Mr. Shen looked at the girl who was bowing, the newlywed wife of his youngest son.
The wedding that day was really sloppy because the death of Chen Yuanwei had wronged the youngest daughter of the Lu family.
She was a good child, so he felt relieved.
His cloudy and yellow eyeballs were covered with mist, and a hint of disgust and struggle flashed in his dark and shrewd eyes.
Looking closely, Mr. Shen's eyes were sometimes filled with murderous intent and sometimes turned into satisfaction and care for the younger generation. The expression on his face was somewhat distorted.
The cozy layout of the house shows how much Mr. Shen loves his wife. Thinking back to what I heard before, the couple from the first wife of the Shen family were childhood sweethearts, and their relationship must be very good.
There were exquisite patterns embroidered on the plain screen, but no matter how Lu Zhi looked at it, she felt that something was a little wrong - a simple picture of a cuckoo occupying a magpie's nest or a raccoon replacing a prince.
Even with the windows open to let in some air, the faint bitter smell of medicine still lingered in the room.
A gust of wind blew into the hall, causing the plum blossoms standing upright in the jade vase to sway left and right.
"There is one more thing." Just before Lu Zhi was about to be suffocated by the gradually solidifying air, Master Shen closed his eyes and spoke with a slightly trembling voice.
...
...
She looked up in confusion and met Mr. Shen's meaningful eyes.
He took out several medicine packages wrapped tightly in oil paper from the cabinet behind him. As he approached, the strong aroma of medicine spread into his nose, making him feel choking and uncomfortable.
"…father?"
Master Shen handed the medicine packet to Lu Zhi. Seeing her stunned as she took it, he couldn't help but soften her serious expression and explained in a gentle voice, "A Shuo is not in good health. I have the servants boil a packet of medicine for him to drink every day."
Thinking of the poison and Gu in Chen Yuanshuo's body, Lu Zhi felt that the thin rope hooked on his fingertips weighed a thousand pounds, and there was a cliff in front and a prison behind.
It turns out that Shen Yuanshuo's father had already noticed the Gu in his body a long time ago?
Then why choose to use poison to fight poison - unless, the poison... really has no cure.
Although secretly shocked, Lu Zhi nodded calmly on the surface: "I will supervise my husband well."
Suppressing the black fog that kept surging in his mind, Master Shen swallowed the fishy sweetness that surged into his throat. He knew that his face must look bad now, so he waved his hand to let Lu Zhi go back.
Lu Zhi responded obediently. The next moment she turned and walked out of the room, Master Shen suddenly coughed up the blood that was suppressed in his throat, and his eyes kept alternating between ferocity and pleading.
He reached into his wide sleeves with his trembling, rough hands for the handkerchief, covered his mouth with it before the servants noticed anything unusual, and tried hard to stop his constant coughing.
"…I won't let you…"
The girl standing under the tree corridor clenched her sleeves, frowned and listened carefully to the movements in the house. In the end, she could only catch disjointed words that could not form a sentence.
Immersed in his own world of thoughts, Lu Zhi walked with his head down. As soon as he walked out of the front yard, he bumped into a man who suddenly appeared.
Lu Zhi was supported by a panicked servant as she retreated. She raised her eyes and looked at the crazy man.
The man's messy black hair was half hidden in front of his face, revealing only his confused and foolish eyes. Those eyes were staring straight at Lu Zhi.
Being stared at by him in an offensive manner, Lu Zhi frowned in displeasure.
Unexpectedly, the man suddenly went crazy and rushed towards Lu Zhi, screaming. The fingernails he bit repeatedly sank into the flesh, and blood was dripping.
"Second Madam!"
"Second Master!"
Second Master?
Lu Zhi waved away the hand that was supporting his arm and took a few steps forward.
She carefully looked at the man who was surrounded by servants. Lu Zhi vaguely remembered that Shen Yuanshuo had told her that his name was Shen Zibo.
Shen Zibo's courtyard was located at the back of the Shen Mansion. Lu Zhi couldn't understand why Mr. Shen arranged it this way, as he was clearly his biological brother.
Before she got married, Lu Zhi had heard some rumors about the Shen family.
On the one hand, the Shen Mansion was her future husband's family, so there was nothing wrong with her paying more attention and asking around;
On the other hand, the incident caused such a big stir that many people secretly or even openly wrote poems and composed music to denounce Shen Wangzhi's cold-bloodedness and ruthlessness.
Originally, Shen Wangzhi and Shen Zibo had been good friends since childhood. They studied the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues together, and occasionally talked about military strategy and showed off the contents of the military books they had studied hard the day before.
Everyone thought everything would go on like this, but in the ninth year after Shen Yuanwei and Shen Yuanshuo were born, that is, in the year 223 of Chang'an, Shen Wangzhi moved Shen Zibo out of the main house despite the opposition of his wife and sister-in-law.
Now he lives in a slightly dilapidated courtyard not far from Shen Yuanshuo.
Shen Wangzhi never treated Shen Zibo badly in terms of food, housing and transportation, but he always rejected the requests of the two hostesses in the house.
Shen Zibo's wife couldn't stand it and finally chose to divorce him with a letter of divorce.
But it is also sad to say that after his second wife left, Shen Zibo took in countless concubines, but they always disappeared mysteriously.
The Dali Temple Minister came several times but failed to find any clues. He could only conclude that they left on their own initiative rather than encountering an accident.
Shen Zibona's daughters were all from small families, so they dared not speak out and could only swallow the pain of losing their beloved daughters and feel remorseful.
Back then, no one even dared to sell their daughter for fame and fortune. Firstly, they were afraid of losing face, and secondly, they were afraid that the second son of the Shen family really had some evil magic.
Helpless Shen Zibo set his sights on the brothel.
The reason why he did this was simple: he needed offspring.
Lu Zhi was not clear about what happened afterwards, but she always felt that something must have happened between Mr. Shen and the second uncle of the Shen family.
Otherwise, Mr. Shen, who has always loved his younger brother, would not have done such an extreme thing.
If you ask Mr. Shen about the matter now, he probably won't tell you anything.
"Azhi!"
An urgent voice coming from far away interrupted Lu Zhi's distraction. Her eyes swept through the chaotic crowd and fell on Shen Yuanshuo who was running over in a hurry.
The cape draped over his broad shoulders fluttered as he ran.
The hot air exhaled from Lu Zhi's mouth blurred her expression, and her thick eyelashes dispersed the white mist, and Qing Falcon's face became clear in her field of vision.
"Are you okay? Did father not ask anything?" He nodded to Shen Zibo who was still making trouble and then hurriedly lowered his head.
When Shen Yuanshuo saw that the figure standing in the study was Madam Shen, he knew that he had been deceived by Master Shen. The person he really wanted to see was Ah Zhi.
After knowing that poison can effectively suppress Gu, Shen Yuanshuo understood why Master Shen poisoned him.
Thinking about the cause of his elder brother's death, Shen Yuanshuo didn't know whether to cry or mock.
What ultimately killed Shen Yuanying was not the Gu, but the poison that Master Shen gave him, the bowl of soup mixed with a deadly poison.
He wanted to turn around and leave but was stopped by Madam Shen.
She said that she knew Azhi wanted to see Lu Yue, and as long as he was willing to sit in the study for a while and not go anywhere else, she would agree to let the two of them go in to visit her.
Shen Yuanshuo knew that Lu Zhi was eager to see her elder sister, but he couldn't help worrying about his young wife.
However, Mrs. Shen's next words made his raised foot fall silently, sticking firmly to the ground.
She said, "A Shuo, take a look in your father's study. Have you forgotten that you loved to stay in the study when you were a child?"
Shen Yuanshuo, who was already sensitive, caught the sadness and struggle in Madam Shen's eyes with his sharp eyes, but in the end, they were dispersed by the ripples and disappeared into her calm eyes.
What's in the study?
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