Chapter 79: Embarrassing Her
Shen Yuheng pursed his lips and said calmly: "Didn't you say before that this person is very secretive and not as simple as he appeared before." His hand around the waist of the person next to him unconsciously tightened a little.
"That's what I see. He came over at night, saying he was checking on the progress of the case. What good intentions could he have?" As if afraid that she wouldn't believe him, Shen Yuheng added this.
Lu Qiaoxiao looked at his slightly furrowed eyebrows, his serious and righteous look, and immediately found it funny. She pursed her lips and smiled: "I know."
Hearing her affirmative answer, Shen Yuheng's expression relaxed a little. He rolled her into his arms and said, "Go to sleep."
Lu Qiaoxiao suddenly raised his eyes: "Are you sleeping here?"
Seeing her frightened look, Shen Yuheng couldn't help laughing: "Ayao will be guarding outside in the second half of the night. If anyone comes, he will deal with it. I will go to court after sleeping for a while."
Lu Qiaoxiao felt slightly relieved and rested her head on the man's chest.
She wanted to ask: If you are so tired at night, won’t you feel sleepy when you go to court the next day?
But seeing Shen Yuheng's eyes as bright as the morning stars in the dark night, Lu Qiaoxiao suppressed the urge to ask, fearing that he still had the energy and strength to spare, and fell asleep peacefully.
When I woke up the next morning, the people around me were gone and everything in the house was the same as before.
Lu Qiaoxiao dressed and washed quickly. When she was about to go out, she caught a glimpse of a bow on the table.
The bow is like a crescent moon, with carvings and engravings, and the string is made of extremely elastic calfskin rubber band. You can tell at a glance that it is of top quality.
only……
This bow looks familiar.
Some images flashed through Lu Qiaoxiao's mind quickly.
She remembered that this bow was the one she wanted to buy but couldn't bear to buy when she went shopping with Shen Yuheng before.
My eyes lingered there for a long time, how could he have noticed it?
Lu Qiaoxiao's mind moved, and a smile unconsciously appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Commander Lu!" A loud call brought her back to reality.
It was Sanjin, a soldier who followed her. He was down-to-earth and hardworking, and was also the person chosen by Boss Gu for her.
"What's wrong?" Lu Qiaoxiao clenched the bow tightly, and there was some joy in his tone.
"Commander, did you sleep well last night? Xiaoliu, who was on patrol last night, said the wind was so strong that the door panels creaked loudly. I'm worried you didn't sleep well."
Lu Qiaoxiao's face flushed, and she coughed twice unconsciously: "Okay."
Sanjin in front of him was still muttering, "I'll have someone replace the door panels in the next two days." As he spoke, his eyes fell on the bow in Lu Qiaoxiao's hand.
"What a fine bow!" he praised.
Lu Qiaoxiao's heart suddenly seemed to be filled with something.
In her previous life, she used a bow for many years, but after marrying into the Pei Mansion, she never picked up a bow and arrow again.
Pei Jinxuan frowned and said that it was a man's thing.
If a woman does it, it will seem rude.
………
Now, there is an entire room in the Prime Minister's Mansion filled with her swords, spears, and halberds, and Shen Yuheng will buy her new ones every once in a while.
Lu Qiaoxiao didn't expect that he would run into an old acquaintance, Lin Miaofu, on the street while out on patrol today.
Old memories flooded back into her mind, and a hint of hatred flashed across her eyes.
This person had a beautiful face, but he had a very vicious heart. In his previous life in Pei Mansion, he schemed at every step and pressed her hard. Together with Pei Jinxuan, he pushed her from being lively and alert to despair and death.
He showed no mercy when he pointed the knife at her face again and again, but instead enjoyed her painful and twisted screams. He even sent people to sever the meridians in her hands and feet, so that she could no longer lift a sword or draw a bow. She died in a pond in the cold winter with a soft and broken body.
In this life, it’s not that there is no retribution, it’s just that the time has not come yet.
Climbing high and falling hard is a hundred times more painful than never having it at all.
This woman's ambition and scheming were even greater than her concubine and two half-sisters. At least, they couldn't think of so many torturous things. More than half of her miserable condition in her previous life was due to her.
Lu Qiaoxiao took a deep breath, walked closer to Lin Miaofu, and said with a forced smile, "Miss Lin, long time no see. Congratulations! You finally got your wish and became the wife of Mr. Pei."
She knew clearly that Lin Miaofu could not be considered a wife and that she was at most a concubine.
But she wanted to embarrass her.
Seeing that the person coming was Lu Qiaoxiao, Lin Miaofu's face suddenly froze, and her eyes were filled with jealousy and unwillingness.
Although she now has a status, she is only a concubine, and she knows clearly in her heart that she has earned this position of concubine by being humble and enduring humiliation.
And that lowly Lu Qiaoxiao is now the mistress of the prime minister's residence, favored by Prime Minister Chen, and even favored by the emperor. Although she is a woman, she has been given an official position.
She hates it.
Originally, she was just an unfavored daughter of the Yong'an Marquis's Mansion.
"Long time no see, Miss Lu." Lin Miaofu concealed the resentment in her eyes and spoke to her in a calm and gentle tone as much as possible.
She knew that Pei Jinxuan still had feelings for this bitch. Although he married her out of gratitude, he never mentioned letting her be the mistress of the household.
Sometimes at night, when Pei Jinxuan was mumbling, he would call her name: Xiaoxiao.
How ridiculous.
"Now that you're the wife of the Pei family, Miss Lin, you must cherish this position. Be careful with what you say and do, and don't let others see anything." Lu Qiaoxiao half-closed his eyes, suddenly leaned over, and lowered his voice into her ear: "Otherwise, you won't even know how you died in the end."
Lin Miaofu's body stiffened when she heard this. Did she seem to have a hidden meaning in her words?
If not, she knew about my affair with Prince Pingyang?
No, absolutely not!
I've been acting very discreetly, but how could this bitch not predict the future?!
Lu Qiaoxiao felt very happy when he saw her surprised and doubtful expression.
This process of seeing through the enemy's thoughts and grasping their anxiety and nervousness is much more satisfying than stabbing them through the heart with a sword and giving them a quick death.
She had already found a personal maid to serve Mrs. Pei, and that maid had a hard life in the Pei Mansion.
If someone is willing to help her escape from suffering, how could she refuse?
At this moment, a burst of hurried footsteps came from behind her, followed by a shout that she was familiar with and yet disgusted with:
"Qiao Xiao?"
Pei Jinxuan walked over wearing a dark green official uniform, with a look of surprise on his face. He had never thought that he would meet her on the street.
Lu Qiaoxiao frowned, glared at the visitor, and warned, "Second Master Pei, please respect yourself."
Wasn't the slap I gave him last time painful enough? Or did it make him hallucinate and think there was still something going on between them?
In Pei Jinxuan's eyes, she looked angry.
Lu Qiaoxiao, dressed in the patrol department's field uniform, looked both heroic and dashing. He pursed his lips helplessly and said, "Alright, I'll call you Commander Lu. That's not wrong, is it?"
The only thing he was unwilling to admit was to call her Madam Shen.
Lu Qiaoxiao got up and walked away. She didn't want to waste any more time talking to this sticky person.
Turning around, her eyes showed some thought. Last time, because of the hunting ground incident, the emperor had clearly attacked Prince Pingyang. As a member of Prince Pingyang's party, Pei Jinxuan should have been implicated as well.
But when I saw his expression just now, why was he still so proud?
Thinking of this, Lu Qiaoxiao suddenly felt a little worried.
The affairs of the court are like the balance of a bowl of water.
If Prince Pingyang gains power, it will mean the loss of Prince Ding'an.
Now that Shen Yuheng is disguised as a member of Prince Ding'an's party, he won't be implicated as well, right?
Pei Jinxuan looked at Lu Qiaoxiao's receding back thoughtfully, his heart slightly moved.
He recently assisted Prince Pingyang in solving the river disaster in the southwest that had been a headache for His Majesty.
My father is in poor health and is resting at home. The emperor has ordered him to take over all matters of the Ministry of Revenue, a position equivalent to that of the Minister of Revenue.
At this rate of promotion, he would catch up with Shen Yuheng - that was just around the corner.
"Husband, let's go." Lin Miaofu gently shook the man's arm.
The resentment in her eyes had long since faded away, replaced by the gentle and lovely Shuwan.
"Okay." Pei Jinxuan withdrew his thoughts, he breathed a sigh of relief, and looked again at the alley where the man disappeared.
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