First Concubine

Chapter 182 The mysterious visitor (3)

 Qiao Hui's worries were not unreasonable. After all, Shui Linglong didn't know what the old lady used to choke Leng Youru, or how long this method would last as a deterrent. Threats can change with the passage of time. What is effective now may not be effective then. Therefore, before we find out why Leng Youru is so well-behaved, we should really be careless! Shui Linglong put down the second lychee in her hand and said seriously: "Well, I will be careful."

"How about... I ask the Sucheng Hou Mansion to hire a wet nurse?" In Qiao Hui's view, Leng Youru is not safe, and the wet nurse she hired is definitely not safe either. Therefore, to be cautious, get a wet nurse. Find someone more reliable.

Shui Linglong thought for a while and then shook her head: "The princess is the eldest son's legitimate mother. I cannot openly disobey or question her. Thank you for your reminder. I will ask someone capable to look after the wet nurse."

Qiao Hui's pupils moved, and she sighed: "Fortunately, the eldest brother is always on the sister-in-law's side. If he finds that the wet nurse has a problem, it doesn't matter if he finds a way to fix it."

Shui Linglong laughed out loud: "In my opinion, you are more nervous than me!"

 Qiao Hui rubbed the lychee in her hand and smiled bitterly: "Since the tire skidded, I have become nervous. Sister-in-law, do you think I'm annoying?"

"How could it be?" Shui Linglong held her hand, "You have good intentions. I understand that. If it were anyone else, you wouldn't be honest with me."

 Qiao Hui felt relieved. She wanted to ask the princess what news she had just heard, but she lost her temper and smashed the cup. As she spoke, she was afraid that Shui Linglong would think she was interfering in the general affairs of the big house, so she couldn't hold back her curiosity.

As soon as Qiao Hui left, Shui Linglong called Zhifan: "Go and find out what happened in the house? The maid stepped on hydrangea petals on her feet. Hydrangeas can only be found near the second entrance. She must have come back from there. "The fact that he didn't wait for news in Qingyouyuan shows that the situation is urgent, and Leng Youru wouldn't have smashed the cup if he wasn't anxious.

In the study outside, Zhuge Yu was pacing back and forth. The moonlight fell through the window lattice into his deep eyes, reflecting sharp waves. He stopped by the window, frowned and asked, "Dead?"

Xiao Xiao said with certainty: "Yes! My subordinates caught up with the imperial **** team from the middle and followed them all the way without leaving even half a step. I am sure that the person who died in the mining accident was Xun Feng!"

"Can you see his appearance clearly?" Zhuge Yu turned around and looked at Xiao Er's face. He had seven Xiao guards under his command. Xiao Yi died in Pingnan Hou Mansion while retrieving Shui Linglong's blood. The remaining Among the people under the command, Xiao Er has the strongest comprehensive ability. Therefore, the task of tracking Xun Feng falls on Xiao Er. But what did Xiao Er say? Xun Feng is dead? A man who spent the winter in a stable without freezing to death actually died? How can it be?

Xiao Er firmly said: " Along the way, my subordinates observed him countless times. He is Xun Feng! After the mining accident, my subordinates disguised themselves as local miners and entered the scene of the accident. The appearance of the deceased was exactly the same as Xun Feng! The slave did not I will admit my mistake!”

The appearance is the same, the appearance is the same... Zhuge Yu repeatedly recited these four words silently, and a look gradually appeared in his eyes that Xiao Er had never seen before. It seemed sad, entangled, melancholy, and cold... Xiao Er's heart was shocked. Doesn't the prince like Xun Feng to die? Xun Feng is the biggest enemy of Zhenbei Palace. With Xun Feng dead, Zhenbei Palace will truly be at its peak in the capital! In addition, the Supreme Emperor travels all over the world and the situation in the capital is turbulent. Even if they raise troops to rebel, they have no chance of winning!

Zhuge Yu paced again, the air seemed to have suddenly condensed into a sponge, and Xiao Er's breathing became inexplicably heavy. Just when Xiao Er was almost unable to withstand Zhuge Yu's increasingly heavy pressure, Zhuge Yu stopped, his pupils shrank, and said: "I still can't believe he's dead! It must be the disguise technique! You were there all the way No flaw was found because Xun Feng had already been replaced before you caught up with them! "

Xiao Eryi was startled: "Could... could it be like this?"

"Let me ask you, have you checked his face? I'm talking about his face! Have you torn it off?" Zhuge Yu asked seriously.

Xiaoer was startled again: "No..."

Zhuge Yu smiled coldly, with a vague and complicated meaning that made it difficult to tell how true or false the smile was: "From now on, mobilize all forces to search for news about Xun Feng, and we must see him alive." If a person dies, he must see his body, so I don’t believe he could have flown abroad without Da Zhou’s customs clearance document!”

Xiao Er received the order and was about to retreat when Zhuge Yu said again: "No, we have been neglecting one person and sent a group of people to look for Jin Shang Gong! The two of them are in a wolf and the other is in a dilemma. One day they will meet!"

"Yes!" Xiao Er turned around and walked out of the room, but he bumped into the oncoming Anping. Xiao Er swayed and avoided Anping's collision like a ghost, but Anping fell when he crossed the threshold. He gnawed on the mud and said, "Sir... Your Majesty... I have... something important to report..."

Shui Linglong's body became heavier and heavier, and she was sweating profusely even after taking a shower. She touched her ridiculously big belly, and then looked at her hooves that were swollen like elephant legs. She was dumbfounded. She was pregnant with Bin'er and Qing. It seemed...not so "ugly" when I was a child, right? She lowered her head, trying to see if there were any nasty stretch marks on her inner thighs and under her belly, but she couldn't see them anywhere!

 “Zhifan!”

"Zhi Fan has gone out. Miss, are you okay?" Ye Mao opened the curtain and came in. He saw his young lady lifting her dirty clothes and looking down, not knowing what she was looking at.

Shui Linglong waved to her: "Help me check if there are any stretch marks under my belly?"

Ye Mao said "Oh", scratched his head and walked to Shui Linglong, "Miss, what are stretch marks?"

"Stretch marks are..." Shui Linglong thought for a moment and said simply, "Just look at the light pink lines on your belly. Have you ever seen a watermelon rind? Something like that."

"Oh!" Ye Mao leaned over, frowning, and seriously checked Shui Linglong's belly. After a long time, he shook his head, "No! It's very fair! There is just a very dark line! All the way to the belly button! No, Miss, you are Look, it's almost to the heart!" As he spoke, Ye Mao turned around, secretly lifted up his clothes, and looked at his white belly carefully, "Huh? Isn't this my slave normal?"

Shui Linglong breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at the dumbfounded Zhi Fan and smiled: "This is only true for pregnant women. It will automatically disappear after giving birth, and the lines below will also become lighter."

The window creaked. Shui Linglong and Ye Mao quickly put down their clothes and saw Guo Yan jumping in through the window. In the past two months, Guo Yan had done this a lot. Ye Mao and Zhi Fan were used to it. Ye Mao was very well-trained. Walked out of the room and set up a sentry outside!

 “Linglong!” What should I do if I’m not used to being called mother? She is obviously younger than him in this life!

Shui Linglong pushed Guo Yan to sit down, fetched cold water from the clean room, and gently wiped his face with a handkerchief: "You are leaving the house so late, are you not afraid that the third princess will think too much?" Her words were reproachful, but her smile was Full of pampering.

Guo Yan took her hand and rubbed it in her arms shamelessly. This was the taste he liked. It had the vicissitudes of the past life and the warmth of this life: "What does she want? I'm not afraid of her!"

Shui Linglong pushed his head away and couldn't help laughing: "How old are you, and you still get into my arms? Are you ashamed?"

Guo Yantian shamelessly got in again: "Don't be ashamed!" Sure enough, he felt much better holding his mother. Does the tigress of the third princess also want to replace Linglong as the most important woman in his heart? Humph, what an idiot!

Shui Linglong couldn't push him away, so she stopped pushing him. Seeing his tall figure curled up into a small ball in her arms, why did she feel so happy?

“Linglong.” Guo Yan pursed her lips and said in a very aggrieved tone, “If you have him, will you stop liking me?”

he? Which him? Shui Linglong was slightly startled, and quickly realized that Guo Yan was referring to the little persimmon. Shui Linglong patted his shoulder, held up his wrinkled handsome face, and seriously talked about what every divorced mother would say to her children. If I say, "Why don't I like you? You are my child. No matter whether you and I are together, we can't change our mother-child relationship, do you understand?"

At this time, Guo Yan wanted to ask a question that every child from a divorced family would ask - is it really impossible for you and my dad? She looked at the elegant and warm furnishings in the room, then looked at the brocade clothes Shui Linglong put in the embroidery basket for Zhuge Yu, then looked at her swollen belly, and finally remembered the information she got this morning, and her eyes flashed. An, I couldn’t ask any more questions.

Shui Linglong noticed his depression and whispered, "Are you thinking about Xun Feng and me?"

Guo Yan blinked and lowered his eyes without saying a word.

Shui Linglong took off a black hair from his shoulder and threw it into the trash can nearby: "I know that no matter how he hurt me and Qing'er, he is your father in your heart. I'm sorry that my choice hurt you. ,I…"

"he died."

Shui Linglong’s eyebrows twitched: “What did you say?”

Guo Yan got into her arms again, but this time, his whole body was trembling. Tears fell down his cheeks and wet Linglong's body: "He is dead."

No matter how evil Xun Feng is, he is still his father! Just because he helped Shui Linglong weaken Xun Feng's power doesn't mean that he wants Xun Feng to die! He just didn't want that man to become so powerful again that he could build an empire that no one could overthrow, turn Shui Linglong into his queen, and let the tragedy of his previous life happen again...

"You can't be the queen... you can't..." Guo Yan repeated this sentence while crying and choking. Shui Linglong was still immersed in the news of Xun Feng's death and couldn't calm down. Such a man who can make all the difference, just say death... died? No, she didn't believe it. If Xun Feng was defeated so easily, he wouldn't have been able to shake the Yun family's power in his previous life. It is said that everyone has his own destiny. Xun Feng is doomed to have a bad fate, but one day he will be able to reach a height that no one can compare with... And she was so stunned in her heart that she didn't realize the meaning of Guo Yan's words. Yes, she can't be the queen. Yes, because she wants to be a princess and Zhuge Yu's wife in this life, and of course she cannot be a queen. "You...please tell me clearly, who told you that he is dead?"

"The Eastern Iron Mine collapsed, and he was pinned underneath... The Supreme Emperor was afraid that Xun Feng would cheat on him along the way, so his cartilage never stopped falling apart from the moment he left the palace. He has no martial arts skills, so he was pinned underneath..." Guo Yan’s heart felt like a knife piercing his heart!

 Mining disaster? Shui Linglong's frown gradually relaxed, "Where is the body?"

 “They were buried on the spot.”

It was summer, the weather was sultry, and the body was buried on the spot. It would completely rot within seven days, and by the time the court officials arrived at the scene, the original appearance of the body could no longer be discerned. Shui Linglong's eyes narrowed slightly: "Believe me, he is not dead!"

Guo Yan suddenly pulled away from her arms and looked at her blankly: "You...how can you judge?"

"He is my most feared opponent, and him dying like this is an insult to my IQ." After Shui Linglong said half-jokingly, Guo Yan's expression brightened slightly, and Shui Linglong's handkerchief wiped the tears on his face. He couldn't help but feel embarrassed. His son didn't want Xun Feng to die. What if one day she and Xun Feng were fighting to the death? Forget it, we’ll talk about the rest later! Shui Linglong said in her usual tone: "I remember that the night before you arrived in the capital from Mobei was the night when Xun Feng was sent out of the capital. Did you encounter each other? Or did you notice anything unusual?" She Actually, I want to ask, have you noticed that Xun Feng is different from before? Could it be a fake?

Guo Yan carefully recalled what happened that night, and he dug a deep hole with Xiaohan. Xiaohan said he saw a female ghost, but he didn't. Xun Feng didn't bother to dress up as a woman no matter how bad he was. Therefore, it must be Xiaohan who made a mistake, and even if he didn't make a mistake, it definitely couldn't be Xun Feng. So, Guo Yan shook his head: "Nothing unusual was found."

Shui Linglong touched his forehead and said softly: "Don't worry about Xun Feng's affairs from now on. Go back."

Guo Yan reluctantly stood up, with a few tears still in his eyes. When he walked to the window, he suddenly turned his head and choked: "You...will you let him live? He has nothing, parents." Don't let him go, his colleagues have betrayed him, he is really... no longer your opponent... I... I can take him far away, and never let him disturb your and Zhuge Yu's life... Please... please... leave him alive, can you? ?”

  Human nature dictates that we sympathize with the weak. When Shui Linglong was at a disadvantage, Guo Yan risked his life to protect her, but once Xun Feng was forced into a desperate situation, he felt that he could give up his glory, wealth, and even benevolence and morality to keep him safe.

Shui Linglong stared lightly, with an inexplicable meaning: "Children, please don't interfere in adults' affairs."

Guo Yan glanced at Shui Linglong in despair, then used Qinggong to leap out of the Mohe Courtyard and the palace. As soon as he got on the carriage, he asked Xiang Xiaohan: "Did you really see a female ghost last time?" Maybe it was. Jinshang Palace? Did she go to save Xun Feng?

 (End of this chapter)