Chapter 13 Provoking Him
Dali Temple.
The sunset glowed in the sky, half of it was the sun, and half of it was the hazy moon.
It was time to leave the court.
Shen Sui changed into his official uniform, and now he was wearing a plain white cross-collar, which seemed to remove the bloody smell on his body. A silver bell slipped out of his sleeve and fell into his palm. His slender fingers entangled the red string and played with the silver bell.
There were some black spots on the surface of the silver bell.
Shen Sui walked towards his official residence across the street from the Dali Temple. He had just walked a few steps when he suddenly heard the sound of galloping horses.
"Call--"
The fast horse stopped in front of the Dali Temple.
Shen Sui frowned and put the silver bell into his sleeve.
"The palace reported that Prince Ze'an and the Third Prince's wife found an important clue in the silver bracelet case and submitted it to the Dali Temple. The matter is urgent, and His Majesty has ordered that the court can only be dismissed after the Third Prince's wife has investigated the silver bracelet presented by Concubine Liu."
Hearing the delay in the dismissal, the officials around Shen Sui frowned in bitterness, "Alas, the Dali Temple finally dismissed on time, why is it delayed again..."
After a while, the scattered officials in front of the Dali Temple realized something was wrong.
How could the palace find clues? Why is "Prince Ze'an" listed together with "Third Prince's wife"? Why is the Third Prince's wife allowed to investigate the silver bracelet?
It's really wrong!
They all looked at Shen Sui.
Some officials who knew about the dispute had very interesting expressions.
Shen Sui's face was not very good, even a little gloomy. After his sharp eyes swept a few times, no one dared to look at him with strange eyes.
Some of the officials present were in charge of the Xie Ruanruan case, and some were in charge of the silver bracelet case. Now it was the officials in charge of the silver bracelet case to stay, and others could leave, but Shen Sui did not move.
Jiang Xuanning happened to pass by him, "Your Highness, I have nothing to do this evening. Since I have time, I will handle the affairs with Your Highness."
Shen Sui's eyes calmed down, and he was more polite to Jiang Xuanning than others, "Thank you, Young Master."
Not long after standing there, a carriage with the word "Heng" embroidered on the curtain stopped at the gate of the Dali Temple.
After it, there were no more carriages.
Shen Sui's hand holding the bell in his sleeve suddenly tightened.
The first to get off was Shen Heng. When he saw Shen Sui standing in the sunset, a trace of surprise flashed across his eyes. Then he walked up to Shen Sui and said, "Third brother, today's matter is a long story. It's urgent. I'll explain it to you later." As soon as he finished
speaking, his slender white fingers lifted the curtain.
Shen Sui glanced at him and said to Shen Heng lightly, "Your Highness is an open-minded person. How can I care about these details? Naturally, official business comes first."
The girl's legs seemed to be inconvenient. When she jumped off the carriage, she grinned, and then her legs were a little lame. Just as she was about to limp over, Shen Sui took two big steps and grabbed Wu Chun's hand.
The two held hands together.
Wu Chun said, "It's only been a few days since your last visit to the palace, but I feel like I haven't seen you for a long time."
She pulled her hand out from between his fingers.
Shen Sui pursed his lips, his eyes as cold as a pine tree immersed in snow in winter.
Wu Chun immediately took his arm.
The frost and snow in Shen Sui's eyes seemed to have turned into spring water. He said to Wu Chun with a faint smile, "I miss my beloved concubine very much." Then he pecked Wu Chun on the lips in front of everyone, and then tucked Wu Chun's messy hair behind her ears as if no one was around. "What's the matter with my beloved concubine's feet?"
Although the sun was setting and it was not broad daylight, such ambiguous intimacy in front of the solemn and solemn Dali Temple under the watchful eyes of the public still made some officials blush and turn their heads away.
Shen Heng stepped forward, coughed and said, "When the Third Prince's wife passed by Rongqiu Garden, she accidentally stepped on a vine and sprained her ankle. I happened to be there."
The last sentence was to explain why he, the eldest prince who had nothing to do with her, knew that she had sprained her ankle.
Shen Sui smiled faintly and said, "I guess my beloved concubine's foot bone recovered on its own, but it has not recovered yet, so she rushed to the Dali Temple. Although there was the carriage of His Highness, she also walked a long way, so it was inconvenient to move. It doesn't matter, my beloved concubine, since you are here, with your husband here, you will definitely not suffer at all."
As he said that, he picked up Wu Chun horizontally.
Wu Chun felt lighter, and before he could react, his entire body weight was already on Shen Sui's arm. "What are you doing?"
Shen Heng sighed inwardly, what a bad temper his third brother has.
Shen Sui asked the accompanying official, "Where are the clues in the silver bracelet case?"
The envelope was handed to him, and Shen Sui was not empty-handed. Jiang Xuanning took it and read it.
Wu Chun took the opportunity when Jiang Xuanning was reading the letter to tell Shen Sui the whole story. When he talked about Shen Ying who was under house arrest, he almost burst into tears again, while looking at Shen Sui's expression.
If the person behind this is really Shen Sui, then wouldn't she have disrupted his plan...
Although from Shen Sui's perspective, she didn't mean to do it, and she didn't do it to mess with Shen Sui, but he was very suspicious, what if he suspected her? Shen Sui
's expression didn't change much, he listened quietly, as if this matter had nothing to do with him.
Jiang Xuanning finished reading the letter and said, "It's indeed as the princess said, and it's not ruled out that the person behind the scenes used the minerals and poisons from southern Xinjiang to commit the crime."
Shen Sui said, "In that case, my beloved concubine is familiar with pharmacology, just take a look at the silver bracelet." Then he entered the Dali Temple.
His arms were steady and powerful, and his steps were big.
Wu Chun was really terrified in his arms.
Fortunately, there were many people around and he would not do anything to her.
Looking over Shen Sui's shoulder, she saw Shen Heng had already boarded the carriage and left.
In fact, Shen Heng was a good person. I don't know what his ending was in his previous life. He should have been killed by Shen Sui or imprisoned by Shen Sui.
Shen Sui should have sat on the throne for a long time.
When she came back to her senses, Shen Sui had already sent someone to present the silver bracelet.
"Put me down."
Shen Sui put her down and said, "My beloved, please be careful of the poison on the bracelet. It's okay if you touch it less often, but if you touch it for a long time, I will have to spend a lot more effort." He said ambiguously, "But I don't mind."
He said it naturally, but Wu Chun's ears turned red.
Who present didn't know that the poison could prevent women from having children?
The officials standing next to him wanted to cover their ears. The Third Prince really dared to say anything in front of outsiders.
However, only Wu Chun knew that they would not have children.
She fell into an icy lake when she was young, and developed a chronic disease, making it difficult for her to conceive. In her previous life, she had not conceived Shen Sui's child for four years.
In fact, it was a good thing.
Wu Chun took the bracelet in her hand and looked at it carefully towards the setting sun. The whole body was made of silver, and auspicious clouds and jade rabbit patterns were carved with hollow craftsmanship. It was clearly poisoned, but no black spots could be seen on the silver.
It can be seen that the person behind the scenes is extremely meticulous, and he took advantage of the fact that no one would think that the silver bracelet could be poisonous, and thus harmed her.
It is very rare that the coroner could find this silver bracelet instead of just ignoring it.
Wu Chun weighed the bracelet and didn't speak for a long time.
The sunset gradually sank in the west.
The officials standing nearby all felt that the Third Prince's Consort was a woman from southern Xinjiang. Even if she had some clues, how could she possibly figure out the clues?
This was a case they had been working on for days without a result!
If the Third Prince's Consort really solved the case, where would they, the officials who had worked in the Dali Temple for a few years or even more than ten years, put their faces? !
No one thought that Wu Chun could figure out anything, but that she was just an ignorant woman messing around.
So someone wanted to speak, "Prince's Consort..."
As soon as he opened his mouth, he was forced back by Shen Sui's gaze.
"What do you think, Lord Gu?" Shen Sui said calmly, "If there is, why didn't you say it before, but waited until now?"
Gu choked, "I dare not, but it's getting late, and the Crown Princess has been traveling all the way, she should take a rest. If you can't find out, we can discuss it tomorrow."
Wu Chun turned his head and smiled, "You mean, I don't know if the Crown Prince can save the heir, or even the Empress with a phoenix body can wait. , I wonder if the framed imperial concubine can still wait, and Her Royal Highness the Princess can still be confined in the palace, even if it takes a little longer?"
Shen Sui said: "Master Gu is old. If he can't do his job well, he can just resign and return home."
He seemed to be talking about something very ordinary. His hands were in his sleeves, playing with something. In front of such an urgent case, he gave people a sense of leisure like sipping tea. The implication of his words was chilling.
Master Gu broke out in a cold sweat.
These two women followed their husband's lead, and neither of them was easy to mess with!
So he smiled apologetically: "Your Highness the Third Prince, I dare not say anything."
All the officials present in the Dali Temple looked at him and didn't dare to say anything.
The setting sun stretched the shadows of Shen Sui and Wu Chun, and the evening breeze blew, curling their hair, and their shadows were like a knot of hair.
In the silence, Wu Chun finally spoke, "Can we melt one of the bracelets?"
How dare we do that?
Not to mention the price of the bracelet, it is evidence of a crime anyway, how can we destroy the evidence at will?
The officials started to discuss.
Someone said: There are two bracelets, if we melt one, there is still one left to investigate the case. Since the clues are here, doesn't it show that the current means can't find out? In this case, why not burn one?
Someone said: If there is no result, wouldn't it be a loss of a bracelet in vain? Who will pay for the price of the bracelet then?
Wu Chun said, "I suspect that the silver used to quench the poison is not from the bracelet, but from other minerals. We need to melt it with fire to test it. If you don't trust me, you can just submerge the bracelet in a full water tank, weigh the volume of water that overflows, and then compare the weight of the silver bracelet with the same volume of silver. It can't be the same."
The crowd started talking again.
It was so noisy.
Shen Sui frowned and said, "Come on, find a craftsman to melt the bracelet."
Jiang Xuanning also said, "What the princess said makes sense. Since we can't find out the result, we might as well do it according to the princess' words. Jiang has no objection."
Alas, the Third Prince and the Shaoqing have spoken, so we can only do as they say.
The discussion stopped.
Wu Chun handed the bracelet back.
"My beloved concubine should not have had dinner yet, so please come with me. It will take some time for the craftsman to catch up and make the bracelets again. It won't be too late to come after dinner."
"Your Highness is right."
Shen Sui picked up Wu Chun again and walked towards the restaurant on the street of Dali Temple, attracting many sidelong glances along the way.
He ordered a private room and put the person down. As soon as he closed the door, Wu Chun pulled his hand away.
When they were alone, the air seemed to get colder instantly.
One of them was afraid of him and hated him from the bottom of her heart, and couldn't give him a good face behind others; the other was too lazy to pretend, and everyone praised him for protecting his wife and doting on her, but people know the cold and warmth only by drinking water, and only Wu Chun himself can understand the bitterness.
Shen Sui sat down, placed his hands on the table, tapped his bony fingers, and said to Wu Chun who was standing by the door, "Come here."
Wu Chun stared at him with innocent eyes and said softly, "Whatever you want, just tell me."
Shen Sui stood up and grabbed Wu Chun's wrist, pulled it, turned his body, and when he sat down again, Wu Chun sat sideways on his thigh.
He dropped his sleeves, and the red string tied with a silver bell slid down.
Before Wu Chun could react, he felt a chill in his collarbone, and two circles of red string were wrapped around his neck. The other end of the red string was pinched by Shen Sui's fingertips.
He hooked his fingers lightly, and the red string tightened, and the bell made a slight sound.
The slender neck seemed to be strangled by two red strings. The extremely gorgeous red also made her neck look even more silky and snowy
. It was over.
The chill of the bell penetrated from her neck all the way to Wu Chun's heart.
She had provoked this madman.
Shen Sui's other hand pinched her waist, and his breath was cold, like a hissing venomous snake.
He looked at the red line on her neck coldly and said, "What nonsense are you going to say this time?"
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