Recently, there was a rare incident in the capital. It was said that on the day that the Emperor personally appointed Messenger Miao Ling to be married, the groom disappeared. The bride's bridal sedan chair went out of the main gate. The bridal sedan chair, along with the dozens of heaps of dowry, returned untouched.
Some people said that this female envoy was extremely ugly. Although she had the ability to call the wind and summon the rain, she was not liked by men. Moreover, the man she was going to marry seemed to be a relative of the imperial family. Some people said that the bride accidentally broke her leg before getting married and became a cripple. The groom was not willing to marry her, so he ran away. Some people said that the groom who ran away already had a lover, and the two eloped the night before the wedding.
Although there were different opinions, one thing was certain — the bride became a joke in everyone's mouth.
However, at this moment, Yu Shu, who was in the center of all kinds of rumors and slanders, was not as worried as people imagined. On the contrary, she never felt so relaxed again.
It had been three days since Jing Chen 'escaped' the marriage. The entire Yu Residence was shrouded in dark clouds. She did not shed tears of sadness, nor did she fly into a rage out of humiliation. On the day of the marriage, she opened her eyes in a daze and found a brocade pouch in her hand. When she saw the letter inside, she was so happy that she almost cried.
What happened next was logical. She sat in the sedan chair and went out. After waiting for a long time, the groom didn't come. News came from the Princess's Mansion that Jing Chen was missing. She ordered the wedding procession to turn around and go home.
Jing Chen left without saying goodbye. Yu Shu only had gratitude in her heart. All the things in the past were drowned by him when he turned around. This time, he let go of his feelings, and she also let go of her resentment.
Yu Shu waited at home for three days. The Great Commissioner probably couldn't find Jing Chen's whereabouts, so they finally found her, the 'victim'. When the Great Tipping Point sent someone to summon her, Yu Shu was in the stable brushing Little Red's back with her sleeves rolled up. When she heard the news, she calmly returned to her room and changed into a set of clean clothes. She took off the ring on her left hand and placed it under her pillow. Then, she followed the person to the Imperial Astronomer.
In Taixi Restaurant, Zhu Muzhao rarely had a serious face. When he saw Yu Shu coming in, he didn't comfort her, but asked, "Where did Jing Chen go?"
Yu Shu already had a plan, so she was not afraid of his cold face. She told him the truth, "He went to find his father."
As soon as she finished her words, Zhu Muzhao raised his hand and threw the paperweight on the table at her. Yu Shu didn't have time to dodge it. The hard jade stone hit her head, making a muffled sound, and then fell to the ground.
There was a sharp pain on Yu Shu's forehead, and then she felt dizzy. Her body swayed, and she barely stood still. She covered her head and looked at the angry man with a mocking smile.
"Do you think that you can rest easy if he runs away?" Zhu Muzhao said coldly, "You are courting death."
Yu Shu retorted, "Even if he doesn't run away, do you think that everything will be fine after you get the destiny bone?"
Hearing the hidden meaning in her words, Zhu Muzhao suddenly narrowed his eyes. "What are you trying to say?"
Yu Shu didn't fear death and told him, "The Book of Mystery Women's Six Rens that you got from Yun Hua is fake."
Zhu Muzhao was stunned, and his face slowly became ugly. He looked at Yu Shu with a sharp gaze and said in disbelief, "Impossible, you are lying to me."
"Don't tell me you still can't tell if it's the truth or a lie?" Yu Shu met his pressing gaze and repeated, "The 'Book of Fairy Maiden' that you obtained is fake."
Zhu Muzhao's face was completely pale. If he had a second paperweight in his hand, he would have thrown it at Yu Shu's face again without hesitation.
Seeing his expression change, Yu Shu felt an indescribable sense of joy in her heart. She added fuel to the fire and said, "If you still don't believe me, you can take out the Book of Mystery Women. Yun Hua left a secret mark on it, I can point it out to you."
Zhu Muzhao closed his eyes and thought for a long time. When he first got the Book of Mystery Women, he was also worried that it was fake. He had repeatedly appraised it, cut it with a knife, grilled it with fire, and even compared it with the handwritten notes left by the former Great Teacher, but he didn't find anything wrong.
He calmed down, tapped his fingers on the table, and said, "Gu Hong, bring me the Book of Mystery Women." It wasn't that he didn't believe in his Great Insight Technique, but he didn't want to believe that he would fall into Yun Hua's trap. Yun Hua was full of tricks. Since he could deceive him once, it was hard to guarantee that he wouldn't do it again.
"Master, please wait a moment."
Yu Shu heard someone responding to him in a low voice. Although she didn't see the person, the voice was slightly familiar. It must be his loyal servant, or else how would he know where the Book of Mystery Women was kept.
Zhu Muzhao looked at Yu Shu's calm performance, and the anger in his heart couldn't be extinguished, so he sneered and said, "Later, if you can't prove that the Book of Mystery Women's Six Rens in my hand is fake, I will let you taste the feeling of begging for death."
Yu Shu shut her mouth and didn't try to provoke him again. She frowned tightly, and her head hurt badly, but she didn't dare to slack off. She waited quietly for the time it took for a joss stick to burn, and the person returned. He walked in from the back door with a wooden box in his hands. Only then did she see the person's appearance clearly, and she immediately recognized that he was the person holding the sword who followed Zhu Muzhao that night in Rising Cloud Temple. It seemed that this person's Kung Fu was unfathomable, and even a peerless master like Jin Ke was afraid to fight with him recklessly.
"Master." Gu Hong put the wooden box on the table in front of Zhu Muzhao, but he didn't leave immediately. Instead, he stood to the side and stared at Yu Shu expressionlessly.
Zhu Muzhao opened the box and beckoned Yu Shu to come forward. "Come here and point it out for me."
Yu Shu gently rubbed the protruding lump on her forehead, gritted her teeth, and strode forward. She took the Glazed Crystal Treasure Book from his hands, lowered her head, and flipped to the back. She pursed her lips and carefully explored the uneven diagram with her fingers. After a while, her eyes suddenly brightened, and her fingers stopped on the Destiny Grand Bone Diagram. She said to Zhu Muzhao,
"Touch here. Is there anything different?"
Zhu Muzhao reached out and touched it, but he didn't find anything unusual. Yu Shu didn't reveal it for the time being. She pointed out a few other bones on the diagram and asked him to touch them one by one. Zhu Muzhao frowned, but he still couldn't figure it out.
Yu Shu sighed in admiration at Yun Hua's ingenuity in her heart as she revealed the answer to the riddle. "There are a total of eighty-one human bones drawn on this diagram. Most of them are indented, and only a few are protruding. You can change the strokes on these protruding bones and see what kind of character it is."
As she spoke, she took a brush from the table, dipped it in cinnabar, and wrote the character stroke by stroke on the table. The characters on the Book of Xuan Nu were all in seal script. Yu Shu couldn't recognize a few of them, but she had seen this character in the brocade pouch that Yun Hua had written in her own handwriting, and she remembered it clearly.
This character was pronounced as' fake '. Fake meant fake. Yun Hua used this character to mock Zhu Muzhao's incompetence.
Zhu Muzhao stared at the bright red character 'fake' on the table. His fingers trembled slightly, and he clenched his fists tightly. However, he couldn't help but tremble all over. He let out a muffled cough from his throat, and a trail of blood flowed out from the corner of his mouth.
Yu Shu was so frightened that she took two steps back. She didn't expect him to be so angry that he would vomit blood. When Gu Hong saw this, he hurriedly stepped forward and pressed on Zhu Muzhao's shoulder. He stretched out a palm and massaged his back to help him suppress the surging blood in his chest.
Zhu Muzhao closed his eyes tightly and slowed down his breathing. He tried his best to control the anger and hatred that filled his heart. It was just like twenty years ago when his father, Zhu Chang, drank poison to apologize for losing the Book of Xuan Nu. It was also the day he took over the position of the Celestial Commissioner. He secretly swore that he would recover the Book of Xuan Nu in his lifetime and replace his father to protect the peace and prosperity of Da An.
"I won't kill you." He opened his eyes and looked at the rebellious girl in front of him. His eyes flickered, and his blood-stained lips opened and closed. "Killing you is exactly what he wants. I will let you live well, and live better than anyone else. "
He would let her slowly sink into the swamp of power and desire, until the day she could not extricate herself.
Yu Shu did not understand what Zhu Muzhao was saying, but she knew that her little life was saved. She quietly sighed in relief. After relaxing, she felt her whole body go soft, as if there was a big stone on her head. It was so heavy that she could not lift her head and her vision became blurry. She opened her mouth and fell backwards.
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When Yu Shu woke up again, she was already home and lying on her bed.
Zhao Hui and Yu Xiaoxiu were around the bed. Seeing her open her eyes, one quickly turned her head to wipe away her tears while the other moved in front of her face, "Sister, how are you? Does your head hurt, are you still dizzy?"
Yu Shu subconsciously touched her forehead and touched a layer of cotton. She gasped and blurted out, "Ouch, it hurts so much."
Zhao Hui wiped away her tears and turned her head to scold her, "Since you know pain, why do you want to suffer? I know you have been feeling bad these days, but you can't hurt yourself like this. We can't afford to be friends with the royal family, but we can't do that. Where did your intelligence go? You're seeking death for such a small matter. Have you ever thought about our family? "
Yu Shu was dumbfounded. Who was seeking death? Who?
Yu Xiaoxiu also said with red eyes, "Sister, Jing Chen did not marry you because he is not lucky. If he ran away, then he ran away. Don't take it too hard."
After a long time, they misunderstood that she wanted to die. Yu Shu felt a pain in her head. She didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She waved her hand at them and said weakly, "Don't worry. I haven't lived enough. Why would I want to die?"
Hearing this, Zhao Hui was doubtful. She wanted to say something more, but she was interrupted by He Fangzhi who came in with a bowl of medicine: "Okay, don't talk too much. Let the child drink the medicine first."
Yu Shu escaped a disaster. After drinking a bowl of bitter medicine, she listened to He Fangzhi and closed her eyes to rest. She slept for the whole afternoon. After a while, Aunt Cui heard the news and ran over, but she didn't dare to wake her up. She silently sat by her bed and squeezed out a few tears. Then, she was coaxed away by Yu Xiaoxiu.
In the evening, Yu Shu woke up. The room was dark. She vaguely heard Zhao Hui talking to someone outside.
"Why hasn't that person left yet?"
"That's right, Madam. She has been waiting for the whole afternoon. Steward Zhou didn't listen to her no matter how I persuaded her. She insisted on seeing our Miss. If it wasn't for her weak legs, I really want to drive her out with a broom. I'm afraid that she will hit something and blame us again."
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