Chapter 9

    When Lin Mengqiu just opened her eyes, she was in a daze for a while. She was not on the bed at all, but lying on the hard and chilly ground. She was only wearing single clothes in the middle of the night, no wonder it was so cold.

    Her first reaction was that she didn't sleep well, and she fell out of bed, but the surroundings were cold and dark, and there wasn't even a candle, so it didn't look like her bedroom no matter how she looked.

    She could only stand up and look at this strange room with the moonlight outside the window. The room was large but unexpectedly empty, and she could only vaguely see the outlines of the screen, tables and chairs.

    This kind of darkness made Lin Mengqiu think that she was still in her previous life, and it was like this every day during the days when she was locked up in the ancestral hall.

    Boundless darkness and endless nightmares.

    Is she dreaming, or is she really in a strange place at the moment?

    Just as Lin Mengqiu was in a trance, a faint light appeared in the room, which immediately illuminated the desk in front of her.

    An incense burner and several dishes of offerings were placed on the long table, and behind the incense burner were five neat tablets, which were particularly permeating with the dim light.

    Fortunately, Lin Mengqiu didn't feel scared. When she was in the ancestral hall, she fell asleep with the tablets of her ancestors. In her opinion, the dead were not scary at all. Compared with them, what was more terrifying was the human heart.

    So she just blinked and looked curiously at the names on the tablets.

    No one was surnamed Shen, and the strangest thing was that the one on the far right was a blank tablet with no name written on it.

    Judging from the existing four names, they are delicate and sweet, and they should all be women.

    Her eyes fell on the tablet on the far left, and she wrote the words 'Zhou Lingyue'.

    Lin Mengqiu searched for the memories of these four people in her mind, and she was sure that she had never seen or had contact with them.

    But this memorial tablet will not appear in Shen's house out of thin air, Lin Mengqiu frowned in thought, whenever she was thinking about something, she would habitually grab something around her, it used to be a sleeve handkerchief.

    Wearing a fine cotton underwear for sleeping today, she could only grab the laces hanging on both sides and twist the long laces into a circle. When she loosened them, her eyes suddenly lit up.

    She remembered that she had heard the name Zhou Lingyue before, the granddaughter of Zhou Taifu.

    Two years ago, she was given a marriage by the Holy Majesty to marry Shen Che as the concubine.

    At that time, Shen Che had just returned from the battlefield with a broken leg, and the empress was distraught and fell ill. In order to reward the heroes and appease the queen, the Holy Majesty bestowed a marriage on Shen Che.

    Zhou Lingyue is a well-known noble lady in the capital. She thought it was a good marriage with a talent and beauty. Who would have thought that Zhou Lingyue would be carried out of the palace within half a year after her marriage.

    It is said that the neck was cut off at the time of death, and the death condition was horrific. Zhou Taifu sent a white-haired man to a black-haired man. When he saw his granddaughter's body, he fell into a coma on the spot, and then dragged his sick body to sue Shen Che.

    When Shen Che was summoned into the palace, Zhou Taifu's eyes were red and he wanted to rush over to make him pay for his life, accusing him of his evil deeds, "What did Yue'er do wrong to make you kill me like this! This old man wants you to pay for his life today!" Seeing this ,

    Shen Che just grinned, without a word explaining why he killed the man, "Here is my head, if you have the ability, just come and get it."

    Then it was the queen, who stopped the Zhou family by some means, But since then, the notoriety of Shen Che's violent killing has spread.

    Even Lin Mengqiu, who was far away in Suzhou, knew about it, but she didn't believe it. She felt that there must be some misunderstanding. She believed that Shen Che would not kill people without a reason.

    And even if he really becomes a bloodthirsty villain, she is willing to be his pawn, even if it is the abyss of hell, she will walk with him.

    Knowing Zhou Lingyue's identity, she can also guess who the other three are. They should be the other three deceased concubines. As for the last blank tablet...

    Lin Mengqiu also has a guess.

    She stepped forward to remove the no-word plate and wiped it gently.

    Lin Mengqiu is someone who has died once. Not only is she not afraid, she also thinks, when she died in the previous life, was there someone who erected a monument for her?

    It's a novel feeling to hold your own tablet.

    As soon as he was thinking this way, a gust of wind swept by, and the candlelight behind him lit up instantly. Lin Mengqiu looked back suspiciously, and saw that there was someone more in front of him.

    Shen Che didn't know when he appeared, and he was sitting in a wheelchair looking at her at the moment, with a bit of playful inquiry in his cold eyes.

    But when Lin Mengqiu saw Shen Che, her eyes lit up instantly. Her first reaction was not fear, nor curiosity about why he suddenly appeared, but surprise.

    I made a wish before going to bed last night, but I didn't expect it to come true when I opened my eyes!

    Probably because he realized that his gaze was too straightforward, Lin Mengqiu hurriedly hid the joy in his eyes, and bowed respectfully, "I have met my son."

    She was dressed completely differently from the last time I saw her, she was not ostentatiously gorgeous, she was only wearing an ordinary fine cotton underwear, and the orange candlelight was flickering behind her, as if giving her a layer of soft light.

    Her long black hair was scattered on her shoulders, and her posture of kneeling and saluting made her look even more slender. She was cute enough without looking at her face.

    In this world, there is probably no man who can escape such a beauty.

    It's a pity that the person in front of him is Shen Che, he still looked at her coldly, but his face was a little weird, in the blink of an eye, he rolled the wheelchair and quickly arrived in front of her, and said coldly: "Look up." Although Lin Mengqiu didn't know what to

    do , but she was obedient enough, she raised her head obediently, revealing a fair little face.

    Her eyes drooped slightly, and she could only see her thick butterfly-like eyelashes trembling slightly under the candlelight.

    Like a small fan, it scratched at his heart.

    Shen Che frowned, really he was wrong, just now the two looked at each other, he seemed to see Lin Mengqiu looking at him with sincere and fiery admiration.

    It was as if the stars in the sky were shattered in her eyes, they were shining brightly, making people want to crush them.

    He is not unfamiliar with this kind of gaze. When he was the high-spirited Shen Che a few years ago, whenever he rode through the streets and alleys, those women would look at him like this.

    But since his accident, everyone's eyes are filled with regret and ridicule.

    After his hands were covered with blood, there was only fear in their eyes.

    He enjoys their fear and the thrill of cutting their necks more than he loves them.

    He glanced at Lin Mengqiu's eyes again, trembling in ignorance, as charming as a deer, it was frightened.

    Shen Che couldn't help but sneered, as expected he was wrong, it was ridiculous. Just now, he actually thought that there are really people in this world who would love a cripple.

    He withdrew his probing gaze, and said indifferently: "Aren't you wondering where this is? Why did you appear here?" Shen

    Che didn't let her bow her head, she could only maintain the posture of raising her chin, and blurted out when she heard the words : "Since the concubine has married into the palace, I naturally obey the prince in everything. I can be where the prince wants me to be." The voice was calm

    and calm, making Shen Che, who thought she would panic, paused, and then laughed.

    "Then if I let you die, you go too?" Shen Che was laughing, but the laughter was gloomy.

    Originally, Shen Che wanted to deal with Lin Mengqiu after the matter at hand was finished.

    It didn't matter to him whether she married him sincerely, or whether she harbored evil intentions. He kept her alive for the time being, but he didn't have time to talk to her. But she couldn't stand the old concubine's ramblings, every word was about her liking for Lin Mengqiu.

    This made Shen Che feel more disgusted with her. Since she couldn't tell the difference between red and not afraid of blood, she had to find another way to make her fearful, which is why she was brought here.

    From the time she woke up to when he appeared, he had been observing in the dark. This woman was indeed a little strange.

    Not to mention women, even ordinary men are not as courageous as her, not only do not cry or make trouble, but also calmly move the tablet.

    Is it because she doesn't know what these things represent, or because she has nothing to fear.

    He didn't believe it, at least he had never seen anyone who was not afraid of death.

    Lin Mengqiu kept her head up for a long time. This posture made her neck a little sore, and she couldn't help shaking her head slightly.

    This action fell into Shen Che's eyes, and it turned into a retreat, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was slightly mocking.

    As expected, no one can escape.

    Then she would find countless excuses, or say all kinds of sweet words, to let him let her go.

    Shen Che was carefree, but he felt bored in his heart. Apart from being better-looking and better at acting, this person was no different from those girls before. It was really boring.

    Those who make him feel boring can only be killed.

    Shen Che was thinking about how to kill her without dirtying his hands, or cutting off her tongue so that her eloquent mouth would not confuse ghosts.

    But as soon as he thought about it, he looked at the woman in front of him shaking his head, looked up obediently again, and looked at him seriously: "I'll go, as long as the prince says, I will do it no matter what it is If it wasn't for him, she would have died when she was twelve years old. He gave her life, and

    she stole every day after that.

    Not only did she live an extra life, but she also married him and met the person she was thinking of. If others let her die, she would definitely not be reconciled, but because it was him, even if she died, she would not hesitate.

    Lin Mengqiu's voice was soft and soft, with a touch of Jiangnan Wu Nong's soft language, like a soft ribbon that can't kill people, but can bind them tightly.

    Shen Che raised his head abruptly, staring fixedly into her eyes, trying to see the panic and erratic from inside, but what he saw was his reflection.

    Her beautiful almond eyes were bright, clear and hot, facing his eyes directly, without the slightest timidity or dodge.

    This was the first time he had seen such a look in his eyes. Even though he was pretending, he admitted that she acted very well.

    Wouldn't it be a lot less fun to kill such an interesting person at this moment? The smile on the corner of Shen Che's mouth couldn't help but enlarge.

    He wanted to see how long she could pretend.

    Lin Mengqiu looked at Shen Che and smiled, a little puzzled, is what she said so funny? She has tried her best to imitate her sister's speech, isn't it? !

    If she was herself, she would definitely rush to show her loyalty, let alone die, for her husband, she would go up the mountain of swords and go down into the sea of ​​fire, and she would die!

    After thinking about it, he continued righteously: "As long as the son wants it, I can die now as you wish." "

    Wait a minute, I changed my mind. I heard from my grandmother that you really want to serve me?"

    Lin Mengqiu blinked, what do you mean? Don't want her to show her ambition by death? Although he didn't understand how things changed so quickly, he still nodded awkwardly.

    Then Shen Che said with a mocking smile: "Then let me see what skills you have in serving people."

    Lin Mengqiu: ...?

    Wait, my husband! Are we talking about serving the same serving? !

    The author has something to say: Brother Che: Come, serve me.

    Qiumei: Yes, yes, yes, please, do you need massage, ear picking or scraping? Bah bah bah, let’s start again. At present, Qiuqiu’s shop offers services such as washing set, changing set, and dinner set. May I ask which service do you want for the guests of the prince?

    Chege: I want you.

    Qiumei:? ? ? ? Our shop does not sell the owner's business for the time being!