"Who?" Liu Fuying became a little nervous as well.

“It’s the general, our General Shen!”

“…”

Liu Fuying stopped breathing for a moment and forgot to blink.

But soon, she actually smiled and laughed.

"lady?"

"Interesting, really interesting." Liu Fuying's smile became brighter and brighter. He grabbed Jin Li's hand and asked impatiently, "I just asked you if there was any bad news about Xiangshan, and you said yes and no. So, the bad news refers to Shen Xiunian, and Pei Zhouwu is good news?"

Liu Fuying's smiling face made Jin Li feel a little at a loss.

"Yes, yes. It seems that our general found out that the dead guard intended to take revenge, so he gave Pei Guojiu a drug that seriously injured him. Pei Guojiu killed him in retaliation, in self-defense, not as an act of defection."

After hearing this, Liu Fuying laughed out loud again.

"Ma'am, please stop laughing. I'm scared."

"What are you afraid of? Isn't it funny? My husband personally saved my cuckolded lover. Isn't this interesting?"

"…The more I talk about it, the more scared I am. Madam, what if something happens?"

"What should I do? Whatever he wants to do, he was the one who suggested that I go out and find a man."

"lady……"

"Let's not talk about this anymore. Have you prepared the things I asked you to buy?"

Jin Li put down the package in her hand, which was full of medicine for wounds, and was going to give it to Pei Zhouwu.

"The carriage and horses are ready. As Madam Yi said, we don't need a driver this time. We can drive the horses ourselves. But I don't know how to drive. The mountain road is winding and rugged. I'm afraid of it."

Liu Fuying is preparing to leave the city again and will not come back tonight.

This time I left the city for personal matters, not to burn incense at Changming Temple, so I didn't want to make it too ostentatious.

"To live a comfortable life in the future, try to overcome the current difficulties."

Liu Fuying went out wearing a veil. Her straight black hair could not hide her graceful figure. When people noticed her, they only guessed that she might have come to Beijing from another place to look for relatives.