Chapter 19 "So it turns out Prime Minister Song came to 'catch the adulterer'..."
Song Jie actually came to see Xie Yushu in person.
Xiao Zhen was extremely surprised to hear the sounds outside the door. He thought Song Jie would send someone to find Xie Yushu, but Song Jie came directly without any hesitation!
"Madam, Madam is in the room," Yinya answered from outside the door.
"She's in her room, why aren't you serving her?" Song Jie asked, then coughed as if he was about to open the door and come in.
A figure moved at the door, and two maids nervously stopped her: "Madam is not feeling well and is resting in her room!"
Xiao Zhen was afraid that Song Jie would push the door open and come in regardless, so he immediately tried to pull his hand back and leave through the window. However, Xie Yushu grabbed his wrist tightly. She leaned against the side couch and looked at him with great satisfaction. Her thin lips moved slightly, and she mouthed two words without making a sound: Kill.
It's a blatant mockery of him!
Xiao Zhen swung his arm and brushed her hand away.
She frowned and called out without hesitation, "Xiao..."
Xiao Zhen hurriedly reached out and covered her mouth.
Then Song Jie, standing outside the door, asked in surprise, "Wasn't your wife taking a nap? Whose voice is that inside? Is there someone else in the room?"
Xiao Zhen's face turned pale instantly. He clenched his teeth in anger as he stared at Xie Yushu in his palm, wishing he could kill her to silence her. However, his two maids watched him enter the room, and if anything happened to Xie Yushu, Song Jie would be the first to investigate him.
Well, he really underestimated Xie Yushu. He never expected that a fake would lure Song Jie to this extent!
Suddenly, I got slapped across the face.
He stared at Xie Yushu in shock; she had actually hit him…
Xiao Zhen was stunned. No matter how unfavored he was, he was still a prince. Since his birth, no one, and no woman, had ever dared to slap him.
Xie Yushu showed no fear after hitting him. He grabbed his collar, pulled him down, removed the hand covering his mouth, and whispered in his ear, "Ten thousand taels of gold, to keep your secret."
Her fragrance and warm breath brushed against his cheeks and ears. His cheeks, still burning from the slap, were momentarily filled with surprise rather than anger.
I was shocked by Xie Yushu's scheming, audacity, methods, and greed.
Surprised that she only wanted money?
Ten thousand taels of gold was a considerable sum for him, yet Xie Yushu humiliated him, mocked him, and seized his weaknesses all for money.
Xiao Zhen couldn't understand her at all.
His chin was pinched by her warm hand, and he turned his head to face her.
She mouthed: Do you want it?
Her eyes at that moment didn't resemble Xie Jianing's at all; they held a playful malice, and the mole on the tip of her nose made her whole face look cunning and vivid.
For the first time, Xiao Zhen felt like he was being manipulated. It was as if she was deliberately teasing him, knowing he had no other choice but still asking him: "Do you want it or not?"
Song Jie's impatient voice came from outside the door: "Xie Yushu, open the door and come out."
Xiao Zhen turned his head away, shook off her hand, and said through gritted teeth: Fine.
Xie Yushu immediately let go of his hand, pushed him away, and pointed with her chin toward the inner room of the side hall.
Xiao Zhen turned and rushed into the inner room.
Cangshu pushed open the door to the side hall.
A hot breeze blew in, and Song Jie stood at the door, coughing incessantly. He covered his mouth and nose and looked towards Xie Yushu inside the room. He saw Xie Yushu leaning against the chaise longue, frowning as he met his gaze.
There was no one else in the large side hall. Had no one been here?
But was the noise in the room just now made by Xie Yushu alone?
"Madam!" Jin Ye and Yin Ya rushed in, their faces pale, their hearts pounding in their throats. The Fourth Prince was gone?
"What is Prime Minister Song doing now?" Xie Yushu frowned and asked Song Jie with dissatisfaction, "Instead of enjoying the banquet, you barged into my room. What if others see this and it causes controversy?"
Song Jie had been coughing the whole way, and now he forced himself to suppress the cough as he walked in. He noticed Xie Yushu's slightly disheveled hair and a red mark on her slender white neck...
Her sandalwood fan lay fallen beneath the chaise longue, and the narrow door to the inner room was open.
Was she really the only one in the room?
Song Jie was helped into a chair by Cang Shu. He looked up at Cang Shu and gestured to him. Cang Shu immediately understood and quickly went into the inner room.
"Were you alone just now?" Song Jie carefully observed Xie Yushu's expression.
She didn't look towards the inner room, but smoothed her hair and said, "What kind of question is that, Prime Minister Song? I wasn't feeling well and took a short rest. Was I alone or were there two people?"
"I think I heard you saying something in the room just now?" Song Jie asked her again.
"I was woken up by Prime Minister Song, so he called Xiao Ye in to serve me," Xie Yushu lied without batting an eye.
But Song Jie knew all too well that her mouth was the best at lying.
Cangshu came out of the inner room and shook his head at Song Jie.
There are no Tibetans?
Song Jie looked at Xie Yushu again; the red marks on her neck were quite obvious. "What happened to the red marks on your neck?"
Did it leave a mark?
Jin Ye and Yin Ya hurriedly looked at her neck and noticed a red mark the size of a thumb on the side. "Madam was bitten by a mosquito?"
"Was it a mosquito bite?" Song Jie beckoned to her in a cold voice, "Come here and let me take a look."
Xie Yushu touched his neck, his face immediately turning cold. He looked at Song Jie and said sarcastically, "Prime Minister Song, have you forgotten that we are not acquainted? I am Madam Pei from the Yongyi Earl's Mansion. We have barely met. What I did with whom in the room, and what's on my neck, is none of your business. Does Prime Minister Song have a penchant for caring about married women?"
Song Jie's face immediately turned cold at the sarcasm. What a sharp-tongued Xie Yushu! She had been so gentle and considerate in his household, yet she claimed to have "only met her a few times" and was "not familiar with her." She really turned her back on him.
He regretted canceling tonight's "date." If he hadn't canceled it, would Xie Yushu still have been able to say those words?
He was too lazy to waste any more words with her and asked directly, "Did the Fourth Prince come looking for you just now?"
Jin Ye and Yin Ya were so nervous that they almost broke their fingers by constantly fidgeting with their hands.
But Xie Yushu asked without changing his expression, "Why did the Fourth Prince come to see me? I am just a concubine's daughter, and I am even less familiar with a prince."
Song Jie got angry when he saw her pretending to be stupid. "He defended you in front of others even though you're not familiar with him?"
"How would I know? Prime Minister Song should ask the Fourth Prince." Xie Yushu looked at him again, a look of sudden realization on his face: "Oh, so Prime Minister Song came to 'catch the adulterer'?"
The words "catching adulterers" startled Cangshu.
Song Jie's face darkened, and he sneered, "Xie Yushu, do you know what nonsense you're spouting?"
"Isn't that so?" Xie Yushu bluntly exposed, "Prime Minister Song rushed over to find me so urgently, wasn't it because he was afraid that my face would attract the Fourth Prince just like it attracted you?"
Song Jie felt a tightness in his chest, and was so angry that he couldn't help but cough up a mouthful of black blood.
"Prime Minister!" Cang Shu hurriedly took out a pill and fed it to him.
A series of hurried footsteps came from outside the side hall. The old woman and the doctor rushed over. They were stunned when they saw Prime Minister Song in the room. Why was the Prime Minister here? And why was he in the same room with Madam Pei?
The two hurriedly bowed.
Xie Yushu helped Jin Ye up and said, "It's good that the doctor has arrived. Let's quickly examine Prime Minister Song, lest something bad happen on this joyous day."
She's practically trying to drive him crazy!
Song Jie looked up and stared at her, only to see her give a perfunctory bow and then waddle away with her two little maids.
How dare she be so reckless?
Song Jie was furious and glared at the doctor and nanny who had entered: "Get out."
The group of people were so frightened that they lowered their heads and retreated.
Cangshu closed the door to block the draft, and he felt a little better.
"Your Excellency, the window in the inner room is open," Cangshu reported to him in a low voice.
So it's very possible that the other person in the room jumped out of the window and escaped before he came in?
Song Jie's weak face was cold and pale. He gestured to Cang Shu to pick up the fan under the chaise longue.
Cangshu picked it up and smelled the fragrance of sandalwood and the floral scent of Madam Pei. He then presented the fan to the Prime Minister.
Song Jie took it in his hand, the fragrance filling his nostrils, reminding him of Xie Yushu, gentle to the core, in the bed curtains. She was such a good actress; not a single word or expression of hers was genuine.
Xiao Zhen disappeared after leaving the waterside pavilion. Did he really not come to find Xie Yushu? If he wasn't attracted by Xie Yushu's face, which resembled Jia Ning's, why would he disregard his status and speak up for her?
Xiao Zhen was good at hiding his talents. He would never show off or stand up for anyone. Even in the past, he was indifferent to Jia Ning.
The red mark on Xie Yushu's neck flashed before his eyes again, and he simply couldn't believe it was a mosquito bite.
"Does Your Excellency wish to return to your residence to rest?" Cang Shu asked worriedly.
Song Jie said, "I will leave when Pei Shilin leaves." He looked at the fan and sneered, "I will return the fan to Xie Yushu in front of Pei Shilin."
Wasn't she trying to pretend to be a loving wife like Mrs. Pei?
He deliberately wanted to maintain an ambiguous relationship with her, making her understand that their relationship would only end when he said it was over.
He raised his eyes and instructed Cang Shu: "Go to the Pei residence to pick her up as usual tonight."
Cang Shu was taken aback, and hesitated before asking, "What if Madam Pei is unwilling to come?"
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