Lure the snake out of its hole
The next morning, Mrs. Shen invited the two to have dinner in the dining hall.
Xu sat next to Shen Yu, staring at Madam Shen.
Shen Yun, who had not been seen for a long time, also came. She sat beside Madam Shen, her eyes fixed on the girl opposite.
The girl held her chin with her hands and sighed in distress.
Mrs. Shen was nervous: "Miss, Xu'er's illness..."
"Mrs. Shen, to be honest, Shen Xu's illness can be cured."
Before Madam Shen could breathe a sigh of relief, she lowered her eyelashes and said anxiously, "Madam, you don't know, but last night I saw Chen Xu sitting up from the couch, and he seemed to have written something on a piece of paper. It was inconvenient for a woman like me to break into his room in the middle of the night, so I went to find my senior brother and me, but I didn't expect that the note was gone."
"What Chen Xu said during his last attack proves that he was murdered by a traitor. My senior brother and I believe that the note must contain some important clues. I only went to see my senior brother for a few minutes, so it's impossible for someone to take the note. He must have hidden it himself."
“Why don’t you, Madam Shen, look for it for us?”
Madam Shen curled her lips and smiled weakly: "The most important thing right now is to cure Xu'er's madness. As for who is secretly framing Xu'er, we in the Shen Mansion will naturally investigate."
She nodded: "In that case, my senior brother and I will go to the street to find some suitable herbs and will do our best to treat Chen Xu."
The two looked at each other, then stood up and left.
Shen Yun looked at the backs of the two people leaving side by side, and plunged her chopsticks into the rice.
"Brother, did you see that Chen Yu's face was as smelly as a rag just now?" Yu Heyi put his hands behind his back and walked lightly.
They didn't come out to get medicine, but to find Mi Xiu.
Mrs. Shen's attitude towards Shen Xu was cold. She vaguely guessed the truth, but needed to find Mi Xiu to confirm it.
They found him at the Xicheng Temple Fair.
"Mrs. Chen often goes out of the house to meet with different men. I investigated the identities of those men and found that they were all from wealthy families of officials and nobles. But as for the clay doll, I went to all the temple fairs nearby, and the Taoist priests and tourists there all shook their heads and said they had never seen the clay doll." Mi Xiu recounted what he had discovered in the past few days.
Mrs. Shen has secret meetings with different men.
As she thought, Madam Shen didn't care who framed Shen Xu, but only hoped that his illness would be cured, because she only wanted to consolidate her position in the Shen Mansion through Shen Xu.
Xu Changjia's pregnancy made her even more anxious. Whether she met her at Jinxiufang or at the Chengxi Night Market, she always looked aggressive.
Shen Xu was still seriously ill, and if Xu gave birth to a son, she would be on equal footing with her. She had no place to vent her anger.
How can a concubine be on equal footing with her?
So when Yu Heyi offered to treat Shen Xu, she agreed without hesitation.
And the clay dolls...
Xu said that she found it at a temple fair, but why hasn't Mi Xiu found any clues after so long?
Wanqi Si told him to act in secret and not to alert the enemy, and to find something at the same time.
And they...are going back to the Shen Mansion to catch the thief.
The cabinet in Shen Xu's room where medicinal herbs were stored was small, and the two of them hid behind it, feeling quite crowded.
Before he could get angry, Yu Heyi covered his mouth with his palm.
"Shh, be quiet." She made a silencing gesture and covered his lips with her other hand.
They were pressed tightly together, unable to move at all.
Wanqi Si frowned, very dissatisfied with her idea, but she pushed him behind the cabinet without saying a word, and before he could resist, she squeezed in.
He couldn't even lift his head, so he simply put his head on Yu Heyi's shoulder, treating her as a pride.
The warm breath sprayed on her neck, making her want to scratch it.
Fortunately, Shen Xu was not in a clear mind and ignored the awkward appearance of the two people.
Of course they knew that Madam Shen didn’t care about Shen Xu, but there was another person at the dinner table who had been secretly paying attention to Shen Xu’s every move.
Those words were meant for him.
The note placed in Shen Xu's room was not hidden. On the contrary, it was just pressed under Shen Xu's pillow, with a small pointed corner exposed.
Now, the sharp corners are gone.
Not long after, the expected sound of the door opening was heard.
The two people behind the cabinet looked at the person who came quietly. He folded the note and put it back under the pillow.
After doing all this, he looked at Chen Xu for a moment before preparing to leave.
"Master Shen, why are you a thief in your own son's house?"
The sudden sound made Shen Yu turn around abruptly, his face pale with shock.
Wanqi Si sneered and walked out from behind the cabinet, completely ignoring Yu Heyi who was pushed out by him.
She looked at Wanqi Si angrily, but he straightened her head.
"I pushed you out to catch the thief, Yu Heyi."
"What thief? You must be mistaken. I am Shen Xu's father, how could I be a thief?" Shen Yu said with forced calmness.
She could only vent her anger on him and sneered, "Then what was Lord Shen doing sneaking in here?"
"What do you mean by sneaking around? Of course, I heard you two talking in the breakfast hall. Madam doesn't care who the traitor is who framed Chen Xu, but as his father, how could I not care? So I came to the South Courtyard to find the note for Madam and help you catch the murderer."
He hurriedly took out the note from under his pillow and held it above his head.
"What Lord Shen said is different from what I thought." Wanqi Si tilted his head and lazily raised his eyelids to look at the note.
"What do you mean?"
"I thought Lord Shen was afraid that Chen Xu would write something shameful on the note and was afraid that we would find out, so he secretly took the note away. When he returned and found that there was not a single word on the note, he put his heart at ease and returned the note."
"You...you've already seen the note? Then why do you say Chen Xu hid it?" Chen Yu looked flustered, cold sweat oozing from his forehead. "Are you trying to trick me?"
"Of course I want to see who the evil-doer in the Shen Mansion is."
Yu Heyi snatched the note, tore it into pieces and scattered it in the air.
Wanqi Si glanced at him and said, "I forgot to tell you, Lord Shen, that this note was not placed there by Shen Xu at all. I placed it there on purpose to expose your weakness."
"I said it wasn't me! I'm Shen Xu's father! How could I possibly hurt him?!" Shen Yu's face turned purple.
Looking at him like this, Yu Heyi frowned slightly and pointed his finger at the hole in the window.
"Then who made this hole and the poppy flowers behind it?"
With a "bang", the door was kicked open.
Mi Xiu held a bag of seeds in his hand and threw it at Shen Yu's feet.
"Master Shen, you keep saying this matter has nothing to do with you, so why did I find poppy seeds in your room?"
At that time, what Wanqi Si asked him to find was the poppy seeds in Shen Yu's house.
"Someone framed me, yes, someone must have framed me!"
"Admit it, Chen Xu's madness is caused by you, Chen Yu!" Wanqi Si stared at him with eyes as cold as ice.
"You!" Shen Yu's face was gloomy, and veins bulged. "This is my Shen family's family affair. What does it have to do with you? I advise you not to interfere in this matter. It's better for everyone if you stand by and watch. Otherwise, you will never leave the gate of the Shen Mansion!"
"Master Shen never thought of letting us leave, right?"
"Boy, being too smart is not a good thing."
Shen Yu clapped his hands, and several sturdy guards rushed in, holding daggers and staring at the three people with greedy eyes.
“Kill them!”
The guard responded, holding the dagger high.
"Master Shen is really a man who turns his back on people."
Yu Heyi looked at the guards coldly, his two fingers slightly closed, and white spiritual power overflowed from his fingertips.
As he silently chanted the incantation, countless golden threads as thin as hair flew out from his sleeves and entangled the two leading guards.
The two entangled guards immediately lost their ability to fight. She rushed forward, grabbed one of them by the collar, and punched him hard.
Before the others could react, she kicked another person in the stomach and he fell to the side.
Mi Xiu: "Junior sister, you're so cruel! It hurts just looking at you."
Wanqi Si teased, "The fighting power of this angry junior sister is much higher than usual."
Seeing this, Shen Yu was furious: "A bunch of good-for-nothings, quickly catch them for me!"
Although the guards were numerous and strong, they were still mere mortals and could easily handle them. Without even needing the two of them to attack, all the guards were brought down by Yu and Yi.
The scene was chaotic. Shen Yu wanted to take the opportunity to escape, but Wanqi Si grabbed his collar and pulled him back.
"Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs. How can you be so cruel as to kill your own son? Are you still a human being?" She brushed off the dust on her body and walked over to them.
Wanqi Si smiled and pinched his chin, tightening his fingers: "What did Chen Xu see?"
As his strength grew stronger, Shen Yu's facial features tightened in pain, and he finally couldn't bear the pain any longer: "Speak! I'll tell you!"
The hand on his chin loosened and he gasped for air.
"Chen Xu... ran into me and..."
As he opened his mouth, a pool of black blood suddenly flowed from his eyes, and a wisp of demonic energy floated out from his heart and dissipated into the air.
"Dead." Wanqi Si checked his breath.
"It's demonic energy..."
Mi Xiu and Yu Heyi frowned at the same time. The latter said in a deep voice, "The person behind this probably knew that Shen Yu was a coward, so they injected demonic energy into him long ago. If he had any thoughts of betrayal, he would be killed immediately."
"The demons and humans are probably colluding with each other."
"ah--!!"
Before they could think about it, a scream tore everyone's eardrums.
"You killed the master!"
Madam Shen stood not far away, her face filled with fear and anger. She pointed at them and cursed, "You wicked bastards, you've lived in the Shen Mansion for so many days, and not only did you fail to cure Xu'er's madness, you even killed the master!"
There was no sign of Shen Yu in the North Courtyard, and she went to the West Courtyard but couldn't find him, so she guessed that he might be in Shen Xu's South Courtyard.
Since I came to the South Courtyard to find Chen Yu, I thought I would go to Chen Xu's room to take a look at the note they talked about this morning.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she stepped into the South Courtyard, she saw her master lying in a pool of blood, and standing next to him were the three people she had found to treat Chen Xu.
She kicked the maid next to her: "What are you standing there for? Go and report to the police!"
The maid hurried out of the house.
Yu Heyi tried to explain, but Mrs. Shen refused to listen.
Wanqi Si threw down the word "retreat" and turned into a shadow and left the Chen Mansion, with Mi Xiu following closely behind.
She had no choice but to compromise and took Baoqiu with her and followed.
"How can you run away like this? We didn't kill Shen Yu. If you run away, won't you just put the blame on yourself?" She said angrily after catching up with them.
Wanqi Si glanced at her and said, "You can try to explain it to Madam Shen when you go back and see if she will believe you."
Baoqiu lowered his head timidly and stood aside.
Yu Heyi patted her shoulder and comforted her: "The Shen Mansion is in chaos now, no one will notice you running away, but we still have Yao with us, so we will take you to find a place to stay later."
"Where are you going to take her to live?"
"Go find Taoist Anchan."
"After helping Yong'an Temple so much last time, he can't possibly refuse to do such a small thing, right?"
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