Translator – Xiao He Lian
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Chapter 66
“Yiniang…what should we do?” the maid asked with her head lowered.
He Wanru clenched her fists.
It has to be said that a woman like He Wanru would never attribute her misfortune to a man. In her eyes, the reason why she had to go through all this was because of Shen Shu.
After a while, she suddenly put her left hand on her lower abdomen, slowly squatted down, and said with a painful look on her face: “Go tell my husband that I have a stomachache.”
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Speaking of which, recently Li Di could clearly feel that Shen Shu’s attitude towards him was much better than before.
After entering the house, he put the food box on the table and said to Shen Shu, “I just got off work and went to the East Market to buy you some pastries.”
Shen Shu looked up at him and put down the needle and thread in her hand.
Li Di sat down beside her, picked up the handkerchief she embroidered and said, “Shen Shu, I still like the clothes you embroidered.”
Even though Shen Shu now has other plans for Li Di, every time she hears him mention the past, her heart can’t help but twitch and she can’t help but feel disgusted.
“What does Lord Li mean?” Shen Shu charmingly raised her eyes when she spoke and her tone was light, which always made her look particularly attractive.
Li Di walked forward, held her hand and wanted to kiss her but Shen Yu dodged and Li Di stood there in a daze.
“Shu Shu, if you want to live happily, don’t you have to show some sincerity?” Li Di said in a hoarse voice.
“If you have something to say, just say it.” Shen Yu withdrew her hand.
“You are my, Li Di’s, legally married wife, Shen Shu and I need a legitimate son.” After saying this, he held Shen Shu’s hands tightly.
“In a sense, the child born to you by He Wanru is also a legitimate son.” Shen Shu couldn’t help but say sarcastically.
“You are the wife and she is the concubine, how can they be the same?” After saying that, Li Di raised his hand to untie Shen Shu’s clothes with such great strength that it seemed as if he was forcing her.
Shen Shu pushed him and said word by word: “If you want a legitimate son, you can put the child she gave birth to under my name.”
“But I want you to have my baby.”
Just as Li Di was about to press her down, there was a knock on the door.
“My lord, something bad has happened.”
“Come in.” Li Di frowned and asked, “What happened?”
“Sir, He Yiniang…He Yiniang has a stomachache…” After saying that, the little maid looked up at Li Di weakly.
If a man from an ordinary family heard that the woman who was pregnant with his child was unwell, he would take time out of his busy schedule to check on her and would not think too much about it. However, Li Di’s thoughts were too deep.
He knew exactly what He Wanru was thinking at the moment and why she was having a “stomachache”.
He frowned and said calmly, “If she has a stomachache, she should look for a doctor, why come to me? Can I treat illnesses?”
The little maid kept kowtowing to him and after a long while she finally managed to say, “This maid, this maid will go and get a doctor for yiniang“
“Go quickly.” Li Di said.
This opportunity gave Shen Shu a chance to catch her breath.
When talking to someone like Li Di, it was best when it was a mixture of truth and falsehood.
So Shen Shu raised her hand to gather the strands of hair beside her ear and said slowly, “I know why you suddenly want a child. You weren’t anxious for the past four years, but now you are anxious, simply because Marquis Changping is back and you are afraid that the crown prince will become too powerful.”
Li Di smiled and said, “Continue.”
“In your eyes, as long as I don’t divorce you, the Crwon Prince won’t touch the Li family. You just want to use me…” After saying this, Shen Shu’s eyes turned red again. With such a look, even Li Di himself would not believe that Shen Shu had no feelings for him.
But the tears of a beautiful woman are deceptive after all.
Especially a beauty like Shen Shu, whose heart was like ashes.
When Li Di looked at Shen Shu, his heart ached, “Shu Shu, don’t think of me like that. I still say that the four years of love between you and me were not all fake.”
Shen Shu took off the pearl hairpin on her head and her black hair fell down. “Don’t force me. I am not you. So Li Di, please give me some time.”
Li Di nodded. “How long do you need?”
Shen Shu pinched her hand and said calmly: “Let’s wait until He Wanru gives birth to the child…”
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After Shen Yu was coaxed away by Li Di, she sat on the couch, looked at her bruised wrist and thought for a long time.
Although she had given up the idea of dying together with the Li family, it did not mean that she could still be husband and wife with Li Di.
There was no way she could bear him a child.
Shen Yu walked straight to the table and drank several glasses of water. Then, she said to Qingli, “Tomorrow, we will go to the medicine store in the East Market again.”
Qingli hesitated and asked, “Miss, do you still want to…?”
“Don’t worry, I won’t do anything stupid.”
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Shen Shu got on the carriage and came to the East Market.
The doctor at the pharmacy knew her. So when he saw her coming, he asked politely, “Madam, you are here? I wonder if you have finished compiling your collection of medicines?”
Shen Shu smiled and said, “I still need a few more herbs.”
“What else is missing?” asked the doctor.
Shen Shu smiled and took out a list, reading out a few of the ingredients, “That’s all.”
The doctor weighed the medicine, collected the money, wrapped it up, and handed it to Shen Shu. “When the collection of medicines is finished, please remember to show it to me.”
“I will.”
Shen Shu turned around and went out. Just like last time, she went to three pharmacies to get the necessary prescriptions.
However, before she came out of the last pharmacy, she heard thunder outside. Then, with a loud bang, the rainstorm poured down on the ground, creating a mist.
“It was sunny when we went out, how come it started raining in such a short time?” Qingli sighed, “Lady, we don’t have an umbrella.”
“Such a heavy rainstorm comes quickly and goes away quickly. It’s okay for us to wait before going out.” Shen Shu held the medicinal herbs in her arms tightly.
Shen Shu looked at the dark clouds outside. For some reason, she felt inexplicably uneasy and her heart started to beat faster.
It was as if she was about to receive some kind of bad news.
She sighed almost inaudibly and murmured, “Next time I go out, I must choose an auspicious day.”
Just as she finished speaking, a carriage stopped in front of her and a man holding an umbrella slowly walked towards her.
Shen Shu’s pupils shrank and the medicinal herbs in his hands fell to the ground with a “crash”.
Zhou Shu’an? Why is it him again?
Is it that Chang’an City is too small, or is she just too unlucky?
She had only been to the drugstore twice, and she met him both times…it was simply too weird.
Shen Shu couldn’t help but complain in her heart: Why is it that every time it’s her turn to make a move on Li Di, he always shows up! Is Zhou Shu’an Li Di’s life-saving talisman?!
Shen Shu hurriedly bent down to pick up the herbs, hoping that the man would quickly walk past her.
But Zhou Shu’an squatted down with an expressionless face, snatched the herbs from Shen Shu’s hand and then stood up.
“Lord Zhou!” Shen Yu’s beautiful eyes widened.
But Zhou Shu’an acted as if he didn’t hear it. He checked them one by one and when he was done, his eyebrows raised slightly.
Not bad, she was still making progress.
Poison, ecstasy and infertility drugs… Li Di’s second half of life is guaranteed.
Zhou Shu’an looked at her.
He has deep eye, sharp and elegant bones, fair skin, and a prominent adams apple, which make him look particularly profound.
Shen Shu was very worried, fearing that he would be unhappy and send her back to Jingzhao Prefecture again.
“Lord Zhou.” She held out her hand, “Can you give me the herbs?”
It was obvious that this “Lord Zhou” was much weaker than the previous one.
Zhou Shu’an glanced downward and his gaze fixed on her wrist, the bruise on her wrist was too obvious.
Combined with the medicine she bought, it is not difficult to guess what happened.
Zhou Shu’an put the medicine back in her hand.
In a voice that only the two of them could hear, he asked, “Did he do this?”
Just Four words.
Shen Shu’s eyelashes couldn’t help but tremble and her slender fingers were tightly hooked on the medicinal herb.
In an extremely soft voice, she replied, “It has nothing to do with Lord Zhou.”
Shen Shu is not the naive Shen Zhen.
A man who had no previous relationship with the Shen family and a powerful third-rank official should not have had any special feelings for her.
Zhou Shu’an glanced at Shen Shu calmly and then glanced suggestively at the medicinal herbs in Shen Shu’s hand.
“Thank you, Lord Zhou.” Shen Shu said solemnly.
“Madam Li, this is the second time.” After saying that, Zhou Shu’an passed by her.
Shen Yu walked out of the pharmacy in the heavy rain, closed her eyes, took a long breath, and quickly walked to the carriage.
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Jingzhao Prefecture.
In the afternoon, Lu Yan was discussing with Officer Lu how to judge a case of a butcher’s attempted murder when Sun Xu walked in with a panicked look on his face.
“Lord Lu, Lord Lu!” Sun Xu bowed, put his hands on his knees, and said breathlessly.
“What’s wrong, Lord Sun?” Lu Yan asked.
Sun Xu pulled Lu Yan and said, “Lord Lu, come with me. I have something to tell you.”
Lu Yan didn’t move, frowned and said, “What is there to say that can’t be said here?”
Sun Xu gave him a look, shook his head, then covered his mouth with his hand and whispered, “This is your private matter. The one you kept outside had an accident last night.”
Lu Yan’s face suddenly changed, “Impossible.” Shen Zhen slept well last night, how could something happen?
Besides, there is no way Sun Xu could know about Chengyuan.
Sun Xu looked at him and said, “”Why not?! Lord Lu, if you don’t go out and talk to me, then I’ll just say it here…”
Lu Yan licked the corner of his mouth and walked out with Sun Xu, while frowning he asked, “What’s going on?”
Sun Xu looked embarrassed. “Last night, Prince Teng went tothe brothel in pingkang lane and drank too much. He insisted that Miss Yunzhi accompany him but the madam disagreed and said that Miss Yunzhi would only serve you… But Lord Lu must know Prince Teng better than I do, how could he care about it when he was drunk?”
Lu Yan let out a sigh of relief and asked, “And then?”
“He not only killed a singer but also slashed Miss Yunzhi’s face…”
Lu Yan said calmly: “I understand. I’ll go there and see.”
