Chapter 126 Shen Su: I want to be quiet

The eighth day of the first lunar month is an auspicious day.

"Brother~"

At noon, Shen Su, who had just come out of the study, saw his sister with a "flattering" smile on her face.

“Bang—”

Shen Su quickly closed the door, suspecting that he was hallucinating.

"Brother, open the door, I have something to say!" Shen Yuan slammed the door.

Shen Xu then reopened the door, "Oh, it's you, Manman. I was just saying that I was seeing an illusion just now."

Shen Yuan was a little worried about his brother's current condition, and he carefully comforted him, "Brother, don't worry too much. We have someone upstairs, you will definitely win."

"Someone above? Someone who was beheaded for cheating in the imperial examination!!"

"I'm talking about someone in the immortal's place, my mother."

"...Manman, didn't you say you had something to tell me? What is it?"

"Brother, sit down first and listen to me." Shen Yuan pushed Shen Su to sit on the chair.

"What are you going to say? Why are you so scary?" Shen Xu felt a chill on his back for some reason. "Can I just not listen?"

"no."

"Then tell me..."

"I want to get engaged to Xie Hui this Dragon Boat Festival. Do you agree?"

"Oh! I don't agree. Do you listen?"

Shen Yuan: “…”

"You go out first, I want to be alone."

"elder brother……"

After Shen Yuan came out of the study, he went to find his sister-in-law.

"Sister-in-law, my brother is like this... Is he okay?"

"It's okay, he just needs to calm down. He just can't bear to leave you. When you mentioned the engagement, he must have thought about your future marriage."

"I know." Shen Yuan propped up his chin, "But it's still too early to get married, and our house is not far from the Princess's Mansion. At worst, I can run back and forth and come back for dinner every day!"

If you take a horse carriage, you can go back and forth in half an hour. The Shen family's food will be served to Xie at home and will still be hot.

"Yes, don't worry, your brother will figure it out soon. You go back first, I'll go see him later, you go back and think about how to tell grandma."

After Shen Yuan left, He Ying came to the study.

As soon as Shen Xu saw her, he asked, "Manman said she wanted to get engaged on Duanwu Day. Did she tell you?"

"Manman told me."

"You agreed?! How can Manman get engaged? She's still so young, it'll take at least another four or five years."

Shen Su said this angrily, walking around the study room with his hands on his hips.

He Ying walked around him and sat down on the chair, saying calmly, "Didn't I say before that we should wait until you finish your exams before getting married? What did you say?"

Shen Su stopped walking and put down his hands on his waist.

Obviously, Shen Su also thought of how he had begged He Ying to marry him.

He Ying continued, "Were we not engaged when we were sixteen? When we got married, my parents were reluctant to let us go and couldn't sleep for several nights."

Shen Su felt that if he continued talking like this, he would not be able to enter the room tonight.

"Yingniang, I was wrong. I just liked you so much that I wanted to get married as soon as possible. We have known each other for so many years, but Xie Hui, that guy, has only known me for a short time. He is not as good as me."

As Shen Su was talking, he rubbed against his wife's side and became clingy. He Ying reached out and gently stroked Shen Su's eyebrows, and he immediately softened like a cat having its fur stroked.

"Husband, you are the older brother. You should protect your younger sister when she pursues the person or thing she likes, instead of stopping her and letting her follow you for the rest of her life."

Shen Su didn't say anything, but He Ying knew he must have heard her. Her hands kept moving, still gently tracing her husband's eyebrows over and over again.

After an incense stick of time, Shen Su finally stood up.

"I need to go out for a while."

He Ying did not ask him where he was going. Instead, she looked as if she had expected it and said to him gently, "Go ahead."

Two quarters of an hour later, in the Tianyue building's loft.

The waiter in the store trembled with fear when he went to order tea and then found the owner of the wine shop.

"Boss, there's a young man in there who looks very unhappy! Are we going to start a fight?"

"Fighting? Impossible. The people who come and go in our Tianyue Tower are all well-known figures. We are not the Tianxiang Tower across the street. It's only the eighth day of the first lunar month and we've already had five fights."

The waiter was also frightened after seeing the dismal state of Tianxianglou where tables and chairs had to be replaced three times in five days. Now whenever a customer came in, he had to secretly observe the customer's facial expression.

Shen Su looked unhappy today, as if his house had been robbed, which really scared the waiter.

At this time in the room, Shen Xu and Xie Hui sat opposite each other with solemn expressions.

Xie Hui stood up first and bowed to Shen Xu, "Brother Shen, you are sincere to me."

Shen Su snorted coldly, "Whether you are sincere or not, what you say does not count."

Then he remembered what his wife said, that he was not here to stop it, but to protect Manman.

"Manman has never suffered any injustice at home. To be honest, I don't think any man is worthy of my sister, but you were chosen by Manman herself, and she likes you, so our family goes along with Manman. I will only say this once. If you treat Manman badly and make her suffer injustice, even if it's only half the time, I will make Manman leave you immediately."

Xie Hui was silent for a while, then he said to Shen Su solemnly: "Brother Shen, I know that no matter what I say, it will be in vain, but you can supervise what I do for the rest of my life."

Shen Su stood up and said, "Remember what you said. I will try my best to live longer than you, even for just one day."

After saying that, Shen Su also went downstairs. The waiter had been watching at the staircase. When he saw Shen Su go out, he quietly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, there was no fight.

After Shen Su returned home from Tianyue Building, he went to find his sister and told her that he agreed. Apart from that, he didn't say anything else. He didn't even give Shen Yuan a chance to speak again and just left.

Shen Yuan went to her grandmother's place with her father. Her father did the talking and she just had to stand by quietly.

Shen Yuan stood aside, still wondering how his grandmother would react when she found out about this.

What no one expected was that after hearing this, Mrs. Shen actually stood up and slapped Shen Yun on the back.

Both father and daughter were stunned...

"I didn't realize it before, but you're still a prostitute seeking fame!"

"Mother! Where do you get that from?" Shen Yun felt that he had died unjustly.

But Old Madam Shen thought she saw through everything. "The man from the princess's family is your subordinate in the Dali Temple. If it weren't for you, how could Manman know him? Second brother, our family is not rich, but we can't climb up the social ladder just for the sake of our future!"

Shen Yuan couldn't have imagined that his grandmother had thought so much in just such a short while.

"Grandmother, you misunderstood. For a man like Xie Hui who is both talented in literature and martial arts and handsome in appearance, it is still unclear who will sell him to whom."

——Small Theater

Xie Hui said to Shen Su in front of him: My domineering and powerful brother, if you dare to bully my sister, I will kill you!

Shen Su in front of his sister: calm and composed, he supports whoever his sister likes!

Shen Su returned to the room and cried silently (.jpg)