Chapter 249 Scented Bag Miss Xu
After leaving Fengtian Hall, Ling Chenyi frowned, pulled Xiao Yuan to his side and whispered, "Those ministers obviously couldn't do anything to Shen Yunbai, so they used you as a scapegoat. You two didn't get along well, and there was no time to be on guard. Why did you agree to it and deliver yourself to him?"
The sun rose slowly along the horizon, and the dim light was reflected on the straight and slender official road. Xiao Yuan had a smile on his lips, and he was full of light, and there was a warm breath all over his body.
Ling Chenyi felt strange at that warm smile.
"What do you mean by not talking? Why are you laughing?"
"This is my wife's wish and I cannot disobey it." After saying this, he got on the carriage, and the carriage drove away along the official road, leaving only a light dust floating in the wind.
Ling Chenyi chuckled, "You keep mentioning my wife as if I can't marry her."
"Then marry one and show it to me."
Ling Chenyi glanced at Li Huaiyan who had walked behind him at some point and snorted.
Shen Mansion.
Shen Yunbai walked along the corridor to a remote courtyard and slowly pushed open the door.
There was a bamboo chair placed in the courtyard facing the sun, rocking gently back and forth. On a small table next to the chair were various kinds of cakes and sugar cakes, and a slender hand was picking up a piece and putting it into the mouth.
"You've eaten too many sweets these days, be careful not to feel uncomfortable in your stomach."
Chen Tian didn't say anything. He squinted his eyes and looked at the sunlight. Even though the glaring light made it impossible for him to open his eyes, he still refused to look away.
"Has the doctor been here?" Shen Yunbai sat down beside him.
"Here he comes, I chase him away."
"Why?" Shen Yunbai frowned slightly. "You have a broken finger. If you don't find a way to reattach it, how can you gain a foothold in the court? A person with a defect cannot inherit the throne."
"That shouldn't have been ours."
"Tian'er." Shen Yunbai stood up with a raging anger in his eyes, "Have you forgotten the revenge of your parents?"
Chen Tian looked at Shen Yunbai and fell into a brief silence.
"This finger is my brother's punishment for killing someone."
He has never forgotten revenge, but if they kill innocent people for revenge, then what is the difference between them and that person? He doesn't want to punish them, that is the retribution they deserve.
After hearing this, Shen Yunbai's anger suddenly subsided and he sat back dejectedly, "It's my fault, I should take the responsibility."
He should pay for the death of that girl with his life. Even so, his own miserable life cannot compensate for such a gentle and kind girl.
The cold wind blew through the courtyard. He stared at his hands in a daze, his eyes filled with pain and loneliness.
"Brother." Chen Tian looked at him worriedly.
Shen Yunbai restrained his expression and gently touched Chen Tian's head. "You stay in the hospital for a few more days and wait until this case is settled. Your identity can be made public."
"What does my identity have to do with this case? Brother, was that woman really killed by the young master of the Chen family?"
"Who else would it be?" Shen Yunbai stood up and said with a smile, "Once I solve this case and gain some public support, I can become your support."
Chen Tian's eyes were full of suspicion. Even though he had never been involved in officialdom, he knew that things would never be as simple as his elder brother said. "Brother, let's take our revenge and stop killing innocent people."
"Don't worry, I know my limits. This time I'm just trying to dampen the censors' enthusiasm so that they'll behave themselves. Then we can announce your identity smoothly."
"Is this what that person meant? Or is this your decision alone, brother?"
Shen Yunbai touched his head and said nothing.
"Brother, I'm grown up now. I'm not a child anymore."
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In Wutong Garden, Shen Anan was lying in the courtyard basking in the sun, and low conversations came from the gate of the courtyard.
"Did you buy yours from Pei's shop as well?"
"Yes, yours is the same, right? I smelled this kind of fragrance that day, but unfortunately I didn't have enough silver, so I could only buy one."
"It's okay. If you like it, we can take turns wearing it. The Pei family is really kind. In the past, only the rich could afford such precious spices. It was never our turn to wear them."
"What are they talking about?" Shen Anan turned her head to look at the two little maids holding brooms at the gate of the courtyard.
"It's about a spice shop that recently got a new batch of sachets. They were spices that were very expensive before, but now they say they're for the purpose of accumulating merit, so the prices are very cheap. Many of the maids and servants in our house have bought them for fun."
"Very cheap?" Shen Anan raised an eyebrow, "How cheap?"
"It seems to be twenty cents each, pick whatever you like."
"That's really cheap." Shen Anan glanced at the one Mo Xiang was wearing around his waist and stretched out his hand, "Is yours also from his family? Let me see it."
"Well... yes." Mo Xiang took it down and handed it to Shen Anan.
"What's with that expression on your face? It's just a sachet. Why is your face blushing?" She leaned in and smelled it. It was indeed not those low-grade spices.
Although this spice is not expensive, it is worth a few taels of silver. At twenty cents each, the owner will lose everything. What is he trying to gain?
“What your princess doesn’t know is that Mo Xiang blushed not because of the sachet, but because of the person who gave her the sachet.” Mo Ran appeared from nowhere and said with a chuckle.
"Mo Ran, what nonsense are you talking about?"
"Oh?" Shen Anan returned the sachet to Mo Xiang, "You were under my nose every day, how come I didn't know when you were hooked?"
"Hehe." Mo Ran smiled with a wink, and Mo Xiang's face turned even redder, even redder than the afterglow of the setting sun.
"Princess, don't listen to her nonsense. He wanted something from me, so he bought a sachet to please me."
"So, who is he?"
"Yes, yes, it's Qing'an, but it's definitely not what you think. We have nothing, just, just..."
Shen Anan raised her eyebrows in surprise. She really had never noticed when the two of them had any contact.
"What did I say? Why are you in such a hurry to explain?"
"Oh," Mo Xiang stamped her feet heavily, "I won't talk to you anymore." After that, she ran into the house with the tray on the small table, which made Mo Ran laugh. Shen Anan laughed for a while.
"Prince's wife." The maid at the gate knelt and bowed, reporting, "Mrs. Chen is here, waiting outside the door."
"Let her in."
After a while, Mrs. Chen entered Wutong Garden led by her maid. Behind her was a girl in a green dress. The two of them bowed together.
"No need to be polite, just sit down."
The girl helped Mrs. Chen sit down on the stool. Shen Anan glanced at the girl and asked, "Who is this girl...?"
"Oh, look at me, I forgot to introduce myself in such a hurry. This is the girl from the Xu family, who was previously arranged for my son. Now something happened at home, and she was worried about me, so she came along. Don't blame me, the Fourth Prince's wife."
The girl from the Xu family smiled gently with her lips curved, and nodded slightly to Shen Anan.
"I'm grateful to Miss Xu for being willing to lend a hand at this time."
"Thank you, Princess Miu. This matter was caused by this marriage. Although I didn't know about it, I have an unshirkable responsibility for the development of this matter. Now that Master Chen is in prison, Madam Chen is left alone and helpless. I will do my best to take care of her, so that I can have a clear conscience."
"My dear girl, it's my son who doesn't have that blessing. I'm sorry for putting you in such a difficult position. Don't blame my Chen family for causing your reputation to suffer. We are still so generous and kind."
Miss Xu shook her head. "Aunt Chen, let's not talk about that anymore. Don't we have something important to discuss with the Fourth Prince's wife? Business is more important."
"Yes, yes, yes, yes." Madam Chen quickly put away her regret and said, "When I went back yesterday, I followed the instructions of the Fourth Prince's wife and asked the accountant in the mansion. I checked the account books carefully and confirmed that the numbers on the two banknotes were not from my Chen family."
Shen Anan frowned slightly when he heard this.
"Fourth Prince Consort, does this mean that my son has nothing to do with that woman and that he is innocent?"
"That banknote has little to do with the case. Whether it is or not, it cannot be used as the main evidence to exonerate the criminal."
Madam Chen's face instantly fell, tears falling uncontrollably, "Fourth Prince Consort, is there really no other way to save my son? The Dali Temple has reported that the case will be decided tomorrow. Does my son have to die?"
Shen Anan was silent.
"Aunt Chen." Miss Xu stroked Madam Chen's back with tears in her eyes and comforted her softly, "Don't worry, things haven't reached the point where they can't be reversed. Didn't Master Chen ask someone to ask you to deliver something to him? Let's go quickly and don't make Master Chen wait anxiously."
"Things?" Shen Anan frowned, "What did Master Chen ask him to bring?"
"That unfilial son is still thinking about that short-lived vixen at this time. He insisted that I take her belongings from her, saying that he was heartbroken and wanted to take her belongings with him when he died." Mrs. Chen shook her head and cried bitterly.
Miss Xu also shed tears secretly, "Mr. Chen is a man of love and righteousness, it is me who is not so lucky."
Shen Anan looked at the piece of brocade handkerchief embroidered with mandarin ducks playing in the water that Madam Chen took out from her bosom, "Madam Chen, can you show it to me?"
Mrs. Chen cried and handed the handkerchief to Shen Anan.
She carefully stroked the embroidery on the brocade handkerchief. The stitches were delicate and the mandarin ducks were lifelike, comparable to those of the embroiderers in the palace.
Suddenly, a very faint and familiar fragrance came into the tip of her nose. Shen Anan frowned and put the handkerchief under her nose and sniffed it.
"Aunt Chen, it's getting late. We should leave now. Don't let Master Chen wait any longer."
"Oh, okay." She helped Madam Chen to stand up, and Shen Anan returned the handkerchief to Madam Chen.
"Fourth Prince Consort, we will not bother you any more. If you have the chance, please save my son."
"Don't worry, Madam Chen."
The two of them bowed, and Miss Xu supported Madam Chen as they walked past Shen Anan.
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Madam Chen and Miss Xu stopped and looked back in confusion, "Fourth Prince's Consort, is there anything else?"
Shen Anan's eyes fell on Miss Xu, and she looked at her several times, finally settling on the sachet around her waist.
"Miss Xu also bought the sachet from this store?"
Miss Xu lowered her head and glanced at it, then smiled. "The maid bought it for fun. I thought it smelled good, so I hung it on my body. If the Fourth Prince's wife likes it, I'll take it off and give it to you."
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