After being forced to leave the marriage, I became the wife of a top scholar.

Chapter 268 This is the truth you wanted

Lin Yunche stood there staring straight at Lin Sishu, showing no intention of avoiding her gaze.

After her initial shock, Lin Sishu quickly regained her composure, gently turning her head away as if nothing had happened.

However, the observant Princess Yunni noticed something amiss. She slightly curled the corners of her lips and spoke to the steward who was now filled with trepidation.

"Zhu Chuan, take both of them into the princess's residence."

The official in charge immediately bowed and agreed. After the princess and her husband's carriage entered the princess's residence, he turned to Lin Yunche and the other person and said.

"You two lads are really lucky today, to have received the princess's decree."

Lin Yunche and Pan Hu smiled and agreed. Pan Hu even flattered him, saying, "Steward, it's not that we're lucky, it's all thanks to you."

“If the princess hadn’t trusted you, Steward, how could she have agreed to let the two of us enter the manor?”

Pan Hu's words delighted Steward Zhu, who felt more favorably disposed towards Pan Hu and Lin Yunche. As a result, he stopped making things difficult for them and instead instructed his subordinates to take better care of them.

"Manager Zhu is just a newly arrived farmhand, why are we so concerned about him?"

Manager Zhu glared at his subordinate, "What do you know! Didn't you notice anything different about these two lads?"

"Different?" The subordinate thought for a moment but didn't notice anything.

Manager Zhu raised his hand and slapped his subordinate, "You! You! You're utterly hopeless!"

Manager Zhu didn't intend to explain the reasons, only saying, "Just watch! Whether I can become the head manager or not depends on these two lads."

On the other side, Lin Yunche and Pan Hu received basic necessities from the steward.

The other farmhands looked down on Lin Yunche, who had a rather delicate appearance, and some even openly started gossiping about him.

"Look! Look! I never thought that a pretty boy could appear in our long-term laborers' team."

"Hey? Don't you dare call him a gigolo. Have you forgotten? Isn't our current son-in-law the biggest gigolo?"

Several farmhands burst into laughter upon hearing this. Lin Yunche looked at the group of people in front of him with some surprise, but the other people from the princess's residence seemed to have gotten used to it and did not find anything wrong with it.

Pan Hu couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to stand up and argue with these people.

Lin Yunche stopped him, saying, "Forget it, it's alright. Let's not cause any trouble."

Pan Hu had no choice but to sit down. The two of them stopped listening to the farmhands' sarcastic remarks outside and started making their beds.

Just as their beds were made, Steward Zhu came in.

"Yun Ting, the princess requests your presence!"

Lin Yunche didn't expect to see the princess so soon, which meant he would soon see his uncle. Lin Yunche suddenly felt a little nervous, which appeared to outsiders as absent-mindedness.

Manager Zhu thought Lin Yunche was frightened.

After all, meeting a princess is indeed a huge pressure for ordinary people.

"Don't be afraid, kid. Our Princess Yunni has always had a good temper and won't do anything to you."

"Get up and come with me now!"

Pan Hu wanted to go too, but Steward Zhu scolded him angrily, "Do you think you can just see the princess whenever you want?"

"Stay here and do your job! If you ever have the honor of meeting again, it's not too late."

Pan Hu looked at Lin Yunche, who nodded slightly. Pan Hu stopped insisting and continued packing his things.

Lin Yunche followed Steward Zhu to the back garden of the princess's residence, but the princess was not there when they arrived.

Manager Zhu asked him to wait there for a moment and then withdrew.

Lin Yunche waited for a long time but did not see the princess. Bored, he began to look around the not-so-large garden.

Although it was a princess's residence, there weren't many varieties of flowers, only one or two kinds of peonies. However, these peonies seemed to be slightly different from the ones he had seen before, so Lin Yunche couldn't help but take a few steps closer.

"It's not about the quantity of flowers, but their quality. These peonies are all rare varieties."

"How's it going? Does it look good?"

Lin Yunche looked up and saw Lin Sishu walking gracefully towards him with an unfathomable smile on her face.

Lin Yunche was somewhat excited at this moment. You see, ever since he and Yang Cong confirmed that Princess Yunni's husband was her uncle, he had been looking for an opportunity to enter the princess's residence.

This time, Yang Cong had to pull strings to get the two long-term worker positions.

Unexpectedly, he had the opportunity to meet Lin Sishu alone as soon as he entered the princess's residence.

"Beautiful!" Lin Yunche said, unable to hide his excitement.

Lin Sishu smiled at Lin Yunche, then secretly pulled him aside and whispered, "Che'er, this isn't the place to talk. Come with me."

Lin Yunche nodded, and then the two of them quietly entered an abandoned garden, one after the other.

Lin Sishu opened a passage in the garden leading to an underground secret chamber.

Lin Yunche followed Lin Sishu into the secret passage and arrived at an underground chamber.

"Uncle, where is this place?" Lin Yunche quickly looked around the layout of the secret room. It was clear that few people came to this secret room, as it was covered with a thick layer of dust.

Apart from a few tattered books, it was practically empty.

"This is a forbidden area of ​​the princess's residence. No one knows about it except for me and the princess."

"It's a place to talk."

As she spoke, Lin Sishu took out a candle from her sleeve, and soon the underground chamber was lit.

Lin Yunche and Lin Sishu were finally able to see each other clearly.

"Che'er!" Lin Sishu was clearly very excited at this moment; it had been twenty years!

He had been in the Northern Dynasty for twenty years, and he never expected to see the Lin family again.

Lin Yunche was equally excited, "Uncle! You're really not dead!"

"Great, you're still alive."

After exchanging pleasantries, both men couldn't help but tear up. "Are the family members all well?" Lin Sishu asked softly, her hands resting on her lap trembling slightly.

Lin Yunche knew the fear in Lin Sishu's heart, "Okay! Everything is fine!"

"Uncle, what exactly happened back then?"

"Why did Prince Huai suddenly accuse our Lin family of secretly colluding with the Northern Dynasty, and why are you now the prince consort in the princess's residence?"

Lin Sishu looked at Lin Yunche and sighed heavily.

"Che'er! I... have something I can't say." Lin Sishu didn't dare to look at Lin Yunche, and stood up with her back to him.

Lin Yunche pressed, "Uncle, what exactly is the unspeakable secret?"

"It's been over twenty years! Although the Lin family is now in decline, the Emperor has at least given us a chance."

"No matter what the unspeakable difficulties are, we can plan them out slowly."

Lin Sishu gently shook her head, "Che'er, you're too naive."

"I'm already on the big ship of the Northern Dynasty, there's no going back."

"Why can't we go back, Uncle? You can go back as long as you want!" Lin Yunche said excitedly.

Lin Sishu smiled and slowly unbuttoned her shirt, revealing a series of extremely humiliating words to Lin Yunche.

"Bitch slave!"

"brute!"

"Shangguo pigs!"

His entire chest was covered in marks of insults and torture, without a single gap.

"Uncle, who did this?!"

"Who did this!" Lin Yunche roared, his body trembling with rage.

Lin Sishu pulled her shirt shut and said with a pained expression, "Who?"

"Che'er, who do you think it is?"

"Is it the Northern Dynasty's army, Princess Yunni, or those brutes from the Northern Dynasty?"

"Uncle, no matter who it is, I will avenge you."

Lin Sishu chuckled and shook her head, a hint of mockery appearing at the corner of her mouth, "Che'er!"

“The wounds on my body were not inflicted by anyone else; they were personally inscribed by our good king.”

"You ask me why I betrayed the Shang Kingdom, and why I betrayed the Lin family?"

"Che'er, I have no choice! Our good emperor has already made the choice for me and for the Lin family."

"Hahaha! Otherwise, why do you think the Emperor would still give the Lin family, who are traitors, a chance?"

"Why!"

"Because the emperor was involved from beginning to end! He wanted to weaken the Lin family's power, and he also wanted to use the Lin family at a crucial moment, that's all."

Lin Yunche couldn't believe that this was the final result.

Lin Sishu didn't want to say anything more to Lin Yunche. "Che'er, now that you understand these things, you should go back as soon as possible!"

This is not a place for you.

Afterwards, Lin Sishu took Lin Yunche back to the back garden. When Steward Zhu came to find him, Lin Yunche was still in shock.

Manager Zhu waved his hand in front of Lin Yunche.

"What are you thinking! It's just meeting the princess once, and you're already this scared?"

"What a spineless person."

Lin Yunche came to his senses, lowered his head and admitted his mistake, "Manager, you are right, I'm sorry you had to see this."

"Alright! Stop standing there like an idiot and come back with me!"

Lin Yunche followed Steward Zhu back to the farmhands' quarters.

Lin Sishu knelt on the ground, waiting for Princess Yunni to give her instructions.

Princess Yunni felt a sense of satisfaction seeing Lin Sishu's current state of pain.

She had thought she would never find any more fun with Lin Sishu, but now she had been given the chance again. That silly boy from the Lin family had actually come to her door.

"Si Shu, I can't believe that even after more than 20 years, your Lin family still hasn't given up on you."

"They risked their lives to save you from a great distance."

"Don't even mention you, even I'm almost moved to tears."

As she spoke, Princess Yunni pretended to wipe the corners of her eyes a few times with a handkerchief.

Lin Sishu knelt on the ground, seemingly used to Princess Yunni like this, and remained silent.

Princess Yunni was not angry. Instead, she smiled slightly and forcefully tore open Lin Sishu's clothes, revealing the insulting words nakedly in front of her.

She curled up her handkerchief and gently wiped Lin Sishu's body, erasing the words in the process.

As she wiped him clean, she said, "My lord! You've really suffered today."

"But this is my father's will, and I have no choice but to obey!"

"But don't worry, after we conquer the Shang Kingdom's cities this time, I'll go and beg my father to spare your nephew's life, okay?"

Lin Sishu nodded expressionlessly and said, "I will follow the princess's arrangements."

Princess Yunni thought of Lin Yunche's handsome face and happily smiled, "Okay! Okay! I will definitely arrange everything perfectly."

(End of this chapter)