Chapter 54 Where was my cousin’s wife last night?
"Madam, the firewood room in Furong Building was robbed last night."
The next morning, when Shen Wangshu was sitting in front of the dressing table, waiting for Mei Xue to do her makeup, he suddenly heard her say this and was stunned for a moment: "What?"
"It's the Furong Restaurant where Wutong and Taohong went to pick you up last night. I just heard from the maid in charge of purchasing in the courtyard." Mei Xue deftly helped the young lady to tie a snake bun, which made her neck look even longer. She looked at the beauty in the mirror with satisfaction: "It seems that nothing was lost in the woodshed, but a person was almost lost."
"What?" Shen Wangshu asked dully.
She seemed to have mentioned Furong Building casually in her dream last night, so why was it robbed today?
Mei Xue did not go with Wu Tong and the others to pick up the person last night, and she did not know what happened. She only said what she heard: "It is said that the night watchman got up in the middle of the night to relieve himself, and was about to take a look at who was imprisoned in the woodshed. Then he saw a huge black shadow passing by the window. The people in the room were frightened and fainted, and the boy almost fainted as well."
Mei Xue said excitedly: "Now there are rumors that there are monsters in Moyun City. Madam, do you believe in monsters in the world?"
Shen Wangshu nodded: “I believe it.”
What is there to not believe? Now if someone tells her that there are ghosts in this world, she will believe it. Who knows if the world view set by the author of "The Phoenix Girl of Destiny" has any other elements.
"Aren't you afraid?" Mei Xue said, "Last night we were in Furong Mansion. What if tomorrow we are in the Duke's Mansion?"
Shen Wangshu propped his head up with one hand and yawned, "Why must it be the Duke's Mansion tomorrow, and not the Prefect's Mansion, the Prefect's Mansion, or the County Magistrate's Mansion?"
"There are so many people in the Duke's Mansion, and there are soldiers guarding it. If something happens to me, then I will be even less safe in other places. This means that I have this disaster in my life. I should just lie down and wait for death."
Mei Xue scratched her face and actually felt that what the lady said made some sense.
"She's talking nonsense. It's said that the servant saw a huge black shadow, but nothing else happened. We checked today and found that there was not a single piece of firewood missing from the woodshed. The man woke up normally. It's said that he will be put in a pig cage and paraded through the streets soon." Wutong, who came in from outside, said, "The guards of Xuanji Courtyard have been withdrawn, and we can go back soon."
Shen Wangshu responded, “I’ll be back after having dinner with my grandmother.”
"Madam, you don't look well today. Did you not sleep well last night?" Tao Hong looked at her slightly red and swollen eyes and asked with concern, "Is it because there is no incense?"
It was like this last time at Xiahou Mansion, and it was like this last night at Jingsi Hall. Every time Madam doesn't burn calming incense, she can't sleep well, and she feels very tired when she wakes up in the morning.
Shen Wangshu shook his head: "It's okay, just cover it up with makeup."
Everyone in Jingsi Hall got up early. They were not in their own territory and could not sleep well at night. When people outside started to move around, Shen Wangshu also got up.
Grandma was considerate and in order to take care of her, she deliberately moved the breakfast time back, so Shen Wangshu still had time to stay in the house for a while.
Mei Xue lifted up the lady's face and took a look. Her skin was still as delicate, smooth and white as snow, but she looked a little pale and had dark circles under her eyes. It would be inappropriate to go out to see the old lady like this, so she immediately took some lip balm and applied a light touch-up.
Shen Wangshu looked left and right in the mirror, stood up and said, “It’s okay, don’t let grandma wait too long.”
After waiting for a while, the old lady came out of the house with Nanny Chen. The breakfast in Jingsi Hall usually consisted of only a bowl of porridge and a plate of side dishes, but today there was an extra plate of exquisite crystal shrimp dumplings, and the white porridge was replaced with fish fillet porridge, obviously to take care of the young lady who was staying there temporarily.
"Did you sleep well last night?" the old lady asked her kindly.
"To reply to grandma, Nian Nian slept very well and had no dreams all night."
In fact, he had a strange dream all night, but he had to answer like this. Shen Wangshu didn't want to make his grandmother worry too much.
"You can go back after breakfast. When you see Ting'er, listen to him and don't quarrel." The old lady advised: "If he makes a mistake, come and tell me, I will help you vent your anger."
Shen Wangshu nodded obediently: "Nian Nian will have a good talk with her husband." I will make a scene with him severely.
Halfway through the joyful breakfast, another guest came to Jingsi Hall uninvited.
"Azhi pays respects to Grandmother." The visitor was wearing a lotus pink dress. Her pretty face had a pair of phoenix eyes like a Duke's wife, which made her look a little more fierce and arrogant. Her eyebrows and eyes were filled with the arrogance of being raised in a rich and beautiful family. "Meet my cousin."
The person who came was Chen Zhi, the eldest daughter of the first wife.
"Zhi Niang is here, please sit down." The old lady happily added a set of bowls and chopsticks to her granddaughter and teased her deliberately: "You are a rare guest here, what brings you here?"
"Azhi is wrong. I have been playing too much recently and I just remembered that I haven't come to visit grandma for a long time. Grandma, please don't blame your granddaughter." Chen Zhi didn't eat. She pinched the old lady's shoulders and legs to please her: "Grandma, how are you recently?"
"What's wrong with me?" The old lady snorted and laughed, and dragged Shen Wangshu, who was left out, into the topic: "This is your cousin's wife, you haven't met her formally yet, right?"
Only then did Chen Zhi turn her attention to her cousin's wife - what a beautiful lady, no wonder so many men fell for her.
She thought of the note she had left at the gate of the Duke's Mansion. The love poems on it were so corny and full of love that they could be felt through the paper. In the end, she even quoted from a classic, "My heart of thinking of you is like the water of the West River, flowing eastward day and night without stopping."
The note was not signed, but the address was "Nian Nian", and she was also asked to meet at Furong Restaurant on the Chinese Valentine's Day... As far as Chen Zhi knew, the only person in the Duke's Mansion who was called Nian Nian was her new cousin's wife.
Therefore, Chen Zhi's eyes looking at Shen Wangshu now are not right at all - you, this beautiful woman who looks gentle as water and stays in the yard all day without going out, actually have an affair with someone!
Chen Zhi didn't mean to read the note, but since she saw it, for the sake of her brother who had been single for nearly 30 years and had finally found a wife, Chen Zhi had to take the note no matter what.
She didn't tell anyone about this, and even asked the gate boy to keep it secret. She put the note in a box and planned to find a time to meet with her cousin's wife to test whether she was really honest and obedient.
But when I came to see my grandmother today, I actually saw her in advance.
For a moment, he almost couldn't control his facial expression. He looked at her unkindly and asked the question hidden in his heart: "Xuanji Courtyard was closed last night, where was my cousin's wife?"
Shen Wangshu looked back strangely, somewhat confused as to why this little girl was secretly rolling her eyes at him: “I spent last night in Jingsi Hall, what did my cousin want to see me for?”
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