Shang Shixu approached the screen and slowly folded it from left to right, gradually revealing Lin Jingmo who was hiding behind the screen.
He raised his eyebrows slightly in surprise: "Madam?"
Lin Jingmo and Shang Shixu looked at each other: "It's me!" She said to Mother Li beside her: "Mother Li, go out and wait for me."
Seeing that there was something wrong with the atmosphere between the two of them, Li's mother hurried out and closed the door.
Seeing Mrs. Li going out, Lin Jingmo slowly said: "My husband came back very early today."
Shang Shixu didn't answer. He watched silently as Lin Jingmo came out from behind the screen, walked to the stool next to the table and sat down, and said, "Did Madam just hear that?"
"Yes!" Lin Jingmo straightened his body and replied.
Shang Shixu raised his hand and turned the ring on his hand slightly: "Madam is a smart person. Since she has heard everything, she naturally knows what to do."
"I... don't understand what your husband means..." Lin Jingmo frowned and looked back at Shang Shixu, suddenly feeling that he was so strange at this moment.
Shang Shixu also turned his head displeased with this sentence. He looked at Lin Jingmo with a scrutinizing gaze, as if he wanted to see through her.
He looked at the proud-looking Lin Jingmo in front of him, and felt a little dazed for a moment. The Lin Jingmo of the past overlapped with the Lin Jingmo of the present.
After a while, after confirming that she still had not recovered her memory, Shang Shixu turned around and said coldly: "Mr. Zhang Yiqian is a husband who cannot be offended. Please Madam, please let them go and stop intervening in the case about him and his son." p>
"Husband, what are you talking about?" Lin Jingmo asked obviously surprised: "Do you know what crime he committed with his son?"
Shang Shixu looked at Lin Jingmo seriously: "No matter what case he commits, my husband hopes that his wife will be kind to him."
"A noble hand?" Lin Jingmo was a little disappointed, but he still tried his best to explain: "Zhang Renhuai teased the singer Lian Xin who was in Ruixiang Tower. Lian Xin refused to die and was saved by Xu Zhou who was passing by. However, the innocent Xu Zhou was stabbed by him.
Stabbed to death! Lian Xin went to get Xu Zhou's letter to repay her kindness, but was pushed downstairs by the crazy Zhang Renhuai. Did you know? Lian Xin was alive until Zhang Shangshu learned that his son was in prison! He actually killed Lian Xin in order to silence her.
Also killed! Now, talk about being patronizing... When he was bullying those poor people, did he ever think about being patronizing?"
Shang Shixu raised his hand and rubbed his brows and said: "They are just insignificant people. I am about to set off to the north to investigate the case. This stall must not offend the Minister of the Ministry of War! Lin Jingmo! Madam! Just treat it like me.
Please, please stay at home these few days, okay?"
Lin Jingmo stood up in disbelief and walked to Shang Shixu, looked into his eyes and said: "My husband is going to the north, what does it have to do with Zhang Yiqian? You went to investigate the case openly, why did you conceal the crime for Zhang Yiqian?"
?What is the connection... between you two?"
"Madam, you have overstepped your bounds!" Shang Shixu raised his eyes coldly: "This is a matter in the imperial court. If you don't understand, why are you asking?"
Lin Jingmo argued with reason: "Yes, I shouldn't interfere in the affairs of the court, but I have seen with my own eyes that I can't do it if I lie, and I can't even sit idly by and ignore it!"
When Shang Shixu heard this, he stood up with anger. He grabbed Lin Jingmo's shoulders and said angrily: "Madam, do you have to go against me?"
"Being against you?" Lin Jingmo looked at his fingers that were constantly exerting force, endured the pain from his shoulders, and couldn't help but said with tears in his eyes: "Yes, what I have always done is right, everything is right! I saw
He kills people. Even if I don’t testify against him, if he kills Anyang Bo’s nephew, Anyang Bo will still not let it go!”
Shang Shixu looked at the tears in her eyes and suddenly realized that he had hurt her. His face gradually softened and the strength in his hands became lighter. He reached out and took Lin Jingmo into his arms, with a hint of distress in his tone: "
Madam... As long as you don't go to the government to report anything, I have a handle on Uncle Anyang, and he won't dare to disobey me..."
When Lin Jingmo heard this, he looked shocked and pushed away Shang Shixu who was holding him: "Is this your rule?"
Her face was full of disbelief. Her husband, who usually looked like a breeze and a bright moon... that scholar who read poetry and books and was full of knowledge... was now saying such heartless words?
Because they have value, do they have to cover up each other's crimes? Because they have a handle, can they use it to blackmail others into giving up justice?
Realizing that he had just made a mistake because he was too guilty, Shang Shixuan simply replied: "Yes, this is the law for me to be an official. Everything is for me to keep climbing up!"
"To...keep climbing up?" Tears fell from Lin Jingmo's eyes like beads. She looked at Shang Shixu with tearful eyes, grabbed his arm and said, "Including marrying me, right?"<
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Shang Shixu looked at Lin Jingmo who was crying in front of him. He was reluctant to speak for a long time and closed his eyes in pain.
"The person you really like is your cousin Han Zilan, right?" Lin Jingmo looked at Shang Shixu, who was looking away in front of him, and continued: "In that case, I will accept her on behalf of my husband!"
"I won't accept her."
Shang Shixu finally spoke and slowly opened his eyes: "Zi Lan has always been my cousin. She should not just be a concubine."
Lin Jingmo laughed heartbreakingly when she heard this. Her laughter was mixed with tears, and it sounded so bitter.
She is not laughing at Shang Sequence, nor is she laughing at Han Zilan, she is laughing at herself.
At that moment, she actually thought that Shang Shixu regained hope because he didn't like Han Zilan. Thinking about it, she was really ridiculous.
Her eyes gradually became cold, and there was sarcasm in her tone: "So, she must be the head wife! It turns out that I took her place... Then why don't you abandon your concubine? In this way, you can marry the real person in your heart."
The one I admire!"
"divorce my wife..." Shang Shixu repeated: "divorce my wife... I have had the idea of divorce my wife more than once in the past three years."
When Lin Jingmo heard this, he turned his back and lowered his head slightly. Tears in his eyes flowed down his cheeks, and his eyes no longer had the brightness and joy of the past.
Shang Shixu, who was behind her, continued: "But now, I just... just want to get along with my wife and even grow old together."
When Lin Jingmo heard this, she raised her head in surprise. She wanted to turn around and look at him, but she still froze in place because of disappointment.
Shang Shixu hugged her from behind and said softly: "I have been husband and wife with my wife for three full years, and we have only met a handful of times. My understanding of her is the same as other people outside, it is all hearsay. In these three years,
Madam never gave me a chance to get to know you, get close to you, or get to know you. Now...now I finally fell in love with you, but now you ask me to divorce you?"