Chapter 100 Acting
At this time, Shen Yuheng had already walked into the room and took a look around. He found that the familiar person was leaning against the screen, his body was wet, as if he had just been fished out of the river, and his pale little face looked very pitiful.
"Qingzhi." Shen Yuheng picked him up with a heartache, veins on his temples bulging, and a raging rage in his eyes.
When Lu Qiaoxiao saw that it was him, he suddenly opened his eyes, his bright eyes flashed at him, and then he pursed his lips, as if he was so tired that he was about to fall asleep at any moment.
Shen Yuheng was shocked. Seeing the hairpin tightly clenched in her hand, he immediately realized that this girl already knew that this was a trap set against her, and she came in deliberately to investigate and make a big deal out of it.
With a cold face, Shen Yuheng cleared out the people who gathered in the room and changed clothes for Lu Qiaoxiao himself.
Seeing her smiling face, he frowned and started to scold her: "You obviously have the ability to get out, but you let yourself suffer like this." His voice was stern, but his hands were gentle. When he touched her soft and slightly warm skin, Shen Yuheng felt a surge of resentment in his chest.
He was angry why he wasn't there when she got into trouble?
Why was he angry because of that bastard Pei Jinxuan? Was he worthy enough to play this drama with her?
Lu Qiaoxiao blinked her confused eyes and pinched his palm with a soft hand. "The nanny who brought me here just now was also instructed by someone behind the scenes. There's something wrong with the incense in the incense burner in this room. If she hadn't staged this, how could she have caused His Majesty to thoroughly investigate the person behind this?"
"Husband, don't worry." Lu Qiaoxiao rubbed her face against his warm palm.
Shen Yuheng's ears instantly turned red. When had she learned these? These coaxing tricks?
He sighed helplessly: "My wife wants to act, so there is no reason for me to refuse." Although he looked very generous, his back teeth were secretly clenched.
Pei Jinxuan, that bastard, is probably still harboring evil intentions. When he entered the room just now, that person gave him a smug look. I wonder how long this grasshopper in autumn can keep jumping around.
Shen Yuheng took a deep breath, tied the last strap on her chest, put a big shawl on her, and with a big hand, picked her up and carried her sideways.
"What are you doing?" Lu Qiaoxiao exclaimed, and her hands naturally hooked around his neck.
Shen Yuheng curled his lips, his sparkling eyes seeming to see through her, "Aren't you acting? How can a sick person walk on his own?"
Wei Junming's eyebrows jumped when he saw Shen Yuheng carrying the tightly wrapped person out horizontally like a dumpling.
Shen Yuheng's face looked really unsettling, and he was emitting cold air all over, as if he had just been pulled out of an ice cellar.
"Your Majesty, I request that this matter be thoroughly investigated, the real culprit behind the scenes be found, and he be severely punished." Although Shen Yuheng's tone was respectful, it still gave people an invisible sense of pressure.
After saying that, the two young guards behind him brought out the incense burner in the room.
"Please, Doctor Li, check it out." Shen Yuheng glanced at him coldly, and the old man with a white beard carrying a medicine box subconsciously walked forward and pinched the perfume powder to take a look.
Wei Junming coughed a few times. The situation today was indeed serious. The reason why Shen Yuheng could maintain this situation and remain calm was entirely because Lu Qiaoxiao was safe and sound.
if--
He glanced at Pei Jinxuan with some fear.
Pei Jinxuan said at the right moment: "Your Majesty, this matter is of a serious nature. If it weren't for Miss Lu's intelligence, she discovered the strangeness in the house in time and separated from me in time -"
"Otherwise, the situation will be unpredictable, Your Majesty."
Shen Yuheng held Lu Qiaoxiao's hands tighter, his eyes swept across the blushing cheeks of the person in his arms, and his throat rolled.
He felt annoyed. He should have kept her by his side, knowing that there was an enemy of hers in the palace.
Why would I be framed together with this bastard in front of me?
Imperial Physician Li had finished his examination and came forward to report, "Your Majesty, this Ningxixiang has aphrodisiac properties."
Wei Junming looked at Shen Yuheng, who was determined to investigate the matter thoroughly, and knew that there was no turning back.
With the emperor's keenness, he knew what happened today, and the person with the greatest suspicion was the person who hosted this palace banquet.
I have always heard that the eldest daughter of the Yong'an Marquisate has a bad relationship with her other two younger sisters.
"Investigate this matter thoroughly, Changjue. I will give you justice."
"Thank you, Your Majesty." After saying this, Shen Yuheng walked away with his wife in his arms. The moment he turned his back, the coldness in his eyes became even more fierce.
Accompanying his wife was just an act, but seeing her wet and disheveled appearance and forcing a smile, he felt pain in his heart.
When the carriage slowly approached the palace gate, it happened to run into Pei Jinxuan's carriage.
Pei Jinxuan lifted a corner of the curtain, his expression worried, "Mr. Chen, is Qiao Xiao okay?"
He always felt that today's incident, in which he followed her wishes and acted along, was a further proof of their relationship, so even his tone of questioning had a more relaxed tone.
Shen Yuheng was so angry that he couldn't stop. The driver turned around to ask his master's opinion. Shen Yuheng could only squeeze out a word through his teeth: "Let's go."
A Yao followed beside the carriage and also spoke up for his master. He thought that the young master and Miss Lu had been married for such a long time, and this second young master Pei was still acting out a self-touching lovesick drama, which was really disgusting to hear.
How could he look like a gentleman who had been taught by the Four Books and Five Classics? His face was thicker than a city wall.
So, after taking only a few steps, Ah Yao turned back and shouted at the parked carriage, "Second Master Pei, Miss Lu is our Prime Minister's wife. Please respect yourself. Besides, Prime Minister Chen doesn't want to see you, and his wife doesn't want to see you even more. You'd better give up this idea! It will be better for everyone!"
Pei Jinxuan felt humiliated when he heard that lowly servant dared to make such a face at him.
He thought about her cold words to him since he broke off the engagement with Lu Qiaoxiao, how she had used him and then abandoned him, and the pain of missing him for so long, and suddenly he felt like a joke.
And that self-proclaimed noble Shen Yuheng, who humiliated him in every possible way in the streets and fought with him openly and covertly in the court, not to mention how much pressure he had been carrying in the court recently -
Prince Pingyang went to the south of the Yangtze River. He had clearly told Wei Wu not to tell anyone else about this matter. But the next day, Huang Guanqiu came to him in a triumphant manner, saying that His Highness had told him all the plans. After His Highness ascended the throne, he, Huang Guanqiu, would be the emperor's closest minister. How long could this young boy, Pei Jinxuan, jump around?
Such humiliation—
Pei Jinxuan's eyes were filled with hatred. He had studied hard for ten years, but his sincerity could not be exchanged for sincerity. With villains blocking his way, why should he be a loyal and good minister and devote himself to the country?
His mind suddenly flashed back to the image of Lu Qiaoxiao's bright and carefree face following behind him. She had really shown him her true heart.
However, he did not cherish it.
Since my mother passed away, my father's health has been getting worse and worse. He suffered a stroke and can no longer take care of himself. He needs others to take care of him day and night. Fu'er seems to be busy taking care of the household and is not as sad about him as before.
A suffocating pain spread from his chest, and Pei Jinxuan's eyes gradually became gentle and crazy, "Qiao Xiao, just wait, you will still be mine, you will still be mine."
He reached out and wiped away the tears on his face, and a layer of burning madness spread in his eyes.
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Lu Qiaoxiao caught a fever as soon as she returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion. Shen Yuheng couldn't help but frown when he heard her mumbling in her sleep. If it was about being on duty at the Patrol Office or investigating a case, he could still understand it. But he had nothing to say about her repeated mention of her mother and brother. But what about repaying her benefactor for no reason?
Where did this kindness come from? Who was her benefactor? A man or a woman?
Shen Yuheng angrily placed a chilled towel carefully on her forehead, then went out and went to the Patrol Department to ask for leave for her.
Boss Gu saw that the person who came was Prime Minister Shen, but there was no sign of Commander Lu. He subconsciously asked, "Your Excellency, Prime Minister, where is Commander Lu?"
Shen Yuheng glanced at him coldly, his tone icy: "I'm here to ask for a few days' leave on behalf of Commander Lu, but you're being too lenient."
Gu Lao Da heard the implication of this and sweat dropped down his back. He said quickly, "I dare not, I dare not interfere in the affairs of adults."
Shen Yuheng left and returned home, and also asked for a few days of leave from the court.
Taking into consideration Lu Qiaoxiao's physical condition, Wei Junming thought that even if Shen Changjue went to court with anger, he would probably not show a good face to the court officials, so he readily approved his leave.
For three whole days, Shen Yuheng hardly stepped out of the house. Those who knew the situation only knew that his wife was sick, while those who didn't thought that Prime Minister Shen had also caught a cold.
After all, Shen Yuheng is a well-known model worker. He has never missed court sessions for ten years.
This caused many officials who wanted to win him over to come to the prime minister's house with gifts, but in the end they were all blocked away by people in the prime minister's house, and they didn't even get to see Prime Minister Shen.
Only when Madam Qiao and Young Master Lu from the Yong'an Marquis's Mansion came over did Prime Minister Shen meet them in person.
When the servants in the prime minister's mansion discovered that the young master had been sleeping until noon before having breakfast, they were even more shocked. When had the young master ever been so lazy?
Or is it that the young master has been overexerting himself by staying in the room?
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