Chapter 3 Lip Temperature
"Don't try. I have never thought of leaving. Not before, and not in the future."
Pei Zhouwu's answer was extremely firm.
If he says no, then he definitely won't.
"Why?" Liu Fuying was really puzzled. Being imprisoned alone in a place like that for a long time, he might go crazy. "You can obviously leave, don't you want to leave?"
Pei Zhouwu did not answer, but just put down the walking stick in his hand.
Then, walk into the water again.
"If you want to report it, just have someone fill up the lake."
After leaving these words, he dived down and disappeared quickly.
"I..." Liu Fuying didn't have time to say anything.
How could she report it?
If I fill up this lake, how can I find him in the future?
After thinking for a long time, there was no movement underwater. Liu Fuying picked up his crutches and stood up, recalling the scene of breathing underwater just now.
She reached out and stroked her red lips, which seemed to still have some warmth.
She didn't go down the mountain.
Instead, after getting out of the forest and finding a familiar road, he went up the mountain to Changming Temple, borrowed clothes from the female Taoist priest in the East Courtyard, and asked someone to go down the mountain to inform others to pick him up.
Her clothes were ragged, so it was not convenient for her to go down the mountain and into the city and attract onlookers and criticism.
At noon, people from the foot of the mountain arrived.
Jin Li, the maid who grew up with her, brought clean clothes and helped Liu Fuying to dress up with red eyes. She asked her where she had been. It started raining not long after she came out of Changming Temple yesterday. Because she didn't bring an umbrella, Jin Li went back to the Taoist temple to borrow an umbrella. When she came back, Liu Fuying had already fallen off the cliff.
After packing up and resting for a while, we took a carriage down the mountain in the afternoon.
It was several hours later when we returned to the Shen family.
The doctor came to see me, prescribed some medicine and left. It was already dark.
"General, have you had your meal?" During dinner, Liu Fuying asked about her husband, Shen Xiunian.
Originally, she and Shen Xiunian lived their own lives and would not think of each other unless something happened.
I specifically mentioned this today because I was thinking of Pei Zhouwu.
"I don't know about this either. I heard that he was in the study the whole afternoon. I wonder if the general has eaten yet. Why should Madam care about him? Yesterday, when I went back to report Madam's disappearance, he didn't care at all. He didn't even say a word of concern. It was the Madam who sent people into the mountains to look for her."
Liu Fuying really didn't care at all about Shen Xiunian's indifference.
She continued to eat calmly, and only replied calmly, "Then I'll go to the study to find him later. By the way, how is mother-in-law? Is she still not awake?"
"Yes, madam. The old lady was ill. She was very anxious the whole night when she heard that the young lady was missing. If she hadn't been stopped, she would have gone up the mountain to look for you herself. She couldn't hold on any longer until the afternoon and fell asleep. She hasn't woken up yet."
Liu Fuying nodded.
If there is only one person in the Shen family that she likes, it is Shen Xiunian’s mother.
Her right hand was not convenient, so Jin Li had to feed her.
After dinner and clearing the table, Liu Fuying saw Jinli take out a shoe from the inner room.
"What are you going to do?" Liu Fuying called her.
That shoe was the only one left after falling off the cliff yesterday.
"Madam, these shoes can no longer make a pair, so I thought I could throw them away."
"Don't throw it away." Liu Fuying waved to Jin Li to come back, and then said: "Just wash it and put it away, there's no need to throw it away."
Since she insisted, Jin Li couldn't say anything.
Liu Fuying sat lazily in the recliner. Ever since he came back from Xiangshan, he kept thinking of Pei Zhouwu in his mind. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the plan was feasible.
After resting for a while, Jin Li helped him go to Shen Xiunian's study.
I knocked on the door, but no one answered.
Perhaps knowing that she was coming, Shen Xiunian was too lazy to respond.
Liu Fuying remained calm and pushed the door open directly.
Shen Xiunian, who was sitting behind the desk, didn't react at all to her arrival and continued writing something.
Liu Fuying did not come closer, but sat far away.
In fact, to be fair, Shen Xiunian is also a hero. Being such a young general of the second rank shows how outstanding his talent is. Although he is not as good-looking as Pei Zhouwu, he is still handsome. In terms of conditions, he is a good match.
Unfortunately, it was not Liu Fuying's good match.
"General, have you thought carefully about what Second Uncle's family has proposed? Do you really want to give away your family business?"
Shen Xiunian said nothing, but kept his head down and kept moving his hands.
"General, have you forgotten what you promised me before we got married?"
That Chen Xiunian still didn't respond.
But he has always been like this, and Liu Fuying has long been accustomed to it.
"The laws of our dynasty stipulate that women cannot inherit family property. Even if I am nominally your wife, after you pass away, I will not be able to inherit the Shen family's wealth on your behalf. Your father died early and has no other sons. At that time, the family property will fall into the hands of your second uncle according to the law. This is something I never thought about before marriage, but it is not too late to think about it now."
This world is always unfair to women.
But what does it matter if it's unfair? What belongs to her, she won't give up, that's what Shen Xiunian promised her.
Otherwise, she would not have married into the Shen family and lived as a widow.
But the problem now is that even if Chen Xiunian personally wrote in black and white that he would leave his property to her, it would still be invalid in the court.
So she must have a child, even if she has to use any means necessary.
"I guess the general won't have children with me, so I can only do as the general said before and find a man outside."
What Chen Xiunian said before was that she was allowed to go out and keep a gigolo but not to have children with others.
Raising a child for someone else has a different meaning.
"General, do you understand what I mean?"
Shen Xiunian was not a fool, of course he understood but he still lowered his head and wrote in silence.
"But I think the general has no choice. You are even more reluctant to give your property to your second uncle."
The original Chen Xiunian was also a man with heart and soul. He had loved a woman before. It was said that he met her on the battlefield. He loved her so much that he brought her home.
At that time, Chen Xiunian was away fighting and his mother was in poor health, so the family's shops and properties were handed over to his second uncle to manage. Suddenly, he saw Chen Xiunian bringing a woman back. Perhaps he was afraid that the financial power would fall into someone else's hands, so his second uncle devised a plan to drive the woman away.
I never thought that this would be the last time we saw each other.
The woman died, and Shen Xiunian's heart died with her.
In recent years, he has always done things without regard for his life. Half a month ago, he almost died on the battlefield and was carried back by others.
The second uncle's family once again used this as an excuse to bring up the matter of family wealth, saying that they were worried that if something really happened to Shen Xiu Nian in the future, he would not have time to arrange his funeral affairs, so they wanted him to prepare in advance.
That second uncle plotted to kill Shen Xiunian's beloved, so naturally he was unwilling to hand over the family business to his second uncle.
"General, if you have any objections, please raise them with me as soon as possible."
What she meant was that if he had no objection, she would start taking care of the matter of having an heir.
She said a lot, but Chen Xiunian didn't even move his eyelids.
"Don't worry." Liu Fuying stood up and walked out briskly, "I will take good care of my mother as promised."
After going out, Liu Fuying unconsciously looked towards the direction of Xiangshan through the void.
Shen Xiunian's lifeless look reminded her more of Pei Zhouwu.
I don’t know what Pei Zhouwu is doing at this time.
"Ayin!"
Outside the yard, someone called her loudly.
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