Chapter 44 Chapter 44 Being Cuckolded
This sentence blocked Chen Qing's way out. She didn't want to tell him her plan, so she turned her head away and remained silent.
Seeing that she remained silent, Liu Jiyue said, "Well, it's time to return to Xuanji Pavilion. Better to return today than to wait." He leaned forward, lifted the curtain, and instructed the driver, "Excuse me, change—"
Before he could finish his sentence, Chen Qing rolled over and crawled over to cover his mouth and pulled him back.
“Senior Brother!”
Liu Jiuyue stared at the hand that covered her mouth and signaled her to let go with her eyes.
Chen Qing's face flushed red as she squeezed out each word, "I may never return to Xuanji Pavilion again. Even if you force me to go back, my parents will come to pick me up."
Liu Jiuyue didn't understand what she meant, and thought she was threatening him with Shen's father and mother. However, the next moment, he was stunned by Shen Qing's words.
"I am engaged to Li Daoxuan. The Sage has decreed that the wedding will take place in October of this year."
She will get married in October and become someone else's new wife, and it will no longer be convenient for her to return to Xuanji Pavilion to live permanently.
Seeing that Liu Jiuyue remained frozen in silence, Chen Qing tentatively loosened his grip and waved his palm in front of him. "Senior Brother?"
This was the first time that the usually mild-mannered man had lost his composure. Liu Jiyue couldn't believe it and asked again, "Is this the order of the Saint?"
Chen Qing lowered his head and nodded slightly.
"Marriage in October?"
"Um……"
"You agree?"
"Well, I asked Aye to agree to this marriage."
“…”
Liu Jiuyue's chest was heaving, his lips trembling for a long time, and he couldn't utter a word. With a "clang" sound, Liu Jiuyue fell down holding the cushion. His mind was full of thoughts: How could this happen?
Seeing Liu Jiyue lose his composure like this, Chen Qing thought that he had frightened him into having some kind of illness, and said in shock, "Brother! Are you okay?"
Liu Jiyue closed his eyes and put his palms together to stop Chen Qing from supporting him. He said, "Let me be quiet for a while."
Seeing that he didn't look sick, Chen Qing slowly sat down after calming down, but her eyes never left his face, fearing that he would faint in the next moment.
After a while, Liu Jiyue seemed to have recovered. He climbed onto the cushion and slowly sat back down. He placed his fingers on his forehead and said in a daze, "What's going on? I thought those words of joy you said before I left in May were just a joke. How come now that I'm back, you two have even decided on a marriage?"
"I don't know. Not long after you left, the Saint asked my father about my marriage on behalf of King Cang. My father then asked about my wishes. I agreed, and then the Saint issued an imperial decree to grant us the marriage." She said concisely.
"Do you know that this is a marriage granted by the imperial decree? No matter how wronged or uncomfortable you feel in the future, you cannot divorce?" Liu Jiuyue asked.
"I know, but I believe he won't do anything bad to a girl like me."
Even if her life after marrying him was bad, it wouldn't be as bad as her impending death. At worst, she could wait until she conquered Li Daoxuan and got rid of this system. After spending three months with Li Daoxuan and successfully changing his fate, she could poison him to death herself. Being his widow wouldn't be bad either.
In this way, even if her husband dies, she will have a huge fortune and will not have to serve her parents-in-law. She can just enjoy life. This kind of life is promising.
However, it was unknown which word Chen Qing had said wrong, and Liu Jiuyue's face changed immediately, "You say you believe in him when you haven't even met him a few times. Do you know what kind of person he is and what his preferences are?! How do you know that he has no other woman in his heart? You, are kidding! You are kidding! You really, really-" He breathed heavily, and was so angry that he couldn't utter a complete sentence. In the end, he held himself in like a cowhide bag, with a belly full of anger that he couldn't vent.
"I don't know, but he's so handsome and doesn't look like a bad guy. I believe he will be good to me, Senior Brother." Chen Qing continued to add fuel to the fire.
"You said he's good-looking, so he'll definitely treat you well?!"
"Yeah! Brother, what's wrong?"
"You know how many times I've told you, don't judge people by appearances, look at—"
After a pause, looking at Chen Qing's innocent and confused expression, Liu Jiuyue finally broke down and hugged her head and said, "Stop the car!"
The driver was startled and reined in his horse immediately. Before the carriage had even stopped, the usually calm and composed man was swept away like the wind and disappeared without a trace.
Chen Qing's half-extended hand froze in the air for a moment, and finally, because of her guilty conscience, she retracted her hand.
This is a good thing. At least in the short term he won't have the energy to think about his motives for doing these things.
After all, rebirth is nothing but a fairy tale, as absurd as regenerating after being beheaded.
If someone wants to harm the Shen family, she has to provide convincing evidence.
At least she has to wait until she follows the line of Red and White Demons to find clues about the mastermind behind the scenes and find evidence that someone wants to harm the Shen family. It won't be too late to tell her senior brother about the matter related to the Happy Funeral Demon and the White Water Demon.
Otherwise, telling him too early that there is also a Xisang monster besides Baishuisha will only lead to one ending.
Even if Liu Jiuyue would try every means to get rid of the two big monsters, once the person behind the scenes was alerted, it would only make people retreat into darker places. The enemy is in the light while we are in the dark, and it would be difficult to find out even if we want to.
Now we can only try our best to avoid alerting the enemy.
At the same time, she secretly regretted telling Liu Jiuyue about Bai Shuisha. But then she thought, if she didn't tell him, he would definitely investigate her disappearance thoroughly, so it didn't make much difference.
The information she received in such a short time was almost tangled into a ball of thread, making Shen Qing's heart a mess. She rubbed her suddenly swollen head and said loudly, "Go back to the Shen Mansion."
When I looked up, the carriage started shaking again.
He carefully lifted the curtain in front of the window and looked at the slowly receding scenery, lost in thought.
The Happy Funeral Demon hadn't appeared yet, leaving only the White Water Demon hanging around. And from their previous conversation, Chen Qing deduced that the White Water Demon didn't seem to be familiar with the person who had caused her to fall into the underground palace.
In the previous life, when Xisang Yao Tu Chen Mansion, Chen Qing clearly heard the word "revenge" from her mouth.
The Shen family never harms anyone and has no grudges against the Happy Funeral Demon. Yet, they have become the target of the Happy Funeral Demon's "revenge". This indicates only one possibility: someone deliberately misleads the Happy Funeral Demon, making her mistakenly believe that the Shen family is her enemy.
Bai Shuisha is deeply in love with Xisangyao and is even willing to die for her.
Therefore, Xisang Yao joined forces with Baishui Sha to formulate a revenge plan: Baishui Sha caused chaos in the East Market, led away most of the warlocks of Xuanji Pavilion and even Liu Jiuyue, and Xisang Yao took the opportunity to massacre Chen Mansion.
After thinking about this result, Chen Qing suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the Happy Funeral Demon targeted her so much in her previous life!
What a good trick to divert trouble to others, what a good trick to kill with a borrowed knife!
No matter if she is Xisang Yao, Baishui Sha, or even Shen Ling, they are all chess pieces on the board. The chess player has made a careful layout just to stay out of it and wait for the downfall of the Shen family.
Chen Qing suddenly felt that she seemed to have smelled the tip of the iceberg of a huge conspiracy, but she could not see the full picture of the conspiracy.
She began to wonder, who would benefit most from the downfall of the Shen family?
However, the court was like a chess game with ever-changing circumstances, and the situation was turbulent and complicated.
The forces of all parties are intertwined, and everyone is a chess player, as well as a chess piece in the game. They are like puppet trainers wearing masks, hiding on the stage with the puppets. However, with a flick of their fingers, the puppets are forced to be confined by the thread called "power", and their destinies are controlled by others. However, the puppet trainers under the masks are extremely calm and composed.
The situation in the court was changing rapidly, and Shen Qing had never been involved in court affairs. Her simple and naive guesses would not work at all.
For now, we can only take one step at a time.
After some review, she was able to untie the tangled threads in her head, but the headache still did not ease at all.
Chen Qing couldn't help but pinch the Glazed Heart on her neck, wondering: In her previous life, Chen Ling got the Glazed Heart. Although she never asked the Glazed Heart to recognize her as its master, she was actually nourished by the Glazed Heart and was strong and energetic all day long.
Now, after she, the original owner of the Liuli Heart Sutra, swore her own name with a drop of blood, not only did it not have any effect, but her illness came back in waves and never went away.
Liulixin was as dead as a worm in her hands.
Chen Qing curled her lips and was about to lower the curtains when she suddenly heard a commotion on the street. She unconsciously stuck her head out and listened carefully:
"You bastard, how dare you sleep with my wife? I'll beat you to death!"
"It was obviously that woman who seduced me. Scream? How dare you scream?!" A shirtless man on the street was pulling up his trousers and shouting at the person opposite.
A skinny man blushed when he heard this. He immediately picked up the butcher knife on the butcher's counter and was about to chop at the other person, but was grabbed by a woman's arm.
"Old Zhu, calm down!" the woman shouted in panic.
"Go to hell with your calmness! You've already slept with someone else, how can I stay calm?! You're my wife!" The thin man broke free from the woman.
The woman fell to the ground with a cry of "Ouch". Her collar, which had not been fastened, opened in an instant, revealing a smooth body. She immediately shrank into a ball in shame, covering her collar tightly.
When she looked again, she saw the angry man chasing the fat man with a knife, and her face suddenly turned pale.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the fat man dropped the stick and ran away, with the thin man chasing him relentlessly.
The scene suddenly became chaotic and noisy.
Someone shouted, "The yamen runner is here!"
The crowd that was originally watching the excitement suddenly scattered like birds and beasts and ran away.
"How dare you fight in public? Come, take him back to the county government office!" said the leading officer.
The thin man said unwillingly: "He slept with my wife first!"
"No matter what your reason is, since you made a mistake, you deserve to be punished! Take you away!"
In the end, the fat man and the thin man were taken away together by the yamen runners. The thin man kept looking back and told his wife, "Just behave yourself! Don't forget to pack your things and come see me!"
The woman wiped her tears and said, "Erlang, I will definitely find a way to come and see you!"
After watching a farce, Chen Qing suddenly had an epiphany. Her eyes lit up, her eyebrows curved, and she smiled like a cunning little fox.
That evening, before curfew, two household servants not far from the Dali Temple suddenly clashed with the Jinwu Guards.
Originally, the servant was clamoring to bring sesame cakes for his wife. Now that he couldn't buy any, he refused to go back. In desperation, the servant had an argument with the Jinwusheng.
As a result, the Jinwu Guards immediately arrested the two arrogant men and sent them to the Dali Temple nearby for temporary detention.
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