Chapter 765 - Chapter 765: Corpse (1)
Chapter 765: Corpse (1)
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Shen Yijia woke up at dawn. She rubbed her eyes and glanced at the neatly folded clothes at the side—a new set of incense-colored dresses.
Seeing this dress, she remembered that she had slept with Ji Luo last night.
Ji Luo had spent more than a month making this dress for her.
On the way from Phoenix Town to Phoenix City, she would take it out to embroider whenever she had time.
Ji Luo’s culinary skills were on par with hers, but her needlework was much better than hers.
Shen Yijia hugged her clothes and rolled around on the bed. She quickly put on her clothes and went out.
There was a well in the backyard, and they usually went there to wash up.
She had to pa.s.s by her and Song Jingchen’s room to go to the backyard. From afar, she saw Thirty Thousand sleeping under the eaves of the house. Shen Yijia ran over and patted his shoulder. “There’s a fire.”
Thirty Thousand jumped up in fear. “Where’s the fire?”
Seeing Shen Yijia’s evil smile, he heaved a sigh of relief. He thought of something and exclaimed, “It’s dawn?”
“That’s right. It’s dawn.” Shen Yijia crossed her arms and asked suspiciously,
“Why are you sleeping here? I don’t see you being so responsible usually.”
She blinked and asked mysteriously, “Is it because I’m not around and my husband doesn’t feel safe sleeping, so he asked you to stand guard here?”
Thirty Thousand choked. For a moment, he did not know what to say. He simply pushed open the door behind him and entered the house.
Shen Yijia glared at him and quickly followed him. She said softly, “Keep your voice down. Don’t disturb my husband’s sleep… Eh, my husband is up so early?”
The bed was empty, and the blanket was neatly folded. Song Jingchen was nowhere to be seen.
“It’s over, it’s over. Master didn’t return last night.”
Shen Yijia paused. “What did you say? My husband went out last night?”
“That’s right. At the end of the night, Master didn’t say anything and asked me to lead the horses. I asked him if he wanted to tell Young Madam, but he said that he would be back soon, but it’s been a night…” Thirty Thousand panicked completely and spoke incoherently.
At midnight? It was probably seven o’clock when she went to her mother’s room yesterday. At midnight, she had already fallen asleep.
“Could it be that he got up and went to the backyard to wash up?” Shen Yijia said as she went to the backyard.
Just as she reached the arch, she met Ji Luo, who was coming from the backyard. Seeing her anxious expression, she frowned and asked, “Jiajia, what’s wrong?”
“Have you seen my husband?”
“Ah Chen?” Ji Luo shook his head and asked, “Isn’t he in his room?”
After getting up, she went to the kitchen first. Seeing that MO Yuan was preparing breakfast, she went to the backyard to wash up.
This residence was only so big. If Song Jingchen got up, someone would definitely have b.u.mped into him.
“No, Thirty Thousand said that my husband went out last night at midnight.”
As soon as she finished speaking, the sound of hooves came from outside the courtyard. The sound of hooves stopped at the door.
Without waiting for a knock on the door, Shen Yijia darted out and opened it. It was indeed Song Jingchen outside the door. He was still wearing the clothes from yesterday.
“Hubby, where did you go?” Shen Yijia pounced on him.
Song Jingchen held the horse rope with one hand and kept his other hand raised. He paused and patted Shen Yijia’s back comfortingly. “Let’s go in and talk.”
He handed the horse to Thirty Thousand and led Shen Yijia into the house.
They had only taken two steps when they heard the sound of hooves again. They turned around at the same time.
A group of armored soldiers riding armored horses turned into the alley they were in.
Song Jingchen’s expression instantly turned solemn. He subconsciously tightened his grip on Shen Yijia’s hand.
Shen Yijia turned to look at him suspiciously.
Song Jingchen looked at the oncoming team without blinking. He tilted his head slightly and said in a low voice, “Yesterday, you said that you heard MO Yu and the Yu family conspiring. Later on, I suddenly remembered that I wanted to stop them because I didn’t want the Wu Kingdom to cooperate with the Xuanyuan Kingdom. Similarly, the Wu Kingdom wouldn’t be willing to see us cooperate with the Xuanyuan Kingdom, but you’re Lord Jing’an’s daughter. With this relationship, our chances of winning are higher on the surface. In addition, the emperor didn’t see them yesterday, but he saw me. The people of the Wu Kingdom will definitely be anxious.”
“If they want to stop us, the best way is to attack Lord Jing’an. I went out last night to remind His Highness to be careful.”
Shen Yijia was now equivalent to the bridge between Great Xia and the Xuanyuan Kingdom, but the decision was in the hands of the emperor. It was useless to attack Shen Yijia, but Xuanyuan Ce was different..