Seeing Shen Cang looking at her, Jiang Wan said with a wronged look on her face: "The child is gone, why is the second young lady bringing up the past again? Isn't this hurting the master's heart?"

When it comes to the aborted child, Shen Cang gets even angrier.

He gnashed his teeth and said to Shen Qiyin: "Don't think I don't know. Wanniang had a miscarriage, and you are also responsible!"

"Your eldest brother doesn't understand pharmacology, so how could he know that if one of the ingredients in the pregnancy-maintaining medicine was replaced, the effect would be completely different? It was you who gave him the idea!"

"I'm afraid the medicine he used was also given to him by you."

"Don't think I don't know!"

Xianglan rolled her eyes secretly and thought to herself, what do you know, dad? You are so smart.

Shen Qiyin did not explain, but said with a half-smile: "Then report me to the police and have me arrested."

"you……"

"My husband, you must not do that!" Before Shen Cang could say anything, Jiang Wan became anxious first.

Shen Qiyin raised her eyebrows slightly: "Aunt, why are you so anxious? Are you afraid that once the government intervenes, they will find out something unfavorable to you? Or are you afraid that it will be discovered that your pregnancy is fake?"

"What?!" Shen Cang was shocked: "Fake?"

"No! That's not true!" Jiang Wan denied it flatly. She forced herself to remain calm and said, "Second Miss is just talking nonsense. What evidence do you have?"

Shen Qiyin was amused by her: "You said I was just talking nonsense, what evidence do I have?"

"It's just a casual remark. Why are you so nervous, Auntie?"

Her reaction was so casual that Jiang Wan had no idea which of her words were true and which were false. He felt so nervous that he was totally unwell.

Shen Cang had no idea of ​​her inner torment and continued to bring it up: "This is just nonsense!"

Shen Qiyin: "I just suddenly remembered that my father bought fake pregnancy medicine before. Where is the medicine?"

Shen Cang was stunned, then looked at Jiang Wan suspiciously.

Fortunately, she was prepared.

As early as when she decided to use this medicine, she thought that Shen Cang might suspect her, so she asked someone to buy another pill that day.

If I take it out now, I guarantee that the father and daughter will be speechless!

Who would have expected——

The medicine was nowhere to be found!

In this case, even if she had mouths all over her body, she wouldn't be able to explain herself.

Seeing the growing suspicion in Shen Cang's eyes, Jiang Wan's heart suddenly sank.

She knelt down at his feet and cried aggrievedly, "Husband, please believe me. How could I fool you with something like pregnancy and miscarriage?"

"I clearly kept the medicine carefully, but I don't know why I can't find it."

As she spoke, she cautiously looked at Shen Cang's expression and hinted, "What a coincidence. He was clearly there before, but how come he disappeared as soon as the second lady mentioned him?"

After hearing this, Shen Qiyin actually nodded in agreement: "I think it's a coincidence too. He was there when we didn't say we wanted to see him, but as soon as we wanted to see him, the medicine was gone."

At this time, Xianglan suddenly asked tentatively: "Could it be that the young master ate it?"

"How is that possible!" Jiang Wan denied without even thinking: "That's medicine! Why would Brother Lang take it for no reason!"

"I'm just greedy..." Xianglan muttered softly, "A kid of this age will eat anything except shit."

As she spoke, she pointed and said, "Look if you don't believe me!"

Everyone looked in the direction of her finger and saw Jia Lan pick up the chicken leg that had fallen on the ground and take a big bite.

And that chicken leg was from the chicken that was offered in front of Shen Guangzong's spirit.

Shen Cang's face turned green.

He rushed over and knocked the chicken leg out of Jia Lan's hand with a "bang".

Jia Lan cried out, "Chicken leg! My chicken leg!"

"Mom, look, he still beats me."

"My hands are all red."

As soon as he disagreed with something, he started rolling on the ground.

Shen Cang just wanted to kick him a few more times.

Jiang Wan couldn't bear to let her go, so she held her in her arms and coaxed her, "Ah, don't cry, don't cry. Mom will take you to eat chicken legs. We won't cry anymore."

Shen Cang was so angry!

He thought to himself, my son is dead, and your "son" is still trying to snatch my son's chicken leg to eat. Is he a human being?

As a result, he began to dislike Jiang Wan.

And then there's the matter of her being pregnant...

Although he did not believe Shen Qiyin's one-sided statement, he still had some doubts in his heart.

It was not until a few days later that His Majesty issued an edict to reward the doctors in Guangrentang.

The emperor personally wrote four large characters, "Apricot Grove is Full of Spring", and engraved the words on a plaque.

He also gave a couplet:

Observe, listen, ask and feel to find out the illness and suffering, and use your benevolent heart and skill to save the people.

Pills, powders, pastes and pills can cure diseases and pains, and Qihuang’s sacred techniques benefit all directions.

To receive the emperor's personal inscription is a great honor even for important officials in the court, let alone for their small clinic.

Although this plaque and couplet are not as practically useful as the silver rewards, they also have their own charm.

With them here to keep things under control, there will never be another incident like what happened last time when Song Huai came here to cause trouble.

When other people heard about this, most of them just took it as a joke and expressed some envy and emotion. However, Shen Cang felt very complicated when he learned that they had developed a prescription that could detect whether a person was having a false pregnancy.

So when Shen Qiyin came back from Guangren Hall that day, Shen Cang immediately grabbed her and asked, "What's the matter with that prescription you made?"

"It's just one herb, it can't be called a prescription." Shen Qiyin said in a relaxed tone: "A person who is falsely pregnant will vomit if she takes the cloud arrow grass, but a person who is truly pregnant will not."

After hearing this, Shen Cang felt a chill running up from the soles of his feet.

When we first learned that Jiang Wan was pregnant, she started vomiting early one morning!

At the time I thought it was morning sickness.

He was quite puzzled, thinking that the ladies in the palace either didn't vomit or vomited all the time when they were pregnant. But this was the first time he had seen someone vomit only for one day, or even just for one morning, like she did.

But at that time he was completely immersed in the joy of being a father and didn't think much about it.

Thinking back now, Shen Cang looked at Shen Qiyin again: "Have you used this method to test her before?"

"Based on your understanding of me, father, if I had found out the result earlier, would you have waited until now to tell me?"

"That's true..."

"Using the Cloud Arrow Grass to check whether a woman is pregnant is a method that my senior brother, junior brother, and I have just confirmed in the past two days. We brought the herb back just to give us more time to study it."

Shen Cang originally thought that he was overthinking, but after hearing what she said, he quickly asked, "You said you took the herbs back home? Did you give them to Wan Niang?"

Shen Qiyin's speechless expression made Shen Cang realize that he seemed to have asked a very stupid question.

But she quickly said, "But that day, Xianglan took a handful of cloud arrow grass to the kitchen. Because the stone mortar I usually use is broken, I asked her to borrow the stone mortar from the kitchen to crush the herbs."

After hearing this, Shen Cang immediately called the cook to question her.

That is indeed the case.

The cook might have misunderstood and thought that Shen Cang wanted to blame her for Jiang Wan's miscarriage. She even assured him again and again that she cleaned the mortar before using it again after Xianglan had used it.

Shen Cang had only one thought in his mind at that time: It’s not clean!

Only in this way can it be explained.

"Wanniang...she actually lied to me?" Shen Cang seemed angry, but not completely angry.

More like annoying.

That's exactly what Shen Qiyin wanted him to do.

If all the evidence were laid out before him, he might simply hate and despise Jiang Wan, and he would feel relieved if he could just drive him away so that he wouldn't have to see him or be bothered by him.

But as it is now, with only speculation and no evidence, he always has a glimmer of hope in his heart.

If I ignore him, I'm afraid it's a misunderstanding.

The desire to get close to him inevitably reminded him of Shen Guangzong's death.

He actually forced himself into a dead end, with no way out.

Shen Qiyin looked at his cowardly look coldly, suppressed his laughter, and said, "Let me kindly remind you, father, that it is better to keep the family money in your own hands, lest you end up with nothing in the future. When that happens, you will cry without knowing how to do it."

This may not sound nice, but it's useful.

If it were in the past, Shen Cang would have sneered at it, but now, he couldn't wait to learn it word by word.

Shen Qiyin told him all this, of course, not out of kindness. Just like she kept Jiang Wan and her son in this house, it was not only to cause trouble for him, but also because Jiang Wan had other uses for her.

She was waiting for news from Qianzhou's investigation.

Fortunately, she didn't have to wait too long.

On this day, when he picked her up at Guangren Hall and took her back to Shen's house on the fourth day of the first lunar month, he handed her an envelope and said, "Miss, there's a letter from Qianzhou."

Shen Qiyin opened it and read it without saying a word.

The letter clearly stated that the Han family that Jiang Wan visited that year was exactly Wei Yueru's in-laws' family!

Jiang Wan was Han Sui's cousin.

On the day Wei Yueru suffered a difficult delivery, she was staying as a guest. The fire at the Han family did not affect her. Perhaps she was the only person in the world who knew what happened that day.

Thinking of this, Shen Qiyin put down the letter in his hand with a dazed look.

If Wei Yueru's death was not caused by difficult childbirth...

In other words, her difficult labor was caused by human factors, and the whole thing happened to be related to Jiang Wan, so she would never tell the truth no matter what.

Gotta think of a way.

Until evening.

The night is so dark that no stars can be seen.

The cold wind was howling and hitting the window frames, and the shadows of the trees outside the window were swaying like evil spirits with bared fangs and claws.

Jiang Wan woke up in a daze and heard a very subtle "da da da" sound.

She was still sleepy, so she closed her eyes and listened for a while, and found that the sound was like teeth chattering.

It's a little cold in this room, but not freezing.

Besides, Shen Cang hasn't come to her room to sleep in the past two days, so she is the only one in the room.

Thinking of this, Jiang Wan opened his eyes in an instant.

Just this one look and she almost lost her soul!

She looked at the disheveled man standing beside her bed with horror.

His face was pale and his lips were purple.

He stared at her, muttering sinisterly, "It's so cold... I'm so cold..."

Jiang Wan felt numb all over.

Shen Guangzong!

"Ah——" she screamed.

But Shen Guangzong seemed to have expected it. He suddenly stretched out a hand and made a "choking her neck" gesture in the air. Her voice seemed to be squeezed in her throat, and she spoke completely hoarsely.

"Go, go away! Don't come to me, don't come to me!" She struggled to escape, but her body seemed to be possessed by a ghost and she had no strength to move.

Shen Guangzong didn't say anything else, just kept muttering about being cold.

But the more he does this, the scarier it becomes.

Only then did she remember that today was his seventh day!

Jiang Wan begged for mercy again and again, asking him to go find Shen Cang, the two servants who had harmed him one after another, and even Shen Qiyin. In short, he blamed everyone he could.

Until I heard Shen Guangzong say: "It's cold, too cold... I need someone to go with me to keep warm..."

"Just take your son away, hehehe."

"No!" Jiang Wan struggled to get up from the bed and tried to kowtow to him with a twisted posture: "It's all my fault, please don't hurt my son."

"It was me who harmed you. It was me who bribed your servant. I am so sorry!"

"I will eat vegetarian food and chant Buddhist scriptures from now on. I will ask a master to pray for your soul. I beg you to have mercy on me and rest in peace."

Perhaps he was too excited, for Jiang Wan fainted after saying this.

When she woke up the next day, her throat had returned to normal, with no pain or itching, and there were no signs of being pinched on her neck.

She even wondered whether she really saw a ghost yesterday or it was just a nightmare.

But just in case, she ordered all the meat dishes to be removed during the meal, and only ate some light porridge and side dishes.

If she hadn't been afraid that arranging a ritual right after the seventh day after Shen Guangzong's death would arouse suspicion, she would have wanted to invite the master to come over today.

But secretly, she still secretly burned a lot of paper money.

When she went to bed again that night, she specially called a maid to accompany her.

But in the middle of the night, she woke up and found that she was the only one left in the bed.

"Zhu'er?" Jiang Wan's voice was trembling. He wanted to call for help, but he didn't dare to speak too loudly: "Zhu'er...Zhu..."

This time!

Suddenly, a woman's voice came from not far away: "I am not Zhu'er."

"You don't remember me?"

The voice sounds very young, probably only about seventeen or eighteen years old, and it is very nice.

Jiang Wan bravely looked towards the source of the sound, and saw a woman in white standing in the corner, holding a swaddling baby in her arms. The quilt that wrapped the baby and her own dress were stained with blood, which was very shocking.

She was obviously afraid, but she couldn't help moving her gaze upwards, finally landing on the woman's face.

Her face is like a lotus calyx and her lips are like cherries.

Two curved eyebrows paint the distant green mountains, and a pair of eyes are bright like autumn water.

Jiang Wan's mouth opened and closed instantly, as if he was so shocked that he couldn't even scream.

"Wei, Wei, Wei..."

"I'm not saying hello."

"Wei Yueru!" Jiang Wan's hands and feet were icy cold. He didn't know if it was because of the cold or the fear, but they were all numb.

It's not July anymore, why are they all coming to see her?!

Wei Yueru approached her holding the empty swaddling clothes and said, "My child is missing. He clearly left with me, but I can't find him."

"I'm so lonely..."

"I want a child to keep me company. Can you give me your child to play with?"

Her tone was so gentle, but to Jiang Wan's ears, it sounded like the chattering of Shen Guangzong's teeth.

"Don't hurt my Lan Ge'er!" Jiang Wan was terrified: "He is still so young. When you died, he was not even born. He is innocent."

"I beg you to let him go."

"I didn't mean to kill you and your child..."

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