My wife has a secret

Chapter 184 Distress
But the sharp-minded and intelligent eldest wife, Shen, had already sensed that Xu Qing's condition was somewhat subtle.

According to the Queen Mother's arrangement against the spies in the district, he should be isolated from the affairs of Chengxuanfang and not interfere with the information.

Now that Chengxuanfang has forwarded the information to me, doesn't it mean that they cannot contact the current abbot, so they asked the Queen Mother for instructions?

When Shen Shuangxu's thoughts came to an end, the carrier pigeons outside the window flapped their wings and swarmed in.

In an instant, the windowsills of the entire Nie Mansion's guest rooms were surrounded by snow-white carrier pigeons, creating a particularly spectacular scene that opened the eyes of Lu Wanhe, who was standing nearby, and he slightly opened his mouth.

"This is……"

Mingzhu was also stunned for a moment when she saw this familiar scene, and replied to Lu, the third wife, "These are the carrier pigeons used by Chengxuanfang to deliver messages. Each pigeon has a special mark on it... But my young lady has been dismissed from her post, so why would the Fang send all the messages here?"

Shen Shuangxu did not show any surprise, but instead stretched out his hand and released a pigeon that had a particularly outstanding appearance and mark.

She gently opened the letter and saw the expected order.

"The Saint has ordered that Shen Shuangxu of the Heluo Shen Clan immediately take over the position of the Master of Chengxuanfang and go to the palace with all the civil and military officials to meet the Saint."

Sure enough, something happened to her husband.

……

Inside the princess's residence, Princess Danyang covered her mouth with her slender hands, her delicate cheeks flushed, and she burst into laughter.

Her delicate body trembled slightly, and even though she was wearing a thick cloak, her whole body still felt smooth, as if covered with powder.

The maid in the mansion who delivered the message was still in shock and did not dare to show any change in front of her moody master.

It was obviously bad news, but she didn't know why her master was smiling so happily.

"Send someone to the Xu residence to express condolences... Never mind, I'll go by myself after tomorrow's morning meeting."

Princess Danyang seemed to have thought of something interesting, and began to order her maid to prepare her travel clothes and gifts for tomorrow's trip.

After hearing this, the maid did not dare to delay, and quickly responded and ran down to start preparing.

Shortly after the maid left the mansion, a strange noise was heard from the other side of the house.

After a while, Yuheng Star Lord appeared from the house slowly, wearing servant clothes.

Half of her pretty face was illuminated by the sunlight, while the other half of her scarred face was hidden in the darkness, making her look extremely mysterious.

Yuheng's fragrant skin was covered with sweat, obviously she had just returned from outside and had not had time to wipe her body carefully.

But she had secretly hidden on the beam and eavesdropped on the information given by the maid.

"Princess, would it be a bit excessive to do this tomorrow... After all, you are the unmarried wife of Marquis Guangping, and anyone would think that you have bad intentions if you visit to express your condolences."

Yuheng Xingjun felt something was not good. After all, the identities of himself and others were sensitive, and they were already the objects of suspicion of the other party. This move might lead to a more detailed investigation by Chengxuanfang.

If Princess Danyang had a better reputation, or if Xu Qing's body was found, this would not seem so deliberate.

Coming here now, the implication of provocation is extremely strong.

"That's what I want... As Xu Lang's destined match, his wives and daughters must obey my orders and act according to my instructions."

Princess Danyang finished speaking and raised her eyes to look straight into the depths of the sky outside.

She had a pair of big, crystal clear eyes with bright pupils. The color of her eyes was slightly cherry pink, which made her look very lovely.

……

After an unknown amount of time, Xu Qing's consciousness awakened from the darkness and he felt his own existence again.

He seemed to have had a long dream. In the dream, he was wandering among the thousands of people in his previous life. He was an extremely small and ordinary existence.

But for some reason, he suddenly saw many figures coming here on the zebra crossing, such as Qin Shuying, who was wearing a hip skirt and black stockings.

Or maybe Princess Danyang, who was wearing a blue and white sailor suit and white socks that reached half her calves.

These people appeared inexplicably, but they all behaved extremely indifferently and strangely, as if they had nothing in common with him.

At the moment when Xu Qing couldn't tell which was reality and which was a dream, he suddenly pulled himself out of this anomaly and returned to the dead silence and infinite darkness.

After his thoughts settled, Xu Qing recalled his previous experience and remembered that Chunsheng had detonated explosives in front of him.

Although the White Lotus Sect had limited stockpiles of explosives, it did not blow up the entire mountain range and cause it to roll into the capital as Xu Qing had previously guessed.

But the mountain collapsed, completely burying the empty tomb.

Fortunately, when the cave collapsed, he cleverly ran down two floors and used Chunsheng to remove most of the rubble from the altar built earlier, otherwise he would have been buried alive in the cave.

But where is this place?
In the moment when Xu Qing was slightly distracted, he suddenly felt a warm current attached to his body.

Gradually, Xu Qing's limbs regained consciousness, and his facial features returned to normal. His ears and eyes became clear, and he saw the colorful world.

This was not the dark interior of a cave, but a place with overlapping mountains and lush trees, with a clear river in front.

The river flows with crystal clear water, sparkling under the sunlight, and is particularly dazzling with various trees shaded among it.

Just when Xu Qing felt that he was reborn again, he suddenly heard a faint moan and a light cough.

When he turned around, he saw the heroine whose name he didn't know.

The other person's beautiful face was a little pale, and the five fingers placed on her body were slender and cold. Anyone could see that she was in poor condition and extremely weak, as if a gust of wind could blow her down.

But there was a firm will flashing in the other person's deep eyes that could not be ignored.

Perhaps it was because she saw Xu Qing open his eyes and wake up that the heroine breathed a sigh of relief, as if she had let go of a burden.

Then, she felt an irrepressible fatigue coming from deep within her.

Yang Xianning, who had not rested for many days, could no longer resist her tired and weak body, so she closed her eyes and leaned towards Xu Qing.

In line with the principle of no physical contact between men and women, Xu Qing wanted to push the other person away. However, after touching the cold and bloodless tender skin of the heroine, he noticed that something was wrong with the woman in front of him, so he quickly found a flat ground and hugged her over.

The heroine's two thin cherry lips were a little pale. After carefully investigating her situation, Xu Qing discovered that the heroine was at the end of her strength.

Not only was there a high fever on his forehead, but his legs and feet were also covered with bruises and dark purple marks, indicating that he had experienced many bumps and had become as fragile as porcelain.

How could this be?
After Xu Qing calmed the heroine's body, he turned around and began to check the place where the two were, hoping to find some clues there.

Hard work pays off, and he really saw many traces of Emperor Heng's tomb in the river when he woke up. Because the loess rock characteristics of the Qinling Mountains are obvious, some small gravels beside the river were obviously washed here by the flood.

Another reason that made Xu Qing firmly believe that they drifted here due to the river was that he found some torn clothes here, which looked like the belongings of other people in the tomb.

But these people were obviously not as lucky as them, and it was difficult to even find their complete bodies.

"If the Emperor Heng's mausoleum diverts the Luo River and allows it to collapse the tomb, it is possible that the inside will be washed out... I just don't know where we will be washed to along these rivers after a few days."

Xu Qing finished muttering to himself and was almost tripped by something while walking.

He cursed and turned to look down, seeing a broken cylinder.

It’s just that this thing looks a bit weird, like some special silicone-like substance.

But what made Xu Qing concentrate slightly and have a somewhat strange expression was not anything else, but the fact that there was a number 1 engraved in the upper center of this thing.

He remembered that in the ancient times before, Arabic numerals seemed to have not been introduced into the culture?
At the moment when Xu Qing was about to reach out to pick it up for research, the female hero behind him coughed unconsciously.

The other person's sickly voice reminded him of the important matter at hand. He quickly searched around for dry branches, brought them back, and used the simplest method of drilling wood to make fire to keep warm.

Then Xu Qing found a square handkerchief in the heroine's clothes, washed it with water, soaked it in hot water from the fire, and placed it on the heroine's forehead.

I am not a famous doctor, but based on my experience in my previous life, I have prepared some emergency measures.

Moreover, Xu Qing also understood that the two of them urgently needed an open fire to keep warm, and they also had to rely on this thing to drive away unknown wild beasts in the forest, so he gave priority to doing this kind of thing.

There is no way. In ancient times, the forests and wilderness were full of dangers, and one had to be careful and thoughtful in everything.

After making all these preparations, Xu Qing went out before it got dark and tried to find traces of the official road nearby.

If you can find a man-made path, you might run into pedestrians or business travelers.

If they let the other party take the two of them back to the village or nearby town, they could find a doctor to treat the heroine, which would be much better than for them to be savages in the mountains.

But what made Xu Qing a little disappointed was that he didn't see any roads within 500 steps.

There were only dense forests, which forced Xu Qing to put the plan on hold and go find some edible wild vegetables.

After getting used to eating the delicacies from land and sea prepared by the imperial chefs in the past few days, I naturally feel a strong sense of disappointment when looking at these wild vegetables in my hands now.

However, he had obviously been hungry for several days and his stomach was rumbling, so when Xu Qing returned to the river, he did not care about anything else. He used the pebbles to cook some vegetable soup and ate some.

Considering the female warrior, he used a piece of wood that looked half-hardened nearby to break it into a simple wooden bowl that was still usable, and started to feed the female warrior.

The unconscious people were basically relying on their strong will to survive to barely smack their lips.

After getting clean water and these simple foods, the heroine's face turned from gloomy to bright and looked a little better.

After doing all this, Xu Qing put down the stone in his heart and found a relatively spacious place nearby to lie down.

Because Xu Qing was tired from doing the work, he quickly fell asleep.

……

Xu Qing was sleeping soundly. His sleep quality was originally pretty good, but he vaguely felt as if someone was holding a knife to his neck.

Xu Qing woke up slowly and opened his eyes, only to see the heroine sitting there alone not far away, staring at him with a pair of cold eyes.

There is a slight sense of oppression coming from the other party, which can make ordinary people tremble and dare not speak.

Xu Qing had experienced this skill before. It seemed that he had learned the power of coercion by reaching a high level of martial arts.

"What have you become? How can you still have the energy to fight?"

Xu Qing waved his hands impatiently and defeated the unparalleled master with the most ordinary means.

After hearing these words, Yang Xianning was like a deflated ball. The might in her eyes disappeared and she stared away in a daze.

He was extremely weak at the moment, as he had over-expended his energy previously, causing his internal organs to be severely injured by the backlash of his internal energy. He was now in critical condition, barely alive.

Because he kept exerting force in the river and forcibly bringing the other person ashore, his condition became worse.

Even though she has regained her consciousness now, she is unable to activate her internal energy. She can only rely on the pressure from her realm to put pressure on the other party, hoping to force the other party not to act rashly.

She clearly remembered that the man in front of her was an official in the Wucheng Bingmasi, who had brought trouble to young girls in the capital, and must be a lustful man.

But the other party's words just now suddenly woke Yang Xianning up and made her realize their current situation.

They were in a deserted forest, and the other person must have touched me while I was unconscious.

Otherwise, she wouldn't be carried here, and she wouldn't have her own silk scarf on her forehead.

She didn't care about other things, but she felt a little uncomfortable because her embarrassing appearance was seen by the other party.

Fortunately, he did not know his own identity, and did not realize that the woman in front of him was the female general of Huangling Pass who was famous and intimidated the enemy country.

"You wait here."

Xu Qing couldn't guess what this female knight was thinking, nor did he want to guess what a woman was thinking.

As soon as he woke up, he felt his stomach growling, so he went out to look for some food and brought back some edible wild vegetables.

After returning to the place, Xu Qing began to pick and choose on the ground, sorting the "trophies" obtained in the morning into lunch and dinner.

Yang Xianning, who had been watching the show silently, suddenly spoke up and reminded in a voice as thin as a mosquito: "This thing is wrong."

"What's wrong?"

Xu Qing looked at the celery in his hand and glanced at the other person helplessly.

"This is wild celery. It has protein, carbohydrates, carotene and other nutrients. If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense."

Yang Xianning was still weak, but her expression remained unchanged. She continued to respond in a flat and low voice, "Stone Dragon Reed looks similar to celery, but it is highly poisonous. If eaten by mistake, it will cause burning in the mouth, swelling, and difficulty chewing... After about five hours, the pupils will dilate and death will occur."

Xu Qing listened to the woman's detailed account and picked the thing out with some doubt.

"If you want to eat Shilongrui, you need to go through many processes. It is usually used for external application. It has the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying, reducing swelling and dispersing nodules. Give it to me and I will show you."

(End of this chapter)