Chapter 85 Chapter 85 Missing
He doesn't believe it.
In the west wing of the west wing, the bamboo fragrance was blown away by the summer wind. Du Lingjing looked at him and saw that he was still sneering and mocking himself. She didn't know what to say to make him believe her.
The blood energy replaced the bamboo fragrance and diffused in the room, stimulating Du Lingjing's nose. Her chest churned, but she realized something.
"Why did you come back so soon? Your injury..."
But before she could finish, she was interrupted by him.
"If I don't come back, my wife will leave Beijing again. This time, Chong'an still couldn't stop you. In half a month, when I return to Beijing, I won't even know where my wife is."
He asked her in return, "Do I dare not come back?"
Du Lingjing looked at him in surprise. It turned out that Chong'an had told him all her thoughts.
But he mistakenly thought that she wanted to leave just to leave him.
He thought she blamed him for Saburo's death!
She finally understood why he rushed back, barged into the room without caring about anything, and said things that he would never say in normal days.
"Weishi, I want to go back to Qingzhou. I just want to find out the real reason why Sanlang committed suicide. I don't want to leave you!"
He was covered in blood and she didn't know what kind of injury he had suffered. But no matter what it was, riding a horse at a fast speed for days on end would be too much for anyone to bear.
She repeated, "I really don't want to leave for nothing."
She looked into his eyes and confirmed every word with him.
"You and I are already husband and wife, how can I leave you at will?"
Her voice was much softer, hoping to dispel the misunderstanding and anger that had brought him all the way back.
The man also paused slightly, but the pause was only for a moment, and his eyes fell on the plain white dress she was wearing.
He made so many bright clothes for her, but whenever he left, she would change into this plain dress and wear it for her Sanlang.
He pursed his lips tightly.
Du Lingjing also noticed that his gaze was lingering on her white clothes.
She sighed inwardly. The reason why she didn't want him to come in directly was because of the clothes.
She immediately explained to him, "I am not going to wear mourning for Sanlang again. I am just wearing this old plain dress to call him back to my dream."
But as soon as she said this, his eyes narrowed.
"Do you miss him so much? Since you can't see him during the day, you can only see him in your dreams?"
His voice was low and compelling, but Du Lingjing felt a pain in her heart when she saw his angry look.
She shook her head at him, "That's not the case. I can't find the reason at the moment, so I can only send this inquiry."
She didn't want him to think any more, so she told him everything that was on her mind.
"... ...I could never have imagined that Sanlang would commit suicide. But I also absolutely do not believe that you forced him to do this."
She would never again blame him for Sanlang's vomiting of blood and drive him away as she did nine years ago.
Du Lingjing looked at her husband and spoke softly.
"So I want to go back to Qingzhou and figure this out."
Only in this way can we truly send Sanlang off peacefully and give Weishi a thorough innocence.
This is fair to both of them.
She said everything she wanted to say, hoping he would calm down a bit.
He must have some serious wounds on his body. How can the wounds heal if he just keeps getting angry and shocked?
She wanted to ask him to at least sit down and rest for a while, but he refused.
His expression did not ease up because of her clear explanation. The room was quiet, as was the courtyard and the entire Du family in Chengqingfang.
He whispered.
"Quanquan, do you think we can find the reason? He has been dead for more than three years."
Du Lingjing also knew that Sanlang had been gone for more than three years, but suicide was no small matter. Even though Sanlang was not an ordinary person, he must have had his reasons.
She felt she could find it.
But he asked, "What if I can't?"
She said she would definitely be able to, "I want to give you a clear name."
She looked at him, but he smiled.
"I, Lu Shenru, have been cursed from head to toe. They call me a traitor who insulted our ancestors, who deposed the eldest son and enthroned the youngest son, and who brought disaster to our country. There are so many curses. Even if Jiang Liu or others accuse me of harming Jiang Zhuxiu, what can they do? What can they do to shake me?"
He only cares about his wife, so she wants to leave him.
Lu Shenru closed his eyes, and the pain from the past surged out from him, overlapping with the present and hitting his heart.
Du Lingjing also felt completely sad.
He is indeed covered in infamy.
He clearly risked his life to defend his country and worked tirelessly for the safety of the border, but the civil officials in the court only scolded him, made the palace beware of him, and made the people despise him.
He doesn't care about anything, but he is not a treacherous villain who brings disaster to the country and the people. He is clearly a loyal and conscientious minister. Why should he bear such a bad reputation?
The same goes for Sanlang’s matter. If it has nothing to do with him, why doesn’t he want to be cleared of all charges?
She suppressed her sobs and said, "Can you trust me? I will definitely find the real reason!"
But he still shook his head.
There was a damp and dusty air in the room that had not been occupied for a long time. After the bamboo fragrance faded, it was released from the dim corners.
They were both surrounded by that stuffy atmosphere, and she heard him laugh very faintly.
"If the real reason that Quanquan found out was that he had no choice but to commit suicide because I insisted on waiting for him year after year," he asked her, "what would you do? Would you still be able to call me husband and stay with me peacefully like before?"
He asked, looking closely into her eyes.
"Can you still?"
As soon as the words fell, Du Lingjing felt a sense of emptiness in her mind.
If that's the case, she might need some time to sort things out again...
She was unable to answer him for a moment.
But her brief pause made the man laugh uncontrollably.
He chuckled and looked at his wife in front of him.
"So if that's the case, you're still going to abandon me and leave me, and you don't want the days we had together anymore, right?"
"no... ..."
"Quanquan found out the truth and gave me a clean name because you didn't want your Sanlang to suffer any injustice, just like nine years ago, right?!"
"wrong!"
But he didn't allow Du Lingjing to say anything more.
He suddenly turned around.
Du Lingjing saw his tall and broad back. The wound that had never healed before was now oozing with blood from inside his brown brocade robe. It was more soaked and bloodier than when he was first injured.
But he gave orders to his subordinates in a very cold voice.
"Take the lady back to the Marquis' Mansion. From now on, she is not allowed to go out without my order, and she is not allowed to contact anyone related to the Jiang family!"
Du Lingjing looked at him, and he said the last words to her.
He turned around and looked at her with eyes filled with pain.
"It doesn't matter. Anyway, you are my Lu Shenru's legally married wife. Even if you are completely satisfied with him, you can only be my wife in this life!"
Let’s live our next life together with her Sanlang.
After he finished speaking, he didn't look back and strode out of the dusty west wing on the west road.
The hurtful words from those years were like a needle piercing his heart. It had never been pulled out in nine years, and instead, the needle had pierced deeper and deeper under his deliberate suppression.
It is so deep that it doesn't seem to hurt on normal days, but it has already pierced into the deepest part of the heart.
"Only Stone!"
He walked away.
*
Jiqingfang, the Mansion of Marquis Yongding.
Du Lingjing was stopped outside the gate of Yuanxiu Pavilion.
The guard at the gate was embarrassed, "Madam, the Marquis has ordered that you are not allowed to enter the Marquis's Yuanxiu Pavilion."
Du Lingjing frowned deeply and looked inside. "Then can you tell him that I want to see him?"
The guard was at a loss, but he went anyway. When he came back, he shook his head at him.
"Madam, the Marquis does not want to see you."
Don't want to see.
Du Lingjing bit her lip and could only stand outside his courtyard gate with her hands clenched.
In the bedroom of Yuanxiu Pavilion.
The room was dim and unlit, and the man stood silently in the darkness.
He couldn't help but think back to what happened in Chengqingfang just now. He asked her what she would do if Jiang San's suicide was related to him.
She didn't respond to him for a while, so she hesitated. No matter what, he could not compare to Jiang San.
Thinking of this, his heart began to beat fast. The torn wounds on his shoulders and arms hurt even more, spreading all over his limbs. But when he turned around, he saw his second brother's Silver Snow Sword on the knife rack.
The words that my second brother excitedly said to me when he got up in the morning on the last day of his life are still ringing in my ears.
"Brother, I had a dream last night. I dreamed that you brought her to our home! I dreamed that you got married!"
At that time, he shook his head, sneered and laughed at himself, "How could she be willing to marry me if she hates me so much? There is no need to mention Qingzhou anymore."
But the second brother refused to let him go.
"But brother, I always feel that you two are still destined to be together!"
"Brother, have you ever liked someone so much..."
In the dim room, the second brother's silver snow sword reflected the light under the window, flashing tiny lights, just like the second brother's eyes that were blinking in a cowardly manner to persuade him.
That day, my second brother passed away.
He believed what his second brother said, and he really couldn't let it go.
After so many years, he finally married her home as his second brother had said.
But what about her?
"If I didn't force her, she would have left sooner or later. I married her, but that's all."
She called him husband, took the initiative to embrace him, and said that he was handsome and unmatched. But when these things came to her Jiang Sanlang, they were like bubbles bursting and clouds dissipating.
The light on the Silver Snow Sword flickered faintly. The man remained silent, and the wound on his shoulder and arm hurt even more.
Chongping asked outside the door, then came in with medicine for the injury.
"My Lord, let me change your medicine."
He sat quietly on the chair under the window, but glanced in the direction of the courtyard gate inexplicably.
Unexpectedly, he just glanced at it and Chongping spoke.
"My Lord, the lady wants to see you and has been waiting for you outside the courtyard."
Chongping said this carefully and looked at the Marquis.
He rode his horse all the way here just for his wife. Now his wife wanted to see him, but he refused to see her.
Chongping asked softly, but he paused almost imperceptibly, his brows still tightly knitted.
"No." he said.
Chongping sighed inwardly and wanted to offer some advice, but before he could open his mouth, the Marquis glanced at him.
"You go out too."
Now even Chongping can't be kept.
How could he dare to say anything more? He could only leave the medicine behind and retreat.
Lu Hou changed the medicine alone.
In the dim room, he didn't even want to turn on the light. He untied the bandages wrapped around his shoulders and arms. The pain where the flesh and blood were stuck to the bandages was excruciating.
He simply tore it off and threw it aside.
The severe pain made his eyes dizzy. He closed his eyes for a moment, then hastily applied medicine to the wound and casually wrapped it with a cloth tape.
Blood was seeping out, but he paid no attention and simply put on his clothes.
Outside Yuanxiu Pavilion.
Du Lingjing waited for a long time. The summer heat was overwhelming and she suppressed the churning in her chest. However, the scorching sun appeared from beyond the clouds. Even though she was standing under the shade of the trees, she still found it a little unbearable.
Unexpectedly, the next moment, she suddenly felt dizzy. She felt the world spinning and she couldn't stop leaning to the side.
"Madam!" Qiu Lin quickly supported her, but was also shocked, "Madam, what's wrong?!"
Du Lingjing was still a little dazed. "I don't know what happened. Maybe it's just the hot weather."
She had been too hot to eat before, and today she felt dizzy. Fortunately she didn't fall down.
She shook her head, trying to calm herself down, but Qiu Lin looked at her again and again and suddenly said.
"Madam, have you noticed that you haven't had your period for quite some time? Could it be..."
After she reminded him of this, Du Lingjing remembered that she had been busy with many things recently and had not paid attention to this matter.
At this moment, she couldn't help but lower her head to look at her belly, but her clothes covered it and she couldn't see anything.
She had been married to him for nearly a year, and she had taken contraceptive pills most of the time, except for the few times recently. Could it be that...
Did she really have a child with him?
Du Lingjing was a little dazed.
Qiu Lin also kept looking at her lower abdomen. She came back to her senses and whispered something to Qiu Lin.
"Don't rush to make a fuss. Ask a doctor to confirm it in a few days."
Qiulin nodded repeatedly, but seeing that her face looked unwell, he tried to persuade her.
"If you are really pregnant and can no longer stand in the sun, you should go back and rest."
But Du Lingjing waved her hands and shook her head.
"I'm fine."
She was only unconscious for a moment and has recovered now.
She looked into the inner room again and saw Chongping.
Chongping also saw her and walked over quickly.
"Madam, why do you look so pale? Did you get heat stroke? You should go back."
Du Lingjing understood what he said, "He still doesn't want to see me, right?"
Chongping sighed upon hearing this, "The Marquis even kicked out his subordinates."
He said that the Marquis did not ask him to apply medicine, but his injuries were quite serious.
As soon as Chongping finished speaking, his wife asked, "Is it the previous arrow wound that tore this time?"
Chongping was slightly surprised. The Marquis did not allow them to tell the lady, but the lady actually saw through it at a glance.
If she really had no interest in the Marquis, how could she tell at a glance?
Chongping was speechless for a moment, but Du Lingjing became anxious. She couldn't help but go to Yuanxiu Pavilion. The guards at the gate were frightened and wanted to stop her, but Chongping gave them a look.
The guards did not move forward for a while. They only saw the lady walking quickly towards the Marquis's bedroom. At that moment, the Marquis walked out of the room, stood on the stone steps, and met the lady head-on.
When Du Lingjing saw him, she noticed his pale face and even the color of his lips fell.
"Did you tear your wound? If you don't want Chongping to change your dressing, please ask Doctor Wang to come and check your wound again, okay?"
At the end, she raised her head and begged him silently.
But the man's eyes only stayed on her face for a moment before he immediately turned away and jumped onto the guard at the gate.
"Who let the lady into Yuanxiu Pavilion?!" He stood on the stone steps and said angrily, "Go and receive fifty lashes of the cane!"
It's so hot today, fifty lashes of the cane would almost kill someone.
This time, Du Lingjing took a step forward and grabbed his wrist.
"I had to break in, hit me if you want!"
She looked up at him, and Lu Shenru's eyes also looked at her from top to bottom.
The wind stopped in fear, the leaves on the treetops dared not make a sound, and even the chirping of cicadas stopped for a moment.
The man's eyes were so dark that they could not be melted.
How could she say such a thing? How could he be willing to touch her?
But Du Lingjing didn't mean to anger him with her words. She held his wrist, but the bones in his wrist were as hard as iron, so she couldn't hold it, so she could only slide down and half-hold his hand.
He didn't react, just kept a determined look on his face.
Du Lingjing's eyes were sore and swollen from crying today, and she felt very painful. At this moment, her stomach was churning again.
She pressed, softly.
"I know you don't want to see me. I can leave. But let Chongping ask Doctor Wang to come over and check your injuries again."
He didn't say yes, nor did he say no.
Du Lingjing called Chongping directly, "Go and ask Doctor Wang to come."
Chongping should be the immediate choice.
His face was gloomy and uncertain, and no one dared to say anything in front of him at this moment.
Du Lingjing held his hand for a while, but when she saw that he pursed his lips and refused to talk to her, she could only slowly let go of him.
"I'm going back."
She left, and the scorching summer sun burned people.
Lu Shenru's gaze followed his wife's skirt until it disappeared at the gate of Yuanxiu Pavilion. After a while, he slowly withdrew his gaze.
He continued to go to the study with a gloomy face.
*
Du Lingjing was unable to eat dinner, but she felt unusually tired. When she woke up the next day, the sun was already high in the sky.
She stood up and quickly called Chong'an over.
"Where is the Marquis?"
"The Emperor has summoned you to the palace."
He just came back yesterday and was summoned to the palace today. The emperor thinks highly of him and never lets him have a moment's rest.
Du Lingjing frowned slightly and asked, "How is the Marquis' injury? What did Doctor Wang say?"
Chong'an went back to see Doctor Wang. "Doctor Wang said there is still hope, but Doctor Wang carefully calculated for the Marquis and said that at most he could tear his arm once more. If there is one more time, we can only help the Marquis remove his arm and see if we can replace it with a wooden one."
Du Lingjing: "..."
Although Doctor Wang's words were unpleasant to the ear, his medical skills in treating injuries were good.
She asked a few more questions, and when she heard that he still had a gloomy face before entering the palace, she didn't know what to say.
But Chong'an looked at her anxiously and said, "Madam, please don't go out."
"I know." Du Lingjing sighed, but then said, "I'm not going anywhere. I'll wait for him to come back home."
Chong'an said yes repeatedly and ran away with his recovered legs.
Chang Pu was muttering, "I usually joke with the guards in the Marquis' Mansion. I thought we were very familiar with each other, but who would have thought that at the critical moment, not a single one would let me go. Madam has a poor appetite, and I wanted to go out and buy her some delicious food."
In this marquis's mansion, even in the Yongding Army, the marquis's orders are as important as a mountain.
Du Lingjing shook her head and said that she didn't need to eat, and then said to Changpu, "Don't even think about going out."
Acorus responded obediently.
They couldn't get out, but some people could get in.
Lu Shenru hasn't come back yet, but Ruan Gong, who was sent out by Du Lingjing a few days ago, has returned from Qingzhou.
He brought back two large boxes of things and presented them to Du Lingjing.
"Madam, these are all left by the former Third Master. I thought I couldn't tell them apart, and Madam might be able to find something from them, so I brought them all back."
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