Chapter 28: Tighten your vest
Chapter 28: Tighten your vest
Yuan Musheng carefully wrote a prescription, and Shang Wan asked Shitou to go to his house to get the medicine.
After the two of them left the courtyard, Shang Wan waved to Xiao Hui and took it into the west wing.
Lu Chengjing sat on the kang, his black hair hanging down, making his face look particularly pale. He stared at his right hand, which had no feeling at all, with no expression that showed whether he was happy or angry.
"You can't see a single flower no matter how hard you look." Shang Wan patted Xiao Hui, who walked towards Lu Chengjing and twitched his nose to sniff his scent.
Lu Chengjing glanced at the gray wolf at his feet, then looked up at Shang Wan, "I didn't know you could tame wolves."
"Doesn't that mean there's no chance to show it off?" Shang Wan squatted down, touched Xiao Hui's head, and let it go to the yard to play.
After Xiao Hui left, Shang Wan sat down next to Lu Chengjing, reached out and took a strand of his black hair that was draped over his shoulders and played with it between his fingertips.
Lu Chengjing caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of his eye and moved slightly uncomfortably.
Shang Wan raised his eyes to look at him, "Who hurt you?"
Lu Chengjing: "Yamen runner."
"You have already been convicted. There is no need for the guards to torture you to extract a confession." Shang Wan ran the tail of her hair across her palm and said gently, "Let me guess, the person who bribed the guards to kill you is related to... the Lu family?"
Lu Chengjing's pupils shrank, and his left hand on the edge of the kang clenched unconsciously, and his fingertips gradually turned white.
"It seems that I guessed right." Shang Wan let go of his hair and leaned back. "Lu Chengjing, you hid it from me. Do you want to go back to the Lu family and continue to be your third young master?"
Lu Chengjing vaguely sensed that Shang Wan was angry, and he turned his head to look over.
Shang Wan's lips curled slightly, "If you want to go back to the Lu family to suffer, I won't stop you. Let's get divorced. Yuanyuan will come with me."
"I don't plan to go back." Lu Chengjing whispered, "The Lu family is not a good place."
"Then why did you hide it from me?"
Lu Chengjing's eyes swept across Shang Wan, and he pursed his lips and said, "The Lu family gave me life and I am grateful for this injury. I will have nothing to do with the Lu family in the future. I know you are capable, but many ants can kill an elephant. The Lu family is not as simple as it appears."
Shang Wan understood and smiled, "Are you worried about me?"
Lu Chengjing turned his head away and said "hmm" softly after a while.
Shang Wan felt relieved and reached out to grab a strand of Lu Chengjing's hair. "I can choose not to settle accounts with the Lu family, but you have to compensate me."
Lu Chengjing:?!
What kind of gangster logic is this?
"Turn around and look at me." Shang Wan pulled Lu Chengjing's hair and waited for him to turn around before saying, "I ran around everywhere to save you. My legs are almost broken. Don't you have any expression of gratitude?"
Lu Chengjing: "...Thank you."
Shang Wan sighed softly, "Your thanks make me feel like my efforts are cheap."
"How are you doing?"
"Here." She pointed to her right cheek, "Give me a kiss."
I've been busy for several days and I have to take advantage of something.
Lu Chengjing: “…”
"You've already given birth to a baby, and you won't even give me a kiss?" Shang Wan looked at his red ears. Why is this guy pretending to be a pure boy?
Lu Chengjing looked at her with complicated eyes and said faintly: "We have never consummated our marriage."
Shang Wan:?
Shang Wan: ! !
Damn! Exposed!
Why isn’t it in the original owner’s memory?
Shang Wan frantically rummaged through the original owner's memory. There were many blanks in the original owner's memory. Because the memory fragments were basically connected, she didn't pay much attention to it before. She didn't expect that there was a big bomb buried in it.
Her vest!
Shang Wan was dumbfounded. "If the marriage was not consummated, where did Yuanyuan come from? Do you have a mistress?"
Lu Chengjing: “…”
This woman is so bold!
"I don't have any concubines." His face was as black as the bottom of a pot. "Yuanyuan was picked up from the refugees."
"But I remember I gave birth to a child." Shang Wan pulled the vest tightly, "Where is the child?"
"He died of illness within two months. You were worried about being punished by your mother, so you asked me to bring back a child of your own age to raise."
Shang Wan was silent for a moment, then asked quietly, "How can I have a baby if we haven't consummated our marriage?"
Lu Chengjing: "What do you think?"
Shang Wan looked above his head and felt as if he saw a green grassland.
"Well, you are quite generous."
Helping an adulterer raise a child, isn't that too cruel?
The corners of Lu Chengjing's eyes twitched wildly. He took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, "Stop pretending. You are not Shang Wan at all."
Shang Wan: “…”
She just wanted to take advantage, so why did the vest fall off?
Oh, what a blood loss.
"I actually lost my memory." Shang Wan tried to cover it up. "Shitou told you, I hit my head when I was kicked out of the Lu family. After I woke up, I didn't remember a lot of things. This martial arts, it's..."
Lu Chengjing looked at Shang Wanbian quietly.
Shang Wan couldn't continue to weave, so he fell back on the kang and lay there in a mess.
A smile flashed across Lu Chengjing's eyes, and he tilted his head to look at the woman who had given up, "Shang Wan didn't marry me voluntarily. On the wedding night, she told me that she had someone she loved, and that she and that person were already married."
Shang Wan raised his eyebrows, "And then?"
"Then..." Lu Chengjing saw the panicked and weeping face before his eyes, and he said slowly, "I made three rules with her. As long as she acts as the Third Young Master's wife, respects her parents-in-law, and gets along well with her sisters-in-law, I will write her a divorce letter and let her go when her lover comes to pick her up."
Shang Wan pulled his arm, and Lu Chengjing lay back under her force, with his long black hair loose. Shang Wan reached out and pushed his hair aside to avoid being crushed.
"And her child?"
"Of course it's the man she loves." Lu Chengjing tilted his head to look at Shang Wan, "Since they are husband and wife, it's not surprising that she's pregnant."
Shang Wan clicked her tongue, thinking that she finally understood why the original owner was so obsessed with having Zhong Chenghong come to take her out of her suffering.
Perhaps in order not to be a real couple with Lu Chengjing, the original owner chose to hand the handle to Lu Chengjing personally. On the surface, she won the bet and Lu Chengjing chose to help her, but Lu Chengjing's request was not so easy to do.
The original owner's parents were both dead, and she was said to be married, but in fact she was sold to the Lu family by her greedy brother. The brother took a sum of money and left with the family, and there has been no news since then.
The original owner had no support from her natal family, and the third wife was not well-received in the mansion. Wouldn't the original owner only be bullied by the first and second wives? Not to mention that she had a mother-in-law who set rules for her every day.
Fortunately, she had a partner like Lu Chengjing who was willing to protect her, otherwise her life would have been like eating bitter melon under a coptis tree, which would have been even more bitter.
Shang Wan suddenly thought of the first time he and Lu Chengjing met in prison, and felt that something was wrong.
"Since you are not a real couple, and you know there is such a person, why are you so angry after seeing the letter? And why did you run to the inn to catch the adulterer? Are you so idle?"
Lu Chengjing's eyes flickered, and he felt a little uncomfortable.
Shang Wan thought of a possibility and his face turned black instantly, "You are a donkey to me!"
"I'm just following what you said." Lu Chengjing felt inexplicably guilty when Shang Wan stared at him.
Shang Wan raised her hands and pinched his cheeks to pull them to the sides, her tone gritting her teeth, "You didn't believe from the beginning to the end that I was Shang Wan. Are you happy to see me acting in front of you?"
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