Chapter 104 Is it possible that she is here to find you?
Mrs. Zhou returned to her room and found that her husband, who had left earlier, had come.
Her heart skipped a beat unconsciously, but her face showed no expression as she asked coldly, "What's the matter?"
Zhou Qingbang looked at her for a long while, but couldn't tell from her calm face what she was thinking. He could only say, "I don't intend to take that woman as my concubine."
Mrs. Zhou said without any surprise, "I understand."
Seeing that she had no intention of communicating with him, Zhou Qingbang took a deep breath and warned her, "She might have some problems. Stay away from her."
He was about to leave when he heard Qin, who was always indifferent to his affairs, ask, "What's the problem?"
Zhou Qingbang looked at her in surprise before saying, "I haven't checked it out yet, but she is from the capital."
Qin sneered, "As expected, people with hidden agendas find fault with everyone they see."
Zhou Qingbang: “…”
He said nothing and walked out of the yard.
The maidservant beside Qin Shi advised her: "Master rarely comes here, why are you being so rude, Madam?"
Qin looked at her and said, "I'm tired and want to rest for a while. You can go out."
The maid gritted her teeth secretly, met her cold gaze, and had no choice but to take her people out.
There was a Buddha statue in Qin's room. After no one was in the room, she walked to the statue and moved the candlestick in front of the Buddha. The wall where the Buddha statue was placed slowly moved away, revealing a secret room.
Qin walked in, and the entrance immediately returned to its original state.
In the secret room, a tall man was lying on a narrow and simple bed. He heard the noise and looked up at Qin.
If Ji Yunshu were here, he would be able to recognize that this was Zhao Shen disguised as Chao Qing.
Qin felt inexplicably awkward under his gaze, but she still walked up to him and placed the medicine she had secretly prepared on the small table beside her.
Zhao Shen saw that she was hesitant about to say something but was hesitant to speak, so he said, "Madam, if you have anything to say, you can just say it directly."
Qin thought for a moment and said, "Zhou Qingbang brought a woman back last night."
Zhao Shen looked at her in surprise, not understanding why she was telling him this.
Qin had no choice but to continue, "That woman is from the capital. Zhou Qingbang suspects there's something wrong with her, so I was wondering if it's possible that she's here to see you."
For some reason, when Zhao Shen heard her words, the first person that came to his mind was Ji Yunshu.
But then he shook his head, trying to get rid of the idea.
He must be crazy to think that the apple of the Ji family's eye would leave the capital for him and run to such a place to take risks.
But he still asked, as if possessed by some strange force: "What kind of woman is she?"
Qin thought for a moment and said, "Lu Yanlin must have been testing her and humiliated her, and she got upset and tried to hang herself, but nothing happened. I went to see her, she was young and very beautiful."
Seeing Zhao Shen's lack of reaction, she added, "She's the kind of beauty that men would like."
Zhao Shen glanced at her and said, "Not necessarily. At least, Lord Zhou probably won't like her."
Otherwise, you wouldn’t think there’s something wrong with people.
A smile appeared on Qin's cold face. She suddenly felt it was funny that she was discussing such things with a man who was not much older than her son.
"Your injury is almost healed, but Zhou Qingbang seems determined to find you and hasn't stopped searching for you. What did you do?"
Speaking of this, Zhao Shen looked at her with some pity in his eyes: "It's better for you not to know."
Qin Shi felt that she had not been looked at like this for a long time. She stared at Zhao Shen and asked, "If you leave alive, will he die?"
Zhao Shen still doesn't understand why she saved him, but it is obvious that Mrs. Zhou is not completely ignorant of what Zhou Qingbang did.
She even seemed to be waiting for the day when the truth would be revealed.
So he hesitated for a moment and nodded.
A sarcastic smile appeared on Qin's lips: "That's good."
As she turned to walk out, she said to Zhao Shen, "He's been digging deep in Xingqing and still hasn't found you. He might soon become suspicious of me. If your injuries are okay, you should leave as soon as possible."
The door of the secret room was closed. When Qin walked quietly to the door, she saw the maid who had just advised her looking inside curiously.
Seeing her come out, he quickly retracted his neck and said with a smile: "Madam, don't you want to rest?"
Qin gave her a cold look and said, "I don't need to tell you what I do."
The maid lowered her head and said, "I dare not."
Qin knew very early on that this girl was placed by Zhou Qingbang by her side in order to monitor her every move.
Thinking of the pitying look that person had given her just now, she suddenly didn't want to continue pretending to be nice to him.
He directly called the steward of the inner courtyard and had the man sold out.
Seeing the maid begging for mercy in disbelief as she was dragged away, she suddenly felt very happy.
Her wet nurse was very surprised.
Although the lady seemed no different from before, how could he not understand her since he had raised her by himself?
"Madam, are you unhappy about the woman your Excellency brought back?"
Qin couldn't help but laugh out loud: "To this day, do you think I still care about this?"
But after she finished laughing, she added, "Since even you think so, Zhou Qingbang might think so too."
The nanny looked at her smiling face, her heart pounding: "What's wrong with you?"
Qin looked at the sky outside and said suddenly, "Nothing, I just don't want to live like this anymore."
Nanny: "...Please don't do anything stupid."
The news of Qin's treatment of the maid soon reached the study.
Zhou Qingbang asked the steward in surprise: "What did that girl do?"
The steward shook his head and said, "He said he tried to persuade the Madam to stop giving you such a bad look."
Zhou Qingbang was silent for a moment, then waved his hand to let the manager leave.
Lu Yanlin was handling official business nearby. Seeing that Zhou Qingbang was distracted by the inner courtyard's affairs, he sarcastically asked, "Why? Do you think she's jealous and in a bad mood?"
Zhou Qingbang looked at him coldly: "Don't you know best what her attitude towards me is?"
"That's not necessarily true. Women are always saying one thing and thinking another. She's been sleeping with you for so many years, how could she just break up with you like that?"
Zhou Qingbang asked impatiently: "What do you want to say?"
Lu Yanlin glanced at him, and rarely continued to ridicule him, but said seriously: “I think there is something wrong with her.”
After all these years, he knew exactly what kind of person Qin was.
She looks weak, but she is actually very tough inside.
Zhou Qingbang looked at him.
Lu Yanlin turned his head uncomfortably to look outside: "You have doubts in your heart, right? You have searched the entire Xingqing area several times, why can't you find that person?"
"She stayed in the backyard the whole time and never left anyone's side. Besides..."
"Besides, you're her husband after all. Why would she betray you?" Lu Yanlin laughed so hard it seemed like he was almost out of breath. "Is that how you convinced yourself not to search your own backyard?"
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