When his younger brother returned, Shen Zhaoshu immediately requested a title for his younger brother based on the original imperial edict and the suicide note of his father, Shen Xiao, the Marquis of Yongding.
Xuanyuan Hao had already learned the whole story from the reports of monks and nuns from Tianyuan Temple and Yunlan Temple, and he quickly approved it.
If Shen Zhaoming's return was just a topic of discussion in the streets at first, but now the title of Yongding Marquis has fallen on him, Shen Zhaoming's return, recognized by the royal family, has suddenly become a major topic in Kyoto.
Jiang He naturally heard these discussions as well. She was in a low mood and stayed at home listlessly, lost in thought about the past. Her husband Lu Shiqing called her several times but she didn't hear him.
Lu Shiqing walked up to her and said, "You've been so reluctant to leave recently, and I know why. It's because Shen Zhaoming is back, right?"
Jiang He said: "No."
Lu Shiqing said, "You're lying! We've been together for twenty years. In the first few years after we got married, you ignored your health and kept drinking contraceptive soup. Later, you finally gave up and wanted to have a child. It took you more than two years to make up for the loss in your body.
Others have grandchildren, but our oldest is only twelve. Do you think I don't understand? Because I love you, I endured all those years without children and didn't take concubines. I endured people's ridicule.
You're willing to have a baby, you know how happy I am, how happy I am. But when I found out that you started to poison your sister-in-law, I knew that you were still feeling aggrieved, maybe even more so.
You poisoned her intermittently, just as if you couldn't bear the pain in your heart anymore, so you gave her all the hatred in your heart.
Do you know how I feel? It's so painful, and I hate myself. If I had known that this would be the day, if I had known that your heart would be hard and cold for twenty years, I shouldn't have told my parents that I liked you.
I even hated my sister-in-law as much as you do. If she hadn't wanted to exchange marriages, I wouldn't have gotten on this train. Later, I felt shameless. I was obviously the same as my sister-in-law, or even worse than her. At least she exchanged marriages, not to separate lovers.
Later, I felt guilty. As long as you poisoned me, I would replace the things you tampered with whenever the opportunity arose.
But in the end I still care about you more. Sometimes I’m afraid that if it’s too obvious, people will become suspicious and eventually expose you. Even though I know you’re poisonous, I don’t care.
You help Shen Zhaoshu so much and tip her off about everything, isn't it because she is Shen Zhaoming's sister?
Now that he's back, you look like you've lost all your soul. Can you even see me? Do you even have me in your eyes?
If it weren't for you, if you weren't so cold, would I go out and spend money recklessly to have fun?"
Jiang He glanced at him and said, "Are you blaming me for your wasteful spending?"
Lu Shiqing said angrily: "You always have this expression and tone, do you think I'm so disgusting?"
Jiang He said, "I don't want to quarrel. I don't want the children to hear or see anything. Can you go to your room for a while? I want to rest for a while."
Lu Shiqing left the house alone and found a place to drink. A woman came over to drink with him. She spoke gently and pleasantly. Lu Shiqing drank a lot and seemed to have treated everyone in the store as a guest.
He came out in a daze, and when he reached the door of his house, he didn't want to go in. He turned around and went to the Yongding Marquis Mansion with the smell of alcohol and anger.
Lu Shiqing yelled outside: “You bastard son of a bitch Shen Zhaoming! As soon as you came back, you hooked up with my wife!
How shameless of you! I've been married to my wife for twenty years and we have two children, you shameless bastard!
Why would you want to come back? You should stay where you were before. If you haven't come back for twenty years, why would you want to come back? "
He was drunk and kept swearing back and forth, just these few words.
Shen Zhaoshu was handing over the accounts of the Yongding Marquis' Mansion to her brother one by one. The brother and sister heard some noise outside. A moment later, the housekeeper came to report. Shen Zhaoming was about to go out to check, but was stopped by Shen Zhaoshu.
Chen Zhaoshu closed the account book and said, "How about I go back today, and you can ask the housekeeper and me to deal with it. You haven't married yet, so you'd better not get involved in a bad reputation."
When Shen Zhaoshu went out, she saw that it was Jiang He's husband, Lu Shiqing, who was drunk.
Shen Zhaoshu had her own carriage, and she asked the housekeeper to send another carriage and two servants. It took a lot of effort for three grown men, including the coachman, to get Lu Shiqing into the carriage.
She sent this man back home, and had to tell Jiang He about the words Lu Shiqing cursed in front of the Yongding Marquis Mansion. Shen Zhaoshu naturally hoped that the couple could resolve their quarrel by themselves and not involve her brother.
Jiang He had just sent away the owner of a tavern, who came to collect the bill after closing the shop. Lu Shiqing drank a lot of fine wine in the tavern, and together with the guests he treated in the shop, he spent a total of more than 1,300 taels.
Now after hearing this, when Shen Zhaoshu left and he looked at Lu Shiqing, who was drunk and sleeping soundly, he felt even more hopeless about life.
After listening to the housekeeper's report, Shen Zhaoming remembered that he saw Jiang He being beaten that day, so he asked the servants to find out what happened in the calligraphy and painting studio that day.
Shen Zhaoshu probably told him about the current situation in Rongguo Mansion because it involved his concubine sister Shen Yu. Shen Zhaoming also witnessed the death of Madam Handan, so he also had a general understanding of it.
Lu Shiqing was thirsty in the middle of the night. When he got up to drink water, he suddenly walked into Jiang He's room for some reason.
He found it very strange that she was lying flat on her back on the bed, one hand covering the other in front of her body, which was unusual and very proper.
As I got closer, I saw Jiang He, whose face was as pale as paper. Although he was covered with a thin blanket, his shoulders and sleeves were exposed, and he was wearing formal clothes.
This frightened Lu Shiqing sober up and he immediately called a doctor. The whole family woke up and they patted her chest and back, and opened her mouth to induce vomiting.
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