Chapter 255: Being attentive

Just as the two were about to start eating, they heard a man's voice calling from outside the door.

"Aning, Aning, please let me in quickly. I'm Qingshu."

Qin Xiaoning was slightly startled when she heard the noise: "What's going on?"

She turned her head to look at Sister Wang: "It seems that Lord Shen is calling from outside."

When Sister Wang heard this, she suddenly looked uncomfortable. Qin Xiaoning called Song Zhi, "Go and see what's going on."

"Let me go." Seeing that Songzhi was about to move, Sister Wang hurried out of the inner courtyard.

After a while, Shen Qingshu followed Sister Wang into the inner courtyard. Shen Qingshu had a gloomy face. Seeing Zhao Yuan was there too, he raised his eyes and glanced at him lightly, then a hint of disdain appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"What's going on?" Qin Xiaoning looked at Shen Qingshu.

Shen Qingshu smiled awkwardly and replied, "The gatekeeper of your mansion actually stopped me from entering."

As he spoke, he glanced at Zhao Yuan with disdain, and then said to Qin Xiaoning, "That man stopped me and refused to let me in no matter what. I was so worried that I thought something had happened to you."

Brother Li, who was guarding the gate, was Sister Wang's man. Sister Wang, who was standing by, felt very uncomfortable and explained, "Don't misunderstand, Lord Shen. I'm afraid my boss misunderstood you."

Shen Qingshu has always been reserved, but today he looks like he wants to make things clear.

"Misunderstanding?" He smiled coldly: "It's not my first time here, doesn't he recognize me?"

As he spoke, he glanced at Zhao Yuan again and said bluntly, "This cunning servant must have some ulterior motives when he saw his master was here, so he deliberately didn't let me in."

Sister Wang was just a woman, how could she be a match for the top scholar Shen Qingshu? She was rendered speechless by his just a few words.

Seeing this, Zhao Yuan retorted to Shen Qingshu: "Sir Shen is being too paranoid. Miss Qin is a woman who lives here alone. It is Brother Li's duty to stop you, a foreigner."

Shen Qingshu smiled coldly when he heard this: "Isn't Mr. Zhao a waifu?"

Zhao Yuan's expression changed, and he replied hastily, "I am a doctor, and I came here specially to diagnose Miss Qin's pulse."

Shen Qingshu snorted: "I'm afraid Mr. Zhao's pulse diagnosis is fake, and your real purpose is to use this to get close to Ah Ning."

Seeing the two of them quarreling again, Qin Xiaoning said calmly: "You two can debate slowly here. I'm tired and I'm going to rest first."

"A Ning——"

"Miss Qin——"

Seeing that the other person was angry, the two of them became nervous, but Qin Xiaoning just turned around and left them with a cold face.

Songzhi glanced at the two of them and sighed slightly: "Forget it, our wife is tired, you two should go back."

Zhao Yuan rolled his eyes at Shen Qingshu, then left angrily with his medicine box.

After Qin Xiaoning returned to the house, she picked up needle and thread to make clothes for her unborn baby. She had just finished sewing a sleeve when she heard the door creak open from the outside and Shen Qingshu came in with food.

Qin Xiaoning glanced at him and asked expressionlessly, "Did you chase Young Master Zhao away?"

Shen Qingshu walked into the house, put the food on the table, and then stood not too far from Qin Xiaoning: "It's the order to leave under the pine branches."

The man was wearing moon-white clothes, which made his features and complexion look even more gentle and jade-like.

Qin Xiaoning smiled awkwardly when she heard this: "The order to expel you two should be issued. Since Young Master Zhao has left, why don't you leave?" Shen Qingshu smiled and jokingly replied: "It's not easy for me to come here, how can I leave so easily."

He glanced at Qin Xiaoning's face and said, "Because of me, you didn't even have dinner. I just heated up the food myself. Please eat it while it's hot."

Qin Xiaoning raised her eyes and looked at him: "Can you even enter and leave my kitchen at will now?"

As he said that, he snorted, “No wonder Brother Li wanted to stop you when you entered the door.”

Shen Qingshu still used a joking tone, as if to coax Qin Xiaoning: "Fortunately, that man only manages the front door and not the kitchen door, otherwise, it would be difficult for me to cook for you."

Qin Xiaoning was silent for a moment, then looked at Shen Qingshu and replied, "You don't have to be so attentive to me."

Qin Xiaoning could see what Shen Qingshu was thinking.

Just like Songzhi said: Mr. Shen likes you but doesn't say it, so it's hard for you to reject his kindness. He is smarter than Mr. Zhao.

Sure enough, as soon as Qin Xiaoning said this, Shen Qingshu smiled and replied: "You are pregnant, it is normal for everyone to be attentive to you."

As he spoke, Xu helped her sit down on the chair and said in an unquestionable tone: "Eat."

At this moment, there was another bloody storm in the capital.

The sage ordered people to arrest King Qing, and after a strict interrogation in the inner court, King Qing finally admitted the truth about the assassination.

Inside the Qinzheng Hall, the Saint looked at the confession presented by Chen Xing. He sneered several times, "Good, very good. The eldest son whom I have always valued wants to kill me, his biological father."

Chen Xing replied truthfully: "King Qing admitted to assassinating Your Majesty, but he has always refused to admit that the arrow was soaked with such a deadly poison."

Upon hearing this, the sage slammed the table in anger and said, "What difference does it make whether he admits it or not? Since he ordered his assassins to shoot arrows at me, isn't he hoping for my death?"

After that, the saint spoke in a cold voice: "Pass on my decree, execute the rebellious son, Prince Qing, and all the males in the palace will be implicated and executed, and all the female relatives will be demoted to commoners and confiscated into the palace."

After dealing with King Qing, the sage patted his chest and went to Zhanghuatai.

The emperor's thundering decree had now reached Concubine Jing's ears. When she saw Zhao Che, she went forward and hugged him, not letting go for a long time.

After a long while, Zhao Che sighed and said, "I didn't want to kill them all. Although I wiped out the Jiang family and killed Concubine Duan, I wanted to show some leniency to my eldest son."

"It's a pity that Prince Qing doesn't know your majesty's painstaking efforts." Concubine Jing sighed.

Zhao Che sighed after hearing this, and then sat down on the chair, sighing: "Forget it, since he is not doing well, don't blame me for being cruel."

Concubine Jing was silent after hearing this, and then continued, "It's just that King Qing did not admit to poisoning the arrow."

Before Concubine Jing could finish, the Saint sneered, "Does it matter whether he admits it or not?"

Concubine Jing frowned and said, "Since the King of Qing has admitted to the assassination, but has denied to the poisoning, I feel that there is something fishy about this matter."

The saint's eyes moved slightly when he heard this. After thinking for a while, he asked, "Are you saying that there is a mastermind behind Qing'er?"

"It's hard to say whether he is the mastermind." Concubine Jing said, "But I feel that this matter seems to be inseparable from the Lu family."

"Lu Ji?"

As soon as Zhao Che finished speaking, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest. Then, his body paused and he collapsed from the couch.

(End of this chapter)