Chapter 39 Chapter 39 The one outside the door is Jiang Wu, who is inside...
With a scream, countless people who loved to watch the fun immediately squeezed in. Those who fell behind hated themselves for not running faster or growing taller.
But at the outermost part, it was so quiet that you could hear a silver needle dropping to the ground.
If Jiang Wu is here, then who is the person in the room?
The most excited person here must be Juan'er. When she saw the lady appear in front of her, she was so happy that she wanted to rush over to her.
"Madam, it's great that you're not in there. I was so worried about you."
Unexpectedly, Jiang Wu said to Gao Lang with an extremely cold expression: "Lock her up in the woodshed first."
She had given Juan'er a chance, but she herself did not seize it. She never kept a traitorous maid by her side.
Gao Lang was just about to take action when she escaped before him, and he felt deeply useless.
Screams continued to erupt from inside the house, and no one knew what they saw inside.
The first person who squeezed in looked at Ji Xiao, who appeared on the bed with scratches all over his body, and couldn't help muttering: "No, how could this person be Ji Shizi and..."
Ji Xiao, who had fallen into a deep sleep after drinking a cup of tea, was suddenly woken up by someone. He felt a little cold and was about to pull the quilt to cover himself, but he suddenly touched someone's warm and delicate skin.
Wait, delicate skin?
The first person Ji Xiao thought of was Jiang Wu who had asked him to come here. He was secretly delighted. He didn't expect things to go so smoothly.
Originally, when Mr. Song said that he wanted to sacrifice himself, he was not happy about it. You know, Jiang Wanwan obviously liked him, and the woman who liked him was equivalent to him in terms of rounding it off.
As a man who stands tall and proud, how could he allow his woman to be caught and raped in bed with another man? If it happened with him, it would be a mutual affection that they could not help but feel.
So he said nothing that day, thinking about how to replace the original with the fake.
Even though he hadn't opened his eyes to see who was lying beside him, Ji Xiao, with a look of secret joy in his eyes, tried to comfort her, "Don't worry, I will take responsibility for you."
She didn't say anything, she must have been scared. Well, anyone who encounters such a thing will be scared.
"Brother, what are you doing!" Ji Ruyue, who squeezed in to watch the fun, saw her elder brother lying naked on a bed with another man. Her elder brother was still saying that he would take responsibility, but his brain suddenly exploded, and he rushed over with a ferocious face to beat the man on the bed.
"Bitch, it's you, you seduced my big brother, right?"
"I'm telling you, a shameless bitch like you can never even think of entering our Ji family's gate!"
"She and I are in love with each other, why would you say that she's seducing me?" Ji Xiao looked at his younger sister, who was rushing over like a mad woman to hit Jiang Wu beside her. He grabbed her wrist and pushed her away with an unexpected tone.
"What did you do? How could you be so rude to your future sister-in-law? It seems that I have spoiled you too much."
Ji Ruyue, who had not expected to be criticized by her eldest brother and pushed to the ground by him in public, was so furious that she pointed at the man and cursed, "What sister-in-law? This bitch is not worthy of it!"
"Since I have done something wrong to her." Ji Xiao curled his lips and said responsibly, "At worst, I can marry her."
Everyone was stunned and turned to look at Xie Ji.
Facing Xie Ji's eyes full of surprise and slight anger, Ji Xiao raised his chin complacently: "Don't blame her for this kind of thing. After all, who can explain the truth about feelings?"
"Don't worry, I'm not the kind of person who will deny his promise after taking advantage of you. I will marry her. Although she can't be my wife, I can be your concubine." Since he said that, the stupid woman Jiang Wanwan must be very moved.
Why did he think that it was Jiang Wu sleeping next to him? It was because he didn't see her in the crowd, which meant that she was lying next to him.
It's understandable that he didn't say anything, after all, he was scared.
Xie Ji's expression was indeed not good-looking. It would not be a good look for any family if they finally held a banquet and then saw their cousin hanging out with a man from another family at the banquet.
"Are you volunteering?"
Ji Xiao thought he was asking Jiang Wu, so he spoke first, "How could you lie in the same bed with me if it wasn't your own will?"
"She is thin-skinned and shy. If you have any complaints or anger, just come to me. Don't make things difficult for her. Whatever conditions you want, I will agree to them as long as I can meet them." She has become his own person, and as a man, he should protect his woman.
Xie Ji ignored him and looked at the person who had just woken up. "Are you doing this voluntarily?"
These were the words Song Jin heard when he slowly woke up. He was called out by the maid earlier and thought that Jiang Wu wanted to meet him in private. However, he was knocked unconscious shortly after he came out. It must have been done by that idiot Ji Xiao or He Shiyan.
So when he woke up and found himself naked and there was someone lying beside his bed, he was not too surprised.
All he had was the excitement of being able to help Tingxue get what she wanted.
Because these days, he could clearly feel that Xie Ji had no intention of divorcing Jiang Wu, so he didn't mind adding fuel to the fire.
It's just a pity that Jiang Wu went from being divorced peacefully to being a divorced wife with her reputation ruined.
But when he saw Jiang Wu being blocked by Xie Ji, his pupils suddenly shrank and a chill instantly rose from his tailbone.
If she wasn't in bed, who was lying in bed with him now?
In an instant, Song Jin felt as cold as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, and his face was so pale that not a trace of blood could be seen.
Jiang Wu watched this scene coldly. If she had not made preparations in advance, she would have been lying on the bed, being raped, being condemned by thousands of people, and being thrown into the pig cage.
She had thought before that even if she could escape once, they would definitely attack her a second and third time.
There is only a thief who steals for a thousand days, but there is no such thing as guarding against thieves for a thousand days.
Rather than letting them frame her at another party, it would be better for her to join in and go with the flow.
As for Ji Xiao, it was just bad luck for him, besides he was not innocent.
Shen Tingxue, who witnessed this scene, covered her lips with her eyes widened in horror and said, “You, how could you do such a thing.”
It would be hard for anyone to accept seeing two of their suitors sleeping together.
The crowd, which had been acting strangely, suddenly started talking, but this time the person being accused was someone else.
"I originally thought that the prince was framed. Did you hear what he said just now? I didn't expect it."
"If the family rules didn't forbid it, the prince would have wanted to marry her as his legal wife."
Unable to bear hearing what they said, Ji Ruyue screamed in denial: "You are talking nonsense. My elder brother was framed. How could he get involved with such a bitch!"
"Besides, my eldest brother has always had someone he likes, and that person is a woman!"
"Ayue, she and I are truly in love, and I will be responsible for her." Ji Xiao thought he was praising them until he saw Jiang Wu who was originally blocked behind Xie Ji. His pupils suddenly widened as if struck by lightning.
If Jiang Wu was there, then who was it that appeared on his bed!!!
Jiang Wu raised his hands and clapped, letting out a heartfelt laugh: "Prince, cousin, congratulations."
"But even if you two are overwhelmed with love, you can't do anything reckless in our residence, or express your unwavering love in front of so many guests." As he spoke, Jiang Wu sighed heavily, as if expressing regret for their touching love.
"My madam is absolutely right. Even if the prince and my cousin can't help themselves, they shouldn't do such immoral things in the prime minister's residence. Where do you put our prime minister's residence? Is this your back garden for secret meetings?" Xie Ji couldn't help but smile approvingly at her after she said two idioms correctly in a row.
My wife has grown up.
Shen Tingxue, who noticed their interaction, explained with a grim expression, "I think there must be some misunderstanding. Maybe the prince and Mr. Song were framed."
If it wasn't a frame-up, why would they be lying on the bed instead of Jiang Wu?
"Does the princess think that someone deliberately made them sleep in the same bed?" Jiang Wu, with her red lips pursed, just felt funny. If it was her lying on the top, she was afraid that everyone would curse her with the most vicious words in the world and would be so angry that they would drag her to the pig cage and throw her into the pig cage.
Now that it was two men, it seemed like they were framed.
"Or does the princess think that the marks on their bodies were all scratched by others? They are innocent, they are suffering, and they are innocent." Although Jiang Wu spoke in a light tone, everyone could hear her sarcasm.
No matter how stupid Ji Xiao was, he understood something at this moment. He twisted his neck so fast that one could even hear a crisp clicking sound.
In the extremely quiet atmosphere, what caught Ji Xiao's eyes was Song Jinye's face that made him feel disgusted and disgusted.
Ji Xiao recalled his previous irrelevant answers, and felt as disgusted as if he had eaten a fly. He punched him in the face and said, "Why are you in my bed?"
"It's you, you framed me, didn't you? I like women, how could it be someone as hypocritical as you!"
Song Jin, who was hit by a punch, immediately fought back, "Are you crazy?"
The most important thing now is not the fight between them, but how to break the impasse, and how the person sleeping in the same bed with him became the idiot Ji Xiao.
What went wrong? Or was he being plotted against by the He guy?
"Crazy! This prince must beat you to death today!" When Ji Xiao thought about how he admitted in front of so many people that he liked Song Jinye and even said that he wanted to marry him as a concubine, he wished that time could go back.
Jiang Wu just watched the two men fighting. It seemed that they were no different from women. Although he felt relieved, he still did not let down his guard.
As for why they were here, it was naturally her doing. She first tricked Ji Xiao out, tricked him into drinking tea laced with knockout drugs, and then, after he passed out, she moved him to the courtyard they had arranged earlier.
She doesn't trust others and has to do everything by herself.
After dealing with Ji Xiao, it was Song Jinye's turn. She disguised herself as a maid and told him that everything was ready. When he arrived at Lanyuan and pushed the door open, she took out the prepared wooden stick, knocked the man unconscious, and dragged the two of them onto a bed.
As for the red marks on their bodies, it is autumn now, and the thing that is most in abundance in the mansion is peach hair.
Knowing that he had been tricked, Song Jin dodged Ji Xiao's fist and immediately reacted by shouting, "No, things are not what you see."
Then he took out the sachet he was wearing close to his body, and looked at Jiang Wu affectionately, wanting to say something but hesitant. "I don't know why I ended up lying with Prince Ji, but I'm sure I was framed. As for why I'm here, it's because I received a message from my sweetheart saying she wanted to see me."
Ji Xiao took his hand back and showed his intelligence for once: "Yes, I was framed."
If he doesn't clear himself, the rumors of his infidelity will be confirmed. If his father finds out, he will definitely break both of his legs.
Then Ji Xiao took out the sachet and looked at Jiang Wu eagerly, "Wanwan, you gave me this sachet, have you forgotten?"
Suddenly someone in the crowd wondered, "Hey, why does this sachet look so familiar? I feel like I've seen it somewhere before."
"It looks familiar to me, too."
Suddenly, someone slapped his head and exclaimed, "I remember now. Doesn't Young Master Song have an identical one? He even said it was a gift from his sweetheart."
For a moment, everyone looked at Ji Xiao and Song Jinye with contempt and disgust, and at the same time showed pity and sympathy for the Prime Minister's wife.
After all, for anyone who encounters this kind of thing, it is as disgusting as stepping on dog shit.
Xie Ji, with his lips tightly pursed, held her hand, as if silently saying that he was her strongest supporter: "Bring me those two sachets."
"Don't be afraid."
Jiang Wu calmly withdrew her hand and gave him a strange look. Why should she be afraid? Her name was not embroidered on the sachet.
Moreover, he is the person least qualified to say this to himself. Who knows if he will suddenly choose to believe what they say.
When the two sachets were presented on a tray, it was clear that they were almost identical.
Xie Ji picked up the two sachets and looked at them for a while, then took out a dagger and cut open the sachets.
The outside of the sachet looks ordinary, but there are a few words embroidered on the inside near the seam. Those words are in dark threads and can only be seen under sunlight.
Gift to Rong'an
Gift to Zexiu
Two grown men wearing sachets embroidered with each other's names on their bodies, doesn't this mean anything?
"I don't know why Prince Ji has the same sachet as me. But mine was given to me by my cousin." Song Jin, like a venomous snake baring its fangs, looked at Jiang Wu with a look of affection and grievance, tears streaming down her cheeks. "Sister-in-law, have you forgotten that I'm here? Did you invite me here?"
Things have come to this point, and Song Jin is like a poisonous snake with its head cut off. Before dying, it has to fight back and bite off a piece of flesh from the other party.
Ji Xiao looked at the sachet he took out in disbelief, his brows furrowed so tightly that he could kill a fly.
No, how could he have a sachet exactly like mine?
And how come the sachet he had been wearing for so long had that bitch's name embroidered inside it?
Jiang Wu, who had been falsely accused of having an affair with someone else, stood up in anger, her eyes red as if she had suffered a great injustice. "You're talking nonsense. I'm your cousin's wife, how could I give you such intimate things?"
"Just because I'm a woman living in a wealthy family, you can slander me and ruin my reputation at will? I don't know how I have offended you that you want to hurt me like this." As she spoke, tears were already falling silently, as if she had suffered a great injustice.
People naturally sympathize with the weak, let alone a weak woman who has been innocently implicated.
Xie Ji, with a layer of frost between his eyebrows, suppressed his anger. His eyes were so sharp that every word shot out like an arrow: "Prince, you'd better give me an explanation!"
"The sachet was really given by my sister-in-law. Is there any need for me to lie?" At this point, Song Jin knew that there was no way out and could only bite Jiang Wu to death. With red eyes and tears falling, he staggered out of the bed and ran towards her.
"Sister-in-law, I know you may not admit your feelings for me, and I also know the facts of what happened today..."
At this moment, a sharp sword shadow came, and Song Jin, who felt the wind, seemed to be frozen. He looked at the half-strand of his hair that was cut off and fell off his shoulder in horror, and the long sword that was against his neck. If the sword moved forward an inch, his neck would be separated from his head.
And he could feel it clearly.
With that sword strike just now, he really wanted to kill him!
He drew his sword from its sheath, pointing the tip of the sword directly at Xie Ji's neck. His eyes were as cold as if he was looking at a corpse: "If you don't learn to respect your master's wife, next time, it won't be your hair that will be cut off."
Song Jin was also frightened by the sword. He didn't expect that he would really dare to attack him, and in public for a woman he didn't love at all.
What about Tingxue? What does he think of Tingxue!
"It's you, it's you who stole this prince's purse, right!" Ji Xiao glared at Song Jinye angrily with his eyes spitting fire, and raised his fist to hit him again.
Jiang Wanwan, that woman, loved him so much that she once embroidered a purse for him with her own hands, and her ten fingers were covered in blood.
So the sachet in his hand is real, and as for his, it must have been stolen.
What a shameless villain.
Only after Song Jin was about to be beaten to death by Ji Xiao did Xie Ji let Gao Lang step forward to pull them apart.
He lowered his eyes and stared at the two men with bruised faces and noses, his gaze so cold it was chilling. "You claim that the scent sachets on your bodies were all embroidered by my wife herself. Where's the evidence? Are you really trying to slander my wife with just a few empty words?"
"If you can't produce the so-called evidence, I think you two should know that according to the laws of Yan, anyone who slanders or accuses others will be punished with thirty strokes of the cane and exiled three thousand miles."
Song Jin, whose forehead and back were covered in cold sweat, knew that he had no chance of survival. He could only desperately cling to Jiang Wu and bite her: "Cousin, I really didn't slander my sister-in-law, nor did I intend to bully her."
"My sister-in-law just said that she felt comfortable and at ease with me. I never thought that she would have such thoughts about me. I came here today to completely stop her from thinking about me." His tone was sad and painful, and it was also a struggle trapped in worldly emotions.
If Ji Xiao hadn't had a rag stuffed in his mouth, he would have almost gone over and torn him into pieces.
Bitch!!!
Jiang Wanwan has always liked me, how could she have a secret relationship with him!
Jiang Wu's eyebrows knitted slightly in confusion. "You said I'm attracted to you. What do I like about you? What is it about you that makes me choose you over my husband?"
You have to know that apart from his old-fashioned personality and older age, Xie Ji's other aspects, whether it is status, appearance, talent, or reputation, are at a level that is unattainable even in the Song and modern times.
It would be better if there was no comparison. Once the two are compared, who would be stupid enough to give up the pearl and choose the fish eye?
One is a powerful prime minister, and the other is a newly-minted scholar who has not yet entered the officialdom. Comparing the two is simply an insult to the former.
"Why didn't the Prime Minister's wife choose the Prime Minister, but chose you instead?"
"Why didn't he take a piss and take a picture of himself before telling a lie? Does he really think the Prime Minister's wife is stupid?"
"Hey, don't say that. What if the Prime Minister's wife has a unique taste?" A few people spoke up for Song Jin, but their voices were quickly drowned out by the voices of those who didn't deserve it.
These words made Song Jinye's face extremely embarrassed, but he said: "As long as you really like me, why bother about my status."
Then he looked at Jiang Wu with affection: "Sister-in-law, please say something. You said that after you divorce, you will be with me. You said that I am the one who understands you the most in this world."
Even if Jiang Wu had never said these words, it would not prevent Song Jin from fabricating them out of thin air.
He knew very well that what women cared about most was their reputation. No matter whether she had done anything or said anything, once her reputation was ruined, she would be like a cloud falling into the mud and trampled upon by others.
"Okay, just say less. You know very well that a woman's reputation is more important than anything else." Shen Tingxue looked at Jiang Wu hesitantly. She said nothing, but sometimes silence is better than words.
Jiang Wu's lips curled up in a mocking tone, and those fox eyes that should have been narrow and seductive were now full of doubts: "But, what is there about you that makes me like you?"
“Of course…”
Xie Ji, unable to bear it any longer, said in a deep voice, "That's enough. How long do you want to bite my wife?"
"I will write to the Song family and the head of the Ji family to inform them of everything that happened at the dinner today. I'm sure they will be very happy to become relatives." Xie Ji looked at Song Jinye disappointedly. He didn't expect that his momentary kindness would lead to a wolf entering the house.
Song Jin met his cousin's cold, emotionless eyes, and a sudden, deep uneasiness rose from his feet. Then, he heard him say, almost ruthlessly, "If such a disloyal, unrighteous, and unfilial person, who so freely slanders and attacks his elders, were to become an official, who knows how many more unjust, false, and wrongful cases would be caused in the future. Although you are my aunt's son, I will never show favoritism to you. I will report this matter to His Majesty and have you withdrawn from this imperial examination."
So what's the difference between these few words, spoken from the mouth of a prime minister, and directly ending Song Jinye's path to success?
Not only did he fail to ruin Jiang Wu's reputation today, but he ruined his own reputation instead and completely offended him.
An ordinary candidate who had not yet entered the court as an official had offended the head of the civil service. Song Jinye's front leg was broken and he was kneeling. Now it was completely limp. He didn't care about the so-called "a man's knees are made of gold" and knelt down to beg him. He gritted his teeth and endured the humiliation, "Cousin, I know I was wrong. You can't do this to me."
"Cousin, I shouldn't have accepted the purse from my cousin's wife. I should have refused it when she gave it to me. Otherwise, it would have given my cousin's wife the wrong idea."
If all his achievements were invalidated at this moment, he would go crazy, he would definitely go crazy!
Seeing that he remained indifferent until the end, Song Jin, with his fists clenched so tightly that veins bulged, could no longer maintain his pretense. He stood up and stared at him fiercely with a sinister look in his eyes. "I studied hard for ten years just for this day. Even if you are the Prime Minister, how can you deprive me of my fame and honor!"
"You know it's not easy for you to study hard for so many years. When you were framing your cousin's wife, why didn't you think about the difficulty of a woman's reputation?" Xie Ji just thought his desperate look was really funny.
He didn't feel any pain when the needle wasn't inserted into his body, but now that it was inserted into his body, he screamed louder than anyone else.
Gao Lang, receiving a signal from his superior, released the hand that was restraining Ji Xiao. Ji Xiao, freed, immediately lunged at Song Jinye and punched him in the face again. "Tell me, why did you try to frame me? You should know that I like women!"
Ji Ruyue came to her senses and angrily kicked Song Jinye, wishing she could stomp him to death: "My elder brother doesn't like men. It must be this cheap man who seduced my elder brother!"
"Bitch, why do you want to frame my brother when you can sell yourself to someone else as a rabbit master?"
"I'm telling you, even if you were naked and appeared in front of my brother, he wouldn't even glance at you!"
Seeing that the fight was almost over, Jiang Wu, who looked relieved, pretended to ask someone to separate them, "Hurry up and separate Miss Ji and the others, or someone will die soon."
If Jiang Wu were to say, they deserved it.
If you want to treat others as fish on the chopping board, you must also be prepared to be the fish.
However, what surprised Jiang Wu the most was Xie Ji. She thought that he would waver when Song Jin also took out the sachet to bite her to death, and then take the opportunity to add insult to injury and say that she was fickle. As the saying goes, flies don't bite seamless eggs. If there was nothing wrong with her, why would she say that it was you who gave it to her.
Although she didn't understand why he chose to help her, the final outcome was always good, and that was enough for her.
Xie Ji turned around and apologized to the guests who had come to the banquet, "I apologize for letting you watch the fun today. However, if what happened at the banquet today gets out, it will bring bad reputation to the Crown Prince and Young Master Song."
Those who had had enough of the excitement also tactfully found excuses to leave. Although they promised not to spread what happened today, how many of them could keep their mouths shut?
Jiang Wu, who had not expected it to be so easy to turn the two of them against each other, was about to leave contentedly when Xie Ji suddenly called her.
The clear voice was filled with suppressed anger: "Madam, are you satisfied with today's performance?"
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