Chapter 326 After changing back into women's clothing, Pei Yuan prepares to annul the engagement.
Yu Feng was taken aback, then scratched his head, his dark face showing a sigh of relief.
"So Lord Shen also noticed something suspicious. That's good. I was worried for nothing."
Shen Chu thanked him, "You are very thoughtful. Tomorrow I will start working at the prefectural government office. According to the regulations, you cannot bring all fifty people with you into the prefectural government office."
Yu Feng was pleased. "Don't worry, Lord Shen. I will select a few trusted men to accompany you at the yamen, while the rest of us will be scattered around the yamen."
They will arrive promptly if the adults give them any instructions.
After seeing Yu Feng off, a whooshing sound suddenly came from behind.
Chen Chu tilted his head and reached out to grab the object that was hitting him.
A single peanut.
Ling Ce, now dressed as a man, sat casually on the railing under the eaves, holding a plate of peanuts and glancing at her sideways.
She popped a peanut into her mouth and walked over with a grin.
"Oh dear, still upset? What's wrong? Are you upset because Miss Li seems to like me more?"
Ling Ce gritted his teeth, biting into the peanut in his mouth, and snorted.
“I am clearly more handsome and dashing. Back in Medicine King Valley, the maids and servants preferred me.”
That girl Li Anning must be blind, yes, that's right, blind. I'll have my senior brother prescribe some eye drops for her later.
Chen Chu ate peanuts and waited until he finished comforting himself before speaking.
"Tomorrow will be your time to shine. Are you ready?"
Ling Ce's eyes lit up, and he leaned forward, looking eager to try.
"What do you mean? You mean you want me to wear a human skin mask and go to the prefectural government office in your place?"
Do you suspect that this matter is related to Prefect Jiang?
Shen Chu shook his head, "It's hard to say. It's difficult for Steward Zhao to know exactly when I will arrive in Yangzhou."
Besides, Steward Zhao doesn't know me, and even if he does know Luo Heng, he can't be sure that the person following Luo Heng is me.
Someone must have told and directed her to do all this, and that person is very likely in the government.
She paused for a moment, then continued, "In addition, everything today went too smoothly, as if everything had been arranged perfectly."
But both Manager Zhao and Hu Sanquan confessed, so I could only drag out the case on the grounds that the person hadn't been found yet.
But if we want to find the real answer, we still need to go to the prefect's office. Third brother, you'd better be careful not to give yourself away.
Ling Ce jumped down from the railing and sneered.
"Who do you think you are? With my skills, just you wait and see. I'll skin those people in the prefectural government alive and see if they're human or ghosts."
Shen Chu wasn't worried that Ling Ce would give himself away.
Ling Ce's bone-shrinking technique has reached an unparalleled level, allowing him to adjust his height and weight to match his own.
As for his voice, he should have his senior brother prescribe some medicine to improve it, and then he should deliberately try to imitate her voice.
With the addition of the human skin mask, no one should be able to tell that Ling Ce is an imposter.
Her only worry was her third senior brother's mouth.
"Watch your tongue and don't speak so harshly."
Ling Ce waved his hand, turned around and went down the steps.
"I'll go find my senior brother to get the medicine right now."
Shen Chu suddenly remembered that Li Anning had also moved into the prefectural government office with Zheng Xin'er today.
Li Anning's good friend He Wei is the daughter-in-law of Prefect Jiang, and Zheng Xin'er is He Wei's cousin.
Therefore, when Tianxiang Tower was sealed off, Prefect Jiang asked Li Anning to leave with him.
She wanted to give Ling Ce a few words of advice, but Ling Ce was nowhere to be found in the courtyard.
Shen Chu chuckled and shook her head. Oh well, she just hoped that her third senior brother wouldn't be discovered by Li Anning.
The next morning, Ling Ce put on Shen Chu's human skin mask and made a point of walking around in front of Yu Feng and the others.
Yu Feng and his group of imperial guards bowed respectfully, "Lord Shen."
Seeing that no one noticed anything amiss, Ling Ce raised his eyebrows in smugness and led his men to the prefectural government office with great pride.
Chen Chu wasn't idle either; Han Feng performed a final acupuncture treatment to remove the poison for her, and then breathed a sigh of relief.
"It took more than a month to finally remove the poison from your body. Although I tried my best to avoid it, the two children were still affected to some extent."
Shen Chu was terrified. "Could the children have been poisoned too?"
"No, that won't happen. It's just that having two children is a big burden, and you've been eating less since you were poisoned."
The baby is growing a little slowly, but thankfully the poison has been completely neutralized. From now on, you need to eat more so the baby can grow faster.
Shen Chu patted her round belly and nodded seriously as she made a note of it.
After lunch, she untied her breast binder and changed back into women's clothing.
My belly, which was already five and a half months along, popped out immediately as if it were bloated, as soon as the waistband was untied.
It's round and plump, like a watermelon.
Having not worn women's clothing for ten years, Chen Chu lifted her skirt, looked at herself in the mirror, and felt quite uncomfortable.
Hongxiu stroked her chin, circled around her, and shook her head with a sigh.
"Young master, oh no, young lady, I've heard that pregnant women not only grow their bellies, but their breasts also grow."
"How come all you've grown is your belly? Look at you, you're still like a little steamed bun, tsk tsk..."
I was laughed at....
Chen Chu silently straightened her back, only to find, disheartened...
Yes, it is indeed very small.
She scolded Hongxiu in a bad mood.
"How would you, a young woman, know about these things concerning pregnant women?"
Hongxiu pouted, "It's the storybook Sun Yan gave me last time, the one called 'Stealing Heart Princess: The Overbearing Prince's Nightly Pampering'."
I flipped through a couple of pages at random, and that's exactly how it was written there, so I remembered it.
Chen Chu tapped Hongxiu on the head, "You actually believe what's written in storybooks?"
Some unscrupulous authors will write anything to attract attention.
What about princesses opening their own brothels and becoming top courtesans? And regents who are twenty or thirty years younger than the emperor, arrogant and domineering, yet were still demoted from crown prince to regent by the emperor?
Isn't this ridiculous? Hongxiu, believing everything you read will only hurt you in the end.
Hongxiu rubbed her head, looking completely innocent.
"Believe me, I only read those two pages. It's not like Sun Yan went crazy and insisted that I learn how to seduce you from them."
Sigh, with Sun Yan's single-mindedness, who would have thought that he was actually a man who loved reading romance novels in private?
He'd read so many, yet he still didn't have a wife. Clearly, these romance novels were useless; they were just meant to make people cry.
Sun Yan, far away in the capital, sneezed in succession.
Pei Yuan looked disgusted. "You came in just to sneeze at me?"
Sun Yan scratched his head.
He came in to report something, but before he could finish speaking, he sneezed a series of sneezes.
I don't know who's been talking badly about him behind his back.
"Your Highness, yesterday Prince Heng had an official from the Imperial Observatory advise His Majesty that you and Miss Chen are incompatible according to your birth dates and should not marry."
His Majesty was furious at the time, but still instructed the Imperial Astronomical Bureau to postpone the marriage, seemingly indicating a desire to annul the engagement.
Pei Yuan's expression cleared slightly.
Sun Yan suggested, "Your Highness, should we arrange for someone to stage an assassination attempt on you in the coming days? His Majesty might think it's just a clash of horoscopes..."
Pei Yuan shook his head. "My father is very suspicious. If someone were to assassinate me at this critical juncture, he would become even more suspicious."
As for the Chen family, we could consider…..
Before he could finish speaking, Jinbao rushed in.
"Your Highness, Miss Chen has hanged herself."
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