Author: Feng Si Niang

"...Then I will help you -"

What Du Ruolan saw and heard made her pupils shrink suddenly——

She knew about the pimple-like things on Sheng Yu's body; she even knew it before him.

Could it be that she infected him? The Hualiu disease that was transmitted to Long Wanzong originated from her?

Before Du Ruolan could sort out her confused thoughts, Sheng Yu was captured and screamed like a pig being slaughtered. Concubine Long was ordering someone to capture him and take him somewhere.

Du Ruolan was even more frightened. She didn't even know that the maid holding her umbrella had missed the target, and let the heavy rain wet her bun.

If Concubine Long takes Sheng Yu away and is lynched, what will she do? Will she become a widow? What if Sheng Yu betrays her again?...

Du Ruolan's mind was in turmoil, and she was almost knocked down by a speeding black figure when she was distracted——

Behind the black shadow, the beautiful figure wearing a moon-white gown helped her, and also straightened the maid's umbrella that was holding her crookedly.

Du Ruolan blinked the raindrops in front of her eyes and saw clearly the person in front of her. Isn't it Lin Ling who had repeatedly ridiculed her after she got married?

At this time, Lin Ling was closely following the figure of her husband Sheng Ruchi. In order to hold an umbrella to shield the tall and long-legged Sheng Ruchi from the rain, she could only run all the way.

The heavy rain wetted her white dress and clung to her calves, like a white jasmine drenched in rain.

Sheng Ruchi was neatly dressed but did not hold an umbrella. He respectfully bowed to Concubine Long and stood up without waiting for her to speak.

Lin Ling, the legitimate daughter of a noble family, followed closely behind, and Sheng Ruchi followed closely behind.

After bowing respectfully and without making any mistakes, he did not stand up, but came behind his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and held an umbrella for them with a tall and upright posture.

In the former case, the elder bowed his head and fell to the ground, while in the latter case, the daughter-in-law was so powerful that the scene was very funny for a moment.

"Bold -" the father-in-law said in a drake voice, "Mother, will you let me stand up?"

"My father-in-law is wrong. I am an official of the imperial court, and the empress is a concubine in the harem. No matter how high the empress is, she is still the concubine of the emperor, not the mother of the country.

Although I dare not be called a good assistant to the country, I am still an official appointed by the imperial court; how can I make the pillar of the country bow to the emperor's concubine and still lie down?"

Sheng Ruchi answered neither humble nor arrogantly, but his parents who had been kneeling to power and power for a long time behind him were very ashamed and did not know whether to stand up or kneel down.

The father-in-law was speechless. Looking at the upright young lady Sheng kneeling behind him, he didn't know whether Sheng Ruchi was polite or rude.

"Haha~" Concubine Long was laughed out of anger,

"Sheng Ruchi, Mr. Shanda, you are indeed much better than your pretending father, your shrew mother, and your shameless cousin;

But you have to know that I am not a kind-hearted person who cherishes his talents. I will not appreciate you if you disrespect me like this——"

Sheng Ruqi arched her hands:

"The empress is joking, what can a minister do if he wants to be appreciated by the concubine? Even if the empress is favored by the saints and her family is extremely powerful, there is no reason to seize people from other people's houses and have them lynched;

I also know that the empress is sad that Mr. Long is gone. If my unlucky cousin is indeed involved in this murder case, the empress can just appoint the officials of the Criminal Department to solve the case. Why bother to go out of the palace to get someone?"

"You clearly know that my miserable nephew was infected with the flower-willow disease by your cousin. Do you want me to bring this matter to the Ministry of Punishment and make it known to the whole world and ridicule my nephew?"

Concubine Long smiled instead of getting angry, and she went back and forth with the Sheng family, a straight-backed talkative.

“Some things are easy to say but not easy to say, and some things are easy to hear but not easy to say. As for this matter, it is neither easy to hear nor easy to say;

Please ask yourself, the disease will not cause death in the short term, and the way of death will not be like Mr. Long.

Even if it was really Chen's unsatisfactory cousin who passed it on to Mr. Long, what's the use of killing him now?

After all, the empress concealed her identity and left the palace, hoping to use her power to take away my cousin, just to vent her personal anger;

If the Holy One knew about it, I'm afraid he wouldn't approve..."

Before Sheng Ruchi finished speaking, one of the leading guards immediately drew out his sword from its sheath, holding it against Sheng Ruchi's neck. The buzzing sound of the sharp blade in the rain was like the clatter of cicadas left behind when the end of late summer.

The rain washed the blade colder and colder, and a hint of light red appeared faintly. This was a knife that drank countless blood.

As long as the imperial concubine gave the order, the man dared to chop Sheng Ruchi.

When Sheng Yusheng and his wife saw such a scene, their bodies froze and they did not dare to breathe.

Lin Ling stood up calmly, walked to Sheng Ruchi's side silently, and expressed through actions that they vowed to live together as husband and wife.

"Hahahaha, Sheng Ruchi, you really impress me. It turns out there is someone in your Sheng family."

Concubine Long stood up and took off her hood, holding her hands and laughing.

She walked down the steps, and the father-in-law hurriedly held up the umbrella. Concubine Long stood very close to Sheng Ruchi, and then she became a little angry.

Because of the height difference, she had to look up to see Sheng Ruchi:

"You know that even if I don't take Sheng Yu away today, I still have ten thousand ways to make him unable to survive or die, right?

Even if I don’t do it, there are many people rushing to help me do it. Among these people, there may be your father, Sheng Yu’s biological uncle.”

Sheng Ruchi spontaneously took a half step back and returned to:

"I'm still saying the same thing: Sheng Yu's crime needs to be convicted by the official of the Ministry of Punishment."

"Humph! You're stubborn!"

Concubine Long flicked her sleeves and strode out of Sheng Mansion, never looking at Sheng Ruchi or even Sheng Yu again.

Sheng Yusheng sat down on the ground as if exhausted: It's over, it's over, the Sheng family has been completely defeated...

Mrs. Sheng broke away from Lin Ling's support and threw herself on Sheng Ruchi:

"My son, why are you so stupid? We will suffer if the imperial concubine is angry. What are you doing? She is not targeting us. What will happen to you and your father's career now...

…”

Mrs. Sheng was completely heartbroken now, crying so hard that her heart broke.

Those eyes looked at Sheng Yu, wishing he could chop this nephew alive for offending the imperial concubine.

Sheng Ruchi held the umbrella for his mother, took the girl's cloak and put it on his wife, hugging her tightly:

"Mother, this is against the rules. Concubines are not allowed to interfere in politics, and Long Wanzong's death had nothing to do with Sheng Yu indeed;

If we let the imperial concubine take away Sheng Yu today, and word spreads that our Sheng family no longer has to stay in the capital, what kind of family will think highly of us?

If the imperial concubine was not a narrow-minded person, she would not have done what she did today;

If she had a grudge against Sheng Yu for taking him away today, she couldn't be expected to remember the goodness of the Sheng family in handing over Sheng Yu.

In the end, it is a blessing, not a curse, but it is a curse that cannot be avoided.”

Mrs. Sheng was not a fool. She accepted her fate after thinking about it for a moment. She just wondered why it was not Sheng Yu who died first but the short-lived Long Wanzong?

Why was Hualiu disease not a serious disease that killed Sheng Yu immediately?

As for Sheng Yu, her clothes were messy and she was sitting dully in the rain curtain, like a statue.
Chapter completed!