Transmigrated into the Scumbag Ex-Wife of the Prime Minister - Chapter 98

Lu Sheng’s visit to Qingzhou this time was arranged with Qi Zhenshu in a letter written a few days prior. Therefore, on the day she arrived, Qi Zhenshu was already waiting at the dock for the boat.

What she hadn’t expected was that the mother and daughter who stepped off the boat both had one arm in a sling.

Two extremely similar faces, with the same joyful and excited expression, looked towards Qi Zhenshu, causing her to quicken her pace.

Qi Zhenshu stepped forward, took the bundle from Lu Sheng’s shoulder, and then picked up the child.

After almost five months, the little one had indeed grown quite a bit and was more solid.

The little one hugged Qi Zhenshu’s neck with the uninjured arm, her eyes brimming with laughter, “Mother.”

Qi Zhenshu also smiled, smoothed the wisps of hair on the child’s forehead, and said softly, “You’ve grown.”

The little one smiled shyly, and Qi Zhenshu turned to look at Lu Sheng.

Before Qi Zhenshu could ask, Lu Sheng proactively explained how she had injured her arm.

Qi Zhenshu couldn’t bear to blame her. After giving her some instructions, she took them back to the rented carriage.

Placing the little one on the carriage seat, Qi Zhenshu took Lu Sheng’s hand and sat beside her. Recalling what Lu Sheng had just asked her, she inquired, “Is Lu Yu an old acquaintance of A-Kun’s?”

“You guessed that?” Lu Sheng was surprised.

“You specifically mentioned the two of them, so there must be some connection,” Qi Zhenshu explained.

Seeing Qi Zhenshu’s calm expression, Lu Sheng didn’t prolong the suspense and directly said, “Lu Yu met A-Kun years ago when she went into the mountains to chop wood. At that time, A-Kun was seriously injured, and Lu Yu helped him find herbs.”

“After they separated then, they didn’t see each other until later when they met again at the dock.”

In fact, Lu Yu never gave herself to Governor Peng. The reason she became the warehouse supervisor at the dock was through A-Kun’s recommendation.

In the beginning, Lu Yu only did scattered jobs at the dock. Although it was tiring, it was manageable. Because she was diligent and looked decent, she always got more work than others.

But precisely because of this, she was envied by others, especially the three people including Zhou Dan, who not only found fault with her every now and then but also almost beat her to death.

It was only after that incident that Lu Yu approached the current A-Kun, seeking revenge and wanting to rise above her current station, never to be bullied by others again.

After Lu Sheng finished speaking, she sighed deeply.

Qi Zhenshu held her hand, just about to offer comfort, when their daughter beat her to it.

“Don’t be sad, Mother.” The little one crawled over from beside Qi Zhenshu, leaned on Lu Sheng’s lap, stuck out her little bottom, and fed a sugar drop to Lu Sheng with her uninjured hand.

“Thank you, darling. After eating darling’s sugar drop, Mother won’t be sad anymore.” Lu Sheng took the sugar drop from her hand, stroked the little one’s head, and replied with a gentle smile.

Qi Zhenshu reached out and hugged her daughter back to her original spot, “It’s easy to fall in the carriage, don’t move around freely.”

“I know.” The little one sat upright on the carriage seat, her small hands resting properly in front of her.

Qi Zhenshu looked at the small paper packet in her hand and asked, “How many sugar drops have you eaten today?”

“Two.” The little one reluctantly showed two fingers, and then quickly tucked the paper packet into her chest with her little chubby hand, “I won’t eat any more today.”

“Mm.” Qi Zhenshu nodded and said lightly, “You shouldn’t eat too many sweets.”

The little one nodded obediently in agreement.

Watching Qi Zhenshu educate the child, Lu Sheng didn’t interfere, but she felt that someone seemed a little off.

Qi Zhenshu turned her head, resuming the previous topic, “Was A-Kun caught?”

“He was caught.” Lu Sheng squinted at Qi Zhenshu, asking meaningfully, “Did you guess Princess Changning’s intention?”

The reason Princess Changning gave the bamboo token to Lu Sheng was twofold: one was indeed to persuade Lu Yu to surrender, but there was also another intention.

Even before arriving at Binhe County, she had figured out the relationship between A-Kun and Lu Yu.

Princess Changning was with Zhuo Yu when they besieged the Peng mansion, and later, upon learning that Lu Yu had also fled, she had an idea.

She deliberately had people guard the city gates and specifically gave the bamboo token to Lu Sheng, intending to use the token to confirm Lu Yu’s whereabouts.

As soon as Lu Yu used the bamboo token for the first time, Princess Changning’s secret guards had already started tracking her and successfully followed Lu Yu to locate A-Kun, who was hiding.

“‘If you want to take something, you must first give it.’ The tactic of following the vine to find the melon was discussed in the military strategy sessions with the Head of the Academy some time ago.”

A smile played on Qi Zhenshu’s lips. She leaned over and whispered in Lu Sheng’s ear, “It’s not that Princess Changning and I are of one mind. My dear wife, don’t be jealous.”

“Don’t move around in the carriage, be careful of falling.” Lu Sheng, whose thoughts were guessed, shoved her away in embarrassment and anger, returning her own words about scolding the child.

Qi Zhenshu reached out, intending to pull her back and coax her a little more, but saw Lu Sheng raising an eyebrow and gesturing behind her.

She retracted her hand, sat up straight, composed herself, and turned her head.

The little one was tilting her head, curiously looking in their direction.

Qi Zhenshu lightly coughed and asked Lu Sheng, “How is Auntie lately?”

“Quite well.” After Lu Sheng spoke, she suddenly remembered something and asked, “Oh, right, did the footprint you asked me to send last time match?”

Qi Zhenshu lowered her eyebrows and said gravely, “It matched.”

In the last letter Qi Zhenshu sent to Lu Sheng, she asked her to go to Zhuo Yu and have the footprint traced from in front of the tomb on the day Auntie fell down the slope sent to her.

“Who is it?” Lu Sheng quickly asked.

She had never been able to figure out who would push Auntie down the mountain and why.

“Wang Haoyong,” Qi Zhenshu replied.

After meeting Wang Haoyong outside the city, when Qi Zhenshu looked at his height and limp, she immediately thought of the footprint at home.

Sure enough, after comparing the footprints, her suspicion was confirmed.

Wang Haoyong was the person on the back hill that day.

Qi Zhenshu speculated that Wang Haoyong went to the back hill that day, coincidentally ran into Auntie who was going up the hill, and for some unknown reason, pushed her down the hill.

The real reason why Wang Haoyong did not come to kill her after Auntie woke up was not because of a stranger’s crime, as they had initially suspected, but because Wang Haoyong had somehow lost his mind and was eventually found by Princess Changning’s people, making it impossible for him to escape and go back to look for Auntie.

“Didn’t he go missing?” Lu Sheng was surprised.

“Initially, he should have been hiding himself, and then he was found by Princess Changning’s people.”

“What was he doing on the back hill? And why did he push Auntie down the hill?”

Thinking of Wang Haoyong’s status as a fugitive at the time, Lu Sheng continued to ask, “Was he afraid Auntie would report him, so he pushed her down the hill?”

“I don’t know yet.”

Qi Zhenshu frowned slightly and told Lu Sheng about seeing Wang Haoyong.

Regardless of whether they used torture or threatened his family, Wang Haoyong had been feigning madness and refused to confess.

The moon climbed the treetops, and the night deepened.

Qi Zhenshu first bathed her daughter, then came to help Lu Sheng wash up.

By August, the academy was no longer holding classes. Lu Sheng had originally planned to come to Qingzhou to take care of Qi Zhenshu, but unexpectedly, she was injured before coming, and it turned into Qi Zhenshu taking care of her and her daughter instead.

Qi Zhenshu carried the hot water into the bathhouse, only to see Lu Sheng standing by the wooden tub, staring at the water’s surface in a daze.

“What are you thinking about?” Qi Zhenshu placed the bucket aside and glanced at Lu Sheng, “Is it inconvenient to undress?”

“It’s convenient.” Lu Sheng pretended to be calm and looked at her, suppressing the slight embarrassment in her heart.

Although she and Qi Zhenshu had long been honest with each other, those times were mostly in the middle of the night after the candles were extinguished.

With the oil lamp lit on the wall, the light was directly over the bath tub below, and Lu Sheng truly felt a little awkward reaching out to take off her clothes.

“You take off your clothes and get in first. I’ll go fetch another bucket, and then I’ll come help you.” Qi Zhenshu poured the water into the wooden tub and then left the room.

Lu Sheng looked at the closed wooden door, and then stared at the wooden tub for a while. Finally, with a flushed face, she took off her clothes and quickly stepped into the bathtub.

Lu Sheng’s arm was only dislocated, with no external injuries, so she wasn’t afraid of getting it wet.

She leaned against the tub wall and sat down, soaking her entire body in the water, slightly bending her legs, burying half of her face under the water.

The water in the bathtub was a bit hot. After soaking for a long time, Lu Sheng not only failed to lower the temperature on her face, but felt her face getting even hotter.

Lu Sheng could only sit up straight, expose her face, and listen attentively to the sounds outside.

Creak, as the wooden door was pushed open, the cool night breeze blew in through the crack, instantly merging into the steam.

Lu Sheng quickly picked up the washcloth on the wooden tub with her uninjured hand and began washing herself in a pretense of busyness.

Qi Zhenshu placed the water bucket to one side, didn’t notice anything unusual about Lu Sheng, turned around, took a small stool nearby, sat next to the wooden tub, and grabbed a handful of bath beans.

Rubbing the bath beans in her palm, Qi Zhenshu reached out and scooped up Lu Sheng’s hair, applied the bath beans, and gently began to rub and wash it.

Lu Sheng slowed her breathing, deliberately slightly hunching her chest, and continued to hold the washcloth to cover her chest seemingly unintentionally.

But the more she tried to relax, the more nervous she became. Lu Sheng sat with her neck straight, feeling that her back was getting stiff.

“Tilt your head back a little.” Qi Zhenshu scooped a spoonful of warm water from the wooden tub, preparing to rinse Lu Sheng’s hair.

Lu Sheng’s body stiffened.

Qi Zhenshu was already a little taller than her when sitting. It was fine if she was looking down, but if she tilted her head back, wouldn’t her entire body be exposed?

Lu Sheng’s straight back still made Qi Zhenshu notice the abnormality. She slightly turned her head and saw Lu Sheng’s already flushed cheeks.

Looking at the current situation, Qi Zhenshu glanced at the oil lamp on the wall, and instantly understood.

The two had been intimate many times, and Qi Zhenshu truly hadn’t expected Lu Sheng to still feel shy about exposing her body in front of her.

This side of Lu Sheng made Qi Zhenshu feel extraordinarily interesting. Her eyes were tinged with amusement, and she felt the urge to tease her.

She deliberately lowered her voice, urging her as if nothing was wrong, “Hurry up and lean back a little, I’ll rinse your hair clean.”

“Mm.” Lu Sheng responded in a voice as soft as a mosquito’s buzz, slowly tilting her head up.

Her bright eyes were tightly closed, and both hands were tightly pulling the washcloth, clutching it to her chest. Her moist, fair face was a flush of crimson.

The smile on Qi Zhenshu’s lips spread further. She suppressed the corners of her mouth to keep herself from laughing out loud and rinsed Lu Sheng’s hair clean.

Soft fingertips moved through her hair, accompanied by the warm, gurgling water, and Lu Sheng felt her face getting hotter and hotter.

Qi Zhenshu’s movements were both gentle and slow, and Lu Sheng really couldn’t bear it anymore, so she asked, “I-is it ready?”

The answer Lu Sheng received was a soft laugh and the hot breath near her lips.

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