Transmigrated into the Scumbag Ex-Wife of the Prime Minister - Chapter 37

Lu Sheng finished roasting the pheasant and chatted with Qin Feiyan and the others for a good while, until everyone started preparing for sleep. Only then did she return to the carriage with some hesitation.

She tiptoed into the carriage and, upon finding that Qi Zhenshu had already fallen asleep, secretly let out a sigh of relief, though a sense of melancholy also arose.

Yuling was startled awake by her movements, let out a soft chirp, and then buried its head to continue sleeping.

Lying on the other side of the carriage fully clothed, Lu Sheng couldn’t fall asleep for a long time, so she raised her hand to pull back the curtain and look outside.

The sky was vast, the stars twinkled, and the silvery crescent moon hung diagonally in the night sky. The moonlight was hazy, emitting a watery, clear light that shone into the carriage.

Lu Sheng quietly turned on her side and looked at the person on the other side of the carriage.

The slender body was slightly curled up, resting diagonally on a bundle, a head of black hair was spread out like clouds, the skin was fair like smooth and translucent bone china, and the sleeping face was tranquil and gentle, completely devoid of the usual coldness and detachment of the day.

A gentle night breeze brought a hint of coolness, the curled eyelashes trembled slightly, and the body under the light blanket moved a little.

Lu Sheng’s heart thumped with fear. She quickly let go of the curtain, closed her eyes to pretend to be asleep, but couldn’t help but secretly lift her eyelids to look at the person opposite.

Qi Zhenshu closed her eyes, pulled the light blanket over herself, flipped over, and slept facing the other way.

Staring at her for a long time in a daze, Lu Sheng quietly let out a breath and then slowly closed her eyes to sleep.

‘Sister~’

‘Sister, wake up!’

‘Get up and eat!’

Unable to tolerate the tickling on her face and the chirping of the bird, Lu Sheng reluctantly opened her eyes.

What came into view was a patch of pinkish flesh with scattered white feathers.

Realizing what it was, Lu Sheng’s brow instantly twitched. She grabbed the neck of the unlucky parrot and flung it out.

Chirp~~~~

The carriage curtain was pulled open, and Qi Zhenshu walked in, holding a wet cloth. Yuling, the parrot that was thrown out, landed right on her chest and slid onto her half-raised arm.

“Shushu!”

“Bad sister!”

“Sister bullied me!”

Yuling flapped its wings, climbed up to stand on Qi Zhenshu’s arm, and angrily complained to her.

Lu Sheng froze for a moment, her eyes wide with a sleepy haze, looking at the human and the bird with a face full of questions.

Shushu?

Since when did this human and this bird become so close?

Qi Zhenshu lowered her hand and stroked Yuling’s crest feathers, then turned her head to look at Lu Sheng, her eyes carrying an inquiry.

“It was the one who rubbed its butt on my face first,” Lu Sheng pouted and said defensively.

Qi Zhenshu did not comment on the matter but spoke, “It’s getting late. We need to leave after eating.”

“Oh.”

Lu Sheng responded and sat up, then suddenly remembered what had happened yesterday, and turned her eyes to look at Qi Zhenshu again.

After putting away the wet cloth, Qi Zhenshu grabbed a handful of millet and fed it to Yuling. Yuling happily flew down from her shoulder and solicitously rubbed the back of her hand.

Qi Zhenshu’s expression was as calm and undisturbed as usual, but a layer of soft light floated in her eyes. As if sensing Lu Sheng’s gaze, she turned her head and said indifferently, “Something wrong?”

“No,” Lu Sheng shook her head blankly and quickly said, “I’m going to eat.”

“Mhm.”

The journey went smoothly that day. The convoy sped up and, as planned, reached Yingchuan City before sunset to stop for the night.

Since Lu Sheng and Qi Zhenshu were a married couple, Qin Feiyan only booked one room for them. Lu Sheng’s eyes flickered, wanting to ask for an extra room, but then she didn’t know how to explain it if Qin Feiyan asked.

She turned her head to look at Qi Zhenshu, only to see that the person’s expression was as usual, showing no ripple of emotion.

Lu Sheng had no choice but to swallow all the words in her throat and also pretended to have no objection, but her heart was already pounding like a drum in her chest.

Last night in the carriage, the two were sharing a space, but each slept on a separate bench, with a gap between them.

But tonight’s room only had one bed. That would truly be sleeping in the same bed, side by side!

After two days of continuous travel outside, everyone returned to their rooms to rest early after dinner.

Throughout the day in the carriage, Lu Sheng was troubled by worry, debating whether to frankly reveal her identity to Qi Zhenshu.

Several times she opened her mouth to speak, but backed down again when she saw Qi Zhenshu’s cold, watery face.

Carrying a heart full of trepidation through dinner, Lu Sheng lagged a step behind Qi Zhenshu, following her towards their room.

Turning a corner, they happened to encounter a maid in plain clothes carrying a wooden basin out of the kitchen.

The three met at the door of Miss Liang’s room. The maid in plain clothes bowed slightly and pushed the door open to enter the room.

Lu Sheng curiously glanced at the door.

For two consecutive days, Lu Sheng had only seen Miss Liang getting off the carriage from afar during meal times, and she was wearing a thick veil hat when she got off the carriage.

She had a very mysterious appearance.

“Miss!”

With a loud thump, the maid’s startled cry came from inside the room.

Lu Sheng peered inside and saw a patch of water on the floor by the doorway. The wooden basin the maid had been holding was rolling to the side.

Further inside, a pair of white boots with cloud patterns were visible near the wooden arched room divider.

Lu Sheng and Qi Zhenshu exchanged a look and quickly stepped inside.

The maid in plain clothes was half-kneeling on the ground, leaning over and anxiously calling out to the person who had fainted on the floor.

The woman on the floor was wearing a moon-white brocade long dress embroidered with bamboo, and a bird-patterned auspicious cloud jade pendant was hanging from her waist.

Her hair was slightly dishevelled, and she was wearing a semi-sheer face covering. As she lay on her side on the ground, the veil was half-lifted, revealing a small part of her profile.

“Miss, Miss.”

Lu Sheng wanted to step forward to examine her, but a rush of wind flashed past from behind, and then an arm blocked her way.

She turned sideways and saw Miss Liang’s coachman.

“What are you trying to do?!” The coachman took a step forward, completely blocking her path, and asked her vigilantly.

Lu Sheng’s heart immediately filled with displeasure. She said irritably, “I wanted to see if your Miss could still be saved.”

Upon hearing that, the coachman’s brow furrowed, and he looked at her with a fierce gaze.

Lu Sheng took a step back to put distance between them, pulled Qi Zhenshu slightly behind her, and stared back just as defiantly.

Qi Zhenshu looked at the person who was a head shorter than her, and a trace of an inexplicable emotion flashed through her heart.

Trying to save someone with good intentions only to be met with coldness, Lu Sheng felt deeply angered.

“Does Miss Lu know medicine?” the maid in plain clothes suddenly looked up, staring at Lu Sheng with surprise.

“No,” Lu Sheng said coldly, turning around to leave with Qi Zhenshu.

“Miss Lu, please wait!” the maid in plain clothes urgently called out to Lu Sheng.

She quickly got up and shot a look at the coachman, who lowered his head and stepped aside.

“Please, Miss Lu, help take a look at my mistress,” the maid in plain clothes hurried forward, grabbed Lu Sheng, and pleaded.

Although Lu Sheng was angry, she was not so cold-blooded as to ignore a life in danger.

She had just glanced at the young woman’s complexion, which was pale, and her lips were turning purple, strongly suggesting symptoms of a sudden heart attack.

“Does your mistress suffer from heart palpitations?” Lu Sheng turned and walked inside, asking the maid.

“Yes, yes,” the maid in plain clothes nodded repeatedly after a moment of surprise. “My mistress has a heart ailment.”

She secretly rejoiced that Miss Lu actually understood medicine.

“I only know a little bit of medical theory. You still need to find a doctor as soon as possible,” Lu Sheng said, glancing sideways at the coachman.

“Yes, yes, yes.” The maid in plain clothes suddenly snapped back to attention and immediately said to the coachman, “Ye, go quickly and find a doctor.”

The coachman was also instantly enlightened upon hearing this, quickly got up, and left the room. Qin Feiyan and the others, hearing the commotion, also rushed over.

“What’s going on here?!” Qin Feiyan walked at the front and asked in surprise when she saw the scene inside the room.

“Miss Liang has fainted for some unknown reason,” Qi Zhenshu turned her head to answer her, but her eyes remained fixed on Lu Sheng on the floor.

“Lay her flat,” Lu Sheng instructed the maid in plain clothes.

The maid immediately flipped the woman who had been lying on her side onto her back.

Lu Sheng leaned in and directly tore off the face veil. The maid’s brow jumped, and she wanted to stop her but it was already too late.

The woman had a delicate nose and thin lips, and her face was extremely refined. Even with her pale complexion, it could not hide her outstanding features.

She was an exceptionally striking beauty.

Everyone in the room sighed in admiration when they saw the woman’s appearance.

Lu Sheng was also momentarily stunned by the beauty but quickly set aside her appreciation.

Placing her hand on the woman’s carotid artery, Lu Sheng leaned her head and pressed her ear near the woman’s nose to feel for her breath, and glanced at her chest.

She could not feel her breath by her ear, and could barely detect any rise and fall in the chest. Lu Sheng immediately sat up, half-kneeling, and placed her interlocked hands on the woman’s chest.

She rapidly pressed down thirty times. Lu Sheng then raised her hand to push up the woman’s jaw, checked for any foreign objects, and then used her left hand to press down on her forehead and her right hand to support her lower jawbone.

She lowered her head, intending to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but then immediately straightened up and said to the maid, “Blow air into her mouth.”

In any case, this was an ancient world, and a woman’s lips could not be touched casually.

Lu Sheng did not want to cause unnecessary trouble because she was saving a life.

Moreover, Qi Zhenshu was standing right beside her.

“What?!” The maid in plain clothes exclaimed in surprise.

“Hurry up and blow!” Lu Sheng frowned and shouted, “Do you want to save her or not?!”

“This, this is against the proprieties,” the maid in plain clothes looked bewildered.

“I’ll do it!”

Seeing their deadlock, Qin Feiyan directly knelt down and asked with a furrowed brow, “How do I do it?”

Miss Liang was their employer. If anything happened to her, Qin Feiyan would have no way to account for it.

She was a person of the martial arts world and did not care much for those various rules of propriety.

“Support her chin, pinch her nose, and blow air into her mouth, twice.”

Qin Feiyan acted without delay. Lu Sheng saw the woman’s chest rise and fall, and then began the next round of chest compressions.

After each round of compressions, Lu Sheng had Qin Feiyan check for the woman’s breath, but round after round, the woman still did not breathe.

“Miss Lu, is our mistress still…” The maid in plain clothes asked anxiously, unable to finish the rest of her sentence.

“Try again.” Lu Sheng rubbed her sore arm and continued the compressions.

She continued this for a full five rounds.

“She’s breathing, she’s breathing!” Qin Feiyan noticed the woman’s breath and cried out happily.

Although the woman had not opened her eyes, her eyes underneath the skin of her eyelids moved slightly.

Everyone’s faces relaxed, and Lu Sheng also let out a big sigh of relief, exhausted and collapsing onto the floor.

Her backward-leaning back was met with something warm. Lu Sheng turned her head in surprise and saw Qi Zhenshu, who was standing straight behind her.

Qi Zhenshu looked down at her, her beautiful eyebrows slightly raised, and her tone was faint, “The floor is cold; it’s not good to sit for long.”

Lu Sheng’s heart warmed, and the dark clouds that had hung over her heart all day quickly dissipated. She smiled broadly at Qi Zhenshu.

Secretly sighing, Qi Zhenshu bent down and extended her hand towards her. Lu Sheng was slightly stunned, and then the smile on her lips grew, her eyes clear like a spring rippling with joy.

She took Qi Zhenshu’s hand and stood up.

Thump, thump, thump.

The coachman named Ye rushed in with a doctor.

Returning to their room, Lu Sheng hesitated for a moment, gritted her teeth, hardened her resolve, looked at Qi Zhenshu, and opened her mouth, “Qi Zhenshu.”

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