Rebirth with my ex-husband

Chapter 47

At about five o'clock in the morning, the charcoal in the stove had been extinguished for some time, and the house was gradually getting colder.

At this moment, the person lying on the table seemed to feel the biting chill and woke up from his light sleep.

He half-closed his eyes, sat up straight, and rubbed his aching forehead with his bony hands. It took him only a brief moment to realize where he was.

He put his hand down and looked towards the bed.

It was still dark, the only light in the house coming from the dim light of lanterns under the eaves outside.

He stood up and walked towards the bed without straightening the wrinkles on his robe.

The footsteps were slow and silent.

He stepped outside the bed, opened a corner of the curtain, and looked at the person who was still sleeping.

Because it was dark in the room, only vague outlines could be seen.

After standing there for a while, without waking up the sleeping person, he lowered the curtain and turned to leave.

As the sky was getting light, there was a knock on the door. The moment Su Yun regained consciousness from her sleep, she suddenly remembered that she had to chase Gu Shixing away. She suddenly opened her eyes and woke up from her dream.

Not afraid of the cold, he reached out from the quilt and pushed aside the curtain. He quickly glanced around the room, and when he didn't see Gu Shixing, he breathed a sigh of relief.

He retracted his hand into the quilt and said to the door, "Come in."

When the voice came out, it was a little hoarse, probably because he cried too much last night and his throat hasn't recovered yet. I don't know if the swelling in his eyes has gone down.

Chu Yi was stunned for a moment when he heard a slightly hoarse voice coming from the room, but after confirming that it was the master's voice, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and then pushed the door open.

After closing the door, he asked quietly, "What time did the girl come back last night?"

Although Su Yun was startled awake, she relaxed at this moment, and sleepiness came over her again. Her voice was a little hoarse and nasal: "I came back in the middle of the night. Maybe I caught a cold. My throat is a little uncomfortable."

My nose is a little stuffy, but other than that, I don't feel any discomfort.

Chu Yi walked to the stove and cleaned the charcoal ash into a small basin, saying, "Then I will make the Five Gods Soup for the young lady to drive away the cold."

Su Yun lightly said "hmm" and ordered: "I will not accompany my young lady for breakfast, you go and tell her..." She paused and said: "Give me the mirror."

Chu Yi put down the small basin, wiped his hands with a towel, and then handed the bronze mirror to his master.

The curtain was opened, and Chu Yi saw his master clearly in the early morning light. He was surprised and said, "Why are your eyes swollen?"

Su Yun looked in the mirror. Although her eyes were red and swollen, they were much better than she thought. She estimated that after applying a hot towel and getting some sleep, they would be fine.

"I think I drank too much water yesterday. Bring some hot water in for me to apply to my eyes."

Chu Yi lit the stove, moved it outside the bed, then went out to bring back hot water and heated the towel.

While applying the handkerchief, Su Yun couldn't help but think of Gu Shixing. She didn't know when he left.

Although she was annoyed with him, she didn't want him to have any accidents. She just hoped that he could return home safely.

*

When Mo Tai and several secret guards met the prince, he was wearing a hood and they did not notice anything wrong.

When we hurried back to the house at the foot of the mountain, it was already dawn.

It snowed for most of the night, and when it stopped for a while during the day, all I could see was a blanket of snow.

Gu Shixing returned to the room and asked someone to prepare hot water.

Soak in the bathtub filled with hot water, with your arms resting flat on the edge of the tub. Your rising and falling arms are covered with a layer of water droplets, which flow back into the tub along the rising and falling water.

His head was still dizzy and accompanied by a dull pain. He frowned and closed his eyes for a while. He seemed to remember something, opened his eyes, and raised his hand to touch the teeth marks on his neck.

When I rub it with my fingertips, I can still feel the uneven touch of the teeth marks, and a slight pain.

She bites really hard.

Even though he was bitten hard, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly and he was in a very happy mood.

After soaking for a while, he stood up in the bathtub.

He put on his clothes and came out of the bathroom to the outer room.

Mo Tai, who was waiting outside, hurried forward with a moon-white cloak and walked behind the prince. When he put the cloak on the prince, his eyes flashed and he seemed to see a circle of purple teeth marks on his own prince's neck, and his movements suddenly paused.

He looked at the teeth mark in astonishment, then quickly glanced at the prince's serious profile, and then looked at the teeth mark again.

After checking again and again and making sure that he was not seeing things, Mo Tai's current mood was more than just "shocked".

When Mo Tai bought picture books for his son before, he would select them carefully. During this period of time, he had also made rapid progress from a green and immature young man to a knowledgeable young man.

Now that I have more knowledge, looking at the teeth marks on the prince's neck, I suddenly have a lot of thoughts.

Our prince used to be such a gentleman that he had never even read comic books. But now, why is he doing such a ridiculous thing before even getting married?

How could the serious prince suddenly become so unserious?

While Mo Tai was distracted, Gu Shixing tied his cloak on his own and said, "Go prepare a fur coat and see if there is any blood stasis-removing medicine."

Although he was reluctant to leave the circle of teeth marks on his neck, because the teeth marks were on the upper half of his neck, even the highest collar could not cover them. If the scar was not removed as soon as possible, it might be indecent for him to attend court.

Even if I return to the Marquis' Mansion, unnecessary speculation will arise.

Mo Tai came back to his senses and responded with a complicated expression, "Yes."

Seeing that the prince had dressed, Mo Tai asked, "Sir, do you want to take a rest before you go to interrogate Zhao Yong?"

When Zhao Yong was mentioned, his eyes, which had originally lost some of their indifference, were covered with a thin layer of cold frost.

He said indifferently, "No need, no need to interrogate him, just torture him and wait for him to confess."

Ordinary interrogation is just a waste of time.

Two days later, snow was falling in the courtyard. Gu Shixing stood in the corridor and looked in the direction of Zhuangzi.

At this time, Mo Tai hurried over and saw his own prince's "love-sick" look. He clicked his tongue in his heart and thought to himself that if he met a girl he liked, he would never be like the prince, missing her every day but unable to see her.

Mo Tai stopped beside the prince with a confession in his hand and said, "Prince, Zhao Yong has confessed. This is his confession."

Gu Shixing retracted his gaze, turned slightly, and took the confession handed over by Motai. With a flick of his long fingers, he opened the three stacks of paper and his eyes fell on the confession.

Mo Tai said: "Zhao Yong may have joined that man halfway through, so he is not very loyal. He was tortured for the past two days and confessed because he couldn't stand it."

Gu Shixing folded up the letter and said "hmm", then said: "Come with me up the mountain."

The prince is still in Pu'an Temple and will return to the palace tomorrow. Now that Zhao Yong has confessed, he should tell the prince.

The master and servant arrived at Pu'an Temple about half a minute later.

When the prince heard that Prince Gu was coming to see him, he had him invited into the meditation room.

The eunuch brought hot tea, poured it into the cup, and steam rose up.

The tea was poured, the prince waved his hand, and the eunuch understood and left the meditation room and closed the door.

"Confessed?" asked the prince.

Gu Shixing nodded: "He confessed in half an hour."

"What about the confession?"

Gu Shixing was silent for a few breaths before he said, "Forgive me for not being able to give the confession to Your Highness."

The prince was surprised and asked, "Why not?"

"This matter involves the reputation of a girl, so it is inconvenient to say it clearly, but it is certain that the purpose is to alienate the friendship between the Zhongyi Marquis's Mansion and the Su family, and then ruin the possibility of my marriage with a noble family."

Although the prince was a smart man, after hearing what he said, he had some vague ideas, but it seemed that he had no clues at all.

"Then cousin, please tell me who ordered this?"

Gu Shixing took out the confession and folded it four times with the contents outside, leaving only a quarter of the confession visible.

Prince:......

He looked up speechlessly at his cousin in front of him who had a serious expression.

"Why don't you show me everything, and I won't tell anyone."

Gu Shixing shook his head slightly: "I promised the girl, I can't break my promise unless she agrees."

I have already broken my promise once, and if I break it again there will be no turning back.

The prince knew that his cousin was a man of his word, so he didn't say anything else.

He lowered his eyes to look at the quarter of the confession, and when he saw the name of the instigator, his face changed slightly.

Unexpected, yet expected.

He retracted his gaze and looked at his cousin across from him, his tone becoming more intriguing: "So it's my eldest brother."

He paused for a moment, then continued, "But there's nothing surprising about this. My eldest brother always likes to pretend to be a good person while doing dirty things, and he always tries to clear himself of all wrongdoings."

Gu Shixing put away the confession and said, "This matter cannot be made public, but we must know who plotted against me so that we can repay them later."

The prince smiled and said, "If you need help, please come to me."

Gu Shixing bowed slightly and said, "Thank you, Your Highness."

The prince waved his hand and said, "Cousin, there is no need to be polite. I am just helping you. Helping you is also helping myself."

Gu Shixing sat down, drank tea with the prince for a while, and talked about other things.

After a while, the prince narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the fur coat that covered Gu Shixing's entire neck, and asked curiously, "It seems that I have never seen my cousin wearing a fur coat before. I find it novel when I see it today."

Gu Shixing's expression was calm and serious as usual: "I caught a cold the past two days, so I wrapped myself in a fur coat to keep warm."

The teeth marks had not yet disappeared and the broken skin was very obvious. It took two days before women's makeup could be used to cover it up.

*

Jindu.

A eunuch walked quickly from outside the palace into the eldest prince's palace and headed towards the study where the eldest prince was.

He stopped outside the study and knocked on the door lightly. After someone said "come in", the eunuch opened the door, walked into the study, and then closed the door.

In the study, there was a man who was about 27 or 28 years old practicing calligraphy. He had a gentle and handsome face, and was wearing a snow-blue brocade robe with wide sleeves.

The man was the eldest prince, Li Ji.

The eunuch bowed his head and said respectfully, "Your Highness, I didn't find Zhao Yong, so I secretly checked and found that he went to Pu'an Temple with the Crown Prince's guards."

The man did not reply to the eunuch, but finished writing the last word on the rice paper.

Only after he finished writing did he put the pen on the pen rest, glanced at the words on the rice paper, then retracted his gaze and looked at the eunuch.

"Chosen as the prince's guard?"

The eunuch nodded and said, "Yes."

The eldest prince narrowed his eyes in thought, and the eunuch beside him said worriedly: "The woman who was previously arranged to work as a kitchen helper in the Su Mansion was arrested and taken to the Dali Temple for stealing. Now Zhao Yong has been selected as the prince's guard and is accompanying him to the Pu'an Temple. Isn't this too much of a coincidence?"

At this point, the eunuch speculated, "Your Highness, has the prince of the Zhongyi Marquis's Mansion noticed something?"

The eldest prince chuckled: "If he knows, then he knows. Even if he knows that his affair with the concubine of the Su family was arranged by me, what can he do?"

The eunuch worriedly said, "If that prince Gu goes to His Majesty to complain, Your Highness might be implicated."

Li Ji lifted his robe and sat down behind the table, his expression calm: "He won't do that. He is just like his father, and they both claim to be upright gentlemen. If he tells it out, it will ruin the life of the concubine of the Su family."

Then he curled his lips and said with a smile, "The descendants of the Zhongyi Marquis's Mansion can only marry wives and cannot take concubines. If he had said it, would he have married her or not? Now that almost half a year has passed, he would have married her earlier. If he had said it but didn't marry her, there would still be some rifts between him and the Su Mansion, and the reputation of the Zhongyi Marquis's Mansion would not be so good."

At the end, Li Ji glanced at the words "clear" and "turbid" on the bamboo slips and said meaningfully: "Who cares if the water is turbid or dirty? But if the water is clear and dirty, it is hard to make it clear again."

The eunuch nodded as if he understood what he said, "Some noble families have some secrets, and even if this matter is spread, it will only be a joke. But the Zhongyi Marquis's Mansion has never had any stains, but if there is even a little stain, people will completely change their views."

It's just like the principle that a bad guy kills a hundred people and saves one person, while a good guy saves a hundred people and kills one person.

"Even if I told him, Zhao Yong doesn't even have my token in his hand. If I don't acknowledge him, what can he do to me?"

"Your Highness is absolutely right," the eunuch complimented.

Li Ji took a sip of tea, and seemed to remember something, and asked leisurely, "Can you ask me to find out when the prince of Huai entered Jindu?"

The eunuch replied: "Your Highness, we have already found out that Prince Dinghuai will arrive in Jindu around mid-December."

Li Ji nodded, a calculating smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.

*

Su Yun stayed in the manor for a few days and then returned to the Su Mansion.

She went to pay her respects to her mistress, and when she came out, she met her brother outside the courtyard gate.

Su Yun felt extremely ashamed, but after spending two days at Zhuangzi to calm down, he could at least appear normal when he saw his brother again.

Su Changqing didn't know that he was still helping his friend to conceal the truth, but his friend confessed everything, so now everything is still the same.

After Su Yun paid her respects, Su Changqing asked, "How is Miss Liu Er's health?"

Although Su Yun still managed to deal with it normally, she was still a little uncomfortable in her heart. She only said, "Thank you for your concern, brother. My health is getting better and better." At this point, Su Yun added, "I'm a little tired on the way, so I'll go back and rest first."

Su Changqing did not doubt him and nodded: "Go back and have a good rest. If the charcoal is not enough, let the servants go to my yard to get it."

"Thank you, brother." Su Yun bowed her head, then turned and left.

After walking a few steps, he breathed a sigh of relief.

After returning to the yard, Su Yun asked Chu Yi to take out the various supplements and exquisite silks that he had obtained from his eldest brother.

Chu Yi brought the things and placed them on the table in the room, and asked curiously, "Why do you suddenly want to find these things, girl?"

Su Yun: "I just want to take a look, go and do your thing."

Chu Yi left the room.

Su Yun carefully looked at everything on the table, all of which were very expensive.

He sighed and said to himself, "Why am I so stupid?"

Previously, when her brother was getting married, he said that he was going to tidy up the storehouse and had a lot of things that had been stored but not used, so he gave them to her. At that time, she actually believed it.

This was clearly sent to her by Gu Shixing in the name of his brother.

Sitting at the table, he lay on it and fiddled with the brocade box on it.

These things must be returned to Gu Shixing, but she doesn't want to bother with him now.

After venting my anger that day, I feel much calmer today. I am not as angry anymore and I can calm down and think carefully.

As he said, there was some truth in telling his eldest brother about this matter. After all, his eldest brother had to be on guard since he was being plotted against in the Su Mansion.

As for helping her, she also admitted that she was indebted to him.

Whether it was about allowing her daughter to leave the Su Mansion and go to the farm to recuperate, or about the matter of Doctor Fu, although she was not aware of it, she really owed him a favor.

I originally wanted to clear it up, but now the two are getting more and more entangled.

In her previous life, Gu Shixing was very cold and never showed his emotions. When she was with him, the best way to deal with him was to be as cold as him, but now he was not only not cold anymore, but also a little bit shameless, and she had no way to deal with it.

"Eh..." He sighed softly, feeling very upset.

Apart from this, the person who followed Gu Shixing to identify the suspects two nights ago, has he confessed now?