Farmer girl swaps husbands: buys a sickly villain and pampers him

Chapter 274 Lure the snake out of its hole
Wang Shu, accompanied by officials, escorted all the monks from the temple away.

When the monks were taken away, the procession moved through the streets of the capital in a grand and impressive manner.

"What's going on?" someone in the crowd asked.

"I heard that these monks are not honest. They are monks on the surface, but they are actually bandits who rob and plunder."

"Aren't these the monks from Mingyin Temple?" a man said. "Cuihua from the next village can't have children. She heard that the Bodhisattva at Mingyin Temple is very efficacious, so she goes there every first and fifteenth of the lunar month. Not long ago, she actually got pregnant. If these monks are problematic and not real monks, then the child in Cuihua's belly might be illegitimate, right?"

"You can't just say things like that; it concerns a woman's reputation."

“Let me tell you, this is absolutely not baseless. Cuihua’s husband was injured a few years ago and has always been impotent, so Cuihua’s infertility is not her problem, but that man’s problem. They haven’t been able to conceive for so many years, but they started having problems after Cuihua went to pray to the Buddha. Don’t you find that strange?”

Everyone was sighing.

Late at night, at a temple.

The howling of wolves came from the back mountain, and it sounded particularly frightening.

During the day, many soldiers and officials appeared here, but now that the temple is closed, there are no more worshippers, and even the Buddha statues have become somewhat lonely.

On such a quiet night, in such an empty temple, dozens of men dressed in black suddenly rushed in.

They first conducted a series of searches of the temple, then opened the secret room and rushed inside.

"No, I fell into a trap."

When the men in black saw the empty secret room, they realized they had been tricked and quickly came out.

When they rushed out, a large number of soldiers had already surrounded them. They were carrying torches and had surrounded the men in black.

"Leave them alive." Zhou Wangshu made a gesture.

The officers and soldiers rushed over and fought with the men in black.

Zhou Wangshu saw several men in black brandishing knives at him.

In the still of the night, the stench of blood filled the air; death hung in the balance, one second alive, the next dead.

The men in black thought they were picking on the weak, so from the moment he appeared, he became their primary target.

As Zhou Wangshu's fighting style became increasingly reckless, the men in black found it increasingly difficult to cope. In the end, only five men remained alive, and they realized that this man was the most troublesome one.

"As long as you cooperate, we'll spare your lives," Zhou Wangshu said.

“We are under the control of our master. Even if you are willing to leave us alive, our master will not let us live,” said the man in black, number seven.

"As long as you cooperate and give me the information I need, I will get you the best doctors, who may be able to cure your poison."

*Puff! Puff! Whoosh whoosh whoosh!*
A large number of arrows were fired.

"Be careful, protect Lord Zhou."

The soldiers dodged the rain of arrows, knocking them down. When the arrows finally stopped, the five men in black were already dead.

The soldiers chased after the archers.

"Sir, they've escaped again." The soldiers couldn't catch up.

Zhou Wangshu pulled the arrow out of the corpse, examined the material carefully, and said, "This is newly made. Find out which company made it."

"Yes."

Zhou Wangshu squatted down and pulled open the corpse's clothes.

There was a totem on the corpse's chest.

"Check what this totem means."

"Yes."

Zhou Wangshu worked late into the night, but all his efforts were in vain, so he told everyone to call it a day and go home.

When he returned to the Marquis of Cheng'an's residence, Su Yaoguang had already retired for the night. He stood by the bed, looking at the fast-sleeping Su Yaoguang, and chuckled, "After such a bloody incident, you can still sleep so soundly. Is it because you're highly skilled and daring, or just heartless?"

Zhou Wangshu lay down beside Su Yaoguang and held him tightly in her arms.

"Ah... Ahhh..." In the quiet night, a terrified scream shattered the silence.

Upon hearing this sound, Zhou Wangshu covered Su Yaoguang's ears.

Xia Zhen woke up in the middle of the night and turned over to see a shameless woman lying next to her. Stimulated by this, she became energetic and more alert than before.

The next day, Zhou Wangshu had just gotten up when she saw Su Yaoguang sitting in front of the dressing table doing her makeup. She put on her shoes and walked towards her.

"You came back very late last night, didn't you? I waited for a while, but I was too sleepy, so I didn't wait for you anymore. You should get some more sleep," Su Yaoguang said while drawing her eyebrows.

Zhou Wangshu took the eyebrow pencil from her hand and said, "I'll draw it for you."

"Go to sleep." Su Yaoguang reached out to grab it, but the latter dodged her hand, holding her eyebrow pencil, looking like he didn't want to give it back. "Fine, go back and catch up on your sleep after you're done. You haven't been sleeping well; it's not good for your health."

"it is good."

Su Yaoguang closed her eyes, tilted her head back, and let Zhou Wangshu do as he pleased.

The eyebrow pencil tickled as I moved it across my eyebrows.

Su Yaoguang didn't notice anything unusual when she was drawing it herself.

She opened her eyes and stared blankly at the handsome face so close to hers.

Zhou Wangshu was amused by her expression: "Am I pretty?"

“Of course you’re good-looking,” Su Yaoguang said. “Who doesn’t know I love handsome young men? If you weren’t good-looking, you wouldn’t have ended up in my hands.”

Zhou Wangshu kissed her red lips: "You have such a sweet tongue, so I have to reward you properly."

"I'm going to Taoyaofang today to prepare for the new product event. Don't tease me. Give me the eyebrow pencil, I'll draw it myself."

Zhou Wangshu refused and continued to draw her eyebrows.

"All right."

When Su Yaoguang looked in the mirror, the disaster she had imagined did not happen. Zhou Wangshu's skills were excellent, even more unique than her own paintings.

"How is it?" "It looks good." Su Yaoguang said, "You've earned my approval. From now on, you'll be my eyebrow artist."

Zhou Wangshu chuckled.

Mingxiu walked in from outside and said to Su Yaoguang, "Madam, the second young master had a relapse last night. He seemed to have gone mad."

“He has a violent temper and finds fault with everything. He’s quite ruthless to his servants, but such people are also the most vicious. He would rather betray the world than let the world betray him. How could such a person go crazy?” Su Yaoguang exclaimed in surprise.

“It’s absolutely true,” Mingxiu said. “Perhaps it’s because he was too wicked that he met such an end, as evil people always get their just deserts.”

"What did the Lady Hou say?" Su Yaoguang asked.

“Madam Hou has been staying there since last night,” Mingxiu said. “If Heaven wants to take him, even a god couldn’t cure him.”

I've never heard of a mental illness being curable.

Su Yaoguang looked at Zhou Wangshu: "Did you do this?"

Zhou Wangshu did not deny it: "I just put Tong Qianbi in his bed and let them share a bed. Doesn't he like to abuse women? I'm so considerate to him, where can you find a brother like that?"

Su Yaoguang gave a thumbs up: "You're ruthless."

Zhou Wangshu first took Su Yaoguang out of the manor for breakfast, and then sent her to Taoyao Lane. After seeing her enter Taoyao Lane, he then got into his carriage and continued on his errands.

The Marquis of Cheng'an's residence is in complete chaos.

Xia Zhen was so frightened by Tong Qianbi that he went insane. Doctors came to see him, even the imperial physician was summoned, but the result was the same: there was no cure. Unless he suffered some kind of shock one day, such a shock would be like fighting poison with poison, and he would return to normal.

Lady Cheng'an was also a remarkable woman.

The doctor said that fighting poison with poison would be effective, so she beat Tong Qianbi and her servant to death right in front of Xia Zhen.

That's right!

Tong Qianbi became a useless pawn. In the eyes of Lady Cheng'an, she was like an insect, and crushing her was just a matter of a thought for her.

When Tong Qianbi woke up and learned that she had lost her face and turned into a wriggling worm, she was already on the verge of a mental breakdown. Now, the Lady of Cheng'an Marquis threw her out and beat her to death, completely ruining her chances. This shows how desperate she was at the time.

It can only be said that those who reap what they sow will not live.

Lady Cheng'an and Xia Zhen have completely reached a dead end.

“Madam, the young master has become like this, I’m afraid…” the old nanny said tentatively, “Does Madam still intend to deal with the eldest young master? Now the eldest young master is the only heir left in the manor. If the second young master cannot be cured, the eldest young master will become a marquis, and he will be the one who calls the shots in the entire manor. Should Madam start to cultivate a good relationship with him now?”

“If I get along well with him now, can we pretend that what happened before never happened? And what about back then… don’t forget. If he finds out, do you think he’ll strangle me? Therefore, even if Zhen’er loses his right to inherit, I can’t let him inherit the position. There are so many suitable candidates among the clan. I would rather adopt someone from outside than give the title to that Zhou Wangshu.”

“That’s not what you think, Lord Marquis.”

"Of course he wants his own son to inherit the title. But he doesn't consider that if that wolf cub regains his memory, given what he, as the father, has done, that wolf cub might not be filial to him. In fact, because of the Grand General of the State, we might even have to pay the price. Since he can't bear to do that, he'll make Zhou Wangshu lose his usefulness and leave him with no other choice. As long as Zhou Wangshu has no chance of inheriting, the other sons of the imperial clan will have a chance."

For those relatives, this was a windfall.

They spent their entire lives trying to climb the ranks of nobility, and although their main family had heirs to carry on the family line, both of them met with tragic accidents, leaving them with no choice but to have their relatives adopted into the Marquis's household.

"What about the second young master?"

"Send a few people to serve him!" Lady Cheng'an said wearily. "If I had known he would turn out like this, I should have disciplined him more strictly back then."

She only had this one son, and she wanted to give him all the stars in the world, but that's how she raised him.

Zhou Wangshu arrived at the yamen and found the coroner who was examining the bodies. He asked about the corpses of the men in black from the previous day.

"Aside from the mark on their chests, there are no other clues about these assassins in black. Come to think of it, I feel like I've seen that mark before, but I can't quite place it."

Zhou Wangshu said, "You often perform autopsies and have seen many corpses. Since you have this impression, it must be something you remember very well. Think back carefully."

“I remember it was a family totem,” the coroner said, “but it certainly wasn’t something that happened in the last few years. If it were, I wouldn’t be unable to remember. I’m getting old now, and I can’t remember things as well. Lord Zhou, there’s no need to rush. Let me think about it slowly, and maybe I’ll remember it someday.”

"Then I'll trouble you, senior."

The coroner was the lowest-ranking official in the government office. Normally, even the constables would yell at him. Now that such a high-ranking official was treating him with such respect and calling him "senior," the coroner's impression of him was even better.

"It's no trouble at all, it's what I should do." Originally, she was only doing a half-hearted job, but after hearing his polite words, she wished she could find this important clue on the spot.

His men returned from outside, carrying the arrow in their hands.

"We've found out which blacksmith made these arrows," the subordinate said. "But the other party is very mysterious; they only showed up to buy the arrows and didn't show their face at all."

How much did the other party buy?

"Ten thousand."

"Ten thousand?" Zhou Wangshu frowned. "That's not a quantity that can be completed in a short time, is it? Even the largest workshop couldn't possibly handle such a large number."

"The blacksmith said that this group of people has been buying arrows from them for the past six months," the subordinate said. "These ten thousand arrows are a six-month supply."

"Have all 10,000 units been delivered?"

"Speaking of which, you guessed right, there's still a batch of goods that hasn't been delivered, so the other party will contact them again."

"But we've already alerted them, so they might not show up again. How much cargo do they still have left to deliver?"

"A thousand."

Zhou Wangshu understood.

A thousand is not a small number.

Now that the other party has paid, they will definitely get their hands on the goods. As long as they keep an eye on the people at the blacksmith shop, they can find clues by following them.

"Have someone keep an eye on the people at the blacksmith's shop, and arrange for two people to blend in without being noticed."

After arranging things for his subordinates, Zhou Wangshu stayed with the coroner for a while. Seeing that the clues had run dry and no other clues could be found for the time being, he went out to look for Su Yaoguang.

The men under his command reported that Tong Qianbi had been beaten to death with sticks and had been thrown into a mass grave.

"Our people in the manor sent word that the second young master's condition is very bad. However, the Lady of Cheng'an Marquis has actually locked him up and is no longer taking care of him."

"Even if they are mother and son, people like them will only consider whether they have any use to them. Xia Zhen was the only child of the Marquis of Cheng'an's family before, and he was treated like a precious gem, untouchable. That's why he developed such an unruly temper. Now that Xia Zhen has gone mad, he has no chance of inheriting the title. Of course, the Marquis of Cheng'an's wife will no longer fawn over him. Because if she continues to fawn over him, she, as the Marquis's wife, will not gain any benefit."

"After all, he's her son. Doesn't she feel heartbroken seeing him like this?"

“People like them only care about their own interests; they have no sincerity. It’s not just her and Xia Zhen, but also my good father. Why do you think he was so eager for me, his son, to appear? Of course, it’s so that someone can clean up his mess. He’s been riding high using my father-in-law’s name for a while now; it’s time to pay the price.”