Chapter 17 Good
The next day, when Wu Chun woke up, she found nothing beside her, but a food box on the table.
After getting up and washing up, she opened the food box, and steam rose from it. It contained two plump buns and a bowl of sweet tofu pudding.
Compared to salty tofu pudding, she really liked sweet tofu pudding.
It was probably because Shen Sui had to continue investigating the case today, so he left early and called her for breakfast.
He was quite considerate.
Shen Sui had already taken the money. After Wu Chun finished her meal and walked out of the inn, a carriage had been parked in front of the door.
Her return to the palace was not complicated. It didn't take long for her to return to Yuning Palace. Yuli and Jinglian ran to meet her.
Jing Lian said, "Your Highness, you are finally back! Just last night, Queen Chen had a miscarriage! The imperial doctors tried their best, but they couldn't make the Queen's pulse stable. It's a great fortune that Queen Chen saved her life, but her foundation was damaged. I'm afraid it will be difficult for her to have an heir in the future!"
"You don't know, last night His Majesty was furious and chopped off the heads of several imperial doctors, causing panic in the palace..."
Wu Chun's heart skipped a beat, and she asked hurriedly, "What about Concubine Liu? And the princess?"
"Concubine Liu was banished to the cold palace. Her Royal Highness put a hairpin against her throat and forced General Xiao to take her to see His Majesty. You said that General Xiao, a man who practiced martial arts, would never let the princess get into trouble. So he knocked down the princess' hairpin and took the princess to see His Majesty, risking the risk of disobeying the imperial order..."
"The princess cried and begged the sky, but His Majesty did love her a little and demoted Concubine Liu to a concubine. Because the princess was too noisy, her confinement was extended to one year. General Xiao was beaten with twenty military sticks and should be executed now."
After all, he was still a step late!
The memorial from the Dali Temple has not been delivered to the emperor in time. If the memorial had been delivered earlier, or if Empress Chen had had an accident a day later, the current situation would not have happened!
The memorial was delivered, indicating that Concubine Liu was framed by someone who was hiding in the dark. After all, she was a concubine who had lived in the palace for a long time and her mother's family was not powerful. How could she reach to Southern Xinjiang? As long as it can be shown that Concubine Liu had nothing to do with the poison on the bracelet, nothing would happen.
But even if the emperor saw the memorial now, it was too late.
The emperor was angry, did the truth of the matter matter?
Wu Chun almost lost his balance, but fortunately Yu Li helped him.
Jing Lian asked: "Your Highness, what should we do now?"
What should we do now? Shen Ying, the support for escaping from the palace, is gone. Shen Ying herself is under house arrest. How can she find Xiao Huaiwen to help her?
On the way to Fengchun Palace, Wu Chun fell into silence.
When he sat by the window of Fengchun Palace, he saw that the crabapple flowers growing in the courtyard had fallen to the ground, and the green shadows were like a canopy. It should be summer.
With a lot of thoughts in his mind, Wu Chun suddenly remembered that this year, that is, the summer of the 22nd year of Yongqing, the second prince Shen Gong was named King of Liangdong.
A cold light flashed in Wu Chun's eyes.
- Shen Gong, in your previous life, you entered the palace to attend the emperor's birthday banquet, but you encountered Shen Sui's mutiny. You escaped by chance, but you wanted to take me to save your life and killed Jinglian. In this life, how can I live in peace with you?
It doesn't matter if she can't leave the palace for the time being, she still has revenge to take.
Wu Chun asked: "What was the name of the eunuch who tried to find out about Concubine Liu last time?"
"Your Highness, the eunuch's name is Agui. He is efficient and strict in his words. He is very perceptive and never says anything he shouldn't say, so I went to find him. Your Highness, do you have any other instructions now?"
Wu Chun whispered a few words in Jing Lian's ear, and Jing Lian's eyes widened immediately, "Your Highness, you must not do this. If you are discovered, you will be beheaded by His Majesty..."
"Don't worry, just do what I say, I know what to do."
The situation in Daliang has changed. It started with the miscarriage of the fetus in Empress Chen's belly.
The reason why the emperor has not been appointed is because Empress Chen is still pregnant. The Chen family is very powerful and has colluded with many forces. They can call the shots in the court, so the emperor cannot appoint a successor. But Empress Chen is now 36 years old. It is not easy to get pregnant because she gave birth to a child late. It is a blessing to keep her life. It is impossible for her to get pregnant in the future. In other words, the crown prince must be chosen from Shen Heng, Shen Gong, and Shen Sui.
Shen Heng is the most suitable candidate and should have become the crown prince. However, because the Chen family is still unwilling to give up, they also sent Chen Yu, a cousin, into the palace as a concubine. The emperor was angry, but he was really powerless.
I'm afraid Shen Yu has long wanted to pull out Chen. He was able to dig up the case of Xie Ruanruan, which was probably related to Chen. The emperor might know the inside story.
...
"Have you seen Xie Jiajun?"
Shen Sui sat on a chair, holding a cup of tea in his hand, pinching the lid with one hand, and gently scraping the tea foam.
The middle-aged man with stubble on his face, whose hands and feet were chained, trembled and said, "I have seen... but that was sixteen years ago. I was in a village at the foot of Taicang Mountain. I don't remember anything except the forest fire..."
"Your village was burned in a forest fire within a radius of ten miles, but you survived." Shen Sui casually blew away the tiny bubbles in the teacup.
"When my house was on fire, I happened to be farming outside, and I just happened to escape."
"You're lying." Shen Sui raised his cold eyes, loosened his fingers, and the tea lid fell on the teacup with a tinkling sound. "The Taicang mountain fire burned at night, and you couldn't have escaped."
He pulled out a whip from the dark, and with a "snap" sound, a bloodstain appeared on the man's clothes.
"Ah - sir, spare my life, sir, spare my life!" the man screamed.
Shen Sui placed the teacup on the table beside him. A silver bell slipped out of his sleeve. He played with the red string, winding it around his fingers, and said indifferently, "You were not a villager at the foot of Taicang Mountain. You were in the imperial capital, pretending to have survived the disaster in Taicang Mountain, fortune-telling for others, and cheating people. It has been more than ten years. According to the laws of Daliang, you should be punished."
After Shen Sui finished speaking, he stood up and walked out. The man behind him suddenly let out an inhuman howl.
Shen Sui suddenly stopped.
The man thought Shen Sui had sympathy, so he said heartbreakingly: "Sir, I will never dare to do it again, please forgive me..."
However, Shen Sui just raised his hand, carefully untied the tangled red thread, put the silver bell back into his sleeve, and then walked out.
"Sir, sir - no -" The man watched his back gradually disappear in the darkness, and closed his eyes in despair.
After going out, the light shone down, Shen Sui squinted his eyes, saw a little blood on the hem of his clothes, and his brows gradually frowned.
Jiang Xuanning was waiting outside. When he saw him coming, he asked, "Your Highness, is this the one who survived that year?"
Shen Sui shook his head. "He lied. He just pretended that he was lucky and could figure out the mystery. The Xie prince had died a long time ago. How could anyone have seen him?" Jiang
Xuanning sighed, "That's right. When the Xie family fell, the Xie prince was only five years old. How could a five-year-old child be dead?" Survived the wildfire. Originally, I wanted to find out some old stories about Xie Ruanruan from the Xie family, but I didn't expect that the clues were still broken. "
Shen Sui said "hmm" lightly, "There is no clue in the imperial capital. I will go to the hometown of the mother's family of the former Concubine Xian the day after tomorrow to find out the truth."
He turned his back, and Jiang Xuanning felt that his dark red back was particularly gloomy under the blue sky, and his spine was like a sharp dagger, about to stab the sky.
Jiang Xuanning asked: "Then what are your plans for today and tomorrow?"
"Return to the palace." He paused and added, "Ask General Xiao for help and check the things in the palace."
...
Wu Chun really didn't expect to see Shen Sui again so soon.
After a half-day of leisure, he came back at dusk.
When he came back, Wu Chun did not stand up to greet him, and he did not blame her. He casually placed a small box on the table, then walked to Wu Chun's side, saw her holding herbs and scissors in her hands, and asked, "What are you doing?"
"I'm free anyway, so I might as well study pharmacology, so that if I get sick in the future, I won't be able to find a doctor."
Shen Sui's eyebrows slightly frowned when he heard this, "I'm not so bad that I can't even find a doctor."
He looked down and saw Wu Chun separating the messy dead grass one by one, cutting off the useless leaves, her fingers were as nimble as a butterfly, and when she lowered her head, a section of her snow-white neck was exposed, and the red thread marks had faded a lot.
It seems that the medicine I bought yesterday really has the effect of not leaving scars.
He leaned over from behind, put his arms around her, held her hands, and asked her to stop what she was doing. She said softly, "What are you doing!"
"I didn't come back to see you messing with herbs."
The backrest of the chair was really a bit of a hindrance. After Shen Sui lifted her up, he sat on the chair himself and let her sit on his thighs.
Wu Chun glared at him, "What are you going to do now? My menstrual fluid is not over yet."
Shen Sui pinched her hand, pinched the base of her ring finger with his thumb and index finger, and then slid outward, passing through two joints, and finally pinched the fingertips, lowered his eyelashes, and looked at the two fingers clasped together, "I will leave the day after tomorrow. The place I am going is far away, and I can't come back in a day or two."
Wu Chun complained in his heart: That's really great! Why are you leaving the day after tomorrow? Wouldn't it be better to leave today?
Wu Chun pulled her hand back, "Then I wish Your Highness a safe return."
Shen Sui sneered, "I know you don't think so in your heart. If I die outside, you will definitely applaud."
"I dare not."
She sat on Shen Sui's legs, feeling a little uncomfortable. In her previous life, she had almost never had such an intimate posture, not to mention that he was now so patiently playing with...
her fingers.
Compared with his slender fingers, her hands looked very small.
The red thread fell from his sleeves, and then wrapped around his fingers, and her fingers.
As the sun set and moved, their shadows reflected on the window gradually lengthened. The servants consciously lowered their heads to avoid him. The palace was silent, with only the chirping of birds and the rustling of flower bells.
Wu Chun asked, "What are you thinking about?"
She was really a little panicked about this red string. First, in Fengchun Palace, he endlessly entangled her with the red string and the bell, torturing her day and night, and then in the wine house, he strangled her until tears came out and she couldn't breathe.
With a hook of his long finger, Shen Sui entangled the red string, interlocked their fingers, palms facing each other, and the silver bell just hung on the base of their palms.
His palms were hot, his breath was scorching, and when he touched her, she felt like she was being burned by him.
Shen Sui stared at the slightly shaking silver bell, and said slowly: "I was wondering why you always disobeyed me?"
Wu Chun was annoyed, "I am not your property, why should I listen to you?"
Shen Sui's fingers began to stroke her fingers, and slowly said: "Have you ever thought that if..." He gradually tightened his hand, "One day you annoy me, I will peel off your skin and break your bones?"
Wu Chun: "If there is such a day, since I will sooner or later "If you want to die, then why shouldn't I be happy and free now, and on what basis should I obey your wishes?"
Shen Sui chuckled, and he was not annoyed, but rather felt depressed. He pulled her up, pressed against her from behind, and brushed his hot breath against her ears. "I don't know when I will be back, so you should be good tonight."
He bit her earlobe lightly and murmured morbidly, "Just be good."
He really wanted to pull out the thorns on her body, tie her up with a red thread, and make her the obedient flower in his palm forever.
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