My concubine is pregnant, I tear up the marriage certificate and marry another powerful official

"Have you heard? The wife of Lord Guo seems to have been beaten again. She screams every night. It's so pitiful!"

"Well, she was born in a humble family and has no support from her natal family. It is a blessing for her to be the wife of Mr. Guo!"

"That's true, but Lord Guo has so many beautiful concubines around him, who doesn't have a higher status than her?"

"What a miserable life..."

The waiter had just brought a pot of hot tea and a few plates of cakes when gossip could be heard from the table nearby.

Su He and Qing Yun both pricked up their ears and listened carefully. There was only one Lord Guo in Yanzhou, so it must be Guo Fei, the lady in his family who had no support from her family...

I wonder if it’s the palace maid beside Concubine Rong?

"Madam, I will go and inquire about it later."

"it is good."

There was a storyteller across the street, fanning himself with one hand and holding the table with the other, vividly describing the flood and the process of the plague, and then Lu Huaihe's name appeared.

"A Lord Lu came from the neighboring county. He acted swiftly and decisively. It only took him two days to thoroughly investigate the case of embezzlement of disaster relief funds! He then ordered the accompanying doctors to rescue the patients suffering from the plague in the city and effectively suppressed the progression of the disease! Otherwise, our Yanzhou would not have escaped the disaster..."

Su He listened carefully, and was actually a little absent-minded.

There were quite a few listeners sitting around the storyteller, and when Lu Huaihe's name was mentioned, there was a noisy discussion.

"The court still hasn't forgotten us..."

"Yeah yeah!"

"Poor Lord Lu, he actually fell into the water while inspecting the East City Reservoir. If he is still alive, he must be a good official!"

Su He's hand trembled and the tea spilled out.

They had just arrived in Yanzhou yesterday, and were afraid that they might ask the wrong questions without knowing the truth and expose their whereabouts, so they had not yet checked the details of Lu Huaihe's disappearance.

did not expect……

Qingyun walked up to the man who was speaking and greeted him.

"My dear, you said that Lord Lu fell into the water and died?"

The man sighed and shook his head: "The East City Reservoir is the largest reservoir in Yanzhou City. The river banks on both sides are more than 20 feet wide, and the water depth is impossible to measure! That night, someone saw a floating corpse in the reservoir and went back to report to Lord Lu. Lord Lu came here alone late at night, but an accident happened unexpectedly..."

"Did no one look for it afterwards?" Qingyun continued to ask.

"What are you looking for? Who would dare to go down into the reservoir? Besides, there has been no news for several days. I guess it's hopeless!"

After the man finished speaking, he looked at Qingyun carefully and saw that he did not look like a native of Yanzhou, so he asked, "Aren't you from our area?"

"Oh, I came to Yanzhou for business. I'm new here and I'm not familiar with the place yet."

"Is that so..." The man did not suspect anything.

After asking around, Qingyun returned to his seat. When he saw Su He's pale face, he also became depressed.

Since he entered the Dali Temple, he has only followed Lu Huaihe. He has received his teachings over the years and has long regarded him as a family member.

Hearing the news that he was missing and feared dead, I felt indescribably sad.

Suddenly, Qingyun had an idea.

"The master is missing, so where are the two doctors who accompanied him?"

If he remembered correctly, when the master left the capital, he took two doctors from the capital with him and there was no news of them?

Su He wiped her slightly red eyes with a silk handkerchief, suppressed her sadness, and pretended to be calm, "If it's true what that elder brother said, even if it was a floating corpse, Lu Huaihe would not have left two doctors behind and gone there alone in the middle of the night. There must be something fishy going on."

She turned to Qingyun and said, "Go check who Lu Huaihe has come into contact with since he arrived in Yanzhou. And check Yanzhou Governor Guo Fei as well. Since the maids of Concubine Rong stayed in his house, they must be innocent. Maybe..."

Maybe he was the one who created the disappearance case.

Qingyun agreed and stretched his muscles at the same time. Since following the young lady, he rarely showed off his kung fu and his skills were almost rusty.

After resting, Pei Xia took Su He back to the inn.

Guo Mansion.

Guo Fei had just returned home from the yamen when he saw the housekeeper handing him a letter from the capital.

He opened it and couldn't help but sneer: "A woman travels thousands of miles to find her husband. Does she think she lives a little longer?"

After reading the letter, he handed it to the housekeeper and asked about the situation in the backyard.

The housekeeper reported truthfully: "Madam only drank some soup today, and couldn't eat any rice or anything else. Your Excellency must have used too much force."

When the neighbors who were several streets away heard the hysterical cries and begging for mercy, they all knew that Guo Fei was beating his wife again.

Guo Fei didn't care about it and was even a little angry.

"At the beginning, it was the Empress who advised me to take her in as my wife, fearing that she would cause more troubles if she stayed outside and ruin the overall situation. Otherwise, I would have already established myself in the capital and challenged the government! Look at our Guo family, with the protection of the Empress and the general, who didn't thrive in the capital? Only I was driven to this remote Yanzhou and became a small governor?"

The people of Yanzhou have pure and healthy customs and the middle-class life is comfortable. What is there to be dissatisfied about?

The housekeeper moved his lips and wanted to explain, but he was afraid of being implicated by the adults, so he had to endure it.

"Saving her life is already a great favor to me. Do I have to hold her in the palm of my hand and worship her?" Guo Fei continued to express his dissatisfaction.

The housekeeper advised: "Sir, the Queen Mother has said that after the emperor passes away, you can do whatever you want with the lady. Now is the critical moment of the situation. Anyway, the emperor is about to die, and the lady will not live long. Why not let her live a few days..."

From time to time, the mansion was filled with the howling of wolves and ghosts, making it impossible to have peace and quiet, so that the maids and servants dared not even walk at night.

The housekeeper just wanted to do some good deeds for the lady out of her pity.

Guo Fei didn't care about the woman's life or death. He just thought it would be unlucky if someone saw her die in Guo's house, so he listened to the housekeeper's words.

In the small courtyard, a maid was applying medicine to a woman who was silently weeping. She couldn't help but feel distressed when she saw the bruises on her body.

"Madam, please stop talking back to the master. New wounds are piled on top of old scars, and your body will never heal."

The woman stopped crying and glanced at the unsightly body. Her eyes were filled with even more despair. "Azhi, I sent you to check. Is there any news?"

Azhi shook his head helplessly.

The woman had no hope in the first place, and seeing this situation made her even more heartbroken.

"If I hadn't communicated with Lord Lu and someone had reported him, he wouldn't have lost his life..."

On the other side of the inn.

As the sky was getting darker, Pei Xia opened the window and looked outside several times, but Qingyun didn't come back. Just when he was getting anxious, the door suddenly rang.

Su He immediately became alert, looked at Pei Xia, and was hesitating whether to speak.

"Who are you looking for?"

Qingyun's voice was heard outside.