Chapter 31 Some people are building the wall, and some are climbing over it.

Upon hearing this, Shen Qiushan just wanted to find a hole to crawl into.

He really couldn't understand whether his eldest daughter was possessed by an evil spirit.

Are you possessed?

Shen Qiushan really couldn't understand what Shen Xiao was trying to do.

A young, unmarried woman, was forced to drink tainted medicine in public and wait all night outside her future brother-in-law's house.

Shen Qiushan really wanted to dig open Shen Xiao's brain to see what was inside.

Shen Qiushan's vision went black again, but he was no longer angry. He ordered his servants, "Go quickly and find a doctor. Tell him that the young lady has gone mad, and ask the doctor to bring some medicine to treat madness."

Shen Xiao couldn't believe her ears: "Father... what did you say? I'm not sick! It's Shen Shu... it's her!"

Shen Qiushan completely ignored him, treating whatever Shen Xiao said as madness.

He winked at the old women around him: "Hurry up and drag the young lady away. From today onwards, she is not allowed to step out of the courtyard."

Shen Xiao cried her heart out again: "Father...you don't know, Shen Shu has already lost her virginity to Pei Jiming. She even went to meet Pei Jiming in secret last night. I went to the Marquis of Dingyuan's residence to prevent the Marquis from being kept in the dark."

Shen Qiushan remained unmoved: "Gag her! Drag her away."

He wondered, whose family does this daughter belong to? Even if what she said is true, as a member of the patriarch's household, shouldn't she help cover it up?

How could anyone shout like that, as if afraid others wouldn't know, afraid that the patriarch's family would rise to prominence, and afraid that they would lose face for their family?

If this isn't considered insane, then Shen Qiushan truly doesn't know what constitutes madness.

Shen Qiushan felt utterly ashamed in front of Shi Feng: "I'm sorry to have made you laugh, brother. It's a misfortune for my family to have raised such a crazy daughter. Please don't take Xiao'er's crazy words to heart."

Shi Feng laughed until his stomach hurt, and it took him a long time to stop.

He bowed to Shen Qiushan, now truly believing from the bottom of his heart, "The Duke has really had a tough time."

Shen Qiushan burst into tears. "Heavens! Finally, someone understands me."

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Shen Shu met with two men and one woman in the first half of the night, and then read the files of Fang Lanzhi's family in the second half of the night.

I slept until the sun was high in the sky before waking up.

I had just woken up when I heard the clanging and banging of construction noises outside.

Shen Shu asked in confusion, "Aunt Fang, what's going on outside?"

Madam Fang brought up some clean water for Shen Shu to wash up: "I heard that Lord Lin has hired bricklayers to build a wall, but it's very strange that the wall is so thick and high. Judging from the looks of it, it will take several days to build."

Shen Shu: ...

After a short while, she asked, "What's the news from my mother and the young lady?"

Madam Fang got excited as she talked about it: "I heard that the Duke had a huge tantrum in the Madam's courtyard last night and moved straight to the study. As for the eldest daughter, she didn't come home all night. The Duke was furious and reported early this morning that she had gone mad and called a doctor to treat her. It was really satisfying."

Shen Shu looked at Fang's mother, whose tail was practically wagging in the air, and said, "Keep it down, keep it down. You can laugh like that in our courtyard, but you can't do that outside."

Madam Fang nodded: "Madam is under house arrest, and the eldest young lady is also confined to the mansion. The second young lady can finally breathe a sigh of relief."

Shen Shu: "It's still early..."

Sure enough, Wen Lanting arrived.

When Madam Fang saw her storm in, fearing that Wen Lanting would rush in and hurt Shen Shu, she quickly went up to stop her: "Madam, why did you come out? The Marquis said you were to be confined to your quarters, why did you run out?"

Wen Lanting wanted nothing more than to kneel before Shen Shu: "What do you want from me to let my Xiao'er go?"

She spent most of the night comforting Shen Xiao before finally getting a full night's sleep.

I had just woken up when I heard that Shen Xiao had been accused of having a mental breakdown by Shen Qiushan and had been locked up.

Wen Lanting completely broke down; he simply couldn't take it anymore.

We can't win, we really can't win.

Shen Shu: "Mother, please don't wrong me. How could I not let her off the hook? Whether my sister drank the dirty medicine in public or stayed out all night, wasn't it her own doing? I didn't force her."

"Instead of asking me, Mother should ask my sister to learn to be more discreet."

Wen Lanting was speechless: "If you hadn't deliberately provoked Xiao'er, would she have done this!"

Shen Shu smiled: "So what does Mother want now? Tell me."

Let's see if we can broaden her horizons.

She was now very curious about just how absurd things Wen Lanting could say.

Wen Lanting was overjoyed, thinking that Shen Shu was finally scared: "Now you tell your father that you drugged Xiao'er, that Xiao'er went out last night to do something for you, and ask your father to release Xiao'er. Then you should apologize to her properly, and go to each and every household on yesterday's banquet guest list to explain and salvage Xiao'er's reputation..."

Bang!

Shen Shu closed the door.

Wen Lanting: ...

Madam Fang shook her head: "Madam is really daydreaming."

Wen Lanting left with a dark expression on his face.

For two days in a row, Wen Lanting and her daughter kept quiet and dared not cause any more trouble for Shen Shu.

Shen Shu was naturally happy to relax, eating and sleeping as usual, feeling that she needed to be in good spirits to fight against these people.

Naturally, she completely forgot that Pei Jiming would come looking for her again.

It wasn't until late at night, when Shen Shu's window was smashed open with a stone, that she remembered this incident when she saw Pei Jiming's face in the moonlight.

She was shocked. Lin Wei had built the wall like this, how could Pei Jiming still sneak in without anyone noticing?

Shen Shu's mind flashed with Lin Wei's face, and she also remembered him saying that if she saw Pei Jiming again, he would break her legs.

Feeling the pain in his legs, he advised, "Young Master Pei, you should go back now!"

Pei Jiming: "Why? Didn't we agree to go together to rescue Miss Fang?"

Shen Shu didn't want to hide it from him: "Because Lin Wei said that if we meet again, he'll break my legs."

Pei Jiming: ...

Shen Shu: "So for the sake of my leg, Young Master Pei, you'd better leave quickly."

Pei Jiming: "So you're not going to save Miss Fang?"

Shen Shu recalled Lin Wei's promise to take her to investigate the Cheng Prince's mansion at night: "Young Master Pei, you don't need to worry about it. The Marquis said he would take over the matter and that he would go with me to rescue people, so there's no need to trouble you, Young Master Pei."

"No... Young Master Pei, you know that Lin Wei knows we met. Aren't you surprised?"

Shen Shu then realized what was happening.

Pei Jiming: "That's not the point. Miss Shen, can you tell me if this means you're abandoning me now that you have a more powerful backer?"

Pei Jiming then recalled that the Bo Gong Mansion had been repairing its wall these past few days, making it as high and thick as a city wall, and suddenly realized: "Could it be that you built your own wall like this to guard against me?"

Shen Shu thought to herself, if being discovered by Lin Wei isn't the important thing, then what is?

This wall has even less to do with her; it was Lin Wei who sent people to repair it.

But seeing Pei Jiming's angry expression, Shen Shu didn't dare to say it aloud: "That's not what I meant..."

Pei Jiming: "Then what do you mean?"

Shen Shu felt the atmosphere was a bit strange, and thought the scene looked like a scene of breaking up with her lover outside.

Shen Shu: "Then you can go too, okay? I've arranged with Lin Wei to sneak into the backyard of Prince Cheng's mansion tomorrow night, but you'll have to go by yourself."

Don't drag her into this.

If Lin Wei found out that she was bringing Pei Jiming along, she would really get her legs broken.

But if Pei Jiming goes by himself, then Lin Wei can't blame her.

So when Shen Shu followed Lin Wei into the backyard of Prince Cheng's mansion and ran into Pei Jiming, she felt no guilt at all.

I was just surprised; Pei Jiming said he didn't know martial arts.

How did he manage to slip past the layers of guards and get in?

Lin Wei smiled coldly: "What? You've managed to steal someone right under my nose?"