Chapter 123 Let People Know Who Chang Suining Is

She thought the jade dust would appear today.

So in addition to Ache, she also asked Azhi to watch secretly, but there has been no news throughout the whole day until now.

Yuxie has already tried to leave the Princess's Mansion, which means she has made up her mind to do so.

Repeated retreat and hesitation are undoubtedly out of fear.

What are you afraid of?

A person who has not left the Princess's Mansion for more than ten years... What she fears is obviously not just the secret code that disappeared for many years and suddenly appeared.

Hiding in the Princess's Mansion, under the surveillance of the Saint, was probably also to save his life.

Therefore, she was afraid that once she really stepped out of the Princess's Mansion, she would be silenced.

There was a thoughtful look in Chang Suining's eyes.

The person who can scare Yu Xie to this extent must be no ordinary person.

In other words, the person who could convince Yu Xie to poison her back then could not have been an ordinary person.

And now, judging from Yuxie's many actions and reactions, the mastermind behind the incident back then does not seem to be Ming Hou.

Although many years have passed and the past is all forgotten, once the crime of poisoning the eldest princess is exposed, it is also extraordinary. Therefore, it is hard to say whether the other party is still secretly eyeing Yu Xie.

So, in order to prevent Yu Xie from being killed before she could tell the truth, she needed to make more preparations while luring her away from the Princess's Mansion.

In this case, relying on Ache alone to keep watch is far from enough.

She needed some available people.

While Chang Suining was thinking, the sound of an increasingly fierce quarrel ahead attracted her attention.

When I looked up, I saw two children fighting over something.

The shorter and thinner one turned around and ran a few steps, and the taller child caught up with him and knocked him to the ground.

"You dare to run! Take it out!"

“This is mine…!”

"Give me!"

The tall kid rode hard on the other kid and snatched the things from his hand without saying a word.

The child under him was still struggling and resisting. He stuffed the things he had snatched into his arms, gritted his teeth, held the other person down with one hand, and clenched his fist with the other hand to hit the other person in the face.

As soon as the fist was raised, it was grabbed by someone.

The boy raised his head and looked, and was stunned.

"Little kid, it's fine if you just steal things, but why do you have to hit others?" Chang Suining asked.

The boy in dirty and ragged clothes did not answer her, but tried to pull back his hand that was restrained by her. However, the more he moved, the tighter he felt, so he could only say angrily, "What's it to you? Let me go!"

Chang Suining ignored him and pulled him off the kid with force: "I'm asking you a question, why are you hitting someone?"

"I'm going to beat him!" The boy's dirty face flushed red, and he said viciously, "I've beaten him into submission this time, and he won't dare to resist next time!"

Xier looked at the dirty steamed bun in his arms and couldn't help asking, "Just for a steamed bun?"

The boy's eyes were filled with embarrassment and anger when he heard this, and he said angrily: "Of course you people don't look down on a steamed bun!"

When Xier met those eyes, she was speechless for a moment.

Looking at the pair of eyes in front of him that were deliberately ferocious, Chang Suining glanced at the short boy beside him who looked aggrieved and uneasy——

"But he is not wrong. If you hit him, he will at most be afraid of you, but he will not obey you."

The boy frowned: "What's the difference!"

The next moment, there was a sharp pain in the wrist that was being held: "It hurts!"

Chang Suining was very cautious and relaxed his strength at this moment: "Were you scared just now?"

The boy frowned and said nothing.

"But you won't obey me."

"People who are beaten without any fault are afraid of your strength. But if you get sick, injured or lose your strength one day, they will definitely fight back and retaliate."

Chang Suining said: "This is the way of survival for the wolves in the jungle. People can convince others, but true conviction is the long-term solution."

The boy, who was about twelve or thirteen years old, was able to understand her words, but he turned his eyes away and said stubbornly and dissatisfiedly: "What's the difference between humans and wolves..."

Chang Suining looked at him: "The difference is whether you want to be a human or a wolf."

"It's not me who has the final say!" There was a barely perceptible hint of grievance in the boy's sarcastic tone.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the girl stretched out her other hand, took the steamed bun from his arms, and handed it back to the child.

"That's mine!" the boy said anxiously.

Chang Suining: "You stole it—"

"What I have taken with my own ability is mine!"

Chang Suining: "But now I have snatched it from you with my own ability, so I have the final say on how to deal with it."

"You!" The boy was angry and aggrieved, and tears as big as beans flowed out of his eyes uncontrollably: "I haven't eaten for three days!"

He was so anxious that he wanted to sit down and cry, but he couldn't sit down because Chang Suining was holding one of his hands. He could only point his other hand at the child: "But he hasn't eaten for two days! It's obvious that I need it more! Why give him food and not me? Wuwuwu!"

In the end, it revealed the child's truest side.

"So you are now telling me how to be a human being?"

The boy broke down and cried loudly: "Who wants to reason with you! Give me back my buns!"

"Okay." Chang Suining let go of his hand, turned around and walked in front: "Come with me."

The boy followed her crying as if he was angry and wanted to depend on her. The boy who had already stuffed the steamed bun into his mouth hesitated for a moment and then followed her.

Yuan Xiang, who had just led the horse for his own governor, was stunned when he saw this scene - why is she crying like this? Mrs. Chang wouldn't even beat the little beggar, right?

Then Xier ran into the building and brought out two baskets of food.

"Girl, the kitchen said these are all they have left!"

Just looking at the steamer, the two boys couldn't help swallowing.

In the past, when they came across a bun stall on the street, they would be immediately driven away if they even approached, let alone trying to eat! "One basket per person, no snatching." Xier gave them two.

The two boys sat down on the spot, not even bothering to wipe their hands, as there was nothing to wipe with, and they just started eating the buns.

Chang Suining also sat down on the stone steps nearby.

Seeing that the two children choked and rolled their eyes while eating, Xier was afraid that someone would die, so she hurried back upstairs and brought out two pots of honey tea.

Chang Suining looked at the dense summer starry sky above his head and felt a little unhappy.

Tonight, I will hold a banquet for all the scholars in the Tai Tower, which will give us a peaceful and prosperous time.

But the true prosperity should not be seen from the high places, but from the low places.

She turned and looked at the two children eating buns.

Her actions tonight might seem like she was meddling in other people's business, but these children at the lowest level were not born to be ignored or abandoned. If no one cares, then who will?

They are all her Dasheng citizens, and they shouldn't learn to be wolves just for a steamed bun.

They ate all the buns and drank all the honey tea.

"Thank you, girl!" The short and thin child ran up and bowed awkwardly to Chang Suining, imitating the movements he had learned from somewhere.

The other child finished eating faster than him and seemed to have hesitated for a long time. But at this moment, he still came over and said to Chang Suining: "You have given me too much..."

Chang Suining, who was sitting on the stone steps, looked at him with amusement: "Tell me after you've finished eating."

The boy scratched his head and smiled sheepishly.

This smile, which was no longer hostile, made Chang Suining's heart soften.

So there are people who are born bad, but it is not difficult to see just now that this child is not truly evil.

Extreme poverty and injustice will breed and magnify evil - when living is difficult, kindness and softness are often like a knife handed to others.

When the two boys' eyes met, the taller one felt a little uncomfortable: "I...I shouldn't have taken your steamed bun just now."

"I should give you half..."

After filling their stomachs and drinking sweet honey tea, they are no longer so tense and hostile as to think only about finding food.

Chang Suining smiled.

The beauty of this moment is not fake.

But if it wants to last for a long time, there are conditions.

Children this young cannot withstand too much test of survival and hunger.

"Thank you girl...we should go now."

If you go back too late, you won't have a place to sleep.

Although you can spend a night anywhere on a summer night, you can't just sleep anywhere. It would be bad if you accidentally violate the taboos of the nobles. Moreover, the officials patrolling the city will chase people away before dawn. Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, so they dare to come to this prosperous place to find something to eat.

When the two children were about to say goodbye, the lights in the shop across the street just turned off, and the two little shadows were buried in the darkness.

At this time, they heard the girl sitting on the stone steps suggest: "Why don't you come back with me?"

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Both of them widened their eyes.

Chang Suining promised earnestly: "I guarantee you will have buns to eat."

Saying a bunch of nice principles that don't apply to wolves, giving them some food, patting their heads, and then dusting off their hands and throwing them back to the wolf pack would really be a stupid and nosy act - that's not saving people, that's harming them.

Since she has intervened, she should take care of it to the end.

The two children took a long time to react, still feeling unbelievable. However, they were afraid of missing this good opportunity, so they knelt down and kowtowed to her.

Hearing the footsteps behind him, Chang Suining looked in the direction of the carriage and said with a smile: "Okay, go there and wait for me first."

The two of them nodded hurriedly, and when the taller one stood up, he did not forget to pull the other child up.

The two of them walked together to the Chang Mansion's carriage, waited there obediently, and stood very straight.

Yuan Xiang, who was waiting with his horse not far away, blinked.

When Chang Suining stood up from the stone steps, Cui Jing walked out of the building.

"General Cui." Chang Suining immediately thanked him, "Thank you very much today."

Cui Jing glanced at the two beggars waiting beside the carriage and said nothing more.

After they walked down the stone steps, Cui Jing asked, "Why do you want to hold this poetry gathering?"

This poetry reading was not accidental; it was organized by her.

It is not easy to hold this poetry reading. The right time, right place and right people are all essential, so this is not a spur-of-the-moment idea; she had prepared for it in advance.

"Of course I want to be famous."

The girl spoke frankly, making no effort to hide her desire for fame and fortune.

She looked up at the night sky and said with a smile: "I have to let the world know who I am, Chang Suining."

"Is it important?" Cui Jing asked.

Chang Suining nodded: "Of course it's important."

How can a nobody accomplish anything? This question and answer fully revealed the girl's vanity, but Cui Jing did not make fun of her, nor did he delve into it further. He just said, "Then you will get what you want tomorrow."

"Yeah." Chang Suining looked at the stars in the sky with a faint smile, and said in a relaxed tone: "I'm already looking forward to it."

Cui Jing wanted to laugh.

I also heard her say: "Thanks to the help of General Cui."

Cui Jing: "With or without me, you are destined to become famous with one painting tonight."

He just left Xie no room for explanation, but before that she had already turned the situation around with her own abilities.

"It is true that Grand Commander Cui helped me a lot." Chang Suining asked: "Why did the Grand Commander help me? Or, how should I repay Grand Commander Cui?"

Although she has a relationship with Lao Chang, she cannot take it for granted. She can't help but think more about whether the other party can use her.

"Just doing it casually." His answer was unexpectedly simple.

He just thought that she might need his help, so he did it. It was not a difficult task.

Chang Suining turned his head slightly to look at the young man beside him, and saw that his chiseled profile was calm and indifferent, and he suddenly realized - that's right, people like him would not bother to repay favors.

He and Wei Shuyi really have two different personalities.

Wei Shuyi always likes to speak and act in a roundabout way, and is full of tricks. But he is clean and simple - it doesn't mean that General Cui is not smart enough.

He was simple, and she was happy to be relaxed and casual.

Perhaps because the two of them had cooperated tacitly in silence about today's matter, Chang Suining simply asked, "General Cui helped me a lot, so in this case, we should be considered friends, right?"

"Friend?" Cui Jing was stunned.

When ordinary people see the reaction of the son of the dignified Cui family, they might reflect on whether they are marrying above their station or not. However, Chang Suining is not an ordinary person. He rarely or even never realizes that he is marrying above his station.

She just asked curiously: "Isn't it still counted?"

"I don't know." Cui Jing seemed to think for a moment and said, "I have never had any friends."

Chang Suining: "Isn't he Minister Wei?"

Cui Jing: “…It’s better not to be.”

He turned his head slightly to look at her: "If everyone is like him, then we don't have to be friends anymore."

Chang Suining couldn't help but laugh: "There are many kinds of friends."

Cui Jing did not comment. When he looked up at the night sky again, his eyes fell on the crescent moon. "You just said that you admire Princess Chongyue very much—"

"Yeah." Chang Suining was a little surprised that he suddenly mentioned "Chong Yue" - it would be easy to explain if he mentioned "the late crown prince", after all, he led the Xuan Ce Army and had something to do with this.

He looked at the moon and said in a clear and gentle tone: "You know a lot about Her Royal Highness the Princess?"

Chang Suining: “…Not a lot.”

If I say too much, it will be hard to explain.

She asked curiously, "How much does the Grand Commander know about Princess Chongyue?"

This curiosity is real.

Who wouldn’t be curious about how they see themselves in the eyes of a stranger?

Cui Jing felt that he knew more than her, but he couldn't say it, so he said, "It's not appropriate to make irresponsible comments about Her Royal Highness the Princess."

"?" Chang Suining looked at the man who refused to have a deep conversation with her strangely: "...wasn't it you who started it first?"

Cui Jing raised his eyebrows slightly.

That’s right…

Hearing the girl's slightly disdainful tone, he also found himself funny and couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth slightly.

At this time, Adian ran over from a distance.

"Where did you go?" Chang Suining asked.

"I'm going to buy this!" Ah Dian raised the colorful rope in his hand like he was offering a treasure. He already had one rope tied around his sturdy wrist, and now he had another one in his hand: "Everyone has one!"

"Xiao Jing, let me tie one for you first!"

Cui Jing was always patient with Ah Dian. Upon hearing this, he stretched out a hand behind his back and said, "Thank you, senior."

"Okay, it's Xiao Ali's turn!"

Cui Jing looked at the colorful rope on his wrist, and subconsciously looked at Chang Suining beside him - tying a same colorful silk thread on his wrist at this time, could this be considered a ritual of making friends?

General Cui, who had never made friends before, had some inexplicable expectations.

The next moment, Chang Suining stretched out his hand, rolled up his sleeves slightly, and revealed his wrist that was tied with all kinds of colorful ropes.

Cui Jing: “……?”

Cui Jing: That year on the Dragon Boat Festival, the colorful silk thread was ultimately wasted...

Ningning: I have too many friends, please forgive me (°ー°〃) 　　 　 (End of this chapter)