Rebirth with my ex-husband

Chapter 91

In the evening, a small banquet was held at the house of my seventh cousin.

When the time was almost up, the women from my seventh cousin's family came in person to invite us.

Su Yun took several similar gifts with her, and planned to send the gifts for other younger generations tomorrow.

There were four families of cousins ​​of the same generation as Lord Gu. From the great-uncle who was still healthy and in his seventies to the young children who were crying for food, four tables were filled with people.

Su Yun was pulled to the table for female relatives, where there were elders, married peers like her, and unmarried girls.

When they got married, many relatives came to Jindu. However, there were so many relatives at that time that Su Yun only met them once or twice. Although they were not too strange, they were not familiar either. It was just a glimpse.

Most of the people present were just strangers. If they were newly married young wives, they might be a little reserved, but Su Yun had seen a lot, so she was very calm and not at all reserved.

The small banquet was almost halfway through, and after a few glasses of fruit wine, an aunt asked, "I wonder how long the Crown Prince's wife and the Crown Prince will stay in Lingchuan?"

Su Yun and Gu Shixing had already agreed on what to say, so she replied, "My husband still needs to handle some official business in Lingchuan, so he will stay for a while."

When they heard that they would have to stay for a while, several aunts immediately became excited: "If we stay for a while longer, we can go around Lingchuan and get to know the local customs and people of Lingchuan."

"Yes, many of the foods in Lingchuan are not available in Jindu. People in Jindu prefer salty food, while we prefer sweet food. There are also more varieties of snacks than in Jindu." said one of the aunts.

Another cousin said, "Oh, by the way, there is a very famous temple for praying for children in Lingchuan. I will go there with the prince and his wife to worship when the time comes."

A young woman in her twenties said proudly, "I went to worship with my mother before, and within a few months she got pregnant, with twins."

Su Yun: ...

In Jindu, no one has induced labor yet, so how come someone is induced in Lingchuan?

Su Yun suddenly recalled the years in her previous life when her mother-in-law had urged her to have a baby intentionally or unintentionally, but she never said anything unpleasant. However, the second and third aunts of the Gu family said that she was occupying the position of the prince's wife but was not fulfilling her responsibilities.

Su Yun could never be faulted in managing the rear house, so it was self-evident what they meant by irresponsibility.

Coming back to her senses, Su Yun smiled gently and replied calmly: "My husband thought that I was not yet eighteen years old, so he discussed it with me and said that we should wait another year before discussing it."

The younger aunt suddenly exclaimed, "Oh!" and said in amazement, "I never thought that such a cold and aloof prince could be so considerate. His wife is so lucky."

Su Yun smiled and said sincerely: "Although my husband is serious, he treats me very well."

After saying this, Su Yun looked up at Gu Shixing's table. The men at the table were toasting each other, and it was not easy to not drink. Gu Shixing seemed to have drunk a lot, and no one helped to stop him from drinking.

Seeing this, Su Yun was a little worried.

The women had already eaten and drunk their fill and were chatting. Su Yun chatted for a while and then made the excuse that she was drunk and feeling unwell, and said she would visit them one by one tomorrow and went back today.

After all, she had been traveling for more than ten days, so it was normal for her to feel tired and uncomfortable. The female relatives also eagerly urged her to go back and rest.

Su Yun returned to the old house next door, and asked Chu Yi to ask Mo Tai to remind the prince that she was not feeling well and asked him to come back quickly.

Gu Shixing was indeed forced to drink a lot of wine. The cousin sitting next to him did help him block a few glasses, but there was no difference between blocking and not blocking, as the cousin drank no less than him.

After drinking a lot, the cousin no longer followed the rules, and seemed to have distanced himself from his cousin at the table. He then put his hand on the shoulder of his cousin, whom he had not seen for many times, and said, "My wife is very strict. I'd better ask you to go back to your hometown so that I can drink a little."

The brothers at another table laughed at him: "You are the one who is most afraid of his wife in the Gu family. Do you think there is anyone as cowardly as you?"

The Gu family not only has a family motto, but also a clan motto. If you marry a wife, you are not allowed to take concubines. You can take concubines only when you are over 40 and have no children. If you marry a girl from the Gu family, you are not allowed to take concubines. You can take concubines only when you are over 40 and have no children.

The cousin of the Gu family turned around and spat at him twice, then he and Gu Shixing, who was a little drunk beside him, said like brothers: "Sir, don't listen to his nonsense. I'm not afraid of my wife, I respect her."

Gu Shixing heard this, then glanced at him and savored the words carefully.

Although my mind was confused, I could still tell that fear and respect were not the same thing.

The cousin next to him was drunk and suddenly stood up and shouted to the table of the women: "Wife, I, I don't want to drink anymore, let's go home and sleep."

The sound was a little loud, and the young woman from the female family covered her face with her hands. The people around her were teasing her and asking her to take her clingy husband back home as soon as possible.

At this time Mo Tai came and said that his wife was not feeling well. Gu Shixing immediately stood up, half drunk and half awake, and said goodbye to the elders and peers at the table, saying that he would go back first. Then, with the support of Mo Tai, he returned to the old house.

After Su Yun came back from washing up, he also took a simple shower and changed into a brocade robe.

After the sobering soup was served, Su Yun asked the servants to go down and rest.

She walked to the bed with the soup in her hand, looked at Gu Shixing who was leaning against the bedpost with his eyes closed and dozing off, and said softly, "Sober him up first..."

Before he could finish his words, the man who was pretending to be asleep with his eyes closed suddenly opened his misty black eyes, and the next moment he suddenly hugged Su Yun's waist and pressed his face against Su Yun's waist and abdomen.

Su Yun was startled and looked down at him, only to see that he had closed his eyes again and was rubbing her waist and abdomen lightly as if enjoying it.

Su Yun's heart seemed to tremble slightly, softly, and a little touched.

Somehow, she suddenly remembered the long-haired little white cat that Su Yuyan had raised. The white cat usually ignored everyone and was very cold, but she had seen the little white cat rubbing against Su Yuyan's arms and acting coquettishly.

The coquettish look of the white cat suddenly overlapped with the man rubbing her waist and abdomen.

Is Gu Shixing...acting like a spoiled child to her?

How drunk is this?

Su Yun couldn't help laughing, she found it funny, but she still coaxed him softly, "Husband, you should drink this hangover soup first."

Gu Shixing did not listen. His arms were still tightly wrapped around his wife's slender waist, pressed against her soft waist and abdomen, smelling the faint fragrance on her body, and did not want to move.

After persuading him a few times, seeing that he was still indifferent, Su Yun had no choice but to threaten him: "If you don't drink, I will sleep in another room tonight."

The man's eyelids moved and he finally opened his eyes.

After loosening his arms, Su Yun met his confused and misty black eyes, and her heart instantly softened.

Less calm, less wise, and more naive.

Su Yun had a smile on her face and fed the sobering soup into his mouth.

After feeding her a small bowl of sobering soup, when she brought the bowl back to the table and put it down, the drunk man came up to her again.

He hugged her waist from behind again, lowered his head and buried his face in the crook of her neck.

Su Yun: ...

Why are you suddenly so clingy?

Perhaps he was really drunk, Su Yun ignored him and let him hug her.

But just when she pushed him away and went to turn off the two main lights in the room, he stayed by her side and continued to hold her in his arms.

He was drunk, but not unconscious. He was not completely drunk, but he did something he would not normally do when sober.

Su Yun was initially touched and amused, but now she felt helpless. When they got on the bed, he still pestered her.

Lying opposite each other, Su Yun was about to persuade him to rest early, but when she raised her eyes and met his misty black eyes, she was speechless.

The candlelight is dim and soft, with a hint of ambiguity flowing.

Gu Shixing looked at her for a long time, lowered his head, and placed his thin lips on her lips, licking them carefully and gently.

Su Yun was a little overwhelmed by Gu Shixing's gentleness and clinginess, so she just went ahead with it reluctantly.

When the love deepened, Gu Shixing, who was much gentler than usual, became a little annoying. He kept her in suspense, and Su Yun had no choice but to push him down and fend for herself.

*

On the second day, both husband and wife stayed in bed for a rare time and woke up around 9:00 p.m.

When I woke up, I lay in bed for a long time before I reluctantly got up and washed.

After washing up, the couple took the gifts and visited several close cousins' homes, and had lunch at their seventh cousin's home.

After lunch, Gu Shixing and his seventh uncle went out, and Su Yun chatted with his seventh aunt and two cousins-in-law.

Gu Shixing went to the government office with his seventh cousin, and he carried with him the token from the Dali Temple.

Gu Qi's uncle was the prefect of Lingchuan Prefecture. Gu Shixing was holding the token of the Dali Temple, so he was able to enter the prefecture without any hindrance, and also entered the warehouse where the files were stored.

The seventh uncle said, "I came to the government office early this morning and looked up the files on the collusion between Judge Xu and the bandits."

As he spoke, he walked past rows of bookshelves, and finally entered a row of bookshelves and took out a wooden box.

He looked at Gu Shixing and said, "This is the file of Judge Xu."

Without the prefect's token, the clan files cannot be taken out without permission, so they can only be checked in the warehouse.

The wooden box was opened, and Gu Shixing took out the original document and examined it.

There were letters of communication with the bandits, confessions signed by the bandits, and Xu Tongpan's confession and confession. Finally, there were the written statements.

After Gu Shixing checked it once, he only took out the statement document.

Holding the document, he frowned and asked, "This is the same file stored in the Dali Temple. Where is the original statement document?"

Uncle Seven was surprised and said, "That shouldn't be the case. No one should have touched it since it was put in there."

Gu Shixing thought for a moment and asked him, "Do you know who handled the case, who arrested the person, who searched the house, and who wrote the statement?"

The seventh cousin said, "Because I also care about this case, I have also paid attention to it. The one who handled the case was the Lingchuan prefect, and the one who arrested the people and searched the house was the prefect's son-in-law, who was also the prefect of Lingchuan Prefecture, and the statement was written by Zhou Zhenzhubu."

After hearing what his seventh uncle said, Gu Shixing put down the statement document and tapped the wooden box with his fingertips: "Before the document is stored in the warehouse, it must be personally inspected by the prefect. When I opened the box just now, the seal was obviously tampered with."

The seventh uncle was stunned and said quickly: "It had not been opened when I came here."

Hearing this, Gu Shixing glanced at the wooden box and said solemnly, "Let's discuss this when we get back."

I returned to my seventh cousin’s house and entered the study.

Gu Shixing said: "Either when it was sealed, it was the current statement document, or someone replaced it after it was sealed and stored."

The former is that the governor is suspicious, otherwise why didn't he put the original document into the file. The latter is that there is a traitor in the government office who is actually colluding with the bandits, and he secretly replaced the document after it was put into the archives.

The seventh cousin was surprised and asked, "If there is no trick, why did they replace the statement?"

In the government office, anyone who can enter or leave the storehouse is suspected.

Gu Shixing pondered for a moment and asked, "Is the chief clerk Zhou Zhen, who wrote the statement, still working in the government office?"

The seventh cousin shook his head and said, "I quit a long time ago and returned to my hometown two years ago."

Gu Shixing suddenly sneered, saying sarcastically, "If you say that Xu Tongpan was not wrongly accused, I don't believe it. The clerk was summoned, and the chief clerk who wrote the statement resigned. This is really a coincidence."

At this point, his eyes became stern, and he looked at his seventh cousin with a solemn expression: "Please help me investigate the hometown of Zhou Zhubu. I need to find him within two days, otherwise someone will notice the clues and report it early."

The seventh cousin replied "OK", but then he asked worriedly, "But today, my lord, you showed the Dali Temple token. Will it arouse suspicion?"

Gu Shixing raised his eyebrows slightly. "It has not been reported that Xu Tongpan's case is going to be overturned, and I have never said that I came here for Xu Tongpan's case. And I will visit the governor's mansion tomorrow, and then say that I will investigate the Yang family's massacre while I am back. This will be used as a cover, and it will always delay for some time."

When Gu Shixing returned to Lingchuan, he also made preparations.

She looked up the cases that had occurred in Lingchuan in the past two years.

There was nothing to investigate about this tragic case of family annihilation. He checked the details carefully and found that it was indeed the enemy seeking revenge as stated in the statement document, but the murderer had not been caught yet.

He must have a reason to go in and out of the government office, so he used this case as a cover and secretly investigated the case of Xu Tongpan.

Although it won't take long for people to notice the clues, he can still delay it for a while. He will definitely be able to find clues before the dormant person notices it.