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

Chapter 277 Marquis of Loyalty and Righteousness

Zhou Wangshu and Su Yaoguang moved into their new home.

The new residence is even larger than the previous Cheng'an Marquis's residence.

On the day they moved into their new mansion, they hosted a housewarming party for several families with whom they had a good relationship.

When Lady Jing'an appeared, Jiang Jing went to greet her and took the opportunity to examine her pulse.

"Madam, you are in very good condition now. You can stop taking this medicine once you finish it."

Lady Jing'an said with a smile, "It is all thanks to you that I have survived to this day."

"Madam, does the Marquis still dote on that woman?" Zhang Pandi asked curiously.

Lady Jing'an smiled faintly: "Recently, I've taken several new concubines for him, all of them young and beautiful. That woman does have a knack for bewitching men, but men are all very good at weighing the pros and cons. She gave birth to a foolish son for the Marquis of Jing'an. How could the Marquis possibly neglect his young and beautiful concubines and go to her room to see that foolish son and suffer?"

“Jiang Yihuan is quite shrewd; she won’t give up so easily,” Su Yaoguang said.

“My sister is right. Although that child is mentally challenged, he is still the son whom the Marquis has loved for so long. The Marquis has genuinely cared for him. Whenever she says the child is sick, the Marquis has to go and see him. Perhaps only in this way can he prove that he is not a heartless and ungrateful person.”

"It is your good fortune that you were able to see through his true nature and wake up sooner."

Lady Jing'an thought that the Marquis of Jing'an had been trying to curry favor with her lately, which meant he wanted her to give birth to a legitimate son.

Although she found him many concubines, the man could still distinguish between a beautiful concubine and a legal wife.

Even if a concubine bore him ten or eight sons, it wouldn't compare to the legitimate son born to his principal wife. In families like theirs, the legitimate son born to the principal wife was the one of high status, while sons and daughters born to concubines were merely second-best.

Lady Jing'an touched her increasingly delicate and well-maintained cheeks, thinking to herself that she would certainly give birth to a 'legitimate son,' after all, the Jing'an Marquis's mansion wasn't just home to him. She had endured so many years and suffered so much; the title of Jing'an Marquis would naturally belong to her son. She would also become the most authoritative old lady.

After the banquet, Su Yaoguang and Zhou Wangshu saw the guests off and happened to see Xiao Yanci riding back to the mansion across the street in a carriage.

She almost forgot that Xiao Yanci and Wang Ruyan used to live across the street, and their marital home was right across the street.

Xiao Yanci stepped down from the carriage and happened to see the handsome couple, Su Yaoguang and Zhou Wangshu. After their eyes met, Xiao Yanci's eyes were filled with hostility.

Zhou Wangshu is truly ruthless; he managed to destroy the Cheng'an Marquis's family in such a short time. Originally, I thought he was a fool for causing the Cheng'an Marquis's family to be raided and for him to lose his title. But the emperor turned around and gave him the title of Marquis of Loyalty and Righteousness, which can be inherited. His favoritism is so blatant.

However, his smile wouldn't last long.

Xiao Yanci staggered away.

Zhou Wangshu seemed to be deep in thought.

Xiao Yanci has been very quiet lately, so quiet that Xiao Yanci feels that some conspiracy is quietly taking place.

"Madam, let's go inside, it's so cold outside." Zhou Wangshu put his arm around Su Yaoguang and walked inside.

Su Yaoguang and Zhou Wangshu returned to their room.

While Su Yaoguang went to the bathroom to take a shower, Zhou Wangshu went out for a while.

The General's Mansion next door. Su Rende was about to return to his room to accompany his wife when he saw his oblivious son-in-law push open the door and come in.

"It's so late, why aren't you back with Yaoguang? What are you doing here?" Su Rende said. "Your family had a housewarming party today, and you just saw off your guests. Aren't you tired?"

Zhou Wangshu clutched his chest and said weakly, "My dear father-in-law, didn't you see your son-in-law is injured? I dare not go back, afraid of frightening Yaoguang."

Su Rende then realized that Zhou Wangshu was not in a good condition and quickly went over to support him.

"Where did you get this?"

"The other side," Zhou Wangshu said. "I noticed Xiao Ci hasn't been acting quite right lately, so I sneaked over to the other side to try and gather information, but I was discovered. There are only Xiao Ci and Wang Ruyan, their two masters, on the other side. How come there are so many experts?"

"Someone, quickly bring Jiang Jing over here," Su Rende shouted.

Not long after, Jiang Jing arrived carrying a medicine box.

Seeing that the person in the room was Zhou Wangshu, Jiang Jing asked worriedly, "Brother-in-law, does my sister know you're injured?"

“If she knew, would I still have secretly come here to find you?” Zhou Wangshu said, then turned to Su Rende and said, “Father-in-law, send someone to tell Yaoguang that you want to discuss official business with me and that you will be sleeping here tonight.”

Su Rende glared at him: "You want me to deceive my daughter?"

"I'm not lying. Didn't I come here to discuss business?" Zhou Wangshu said. "Have you forgotten how I got injured?"

Having just seen Xiao Yanci at the gate, Zhou Wangshu felt increasingly uneasy and sneaked into the mansion across the street. He had thought that even if he couldn't find out anything, he could escape unscathed with his skills. Who would have thought that so many experts were hiding in the other party's courtyard?

The tighter the defenses on the other side, the more problematic it is.

"Someone come here..." Su Rende ultimately didn't want Su Yaoguang to worry, so he sent someone to the other side to inform them.

Jiang Jing bandaged Zhou Wangshu's wound.

Zhou Wangshu was worried and told Jiang Jing not to let anything slip.

Jiang Jing didn't want to deceive Su Yaoguang, but Zhou Wangshu was injured and she didn't want her to worry, so it was a white lie.

"Brother-in-law, the person who hurt you was really powerful. Just a slight misstep could have killed you. You'd better be more careful in the future."

"It wasn't that he veered slightly, but that I dodged. If I hadn't dodged, I'd be a corpse by now."

This time, we really underestimated our opponent and were careless.

After bandaging Zhou Wangshu, Jiang Jing left.

Su Rende said, "You suffered such a serious injury and didn't find out anything. You've suffered for nothing."

“Father-in-law, the suffering wasn’t in vain. If there were no problem on the other side, why would so many people be stationed there? With his current official position, there shouldn’t be any national affairs that can’t be discussed with outsiders that require such strict guarding, right?”

"You mean..." Su Rende asked, "that he has a secret?"

"There's movement on the border; it seems they want you to lead the troops into battle. If you leave, the power structure in the capital will be reshuffled again. Father-in-law, why don't you go and lead the army?"

"I'll think about it," Su Rende said. "You should focus on recovering today, and we can talk about it tomorrow."

The situation on the border is still unknown. Whether or not to go to war is never up to him; it's up to the person above him.

Of course, he could also choose not to go on the expedition and give the opportunity to other generals.

For military generals, only by achieving merit on the battlefield can they have the opportunity to establish their careers. Ambitious generals are eager for this opportunity to go to war. However, he heard that the general sent to the border this time is a very formidable opponent, and apart from him, probably no other general can fight him to a draw. If he were to go to war, he would have no choice but to personally take to the battlefield.

Su Rende instructed his men to arrange a room for Zhou Wangshu to rest.

This kid was stabbed, the wound is very close to his heart, he can't be disturbed today, he has to rest well.

The next day, Zhou Wangshu roused himself and returned to the Marquis of Zhongyi's residence next door.

Just then, Su Yaoguang was carrying a fragrant soup into the room. Seeing him return, she said, "Come here, I made you some chicken soup."

"Drinking chicken soup so early in the morning?" Zhou Wangshu asked, puzzled.

"How can your wound heal quickly if you don't drink chicken soup?" Su Yaoguang said calmly.

Zhou Wangshu's heart skipped a beat: "Um... Madam... what kind of injury is it?"

Su Yaoguang ladled soup, placed the chicken head in his bowl, and said with a smile, "Don't you know? If you don't know, how would I know? Perhaps you can ask the chicken in your bowl that died with its eyes wide open; maybe it knows the cause of its death."

Zhou Wangshu: “…”

The lady is angry.

He dislikes eating things like heads, including chicken heads, duck heads, fish heads...

Su Yaoguang sighed and said, "Yesterday, Father sent someone to say that you had fallen asleep at his place. I thought you had drunk too much, so I brought some hangover soup to go find you, and I happened to overhear what you were saying."

Zhou Wangshu held her hand: "Yaoguang, I didn't mean to lie to you, I just..."

“If something like this happens again, you can’t lie to me anymore. I know you’re afraid I’ll worry, but it hurts me too! If you’re injured, stay by my side and take good care of yourself. I’ll stay with you and keep you company, so at least I can feel at ease.”

"Okay, this won't happen again."

The housekeeper needed to speak with Su Yaoguang, who went out to handle the matter.

Mingxiu came in to serve Zhou Wangshu and casually said, "Yesterday, the son-in-law was resting at the general's mansion, and the madam was staying next door to you. She stayed up late to make sure you were alright before leaving. She came back early this morning to make chicken soup."

"In the future, we should persuade Madam not to work so hard."

"Madam won't listen again. Son-in-law, you'd better be honest in the future and stop tormenting Madam."

Zhou Wangshu never expected to be defeated by Xiao Ci yesterday. In the end, things had been going too smoothly for him lately, and he had become somewhat complacent.

This incident served as a warning to him.

A few days later, Zhou Wangshu submitted evidence that Xiao Ci was the descendant of a disgraced official and impeached him during the morning court session.

The emperor was furious and immediately imprisoned Xiao Ci.

Prime Minister Wang immediately distanced himself from the matter, claiming he knew nothing about Xiao Ci's identity and demanding that Xiao Ci and Wang Ruyan divorce, stating that Xiao Ci would no longer be the Prime Minister's son-in-law.

Xiao Ci was imprisoned.

Zhou Wangshu returned from outside. Su Yaoguang came to greet him and took the cloak from his hands.

"I've come to see how your wound is healing."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Wangshu dismissed the servants in the room, loosened his belt, and took off his clothes.

Su Yaoguang examined his wound and nodded in satisfaction: "It's healing well, there's no inflammation, and the wound is healing very well."

"Madam, Xiao Ci has been imprisoned. The Emperor has sentenced him to exile," Zhou Wangshu said. "Don't you think all of this has gone too smoothly?"

“It really went very smoothly,” Su Yaoguang said. “I always felt like there was a hand pushing the story forward.”

"What do you say……"

"Then let's follow the direction of this hand and see what's ahead. Maybe after walking for a while we'll find out what's ahead."

Zhou Wangshu hugged Su Yaoguang and nodded gently: "You're right."

Since they didn't know what awaited them ahead, they decided to walk forward and see what it was.

Xiao Ci was exiled so easily.

At the same time, Su Rende also had to lead his troops into battle.

The harassment from the border is getting more and more frequent. If we don't send troops over soon, they might just attack us directly.

"Don't stop me, I want to leave here..." Zhang Zhaodi's voice came from inside.

Upon hearing Zhang Zhaodi's excitement, Su Yaoguang quickly ran inside.

"what happened?"

"When the general was about to go on an expedition, the lady was very excited."

Su Yaoguang quickly comforted Zhang Zhaodi: "Mother, don't get agitated, or you'll scare the baby in your belly."

When Zhang Zhaodi saw Su Yaoguang, she calmed down a bit, but she couldn't hold back the tears welling up in her eyes.

“Back then, when I was pregnant with you, he didn’t even show up. In those years, we, a widow and her child, depended on each other for survival. We endured so much scorn and hardship. Now that we’ve finally reunited, and I’m pregnant with his second child, he’s leaving us again. How long will it be before he comes back this time? He said he would make it up to me before, and this time he’s been with me the whole time.”

Su Rende rushed back from outside, took Zhang Zhaodi's hand and said, "Good madam, calm down. If you're upset, you can hit me or scold me, just don't get angry."

“What good would it do for me to hit you or scold you? You have done right by the people of the world and are a hero to everyone, but... I don’t want a hero husband. I just want my whole family to be together.”

“Madam, this happened so suddenly, I didn’t expect the border to be in turmoil again. Don’t worry, I will definitely protect myself and come back safely. This time I won’t lose my memory again, and I won’t forget you and the child.”

“There’s another way…” Su Yaoguang said from the side, “Mother’s belly isn’t big yet, she can go to the border with her.”

“No way.” Su Rende immediately refused. “Swords have no eyes. As the General Protector of the Nation, how many people want to kill me? It would be very dangerous for your mother to stay by my side. Not to mention that she is already carrying my child at her age, which is more arduous than for most women. If she has to travel long distances, she will have even more trouble.”

“I think Yaoguang’s method is good,” Zhang Zhaodi said. “I know the army needs to travel, so I will not travel with the army, but will follow slowly from behind. This time I do not want to be separated from you. Even if you are fighting on the front lines, I will wait for you to come back. My unborn child also needs to see his father in time, instead of waiting ten or eight years for you to return in triumph.”

"Yaoguang, look at this terrible idea you came up with," Su Rende complained. "Your mother is taking it seriously. You should quickly dissuade her from this idea."

The environment on the border is so harsh. He couldn't bear to see her suffer there while she was pregnant.

Things are different now. Before, he was just a farmer with nothing. Now he has a general's mansion, and as long as she waits for him to return in the capital, she won't suffer at all. Besides, the Emperor will also help take care of his family. It will be safer for her to stay in the capital.