Chapter 21 Hurt
When Xie Ruanruan killed Xue Qingyin, she was sent to the cold palace and died of illness not long after being in the cold palace. After that, the Xie family raised an army to rebel but failed, and the whole family was exterminated.
Shen Sui went directly to the place where the Xianfei's mother's family was located, Yaoshui City in Nianzhou.
Nianzhou is located to the west of Daliang, adjacent to Xiyou, and people from Xiyou often make trouble. There are few people here, so it is much easier to find the place where the Xianfei's mother's family is located.
The Xue family was only considered a poor family. After Xue Qingyin's father Xue Chengjing passed the imperial examination, Xue Qingyin entered the palace as a concubine and was favored by the emperor. The Xue family also had a period of prosperity. However, because Xue Qingyin was too popular, she was harmed by Xie Ruanruan. The eldest son of the Xue family did not do anything. Only Xue Shoude entered the Ministry of Works as an official. The Xue family gradually declined.
The servants who served Concubine Xian had long been sent away. Shen Sui and Jiang Xuanning and their group found an old nanny who was still in Yaoshui City, Nianzhou after searching for three days based on the clue of the servants.
After Xue Qingyin died, her personal maid Mu Yao was rewarded with some money. She returned to her hometown and married a hunter family for a stable life. She is now fifty-six years old and looks very old due to years of hard work.
Shen Sui asked a few questions about Xue Qingyin's past. The old woman recalled the past and soon burst into tears.
Shen Sui was unmoved. He moved his hands in his sleeves and took out two silver bells strung with red strings to play with. "Xue Qingyin had three personal maids. One died and one disappeared without a trace. Only you are still in Yaoshui City. Xue Qingyin was killed by Xie Ruanruan. As a slave, you know something. You still dare to stay in your hometown. Aren't you afraid that the Xie family will kill you?"
Mu Yao cried, "To answer your lord, I know nothing. I have a clear conscience, so why should I be afraid? The queen died unjustly, but I dare to swear to heaven that I have never had any second thoughts about the queen!"
Shen Sui sneered, "You said Xue Qingyin died unjustly? Where is it unjust? Do you mean that someone else killed Xue Qingyin?"
Mu Yao opened his mouth and suddenly realized that there was a loophole in his words. Since Xue Qingyin was killed by Xie Ruanruan and Xie Ruanruan was punished, Xue Qingyin's death was not unjust.
Only when the person behind the scenes has not been found out, people will say "unjust"!
Shen Sui called out, "Someone come."
Mu Yao knelt down in fear, "No, sir! I just slipped my tongue for a moment. Please forgive me for my disrespect, but I still want to say that Xie Ruan Ruan killed the queen, and she deserves death!"
Shen Sui's hand knocked heavily on the wooden table, and his voice was cold, "What are you still standing there for? Tie her up! Glue her mouth with cotton cloth."
Jiang Xuanning said "Excuse me" to Mu Yao, and several men tied up the old woman. Shen Sui stood up, went outside, and looked at the hills in the west that were hidden in the clouds.
After a while, Jiang Xuanning came out and asked, "Your Highness, when will the interrogation be held?"
"Are there any torture instruments here?"
Jiang Xuanning said, "Yes. But bringing an old woman in her 50s from Yaoshui City back to the Dali Temple and interrogating her with torture instruments, isn't that a bit..."
Shen Sui waved his hand, "When you look at a person, you shouldn't look at the skin, but the inside. What if she is a poor, vicious and extremely evil person? The distinction between right and wrong in this world has never been determined by what we see. What is right and wrong in the eyes of the world may not be the real right and wrong."
Jiang Xuanning bowed, "Thank you for your advice."
"No! No!" Several men hurried out, "Your Highness, you asked us to block her mouth to prevent her from biting her tongue and committing suicide. We blocked it, but who knew that the old woman actually took the opportunity to take out a pair of scissors from her sleeve. Seeing that she couldn't stab us, she stabbed herself in the neck. Now..."
"The person is already dead."
Jiang Xuanning frowned, "What should we do?"
Shen Sui said coldly, "Sure enough, if she really had a clear conscience, why would she hide a pair of scissors in her sleeve, and why would she commit suicide."
Jiang Xuanning asked curiously, "You knew there was something in her sleeve a long time ago?"
"Although hunters' families are not poor, it is the custom of these rural families to save extra fabrics when making clothes. Wide sleeves are both expensive and a hindrance to work. Therefore, compared with ours, their sleeves are much less loose. To hide things, they need to pinch the corners of the sleeves from time to time to prevent things from falling out."
Shen Sui put the silver bell into the sleeve. "Just now she pinched her sleeves tightly, as if she was nervous because she saw us, but her arms were flat on her legs, as if there was something heavy inside that she had to hold down."
Jiang Xuanning praised: "Your Highness is indeed smart. Now we can be sure that there is something strange about Concubine Xian's death."
"Let the coroner prove that she committed suicide. Record it. Tomorrow we will return to the imperial capital to find Xue Shoude, the Minister of Works."
Shen Sui went to the inn where he rested in Yaoshui City. Jiang Xuanning stared at his back. He first felt admiration, and then a chill slowly rose from the soles of his feet.
The Third Prince knew that there was something in Mu Yao's sleeves, but he never said it. Why did he force the old woman to commit suicide with scissors?
In order to use a living life to confirm his guess.
When she died, he was calm, as if he had long been accustomed to the scene of death.
Too cold-blooded.
It was clearly summer, but Jiang Xuanning took a breath of cool air.
...
Unexpected things happen.
On the way back to the imperial capital, Shen Sui encountered a sudden attack by the Xiyou people.
Fortunately, Shen Sui was not seriously injured during the martial arts competition. He was only injured by an arrow that barely grazed his arm, leaving a cut.
Unexpectedly, three days later, the wound on Shen Sui's arm began to fester. It turned out that the poison on the arrow had taken effect. When they walked through the mountains, the coroner found some herbs to apply on Shen Sui's wound, but there was no sign of improvement. They could only speed up their pace and arrived at the imperial capital seven days later to seek treatment from the imperial physician.
When Shen Sui arrived at the imperial capital, his entire arm was unable to move, and purple and black lines were winding on his arm.
Wu Chun sighed when she heard the news that Shen Sui had returned to the imperial capital, "How come he came back so soon? I haven't had a few days of leisure yet!"
Yu Li said, "But the Third Prince was injured, so he had to rush back so quickly."
Wu Chun replied indifferently, "Oh, he is lucky, he won't die."
Jing Lian ran in and said, "Your Highness, there is news from outside about the Third Prince, saying that you are asked to go to the Imperial Medical Clinic to treat the Third Prince!"
...
Wu Chun came to the Imperial Medical Clinic.
Shen Sui was sitting on a chair with his eyes closed, resting his mind. His face was as pale as paper, with some blue stubble on his chin, and his clothes were half removed, revealing his stiff arm covered with black lines. There was a gnarled wound on his arm.
As soon as she approached, Shen Sui opened his eyes and met her gaze.
Doctor Fang said, "Your Highness, the poison is strange. Although it is not fatal, it is very strange. We, the quack doctors, are checking the files. Your Highness asked you to come. Perhaps the medical skills of Southern Xinjiang can be used."
Wu Chun said, "I know."
Shen Sui asked the doctor to leave first.
Wu Chun sat down and looked at Shen Sui's wound without blinking. She did not look like a woman who would lose half her life after seeing a little blood. She pinched Shen Sui's wrist, but Shen Sui held her hand back.
He said, "You don't even want to pretend now."
There was a string in his palm, rubbing his skin, which made him feel strange and itchy. Wu Chun quickly withdrew his hand, "Your Highness is injured, but you still have the mind to tease me. It seems that the injury is not serious enough, and there is no need for me to come. In this case, I'd better leave."
Shen Sui grabbed Wu Chun's hand again, and the movement was so big that it pulled the wound. He hissed, and Wu Chun stopped moving.
He said, "Is this how you treat your husband?"
Wu Chun looked into his eyes and suddenly saw a hint of pain in his eyes. She felt it was dazzling and could not help but look away. She whispered, "It's not me who is hurt."
Shen Sui took out a box from his sleeve and handed it to Wu Chun. His voice was a little tired, "Little things from Nianzhou. You once said that you wanted to go to Tiandijian to see more of the mountains and rivers, so I brought back the small pottery figurines, which are the characteristics of Nianzhou's folk toys. You can play with them and treat them as if you have been to Nianzhou."
Wu Chun looked at Shen Sui again.
She was really not used to such a man being meticulous and considerate.
He could remember a word she said casually, so why couldn't he remember when her birthday was?
In her previous life, she was with him for four years, but he only whispered her birthday to her once, and never said "Happy Birthday" to her.
Wu Chun felt mixed emotions, but Shen Sui's coughs brought her back to her senses, "Thank you, Your Highness. I'm sorry that Your Highness is still worried about me when you're on official business outside. Let me take a look at your injuries."
Shen Sui's injuries were not serious enough to threaten his life, but they were difficult to heal.
Xiyou and Southern Xinjiang also have borders, and some of the poison techniques of the people of Xiyou were passed on from Southern Xinjiang.
Wu Chun pondered for a while, wrote a few herbs and handed them to the imperial physicians. The imperial physicians discussed it for a while, and added a few more herbs to it, letting Shen Sui use this one first, and if it didn't work, they could add or delete more.
Shen Sui and Wu Chun returned to Yuning Palace together.
Wu Chun didn't want to go back to Fengchun Palace alone, so she went to Xuanyang Palace with Shen Sui, intending to go back to Fengchun Palace after Shen Sui rested. However, she forgot one thing: Shen Sui's arms were inconvenient, so he asked the inn's servant to bathe him all the way.
Now that he was back in the palace, he put his arm around Wu Chun's waist and whispered in her ear, "My beloved, how about bathing with me today?"
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