Chapter 87 Chapter 87 Is beating him a punishment or a reward? ...
It was a torture device, right? If she was not mistaken, it was a torture device?
Zhu Yinluan had never been to the Ministry of Justice jail, but she had seen laws and criminal codes in books. Those books of strange stories also described what torture instruments the officials used when interrogating cases.
Even without specific picture albums, Zhu Yinluan could imagine what it looked like through words.
It was almost the same as what she saw before her eyes, what Shen Jingzhan led her to see.
The reason why Zhu Yinluan didn't dare to confirm and looked at them in confusion for a long time was because the torture instruments in front of her were too small.
It doesn't look like something used to punish people, but more like...an object to be played with in the hand.
She didn't understand Shen Jingzhan's deep meaning, and an ominous premonition emerged in her heart. She forced herself to suppress her emotions and asked Shen Jingzhan sideways,
"You...what's your intention in bringing me here?" Mainly, she wanted to ask, why did Shen Jingzhan let her see these?
While asking Shen Jingzhan and waiting for his answer, Zhu Yinluan already had a vague idea in her mind.
What exactly was Shen Jingzhan's purpose in getting these torture instruments?
That day he said...if she hit him with her hands, it would hurt, so let her use a whip or a sword or something like that to whip him.
There is a whip here, and it looks like it's suitable for a woman to use... No, it's suitable for her to use.
She once gave Chen Kouyu a jade whip, which was much better than that whip.
It is very small and not suitable for use on a serious battlefield.
As for how the word "serious" came up, Zhu Yinluan herself couldn't explain it.
"Of course, I want Luan'er to visit the house and see if there is anything that needs to be repaired."
He avoided answering for a long time and talked about other things.
How could Zhu Yinluan not hear it?
She looked at Shen Jingzhan, "..." There was a faint smile on the man's face, and after the coldness melted away, it gave people a feeling of being bathed in spring breeze, making people feel that he was handsome and moving.
She discovered that people with outstanding looks are always likable, and even if she was extremely angry, she couldn't get angry at Shen Jingzhan's face.
Even if Shen Jingzhan said nothing, he could "kill everyone" relying on this face.
So, Zhu Yinluan moved her eyes away.
He said, "I don't like it here. I want to go back."
"Really?" The man followed her, pinched her wrist, and with a light pull, Zhu Yinluan fell into his arms.
He sat down, and Zhu Yinluan also sat on his lap.
"You really don't like it?"
The man was tall and had long legs. Zhu Yinluan's figure was considered tall and slender among women, but when he held her like this, her feet were still hanging in the air.
His long arms controlled her waist, and his long legs bound her dangling legs and feet.
A possessive hug.
Zhu Yinluan felt that her whole body was wrapped in Shen Jingzhan's control.
Not only was she unable to break free by brute force, even if she wanted to use ingenuity to break free while Shen Jingzhan was not paying attention, it would be impossible, because once she moved, he would notice it, after all, the man's eyes stayed on her for a long time.
"You...you don't have to attend to court business today?"
"Luan'er, don't you want me to accompany you?" Shen Jingzhan rarely answered people, he would just throw the question back.
Such people can almost be said to be difficult in their own way.
“...I don’t want to.” Zhu Yinluan said.
She had originally decided not to talk to Shen Jingzhan for a long time, waiting for them to calm down and his morbid love for her to cool down before thinking about what was going on between them.
Maybe she and Shen Jingzhan will not divorce.
After all, putting aside the emotions, this is very disadvantageous to both her and the Shen family.
The Shen family wanted to maintain their dignity, so at most they would give Shen Jingzhan a concubine, and would not divorce her and throw both the Shen family and her into the lurch.
She wanted to rely on the Shen family to avoid the crisis, which was also her intention when she hurriedly remarried Shen Jingzhan after divorcing Wei Ruzhuo.
On the Wei family's side, although Pang Shi is dead and Wei Ruzhuo is in jail, Wei Qingsi, who had a bad relationship with her, is still alive. I wonder how Wei Mingyan treats her after what happened.
Once she leaves the Shen family, the Wei family will most likely take revenge on her.
Besides, besides the Wei family, there is also the Zhu family. Madam Shen said that the Zhu family is already on the verge of collapse. Ming Ya told her that after her elder sister married, because the old prince Guo had no real power, there was no way to solve the crisis of the Zhu family...
But no matter what, the Zhu family is still there after all.
The people of the Zhu family hated her even more than the Wei family. If the Zhu family took advantage of her, they would put all the blame on her.
So she couldn't get angry and emotional and divorce Shen Jingzhan.
Maybe it was because she was pregnant some time ago, she found it hard to accept so many things all of a sudden, and she felt nauseous and vomited.
After all, what she hated most in her life was being deceived. How could she not be angry when Shen Jingzhan played with her like this and acted as if it was natural? Moreover, the dream that had troubled her for a long time also left a big shadow on her.
But during the days when Shen Jingzhan was away, she gradually calmed down, and her anger and fear retreated.
Shen Jingzhan's care after returning home, his protection of her in front of Madam Shen, Old Lady Shen, and Lord Shen, his many tolerances for her, and his leaning over to please her on the bed, also caused ripples in her heart...
She couldn't simply hate Shen Jingzhan. She knew very well that she loved Shen Jingzhan.
Love is lingering and wrapped, like the rain in June, the autumn chill in September, the cold winter in December, and after the New Year, the spring breeze in February is here, blowing and swaying...swinging back and forth in people's hearts.
How can feelings...be expressed clearly in just a few words or one or two things?
Things kept slipping away from her thinking, and she had thought they would be able to calm down.
But she seemed to have ignored Shen Jingzhan's madness, no, she seemed to have underestimated his madness.
What could she do to Shen Jingzhan? She even beat him up and kicked him, but it made him extremely excited. He had never seen such a person before.
Even if you have thought it through clearly, you still have to express your attitude.
We agreed at the beginning to be honest with each other and share our true feelings.
In the end, she was the only one who did it. If she didn't realize it, did Shen Jingzhan intend to keep her completely in the dark? How could she let it go?
"......"
Zhu Yinluan was lost in thought, but Shen Jingzhan saw through her wandering mind and did not interrupt her.
He held her, looked at her, and felt the quiet time slowly passing.
The weather was very good today and the window was open. The morning light shone in, reflecting on her furry hair, making her skin look even more creamy and flawless. Her eyelashes were extremely long and they blinked from time to time, like a beautiful little fan.
Zhu Yinluan had been wandering for a long time and just now she remembered that she was still arguing with Shen Jingzhan.
What were we talking about just now?
After thinking about it, it was Shen Jingzhan who answered the question irrelevantly, and then she rejected Shen Jingzhan.
Why is he not talking?
Just keep circling her and looking at her, what's so good about it?
Zhu Yinluan stared at the man for a while, and then she found that in the silent and invisible game with Shen Jingzhan, she would always be the first to lose, no matter how many times.
Because his eyes were too deep and dark, she always felt like she was about to be eaten up, sucked in, and fall into the endless abyss that Shen Jingzhan brought her, sinking with him, and becoming something that she found very unfamiliar, such as the loss of control on the bed.
She recalled the many times that she had been seduced by Shen Jingzhan and what had happened.
There are uncontrollable pourings, collapsing spring mountains, and raging floods.
She didn't drink much water in the past, so how come there was so much water in her body?
And it wasn't just her who thought so, even Shen Jingzhan would say that to her.
But the tone he brought it up in was questioning, smiling, and alluring.
Zhu Yinluan was thin-skinned and in her anger and shame, she didn't have the strength to hit him. She could only put her arms around his neck and lowered her head to bite his shoulder.
Even though she used a lot of strength, she felt her teeth ache and tasted blood.
Shen Jingzhan's shoulder was bitten by her, but he was still smiling.
Zhu Yinluan didn't know what Shen Jingzhan was laughing at, but once she knew he was a lunatic, she found it understandable.
As she thought about it, her eyes unconsciously fell on Shen Jingzhan's shoulder.
"...What is Luan'er looking at?" He noticed her gaze and obviously knew what she was looking at, but he still asked despite knowing the answer.
Zhu Yinluan said, "Send me back, I don't want to be here."
Madam Shen was rejected by Shen Jingzhan today, and she didn't do what he asked her to do. She might be angry, and she couldn't ruin the relationship with her mother-in-law. Besides, Madam Shen had always been nice to her.
"Luan'er, what are you going back for?" He poured her a cup of her favorite floral tea.
"I made some very harsh remarks today. Doesn't Luan'er have to submit to his father and mother when he returns?"
"Besides...the matter between you and me is not over yet."
Not over yet?
How could he have the nerve to say that he wasn't done yet? Was he going to do anything else to her?
"I told you the other day that now that things have come to this, I have nothing to say to you."
"How can that be?" He was interested in her coldness.
"I did something wrong and made Luan'er angry. You must punish me severely and let me learn a lesson. I will never dare to do it again next time."
Zhu Yinluan, "......"
"Who do you take me for?"
"Of course I know Luan'er is not like a gentleman like me, but... I have to teach her a lesson. Otherwise, Luan'er will be unhappy and develop a mental illness. What should I do?"
When Zhu Yinluan thought about how happy he was when he was beaten, she wondered whether it was a punishment or a reward?
Only he himself knows clearly.
"I don't want it." Zhu Yinluan began to struggle.
But Shen Jingzhan hugged her tighter, "Really?"
"If Luan'er could lift her up high and let her go gently, I would be happy, but I don't think it's good. My father and grandmother once said that I need to be disciplined."
"Ever since Luan'er entered the Shen family, she has always believed that I am a kind and virtuous person and has never reprimanded me harshly, which has led me to be a little unruly. Now it is time to punish me."
"How can you talk like that!" Zhu Yinluan was almost unable to bear him, but was trapped in his arms and forced to listen.
"Why can't I say that?" Shen Jingzhan said.
"Luan'er dotes on me and refuses to teach me a lesson. I can't let myself become arrogant because of my doting."
Zhu Yinluan, "......"
Why didn’t she realize that Shen Jingzhan was such a person before?
"You're hurting me." She asked him to let go. She was pregnant with a child, and if anything went wrong, Madam Shen and Lord Shen would naturally teach him a lesson.
"Where does it hurt?" He controlled his strength and was always careful.
Having said that, Shen Jingzhan still relaxed a little.
Zhu Yinluan lowered her eyes and looked at the gap that she had fought for, but she still couldn't break free by her own strength.
While she was thinking, Shen Jingzhan said, "Luan'er, don't worry about mother and father. Mother will not take out my anger for disobeying her superiors today on you."
Zhu Yinluan was annoyed, "So you know you are disobeying your superiors?"
"Who asked my mother to give me a concubine?"
"Luan'er agrees with her mother. I should bear a grudge, but..."
Although Zhu Yinluan still resisted, she couldn’t help but listen to what he had to say, and her eyelids were already lifted towards Shen Jingzhan.
The curve of the man's thin lips deepened, "But I can't bear to leave Luan'er, so I can only find mother."
Thinking of how Shen Jingzhan had made Madam Shen so angry today, Zhu Yinluan was speechless for a moment, but after a while, she asked Shen Jingzhan, "Why didn't you tell your mother-in-law today..."
"say what?"
"The one who said that if you took a concubine, you would be dismissed from office and stripped of your title... is in my hands."
"If you really say that, won't mother have a reason to get angry with Luan'er?" He pinched the tip of her nose, but didn't say she was stupid.
In fact, Zhu Yinluan had already figured it out in her mind, but when she heard the man say it in person, she couldn't help but tremble in her heart. Even when they were arguing and having a rift, Shen Jingzhan still did things for her.
"Luan'er doesn't really want to take me a concubine, does she?"
"Dismissing me from office and stripping me of my title, this is Luan'er's punishment for me, right?" He teased her and laughed.
Zhu Yinluan paused for a long time, wanting to say no, but still didn't speak.
After a moment, she said yes.
"If my dismissal from office and demotion can make Luan'er happy and vent her anger, then that's fine. But... don't really try to push me to someone else."
She didn't want to, but she couldn't say it.
After learning about what Shen Jingzhan did behind her back, Zhu Yinluan has begun to curb her feelings for him.
But no matter how hard you try to contain it, it always spreads through the corners and cracks, crawls into her heart, and envelopes her mind.
Zhu Yinluan sighed, "......"
She lowered her delicate neck, looked down and said nothing, she asked Shen Jingzhan, "To this day, I still don't understand why you have such deep feelings for me."
She used the word "deep" to summarize Shen Jingzhan's madness.
The moment he opened his mouth, he thought of the portrait of Shen Jingzhan placed in his study.
The portrait underneath is very thick, maybe...
In addition, she also remembered what Shen Kouyu had told her at that time, the small portrait of the person Shen Jingzhan liked.
At that time, Shen Jingzhan's excuse to her was that because of the passage of time, Shen Kouyu had made a mistake.
Perhaps, she could learn about her and his past from Shen Jingzhan's mouth through these things.
"Can't you just tell me directly?"
"It's okay to say it directly, but I don't really want to say it."
He slowly stroked Zhu Yinluan's black hair, no longer hiding his deep love for her.
Zhu Yinluan watched his movements, felt his deep and surging affection, and her heart pounded with nervousness.
I'm still a little scared, but not as much as before.
She couldn't help but wonder if it was because no one paid attention to her or cared about her in the first half of her life.
So that's why God sent her the best man in the capital, was it to "value" her in this way?
In his eyes and heart, it seemed that nothing could surpass her.
He also said she was priceless.
Thump, thump, thump, she seemed to hear her own heartbeat. She wanted to suppress it, but she couldn't.
She was worried that Shen Jingzhan had also heard it... and that he knew what was on her mind.
"Luan'er, don't be afraid of me."
The person in his arms kept his eyes fixed on his pupils. He seemed a little frightened and was shaking left and right subconsciously, even his eyelashes began to tremble.
He thought she was so cute and his heart was moved, so he wanted to kiss her again, but he was afraid that she would be angry.
The man, who was also trying to restrain himself, was the first to break his defense. He unconsciously moved closer to her, his eyes slowly lowering to her lips.
Zhu Yinluan noticed his lust and desire, and immediately covered her mouth in defense.
"Don't kiss me."
The sky is blue and the sun is bright.
The man came back to his senses and responded with "Okay..." His voice was a little hoarse.
Zhu Yinluan said she wanted to get off and didn’t like being held like that.
"Luan'er is lying. You clearly like him."
"How do you know I like it?" Zhu Yinluan argued with him.
"Luan Er said that I can see through people's minds and never miss anything."
Did she say that?
I said it before.
"Don't change the subject. Why don't you want to tell me what happened in the past?"
"Because Luan'er has forgotten, even if I tell you, you will feel like you are listening to someone else's story."
That was a past that belonged only to him and her. Even if she had forgotten it, he still remembered it.
Zhu Yinluan listened to Shen Jingzhan's words and always felt that she seemed to have failed him, which made her feel a little sad for some reason.
This made her even more curious. What exactly happened in the first place?
What kind of thing happened to make it like this?
"...How on earth did I forget?"
"Luan'er, do you suspect that I did something to you?" He pointed out the deep meaning in her words.
Zhu Yinluan asked back, "Did you do this?"
Don't blame her for being suspicious, it's because she has experienced the same thing before.
"Not me."
"If Luan'er hadn't forgotten about this matter, how could you have ended up in the Wei family when I was out on the expedition to quell the rebellion?"
"I love you, why do we have to make things so difficult for each other?"
His hand slowly moved down from the ends of her hair and gradually moved to the side of her face.
The man's fingertips were warm and cool, and when they touched her face she felt a little itchy, so she couldn't help but hide.
But even if she hid, she could only hide in Shen Jingzhan's arms. She was trapped in a small space, where else could she hide?
Zhu Yinluan could no longer laugh.
"Since it wasn't you who did it, do you know why I have lost my previous memory?" Zhu Yinluan asked again.
"Luan'er asked me, so I should ask Luan'er."
"You don't know? You really don't know?" Zhu Yinluan was skeptical about Shen Jingzhan's words.
"I really don't know." He said he only knew that she lost her memory, but he didn't know how she lost it.
After a while, Shen Jingzhan said, "It is certain that it was lost at Zhu's house."
Could it be related to the Zhu family?
At this moment, Zhu Yinluan hoped very much to get back her lost memories. The feeling of being kept in the dark was really terrible.
Wish the family...
Although she doesn't want to go back to the Zhu family now, but... the clues are still in the Zhu family.
She had asked Mingya before, but Mingya didn't know either.
Therefore, the key still lies in the Zhu family.
"Can you let me see my father?" Zhu Yinluan asked.
After my mother left, Lord Zhu became her only blood relative in this world.
"If Luan'er wants to see me, of course I can." Shen Jingzhan suddenly became very easy to talk to at this moment.
Zhu Yinluan was a little uncomfortable, "Why did you suddenly agree?"
"If Luan'er wants to see him, of course you can. After all, he is Luan'er's biological father."
"My mother-in-law and grandmother have always forbidden me to have any contact with the Zhu family. Of course, I think so too, but..." She wanted to figure out some things. Maybe she would be able to remember them when she arrived at the Zhu family?
"I'm free tomorrow, how about I go with Luan'er?"
His hand stayed on the side of her face. Zhu Yinluan felt very uncomfortable and couldn't stand the itch, so she slapped Shen Jingzhan's hand away.
The man chuckled and moved his hand away.
Zhu Yinluan saw the teeth marks on his hand. She bit him quite hard at that time. Unlike the wound on his face, which disappeared after applying some medicine, this wound on his hand would probably take a few days to heal.
And she looked at the wound on the back of his hand and had some doubts. It looked like it had been wiped clean but no medicine had been applied, and there was still some blood on it.
"Didn't you apply the medicine?" Zhu Yinluan asked directly after thinking about it.
He raised an eyebrow, still smiling, "Yeah."
"Why don't you take medicine?" During breakfast, the wound was hidden very well, and Mrs. Shen didn't even notice it.
The reason he hid it was probably because he was afraid that Madam Shen would see it and blame her.
Thinking of this, Zhu Yinluan felt mixed emotions.
Shen Jingzhan was right. He had planned so many things, and they had indeed hurt her. After marrying into the Shen family, she thought that being from a wealthy family would inevitably make her feel wronged and depressed, but she didn't expect that she had basically never suffered any hardship in the Shen family.
The people in the Shen family were very tolerant of her and sometimes even tolerated her, especially her younger sister-in-law Shen Kouyu.
Naturally, some people said behind her back that she had climbed up the social ladder and become a phoenix, but to be honest, she had never heard a single word of this in the Shen family.
Mrs. Shen is a good housekeeper, and Shen Jingzhan is fierce. Everyone under her is afraid of him, and as a result, no one dares to provoke her.
He gave her a lot of honor.
There is honor and dignity, but deception and concealment are also real.
"This is a gift from Luan'er. I wish I could keep it in my hand whenever I want to make medicine. Whenever I see it, I will think of Luan'er."
"Why are you so crazy?!" Zhu Yinluan couldn't help but scold Shen Jingzhan.
He is such a beast in human form, a scoundrel, and a double-faced person. She has already started to worry about the baby in her belly. What should she do if the upper beam is not straight, the lower beams will be crooked too?
"It's just like that for Luan'er."
Many years ago, when she married Wei Ruzhuo and tried to have children with him, he had already gone crazy.
Even if she lost her memory, she was the one who abandoned him.
He wanted to feel her aliveness so that he would always feel that she was always by his side.
The feeling of losing and regaining is such a wonderful heart-throb.
Zhu Yinluan did not respond to his words. Shen Jingzhan smiled and took her hand. "When will Luan'er's punishment for me begin?"
He took out a lock ring from somewhere. Zhu Yinluan lowered her eyes and saw it. She was so scared that she almost threw it away.
Shen Jingzhan held her hand and told her to look.
"Luan'er, please don't let me go, okay?"
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