"you……"
Feng Qin was so angry he almost fainted. He had thought that bringing this woman down the mountain would at least prevent her from getting in his way.
result…
The result left him speechless with despair.
What should he do now? Does he really have to move all the books from the young master's study?
Those are all rare and irreplaceable copies. Once they are burned, there will never be another copy in the world, not even in the Prime Minister's residence in the capital.
But if he didn't go, how could he get past this hurdle? He looked at the woman with a faint smile in front of him.
Fengqin felt that if he didn't do as she said, he might really be blamed for cheating on the young master when he returned.
"Hurry up, get up now. I'll give you five counts. If you don't go to the study by then, we'll consummate our marriage in your young master's bed and have him catch us red-handed when he gets back, how about that?"
"As the saying goes, to catch a thief red-handed, you have to catch an adulterer in the act. Your young master has to see it with his own eyes before he'll fly into a rage."
Cen Xi watched Feng Qin's constantly changing expression and felt extremely pleased, finally easing some of the pent-up frustration in her heart. With her scoundrel away, bullying his dog was quite a satisfying thing.
"you…"
Feng Qin became even more furious upon hearing the woman's subsequent words.
"one"
"two"
"three"
"Oh, Madam, please stop counting. Fengqin will go right away."
Before Cen Xi could even count to five, Feng Qin suddenly stood up, her face contorted with rage, and scrambled into Shen Jinchen's study.
A short while later, he carried a large stack of books out of the yard.
Cen Xi picked up a yellowed book and casually flipped through it, reading it quickly. It seemed to be a medical book that had been lost for a long time.
Cen Xi thought that this book might have some value in being preserved, so she said to Feng Qin:
"I'll keep this one, and burn the rest."
"Madam, there are several medical books here, all of them rare treasures, the only ones of their kind in the world. Why don't you take a look and see if there's any reason to keep them?"
Seeing that Cen Xi was interested in medical books, Feng Qin thought that even though he had fallen into hell, he still wanted to save himself. Mother, he had to save as many books as possible, otherwise his future days would be nothing short of miserable.
"Alright, go and bring out the other books for me too."
Cen Xi felt that books on practicing medicine and saving lives should not be burned, especially since these were all unique copies. If Zhu Yanniang and Yu Kuang were to thoroughly study them, she could imagine that a lot of money would be stuffed into her pocket in the future.
"yes!"
With the medical books saving some lives, Fengqin finally breathed a sigh of relief.
A moment later, he returned with a sullen face and produced about ten volumes of the "Records of Mountains and Rivers." Cen Xi glanced through them, leaving only the book compiled by the last great Confucian scholar of the previous dynasty.
He asked Fengqin to cook the rest for her, but she was too lazy to do it herself.
"Mistress, can't you forgive your subordinate just this once?"
Fengqin looked at Cenxi and really wanted to jump into the lotus pond and die with those koi. It was bad enough that she was wasting her own life, but she even had to drag him into it. His life was too hard, really too hard.
"No! Burn it now! After it's burned, we'll go and destroy all of your young master's clothes, jade pendants, sachet, inkstone, table, and everything else. How about you do it yourself?"
Seeing that he really wanted to kill himself, Cen Xi felt much better. So she smiled and suggested to Feng Qin that if she could make this little follower faint from anger today, she would have done a good deed. That dog of a man was a complete scoundrel, and it would be better to die than follow him.
"Mistress, give me a sword, I don't want to live anymore."
At this moment, Feng Qin had no other desire but to die.
"No, if you keep giving up on yourself like this, how about we consummate our marriage and have your master come back and whip your corpse? I think men can't stand this. As for me, whether he can kill me or not is another matter, but you will definitely not have a good ending."
"You can't commit suicide even if you want to. I gave you a drug to make you afraid of death on the way here. Even if you wanted to commit suicide, you wouldn't be able to do it to yourself."
Seeing that he looked like he was about to bang his head against the wall, Cen Xi suddenly didn't want him to die. Being half-dead was the most fun, right? So she seriously tried to fool him again.
"Madam, please don't treat me like a three-year-old. There's no such thing as a death-fearing medicine in the world. If you're going to lie to me, you should at least come up with a reasonable excuse."
Feng Qin had never heard of a drug to kill, so he didn't believe Cen Xi's words at all.
"Of course I have it. If you don't believe me, take this sword and stab yourself in the chest, or you can slit your own throat."
Cen Xi generously handed his Broken Shadow Sword to Feng Qin, smilingly enticing him to do it himself.
Feng Qin held the sword to his neck for a while, then, with a mix of laughter and tears, he threw it down. He really couldn't bring himself to kill himself.
Is there really such a thing as a drug that makes you afraid of death? Was he really poisoned by one?
"See? You did try to do it yourself. Since you couldn't, you'd better do as I say. That way you can prolong your life. Once you've finished this for me, I can take over all the other things."
"I'll just say that I hate him to death and took his things to vent my anger. You tried to stop me, but your strength was no match for mine, and you were drugged and tried to kill yourself, so you couldn't stop me."
"Look at this explanation. You're telling everyone, and you're telling me. Is it only if I tell them that you can save your life?"
With a smile on her face, Cen Xi slowly analyzed the pros and cons with Feng Qin.
"What you said... is true, you're not lying to me?"
Feng Qin was somewhat skeptical of the woman's good intentions; he always felt that she had ulterior motives.
"You can only trust me now. Go and keep moving the books. I have another medicine that will make you laugh to death. Do you believe me?"
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