Sheng Lengshuang could see that her mother and Xiao Feng were worried about her. She forced a strained smile. "Mother, I'm fine. I just need to get through this period."
As long as she could get through this period, she would get better.
"Mother, Xiao Feng is here!" Xiao Feng nestled on her lap, his face full of concern. "Xiao Feng will stay with Mother forever and won't let Mother be sad."
Sheng Lengshuang stroked his head and then heard her mother's劝慰.
"Lengshuang, think positively. There are many other men in this world. If you lose Prince Mingrui, there are many more good men for you to choose from."
Sheng Lengshuang found it both amusing and exasperating. "Mother, actually, I don't plan to remarry. Remarrying has many inconveniences, and more importantly, I don't know if the other party will truly treat Xiao Feng well."
Another point was that she couldn't be sure if the other party would have multiple wives and concubines or philander outside.
To avoid a series of troubles and problems, not remarrying was the best choice.
Sheng夫人 did not get angry or scold Sheng Lengshuang, nor did she show any dissatisfaction. "Mother understands your thoughts and concerns. For now, don't say things like you won't remarry. We'll take our time to choose."
"If you can't find anyone good, Mother will support you for life. If you find someone good, you can get married, right?"
Sheng Lengshuang thought about it and agreed. Just as her mother said, if she met a good man in the future who met several conditions, she could marry him. There was no need to not remarry because of one man.
Sheng夫人 was relieved that her daughter had listened. Fortunately, Lengshuang was receptive.
"I think our family should go find your father. Otherwise, your father will always write and complain about being lonely."
Hearing her mother's coquettish tone, Sheng Lengshuang smiled helplessly. "Mother, the Crown Prince will ascend the throne in a few days, and Father will definitely return then. Besides, traveling outside is too dangerous. There are many people watching us."
Sheng夫人's original intention was to take her daughter out to relax. Now, after hearing her daughter's words, she abandoned the idea. As long as Lengshuang was well, nothing else mattered.
After seeing Sheng夫人 and Xiao Feng off, Sheng Lengshuang sat by the window, gazing blankly at the tree in the courtyard, her mind filled with every moment she had spent with Mo Lingxi.
She recalled that when she first transmigrated here, Mo Lingxi had been very displeased with her and had always wanted to take her life.
Thinking of this, she chuckled lightly, her eyes gradually filling with pain.
"Life is truly unpredictable."
No one would have thought back then that she and Mo Lingxi would reach this point and that so many things would happen.
After reminiscing for a while, she cheered herself up and got busy with her own affairs. She couldn't be dejected over a man. She was destined to be a landlady and had many things to do.
Sitting at her desk, she wrote and drew, listing all the things she needed to do and making a series of plans, emphasizing which tasks needed to be completed as soon as possible.
She was busy for several days.
Until—
Sheng Lengshuang went to her pharmacy to check on things and was teaching the doctors some medical skills when she overheard a conversation among some patients, which caught her attention.
"Did you hear? Prince Mingrui and his wife have divorced. It's said that several countries want to ally with Prince Mingrui, with the condition of not going to war."
"I heard, I heard. Prince Mingrui's consort is too pitiful. After all the good deeds Prince Mingrui's consort has done, she still ended up divorced."
"What's so pitiful about it? For a village girl like her to marry Prince Mingrui was a blessing from her past lives. Besides, with her divorce, we won't have to go to war and can live peaceful and comfortable lives. Isn't that great?"
Sheng Lengshuang narrowed her eyes, guessing that someone had deliberately spread the news about the alliance, but she didn't know who was behind it.
Furthermore, by releasing the news of the alliance, they intended to make reconciliation between her and Mo Lingxi impossible and to deal with her more easily afterward.
She had to be careful.
After finishing her business at the pharmacy, as she was on her way back to Dongdu by carriage, the carriage suddenly stopped. Then, the carriage driver's vigilant voice was heard.
"Miss, someone has stopped the carriage."
Sheng Lengshuang lifted the carriage curtain and saw Zhou Wenxing, looking gloomy, blocking the carriage with five or six masked men. Her eyes immediately sharpened.
"Zhou Wenxing! You really know how to hide." Her voice was filled with disgust.
Zhou Wenxing looked at her with the eyes of a dead person and suddenly burst into maniacal laughter. "Sheng Lengshuang, this time next year will be your death anniversary!"
Sheng Lengshuang knew very well how much this deranged man wanted to kill her. She sat calmly in the carriage. "You want to kill me, can you kill me? What a joke."
Her hand, hidden in her sleeve, silently scattered several types of medicinal powder.
"I know you have hidden guards and are skilled in using poison." Zhou Wenxing pointed at her with a sharp knife, his face gradually contorting. "Several of us, including myself, are immune to your poison, and they are highly skilled in martial arts. Today, we will surely kill you."
Sheng Lengshuang cautiously looked around, guessing that things were not that simple. Zhou Wenxing and a few others alone could not kill her, so there must be an ambush here.
"Is that so?"
She chuckled coldly without any warmth. "Zhou Wenxing, I really don't understand your actions. You were born the heir of a noble family, and you had everything you wanted from childhood. Why are you so foolish as to ruin your own life?"
Zhou Wenxing's face was hideous, and he roared, "Shut up! Shut up! You shut up!"
"What do you know? You know nothing! If it weren't for that scoundrel Sheng Tianchun, who used despicable means to snatch Qi Shi away from me, Qi Shi and I would have been a happy couple..."
In Zhou Wenxing's mind, he was the first to know Qi Shi, and he and Qi Shi were mutually attracted, quickly falling in love.
Originally, he was preparing to propose, but who would have thought that the despicable and shameless Sheng Tianchun would forcibly take Qi Shi and force her to marry him, threatening to ruin Qi Shi and kill him if she refused.
Qi Shi, for his sake, had to submit to Sheng Tianchun, enduring grievances and pain for many years, and was often tormented and humiliated by Sheng Tianchun.
"I hate that I don't have enough ability, otherwise, I would have rescued Qi Shi long ago and killed Sheng Tianchun. How could I have allowed Sheng Tianchun to continue to bully Qi Shi and occupy my Qi Shi!"
Seeing Zhou Wenxing's resentful and unwilling appearance, Sheng Lengshuang felt disgusted and repulsed. "If I didn't know the truth, I would really be deceived by what you said."
"Zhou Wenxing, I must say you are very good at weaving stories. My parents were childhood sweethearts who fell in love. You repeatedly tried to disrupt them out of selfishness and even swapped me..."
"Yes! I wanted to swap you!" Zhou Wenxing's eyes were scarlet. "You dirty thing, with Sheng Tianchun's blood flowing in you, you are Qi Shi's disgrace. She wishes she had never conceived you."
"I want to help Qi Shi, I want to make her not suffer, so you must die!"