After breaking off the marriage, the Zhuangyuan Lang who was picked up was dressed weakly every day

Chapter 168 The Day of Torment
The sounds inside and outside the house reached Shen Gu Ci's ears, like huge waves hitting his head. For a moment, he felt it was difficult to breathe.

Shen Yanhan also stared at Cai Yu, who had told her about her mother Qi Yun, as if she had heard something from the outside.

Cai Yu had a lot of experience in the northern border, and he understood very well that on some things, it was enough to just say a few words.

After a moment of silence, he said: "Please go out first, I urgently need to give the girl an acupuncture to save her life!"

Among the people, Mu Jin seemed to be the most flustered but was actually the calmest. She stood up first, wiped the tears from her eyes, and said, "Oh, oh, OK! OK! Please save our lady!"

She made a move to walk out, but seeing that Shen Gu Ci and Wen Rong didn't move, she reminded: "Master, Madam, let's go out first, my wife's life is at stake."

Shen Guci's empty eyes finally regained consciousness. He glanced at Shen Yanhan who was "dying" on the bed, turned back and bowed to Cai Yu solemnly, saying, "Doctor Cai must save my little girl's life."

"I will do my best."

The courtyard was brightly lit, and the lanterns under the eaves were swaying in the wind.

Shen Guci stood under the eaves, quietly looking at the female envoy who was forced to kneel on the ground by the people around her.Wen Rong stood beside him, looking at the shivering Xia He and the menacing servants in the yard, she couldn't help but feel something strange.

She really didn't expect this to be revealed so quickly.

Especially when he saw Shen Guci's closest human being, Jiang Zheng, holding a bowl in his hand.

And in that bowl, it was obviously medicine residue.

Wen Rong's heart was lifted up.

When Qing Yuan, her personal maid, saw what Jiang Zheng was holding, her expression changed: If these medicine dregs were from that medicine, how could they be here?She had obviously taken it out and buried it outside the house.

Qing Yuan felt like there was a drum beating in her heart, but in front of Shen Gu Ci, she did not dare to exchange glances with Wen Rong. She could only pretend to stand calmly beside Wen Rong, watching what was happening on Jiang Zheng's side, and waiting to see what happened.

Jiang Zheng has become the focus of everyone's attention.

As early as when Shen Guci asked him to send someone to follow the relatives of Qingyuan, the maid in the mansion, he had noticed that his husband was wary of certain people in the mansion. Now that he had found out important things, he didn't care about anyone's face. Reporting loudly in front of everyone: "Master Lang, there is something wrong with the medicine that this female servant boiled. Just now Wu San saw with his own eyes that she buried the medicine residue under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree."

Shen Guci stared at Xia He and uttered a few words: "Recruit from the truth."

He is a scholar, always elegant, and rarely loses his temper. Now his face is as dark as ink and his aura is terrifying. Xia He is timid. After Shen Guci finished speaking, Jiang Zheng stared at her and repeated Shen Guci's words loudly. , she was so frightened that her voice trembled: "I, I don't know... I, I just made Huanglian soup."

Jiang Zheng laughed and said: "How dare you lie to Master Lang! Is this medicine dregs Huang Lian?"

Xia He: "This, this..."

She was shaking like chaff, and she didn't say anything else at all. When she was boiling medicine, she was just boiling yellow lotus, and the medicine dregs were poured under the osmanthus tree according to the custom in the house. Who knew that such medicine dregs would appear now? .

Xia He burst into tears: "I really only fried Huanglian and nothing else! Master, Madam, you believe me!"

After saying that, to show her loyalty, she vigorously broke away from the hands of the people around her that were holding her shoulders, and kowtowed to Shen Guyi and Wen Rong.

"I really haven't cooked any other medicine!"

"Master is aware of it!"

"As a lesson to heaven and earth, I did not harm the girl!"

"Madam, madam, and the young man all drink this kind of medicinal soup!"

In the silent night, there was no wind or moon, and the surroundings were completely silent. There was only the cry of the female servant Xia He, and the muffled sound of her forehead hitting the stone slab in the courtyard, which made people feel frightened.

Wen Rong looked at Shen Guci in embarrassment.

Shen Guci had a sullen face, his eyes always falling on the female envoy who was kowtowing in the courtyard.

This female envoy came to the mansion after Shen Yanhan came back from Qingshui Village. Wen Rong said at that time that Shen Yanhan was the eldest daughter of the mansion after all, and it was too shabby to have only one female envoy in front of and behind him, so he did not object to the head of the family. Mother's kindness.But now it seems that this decision may be wrong.

Everyone else in the courtyard was silent. After Shen Guci was silent for a long time, he looked at the drops of blood on the ground and raised his hand.

Jiang Zheng stepped forward and stopped Xia He's movements.

"Shut up!"

Xia He could no longer move and heard Shen Guci's deep voice: "Who else is in your family?"

Such a question was obviously unexpected. Not only Xia He was confused by the question, but Wen Rong also tightened her fingers, trying to figure out the meaning of Shen Guci's question.

But fortunately, she has always been cautious. Even if she helped Xia He's young brother find a good school or found a job for her incompetent brother, it was not directly, but with the help of Xia He and other female envoys who cried about their miserable experiences. , on the pretext that the mistress cares about her servants and is kind-hearted to help her.

Wen Rong spoke up: "The middleman who introduced her to me said that she has parents, elder brothers, younger brothers and younger sisters at home. I hired her because she was hard-working and willing to endure hardships. "

When Shen Guci heard the sound, he looked at Wen Rong and asked her, "What do the people in her family do?"

Meeting Shen Guci's calm and distant eyes, Wen Rong's already impetuous and anxious heart lifted even higher.She really couldn't understand Shen Guci's emotions now. It was clear that he was still the same person and his eyes were the same, but they were like an abyss.

How deeply she had fallen for these eyes, now she was so frightened by them.

What she was afraid of from beginning to end was repeating Qi Yun's mistakes.

Seeing that she was silent, Shen Guci asked again with a hidden edge: "Madam, you don't know?"

When she first gave Xia He benefits, she did not avoid certain people because she acted openly and honestly. Now among the people around her and Shen Guci, Wen Rong felt that lying might not be a good choice, so she picked two Xia He The relatives said a few words to Shen Guci.

After hearing this, Shen Guci said quietly: "You know her family very well."

Wen Rong still had a decent and soft look on her face. She looked at Shen Gu and said, "Yes, our family helped her when she was in trouble at home. She cried really pitifully at that time..."

Shen Guci interrupted her suddenly: "Did you establish a written evidence?"

Wen Rong was shocked and shook her head, "There is no written evidence. Why do you ask?"

Shen Guci didn't reply. He glanced at Wen Rong lightly and looked away.

In the past, he was busy with the official affairs of the Imperial College, and his mind was never on the back house. When Qi Yun was alive, Qi Yun was in charge of the family business, and after that, Wen Rong was in charge.

But he didn't pay attention to this, it's not that he was so stupid that he couldn't see the way out.

Even a warm-hearted woman like Qi Yun is not enthusiastic enough to help a servant's family for free. When borrowing money from abroad, she always asks the servant to write an IOU. One time, he laughed at her for what she did when she was short of three melons and two dates. Yun said: "The most important thing is to solve their practical problems. What they fear most is the enmity between rice and rice, but don't let the servants think that the help of the master is deserved. If you set the rules first, you will avoid others." It breeds evil intentions and they will be loyal to whoever gives them more money. This kind of culture is unacceptable." Shen Guci chewed on the word "loyalty" and went through some of the information Jiang Zheng inquired about in his mind.For example, Wen Rong's personal maid Qing Yuan suddenly went to the "Sui'antang" pharmacy a few days ago; Qing Yuan's relatives went to Lijiazhai to deliver letters...

The ideas in his mind gradually became clear.

When Wen Rong saw that Shen Guci was ignoring her in public, she became even more impetuous. Just when she was about to ask another question, Doctor Li, whom Shen Guci sent for, arrived.

Suddenly seeing people all over the yard, Doctor Li felt that the situation was serious and couldn't help but stop in shock.

The person who invited him urged him: "Doctor Li, please go this way."

Arriving in front of Shen Guyi, Doctor Li asked, "I'll go in first to see the eldest lady?"

Shen Guyi waved Jiang Zheng forward, "Doctor Li, please take a look at what kind of medicine is in this medicine residue first."

Doctor Li checked them one by one and answered truthfully: "Panax notoginseng, Angelica dahurica, safflower..."

After hearing what Dr. Li had said, Shen Guci asked briefly and comprehensively: "The function of these medicines is to induce abortion?"

Doctor Li understood now and asked his Shen family members to tell them about the abdominal pain of their eldest daughter and what kind of abdominal pain it was. He nodded and replied, "Exactly."

The guesses were confirmed one by one. After Shen Gu asked Doctor Li away, he sternly said: "Take Qingyuan to the woodshed!"

"Yes!" said several tall and strong men. Someone stepped forward and grabbed Qingyuan's arm and dragged her towards the woodshed.

A catastrophe suddenly struck. Qingyuan was so frightened that his face suddenly changed and he begged for mercy loudly: "Master, I——"

She only started to speak, and her mouth was covered by the person next to her.

At this time, Wen Rong couldn't sit still anymore and tried to stop him: "Master, what are you doing? Can't you say what you have to say? It is against the law to lynch a servant."

Shen Guci looked at her and sneered, "Breaking the law? If I find out what she did, I will personally send her to the government."

Before Wen Rong could speak again, he looked straight at her and lowered his voice to save his face, but his tone was particularly stern: "Go back to your room first."

Having just imprisoned her personal maid, and now asking her to return to her room, Wen Rong looked in disbelief and stayed where she was for a moment.

Shen Guyi completely lost his patience and no longer had any scruples. He said in a stern voice: "Come here, please go back, madam!"

"Yes!" Another strong man stepped forward and grabbed Wen Rong's shoulders.

Wen Rong tried to break free but couldn't. Only then did she realize that those who took action today were the manpower Shen Guyi had recruited into the mansion in recent months.

It turned out that he had been guarding against her for a long time.

——Such thoughts came to mind, and Wen Rong's beauty suddenly turned pale. She looked at Shen Guci in disbelief and said, "Official, I am your wife, are you going to put me under house arrest?"

Shen Guci looked at her indifferently and said word by word: "The wife I am marrying is Qi Yun. Why did she disappear with my youngest son, Wen Rong, do you know?"

Wen Rong felt like five thunderbolts struck her head, and her eyes felt dizzy.

*
Shen Guci had been guarding Shen Yanhan's door, watching Hibiscus and several little female envoys coming in and out. They were carrying wooden basins in their hands. When they went in, there was clear and bright water, and when they came out, it was shocking. of blood.

Of course, Shen Guci didn't know that this was the chicken blood that Shen Yanhan and Mu Jin had secretly hidden long ago. Seeing the blood, he felt that this was the day he felt most regretful in his life.

Judging from the various signs detected by his people, he understood that he must have seriously misunderstood the relationship between Qi Yun and Liu Qi. He already regretted this, but he never thought that Qi Yun had a miscarriage. Even though he died, someone was still responsible for it.

The one who is suffering in the house is his and Qi Yun's only heir. His wife Qi Yun must have been struggling to get through the gate of hell just like Jiao Jiao is today.

And she didn't break through...

Shen Guci closed his eyes, and no matter how deeply he took a deep breath, he couldn't hold back the lump in his throat.

When the morning light faded, Cai Yu, who had been sitting and chatting quietly with Shen Yanhan for a long time, came out of the house and met Shen Guci, who had a gloomy look on his face.

Shen Guci's eyes turned red and he immediately asked, "How is my little girl?"

Cai Yu said briefly: "No worries."

Shen Guci finally breathed a sigh of relief and whispered: "Thank you."

Cai Yu didn't plan to stay in the Shen Mansion for a long time. He had a premonition of what Shen Guci said, so he said: "Ms. Shen has been pregnant now. Her body and bones are very weak and she needs more nourishment. She just woke up and told me, let me Shen Siye will just control a bunch of people first, and when she can move around, she wants to ask some questions in person."

This meant that he should not deal with people behind her back.

When Shen Guci thought about the fact that Liu Qi, a key figure in Qi Yun's matter, had never shown up, he said, "Can I ask Dr. Cai to prescribe some medicine to replenish the body so that my little girl can have a good life?"

Cai Yu looked at Shen Guci's bloodshot eyes and couldn't help but think of another husband who had a close relationship with Shen Yanhan.

That husband, his own mother also looked at him with a pair of despairing eyes...

Today's day is a torment for Shen Guci, but for Cai Yu, it's not bad either.

Turning around, Cai Yu looked at his hands, his heart heavy.

*
From this day on, Shen Yanhan began to pretend to take care of himself.

At first, such days were peaceful, but as time went by, she, who had always loved liveliness, couldn't help but feel bored and was counting the days.

Summer insects chirped outside the window, which further increased her irritability. Shen Yanhan threw a fruit out the window and snorted, "You're the only one having fun!"

At this time, Mu Jin walked in with a thick stack of letters in his hand and said with a smile: "Madam, the number one scholar has written again."

The three words "Number One Scholar" suddenly stirred up some of Shen Yanhan's suppressed emotions and lit up her absent-minded eyes.

She thought of the letter he wrote to her before he left, which said that he would write to her more about his experiences abroad.

At that time, she sneered. Who wanted to know what he had done? But as the days passed, Qin Yuehuai's writing style was indeed good. Every time he read it, she felt like she was immersed in the scene, as if she had followed him. Like the Huaihe River, it is quite interesting to see the things written in his heart.

Shen Yanhan felt in his heart that these letters were a good pastime, but on his face he said with disdain: "Just throw them away."

(End of this chapter)