Chapter 19

(37) Heart disease

That day, when Wei Zhen woke up in the morning, he casually said to me: "Today your uncle Su Cen asked someone to send some flowers, saying that they are used to decorate the mansion. Do you want to go and greet them?" Wei Zhen said this with a malicious smile on his face.

I immediately became unhappy. "The flowers were delivered, so why do you have to emphasize that it was him who sent it?"

Wei Zhen shrugged as he fastened his belt, "I don't know. I'm just telling you the truth."

"It's common for Baihua City to send fresh flowers to married daughters and sons-in-law. But you're still trying to emphasize to us that Baihua City is his Su Cen's world, right?"

After Wei Zhen left, I sat on the stool and became angrier and angrier.

Holding her skirt, she walked to the gate of the mansion and happened to see a group of servants unloading flowers.

When the busy people saw me, they stopped what they were doing and saluted me.

I walked up to the servants and asked, "Who is in charge of Baihua City?"

A man in plain clothes hurried towards me, knelt down and saluted me, "Hail, Princess."

At a glance, I recognized this person as Xiaochuan, the son of a steward in Baihua City, with whom I used to play in my childhood.

"Why are you in charge of this matter now?" I asked him after asking him to stand up.

Xiaochuan looked at me and his eyes turned red.

"Princess, Baihua City is in chaos now..." Xiaochuan wiped her tears and told me in detail what had happened in the past six months since I married Wei Zhen.

It turned out that the young marquis came to ask for the hand in marriage of the daughter of the Lord of Baihua City that day. My mother and the old marquis had already agreed on a date to marry me.

But Su Cen suddenly appeared at the door, and stayed alone with the old marquis in the city for half a day on the pretext of inviting him to visit and learn about the strength of Baihua City.

After the old marquis came back, he changed his tone.

It was said that the Marquis's family had originally wanted to marry Princess Chunyang, and the wedding date for the young Marquis and Princess Chunyang was set on the spot.

"Since that day, the mistress has been under house arrest by Su Cen," Xiaochuan said with a sniffle. "It wasn't until the young prince kidnapped you and caused a scene at the young marquis's wedding banquet that the mistress's situation eased slightly. However, almost all of us servants, who were once favored by the mistress, were dismissed... My father and I really didn't want to leave the mistress, so we were sent to tend the flowers in the garden."

"Are my parents in good health now?" I asked Xiaochuan.

Xiao Chuan shook his head with a sad face. "I'm just a third-class servant now, and I can't see the mistress at all. Although we are in Baihua City together, we have no way of knowing the mistress's specific situation. All information is blocked."

Seeing my dazed look, Xiaochuan added, "I'm still alive. The little Lizi who took care of you when you were a child refused to leave his mistress and was thrown out of the city. His life or death is still unknown..."

I sat back down at my dressing table, staring at myself in the mirror, a flood of thoughts racing through my mind.

I don't know when Wei Zhen quietly appeared behind me.

"Are you irritated?" When he saw that I finally noticed him through the mirror, he stood by the coffee table and looked at me meaningfully.

I looked at him through the mirror and asked him, "Will you help me?"

Wei Zhen smiled at me and said, "I am your husband, of course I will help you..."

He paused, and then we both said two words at the same time: "No way."

"You understand me very well, ma'am."

Wei Zhen seemed very satisfied with my reaction. He smiled and said to me, "Your parents' life and death is none of my business. I have no feelings for them. I can only protect you. As for your paper-made identity as the daughter of the Lord of Baihua City, I don't care."

I picked up the comb on the dressing table and began to comb my hair carefully.

“People say that Baihua City is surrounded by green mountains on three sides and water on one side, half of the city is like a mirror and half of the city is full of spring, it is a paradise on earth…” When I heard my slightly depressed voice, I realized how unhappy I was at the moment.

Wei Zhen was probably also thinking about something. He rubbed his temples a little tiredly and answered me nonchalantly, "Oh, really?"

As Wei Zhen spoke, he pretended to sit down on the stool next to the coffee table behind me.

I pretended to lower my head to comb my hair until I heard a "bang" and the sound of Wei Zhen being thrown to the ground by the lame stool.

"Hahaha, idiot, I'll throw you to death. You knew my parents were having a hard time, and you even hid this from me. I'm going to teach you a lesson!"

I jumped up, pinched my waist and looked proudly at Wei Zhen who was sitting on the ground staring at me.

(38) Heart disease

After that day, Baihua City became a thorn in my heart.

As time went on, my emotions became increasingly unstable.

Anxiety, boredom, distress, sadness and other emotions are entangled in my heart.

I don’t know if it’s because of my unstable emotions or if Wei Zhen is gradually getting tired of me, but the time Wei Zhen spends with me has started to decrease.

Day after day, I sat in the pavilion at the end of the corridor, staring blankly at the fat koi in the pond below the pavilion.

Yunniang's words were still repeating in my ears, "Thirteen, you have to persevere. You must wait until the right time, then you can give it your all."

I don’t know how long I can hold on.

Do we have to wait until the young marquis’s child is born?

Or should I wait until Wei Zhen truly changes his mind?

Or should I wait until I see the corpses of my parents with my own eyes?

I don’t know either. I’m just waiting for the unknown future in a daze.

"What are you acting like?" I was thinking about the affairs of Baihua City when Wei Zhen's voice suddenly sounded behind me.

I turned around and saw Wei Zhen standing not far away, looking at me with a bad expression.

"What do you mean?" I asked him back.

Only then did I realize that Wei Zhen had been nagging me for the past few days about his upcoming trip to Baihua City to fight the Sayaya tribe.

"Is there going to be another war in Baihua City?" I asked him absentmindedly at the time.

Wei Zhen nodded. "The Sayas, the largest nomadic tribe in the Northwest, have recently been experiencing internal strife. The Emperor wants to take advantage of this infighting to reclaim the Twelve Mountains and Rivers, which originally belonged to us but have been occupied by them for many years."

That day, I looked at Wei Zhen and asked, "Do you really have to go to the front line?"

"You're reluctant?" Wei Zhen half-leaned on the seat and looked at me with a smile.

I remember my face suddenly felt hot.

Wei Zhen, this shameless guy, didn't restrain himself at all in front of a bunch of servants and Shui Ling, and kept talking nonsense all day long.

"I'm about to go to the war, and you're just pretending to be a weak and frail girl all day long, feeling miserable in the wind and rain. Am I abusing you?" Wei Zhen walked over and sat down beside me, complaining to me in a cold tone.

My mind was already in a mess, and after being scolded by Wei Zhen, I felt even more upset. I threw the bait in my hand into the lake with some annoyance and got up to leave.

Wei Zhen grabbed me and said, "Shang Shisan, are you going too far?"

Wei Zhen pulled me so hard that he almost knocked me to the ground.

"What's too much?" I asked puzzled.

Wei Zhen suddenly laughed.

"Why, are you depressed just because Gu Shaolian is about to have a baby?" Wei Zhen said with disdain on her face. "The fortune teller said that Gu Shaolian will only have four to six children in his lifetime. Do you want to give birth to a child for him, too?"

Wei Zhen said this while lifting my chin in a frivolous manner.

The tone and gestures of his voice immediately made me furious.

"Show me some respect, King Pingnan!" I slapped Wei Zhen's hand away and said sternly.

Wei Zhen's disdainful expression became even more pronounced.

"Shang Shisan, although I've known for a long time that you're not a decent woman, you're almost there. If you really want to give birth to Gu Shaolian's child, I won't stop you. Take off this princess's clothes, and I won't bother to care about you even if you go out and sell yourself."

Wei Zhen said this with a very disdainful tone, mixed with complete contempt.

I thought I would rush over in anger and tear his mouth apart, but I didn't.

I moved my lips and tears started to fall.

"It was you...you who forced me to marry you." I wiped my tears, my tone extremely aggrieved, "Are you going to abandon me again now?"

Wei Zhen gritted her teeth and glared at me.

"Do you know how many women want to be in your position? You're still complaining. Doesn't this mean you don't want to live with me anymore?"

I went back to my room crying and lay on the dressing table and burst into tears.

Damn Wei Zhen, his words were so hurtful.

I kicked over the stool in the room to vent my anger, but I still felt so angry that I couldn't stand steadily.

"I'm going to make you pay the price, damn Wei Zhen, let's all die together!"

I took a set of servant's clothes from Shui Ling, changed into them, and rushed out of the house.

"Madam, madam, no, do you really want to fight the young prince to the death?" Shui Ling ran after me.

I turned around and glared at her, "If you keep yelling I'll have someone slap you in the face."

After threatening Shui Ling, I left her in the living room.

I rushed to Wei Zhen’s exclusive kitchen.

It was a midsummer afternoon, and the sun was blinding.

Everyone in the kitchen was hiding in the shade of the trees, dozing off to cool off.

I climbed through the window into the empty kitchen and mixed the salt and alkali flour together for him.

Mix in the soy sauce and vinegar as well.

After tinkering with it for a while, I still felt unsatisfied.

After much thought, I still want to poison Wei Zhen.

"Damn you, you bad thing. I'll kill you for talking to me and making me angry!" The more I thought about Wei Zhen's increasingly bad attitude towards me recently, the angrier I got. With trembling hands, I sprinkled a bag of white powder on my body onto the dough that was rising.

In order to avoid being discovered, I even kneaded the dough for a while to allow the powder, flour and dough to be fully blended, before I climbed out the window and left with satisfaction.