Chapter 142 Learning to Forget
The man said pitifully again.
"How could you do this? Since you bought me, I am yours. If you abandon me, what is the difference between you and those ungrateful people?"
Chen Shiyi felt that he was becoming more and more unreasonable.
She raised her hand and slapped the man on the head.
The man shrank back.
"I gave you face, didn't I?"
The man was crying and being very stubborn.
"What's the point of giving me freedom? I can't carry anything on my shoulders or lift anything with my hands. How can I survive in the civilian world? I might as well stay in the drinking house and get beaten to death..."
Chen Shiyi felt that he had lost his patience.
She took advantage of his loosened grip and kicked him off the carriage.
"Then go back to the drinking crane building, Bailing, let's go..."
Chen Shiyi had a headache.
What a mess this is.
She returned to Liluo Courtyard and had a good sleep. When she woke up, she heard Bailing calling her.
"What is it?"
"Someone is looking for me."
"Who?"
"Miss of the Marquisate."
Chen Shiyi was silent for a while.
"Bring her to Liluo Courtyard. I'll be waiting for her inside."
When Wen Zhirou entered Liluoyuan, she saw Chen Shiyi with sleepy eyes, which seemed to have disturbed her sleep.
"eleven…"
"There is no custom in Kyoto to meet guests in the afternoon. You are looking for me, so you must have something urgent to tell me, right?"
Wen Zhirou came straight to the point.
"I have a cosmetics shop in the western suburbs, but I'm not doing well in running it. I have to put in money from my dowry to cover my expenses. You're a good trader, so I want to rent this shop to you. Would you run it for me?"
Chen Shiyi refused without a second thought.
"I don't have that many people under me, and I often travel between Kyoto and Yanzhou, so I don't have that much energy. Besides, you can leave it to your husband in the mansion. Besides, Earl Bai's mansion should not be short of capable people..."
Wen Zhirou smiled helplessly.
"You are right. There is no shortage of capable people in the Earl's Mansion, but this is my dowry, and I don't want anyone from the Earl's Mansion to get involved..."
Chen Shiyi remained silent.
She was calm as usual, her eyes were clear, and she was gradually surrounded by a stunning aura. It seemed that her experience of wandering around in the outside world over the past few years had gradually made her different from others...
Wen Zhirou understood that this was no longer the smiling, kind and humble Chen Shiyi. She was now confident and strong, and her demeanor could not be underestimated...
"Eleven, you've changed a lot."
"Well, as I get older, meet a lot of people, and go through a lot of things, things will change naturally."
Wen Zhirou asked tentatively.
"You, still don't want to see my brother?"
"It's better not to meet him. Besides, I have no connection with the Marquis' Mansion anymore. Meeting him or not will only cause trouble."
"My brother and Mo Xunyan have already divorced, and he will keep the Marquis of Loyalty Mansion for you."
Chen Shiyi poured Wen Zhirou a cup of tea.
"Try it and see if it still tastes good to you."
Wen Zhirou took a sip.
"The tea soup is clear, sweet and mellow."
Chen Shiyi nodded.
“No matter how good the tea leaves are, they can only be brewed with warm water to make a good cup of tea. Otherwise, it will be full of dregs, bitter and hard to swallow.”
She raised her eyes and looked at Wen Zhirou steadily.
"Miss, whether the young master is getting a divorce or not, and who the mistress of the Marquis of Loyalty is, has nothing to do with me. I will not accept anything from him, including his love. Can you help me convey a message to the young master?"
"What?"
"Along the way, there may be many regrets and reluctances. I am just one of them. I will move forward slowly and look forward. When there are many regrets and reluctances, I will forget them."
Wen Zhirou explained immediately.
"Eleven, he was also deceived by his father and mother..."
Chen Shiyi shook his head.
"It doesn't matter anymore. Words, insults and humiliation can't hurt me. I stayed in the mansion and suffered all these hardships because I promised to try to like him. I left cruelly and broke my promise because the world would not tolerate it."
"Miss, I have lived with you in Fangling for four years. The days of exile are always painful. Let's forget about it, forget those unbearable things, forget about me..."
"goodbye…"
"Bai Ling, show the guest out!"
After seeing Wen Zhirou off, Bailing looked at Chen Shiyi who had a gloomy expression and asked.
"Sister, what's wrong with you?"
"I hate this feeling of being disconnected."
Wen Zhirou returned to the Marquis' Mansion and personally repeated Chen Shiyi's words to Wen Zhiheng.
He didn't show any strange expression at all.
"Why do you want to see her today?"
"I want you to reconcile."
Wen Zhiheng raised his eyes to look at Wen Zhirou, then continued writing.
"Don't interfere in what happens between me and her."
Warm and gentle persuasion.
"Brother, what do you want? Eleven has made it very clear that she doesn't want to have anything to do with us. Why don't you understand? Don't you know how to let go?"
Wen Zhiheng paused while writing.
"I've let it go, and now I'm just starting over."
Wen Zhirou bit the corner of her lip, looking helpless.
"Brother, at your age, the children at home have been studying with the teacher for a long time. Do you want to make your parents anxious to death?"
"Isn't there Rui'er?"
"Can it be the same?"
"What's the difference?"
Wen Zhirou suddenly fell silent.
She thought for a moment and then spoke again.
"Then why don't you ask His Majesty for a marriage? You've already divorced, so why don't you just marry Chen Shiyi? There's no one to hold you back."
Wen Zhiheng did not answer.
Seeing him like this, there was nothing she couldn't understand.
"You are afraid, aren't you? Afraid that Chen Shiyi will not marry you even if it means she violates the Holy Order, right?"
Inside Lingyun Pavilion, the charcoal fire was as bright as spring, but at this moment, it was so cold that it made people's hearts ache.
Wen Zhiheng shouted outside.
"Qingsong, send the young lady back to the Earl's Mansion."
"Qingsong obeys."
Wen Zhirou sneered.
"Brother, is it true that people spend their entire lives trapped by things that they could not obtain when they were young?"
After saying that, he walked out of Lingyun Pavilion.
The sky was dim, and Wen Zhiheng walked into Yueyingxuan again with a lantern in hand.
He had walked this road countless times.
Going back and forth, there were only his footprints.
He kept Yueyingxuan because he firmly believed that Chen Shiyi would come back.
But Wen Zhirou touched upon his true feelings.
He was afraid. He was afraid that when he met Chen Shiyi, she would not be nice to him. He was afraid that if he asked the emperor for a marriage, she would refuse without hesitation.
The only thing he could do now was to send someone to guard her, help her eliminate the hidden dangers in her livelihood, and remove the thorns on her road...
It seems like it’s gone.
He didn't know how long he could hold on, but he felt that it was fine to live like this for the rest of his life and there was nothing wrong with it.
If, if she married someone else, if she married someone else...
He never thought about it, nor dared to think about it...
The pearly moonlight flowing through his fingertips made him increasingly unable to see through himself.