The princess was fed contraceptive soup on the day of the marriage exchange, and she went crazy

The smile on Shi Huaizhi's face suddenly disappeared, and he just turned his head and looked at Yuanbao steadily.

Yuan Bao said innocently, "What I said is also true. It was the princess who said it herself."

Shi Huaizhi's eyes were so dark that ink seemed to drip out: "The lotus flowers in the lake are blooming."

Yuanbao looked over and nodded: "It's summer now, so it will bloom naturally."

Shi Huaizhi's voice grew colder. "I want to know how the lotus flowers in the lake are blooming. Why don't you row a boat to the lake and count how many there are in bloom?"

"what?"

Yuanbao suddenly turned his head to look at Shi Huaizhi, and only then saw Shi Huaizhi's obviously not very good-looking expression.

His heart skipped a beat. What was going on?

When did he offend this ancestor again?

"Why?" Shi Huaizhi chuckled, "Just counting how many flowers have bloomed isn't satisfying enough?"

"Why don't you just count the petals?"

"Count how many petals there are on all the blooming lotus flowers in this lake."

Yuanbao shuddered and ran away quickly: "No, no, no, it's fun, it's fun just counting flowers, I'll go right away, right away!"

Shi Huaizhi was looking at Sheng Nanzhi chatting and laughing with Yin Qiu from afar across half the lake, and he couldn't help feeling a little panicked.

It seems that what Yuanbao said is correct.

Sheng Nanzhi said with such certainty that she definitely didn't have anyone she liked.

Does that mean that she doesn't like him either?

He had read many storybooks and had seen what a woman who liked someone looked like.

But Sheng Nanzhi seemed to have never been like that in front of him before.

She was always smiling in front of him, calm and rational.

Is all this because she doesn't like him?

This thought made Shi Huaizhi panic uncontrollably for a moment, but he quickly calmed down.

It’s okay, what are you afraid of?

Even if Sheng Nanzhi doesn't like him now, she has already married him and is his legitimate wife.

Sheng Nanzhi had just promised that she would never do anything to bring shame to him.

Moreover, he and she had already been husband and wife.

Sheng Nanzhi even became pregnant with his child. At least, in this respect, he had an absolute advantage.

Even though one part was a little clumsy, no matter what, at least he kept her by his side.

Over time, she will always like him.

Mu Zhao was quickly escorted back to the imperial city. Perhaps the misunderstanding was finally resolved. When Mu Zhao was escorted back to the imperial city, Shi Huaizhi immediately told Sheng Nanzhi, intending to take credit for it.

"But Commander Lin has almost finished questioning Minister Lin, the scapegoat pushed out by Sheng Lin."

"The emperor probably wanted to take advantage of the situation and pinned all the blame on him."

"However, when interrogating Minister Lin and asking him why he bribed the servants in my palace to bury those weapons in Prince Yi's palace, Minister Lin refused to speak."

"From the confession submitted by Commander Lin, it seems Commander Lin has already determined that there is someone behind him who is directing this."

Sheng Nanzhi smiled: "If this is the case, the princes in the court will tremble in fear again."

"After all, no one knows who Minister Lin will finally confess to."

"No one knows who will be so lucky to be chosen."

Thinking about it this way, she had to admit: "I suddenly feel that your trick of pretending to be unconscious is really quite unique."

"In this way, all these messy things can be washed away completely without getting involved at all."

Shi Huaizhi nodded and suddenly pulled out a pair of red and green feather earrings from his sleeve and handed them over: "I saw an old woman selling them on the roadside when I took people to Jinxiu Lake to investigate the news a few days ago."

"She said she found these earrings while picking wild vegetables in the mountains. They must be feathers from some kind of bird in the mountains."

"She thought it looked beautiful, so she made it into earrings."

"But even though they are from the same bird, the two feathers are more or less different."

"Therefore, this pair of earrings is the only one of its kind in the world. They are one-of-a-kind."

"I thought it was interesting and seemed like it would suit you, so I bought it for you."

Sheng Nanzhi took it, held it up and looked at it in the sunlight coming in from the window: "It's quite unique."

She casually praised him, but caught the implicit message in Shi Huaizhi's words: "Did you go near Jinxiu Lake?"

She had heard of Jinxiu Lake.

For ordinary people, it is not a very famous lake and it is not very big either.

But for some people, it is an enchanting existence.

It’s just because all four sides of Jinxiu Lake are filled with various flower boats.

A flower boat is a brothel.

I heard that the flower girls on the flower boats all dance gracefully and have their own unique charm.

"Are you going to investigate Mu Zhao's affair with his mistress?"

The light in Shi Huaizhi's eyes gradually faded: "Yeah."

"I didn't find out that Shi Huaizhi had a mistress, nor did I find out that Shi Huaizhi was involved with any prostitute."

Sheng Nanzhi looked surprised: "No? Are you sure?"

Could it be that Mu Zhao and that woman haven't met yet?

It's not impossible...

"But on those flower boats, I saw a woman who Mu Zhao should be very familiar with."

Sheng Nanzhi was becoming increasingly confused. "You just said you didn't find any evidence of Shi Huaizhi having a mistress, or any involvement with any prostitute, yet you said you saw a woman Mu Zhao should be very familiar with?"

Is not this contradictory?

Shi Huaizhi shook his head: "Mu Zhao probably doesn't know yet. She is now on a flower boat on Jinxiu Lake."

Without waiting for Sheng Nanzhi to ask, Shi Huaizhi took the initiative to say: "The woman I'm talking about is the daughter of the former Minister of Revenue, Lord Wei, her name is Wei Mingyue."

"You were at the manor before, so you might not be familiar with the things happening in the imperial city."

"The former Minister of Revenue, three years ago, implicated his family because he embezzled too much money."

"Wei Mingyue went from being the legitimate daughter of the Shangshu Mansion to a prostitute overnight, and then disappeared."

"The Mu and Wei families are neighbors, and Mu Zhao and Wei Mingyue can be said to be childhood sweethearts."

"After the Wei family's incident, Mu Zhao has been looking for Wei Mingyue, but he hasn't found her in three years."

After hearing what Shi Huaizhi said, Sheng Nanzhi confirmed it without any hesitation: "It's her! There should be no mistake."

Shi Huaizhi looked at Sheng Nanzhi in surprise: "But Mu Zhao still doesn't know Wei Mingyue is over at Jinxiu Lake. Didn't you say that the girl in the brothel is Mu Zhao's concubine?"

Sheng Nanzhi couldn't explain it either, so she just said, "Don't worry about it, don't ask. It's her anyway!"

She quickly asked, "Hasn't Mu Zhao been looking for Wei Mingyue? Since Wei Mingyue is the daughter of the Wei family, many people in the city must have seen her, right?"

"Since she is in the Imperial City, how could Mu Zhao not find her?"

If Mu Zhao really doesn't know Wei Mingyue's whereabouts, this is definitely a great opportunity for her.