Chapter 22 Similarity
After not seeing each other for a few days, Shen Sui stared at Wu Chun with his eyes dark and bottomless, his gaze fell on her face with burning heat, like a crackling candle with some hot sparks occasionally licking her face, Wu Chun's heart suddenly jumped and she dodged his gaze.
She shook off Shen Sui's hand, but was hooked back by Shen Sui.
"You are still injured."
The servants who had good eyes retreated consciously, and only Shen Sui and Wu Chun were left in front of Xuanyang Palace.
After Shen Sui stared at Wu Chun for a few breaths, he leaned over to her and whispered, "What? Are you worried about me?"
The low and pleasant voice was like the warm breeze that was everywhere in summer, entering Wu Chun's ears and causing a tingling sensation.
Wu Chun turned his face away, "Don't be so self-indulgent. The doctor will send medicine soon. You should go and take a bath." Wu Chun looked around, "Xiao Fuzi..."
Shen Sui's face turned cold.
Xiao Fuzi ran over, not daring to look at Shen Sui, and said to Wu Chun, "The servant is here."
"Go and help His Highness take a bath."
Xiao Fuzi glanced at Shen Sui with the corners of his eyes, and saw that his lips were tightly pursed, not happy, but he did not mean to punish the prince's wife, so he plucked up the courage, "Yes."
Wu Chun turned around and left without even looking at Shen Sui.
Shen Sui looked at her pink skirt that drew a neat arc in the air, and his heart seemed to be blocked by a ball of cotton. He didn't know why, but he felt bitter in his chest.
A bit of cruelty gradually emerged in her eyes, and she shouted at the eunuch, "Get lost."
Xiao Fuzi retreated with both feet.
...
Just now at the Imperial Medical Office, Wu Chun actually had the idea of ​​deliberately prescribing a prescription to Shen Sui to delay the effect of the medicine.
She couldn't help but hate this person.
But then she thought, the Daliang Imperial Physician is not a pushover, and it would be bad if he saw that she was deliberately trying to harm Shen Sui. It's
better to be cautious.
Jing Lian held a box, which was the little thing Shen Sui had just given her, and asked tentatively, "Your Highness, where should this be placed?"
Women from ordinary families would put away the gifts given by their husbands, or put them in a conspicuous place.
Wu Chun said, "Throw it away. What's the point of keeping it?"
"But His Highness traveled thousands of miles on official business, but he still thought of you and brought you something. It was at least a token of affection. Do you really want to throw it away..."
Wu Chun said, "...I gave it to you before..." She paused, as if she remembered something, "Forget it, just throw it away. I don't want to have any more connections with this person. I don't want his things." She
originally wanted to say that she had given Shen Sui many things in her previous life, and she didn't see him cherish anything. Now that Shen Sui gave her something, why should she cherish it? Then she thought again, Jing Lian didn't know that she was reborn, so she didn't say anything more.
"Yes."
"By the way, what happened to Xue Shoude?"
Jinglian said, "Your Highness, Xue Shoude is indeed a bad and stupid person. Agui followed your instructions and asked his connections to find a few men disguised as masked men in black. They broke into Xue Shoude's mansion at night and held the life and death pig as a threat. After robbing a hundred taels of silver, they deliberately made a mistake and kept the pig. Xue Shoude not only did not report to the authorities, but he asked around for news of the life and death pig and kept it in his house."
"He's probably thinking of using this pig to harm his enemies."
Wuchun nodded, "Keep a close eye on it."
Jinglian would not ask questions that she shouldn't ask. She responded and left.
A few days later, the black lines on Shen Sui's arms faded a little, but he still couldn't move freely. He heard the news from the Dali Temple that Mu Yao's suicide had been recorded, and Xue Shoude, the Minister of Works, had been found to question him, asking about Concubine Xian's personality and habits, and recorded them one by one. The
morning dew was faint, and the sky in the east was just turning pale.
After standing outside Fengchun Palace for a while, Shen Sui pulled open the window with a crack. The maid who was on guard inside woke up immediately. Just as she was about to salute Shen Sui, Shen Sui made a gesture to keep quiet.
He walked into the palace quietly.
Wuchun was sleeping soundly. She didn't sleep properly. In summer, she was covered with a thin quilt that lay randomly on her body, with one leg exposed. Half of her slender calf was dazzlingly white. I guess it was because of the heat that she didn't even wear underwear, only a small dress.
Her eyelashes were long and curled, like two small curved knives, quietly casting a thin layer of shadow.
Shen Sui sat down next to Wu Chun.
He felt that she could drive him crazy.
He didn't want her to wake up and see his useless appearance;
but he also wanted her to wake up and see how she would react if she knew that he came to guard her for a while before leaving...
But in the end, he endured it again and again and just tied a red string around Wu Chun's wrist.
His fingertips lingered on the soft skin for a moment before they were retracted.
Shen Sui stood up and left, walked a few steps and turned back, saying to the girl, "Don't tell her I was here."
...
Shen Sui came to the Dali Temple and took a quick look at Xue Shoude's confession.
Xue Shoude had received a lot of care from Xue Qingyin when he was an official. Even if this person's reputation in the court was not very good, he would not say bad things about a dead aunt. Moreover,
when Xue Shoude was young, because of the death of his father, he and his mother went to live with his grandfather, and lived in a big house with Xue Qingyin. Xue Qingyin had read a lot of poetry and taught Xue Shoude a lot, so the relationship between the aunt and nephew was good.
What Shen Sui wanted was not Xue Shoude's flattering words about Xue Qingyin, but Xue Qingyin's reputation in those days, whether she had any enemies, if not, then the only person who could have killed her was someone in the harem.
Xie Ruanruan entered the palace later than Xue Qingyin.
Xue Qingyin was very favored in those days, and when she died, Shen Yu was particularly favored by her. How could Xie Ruanruan, who had entered the palace not long ago and was not the most favored concubine, harm Xue Qingyin?
Xue Shoude occasionally met with officials from the Dali Temple on weekdays, but how could meeting them in the officialdom be the same as meeting them in the Dali Temple? He was so scared that he couldn't even speak clearly, not to mention any logic. Shen Sui frowned when he heard it and let Xue Shoude go.
A few other people were found to follow Xue Shoude closely. He was the only person in the Xue family who was still alive and could be related to the case, so he could not be careless.
Xue Shoude was usually prudent and obedient, but he fell into the trap of lust.
"Your Highness, Xue Shoude has some hooligan behavior. He always harasses Miss Cheng in General Cheng's mansion in the evening or at night. Everyone in the mansion is very annoyed. General Cheng has planned to find someone to break Xue Shoude's legs. Your Highness, you said that you should pay attention to Xue Shoude's safety. Do you want to tell General Cheng to show mercy?"
Shen Sui didn't care about Xue Shoude, and just said indifferently: "General Cheng? Never mind, I'll go to General Cheng's mansion today."
At the same time, in Fengchun Palace.
Wu Chun also heard the news that General Cheng was going to find someone to break Xue Shoude's legs.
"The second daughter of General Cheng? Is she the illegitimate daughter Cheng Jingyi?"
"Yes."
General Cheng Tong had a wife and a concubine. The daughter of the principal wife was the eldest daughter Cheng Zhaoyang, and the daughter of the concubine was Cheng Jingyi. It is said that the two daughters of the Cheng family are one active and one quiet. The eldest daughter is domineering and spoiled. She is also a well-known little tyrant in the imperial capital. Many noblemen are very afraid of her, fearing that one day they will be engaged to the eldest daughter Cheng.
The second daughter Cheng is quiet and gentle. Apart from her beautiful appearance and likable personality, she is outshined by her elder sister in every way. She is mediocre in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.
General Cheng Tong's concubine died early, and Cheng Jingyi had no one to rely on in the Cheng family. She relied on her gentle and well-behaved character to please her father, and she did not fight or compete, so that her sister and stepmother could not find any reason to cause trouble. The
reason why Wu Chun knew so much was because in her previous life, Cheng Jingyi married the eldest prince Shen Heng and became the principal wife of Prince Ze'an, which caused a sensation in the imperial capital.
An unfavored concubine of a general's mansion could actually marry Prince Ze'an!
Wu Chun had met Cheng Jingyi several times at palace banquets in her previous life, and she only felt that this person had a virtuous character, was quite friendly to everyone around her, and had the demeanor of a lady from a noble family in her every move. She was a noble lady that could only be raised by a scholarly family in Daliang.
Compared with her, a rough person from southern Xinjiang, they are completely different people.
Wu Chun is naturally not familiar with her.
If you think about it carefully, their relationship is still a little awkward, so there is no need to be familiar with each other.
Cheng Jingyi will marry Shen Heng in the future. If Xue Shoude ruins her reputation now, it will not be good.
"Jinglian, you go to Agui and ask him to find someone to control Xue Shoude. It doesn't matter if you threaten or coerce him, but don't let him cause trouble for Miss Cheng again."
Wu Chun is not afraid of being bad to Cheng Jingyi, but she is afraid of being bad to Shen Heng.
Shen Heng helped her, so she doesn't mind returning the favor.
...
Shen Sui arrived at the general's mansion at night.
He dismissed the rest of the people and sat opposite Cheng Tong in the main hall.
A few candles were burning, and the silhouettes of two people were reflected on the orange-dyed window paper.
The night was silent, the bright moon was hanging high, and the two people's voices were low and weak. If you were not beside them, you would probably not be able to hear what they were saying. It was clearly a summer night, but there was an inexplicable chill in the courtyard of the general's mansion.
"...I heard that General Cheng has been troubled recently? The general has worked hard, and it is not easy to return to the imperial capital to rest for a while, and there is another lecher coveting your daughter." Shen Sui said slowly.
Cheng Tong sighed, "There are two girls in my family. The eldest one is a worry. She always makes the house in chaos. The second one is worry-free, but I don't know which boy she should marry." Then he raised his eyebrows and said angrily, "How dare Xue Shoude, that bastard, think about my second girl? He even dared to climb over the wall of the general's house in the middle of the night! I must break his legs!"
Shen Sui was always calm, "General, don't worry. Xue Shoude looks brave, but he is actually a timid person. As long as you push him a few times, he won't dare to do it again. Why hurt him, General, to avoid being caught in the act in the future?"
"Your Highness is right. I feel guilty for visiting you at night for my daughter's matter. This is just a small token of my appreciation..." Cheng Tong said as he took out a wooden box and handed it to Shen Sui.
The box had two layers. The first layer contained a pair of bluebird and gold pomegranate pattern hairpins. Shen Sui did not open the second layer.
Shen Sui smiled, "Thank you, General. I had no intention of accepting your gift at first, but since this hairpin is particularly suitable for my wife, I accepted it. I will return the gift in the future."
After saying a few more words, Shen Sui was about to get up and leave. As soon as she opened the door, there was a rustling outside. Shen Sui held the box tightly and shouted vigilantly, "Who!"
Under the moonlight, among the lush flowers and trees, a woman fell to the ground. She was wearing a thin snow-white dress and had a delicate and pretty face. Because of fright, there was a pitiful red at the corners of her eyes. She opened her red lips slightly, "Dad..." Cheng Tong breathed a
sigh of relief and asked suspiciously, "Yiyi, why are you here?"
It turned out to be the second Miss Cheng.
Cheng Jingyi cast a charming glance at Shen Sui. I felt pity for her because she had fallen and half of her arm, as white as snow, was exposed. It seemed that it was the first time she saw someone visiting the general's residence in the middle of the night, and she felt strange about Shen Sui.
Shen Sui lowered his head, not looking at Cheng Jingyi, and said to Cheng Tong: "I'll take my leave first. It's inconvenient for you to stay here."
As Shen Sui walked, he heard Cheng Jingyi behind him saying to Cheng Tong in a crying voice: "Dad, I haven't slept well at night recently. I couldn't sleep at night, so I got up to change clothes. I felt that tonight was particularly unbearable, so I walked around the mansion. The more I walked, the colder I felt all over. Only the lights were on in the main room. I thought daddy hadn't fallen asleep yet, so I thought of coming to find daddy..."
Shen Sui inexplicably felt that Cheng Jingyi's intermittent crying in his ears was a bit disturbing, and he raised his hand and pinched his eyebrows.
From the first glance, I could actually tell that Cheng Jingyi and Wu Chun were somewhat similar.
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