Chapter 337 Whip Scar
In the evening, the sky is filled with gorgeous sunset glow.
Chen Wan sat on the swing, swaying intermittently while admiring the sunset.
Just as she was enjoying herself, Shanhu said, "Princess, Sister Xia He is here."
Shen Wan looked towards the courtyard gate and saw Xia He coming.
Xia He stepped forward and bowed, saying, "Second Aunt, Madam Lin is not feeling well. Madam asked you to have the young master accompany you to visit Madam Lin when you are free."
Shen Wan said, "I was just thinking of paying my respects to Madam Lin one day. How come you feel unwell? Is everything okay?"
Xia He said, "Madam Lin has lost her appetite. She went to see the imperial physician, who said she might have caught a cold at night..."
Shen Wan nodded, “I will go visit Madam Lin tomorrow.”
Xia He left after delivering the message.
After dinner, Xie Jingyu accompanied Shen Wan to the garden for a quarter of an hour. After returning, they each went about their own business.
Chen Wan made a brocade robe for the emperor. She first drew the pattern on paper and selected the embroidery pattern. It was more than half an hour before she started embroidering.
When Xie Jingyu came back from bathing, Shen Wan was still embroidering, but just as he was entering the house after making the bead curtain, Shen Wan accidentally pierced her hand with the needle and gasped in pain.
Xie Jingyu walked over in two steps and saw blood oozing from Chen Wan's fingertips. He asked distressedly, "Does it hurt?"
Shen Wan said, "My back hurts."
Xie Jingyu was neither angry nor distressed, "You spent the whole night making a brocade robe for the emperor?"
A sour smell of vinegar.
She wished she could ask the maid to take the brocade robe off and throw it away.
Shen Wan shook his head, "I'm not tired."
She touched her back and felt a strange sensation, "Like... being whipped several times..."
pain.
But it doesn't hurt that much.
Suddenly, I felt a slap on my back, and I was caught off guard and accidentally got my hand pricked by the needle.
Shen Wan had never been whipped in her life, but she felt like she had been whipped. It was really strange.
Chen Wan said it casually, and Xie Jingyu just thought she was making up an excuse because she was afraid that he would blame her for being disobedient and wasting her time and energy making brocade robes for the emperor.
Chen Wan just said that, saying that if the fingertip was pricked by a needle, there was no need to apply medicine, just press it with an embroidered handkerchief and the bleeding would stop.
It was not until Xie Jingyu carried Chen Wan to the bed and his hands wandered across her back that Chen Wan cried out in pain. When Xie Jingyu saw Chen Wan's back, his brows twisted into a knot.
There were several faint red marks on Shen Wan's back.
It does look a bit like whip marks.
Seeing Xie Jingyu looking at his back without saying anything, Shen Wan asked, "What's wrong with my back?"
Xie Jingyu asked, "Have you ever felt pain in your body for no reason like today?"
Shen Wan thought for a moment and said, "It happened twice..."
"Once, my shoulder felt like it was hit by something, and I couldn't lift it for several days. Also, my knee, although I wasn't hit or bruised, was bruised and I couldn't walk properly for several days. But it felt like I was being whipped, and that was the first time..."
Then Shen Wan asked, “There won’t be any whip marks on my back, right?”
Xie Jingyu took the clothes and helped Shen Wan put them on. "You weren't whipped, so how come there are whip marks?"
Shen Wan thought about it and realized that if she hadn't been whipped and there were whip marks on her back for no reason, she would have been regarded as a monster, but the pain in her back felt so real.
Seeing Xie Jingyu helping her put on her clothes, Shen Wan looked at him, "No, no... continue..."
The sound was so soft that you could almost squeeze water out of it.
Xie Jingyu looked into Shen Wan's eyes and said with a smile, "Do you want me to continue?"
Shen Wan's ears turned red.
"I didn't!"
She lay down on the bed and pulled the quilt over her head.
Although Shen Wan didn't get beaten, Xie Jingyu lost all ideas when he saw the marks on her back.
Xie Jingyu had heard that there might be some special connection between twins, and he suspected that maybe the brother that Shen Wan had never met was whipped, and some of the symptoms were also reflected in Shen Wan. However, Shen Wan's experiences were bizarre, including such incredible things as rebirth. It was not certain whether it was as he guessed.
However, Xie Jingyu hoped that his guess was correct, at least it would prove that the person was still alive.
But it’s not easy to find someone in such a vast sea of people.
Xie Jingyu was thinking about something, Shen Wan turned over in the quilt and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Xie Jingyu pulled Shen Wan out of the quilt and into his arms, “It’s late, go to bed.”
She found a comfortable position in his arms and fell into a deep sleep.
The next day, after breakfast, Shen Wan and Xie Jingyu left the house.
Shen Wan went to visit Old Madam Lin, and Xie Jingyu went to the Ministry of Justice to visit Fourth Young Master Pei, and then went to the Lin Mansion to pick her up.
But plans can't keep up with changes. Just as Shen Wan and Xie Jingyu were leaving, the servant of the Prince of Yuzhang rode over, dismounted and saluted, saying, "Prince Jingbei, my prince is hosting a banquet and invites you to drink at Deyue Tower at noon."
Just as Xie Jingyu was about to say that he was busy, Shen Wan said, "Go ahead. I'll have lunch with Madam Lin. It's just right for you to pick me up after you finish your drink."
Shen Wan changed the arrangement, and Xie Jingyu agreed to her decision.
After walking only one street together, Xie Jingyu did not get on the carriage but rode on horseback.
When they reached the street, Shen Wan went to Lin's house, and Xie Jingyu went to the prison of the Ministry of Justice.
Arriving at the Ministry of Justice Prison, Chen Ping saw a figure from a distance that looked quite familiar. He asked in surprise, "Isn't that Chen Guo?"
Chen Guo had just taken out the Jingbei Palace token from his arms when he heard the sound of horse hooves. He looked over here and saw Xie Jingyu and Chen Ping riding towards him.
Chen Guo was also surprised.
Chen Ping asked, "You went to Yizhou on business, and when you returned to the capital, you didn't report back to your residence. Why are you here in the Ministry of Justice's jail?"
On his way back to North Vietnam, Xiahou Yi passed by Yizhou and sent his men to kill a man. Chen Guo rescued the man based on the principle that my enemy's enemy is my friend.
After returning to Beijing, Xie Jingyu felt that this matter was unusual and sent Chen Guo to investigate.
Chen Guo twitched his lips and said, "This trip has been in vain."
Chen Ping asked, "Was it all in vain?"
Chen Guo nodded. "I went to Yizhou to look for him and found out that he was from Lianzhou. I went to Lianzhou again and was told that he had committed a capital crime and was being escorted to Beijing..."
"I'm afraid I've made a mistake, so I'm going to the Ministry of Justice to confirm it first, so I can report back to you."
Lianzhou... Death Penalty...
It can’t be such a coincidence, right?
Chen Ping asked, "Could it be that the Third Prince of Beiyue wants to kill the Fourth Young Master Pei Huaijin?"
Chen Guo was surprised. "How did you know?"
"...I just came to see him."
It couldn’t be more of a coincidence.
No wonder the Third Prince of Beiyue saw this when he passed by and wanted to kill the Fourth Young Master Pei. He beat up his own Crown Prince, but the Crown Prince didn't fight back. It would be strange if the Third Prince of Beiyue didn't want to kill him.
When Chen Guo went to visit the prison, she needed a token. Xie Jingyu's face was the best pass. Not only did the jailer not dare to stop her, but the head of the prison also welcomed her respectfully.
Knowing that Xie Jingyu was here to visit Pei Huaijin, the jailer quickly led the way.
"It's just ahead."
After walking forward a dozen steps, I saw a man lying on a straw mat in the cell, with whip marks all over his back.
Seeing the whip marks, Xie Jingyu suddenly thought of the faint scars on Chen Wan's back.
Xie Jingyu asked, "Why torture?"
The jailer hurriedly replied, "It was Minister Wu who ordered the beating, but he only received ten lashes. The Minister of Justice stopped the torture and even gave him medicine..."
The Minister of Punishments was recommended by the old Taifu Lin and Shen Ji.
But Lord Wu, the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, is a man of the Duke of Song.
The murder case committed by Pei Huaijin was the nephew of the wife of the Duke of Song. The case was sent to the Ministry of Justice, and Minister Wu tortured the wife of the Duke of Song to vent her anger.
Because Xie Jingyu sent Chen Ping to find out who Pei Huaijin was, the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice copied the files and sent them to the Jingbei Palace, and told the matter to the Minister of Justice. The Minister of Justice knew that Pei Huaijin was the grandson of a classmate and friend of the old Taifu Lin, and since he had been sentenced to death, there was no need to torture him and he reprimanded the partial Vice Minister Wu.
But after being whipped ten times, Pei Huaijin lay on the straw mat, almost dying.
Chen Guo said, "Master, it's definitely him."
Pei Huaijin looked up. He didn't recognize Xie Jingyu, but he recognized Chen Guo at a glance.
Lifesaver.
How could he forget?
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