My wife has a secret

Chapter 50 The same spirit connects branches
"Let the three courts stay and discuss matters together today."

Shen Shuangxu's tone was cold, and the content of his words made Lu Wanhe freeze in place, slightly dazed.

Then she saw Mingzhu, the maid in the main room, move out of the room, and after asking the servants in other side courtyards to leave, she closed the door.

The light in the whole room became dim, with only a few beams of sunlight filtering in through the skylight, adding a mysterious and uneasy atmosphere to the room.

"Yes, I will follow the Madam's orders."

Lu Wanhe noticed the strange atmosphere, bowed and took his seat again.

Qin Shuying chuckled, her face looked like a blossoming flower, beautiful and charming, with an indescribable brightness and charm.

She turned sideways and glanced at Xu Qing beside her, and asked in a tender voice, "Why has my husband been silent and sulking in his chair since I entered the room... Isn't my husband surprised?"

Lu Wanhe didn't know much about what had happened in the past two days, so he chose to keep silent and wait and see.

Xu Qing glanced at Qin Shuying's charming face and asked Shen Shuangxu who was sitting next to the main seat, "What's your idea?"

"Yes."

Shen Shuangxu's voice was cold and clear, and every word she uttered was like pearls falling into a jade plate, crisp and resounding.

"Did you know that the Fourth Academy secretly raised Mandragora and attacked me in the Exiled Immortal Building?"

"know."

Lu Wanhe frowned slightly, and her beautiful face looked serious and solemn.

She had heard Xu Qing talk about the poisoning incident and knew that the poison used by the poisoner was Datura.

Even if the first wife had her own considerations, she should not allow the people from the fourth courtyard to cause chaos under her nose.

"Okay, then let me hear what Da Qi's number one think tank thinks?"

Xu Qing was not in a hurry to get angry.

Because he had inquired about Shen Shuangxu's deeds and reputation, he knew that she was extremely intelligent and meticulous, and was regarded as a remarkable woman by the public.

The fact that Shen was trusted by my aunt and was in charge of all matters in the Xu residence was enough to tell that this woman was capable.

So he wanted to hear what the other party meant.

Shen Shuangxu said calmly, "You have been investigating in Xu's house for several days, you should know that there is someone else who poisoned... The reason why the four courtyards were pushed to the forefront and you found out so easily is that someone wanted to use their identities to take the blame."

Xu Qing also knew that the real culprit behind the scenes was the secretive White Lotus Sect, otherwise he would not have let Qin go at the last minute and handed her over to Suzhou Prefecture for handling.

"One yard owned by a yard."

"It is precisely because of this that you should not blame the Qin family, but should attack me instead."

Xu Qing stared at Shen Shuangxu and found that her fairy-like face was a little blurry in the dim environment, making it difficult to see clearly.

Only his eyes and eyebrows glowed under the illumination of a beam of light, revealing his earnestness inside, like the first dew at dawn.

"After my family informed the palace of this matter, the letter said that the murderer was in the backyard... Do you know why I wrote a letter and sent it back to the palace by a carrier pigeon?"

After being reminded by him, Xu Qing fell into deep thought.

In the letter that Old Madam Xu sent to the palace, she would definitely explain everything that had happened in recent days. After all, this concerned the life of her own grandson.

Why did Shen Shuangxu send a letter back to inform his whereabouts in advance when the identity of the murderer was not yet clear?

unless……

"On the surface, this is just a concise family letter, but it is actually the real reason why I secretly put pressure on the Fourth Academy to take action against you. Because Qin knows that when I come back, I will use Mandala to find out about the Fourth Academy and the Exiled Immortal Building and destroy the business she has worked so hard to build for many years."

"In the past two years, the story of the fantasy dream has been circulating among the rich young men in the capital. Many people are obsessed with it and travel back and forth between Beijing and Suzhou. The government has noticed this, but the people in the Dali Temple have not yet suspected the Exiled Immortal Tower. Qin knows that she has little time left, and the result of involving so many people is bound to be death, so she can only hope to get rid of you before I come back and clean up all the traces of Mandragora."

Shen Shuangxu said calmly, "Qin hesitated for too long, and she didn't make up her mind until the end... On the day you mobilized troops to encircle and suppress the Exiled Immortal Tower, she even arranged fast horses and carriages behind the Exiled Immortal Tower, intending to knock you out and send you somewhere else."

Xu Qing was silent for a moment, not knowing what to say.

He saw Yang Liu's hesitation and concealment, but he didn't expect that Qin Shuying herself had no intention of killing.

After coming to his senses, Xu Qing looked up and asked, "What about you? What do you want to achieve by doing all this?"

"The White Lotus Sect is cautious by nature. Only when the Fourth Academy really takes action will they think that the plan is successful and step into the trap I set."

When Xu Qing thought about the strange things that happened today, it was as if he had suddenly been enlightened, and he understood everything in an instant.

Hai Dafu said that when Shen Shuangxu came back, Xu Qing thought he had remembered the date wrong and did not think about it too deeply.

Now it seems that everything is within this woman's calculations.

"The news that Prefect Xu said you would arrive the day after tomorrow is also false. You know that the White Lotus Sect will go to great lengths to find out your whereabouts, and use the Xu family's letters and Prefect Xu's information to infer the specific time you will return to Suzhou. In fact, you have already taken a shortcut and returned to Suzhou a day earlier, and are waiting in Suzhou Prefecture."

"Your trap was set for the White Lotus Sect. You guessed that they would deal with Qin, so you carefully arranged this trap... Where is the White Lotus Sect?"

"Let him run away."

Shen Shuangxu did not hide the result of today and faced Xu Qing's questions calmly.

"Shen Shuangxu! You are really good!"

Xu Qing stood up suddenly, causing the chair under him to fall sideways to the ground with a loud bang.

"In order to catch a member of the White Lotus Sect, you turned the whole backyard upside down, and even manipulated other people's minds to force them to kill your husband... Do you think you have a plan and everything can go according to your plan?"

The flame of anger surged in Xu Qing's chest, and his manic emotions were vented out uncontrollably.

He couldn't figure out whether he was angry at what she did, or was afraid of this woman whose eyes had no emotion at all.

"As the legal wife of the Xu family, you turned a blind eye to the poisoning of others. You only wanted to use me as bait to lure the enemy out of their hole... You are a complete lunatic, without a trace of humanity."

Shen Shuangxu raised her watery, bright almond-shaped eyes and looked quietly at Xu Qing, with a bright and charming aura within them.

In an instant, Xu Qing felt that he lacked confidence and found it difficult to look the other person in the eye.

"I accept everything my husband said, but what about you... Is the husband in front of me the same person who I married in the wedding ceremony?" Xu Qing was stunned when she heard this and was speechless for a moment.

Shen Shuangxu's sudden question made him at a loss as to how to respond.

Based on his understanding of his previous life, he knew that his previous self before losing his memory would not have noticed so many things, let alone argued with the other party about right and wrong.

Add to that the stolen techniques and poems from the previous life, and anyone would have doubts about their own identity, feeling that they were a completely different person from before they lost their memory.

Just when the atmosphere was at a stalemate, Qin Shuying picked up the fragrant tea that had been brewed long ago on the small table, lifted the lid, took a sip, and swallowed it slowly.

After sipping the fragrant and delicious tea, Qin Shuying closed the lid of the cup and said slowly, "My husband, I also want to ask this question... I used the pollen of Datura to hide it from you for so long, why did it happen to be exposed this time? I want to know whether my husband has really lost his memory or is he pretending to lose his memory?"

Lu Wanhe sat opposite the two of them, nervousness and worry intertwined in her heart, and the jade fingers placed on her knees trembled slightly.

She had asked herself the same question many late nights.

Before this, Xu Qing knew nothing about poetry or songs, and was often kicked out of the school by the teachers and sent back home.

Where should such a person learn the skills of poetry matching so that he can write sentences like "Last night the moon was hidden and the wind blew, and the lonely fishing fires were empty on the river"?

You should know that the poem "Travels to Beichuan" was the masterpiece of the imperial examination winner, Ma Tanhua.

Facing the famous scholars who passed the imperial examinations, Xu Qing was able to come up with poems at will, and with just a few words he made the poems more meaningful and full of connotation... Is this really the groom who couldn't recite poems when he got married?
Besides, how could this poem, which appeared several months ago, appear in the only copy of the ancient book of 300 poems from Tang and Song dynasties?

If you think about it carefully, you will realize that the other party's words are full of loopholes.

"Lu thinks... that my husband is not that kind of person. He may have really forgotten."

Lu Wanhe hesitated for a moment, but decided to stand up and speak for Xu Qing. She would rather believe that Xu Qing had forgotten the past than believe that he had not lost his memory and was deliberately ignoring her in the past.

Shen Shuangxu sighed softly and said slowly, "My husband, although I don't know when you started to hide your incompetence, your previous trick of pretending to be crazy and stupid not only deceived everyone in the Xu family, but also deceived me. If it weren't for the clues revealed before and after losing your memory, perhaps everyone would have been kept in the dark by you."

"what?"

Xu Qing let out a light exclamation, realizing that the development of things seemed to deviate from his own understanding.

Shen Shuangxu thought he was playing dumb, and said seriously: "As the in-laws holding great power, the Xu family has attracted attention from all parties. As the only son of the main family for nine generations, your husband will be the focus of their attention... If you hadn't deliberately created the appearance of a dandy boy, how could you have grown up safely?"

Shen Shuangxu's suspicion was not without evidence. After the Queen Mother came to power, she had entered the Royal Privy Council several times and looked through the case files accumulated in recent years.

Although the previous emperor favored the Xu family, he still learned from the lessons of the previous dynasty during his reign. He commissioned palace agencies and the Supreme Court to secretly investigate the Xu family members in an attempt to eliminate the risk of external relatives interfering in politics.

Because of his dissolute and arrogant lifestyle, Xu Qing was judged by Liu Xian, the then Chief Justice of the Dali Temple, to be idle and unfit for important positions.

"The Queen Mother specially granted us a marriage, hoping to entrust the Shen family in the capital to correct your bad habits. But after the marriage, you still refused to change your ways, and even risked angering the Queen Mother by insisting on taking in a fourth concubine."

A few strands of hair fell softly on Shen Shuangxu's temples, and her soft and fair cheeks showed a light pink and orange hue.

"Now it seems that this is all a deliberate trick you put on, right?"

"I……"

Xu Qing was stunned and speechless, not knowing what to say.

On the surface, Shen Shuangxu's explanation seems reasonable and everything makes sense.

But she was overthinking it! Her previous life was playful and lustful, and she accidentally fell for Qin Shuying's trick.

But who would believe him if he told it now? Was he going to explain that his soul memory came from his previous life, and that he lost his memory after falling into the water, and thus awakened the memory of another world?

In the eyes of the other three women, Xu Qing's attitude became his true reaction after his identity was revealed.

Shen Shuangxu also changed his tone and was no longer so aggressive.

"Before the wedding, the couple had made a promise to be together forever and to be together forever...but wasn't it all fake? You just said that I have no humanity, but have you ever treated us sincerely?"

Xu Qing stood there in a daze. Although he didn't know whether Shen's statement was sophistry, judging from the other party's logical reasoning, he had indeed not fulfilled his responsibilities and obligations as a husband.

But it was too troublesome to explain his own affairs, so Xu Qing simply went with the flow and agreed with Shen Shuangxu's inference.

"It is a time of great trouble. The court is in chaos and the White Lotus Sect is wreaking havoc outside. I, Shen, am temporarily the manager of the Xu family. I am willing but unable to do anything... I hope that my husband and the various courtyards can put aside their previous differences, be honest with each other, and eliminate the threat before making long-term plans. What do you think?"

It has to be said that Shen Shuangxu's proposal made Xu Qing very excited.

The ladies in the Xu family's backyard are all tough guys, especially Shen, who is someone he doesn't want to mess with.

This proposal was more like a temporary covenant, tying everyone to the Xu family and turning them into grasshoppers on a rope.

After all, they are all from the Xu family, and it will not benefit anyone if anything happens to the Xu family.

"I'm OK."

Shen Shuangxu raised his eyes and glanced, a light flashed in his eyes.

"What do the third and fourth hospitals mean?"

Lu Wanhe had never expected that the Third Hospital would be valued by Shen Shuangxu. She bowed slightly and replied, "The Lu family is weak and may not be able to help you much, but we will respond to your requests... Everything is up to my husband and sister."

In comparison, Qin Shuying's tone seemed a little casual.

As if discussing the pattern she would wear tomorrow, she nonchalantly replied, "Qin's life was given by my husband and Sister Shen, so what else do I have to think about? I will do whatever my husband says... Of course, I can also order them to do miscellaneous tasks like warming the bed and cooking."

From the corner of Xu Qing's eye, she could see Qin Shuying biting her lips lightly with a smile on her face.

But he didn't dare to summon this plague god to his yard. After all, he still remembered the erotic dream he had in the fourth courtyard when he stayed overnight. Who knows what this guy is thinking, and whether he will come up with some strange tricks again.

Lu Wanhe blushed and lowered her head.

She was somewhat envious of Qin Shuying's personality and way of speaking. Unlike herself, she had to keep everything she thought in her heart and dared not show it in front of others.

"Since everyone has no objection, this matter is settled."

Shen Shuangxu said calmly: "Next we should turn our attention to the White Lotus Sect."

　The chapters in the past two days have been slightly modified and will be refined.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)