Chapter 1943 — Now I Remember?
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"It was like this..." Shen Yushu rushed to make amends, and told Wei Zhao about the scheme Feng Xiaoxiao had devised... It had to be said that Xiaoshu had a gift for talk; under her vivid telling, Wei Zhao found himself believing her.
"You mean that at first I wasn't too fond of Xiaoxiao, so I took her as a concubine, and she agreed that I should find a first wife as well?" Wei Zhao thought back carefully. His first meeting with Feng Xiaoxiao had indeed been somewhat unpleasant—the girl had thought of nothing but playing tricks on him, and he had tricked her right back more than once. Afterward he had heard she was ill, and that was when they came together... So what Shen Yushu said might well be true.
And knowing Feng Xiaoxiao's temperament, she had seemed forever to be egging him on, urging him to try threesomes and foursomes and fivesomes with her. What Xiaoshu said was probably true...
So in fact he had no first wife at all—he had simply been looking for one all along?
If that were so, then it made sense. Yet why did he feel that something was still not quite complete?
"Yes, yes, that's just how it was!" Shen Yushu said. "The truth is this: back then Sister Yaoyao and I didn't know Xiaoxiao was suffering from a terminal illness, so we rather shut her out. And then I said that Sister Yaoyao and I could have threesomes with you, and Xiaoxiao wouldn't stand for it—she insisted you find a first wife so she could have threesomes too and fight us on equal terms..."
Gu Mengyao listened with her face darkening by the word, yet she let Shen Yushu go on. After all, the tale Shen Yushu was spinning was plausible enough; if Gu Mengyao had to explain it herself, she would not have known where to begin.
"And after that..." Wei Zhao nodded. Some of what Shen Yushu described did seem to stir something deep in his memory—it did seem that such things had really happened—so Wei Zhao did not doubt her.
What Wei Zhao did not know was that Shen Yushu was plainly making a hash of it, transferring onto Xiaoxiao what had actually happened with Tang Zhi. It was Tang Zhi who had sought out Xiaoxiao to stand against her and Yaoyao—not Xiaoxiao who had wanted a first wife found!
But twisted about as Shen Yushu told it, it rang true enough in a false sort of way, and Wei Zhao felt it really had happened just so.
"Then... then we went looking, of course, and before we'd found anyone, Xiaoxiao and I made up and became a two-woman prank squad, and then—nothing came of it..." Shen Yushu said.
"So that's how it was." Wei Zhao nodded. "I had a qi deviation before and forgot some things, but with that reminder from you, I've recalled a bit... though it's still not clear. At least I understand what happened now."
"Yes, yes! And when Xiaoxiao left, she spoke to me and Sister Yaoyao too—she said that if you were going to find a first wife, the two of us were to help vet her, and you weren't to bring home just any trashy woman." Shen Yushu had begun fabricating orders out of thin air.