Chapter 18 Chapter 18 Is she nervous?
After coming back to her senses, Zhu Yinluan stepped back and distanced herself from him, bowing and saluting, "May the prince be well."
She lowered her eyebrows and looked pleasing, and couldn't help but wonder how she met Shen Jingzhan here.
The capital city is so big, can I run into him every time I go out?
Fortunately, there are not many people here.
But the strange thing is that Shen Jingzhan actually remembered her.
Yes, he greeted her first.
If Shen Jingzhan didn't remember her and passed by her, then Zhu Yinluan would naturally go out as well.
But the other party asked her first, so she couldn't be impolite.
Coming back to her senses, regardless of whether she remembered or not, Zhu Yinluan felt that she had been thinking about something.
I have heard that this prince has been very smart since he was young and has a photographic memory. He must have remembered it, not to mention that she has taken advantage of him several times.
Just now I was thinking whether to leave or stay and say a few polite words, but the other party had already opened his mouth, "Madam, are you feeling unwell?"
"Thank you for your concern, my Lord. I just haven't had a good time lately and my spleen and stomach are not healthy. It's nothing serious."
When she spoke to him, her thick eyelashes drooped and he didn't dare to look at her.
Is the hand hanging under the sleeve nervous? Shen Jingzhan noticed that she was clenching the edge of the veil.
Although the girl's movements were extremely subtle, he still noticed them.
The breeze blew gently, bringing the man's low and pleasant laughter into her ears.
He asked, "Is it because I was born scary?"
Zhu Yinluan didn't understand what was going on, so she subconsciously raised her eyelashes and looked over, "…Wha, what?"
The man's sparse eyebrows and eyes were filled with a faint smile, and he looked gentle and docile under the shade of the tree.
He has broad shoulders and a narrow waist, and his posture is tall and straight, which makes people feel excited at first sight.
Zhu Yinluan thought of a poem she had read by chance in a book, "The man on the street is as beautiful as jade, and the young man is unparalleled in the world." Shen Jingzhan is definitely worthy of this sentence. She immediately lowered her eyes after a glance.
"Every time my wife sees me, she avoids me as if I were a ferocious beast. If I didn't know why she wanted to avoid me, I would have really thought that I was scary and frightened her."
The man's tone was gentle, without any frivolous or teasing intention, but rather seemed to ease her embarrassment and tension.
Zhu Yinluan smiled faintly after hearing this and indeed relaxed a little. She said that it was not the case.
After pondering for a long time, he only started a conversation, "The prince is a stranger..."
"I understand what you mean, madam." He took over the conversation without asking her to explain it.
"My lady, if you have nothing else to do, then we can say goodbye here." He made way for Zhu Yinluan.
The distance is wide, which is very suitable.
Zhu Yinluan bowed again and walked past him. The man glanced at the purse-shaped pearl pendant on her waist. She was still wearing the one he had stolen last time, so he didn't suspect anything.
The inner courtyard of the clinic was quiet and peaceful. In addition to the faint smell of medicine, Zhu Yinluan also smelled a faint, refreshing smell. She knew very well that it was from Shen Jingzhan.
“…”
The woman's slender figure disappeared at the door of the clinic. The man turned around and put away the gentle smile on his face. He instantly became cold and indifferent, which was intimidating and no one dared to approach him.
He went upstairs, and when the doctor saw him, he immediately came to greet him and told him that the Shen family's children had just visited.
The doctor added, "It's also to get medicine for Old Lady Shen."
"Yeah." The man said lightly, his words were concise to the extreme.
He sat where the young lady had just sat, tapping the table slowly with his slender jade-like finger bones, without saying anything for the time being.
The doctor asked tentatively, "Are you here to get the prescription from before, sir?"
This is strange.
The young lady just now came and took a prescription that made her very weak.
This Master Shen had long ago come to get a prescription for making men weak, short-lived and premature ejaculation during sexual intercourse.
At first the doctor thought that the prince was too strong and too brave in domestic affairs, so he had to be controlled a little, but it didn't seem like that.
After all, after taking the medicine, people will look slightly tired, easily irritable, and depressed.
This young master came several times, but he was always calm and looked very good. How could he look tired at all?
What's more, this prince is well-known in the capital for not being interested in women. His house is clean and he never visits prostitutes.
I'm afraid the medicine wasn't for himself? If it wasn't for him, then who was it for?
No matter who it is used for, no one can make malicious speculations about the affairs of these powerful people.
Keeping silent when things do not concern you is the way to protect yourself.
"What did that young lady do just now?" the man finally spoke.
The doctor didn't understand the deeper meaning, but he replied truthfully.
When he heard what prescription the woman had written, there was no surprise on his face, as if he had known about this for a long time. But if he had known it for a long time, why was he asking?
The doctor soon found out why the man asked.
Because he said, "This prescription will not harm her body."
The man's eyes glanced over lightly, but it was chilling.
The doctor lowered his eyes unconsciously and bent his waist, laughing, "That young lady gave me a lot of money, so naturally I gave her good medicine, which won't harm her body."
“Having said that…” the man spoke in a gloomy tone, and the doctor began to panic.
"Medicine is three parts poison..." Shen Jingzhan looked at the other party, smiling.
The doctor couldn't help but raise his hand to wipe the cold sweat off his face, "Don't worry, I won't harm the young lady's body, and she will be able to recover in the future."
The man raised his eyelids and looked at him for a long time.
The doctor's legs weakened under his silent gaze. As he was thinking of a plan, the man spoke again, "Which ingot of silver did she give you?"
The doctor hurriedly took it out, Shen Jingzhan took it, and the attendant behind him put a piece of gold in the doctor's hand.
Then Shen Jingzhan stood up. The doctor waited for him to leave for a long time before he heaved a sigh of relief and took the gold ingots on the table.
At the entrance of the clinic, Shen Jingzhan got on the carriage. When he lowered the curtain, he glanced to the left and noticed the hidden person over there, but he didn't say anything, "..."
When the carriage had gone far away, the servant ran over to tell the young master on the horse, "The prince has left."
"He really is my cousin." Shen Jiaxian raised his eyebrows while weighing the horsewhip in his hand.
"It is indeed the prince."
"Maybe there are some medicinal herbs that were not taken, so the prince made another trip today?" the subordinate guessed.
"My cousin has always been very careful in his work, how could he forget the medicinal herbs?" What's more, they were my grandmother's medicinal herbs.
Having said that, Shen Jiaxian was still recalling the scene he saw when he came down from the back door of the clinic just now.
The cousin's eyes fell on the woman and the two exchanged a few words.
His cousin had never been interested in women. Whenever someone approached him, he would always stay away from her. So why did he look at her today and even stop to talk to her?
If he was not mistaken, it was a married woman with her hair tied up in a bun.
"You really don't know the identity of that woman?" Shen Jiaxian always found it strange.
The servant who was questioned by him looked a little embarrassed, "This... I really don't know."
"Then go check it out."
"Young Master...how could the prince have anything to do with a woman? She might be the wife of some acquaintance. They could greet each other when they meet." Didn't you hear what was said?
"My cousin is the most cautious person. If she is really the wife of an acquaintance bureaucrat, he will avoid her even more. Why would he bother to talk to her?"
Seeing the servant hesitating, Shen Jiaxian also knew what he was afraid of.
After all, everyone in the high-ranking families in the capital knew that his cousin had climbed to the imperial court at a young age and firmly established himself in both the Secretariat and the Censorate, suppressing so many veteran ministers and bureaucrats.
He is resourceful and intelligent, but also because of his fierce methods, decisive killing and great deterrence.
The "Imperial Court Case" that caused a sensation in the capital at the time involved many people. It also happened that the Northern Di were restless and the Turks annexed the Western Regions and the desert. The court could be said to be facing internal and external troubles.
At this critical moment when everyone was in danger, Shen Jingzhan took the initiative to volunteer and jointly with the Censorate took the lead in investigating the Censorate.
The officials of the Censorate are all top-notch figures who have won the first and second place in the imperial examinations in the humanities. They have been in officialdom for many years, and Your Majesty can't do anything about them.
However, it only took Shen Jingzhan three days and three nights to pry open the mouths of these people, and to get to the root of their cliques and uproot them. Then he led his troops to fight, repelled the Northern Di people, and defeated the Turkic people who dominated the grassland.
From then on, he returned to the court and was promoted to the position of Minister of the Three Ministries. Now he is also in charge of the Censorate. It is just a title, but his notoriety has spread and everyone is afraid of him.
Even after so many years, some people still remember it.
"The matter should be investigated in secret. If my cousin knows about it, won't I be in trouble?"
Because Shen Jiaxian was the master and was very favored in the Shen family, the servant nodded and said he would check.
That day, Shen Jiaxian knew Zhu Yinluan's name.
"Young Madam Wei." Shen Jiaxian recalled.
"Is it the Wei family...who committed a crime in their early years and was relegated for a long time?"
"Yes." The servant nodded, "She is the wife of Lord Wei Ruzhuo."
The Shen family and the Wei family have never had any friendship.
But these days, the Wei family seems to have squeezed forward by relying on the implementation of the new policy.
If he remembered correctly, the new policy of Fanchang was promoted by the Grand Marshal on the surface, but most of the clauses and advice inside were written by his cousin.
In particular, the clause about "descendants of demoted officials" being allowed to be employed was added by his cousin.
"It's really interesting." Shen Jiaxian smiled.
"I'm afraid it's not such a coincidence."
The servant didn't know what he was talking about, so he just stood there in silence, hoping that nothing would happen to this little ancestor, because the guy on the other side was not someone to be trifled with.
Even the adults in the second branch of the Shen family were afraid of this young master who belonged to the "junior generation".
Shen Jiaxian changed the subject and asked, "Grandma, are you still not feeling well after taking the medicine today?"
The servant nodded, "The old lady always says she's not feeling well."
Everyone knew that the old lady's illness originated from her heart. If Master Shen didn't marry, she would probably never get better.
"Then I'll go and take a look." Shen Jiaxian took his men out, and the servant hurriedly followed.
After Zhu Yinluan returned to the Wei family, she asked Jiaohui to boil medicine. After she ate a bowl of medicine after dinner, she began to feel hot and uncomfortable.
When I was holding my head and feeling groggy, I heard footsteps outside. It was Mingya walking in.
Tell her, "Miss, the eldest lady and the Luo family are getting divorced!"
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