Ling Shumo frowned.
Fu Yijing's face was filled with confusion. He said to Ling Shumo, "Your Highness, please wait here for a moment. I will go next door to see what's going on. This chess player is really something. He always makes a fuss and doesn't seem calm at all."
Fu Yijing walked towards the study. Ling Shumo didn't wait there, she followed him.
When he pushed open the door, he saw Zhiqi kneeling on the ground in a very embarrassed manner, and in his hand he was holding a red puppet. The puppet's belly was bulging. His belly was so small that it was less than half the size of a palm, and was pierced with at least ten steel needles.
Fu Yijing quickly stepped forward and snatched the puppet from the chess player's hand. His voice was filled with anger, "Shangguan Xu, you are so vicious! How could you do such a thing?"
Ling Shumo walked to Fu Yijing's side, and she also saw clearly what Fu Yijing was holding in his hand. It was a puppet with red dye all over its body and a bulging belly. It was obviously made in the appearance of a pregnant man.
At this time, Shangguan Xu also followed to the door of the study.
Fu Yijing placed the hand holding the puppet at his side, then turned slightly to make sure that Shangguan Xu could not see the puppet from the angle he was standing. He glared at Shangguan Xu, "How can you use witchcraft to curse people?" He asked this question very carefully. He only said that Shangguan Xu used witchcraft to curse people, but did not name the person he cursed.
Shangguan Xu had a preconceived notion that the object Fu Yijing was holding was the puppet with Fu Yijing's birth date and time stuffed inside its belly. Seeing his secret revealed, his face turned pale, and for a moment he didn't know how to defend himself.
Fu Yijing couldn't let Shangguan Xu remain silent. He started to challenge him, "Shangguan Xu, don't you always boast about being the most courageous? What's with that expression now? Are you afraid to do it but not to admit it?"
Shangguan Xu looked at the aggressive Fu Yijing in front of him, and thought of all the traps Fu Yijing had set for him today. He was furious and sneered, "Yes, I did make that puppet. It deserves to be riddled with holes."
Hearing Shangguan Xu admit that he was the one who made the puppet, Fu Yijing was extremely proud, but his face showed a look of deep sorrow, "You are finally willing to admit that you killed Xue Wu's child."
Shangguan Xu was stunned. He felt completely bewildered. "What are you talking about? When did I ever admit that I caused Xue Wu's miscarriage?"
Fu Yijing didn't look at Shangguan Xu. He pulled the needle out of the puppet's belly and then took out a ball of paper. He unfolded the paper and saw Xue Wu's name, the date he conceived, and some strange symbols and totems written on it in red ink.
Ling Shumo stared at the note without blinking, almost staring a hole in Xue Wu's name. After a long moment, she snatched the puppet from Fu Yijing's hand and smashed it against Shangguan Xu's head. "Shangguan Xu, I'm so disappointed in you."
Ling Shumo only said this one sentence, and didn't want to say anything else. She had always known that Shangguan Xu was arrogant and domineering, and she was willing to indulge Shangguan Xu's spoiled temper, but her patience was also limited. She could not accept Shangguan Xu harming her unborn child.
At this time, Shangguan Xu still didn't know what had happened.
Zhiqi exclaimed again, "Oh my God! Princess and Prince, look quickly, I found another big-bellied puppet under these books."
Everyone's eyes turned to the chess player, who was holding a red puppet.
Ling Shumo took a few steps forward and roughly cut open the puppet's belly with a steel needle, pulling out a crumpled piece of paper from inside. On the paper was written the name "Lu Jinan", the date he became pregnant, and densely packed symbols and totems.
Ling Shumo could no longer bear it and slapped Shangguan Xu in the face. "It's not enough that you killed Xue Wu's child, you even want to kill Lu Jinan. Are you going to kill all the children conceived by other men except yours? Shangguan Xu, do you want to leave your family alone?"
Shangguan Xu didn't even have time to feel sorry for being hit. He squatted down and picked up the puppet Ling Shumo had thrown on the ground. This was not a puppet he made at all! The puppets he made had flat stomachs, but the one on the ground and the one Ling Shumo had just hit him on the head had bulging stomachs.
He looked at the note in Ling Shumo's hand again. There were a lot of things written densely on the note, which seemed extremely solemn and mysterious.
The note he had stuffed into the puppet's stomach contained nothing but Fu Yijing's name and date of birth.
Only now did Shangguan Xu realize that he had fallen into Fu Yijing's language trap.
Shangguan Xu stepped forward and tried to pull Ling Shumo's sleeve. He said aggrievedly, "Your Highness, these two puppets were not made by me. These things must have been brought in by the Princess. He is framing me..."
Ling Shumo took a step back, making Shangguan Xu's hand, who was about to reach out and pull her back, fall in vain. "When the Lady Queen questioned you just now, you said, 'I did make that puppet, and it deserves to be riddled with holes.' Shangguan Xu, I'm not deaf, and I wouldn't have lost my memory in such a short time."
Shangguan Xu opened his mouth, wanting to defend himself, but suddenly found himself at a loss. If he said now that the puppet he made was to curse Fu Yijing, Ling Shumo would not only not believe him, but would also think that he was talking nonsense to exonerate himself.
Shangguan Xu went to see Fu Yijing. Fu Yijing was also looking at him, looking at him with compassion and heartache, silently accusing him of being a great evil man.
Shangguan Xu's anger had almost reached its peak and was about to erupt. But at this moment, Xue Wu started crying again, "Shangguan Cejun should have kicked me in the neck after kicking me in the stomach. Your Highness, my child is gone, and I can't live anymore. I might as well just hit my head against the wall and die here!"
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