Sorry, My Wife Has a Hole in Her Brain Chapter 22 Part 1

Inside the imperial city, Xie Shian came out of the council chamber holding a stack of documents. From a distance he saw the fifth prince, Xiao Yun, leaning against a side door with his arms crossed. His expression was happy at one moment, confused at another, and after a while, a little melancholy.

Xie Shian walked over and asked, "What's the matter? Does the courtesan have a date with someone else tonight?"

Xiao Yun interrupted Xie Shian hastily and whispered, "You know my relationship with her. We are just casual. Don't joke about it in front of others in the future."

Xie Shian was slightly stunned, then immediately reacted, "Is she planning to leave the industry and get married?"

Xiao Yun sighed, not admitting it directly, but not denying it either.

Xie Shian nodded in understanding and walked out of the palace with the documents in his arms, "I’m not done with my work. I won't go to the banquet tonight."

Xiao Yun took two steps to catch up with her, "Aren't you curious about which family that girl comes from?"

Xie Shian kept walking, "It doesn't matter, my family doesn't have a daughter anyway."

Xiao Yun suddenly felt like joking, "What if I said it was Third Miss Su?"

Xie Shian stopped, looked back at Xiao Yun, and said, "Very good."

Xiao Yun stood there for a long time but couldn't figure out what "very good" meant. "A gentleman doesn't take away what others like. I was just kidding you."

Xie Shian said: "It's not good to think too much. Just do as you please."

Xiao Yun hooked his arm around Xie Shian's shoulder and teased, "It's not the first day I've known you. Why are you pretending to be nice to me? Would you just let rumors about the two of you spread all over the capital?"

Xie Shian rubbed his temple, pointed at the stack of documents in his hand and said, "Why don't you handle the remaining documents for me, so that I can have some time to deal with the rumors?"

Xiao Yun said "Oh", with a slightly rising tone at the end, "You have time to investigate Miss Su's life and the people she has come into contact with, but you don't have time to move your fingers to resolve the rumors?"

Xie Shian narrowed his eyes slightly, revealing a look of ambiguous scrutiny.

Xiao Yun said: "Don't worry, your men didn't leave any traces. I discovered it by chance when I was following the men under my third brother."

Xie Shian retracted his gaze and asked without leaving any trace: "Why are you following the Third Prince's men?"

Xiao Yun said, "Didn't Third Brother get tricked the Spring Banquet? Afterwards, Jin Wangfei gave Third Brother full authority to investigate the matter. After investigating, Third Brother said that an assassin had entered Beishan, a man from the underworld. He is now looking for him in Anjing City."

Xie Shian asked: "So you followed the Third Prince's men in order to save the assassin's life at the critical moment?"

Xiao Yun was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile: "You are setting a trap for me again!"

Xie Shian said calmly: "If you want to help this 'assassin', you can just help him leave Anjing City, but you just choose to follow the Third Prince's men, which means you don't want to help this 'assassin', but the person behind him."

Xiao Yun was choked and speechless.

Xie Shian continued, "And you happened to run into my people when you were following the Third Prince's men, because the person behind the "assassin" was in the Su Mansion."

Xiao Yun walked forward with a desperate look on his face: "There still needs to be some secrets between people. Only with secrets can there be a sense of mystery. You always see through things with just two sentences like this. Do you still want to be friends with me?"

Xie Shian did not follow Xiao Yun's joke and tried to end the topic. His tone was, "The Su family is one of the five great families in the Southern Dynasty, and General Zhengyuan is a pillar of the country. If you take one more step forward, your career as an idle prince will come to an end."

Xiao Yun lowered his head, chuckled at himself, and pretended to change the subject in a relaxed manner: "There are so many people in the Su family, how do you know which one is behind this?"

Xie Shian had already made his point, so he stopped pushing it. As a friend, he could only give advice and could not help him make a choice.

He replied: "If I'm not mistaken, the incident at the Spring Banquet was probably an internal struggle of the rear courtyard. One person wanted to help her own daughter get married, and the other person was unwilling to be framed and did not want to become a victim of a political marriage."

Xiao Yun nodded, his tone quite proud, "Great, really great, you are worthy of being the only brother I recognize, your analysis is absolutely correct."

Xiao Yun changed the subject and said, "If that's the case, why did you send someone to investigate Third Miss Su?"

Xie Shian smiled faintly, "There still needs to be some secrets between people. Only with secrets can there be a sense of mystery. Since you no longer have a sense of mystery, let my sense of mystery maintain our friendship."

Xiao Yun: ...Anyone who reuses someone else’s famous quote is a grandson!

Xie Shian said goodbye to Xiao Yun and walked slowly towards the Xie Mansion alone. The third miss of the Su Mansion was obviously involved in the matter of the Spring Banquet. On the surface, some people might think that the Su family's di daughter was unwilling to marry the Third Prince and wanted her sister to replace herself.

However, he felt that the eldest daughter of the Su family was not the kind of person who would casually use her own sister to block the knife for herself, so there were two possibilities: one was that the sisters had a deep hatred for each other, and the other was that she thought her sister liked the Third Prince and wanted to help them.

But if he remembered correctly, the Su family's di daughter was also present at the lakeshore in Beishan that day...

So, the only possibility left was that there was a deep hatred between the sisters?

Xie Shian denied more than a dozen possible situations that flashed through his mind. The dispute in the rear courtyard had nothing to do with him, and he was not investigating Su Wenqing because of this matter. The Xie family was in a special position, and he had to be cautious in many things. Su Wenqing's personality was completely different before and after, and some of her memory was also lost. Everyone has secrets. If they were not enemies, he had no intention of delving into it. He only needed to make sure that Su Wenqing had nothing to do with the northern barbarian tribes.

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