Chapter 68 Don't push things you've already used up and don't want to me
Threaten her?
Old Madam Hou raised a trembling finger and pointed at Shen Qingci: "Are you threatening me?"
"You wretch!" she cried out in fury, grabbing the arm of the old woman beside her. "If only I had known, I shouldn't have let Yun Zhan marry you! I should have let you die with your parents!"
Shen Qingci nodded, nonchalantly: "What a pity, hindsight is always 20/20."
“Madam, this courtyard is my property. Since you’ve come here just to question and criticize me for no reason, then I don’t welcome you.”
"Guards, escort the old lady out! If she comes again, I will not see her."
Madam Hou grew increasingly furious. She stood up and walked out, muttering to herself, "You wretch, you just wait, you just wait!"
"How dare you speak to me like that? Do you think that once you leave the Yongning Marquis's mansion, there's really no way to deal with you?"
"Now that you've left the Yongning Marquis's residence, fine! You can sever ties with our residence if you want! But I expect you to agree not to interfere in anything related to the Yongning Marquis's residence anymore! Otherwise, I will definitely not let you off the hook!"
Shen Qingci lifted her eyelids slightly, her gaze falling on Liu Ruolan, who remained seated, unmoved and calm. She raised an eyebrow slightly.
Liu Ruolan seems to have become much more composed now.
As she was thinking, she saw Liu Ruolan look at her thoughtfully: "It was you, wasn't it? After all, you know everything, and only you know it, only you can guess it."
"You did it on purpose, deliberately revealing everything in front of everyone, so that he could never go back."
"Why not let him go back? You're a woman; having someone to rely on is better than being a widow, isn't it?"
Liu Ruolan still had some reservations, so she spoke vaguely.
Shen Qingci understood.
She smiled and said, "I don't know what the Lady Hou is talking about."
"I'll say it again, the Lady of the Marquis is truly magnanimous."
"After all, I heard that the Marquis slapped you in the face in front of many people that day and imprisoned you."
"He treated you like that, and you still want to help him."
“I can’t do that. No matter how much I like a man, if he becomes corrupt, or if he does something that I can’t understand or accept, and he hurts or humiliates me, I won’t want him anymore.”
Liu Ruolan's gaze was fixed on Shen Qingci's face, and she scoffed, "You think you're clean?"
Liu Ruolan gritted her teeth: "Do you think that by doing all this, you can stop the things you don't want to happen from happening?"
"Do you think you can go against the Prime Minister's Mansion?"
"A fool's dream!"
Shen Qingci was not intimidated by her threats at all: "It's alright, after all, I'm quite pretty. If I really wanted to, what kind of powerful figure could I not get? You know, even His Majesty took a liking to me just by looking at me once."
She slowly straightened her sleeves: "The Marquis is no longer capable. He can no longer give the Marquis's wife what you want, such as offspring. I can understand why the Marquis's wife wants to leave the Marquis's mansion and get rid of him."
She raised her eyes, her gaze sharp and piercing: "But I hope that Madam Hou will not drag me into this, and will not push your worn-out and unwanted things onto me."
"I don't want it either."
Liu Ruolan was caught off guard by Shen Qingci's words and became uncontrollably angry and embarrassed.
"I don't understand what you're saying."
After she finished speaking, she turned and left.
Once everyone had gone far away, Wanqing finally let out a long sigh of relief: "I was so suffocated! Those two are so infuriating! I almost couldn't hold it in anymore!"
Wan Qing frowned, recalling Shen Qingci's words: "What did Miss mean by what she said to Liu Ruolan just now? Is it that Marquis Yongning is no longer capable, and Liu Ruolan doesn't want him anymore, so she suggested that he return to his general status and push him to you?"
Shen Qingci's lips curled up slightly: "Yes, isn't it obvious?"
Wanqing couldn't help but stomp her foot: "They are really... utterly disgusting!"
"But what exactly are they here for?"
Shen Qingci smiled and said, "The old lady of the Marquis probably wants to test my attitude. If I am nice and regret leaving the Yongning Marquis's Mansion and severing ties with it, she can make me atone for my mistakes and cooperate with them to put on a good show, acknowledging Huo Yunzhan's identity as the General Who Conquers the West in the name of his wife."
"If I refuse and insist on breaking ties with them, she will warn me to behave myself and not interfere in Huo Yunzhan's affairs."
"As for Liu Ruolan... she knows perfectly well that I know everything, and she won't be very nice to the old lady. She deliberately brought the old lady here to sow discord, make enemies for me, and make things difficult for me in the future."
As Shen Qingci answered Wan Qing's questions, she was surprised to find that the people and events of the Huo family seemed to have completely failed to evoke any more emotions in her than disgust.
The Huo family did all sorts of heinous things to her, and she's even... not really sad about it anymore.
As Shen Qingci was thinking, she caught a glimpse of a familiar figure quietly leaving out of the corner of her eye.
Shen Qingci's gaze paused. That person... seemed to be Chu Jichen's bodyguard?
Chu Jichen himself was not here, but he left his spies and informants here.
Is this... to report what just happened to Chu Jichen?
Her thoughts had completely shifted from what had just happened, and another matter came to mind...
Ever since she moved into the courtyard that Chu Jichen had prepared for her, she had the same strange dream for two nights in a row.
I dreamt that a long, soft pillow appeared on my bed, and that the pillow could grow arms to hug me.
If it only happened once, that would be fine, but it happened for two consecutive nights.
This made her wonder if it was really just a dream.
Shen Qingci's eyelashes trembled. She wondered if there would be another one tonight...
She really wanted to find out the secret behind it.
"Let's go." Shen Qingci stood up. "Let's go back to the courtyard next door."
Shen Qingci left the front hall, and the steward hurriedly followed behind him. Shen Qingci glanced at the steward and said, "Your Highness must be very busy these past two days."
"I am quite busy." The steward lowered his eyes and smiled, "Miss Shen, is there something you need to see the Prince about? This old servant can send someone to inform the Prince."
"It's nothing, I was just asking casually."
When night fell, Shen Qingci turned off the light, lay down on the bed, closed her eyes, and deliberately controlled her breathing, trying to make it even.
After waiting for more than an hour, Shen Qingci finally heard a faint sound, like the sound of a wheelchair...
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