Chapter 69 Why has it never been exposed all these years...?
She turned around and smiled, "Are you still angry?"
"If you don't want to answer, then forget it." The man took the opportunity to grab her hand and pull her back.
His other hand rested on her waist, his fingertips caressing the ribbon at her waist.
She chuckled softly, tiptoed to kiss his lips, and wrapped her arms around the man's stiff neck.
"My lord, your questioning of me just now hurt me deeply."
Yin Yuan seemed nervous, glancing around to make sure no one was around, then obediently leaned down: "I'm sorry, I was too hasty and shouldn't have pressed you like that."
"And you? Are you still sad...?"
She didn't answer, but hid her reply in a kiss, tiptoeing to give it to him at the same time. Then, her fingertips touched the red marks on the man's cheek and lips, and she grinned.
"Oh, what a coincidence!"
The shrill female voice startled Leng Cuizhu and Yin Yuan, who quickly separated from each other. Leng Cuizhu awkwardly touched her temples.
The man beside her turned his face away and raised his hand to wipe the kiss marks on his face, completely abandoning his composure.
Jiang Mimi walked slowly closer, glanced at the man, and smiled at Leng Cuizhu: "Wife, I didn't expect to run into you here again."
Leng Cuizhu cleared her throat a few times: "Oh, it's Miss Mimi... Why haven't you left yet?"
"Sigh, I lost my jade pendant, that's why I turned back to look for it."
Jiang Mimi brushed a stray hair behind her ear and blinked: "Did I come at the wrong time?"
“Uh,” Leng Cuizhu shook her head, “No.”
Jiang Mimi pouted, on the verge of tears: "My wife thinks this way, but not everyone thinks like my wife."
"I'm sorry, I think I've disturbed you."
Leng Cuizhu was speechless at Jiang Mimi's insistence that she was being disturbed, but then she realized that the other party seemed to be implying something, so she glanced at the man beside her.
Yin Yuan had already wiped the lipstick mark off his face.
He slung the lipstick, stained crimson, behind his back, his face expressionless: "You know perfectly well what I'm asking. If you know you're disturbing others, why don't you leave?"
"I must stay and look for the jade pendant," Jiang Mimi wiped away her tears, remaining neither humble nor arrogant. "That jade pendant is very precious to me, and I will not be at ease if I cannot find it."
"Does Your Excellency have nothing of value? Why be so aggressive..." As she finished speaking, tears welled up in her eyes even more.
“Miss Mimi, don’t cry,” Leng Cuizhu said, taking off the silk handkerchief tied around her waist and handing it to Jiang Mimi. “Lord Yin didn’t mean to criticize you or send you away. He just…”
Before she could finish explaining, the man said, "Hurry up and leave."
Jiang Mimi sobbed uncontrollably, then turned and left.
"Miss Mimi! Don't go..."
She stared at that beautiful figure for a long time, then lowered her eyes in a daze.
“Lingniang,” the man pulled her from behind, “let’s go back.”
"Why were you so mean to her?" She shook off the man's hand. "She didn't bother us on purpose. She was just looking for the jade pendant and was passing by."
The man's hand, holding hers, hung suspended in mid-air, seemingly about to fall but not quite.
"She's bothering me."
"I already said, she didn't do it on purpose, is it really that big of a deal? Besides, she already apologized, can't you forgive her?"
"...Why should I forgive her?"
"How old is she and how old are you? She's at most twenty-one or twenty-two, and you are? Why bother arguing about this with a child?"
Her words seemed to have touched a nerve with the man.
Yin Yuan lowered his eyes and withdrew his hand: "I'm getting old."
“Lingniang, sometimes I really envy those young people, because you can embrace their immature and tender bodies without limit.”
He turned and left without looking back.
Leng Cuizhu stood there, stunned.
"……baffling."
She couldn't understand what this had to do with being young or not, nor could she comprehend why Yin Yuan turned and left after uttering a meaningless remark.
After Yin Yuan abandoned her, she took a handkerchief full of dregs of medicine and went to a clinic to ask the doctor to examine the dregs.
The doctor said that the dregs of the medicine had been cooked too thoroughly, and it was only possible to identify a few pungent medicinal herbs.
The doctor picked up a piece of dregs, tasted it, stroked his beard, and said, "Hmm... it's very likely that some kind of herb, *Miscanthus sinensis*, was added to this."
"The flavor of *Miwu* is very unique, tasting like celery. It is usually used as a spice, but there are also folk remedies that use it to cure infertility and in the hope of having many children."
"Thank you, doctor." Leng Cuizhu's expression froze.
Just as Si Qing had said, Yin Yuan had indeed been taking a decoction to treat infertility.
...Then he must have known about Leng Zhen's background all along?
Why has she never been exposed all these years?
Does he have other intentions?
After paying for the consultation, she left the clinic with a handkerchief soaked with medicine dregs in her pocket.
He intended to take a donkey cart home, but after waiting for a long time on the street without seeing a donkey cart pass by, he slowly walked home.
As I walked to the alley entrance, I ran into those same aunties and grandmas who often gathered together for fun.
Several women immediately came forward and surrounded her.
"Little Candle Sister, why did your neighbors move away?"
Leng Cuizhu covered her mouth with a laugh: "I don't know either."
"Wife, don't try to fool us. We've all heard about it. You and the man next door have a very close relationship. How could we not know? It's impossible that we didn't know anything about it, right?"
"...I really don't know." She really didn't want to reveal her embarrassing private matters to satisfy the curiosity of her aunts and uncles; doing so would be no different from being stripped naked in front of them.
"Oh, what harm is there in telling us, my wife!"
"Yes, yes, we sisters are just really curious!"
The women shoved her together, grabbing her arms to prevent her from escaping. She was so dizzy from being shaken that she slowly closed her eyes.
"Huh, that looks like..."
The aunties and grandmothers who had been surrounding her scattered.
She lost her balance and staggered a few steps, almost falling to the ground, when someone caught her from behind.
"I really don't know," she said, her eyes closed, still thinking she was being embraced by her aunts and grandmothers. "Please, have mercy on me..."
She leaned against the man's chest, pursed her lips, and nuzzled against him.
"Cold Green Candle".
Hearing the call, she immediately woke up, opened her eyes and tried to escape, but her waist was tightly held, and the more she struggled, the tighter the embrace became.
She asked the man irritably, "Yin Yuan, what's wrong with you now?"
The man stared at her for a long time before saying, "I'm sorry."
"I shouldn't have argued with you or gotten angry with you."
Leng Cuizhu was about to start cursing when she was caught off guard by the man's words. She took a deep breath and said, "Why are you apologizing to me... You should say these things to Miss Mimi. You scared her to tears."
“She’s faking it,” Yin Yuan said calmly. “She has ulterior motives.”
How could you so casually slander someone?
"This is not slander."
"In short, I will not apologize to her; there is no need."
Seeing that Yin Yuan's attitude remained firm, she didn't press him any further: "...Alright."
“Well,” she hesitated, “my lord… actually, I want to ask you a question.”
"We'll talk about it when we get back."
The man took her hand and led her towards the front door.
Her wrist hurt from being pulled, so she quickly withdrew her hand after entering the room and rubbed her wrist.
The man waited for her to speak.
Her face flushed red under his gaze, and she hesitated before asking, "If I lied to you, what would you do to me?"
She wanted to test Yin Yuan's limits, or rather, she hoped to glean some clues from his reply to analyze Yin Yuan's views on Leng Zhen's background, and whether he would punish her for it and announce her mistakes to the world.
Even if Yin Yuan could tolerate her underhanded actions, she would still be drowned for violating the law.
This matter must not be leaked.
Yin Yuan: "You've been lying to me all along."
"What if it's more serious than the previous ones..." she timidly raised her eyes.
"What's up?"
"It's nothing, I was just asking." She waved and walked into the house. "I'm so tired, I'm going inside to sleep..."
"You believed the doctor and suspected it was me, right?"
How did Yin Yuan know that she went to the clinic to see a doctor?
Was he following me all along?
She turned her head away.
The man remained standing there, his expression unchanged.
"The infertile one is not me, but Yi Yinwan. She drinks all sorts of random herbal soups to regulate her body every day."
"Why do you think it's me? Don't we have Leng Zhen?" He approached her, frowning as he asked, "Investigating me privately, is this what you've been trying to hide from me?"
finally.
The weight that had been pressing on Leng Cuizhu's heart for so long finally lifted.
She secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "My lord, I'm so sorry... I was worried about your health, that's why I secretly went to check. Please forgive me, okay?"
"Don't do those things yourself in the future. I told you, I can send someone to help you."
"Uh-huh."
She tiptoed and kissed the man's cheek. After the kiss, she wanted to leave, but he grabbed the back of her head and kissed her again.
This time, the kiss landed between their lips.
The man's tongue and teeth were icy cold, like a chilling wind blowing in, more stimulating than any warm, moist kiss, making her back tremble as if she were suffocating.
It was as if a pair of hands were choking her, making it hard for her to breathe.
I got goosebumps all over the place.
She reached out to push him away, but instead clung to his neck, pulling at his collar. Stumbling and falling, she was forced to kiss him against the wall. She looked up at the azure sky, lifted up by the man, making the sky seem even closer.
Suspended in mid-air, with only her legs wrapped around the man's waist.
She lifted her up further, and her legs were placed on his shoulders.
In a daze, even the azure sky in my eyes turned murky and became a vast expanse of white.
She pressed her back against the wall bricks, so close that she could hear passersby whispering and chatting outside.
They're separated by only a wall.
"Shhh."
She raised her hand to cover her lips, her gaze falling on the wide-open door.
"Sir, the door isn't closed..."
"Mmm." His voice was misty, reaching her ears from the inside out and from top to bottom. "I know."
Did he know?
She broke down and closed her eyes.
Throughout the entire process, she couldn't calm down, constantly thinking about what she should do if someone came in from outside and saw this scene.
Did he really disregard all dignity in order to torment her...?
As the blue sky darkened and dusk gradually descended, the man carried her back to the room.
Her back was rubbed red from the wall, and the man kissed her inch by inch, licking her shoulder flesh. When he looked up and saw her biting her lip and remaining silent, he opened his lips and bit her.
"Don't bite me," she frowned and pulled at the man behind her, "It hurts."
"Yin Yuan, I still want to ask you..."
The man stopped what he was doing, leaned on her shoulder, and waited for her to speak.
Her lips parted slightly.
"If I lied to you... what would you do to me?"
This time, she was testing his limits.
Since Yin Yuan is not without heirs and is unaware of Leng Zhen's background, what awaits her in the future will be an even more intense outburst.
She desperately wanted Leng Zhen to be Yin Yuan's child, and she had always thought so. It wasn't until Si Qing exposed her that she had to admit she wasn't actually sure if the child in her womb was Yin Yuan's.
At that time, she was determined to be with him forever. The child was just a stepping stone for her to stay by his side for ten years, so she naturally assumed that Yin Yuan was the father of the child.
In truth, she didn't really care who the child's father was. After all, the child came from her womb, and she could let whoever she wanted be the father.
That's her opinion, but unfortunately, not everyone can accept it.
"You've already asked that question."
The man pondered for a moment and said, "As long as it doesn't break the law or violate regulations, it's fine."
"What if there are violations of laws and regulations..."
The man glanced at her and said, "It will be handled according to the law."
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