"Returning to Before Husband's Castration" 《回到老公自宫前》Chapter 22

 Wei Cai Wei took the banknote which still held her damn husband’s warmth.

Wei Cai Wei knew very well where this five hundred silvers came from.

Wang Da Xia had confessed that night at Shuntianfu yamen, he had sold his mother’s farm at Sanlitun for two thousand five hundred silvers.

He lent two thousand silvers to Hongxiu’s queen of flowers miss Ying Ying to redeem herself, the remaining five hundred silvers were stored at Santong bank, when miss Ying Ying repaid him in the future, he would take the money out to buy the land back.

Now the five hundred silvers belonged to Wei Cai Wei.

Wei Cai Wei’s first reaction wasn’t a feeling of being moved, but jealousy.

You gave the queen of flowers four times the amount you gave your wife! Wang Da Xia! You’re heartless!

She shouldn’t get angry, by all means she shouldn’t consider him as her husband, otherwise she would be infuriated by him for the rest of her life.

She should only look at him as a rash young man, he was capable of giving the remaining five hundred silvers to let me settle down and pursue my path in life, it was already very rare and was helping the needy for justice.

Wei Cai Wei put the banknote away, easily untying her skirt.

Wang Da Xia’s eyes widened, he promptly covered his eyes and turned around, “Why didn’t you even warn me before undressing? I almost saw your...en, you’re a widow, it’s better to be more reserved.”

He said such a thing but Wang Da Xia’s heart was rather proud of himself: Yesterday night the young widow used me as her dead husband’s replacement, unsuccessful in her wanton needs, now at this critical moment, she still wants to undress and seduce me. There’s nothing to be done, I am just too handsome, too attractive to admirers. 

It’s not my fault for being so good looking.

“Didn’t you Lu Ying will send people over soon to arrest me, that’s why I wanted to be a little quicker.” Wei Cai Wei swiftly wore Wang Da Xia’s female clothes, saying: “I’m not what second young lady He, I didn’t kill them, the reason why I’m listening to you and disguising myself to run away it only entirely because I’m afraid the embroidered uniform guards will use cruelty extort a confession, confession under torture, that’s why I’ll lie low for now.”

Wei Cai Wei put on the verdant unlined upper garment, shortly after that taking off her skirt, tying on Wang Da Xia’s pomegranate skirt, “Didn’t you just say your bundle was searched by Lu Bing? How did you still have the five hundred silver banknote?”

Wang Da Xia said: “I won’t put all my eggs in one basket, these five hundred silvers were kept closely in my undergarment pocket.” A crafty rabbit has three burrows.

This ability to stash money away was from Wang Da Xia’s long standing battle of the wits and bravery against his stepmother and father.

Wei Cai Wei took out her mourning bun, letting her hair fall free, she combed it into two top knots, using a red ribbon to bind them, inserting a pair of red muslin mudan flowers.

While Wei Cai Wei was changing, Wang Da Xia also put on his wife’s plain skirt, using white thin silk to tie his hair into a mourning bun, he instantly became the young widow.

Wei Cai Wei’s clothes were a little tight on Wang Da Xia’s tall body, it was very tight fitting, Wang Da Xia could smell a faint scent of fragrance, also an indistinguishable medicine smell, in his heart there seemed to be a little boat moving around.

I need to control myself, I can’t forget loyalty over love, I came to repay her, how can I use my body to do so?

Wang Da Xia admonished himself, the boat stopped moving.

“I’m done.” Wei Cai Wei said, “You can turn around.”

Wang Da Xia turned around, seeing Wei Cai Wei wearing a green garment with red skirt and a young women’s hairstyle, the boat in his heart immediately met with a tempest, it undulated on the rocky waves and sharp winds.

There was a saying amongst the people, women looked more charming in white. Wang Da Xia always felt the young widow was pretty because she was in mourning clothes, a hibiscus in clear water.

But today seeing Wei Cai Wei dressed as a young woman, Wang Da Xia actually the colours of spring against her skin made her bloom full of youth, a beauty as tender and beautiful as tree peony, but because of the death of her husband she had no choice but dress plainly as a lucid and elegant white lotus flower.

It really was...a pity.

Wei Cai Wei looked at the bronze mirror in the room, such flourishing leaves and withering flowers!

These were clothes Wang Da Xia personally picked out from the ready-made clothes store, his preferences were the same as before, he liked mixing vibrate colours, the materials he gave her for clothing were either Chinese silk tapestry woven in a pictorial design or brocade from Sichuan, bright and shiny, it was basically wearing gold and silver and pearls on her!

He once gave her pearl clothing, they were beaded with Eastern pearls, she felt it was excessively extravagant, but she felt bad if she brushed off his good intentions, so she only wore it in front of him…

Recalling their sweet and comfortable memories, tears very slightly fell from her eyes.

This little affection, willing to shield her from the wind and rain, the husband who was even willing to take a poison arrow for her was no longer here, there was only a detestable Wang Ya Nei---

“Don’t cry.” Wang Da Xia interrupted her thoughts, thinking she was afraid, “I’ll lure those following you away, there may not be an opportunity later.”

“You’re a widow...a young woman, it’ll be hard to move without a household record, you’ll be considered a refugee and arrested, if the embroidered uniform guards arrest you, even if you have your old household record on you, you can’t use it. There is someone who can help you with the problem of a household record and help you leave the capital.”

Wang Da Xia gave her a letter.

Wei Cai Wei wiped her tears, looking at the envelope, on it was written “For the eyes of miss Jing Ying”.

Wei Cai Wei found it hard to believe: “You want me to go to find the queen of flowers miss Ying Ying?”

“She’s redeemed herself, she’s now a respectable woman, you shouldn’t be prejudiced against her.” Wang Da Xia said: “Take my letter, she will definitely help you make a new household record to escape with.”

“I don’t want to.” Wei Cai Wei placed the letter on the table, “I’ll think of a way.”

“You’re going back to Tieling? Are you setting up a trap for yourself and implicate your friends and family in Tieling.” Wang Da Xia anxiously stuffed the letter back into Wei Cai Wei’s hand, “The capital isn’t link Tieling, under the foot of the emperor, human lives are like ants, if you fall into the embroidered uniform guards hands, let alone me, even my father wouldn’t be able to save you.”

What kind of immortal was miss Ying Ying? Why did Wang Da Xia trust her to this extent?

Wei Cai Wei thought about her and didn’t decline, taking the letter, “Fine, I’ll find her.”

“I’ll stay with the embroidered uniform guards as an informer, if there’s the slightest whiff of trouble, I’ll tell you.” Wang Da Xia put on the silk bag, the hat and put down the veil, turning the tiger palm he walked out.

Wei Cai Wei looked out onto the street through the thin crack in the window, after Wang Da Xia walked out of the tavern, a person came out from the teahouse opposite, following ten steps behind Wang Da Xia all the way.

Indeed it was exactly as Wang Da Xia said, Lu Ying had sent someone to follow her.

It was unexpected that in this lifetime my clean and nimble revenge, without any flaws, would actually be personally dug out by her damned husband, ruining her plan, could this be fate?

There is no gain without a loss.

Based on what was happening now, she could only lie low first, then wait for an opportunity to make a move.

Wei Cai Wei watched the shadow leave, only then did she go downstairs, check out the room and return the key, the waiter at the door brought the horse to her.

The address on the letter wasn’t far from Santong tavern, it was on the east side of the middle area of Shichahai’s Deshang bridge, miss Jin Ying’s residence were actually kept watch by northern city military to catch the second young lord Wang Da Xia home, as long as a man walks by, they would go and interrogate.

Fortunately Wei Cai Wei was a woman, she was dressed colourfully and out of the ordinary, the northern city military didn’t stop her, letting her pass directly.

Wei Cai Wei knocked on the door, in accordance with Wang Da Xia’s directions, she stuffed the letter through the gap in the door.

Meanwhile, Wang Da Xia dressed as Wei Cai Wei and entered a public baths only opened to women, the follower was a man, he couldn’t follow her into the female public bath, he could only wait outside.

Wang Da Xia lowered his voice, weeping and sobbing like a white lotus after the rain, he slipped half a string of coins to the public bath’s plump auntie, “This widow had a quarrel before coming in, a hoodlum and scoundrel has been following me, assailing me with all kinds of obscenities, please can this boss lady help, let me leave from the back door of the bath.”

The boss lady held the money, taking the weak, pitiful and helpless widow leave from the back door.

Now the sky had turned dark, Wang Da Xia swiftly took down his mourning bun, took off the woman’s clothes, putting on a man’s round neck gown, returning to a man, he hired a carriage, heading to the embroidered uniform guards office at the south of the city.

If he didn’t enter the tiger’s den, how could he save the young widow?

Wang Da Xia entered the yamen, Lu Ying had just brought the skeletons back.

Meeting each other face to face on a narrow path, Lu Ying’s face darkened, “Didn’t you say the embroidered uniform guards disgraced your innocence and left? Why did you come back?”