Chapter 17 She Made Zhao Yun Cry
Shen Shuwei returned to the Shen family and casually found an excuse to sprain his foot to send Shen Zhang and Shen Zhiyang away. He limped back to his room and took off his shoes and socks when the door creaked and Zhao Yun walked in with a jar of ointment.
Shen Shuwei hurriedly hid her feet under her skirt, and in her panic she pulled the wound and gasped in pain.
"Why are you hiding, young lady?" Zhao Yun half-knelt on the ground and held her sprained right foot, with an innocent smile on his face that looked like a banished immortal.
As soon as he entered the room, he caught a glimpse of the snow-colored hair, which was particularly conspicuous in the dim room. However, before he could take a closer look, it was hidden under the hem of her skirt.
The thin calluses on his palms gently brushed against his smooth skin, bringing a slight coolness. Shen Shuwei's ears flushed, and he immediately tried to break free.
But the medicine jar in front of her didn't know where it got the strength from. No matter how she moved, the hand holding her ankle didn't move at all, but instead stretched down half an inch.
Shen Shu was slightly annoyed, "What are you doing? Let go."
Zhao Yun unscrewed the lid with one hand, picked up some oily ointment with her fingertips and pressed it on her swollen ankle. The pungent smell made Shen Shuwei recognize that it was the jar of ointment she gave him that day.
Shen Shuwei subconsciously shuddered in pain, but Zhao Yun grabbed his ankle, pressed it on his leg, and rubbed it with some force.
It is inappropriate no matter how you look at it to step barefoot on a man's thigh.
Shen Shuwei was both embarrassed and annoyed. As soon as Zhao Yun loosened his hand, she couldn't wait to retract her foot and glared at Zhao Yun, "Get out!"
Zhao Yun lowered her eyes and caught the white spot until the hem of her skirt swayed and covered it.
"Did I hurt you when I applied the medicine?" Zhao Yun's voice dropped, as if he had suffered a great injustice. "Why are you angry?"
Chen Shuwei was startled, thinking that this person came from Liangzhou, where the customs were open-minded and many women were out in public doing business, even keeping concubines. What was the big deal about showing bare arms and feet?
This custom was different from that in Luojing. In Luojing, where the emperor lived, Confucianism was highly respected and divorce and remarriage for women were considered a major event, not to mention exposing arms and legs.
Although Chen Shuwei was not a pedantic person, he still had to save face when a stranger suddenly held his feet and put them on his knees to give him medicine.
At this moment, her breath was stuck in her throat, and she couldn't breathe it out or swallow it.
I was annoyed for a while, then I gave him a sidelong glance and said, "Anyway, get out first, and don't enter my room casually in the future."
Zhao Yun lowered his head and said nothing. After a while, Shen Shuwei heard suspicious sobbing sounds.
She glared at Jing Yin, who was silent and bowed his head, and said in disbelief, "Are you crying?"
She didn't say anything harsh, but Liuli couldn't manipulate people's hearts.
The corners of Zhao Yun's eyes were wet and red, her eyelashes were tangled in clumps due to the water, the tip of her nose was covered with misty powder, and her eyes were watery when she looked up.
Shen Shuwei's mind went blank for a moment, but she still couldn't get her mind off the fact that Jing Yin was crying and she had made a man cry who was half a head taller than her and could pick her up and fly her over the pit with his bare hands.
This...are all the men in Liangzhou so fragile?
Seeing Jing Yin sobbing and about to leave, Shen Shuwei quickly grabbed his wrist, but her mouth opened and closed but she didn't know what to say.
She has never coaxed a man!
I have never been coaxed in my two lifetimes.
Zhao Yun lowered his eyes to look at her, and while Chen Shuwei was thinking with his head down, a wicked smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
It's so funny that she would get flustered by a few tears.
When he was young, his mother would pinch him hard, pinching his arms and thighs until they were bruised. When he grew older, she would prick him with a needle, a sharpened shoe-sole needle that would pierce his flesh, and blood would pour out like water.
What would the young lady do? He was very curious.
Chen Shuwei really couldn't think of a good way to coax him. After a while, he raised his face and said dryly, "Don't cry for now."
Zhao Yun blinked, and a few more crystal tears rolled down her cheeks.
Chen Shuwei panicked, not caring that he was not wearing shoes, he stood up on the surface of his shoes and said, "I was wrong, I shouldn't have glared at you."
Zhao Yun wiped away her tears, looking like she had been ravaged. "What else?"
Chen Shuwei raised his eyebrows slightly, "Anything else?"
Seeing Jing Yin's tears falling again, Shen Shu's heart skipped a beat, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Also, next time you come to my room, just go in if you want, I won't blame you."
"Really?" Zhao Yun asked.
Chen Shuwei gritted his teeth and nodded, as if he had signed a humiliating treaty, "Yes."
Zhao Yun freed his hand with satisfaction, and walked out with the ointment in his hand. "Miss, you must remember what you said."
After leaving Chen Shuwei's yard and returning to his room, Zhao Yun's face no longer had the pitiful look from before. He stroked the ointment jar with one hand, took out a small copper hollow ball from his arms, and raised the corners of his mouth.
It's really interesting that he couldn't bear to kill her.
Otherwise, after the matter is done, I will have someone make a gold chain and tie it around her ankle, and hang a gold bell on it. When the lady moves, it will surely make a crisp and pleasant sound.
It would be best to force her to cry. He has cried, so the lady should cry too. This is fair.
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The fact that the Marquis of Jingning's Mansion held a reunion banquet for the eldest daughter who had been missing for sixteen years did not cause much stir in Luojing, because a more sensational incident happened that night. The Crown Princess's younger brother was beheaded in an alley a few meters away from the Marquis of Jingning's Mansion.
The body was discovered by a night watchman. He was about to go to work that night and was passing through the alley in a daze. He saw someone lying at the entrance of the alley. He thought it was someone drunk and kindly went forward to call him.
I didn't expect that when I walked in with a lantern, I found a headless corpse.
The man was so frightened that he crawled out of the alley screaming and howling, and went to the government office to report the case.
When such a heinous case happened, the government naturally had to investigate. The first thing was to determine the identity of the body. This was easy to investigate, as the token could be found by rummaging through the clothes.
The token was placed inside his outer shirt, and the bailiff could find it with just one touch. It was so easy that it seemed as if someone had done it on purpose.
After they took the token and confirmed that this was the second son of the Minister of Revenue, the Crown Princess's family, all the officials of the Dali Temple were alarmed overnight.
The prince even knocked on the palace door in the middle of the night and knelt in front of the Golden Throne Hall to burn an incense stick, asking the emperor to uphold justice.
When this news reached the Shen family, Shen Yuan, Shen's father, had just returned home. An endless stream of rewards were brought into the Shen family home. A eunuch who served in the imperial court was also by his side. He smiled with his eyes narrowed into slits, "Lord Shen has suffered for the case. His Majesty originally wanted to reward him generously, but who would have thought that this would happen?"
My father-in-law let out a sigh of relief, but with a hint of regret in his voice.
Chen Shu smiled and took out a bulging purse and stuffed it into the father-in-law's hand. "Thank you for your hard work. It's windy at night. This little token of my appreciation is like treating you to a cup of hot tea."
The eunuch felt the weight of the purse and smiled sincerely. He glanced around to see if anyone else was around, then whispered to Shen Shuwei, "Censor Zhang has already investigated the corruption case and submitted a list to the imperial desk. If it weren't for the incident involving the Crown Princess's brother, His Majesty would have ordered the imperial guards to arrest the suspects that very night."
"However, after this incident, His Majesty will quickly clear the list of people. Once the necessary arrests are made, Lord Shen will be rewarded accordingly. I'm afraid a fourth-rank minister will be the least he can be rewarded."
Although he was a tea server in front of the emperor and not as favored as the eunuchs around the emperor, he got all the necessary information and understood the emperor's mind thoroughly.
When Shen Zhang and Shen Heng heard that their father had suddenly been promoted from a sixth-rank Cheng Yilang to a fourth-rank Shilang, they were both delighted and couldn't help but smile.
Because of this news, Chen Shuwei stuffed a thick stack of banknotes into the eunuch's pocket and sent him away.
The eunuch walked before the emperor and knew what to say and what not to say. What he could say was a sure thing.
Seeing that he had received so much money just by coming to the Shen family and sharing some confirmed news, the father-in-law had a better impression of the Shen family and began to admire Shen Shuwei a little.
Although she is young, she is very careful in what she does and says. The two young men from the Shen family beside her are not necessarily as smooth as her sister.
No reward without merit. Since he has received so much money, he should go to the emperor and say a few good words when he has time.
The eunuch put away the purse and returned to the palace.
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