After marrying a powerful minister, the female partner was pampered

Chapter 280 Lu Xingzhi: How long will Madam keep this secret from me?
Lu Xingzhi was stunned for a moment, a little surprised, "How do you know?"

Qiao Jingjing: "..."

Was she really right?
She coughed lightly and said, "Have you ever mentioned that she has a ten-year-old son? And I heard that she had not given birth to a son for many years after marrying into the general's mansion. Now she is suddenly able to give birth again. It's hard not to think like that, but that paragraph The general looks very strong and tall, but he can’t give birth?”

Lu Xingzhi paused and shook his head, "Probably not. He has several concubines in his backyard, all of whom gave birth to children for him. That's why Mrs. Duan got anxious and had a child with the coachman."

Qiao Jingjing's beautiful eyes widened again, "Car driver?"

"Yeah." Lu Xingzhi nodded.

Qiao Jingjing: "..."

That lady is too strong and the taste is quite strong.

"No, since she and General Duan can't have a child, why can she and the coachman have one?"

"According to the information Chongxi found out, Mrs. Duan is obsessed with having children, so she has been looking for famous doctors and taking many folk remedies for many years."

"So, she cured her infertility, and in order to take revenge on General Duan, she had an affair with the coachman?" Qiao Jingjing guessed.

Lu Xingzhi was stunned for a moment, "Whether it's revenge or not, I don't know, but according to Chongxi, the coachman looks good and is younger than General Duan."

Qiao Jingjing: "..."

Chongxi inquired very carefully.

"So, did Madam Duan cheat on her because she wanted to take revenge on General Duan for hugging him, or did she cheat on him because the coachman was too handsome and couldn't stand the loneliness? The most important thing is that this cheating actually gave her birth to a child she had been begging for for many years. A child who can’t do it.” Qiao Jingjing marveled.

"Cheating? What do you mean?" Lu Xingzhi was puzzled.

"It means Hongxing cheats." Qiao Jingjing explained.

Lu Xingzhi looked at her thoughtfully, "So you can still say that."

"Since you have the handle on Mrs. Duan's affair, what are you going to do?" Qiao Jingjing asked with interest.

Mrs. Duan is vicious. She sent people to hunt down Mother Lu back then, and now she wants to use Mother Lu's biological mother's life experience to cause trouble. Such a person should suffer the consequences.

"Chongxi said that the child looks very similar to the coachman. Since he followed Mrs. Duan, the coachman has not shown his face in front of others. He was placed in another courtyard by Mrs. Duan." Lu Xingzhi said indifferently.

"Mrs. Duan kept the coachman?" Qiao Jingjing almost dropped her jaw.

That lady is not only vicious, but also very bold.

"On the eighth day of every month, Mrs. Duan would go out on the pretext of going to Yunlin Temple, a hundred miles away, to offer incense and worship Buddha. Because Yunlin Temple is some distance from the capital, she couldn't make it back that day and had to stay overnight in the temple. This has been the case for many years. In fact, "It's a tryst with the coachman in another courtyard," Lu Xingzhi said again.

Qiao Jingjing was startled, today is the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, and Mrs. Duan also went to Guanyin Temple today.

Is it possible that the other courtyard is near Guanyin Temple?

Just thinking about it, he heard from Lu Xing: "General Duan was sent to Qingzhou by the emperor a few days ago, and he will be able to arrive in the capital today."

When Qiao Jingjing heard this, her heart moved and she asked, "Will the general come back through Guanyin Temple?"

"Yes." Lu Xingzhi said firmly.

Qiao Jingjing's eyes widened, "So, you shouldn't have already sent someone to ambush on the roadside, pretending to assassinate General Duan, and then lead them to the other courtyard where the lady and the coachman had a tryst, right?"

Lu Xingzhi was startled, then smiled and said, "I can't hide anything from Madam."

Qiao Jingjing waved her hand, "My husband is so complimentary."

"So how did Madam guess it?" Lu Xingzhi asked.

Qiao Jingjing froze, and touched her storybook with her hand under the quilt.

In Lu Xingzhi's eyes, she didn't know a few words at all. Wouldn't it be even more suspicious if she said she read it from a book?
"I'm smart." She said breathlessly after a while without blushing.

Lu Xingzhi glanced at her and suddenly lifted the quilt.

Qiao Jingjing was caught off guard and had no time to transfer the script. As a result, the storybook was exposed to Lu Xingzhi's eyes.

He looked at her deeply, picked up the storybook and flipped through it.

"When did Madam know so many words?"

"I just saw it blindly. In fact, I couldn't understand it at all." Qiao Jingjing herself felt that this explanation was clumsy and blunt.

"Really?" Lu Xingzhi looked at her with a half-smile.

"Yes!" Qiao Jingjing said firmly.

"Ha!" Lu Xingzhi chuckled, "How long do you want to keep this secret from me, madam?"

Qiao Jingjing's heart trembled and she stammered: "W-what did I hide from you?"

Lu Xingzhi put down his notebook and stared at her with his dark eyes, "I'm going to take a bath first. Madam, think carefully about what you hid from me." After a pause, he asked warmly, "Does Madam believe me?"

Qiao Jingjing looked at him blankly, with complicated thoughts.

Lu Xingzhi didn't wait for her answer, and turned around and went to the clean room.

Looking at his back as he walked away, Qiao Jingjing felt tangled in her heart.

She had actually known for a long time that Lu Xingzhi had doubts about her origins, but he never revealed it. But after what happened just now, his original doubts may have turned into certainty.

But will she say it?

When Lu Xingzhi finds out, how will he react? Will he arrest her as a monster?

Qiao Jingjing was a little confused.

She originally wanted to keep this secret and spend her whole life with Lu Xingzhi. Even though Lu Xingzhi had doubts, he didn't ask, so she just pretended that he didn't know.

But he had said that just now, and it seemed impossible for her to pretend to be confused again.

But she wasn't ready to tell him yet.

After all, her origin is so bizarre. If anyone knew about it, she would be regarded as an alien. In that case, she would be in danger.

When Lu Xingzhi came back from bathing, he saw Qiao Jingjing sitting cross-legged on the bed, holding a hosta in her hand.

Seeing him coming, he quickly raised the hosta and said, "This hosta was given to me by my mother. I guess it is a relic of my grandmother. Do you want to return it to my mother?"

Seeing the woman's cautious look, Lu Xingzhi paused, reached out to take it, and looked down at it.

This is a white jade hairpin with a round and smooth handle. The head of the hairpin is carved with a magnolia flower, which is very elegant and delicate.

Qiao Jingjing secretly breathed a sigh of relief, followed his gaze, and looked at the hosta together.

When Aunt Rong gave this hosta to her, she reminded her that this hosta had a great origin. It must have been a relic of Mother Lu's biological mother.

Unexpectedly, Mother Lu would give such a precious hosta to her.

From this point of view, although Mother Lu was still a little bit critical and dissatisfied with her at that time, she recognized her as the eldest daughter-in-law in her heart.

After a while, Lu Xingzhi handed the hairpin back to her, "There's no need to give it back. Since mother gave it to you, you should keep it well."

"But this is my grandmother's relic. If I keep it with you, I can still miss you." Qiao Jingjing hesitated.

"Jingjing." Lu Xingzhi suddenly called her.

"Huh?" Qiao Jingjing was puzzled.

"The point is not the hairpin." Lu Xingzhi said warmly, his deep black eyes staring at her closely, leaving her with no way to escape.

Qiao Jingjing's eyelashes trembled and she clenched her fingers.

There was silence in the room for a moment, and the man suddenly sighed softly, with a gentle voice, "Whether you say it or not, I respect you."