The Marquis Is Innocent

Jinyang Post House.

Su E Huang stayed in this beautiful residence for over half a month. Although she was recovering from her illness, her clothes, food, and transportation were all top-notch. Even though it was a temporary residence, she pasted the walls with beautiful Qi silk.

The postmaster was astonished. And a few days ago, he heard Miss Su not only related to the Wei family but an indefinable old affair with Wei Shao in the early years. The postmaster even more valued her and doubled his service.

Yesterday, Miss Su complained that the candle in her room was dim and the black smoke smoldered in her eyes. Since there was no refined wax in the warehouse, the postmaster bought it today and sent it to her. The newly replaced fine candles are bright without flaws. He inserted nine of them on top of the copper candlestick, and after lighting it up, the room was bright as daylight.

Su E Huang was assisted by the servant girl after bathing, wearing a vermillion robe with an embroidered coat draped on her shoulder. One could vaguely see a scar on her puffed chest through the thin material.

She sat in front of the dressing mirror and looked carefully at the scar on her forehead. The wound wasn’t deep and revealed a new flesh the size of a small nail cap. In a few more days, it should be able to recover.

Su E Huang picked a bit of ointment with a jade stick and carefully smeared it on the wound, then smoothing it with her little finger.

“Madam is gorgeous. Fortunately, the fall that day was not serious. Otherwise, wouldn’t it be a pity if it had left a scar?” A senior maid of the Su family flattered Su E Huang.

Su E Huang gazed at her face in the mirror. She was in her beauty phase, freshly adorned after bathing. Even she felt that she looked beautiful.

“Where is Su Xin?” She suddenly remembered. She had not seen him since the evening.

“I don’t know.” The senior maid answered. But secretly, she suspected that he had gone to the brothel.

Su E Huang also guessed so. Her eyebrows were slightly wrinkled. She thought that this nephew of hers was helpful. Unexpectedly, when she took him to Yuyang, he disgraced her at the Luli Conference. Now, it looked like he was not progressing, and she needed to remind him now and then.

These days, Su E Huang has told him not to go out so as not to cause trouble for no reason, and he agreed. The other day, she caught him sleeping with a servant girl of hers in private.

A servant girl was just a lowly girl, as low as mud. If he wanted her, she would have given her to him. What annoyed Su E Huang was that he hid his affair from her.

She has been hiding her relationship with Old Jiang and using her. Hence Su E Huang was suspicious of her side of the people. She scolded Su Xin and forced him to kill the servant girl who dared to cheat behind her back.

At first, Su Xin felt reluctant, but after she forced him, he stabbed the servant girl to death. The next day, she announced that the servant girl last night got ill and died. She was sent out of town and buried in a mass grave.

Su Xin finally calmed down. Unexpectedly, only a few days, he sneaked out again to hang around.

“When he returns, tell him to come to see me immediately!” Anger came out from Su E Huang’s eyes. The senior maid answered.

……

Su Xin still did not return at the end of the day. It was strange. Su Xin has always been afraid of her. Even if he went out, he would not dare to not return until this time.

Su E Huang’s initial anger over her nephew’s incompetence and acting behind her back faded away.

Instead, a feeling of unease replaced it.

She was distracted for a moment. Suddenly, she felt panic and a hint of ominous omens, as if something awful had happened.

Su E Huang was familiar with this sense of omen. She had a similar feeling when her husband’s brother, Emperor Xuan, died of a violent illness. At that time, it was the closest moment to her dream. But with Liu Ai and Xing Xun, who came to the scene one after another, the imperial throne was finally seated by Liu Tong, the seven-year-old boy. Her husband, who had the best hope of succeeding to the throne, was placed under house arrest and lived under surveillance from then on. In that long night of waiting for the dawn, Su E Huang felt as frightened as this moment, as if something awful would happen.

She hated this feeling.

She gradually became agitated. She rose from the bed and walked back and forth in the room.

What could have happened? She thought to herself. She was able to see that he still had compassion for her. As long as a man was compassionate towards a woman, then it was good.

It makes her more determined to stay by his side.