"Do you think that everything that happened today was caused by me?"
"Why isn't it your fault?" Shen Changshan looked at her with eyes that seemed to want her flesh and drink her blood!
"If it weren't for you, how would I be here?" Shen Changshan held the railing in front of him with both hands and shook it hard.
"Tell His Majesty to let me go back. Cui Niang is still at home. If I am gone, Cui Niang will probably die!"
Chen Fu looked at the icy and piercing eyes without any doubt.
If she were right in front of him, Shen Changshan would tear her to pieces without hesitation!
"Don't worry, even if you can't get out, Cui Niang won't die." The guards behind him brought a chair.
Chen Fu sat down, warming her cold hands on the stove in front of her: "Do you think that everything you have today is because of me?"
"What else?" When Shen Changshan looked at her, there was no trace of tenderness in his eyes.
He used to feel guilty.
When I first entered the palace and met this daughter, I felt pity for her.
But she should never, ever, touch Cui Niang!
What a naive person Cui Niang is.
Weak, innocent, kind...all the beautiful words cannot describe Cui Niang half as well.
If Shen Fu hadn't set her sights on Cui Niang, how could he hate her so much?
"If you hadn't instigated His Majesty, how could I have ended up like this today?"
Shen Changshan was about to die, but he still didn't repent at all.
Chen Fu held the teacup in her hand and couldn't help laughing: "I thought you had thought it through."
She felt really amused when she heard these words.
"I remember that you were demoted because you did not take up a post at the Dali Temple."
Shen Changshan was supposed to go to the Dali Temple every day, but ever since Aunt Cui fell ill, he repeatedly failed to go for no reason.
After a long time, naturally someone would interfere with him.
His Majesty had previously pretended not to see it and turned a blind eye.
However, this does not mean that Shen Changshan can be so lazy.
"Mrs. Cui is sick, so of course I won't go!" At this time, Chen Changshan still made sense.
"Then you should go find your Cui Niang." Chen Fu sneered and put down the teacup in her hand:
"Why do you blame me?"
"It's you!" They were all so rude before, but His Majesty treated them like this for no reason.
Shen Changshan looked at Shen Fu in front of him. His cold eyes didn't seem like he was looking at his daughter, but rather at an enemy.
"It's you. You're the one who wants to kill all of us." If he's here, how will Cui Niang survive?
"If I had known you were such a wicked person, I should have strangled you to death before you were born!"
Shen Changshan shouted at Shen Fu, his broken voice full of murderous intent.
"You!" Before Chen Fu could say anything, Zi Su stepped forward and stood in front of Chen Fu.
But before she could speak, Shen Fu reached out and stopped her.
"It's just a pity." Shen Fu stood up from the chair and cast a playful look at Shen Changshan.
"Given our current identities, it would be easy for me to kill you, but——"
The phoenix embroidered with gold thread swayed slightly on the hem of Shen Fu's skirt. She listened to the man in front of her who wanted to get rid of her as soon as possible, and shook her head disdainfully: "You want to kill me, but it's difficult to climb to the sky."
Shen Changshan knelt on the ground, panting loudly: "If I had known earlier, I should have..."
"You should have killed me before I was born." Shen Fu finished his next words for him.
"It's such a pity that you missed this opportunity." Shen Fu's footsteps slowly approached Shen Changshan.
"Not only am I not dead now, I'm still alive." She was wearing a red-gold wind cannon and a jade crown on her head, and the southern pearls on her ears swayed slightly with her movements.
A face here is dark and cold, but it is shining.
Even Shen Changshan was stunned for a moment.
His daughter was indeed very beautiful when she was born.
His eyebrows and eyes were very similar to those of the young master Gu. When those eyes looked at him, he almost took him back to the past.
Back then, Gu Mingzhu also looked at me with the same eyes.
It is eye-catching and sparkling, and when it looks at people, the light in its eyes is brighter than the sun.
He didn't like that kind of look.
Unlike Aunt Cui, who was as delicate as water and needed his careful care.
Aunt Cui is the one he likes!
"You are just like your mother, disgusting to everyone." Shen Changshan cast a cold look at her.
After hearing this, Chen Fu felt sorry for her mother and also thought it was ridiculous: "If you loved Aunt Cui so much, why did you marry my mother in the first place?"
Shen Fu didn't know much about the things in her previous life.
All I know is that when my mother married into the Shen family, it was Shen Changshan who asked for it himself.
Not long after my mother married and moved to Kyoto, she became pregnant. At that time, everyone thought that the couple lived in harmony.
However, no one expected that Gu Mingzhu would have a difficult delivery.
I'm afraid I didn't even see her.
Back then, the Gu family only raised her since she was a child, but no one had ever told her that there was anything wrong with the Shen family.
"Back then..." Shen Changshan's eyes fell on Shen Fu's face with a cold look, but he was dazed for a rare moment: "Do you think I don't want to marry Cui Niang?"
Sure enough... Hearing this, the palm of Shen Fu's sleeve tightened involuntarily.
Sure enough, Shen Changshan knew Cui Niang first.
Shen Fu had this suspicion in her heart ever since she saw Cui Niang's face that looked similar to her mother's.
Why does Cui Niang look similar to her mother?
At that time, according to what Old Lady Shen said, Aunt Cui waited until her mother died before entering the mansion to serve her.
But Shen Qingru is so much older than her.
Later, Chen Fu sent someone to investigate and found out that Aunt Cui came first and then her mother.
However, when these words came out of Shen Changshan's mouth easily, Shen Fu felt a chill in her heart.
"If you like Cui, you should have married her from the beginning, instead of marrying my mother and causing her to die in childbirth!"
Shen Fu's tone was full of coldness. After she said this, Shen Changshan's eyes flashed with a hint of guilt.
Then he mustered up the courage and said, "Do you think I don't want to marry Cui Niang?"
Cui Niang is of low status. If he rashly marries her, wouldn't he be harming her?
Shen Changshan's eyes were dazed for a moment, as if he subconsciously returned to the past: "Back then, I wanted to marry Cui Niang."
When he said these words, Shen Changshan's eyes were still filled with regret: "She is of low status, and she is pregnant with my blood, why shouldn't I want to marry her in a formal way."
Shen Changshan squinted his eyes, as if recalling what happened back then: "In order for her to enter the mansion as soon as possible, I had to get married first."
There is no rule for the sons of a wealthy family to take a concubine first.
What's more, his mother Cui Niang was pregnant.
If people knew about this, no one would marry him.
To prevent this matter from being leaked in the future.
When Shen Changshan was choosing a wife, he didn't even dare to look for one from a high-class family, so he could only look for one from a merchant family.
It was just to find a wife at home as soon as possible, and then let Cui Niang enter the house when the time was right.
But Shen Changshan searched for half a month without any results.
Later, I saw Gu Mingzhu, who came to Kyoto with his father and brother to do business.
Shen Changshan sat on the ground. He could still vaguely remember the first time he saw Gu Mingzhu.
Zhuque Street was crowded with people. At that moment, a wild horse broke free and rushed into the crowd, about to hurt someone.
Shen Changshan was also in the crowd at the time, and saw the fierce horse about to charge towards the group of children.
At this moment, a bright red shadow flew out from the restaurant opposite.
Gu Mingzhu sat on the wild horse, holding the reins in her hands. She looked like a fairy from heaven descending to earth. She immediately subdued the wild horses.
At that time, he was opposite her.
You can even see the person's movements clearly. Every move, every gesture and every smile.
That brilliant smile was like a dazzling light that shone into his mind, and he still can't forget it today.
"After that, I met your mother and went to the Gu Mansion to ask for marriage."
Chen Fu heard the hint of exclusion in the voice. She narrowed her eyes and asked, "Is it because you have feelings for my mother, or because she looks like Cui?"
Shen Changshan raised his head, a look of misery on his face.
It seemed that he didn't expect Shen Fu to ask this.
"How did you..."
"I've seen my mother's portrait." Chen Fu lowered her head and took a sip from the teacup in her hand.
"Growing up, there was a room in Suzhou where I had all the portraits of my mother from the past ten years."
This is also why she knew that her mother and Cui Niang were so acquainted.
"She and Cui Niang are indeed similar in life." Shen Changshan lowered his head and murmured.
Until now, he didn't even remember that heart-pounding moment.
Was it because of Gu Mingzhu, or was it because of her face that looked similar to Cui Niang?
However, Cui Niang's body was no longer able to wait.
She is pregnant, and if she waits any longer she will be pregnant too. It's about to be born.
Shen Changshan pondered for a whole night, and finally went to ask for marriage in person.
At that time, he was already in high school.
The sixteenth place in the imperial examination can then enter the Hanlin Academy.
The scenery is beautiful and the future is limitless.
The Gu family had no reason to reject this marriage.
The wedding was planned for half a year, and only after Cui Niang gave birth to Shen Qingru did Gu Mingzhu get married.
She brought ten thousand red dowry.
After marriage, he and Gu actually lived a happy life for a while.
When Shen Changshan thinks about it now, he still feels that those two years were like a dream.
"Then how did my mother die?" Shen Fu looked at the memories in Shen Changshan's eyes.
I don't know why, but I just feel nauseous.
All men are like this. He was still muttering about Cui Niang.
Now she is still thinking about her mother.
All men in the world seem to be the same.
"Your mother's death was really an accident." Shen Changshan retracted his thoughts, heard Shen Fu's suspicion clearly, and couldn't help but yelled to her: "Even if I don't like your mother, I won't hurt her!"
Back then, when Gu Mingzhu was pregnant, he was even happy for a long time.
However, Gu Mingzhu has a very strong temper.
She is like a horse, hard to figure out.
Ever since he knew about his affair with Cui Niang, Gu Mingzhu has been thinking about divorce all day long.
She was pregnant at the time, where could she go?
"Even if I say this, I don't really want to harm you, let alone your mother." Shen Changshan sat on the ground.
"As long as you don't harm Cui Niang, how can I hate you!"
Cui Niang! Cui Niang! It’s still Cui Niang!
Chen Fu sat on the chair and couldn't help but sneer: "You are wholeheartedly devoted to this Cui Niang."
She had seen her mother's portrait and had also met Cui Niang.
Although the two have similar lives, the mother is much brighter.
One is a pearl, the other is like a fish eye.
Shen Fu still doesn't understand. Why has Shen Changshan been obsessed with Cui Niang for so many years?
That he is loyal?
Shen Fu shook her head, not necessarily.
So, is it Cui Niang who is more cunning?
"You don't know, it's because I've been with Cui Niang all my life."
When Shen Changshan said this, a trace of nostalgia appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Back then, at the Lu Academy, Cui Niang once saved my life."
All his life, Shen Changshan has been Cui Niang's lover.
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