Chapter 70 Catch the adulterer
Song Shiwei looked at the man outside the window with extremely complicated feelings.
She rescued him from the river a year ago. When she first rescued him, he was covered in wounds and was poisoned.
It was because some of the poisonous blood flowed out of the wound that he survived.
But his face was covered with poison spots due to the poisoning, and it was frighteningly ugly.
She picked the person up and used the life-saving pills Guanglingzi gave her as a last resort, and managed to save the person.
But Guanglingzi was traveling around at that time, and the doctors in Qingshui Town could not cure the poison in his body, so she kept him here.
Because his face was so ugly, she made a mask specifically for him.
The poison made his voice mute and he couldn't speak.
So she gave him a name, A'mo.
From then on, she had a masked and mute servant by her side.
When she was bullied, he would stand up to protect her.
He accompanied her up the mountains and down the rivers, played with her and made noises with her. Gradually, she got used to having him by her side, and half a year passed in a flash.
It was not until Guanglingzi returned to Qingshui Town that she took him to seek medical treatment, and then learned from Guanglingzi that her father was going to take her back to Beijing and let her get married.
After coming back, she plucked up the courage to ask A'mo if he was willing to elope with her?
That very night, A'mo left without saying goodbye and has never been heard from since.
Only then did she realize that everything that had happened in the past was just her wishful thinking.
Seeing him again now, Song Shiwei felt mixed emotions.
Whether she admits it or not, A'mo is the only man she has ever had feelings for, and she should say goodbye to the past.
Song Shiwei took a deep breath, walked to the window, and smiled faintly: "Long time no see!"
The man said nothing. He walked in front of Song Shiwei. They looked at each other with a window between them.
Suddenly he reached out and hugged Song Shiwei.
Just then, Song Mingzhu's voice came from outside: "Where's my sister?"
Song Shiwei opened her eyes wide and for a moment she even forgot to open the man's arms. By the time she reacted, the footsteps were getting closer.
"Sister, my brother-in-law's clothes are dirty. I'll bring him here to change into new ones."
Shen Linchuan rushed in before Song Mingzhu and saw Song Shiwei standing in front of the window with her back to them.
He looked around and saw no one else in the room.
He secretly breathed a sigh of relief and called out, "My wife."
Song Shiwei turned around, looked at the dirt on Shen Linchuan and asked, "How did you do it?"
Shen Linchuan said: "The servant accidentally spilled tea on me, and Sister Mingzhu said you have some clean clothes here."
Song Shiwei glanced at Song Mingzhu. She didn't bring Shen Linchuan here to change clothes, but to catch him cheating.
And she was almost tricked by the mother and daughter.
She narrowed her eyes and said in a cold voice: "Mother is really thoughtful. She not only prepared clothes for me, but also for you, my husband."
Song Shiwei looked at Song Mingzhu and said, "When I came here last time, this room was covered in dust and uninhabitable.
Now it looks brand new, even the furnishings in the room have been replaced with new ones, my mother really took great pains."
She smiled and pointed at the clothes on the table and said, "Husband, pick one and see if the clothes your mother prepared for you fit you."
Shen Linchuan looked at the rows of trays on the table, which contained women's jewelry and clothes as well as men's.
If it was really prepared for the adulterer, it should be hidden so that no one could find it.
The fact that it was laid out so openly on the table meant that there was no adulterer at all.
Did he think too much?
Shen Linchuan picked up a piece of clothing randomly and said, "Let's take this one."
Song Shiwei said, "The room next door is still empty, please go change it, my husband."
Shen Linchuan nodded, took the clothes and left.
Song Mingzhu stood there, completely confused. Didn't her mother say that she had prepared an adulterer for Song Shiwei in the room?
What about others?
She didn't know what went wrong. If they came in, they should have seen Song Shiwei having an affair with someone.
"Sister, you don't look very well, but what's wrong with you?"
Song Shiwei walked over, held Song Mingzhu's hand and asked with concern.
"you……"
Song Mingzhu wanted to question Song Shiwei, but she finally held back. She waved Song Shiwei's hand away and said, "I don't want you to be so hypocritical."
She snorted and turned away.
After she left, Song Shiwei went to the next room.
When she opened the door, she saw Shen Linchuan standing there with a look of astonishment on his face, holding new clothes in his hands.
There was a man tied to the ground with a silver mask on his face.
Seeing Song Shiwei coming in, Shen Linchuan asked, "Madam, what...what's going on?"
Song Shiwei said: "My husband is so smart, what do you think is going on? This person is the adulterer that Zhou prepared for me."
She looked at Shen Linchuan and said, "I guess my husband must have already determined that I was having an affair with someone else on the way here, so he couldn't wait to catch us in the act, right?"
"No, that's not the case."
Shen Linchuan was a little annoyed. How could he have fallen into Zhou's trap?
Thinking back on everything that had happened, from Zhou accidentally mentioning the masked man to him seeing that there was indeed such a person.
When the servant knocked over the teapot and soiled his clothes, Song Mingzhu appeared in time and told him that Song Shiwei had clothes prepared for him in her room.
All of this, one thing after another, was designed by them, just to make him suspect that Song Shiwei was having an affair with someone else.
It was he who was careless.
Zhou bribed Taoist Zixu to frame his mother and wanted Song Shiwei to be divorced by the Shen family.
She had always harbored ill will towards Song Shiwei, yet he foolishly believed what Zhou said.
This mother and daughter are really vicious.
It was obvious that Zhou did this to destroy Song Shiwei and this marriage, making the Shen family a laughing stock.
He was furious and explained hastily, “How could I not believe my wife?
I had long suspected that the mother and daughter had bad intentions, so I rushed here in a hurry to save you."
"That's pretty much it."
Song Shiwei snorted and said, "Fortunately, I was wearing something to protect myself, otherwise I would have been tricked by Zhou.
Last time, Zhou bribed Taoist Zixu to frame my mother and wanted me to be divorced by the Shen family. Now, she has set up such a sinister and vicious plan to ruin my reputation. Can my husband really swallow this?"
Shen Linchuan narrowed his eyes. Zhou was so vicious that he would not let it go. He said, "I will take this person to see my father-in-law right away."
Song Shiwei held him back and said, "My husband, you are too naive. It's useless even if you bring this up in front of my father. I am a married daughter and the water is spilled. Do you think he will turn against his wife because of me?"
Shen Linchuan looked gloomy and unwilling: "Are we just going to let Zhou go like this?"
Song Shiwei looked at Shen Linchuan and asked, "Husband, do you want to marry Sister Mingzhu?"
Shen Linchuan was shocked. He frowned and said, "Madam, what do you mean?"