Chapter 73: Separate my wife, why do you want to eat this (sister dog)...
Qiongzhi followed the imperial physician to the medical office to get medicine, and Tinglan poured a cup of hot tea for her daughter.
Shen Yunshu leaned back on the pillow and drank half a cup of hot tea when she saw Xie Heng coming back.
There was no expression on his face, but his lips were tightly pursed, with the corners of his mouth pressed into a flat line. He raised his hand and asked Tinglan to go down first.
Shen Yunshu clenched the cup in her hand, wondering if the imperial physician had said anything to him.
Sure enough, after Tinglan left, he immediately started searching the room.
Wardrobe, chest of drawers, vase, drawer...
He finally found what she had been eating on her dresser.
The porcelain bottle was small and light, and she had already consumed most of the medicine inside.
He turned around, his handsome eyes darkening: "Madam, what is this?"
Shen Yunshu knew she couldn't hide it anymore, so she opened her lips and said, "Contraceptive pills."
"Bang!" As she finished her words, he smashed the medicine bottle in his hand to the ground.
The porcelain pieces shattered and flew everywhere.
He stepped on the debris and approached her step by step: "Madam, why do you want to eat this?"
Shen Yunshu's eyelashes drooped slightly: This was also the first time she took this kind of medicine. The shopkeeper who sold her the medicine said that taking too much of this medicine would harm the body. She thought that this kind of harm would not be visible to others, but she didn't expect that her period would betray her.
I never expected that he would find out about this.
However, it doesn't matter even if it is discovered now.
When he was away during the day, Empress Chenfei came to visit him once and told her that Xie Heng had been going to the Imperial Study every day to ask His Majesty to revoke the marriage, which made His Majesty very unhappy.
Empress Chenfei reminded her implicitly that Xie Heng had repeatedly bothered His Majesty for this matter. If His Majesty's patience wore out one day, even if he was not punished, simply ignoring him for a period of time would be enough for those with bad intentions to take advantage of the opportunity.
Afterwards, he brought up the matter of taking the examination for a female official and asked her whether she wanted to be a female official or the wife of the emperor's grandson in the future.
She told her idea to Empress Chen, who was very satisfied and praised her for knowing when to advance and when to retreat and for being sensible about the overall situation.
Now, Xie Heng threw the medicine bottle and questioned why she took the contraceptive pills. Shen Yunshu then repeated what she had said to the Empress Chen today, "Your Highness, I still want to take the exam for a female official."
Oh, calling him "Your Highness" again, and saying that he wants to take the exam for female officials?
The sneer on his lips gradually changed, and the light from the dormitory cast a gloomy shadow on his face. "Am I really not as good as that female official? I like you so much, why can't you like me a little more?"
"Xie Heng, can't you see?" Shen Yunshu said to him, enduring the cold pain in her abdomen, "Dangers are everywhere around you."
"I know, but I've tried my best to appear non-threatening." He went to Wenyuan Pavilion to attend classes honestly every day, and rarely went to the emperor's grandfather in his spare time. He didn't want anything, just wanted to live a peaceful life with her.
"It's useless. No matter how you behave, your existence is a threat to them. The only person who can protect you is your royal grandfather. You cannot disobey him, otherwise, you will lose your only refuge..."
The more she thought about him, the more uncomfortable Xie Heng felt.
Just now he was still angry at her for taking contraceptive pills without telling him, but when he saw her face turn pale to the point of being almost transparent, he suddenly regretted that he shouldn't have been so angry with her.
"You both said you were doing this for my own good, but one of you forced me to marry a girl I didn't like, and the other wanted to leave me." Xie Heng knelt in front of the bed, hugged her waist, and buried his head in her belly, trying to warm her cold. "My lady, I don't want you to leave me. I won't let you go..."
Shen Yunshu stroked his hair and slowly lifted his face: "Husband, do you believe me?"
"Hmm?" Xie Heng felt relieved when she finally called him "husband" again. "What else do you want to say to me, my lady?"
"I want to tell you that only if we separate now can we be together in the future. Do you believe me?"
Xie Heng was stunned by this, and looked at her with a hint of confusion in his eyes: "What do you mean by this?"
"Actually, I wanted to betroth my third sister to you, but my father disagreed. He knew your true identity and it was not convenient for him to marry the daughter of the Shen family to you. He did this to prevent the emperor from getting suspicious one day..."
Shen Yunshu could have told him these things earlier, but she was worried that with his naive and reckless character, he would go directly to the emperor to plead for the Shen family, which would be counterproductive and deepen the emperor's suspicion.
"But by some strange mistake, I married you. If you were Your Majesty, wouldn't you suspect that our Shen family had ulterior motives?"
With Xie Heng's intelligence, he had never thought of this before. He could not help but exclaim in astonishment: "How could it be? Why would the Emperor suspect you? You have clearly done me a favor..."
"It's true that there's a favor, but it's also true that the Shen family married their daughter to you. As long as His Majesty's suspicion of the Shen family doesn't subside, you and I won't be able to be together peacefully. Why not separate for a while now in exchange for a longer life together in the future?"
"How long will we be apart?"
"I don't know either……"
"How confident are you?"
"…about 60 to 70 percent."
"Only about 60% or 70%..."
In fact, it's not even 50%.
She was just guessing what the emperor was thinking. Even if His Majesty no longer suspected the Shen family one day, she was not sure whether His Majesty would still accept her as his granddaughter-in-law.
"Husband, please believe me, okay?" Shen Yunshu stroked his face and lowered her head to kiss him on the forehead. "You used to be the one who listened to me the most."
The hand that touched his face was cold, and the kiss on his forehead was also cold. Xie Heng held her hand and comforted him with the warmth of his palm.
He really used to listen to her the most.
But that was because she was always by his side, making him feel extremely at ease.
Now she is leaving, and she may not come back to him in the future. How can he still listen to her?
But she had made her words so clearly, if he still insisted on not letting her go, he would be too selfish.
"My dear, I can listen to you and separate from you temporarily, but we can't really separate..."
"Yeah." Shen Yunshu thought, two people who like each other, even if their bodies are separated, their hearts are together.
But he didn't think so.
"After you leave, I will find a chance to see you."
"This won't do..." Since we're separated, we have to act like it. How can we meet again?
"My lady, listen to me," Xie Heng said anxiously, holding her hand. "I won't meet you openly. I'll meet you secretly."
"Wouldn't that be adultery?"
This word actually made Xie Heng's blood boil: "Yes, my lady, let's have an affair from now on."
Shen Yunshu looked at him with a mixture of laughter and tears: "Do you know what you are talking about?"
"Madam, please promise me that I will obey you..."
How could she agree to this?
He insisted, "Don't worry, my lady. I'll go find a way to avoid pregnancy and won't ask you to take birth control pills anymore. We won't let anyone else find out about our affair."
"No, this is not decent..."
"Please, my dear, promise me?" Seeing that she still refused to give in, he had no choice but to use his ultimate move. He hugged her, rubbing her and begging her, "Please, sister, please be kind to me. Don't close the window too tightly before going to bed at night. I will wash it clean and then come to find you..."
He knew that she was most vulnerable to this move, and sure enough, the call of "sister" broke her defense: "Lecher!"
*
As the year drew to a close, Shen Yunshu left the palace with a divorce letter.
Shen Youran learned that her sister had returned to the Shen family. She thought that her sister was going home to visit relatives, so she rushed over to see her.
The sisters hadn't seen each other for a long time. She hugged her sister's arm and said coquettishly: "Sister, it's rare for me to leave the palace. Can you stay a few more days?"
"Okay," Shen Yunshu touched her sister's head, "I should stay at home for a long time this time."
Hearing this, Shen Youran immediately raised her head: "Sister, you... are not going back?"
Shen Yunshu smiled and said, "I will take the exam for female officials next spring. I want to prepare for the exam at home."
"Preparing for the exam at home?" Shen Youran was surprised. "What about His Royal Highness the Grandson? Why don't you go back to accompany him?"
"We're divorced."
"Divorced?" Shen Youran gasped, "Why?"
"Your Majesty wants to arrange another marriage for him."
"Didn't he refuse?"
"He has no choice. There's no point in refusing."
"Why is it useless? Back then, my mother-in-law wanted to take a concubine for my husband, but my husband and I both refused. Didn't we get away with it? As long as you two are of one mind..."
Shen Youran wanted to use her own experience to encourage her sister, but when she saw her sister's gentle and determined eyes, she knew that she had thought the problem too simply.
The royal family is not the Pei family, and the emperor is not planning to take a concubine for Xie Heng, but to arrange a marriage for him.
This means that the emperor refuses to acknowledge my sister as Xie Heng's wife.
Ever since her sister didn't show up at Nanyu Courtyard last time, Shen Youran had already vaguely guessed this result, but she didn't expect it to come so soon.
She hugged her sister distressedly: "Sister, you have been wronged."
"It's okay, I don't feel wronged..." Some people feel more wronged than her.
You Ran wanted to stay at the Shen family to spend more time with her sister, but it was the end of the year and there were too many things to do at the Pei Mansion, so she could only rush back to the Pei Mansion before dark.
Pei Huaijin had just returned from the government office, and the couple's carriages stopped at the gate of the mansion one after the other.
One of his shoulders was slightly higher than the other because his wound had not yet healed and was wrapped in thick gauze.
The two of them walked into the mansion together and returned to their own courtyard to change the medicine first.
The imperial physician had clearly said that the wound would heal in ten days, but now nine days have passed. After removing the gauze, the wound is still a bloody mess and doesn't seem to be healing.
While helping him change the medicine, Shen Youran told him about her sister's divorce from Xie Heng.
Pei Huaijin was not surprised when he heard this, and he comforted her not to worry too much: "Perhaps your sister's blessing is yet to come."
"Yes, a blessed girl will never enter a house without blessings," Shen Youran snorted, "My sister will definitely meet someone better in the future."
Pei Huaijin saw that she had misunderstood his words and opened his mouth to explain, but he felt that it was not appropriate for him to make a rash judgment on the matter, so he smiled and said nothing more.
After changing the medicine, Pei Huaijin went to the study to take care of some official business. When he came out of the main room, he met Qing Jian in the yard.
Qing Jian's injuries were no longer serious, and since he had some knowledge of pharmacology, his recovery was naturally fast. Although he still needed a few months of recuperation, he was able to move around freely. He didn't want to stay in his room all the time, so he came back to do what he could.
Pei Huaijin chatted with him for a few words and was about to head to the study when his vision suddenly went dark for a moment and he lost his balance and stumbled.
Qing Jian supported him: "My dear, are you okay?"
"It's okay." Pei Huaijin didn't think much about it after his vision regained clarity. "Maybe I'm a little tired recently."
Qing Jian saw a hint of grey in his eyes, then he grabbed his wrist, felt his pulse, and said with a frosted expression, "My dear, you seem to be... poisoned."
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