Mi primer marido después de la transmigración

Capítulo 35

Nineteen glared at her, still not giving her a friendly look. She pointed at Gu Yan and Xu Ziqing and said to Shen Yun, "My junior brother and sister, Xu Ziqing and Gu Yan."

She then pointed to Shen Yuntan: "Shen Yuntan, I..." But she didn't know what to say next; she really didn't know how to introduce their relationship.

She couldn't very well tell them that she had snatched this man from the foot of the mountain to be her husband!

But then Shen Yuntan took a sip of tea, smiled politely, and seemed about to speak...

Nineteen panicked; what if this guy did something reckless again...?

Shen Yun looked at Nineteen with unhurried and affectionate eyes: "Admirer, I am her admirer."

"Pfft..." Xu Ziqing choked on the tea in his mouth and coughed desperately.

Nineteen was glad she hadn't drunk tea, otherwise she would have lost her composure too.

Shen Yuntan's expression was even more innocent than Gu Yan's. He looked at Nineteen, then at Xu and Gu, and asked, "Is it not allowed?"

Gu Yan's eyes sparkled as she leaned even closer to Shen Yuntan, saying softly, "Of course, only someone like Senior Sister is worthy of you, Young Master. Husband, don't you think so?"

Xu Ziqing was somewhat lost in thought and didn't understand for a moment.

Admirers? Tang Shijiu has admirers? How could such a domineering and shrewish woman like her have any men who like her? However, undeniably, seeing the ambiguous expression between Tang Shijiu and Shen Yuntan, his heart suddenly felt a little disappointed.

He was no longer the only one in that woman in red's heart.

Shen Yun smiled politely and asked, "I heard you two are newly married. Why did you suddenly come down the mountain?"

Xu Ziqing was stunned for a long while before he came to his senses. Just as he was about to speak, he heard Gu Yan let out a soft moan and collapse into his arms. Xu Ziqing was shocked and hugged his wife tightly, his concern overflowing. He looked up at Nineteen and angrily asked, "What did you do to Yan?!"

Nineteen was stunned, then her face flushed with anger: "What did I do to her? I had both hands on the table eating, what could I possibly do to her? Why would I do anything to her? Xu Ziqing, you think too highly of yourself."

Xu Ziqing didn't bother arguing with her; he just held the girl in his arms tightly and repeatedly told the innkeeper to prepare a room. The innkeeper looked distressed: "My lord, all the rooms are full. Why don't you talk to these two and see if you can make room for you?"

"What's there to discuss? There's no discussion!" Nineteen was furious. "He just thinks I ruined his wife. If that's the case, why should I vacate the house for him!" Tears that had been welling up in her eyes finally streamed down her face. Shen Yuntan stared at the man and woman with disgust, but still smiled: "Nineteen said no, so I won't vacate."

Xu Ziqing gritted his teeth: "I knew long ago that such a vicious woman wouldn't let Yan-meimei go! Back then, she relentlessly pursued me, and I couldn't openly refuse because you're my senior sister, but that doesn't mean I'd let you push your luck and harm my wife." He always held himself in high esteem, believing that Tang Shijiu's love for him was so profound that she would surely do something detrimental to Gu Yan out of love turned to hate. Therefore, on their wedding day, he seized the opportunity to force Tang Shijiu down the mountain, preventing her from harming his new bride.

Unexpectedly, only four or five days after their marriage, Gu Yan fell ill, first with headaches and nausea, then progressing to intermittent fainting spells. Therefore, Xie Dongsheng's trip down the mountain was to seek medical help and cure his wife. Although Gu Yan insisted it was a congenital ailment, Xie Dongsheng clearly told Xu Ziqing that it was poisoning.

Poisoning...

Without a word, Xu Ziqing's first reaction was that Tang Shijiu had poisoned Gu Yan.

Upon hearing her husband's words, Gu Yan burst into tears and spoke up for Tang Shijiu. Even so, Xu Ziqing still hated Tang Shijiu to the core, while feeling even more pity for his considerate and gentle wife.

At this moment, Gu Yan's illness flared up the moment she saw Tang Shijiu, how could Xu Ziqing not be furious?

He was furious.

Tang Shijiu was even angrier.

Her childhood friend and junior brother had been playing games with her, never giving her the truth before moving on to someone else. It was bad enough that he'd been ambiguous with her all this time, but now he was even questioning her character, suspecting her of plotting against Gu Yan! What a joke!! Just as she was about to speak up, Shen Yuntan stood to the side, coldly saying, "What is Gu Yan? And what are you? Worthy of dirtying our hands, Nineteen?"

Tang Shijiu turned around in astonishment and clearly saw the sharp disgust in Shen Yuntan's usually gentle and harmless eyes.

"If you keep spewing nonsense, what harm is there in killing your wife?"

Xu Ziqing was furious and drew his sword to stab Shen Yuntan. He dared not attack Tang Shijiu, but seeing that Shen Yuntan was weak and did not seem to know martial arts, he felt less wary.

As the longsword thrust forward, Shen Yun remained calm and composed, neither dodging nor avoiding it.

"Ding." He watched with satisfaction as Nineteen flicked away the longsword that was thrusting towards him with her finger, having long anticipated that she would not stand idly by.

Xu Ziqing felt a jolt in his wrist as his longsword was deflected by Shijiu. He was shocked, never expecting that his senior sister's martial arts would have progressed so much in just a month or two.

Nineteen was so angry that his fingers trembled. He really wanted to draw his sword and chop this unreasonable bastard to pieces.

Xu Ziqing held Gu Yan with one arm around her and held his sword in the other, but dared not go forward again.

Seeing the tense atmosphere, the shopkeeper had already fled to the side in fear. Shen Yuntan, seeing that the time was right, stepped in to smooth things over in a nonchalant manner: "Young Master Xu, if you have time to argue like this, you should have already called a doctor for your wife."

Xu Ziqing snapped out of his daze, picked up Gu Yan and was about to leave when he heard a cold snort behind him: "Carry her up, carry her up. If you start turning on your own as soon as you leave the house, you'll embarrass your master to death."

Overjoyed, he turned around. Tang Shijiu's face was frosty: "If we don't carry it up now, will the blame fall on me if someone dies?"

Shen Yun tried to coax Tang Shijiu for a long time before she finally drank a bowl of porridge. She was so angry that tears streamed down her face and she sobbed incessantly.

She still remembered when Xu Ziqing first came up the mountain. He was dressed in fine silks and satins, and his demeanor was extraordinary. He was clearly a spoiled child from a wealthy family.

That year, Xu Ziqing was nine years old, and she was six. Yet, this six-year-old little girl always protected this nine-year-old older brother.

The children on the mountain were all used to being wild, and none of them could stand Xu Ziqing, who spoke in a refined manner but was physically weak. Several seven- or eight-year-old children ganged up on him and threw stones at him. When playing war games or cops and robbers, either no one would include him, or they would make him the soldier who got beaten up, the little thief.

She didn't like him at first either, finding him annoying and always crying, unlike a typical boy.

Until one day, she picked up the Analects and read it with a swaying head: "To learn and at due times to practice what one has learned, is that not a pleasure?"

A clear child's voice came from behind: "It's not 'shuo,' it should be pronounced as 'joyful.'"

She threw the book aside, put her hands on her hips, and exclaimed, "That's right, that's right!"

At that time, Xu Ziqing was about the same height as her, and answered seriously, "It's not that, it's the 'yue' in 'joy'."

The two argued for a long time without reaching a conclusion. In the end, when they went to Xie Dongsheng for refereeing, Tang Shijiu began to admire this erudite junior brother.

At that time, the rapeseed flowers on the mountain were in bloom, tender and bright yellow, very lovely.

Back then, the mountain streams were so clear that you could see fish swimming in them.