Lin Wan'er was stunned for a long time after hearing this.
When she came to her senses, she spat out, "Pah, you're the one who's embarrassed? If you were embarrassed, would you have turned all your sisters into wives?"
"Isn't this just to keep my word?"
Jing Zhe argued forcefully: "As a man, one must keep one's word and do what one says!"
Lin Wan'er was utterly disdainful of Jing Zhe's self-aggrandizing behavior, but she didn't refute him further. Instead, she counted on her fingers and muttered to herself, "Second sister, third sister, fourth sister, fifth sister, and sixth sister..."
She counted them all on one hand, and even she was surprised afterward.
"You...you really do keep your word! Five of your older sisters have become your wives?"
Jing Zhe smiled and nodded: "There are five so far."
"at present?"
"Yes, I have five so far, and my goal is seven, so I still need to keep working hard!"
As he said this, Jing Zhe looked intently at Lin Wan'er.
Lin Wan'er was also looking at Jing Zhe, her gaze never leaving him.
Jing Zhe said this on purpose, wanting to see Lin Wan'er's attitude. Seeing Lin Wan'er's burning gaze, Jing Zhe began to laugh at himself for making a fuss. From the moment Lin Wan'er took his hand and showed intimacy upon meeting him, he should have known the outcome without saying or trying.
In the end, Lin Wan'er was the most shy. She lowered her head slightly and said softly, "Third Sister is quite interesting. She's become your woman herself, but instead she criticizes others!"
Qingqiu's actions are easy to understand; she was probably too embarrassed to admit it herself.
"Third sister is shy."
Jing Zhe spoke up for her.
"What about Fourth Sister?"
"Fourth Sister... we've only been officially a couple of days, and we just arrived in Jiangling, so we haven't had time to talk about it yet!"
"..."
Lin Wan'er nodded and didn't ask any further questions. Instead, she said, "Zhe'er, if you had used your real name in Yongzhou back then, we would have recognized each other long ago!"
Jing Zhe smiled and agreed, and at the same time told Lin Wan'er about what happened in Yongzhou. He heard that Lu Li had imprisoned him on Mangshan Mountain. Jing Zhe tried to escape many times but could not. In the end, he had to make a bet with Lu Li to earn money. Lin Wan'er covered her mouth and chuckled after hearing this.
Afterwards, the two talked for a long time, but Lin Wan'er did most of the talking while Jing Zhe listened.
After Lin Wan'er's explanation, what she had heard from Fatty Wei matched what she already knew.
Last July, when Jing Zhe had just transmigrated, Lin Wan'er suddenly discovered that the people the Prince of Jin had secretly sent to monitor her had disappeared. Later, she asked her third sister, Qingqiu, who, being a martial artist, knew better than anyone whether someone was monitoring her, and received an affirmative answer.
Lin Wan'er was filled with longing. Although she didn't know why the Prince of Jin had lifted the surveillance on them, she still decided to go north to Pengzhou. She stayed in Yongzhou for a few days along the way, and it was at that time that she met Jing Zhe.
Later, after she arrived in Pengzhou, she learned that the Jing couple had passed away. At that time, she finally understood why the Prince of Jin had sent people to monitor them for so many years and prevent them from reuniting, but suddenly lifted the surveillance at this time.
With both parents dead, how can we ever reunite?
Lin Wan'er was devastated after returning from Pengzhou. She had loved poetry so much before, but she never attended a poetry gathering again. It wasn't until some time after the Mid-Autumn Festival poetry gathering that the stunning Mid-Autumn Festival poem "When will the moon be clear and bright? I raise my cup to ask the blue sky" came from Jingzhou.
Moreover, the person who wrote this poem was named Jing Zhe!
At the time, Lin Wan'er had no way of finding out whether Jing Zhe was her brother or not, but she felt that he was. She actually wanted to ask Qingqiu, but Qingqiu was not in Jiangling at the time, so she could only write to her second sister Zhu Xinning for help, which finally confirmed her guess.
At that time, she was so excited that she decided to set off for Jingzhou immediately. Then Zhu Xinning's letter arrived, saying that Jing Zhe had been ordered by the emperor to go to Jinxi to participate in the martial arts tournament. Lin Wan'er had thought about going directly to Jinxi, but after thinking about it for a long time, she gave up.
She had also heard that Jing Zhe was no longer a commoner, but had been granted an imperial decree. If she went now, she was afraid it would delay his business, so she decided to wait until Jing Zhe finished his business in Jinxi and go directly to Jingzhou to find him.
During that time, she kept in touch with Zhu Xinning and specifically instructed Zhu Xinning to write to her as soon as Jing Zhe returned to Jingzhou so that she could make arrangements to go to Jingzhou.
She waited a long time and finally received a letter from Jing Zhe returning to Jingzhou. However, there were less than ten days left until the end of the year. Although she really wanted to see Jing Zhe, she couldn't leave during the New Year, so she had to put it off again.
After listening, Jing Zhe calculated the time in his mind. It would indeed be close to the New Year when he returned to Jingzhou. In addition, Zhu Xinning's letter to Lin Wan'er would take a few more days to arrive on the road, so the timing would just match up.
Jing Zhe was surprised that Zhu Xinning and Lin Wan'er had such a close relationship, yet she had never said a word to him. Could it be that the two of them were just putting on a show?
Lin Wan'er planned to go to Jingzhou after the New Year, but before she could set off, Zhu Xinning's letter arrived again. She then learned that Jing Zhe had been ordered to leave Jingzhou again. Upon hearing this news, Lin Wan'er was extremely anxious.
She was afraid that she would have to wait for an unknown amount of time, just like before the Lunar New Year, so she decided to go directly to Jing Zhe this time. However, Zhu Xinning told her in her letter that there was no need to rush, because Jing Zhe would be coming to Jiangling this time.
Lin Wan'er was initially very anxious, but upon hearing this news, she suddenly stopped being anxious. Wouldn't it be better to wait for him to come?
She had assumed that Jing Zhe would choose Jiangling as his first stop, so she had no interest in attending the Lantern Festival Poetry Gathering. However, when the Lantern Festival ended and she still hadn't seen Jing Zhe, she became anxious.
At this time, she received a letter from her sixth sister, Zhou Ziqiong.
She had been close to her sixth sister since childhood and they usually kept in touch by letter, but this time it was completely different because she learned from Zhou Ziqiong's letter that Jing Zhe had gone to Ruzhou.
After that, Zhou Ziqiong's letters were almost non-stop, constantly recounting the interesting things she and Jing Zhe had done before, seemingly showing off, which made Lin Wan'er both envious and jealous. When Jing Zhe left Ruzhou, Zhou Ziqiong wrote her last letter, and from that moment on, she was no longer so excited.
As time went by, the Peach Blossom Poetry Gathering was approaching. Lin Wan'er hadn't attended a poetry gathering for more than half a year, so she decided to participate in this year's Peach Blossom Poetry Gathering. However, she didn't expect that when she was at her third sister Qingqiu's place in the morning, her fourth sister Pei Yunxi arrived.
So she decided against participating at the last minute, but Pei Yunxi told them that Jing Zhe had come with her and gone to Peach Blossom Mountain...
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