Chapter 22 Portrait
The anger in Su Yanshu's eyes was so violent that it was about to swallow Yu Shengsheng up in the next instant.
His face was ashen and cold, and even the candlelight could not warm it.
"Because of this identity, you keep stabbing us. Do you think you will be willing to let the entire Su family be buried with you because of this identity?"
Yu Shengsheng no longer wanted to explain back and forth. This had nothing to do with identity. Since she came back, she had said that identity didn’t matter.
As long as the family is together.
I can’t say what I said back then now. She is just a joke.
"I've never been the one who cared about identities," Yu Shengsheng said calmly, flowing through his anger, "it's you, the Su family."
“When you don’t need me, tell me I’m your cousin. When you need me, let me serve the Su family.”
"I can tell you clearly, Second Young Master, that I will not marry the Prince of Nanshun."
Su Yanshu stared at her intently, his gaze seemed to turn into a rain of arrows, whistling through her heart and her body.
After a while, Su Yanshu smiled very slowly: "I originally thought that if you get married, you can let Mrs. Wu be your dowry and marry her together. In this case..."
He stretched out his voice, which was like a thin, sharp thread, causing Yu Shengsheng pain and making her beg for mercy.
Yu Shengsheng's face was pale and blood was flowing from the tip of his heart. The two ends of the silk thread were Grandma Wu on one side and Qi Mubai on the other.
The person who knows her best is Su Yanshu, who can easily find her weakness.
Seeing her like this, Su Yanshu stood up with satisfaction, pinched the small dish of candied fruit with his fingertips and placed it in her hand.
Cannot be refused.
"Eat slowly and finish it all. I'll send it back to you tomorrow. Think about what I said."
Yu Shengsheng pinched the plate until her knuckles turned blue.
Nanny Zhou walked over lightly, reached out to take it, but was unable to move it.
Her heart ached: "Miss, please don't hurt yourself."
Yu Shengsheng raised her eyes, her dark eyes were devoid of light: "Mammy, I can't do anything. What's the point of being healthy?"
"Of course it will work," Nanny Zhou said with a warm smile, "Young lady will be more hopeful when she is well again. We can implement it only when we have a solution."
“…Hope, will there still be hope?”
Jin Baobao stepped in and said, "Of course, Miss. I just went to the kitchen to get dinner. I heard that the prince still has a long way to go from his fiefdom to the capital."
"It's a long journey, and who knows what might go wrong, like robbers, a boat capsizing, or rolling rocks."
Aunt Zhou looked out the window anxiously and lowered her voice, "Oh, stop talking, you are so daring."
Jin Baobao ate all the candied fruits on the small plate one by one: "Why not? Evildoers will be punished by heaven."
Yu Shengsheng's voice trembled slightly: "Evil man?"
"I heard from my brother that the prince was a demon. He was bloodthirsty and fierce. He even built a beast park with many ferocious beasts. He often took people to fight with the beasts. I don't know how many people died there."
"He also eats the hearts and livers of living people..."
Yu Shengsheng's ears were buzzing. When he heard the word "beast", his internal organs seemed to shrink together and his whole body became stiff and cold.
"Stop talking, what if you scare the young lady?" Nanny Zhou quickly covered Jin Baobao's mouth.
Jin Baobao thought to himself that this was nothing, just talk, and this was not okay? If she really married him, wouldn't she be scared to death?
Looking at Yu Shengsheng again, he saw that her face was pale, her eyes were empty, and her lips were trembling. He quickly swallowed the rest of his words and the candied fruit in his mouth.
Worried, he asked, "Miss, are you okay? Are you really scared?"
Madam Zhou gently reproached: "Stop talking and go boil some hot water for the young lady."
"Oh," Jin Baobao walked out with his head down.
Suddenly he remembered what Hao Mengye had told him, his eyes rolled, and he hurried to boil some water.
Just as I reached the door of the house, I heard Yu Shengsheng say, "Baobao, you stay."
Yu Shengsheng let out a long sigh, pinched his palms with his fingers, and forced himself to remain calm and not be suppressed by fear.
She couldn't just give in like that. If there was no hope, she had to create hope.
She had to ask carefully about the matter of Prince Nanshun. Only by knowing both herself and the enemy could she think of a way to deal with it.
"Leopard, how did you know about the prince?"
Jin Baobao licked his lips and said, "I heard from my brother that my brother knows some martial arts and often acts as a spy for the soldiers, delivering messages and so on."
The members of the Red Dragon Guard are all the most skilled in martial arts, and their job is to carry out secret investigations and assassinations.
Jin Baobao thought, this doesn't count as a lie, right?
Yu Shengsheng nodded: "Then tell me more about the prince, the more the better."
…
Su Yanshu walked faster and faster. The hot night wind failed to calm him down, but instead made him more irritable.
After passing through the Moon Gate, I collided head-on with a guard.
"How dare you!" His face was as gloomy as water. "What are you rushing around for?"
"Please forgive me, Second Young Master. I was in a hurry and bumped into you."
Su Yanshu suppressed his anger and recognized the man as his eldest brother's personal bodyguard: "What happened? Why are you in such a hurry?"
"My Lord," the guard hesitated and lowered his voice, "We sent out two people, but they haven't returned yet. The young general is waiting for their reply, but no one knows where they are."
Su Yanshu immediately felt something unusual: "What were they sent out for?"
"They said they were keeping an eye on the new maid to see if she had any contact with the third son of the Lu family."
Su Yanshu stood in the light of the lantern, with a chill in his eyes.
He waved his hand and asked the guards to retreat.
The third daughter of the Lu family, Shengsheng, was firm this time and refused to marry the prince. Could it be because of him?
The Lu family is the head of the civil officials, the maternal family of the only imperial concubine in the harem, and the strong rival of the Queen and the Eastern Palace.
No matter what, Shengsheng must not have anything to do with the Lu family.
He walked and thought until he reached the gate of the mansion, where he met Shen Zhiyuan who was carrying a jar of wine.
“Second brother!”
Shen Zhiyuan's voice was tinged with laughter. He was the same age as Su Yanshu, just two months younger. He usually followed Su Zhiyi and called Su Yanshu "Second Brother".
Su Yanshu said indifferently: "Why are you here?"
"My father's new wine, I came here to share it with you."
Su Yanshu had an average impression of Shen Zhiyuan, but his father was the Minister of War, and when General Su was away, Minister Shen gave him a lot of convenience, and military supplies were never short of money.
Su Yanshu's thoughts were complicated: "Just right, I'm going out for a drink."
Shen Zhiyuan happily put his arm around his shoulder and said, "It seems like we are in sync."
Su Yanshu frowned slightly and brushed his arm away without leaving a trace.
The two men returned to the courtyard. After drinking for more than thirty minutes, Shen Zhiyuan became drunk and accidentally knocked over a painting basket.
Su Yanshu loves calligraphy and painting, and is very good at it. He puts his extra paintings in a painting basket.
Two scrolls of paintings rolled out, one of which was more than half torn apart.
The person in the painting is a woman.
Su Yanshu's eyebrows jumped and he reached out to pick it up, but Shen Zhiyuan was one step faster than him and put his hand on the scroll.
"Don't move. Wait a moment."
He blinked hard: "This woman..."
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