After separating from my mother-in-law, I raised my children, built a house, and filled the granary

"But who would have thought that after a while, Sister Xu said she had a stomachache.

Before I could react, Madam Lin came forward to feel my sister's pulse, but she couldn't find anything.

Sister Xu started having her period."

Concubine Liu explained clearly.

Shen Yunwan pursed her lips, her eyes full of coldness.

When she went to take Xu Qingxia's pulse, the child had already died.

She developed the toner cream herself, so she knew best whether it contained musk or not. It seemed like she had been tricked today.

Oh! Concubine Liu really has a good plan. She actually used the child to frame her!

It was also her fault for letting her guard down, thinking that this time would be the same as usual and nothing would happen.

The emperor looked at Shen Yunwan who was kneeling below. Although he could not see the expression in her eyes, he could feel the loneliness around her.

"Mrs. Lin, do you have anything to say?" The emperor's words brought Shen Yunwan's thoughts back to reality.

"Your Majesty, all the evidence points to me. I can only prove it myself. Please bring Concubine Xu Luohong's clothes to me, and give me a pot of wine and a wooden basin." Shen Yunwan remained calm and composed.

The emperor was silent for a while and gave A Shun a look.

Not long after, a young palace maid brought Xu Changzai's clothes. Concubine Liu sneered in her heart, wondering what tricks she could play. It was nothing more than a last-ditch struggle.

Thinking of this, she looked at Shen Yunwan with interest.

Shen Yunwan took the clothes swiftly, threw them into the wooden basin, and then poured a pot of white wine into it.

Seeing that the "bloodstains" on his clothes had completely dissolved, the emperor frowned.

With an angry look on his face, he looked at the doctors kneeling in the hall and asked, "Who among you can explain this?"

A highly respected imperial physician said, "Your Majesty, the bloodstains can indeed be dissolved by white wine, but this cannot be used as evidence."

Shen Yunwan sneered, "Aren't the imperial physicians in this Imperial Hospital the best in the world? How could they not even be able to tell the difference between cinnabar and blood?!"

Seeing the imperial physician's nervous sweat, Shen Yunwan knelt down again and said, "Your Majesty, even if I didn't say it, you should be able to detect the bloody smell in the air mixed with other smells, and that is the smell of cinnabar."

That's enough. Anyone who can sit on the throne is not a fool. I'm afraid the emperor has noticed it a long time ago, so he is so nonchalant.

The emperor lowered his eyes and looked at her, with an indescribable meaning in his eyes.

"Master Lin married a good wife!"

Lin Chengfeng said respectfully, "I don't deserve it. My wife is good at medicine, but it's just some trivial skills."

Having said that, he felt relieved, at least Yun Wan was fine.

Having said that, he made an excuse to take Shen Yunwan away in a hurry, completely ignoring the emperor's gloomy expression.

That is the emperor's family affair. If you stay there without knowing what's good for you, you will probably be blamed.

After they left, the emperor confined Concubine Liu to house arrest on the grounds of "improper care", and since Concubine Xu did have a miscarriage, she was demoted to a beauty and the matter was left unresolved.

The carriage stopped outside the Lin Mansion, and Lin Chengfeng helped Shen Yunwan get off the carriage.

Then, when he looked at Master Dong, there was inquiry in his eyes.

Dong Zehao sensed a strange atmosphere and looked at him with some confusion.

Shen Yunwan thought of what Lin Chengfeng had said to her in the carriage, curled her lips, and greeted him stiffly. When she passed by Lin Xiangxi and Lin Xiangbei's house, she did not see Lin Xiangxi.

Shen Yunwan went to the study and saw Lin Xiangxi reading in the study.

"Mother." Suddenly feeling the shadow at the door, Lin Xiangxi looked at the person at the door with some surprise and walked towards him with brisk steps.

Then he saw that there was someone standing behind his mother, his father.

Lin Xiangxi raised his eyes, suppressed his previous surprise, and returned to his usual expressionless face, "Dad."

The voice was as cold as ever.

Lin Chengfeng has long been accustomed to his son's double standards.

Lin leaned to the west and asked, "Mom, do you have something to tell me?"

Shen Yunwan followed Lin Xiangxi into the study. After Lin Chengfeng came in, he locked the door of the study.

As soon as they sat down, Shen Yunwan couldn't help but hold Lin Xiangxi's hand, "Xi'er, we have something important to tell you."

When Lin Xiangxi heard this, he straightened up.

He glanced at the person sitting next to him, and his father's face remained calm.

"Mother, did that person in the palace tell you something? Was it about me?"

Lin Xiangxi interrupted Shen Yunwan. He didn't want to see the embarrassment on his mother's face.

My mother and the others had just returned from the palace and hadn't even had a moment to rest before they came straight to the study to find him.

I guess he brought some big news from the palace.

Shen Yunwan was a little surprised. Is this child already so smart?

"Mom, if you have anything to say, you can tell me directly. I can accept it."

Lin Xiangxi also became serious, and only steadiness remained on his childish face.

Lin Chengfeng observed the young man in front of him and thought about what the emperor had just said to him in the study. It was undeniable that the man's vision was still vicious.

His son is smart, calm and ruthless.

The only weakness is that he is too sentimental.

"Why do you think that person in the palace looks at you with new eyes?" Lin Chengfeng stared into Lin Xiangxi's eyes and asked this coldly.

Lin Xiangxi pursed his lips, his eyes revealing a sharpness that could not be ignored.

He knew that the man treated him differently, and no minister's child could enter the imperial study and play chess with that man.

Not to mention the children of ministers, even princes rarely have such an opportunity.

What's more, his father is not even a minister.

Is it just because of his brain that his father can thrive in the court and be promoted so quickly?

There must be more intelligent people in Daiyue than just his father.

Could it be possible that that person could be as attracted to his father's decent looks as his mother was?

appearance?

Lin Xiangxi narrowed his eyes and looked at Lin Chengfeng. He thought of Ah Shun's respect for him.

This doesn't make sense.

Lin Xiangxi thought of a possibility!

"Dad is that person's relative who was left behind among the people?"

Lin Xiangxi was not sure about the relationship between his father and that man.

"Did that person embarrass Mother? Or did he discover Mother's secret?"

Apart from his mother's extraordinary abilities, he couldn't think of anything else that could make that person in the palace tell him about his father's life experience right now.

Lin Chengfeng had to look at Lin Xiangxi differently. He had guessed everything before they even said anything.

"That person... should have found out about your mother's abilities."

Shen Yunwan frowned slightly as she listened to Lin Chengfeng's words.

"Don't tell anyone else about this." Lin Chengfeng agreed with Lin Xiangxi's words. Now he could do nothing but take things one step at a time.

"Is your biological mother from Beijing?" Lin Xiangxi suddenly looked at Lin Chengfeng and asked this question.

When Lin Chengfeng heard the word "biological mother", he was stunned for a moment.

His biological mother? That's a rather uncommon name.

But it seems that there is no better way to call it except this. He can't call the Dong family that once put him to death his maternal grandfather's family. If the emperor hadn't secretly stopped him, he would have been beheaded long ago.

"Which family can you think of?" Lin Chengfeng did not directly mention the Dong family. He wanted to see if this kid could guess it.

"The Liu family?" Lin Xiangxi listed the families behind all the students in the academy.

A woman who could hook up with the current emperor must not be from a humble family.

Of course, there were also palace maids who were temporarily favored by the emperor.