Chapter 6 006: The Imperial Seal, the Power of Words
Shen Tang steadied himself and looked calmly at the young man.
He was asked, "Do you have a grudge against the Gong family, sir?"
To her surprise, the young man's answer was unexpected.
The young man, with his hands tucked into his sleeves, leaned against the tree trunk, lowered his eyelids, and said in a calm voice, "No enmity."
Shen Tang: "..."
Why are you getting involved if you have no grudge against someone?
He even tried to kill a male descendant of the Gong family?
Perhaps it was because Shen Tang's gaze was too indescribable that the young man felt displeased.
What kind of look is that?
It's the look in their eyes when they look at the medical records of patients in mental hospitals!
Shen Tang inwardly complained, but said aloud, "Since we have no enmity, where does such malice come from, sir?"
The young man sneered: "As a member of the Gong family, how could you not know?"
Shen Tang: "..."
I told you not to give her weird character traits.
She took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, then gave a friendly smile.
"I am deeply grateful for your life-saving grace, but there are a few things I would like you to know."
"you say."
“Firstly, I am not a member of the Gong family.” After saying this, Shen Tang saw a strange glint in the young man’s eyes. Regardless of whether he believed her or not, she continued, “Secondly, I truly do not know the extent of your malice, sir. Thirdly, I am certainly not a male heir of the Gong family…”
She is clearly a genuine woman.
Although she is still young and her body has not yet started to develop, and she has no obvious secondary sexual characteristics, you wouldn't mistake her gender just by looking at her face!
The young man carefully examined Shen Tang's face, looking into her eyes, as if cautiously considering the truthfulness of her words.
After a long pause, he nodded and said, "I believe what you say, young master."
Shen Tang: "..."
You don't believe that!
(╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
I told you he's not a man, why is this guy so stubborn!
Do you only believe me if she takes off her pants and pulls something out?
The young man quipped, "Although his skills are decent, this kind of abuse of literary talent and random fighting doesn't seem like he's received a proper education."
No respectable scholar would dare to confront a warrior head-on.
Considering that the prisoners exiled this time were not only members of the Gong family, he guessed that this young man might be one of the non-Gong family members. Thanks to his feminine appearance, he was assigned to the female rank, which is why the Dan family was spared from being abolished.
Shen Tang: "..."
For a moment I didn't know where to begin complaining, I only managed to grasp one key point.
You said...Wenxin? I have Wenxin?
Does this body possess a literary mind?
Ready to get started!
She finally saw some of the treatment that time travelers should receive.
"You didn't know?"
Seeing that her expression didn't seem fake, it was now the young man's turn to be surprised.
Shen Tang shook his head sincerely.
She had been in this world for less than 24 hours.
Not only did she not have the original owner's memories, but her home was also raided. How could she possibly know any of this?
The young man pressed on, "If you didn't know you had a literary mind, then what was that power of words just now?"
"Word magic... what is that?"
"It's that passage, 'A loving mother's sword cuts through her wandering son,' that's your literary inspiration."
As the young man spoke, he frowned, his expression quite strange.
A loving mother who chops her child with a sword—it doesn't sound like some kind of sacred word, but the world is full of wonders, and perhaps he's just not experienced enough.
Shen Tang truthfully said, "...I was thinking of a way to save my life, and it suddenly appeared in my mind."
youth:"……"
This is outrageous!
Shen Tang steered the conversation back to the topic.
"The master hasn't yet explained why you dislike the Gong family so much."
An unresolved problem is like eating a melon without knowing what happens next; that agonizing feeling is unpleasant.
The young man glanced at Shen Tang and said expressionlessly, "Although there is no personal grudge, there is the hatred of the country's destruction."
Upon hearing this, Shen Tang immediately gave up her gossip-loving mood.
This is no joke; if you accidentally anger someone, they might fight you to the death. Little do they know that in this world, there are hundreds of countries, and wars between them are constant. The destruction and creation of countries are commonplace. If a generation lives long enough, they can change their nationality more than twice.
The young man had feelings for his homeland, but not to that extent.
"Then, what about the power of words?"
Shen Tang didn't stand on ceremony and treated the young man as a free "explanatory NPC".
Why bother running around asking around when you can get the answer from him?
Who doesn't like getting something for free?
youth:"……"
He confirmed again and again that Shen Tang really didn't know anything, and that the questions she asked were very basic, so it wouldn't hurt to answer one or two.
The question was so basic that it made one wonder if she was some wild woman who had emerged from some remote mountain village, so the young man had no choice but to start the story from the beginning.
His account was far more complete than the unfamiliar memories that surfaced in Shen Tang's mind.
The fallen star shattered into pieces, scattering across the Central Plains. People were busy cultivating their knowledge and skills, absorbing the energy of heaven and earth to refine themselves. Apart from merchants hoping to profit from this "rare commodity," no one paid any attention to it. Until a craftsman carved one of the fragments of the star into a seal and presented it to the king.
As soon as the king received the seal, it burst forth with a brilliant purple light, and countless strange characters floated out from it, some of which merged with the official's dantian. Only then did he realize that certain characters within the seal, combined with specific literary and martial talents, could unleash incredible power.
These words are the "spirit of words".
For example, the young man's earlier statement, "Teeth are strong but are lost first, tongue is soft but survives, softness can overcome hardness and weakness can overcome strength," is to bless and restore one of the opposing sides. The same words have different effects in the hands of different people.
From then on, fragments of the Thief Star became standard equipment for the national seals of various countries.
The power of the national seal directly affects the strength of the country. If the ruler activates the national seal, it can be transformed into a national treasure to guard the borders of the nation.
At this point, the young man paused, glancing at Shen Tang's expression out of the corner of his eye, and said calmly, "The capital of Chongtai has fallen, and the Imperial Seal has been lost. There are rumors that the Gong family hid and embezzled it. However, even after the Gong family's property was confiscated, the Imperial Seal has still not been found..."
Shen Tang didn't care about the Imperial Seal, but rather—
"Chongtai?"
As she finished speaking, the young man's expression was quite interesting and complex.
"...It is the original Xin Kingdom. There are rumors that it will be renamed 'Chongtai'."
He thought Shen Tang asked this because she was out of touch with the outside world during her exile and didn't know that Chongtai was now Xin State, but little did he know that she simply thought the name was a bit strange.
"They destroyed a country and then changed its name..."
What kind of operation is this?
The young man said, "For humiliation."
"humiliation?"
“Those who serve other women are commonly called ‘double-tiered servants,’ which is naturally a great disgrace to the remnants of the Xin Kingdom.”
What does "all servants who are employed by other servants" mean?
To put it simply, it means the lowest of the low, the lowest of the low.
As one of the culprits in the downfall of the country, how could the Gong family not be hated?
As long as the national seal doesn't appear, this turmoil won't stop.
These are just for fun; they have nothing to do with Shen Tang. She is more concerned about what her own Wenxin looks like.
The young man suggested, "Why don't you take the test?"
The nine grades of literary talent are such that only by knowing the specific grades of literary talent can one find the right words for oneself.
Shen Tang: "How do we test it?"
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