After saying this, he stood up and said goodbye, saying that he had to go out and say goodbye to his friends.
Shen Cui did not respond, but just looked up at him.
Mu Yunchuan thought she had something to say, so he stopped.
The two looked at each other for a long while without saying anything. He finally reacted, laughed, bowed slightly, and said, "I'll take my leave now."
Shen Cui then nodded and let him go.
After he left, Shen Cui rolled her eyes in her heart and couldn't help but say to the system: [Did I show my cowardice just now? 】
The system said no. [The host reacted very calmly, speaking slowly and methodically, and did not fall behind. 】
[Then why do I feel like I’ve lost in terms of momentum? 】
Momentum is something that cannot be measured by statistics, and the system cannot give an answer.
It was so confusing, since he was the one who asked her the question in the beginning.
She also maintained a negotiating attitude and continued speaking along the lines of the Buddhist teachings he had put forward - if she did not respond to his words and refused to accept this 'evil man' as her original self, then there would be no way the conversation could continue.
So he made the final decision and took the initiative back into his hands?
[We have a saying in modern times, when two people compete with each other in wits and courage, it is like they have eight hundred tricks in their minds combined. This Mu Yunchuan, he alone must have eight hundred thoughts in his mind. 】
Thinking about the memories of her original body, in her early years, she took advantage of Mu Cheng's work to feed the young Mu Yunchuan leftovers, deliberately did not give him charcoal fire in winter, made a jacket for him with locust flowers and willow catkins, and so on. Shen Cui said with a "tsk", "Look, if I change my identity, I won't let him down first, should I do something to him?" 】
The system was very considerate at this moment. It did not take the opportunity to ask itself to borrow Mu Cheng's identity to teach him a lesson. Instead, it changed the subject and asked, "Does the host want to buy a 'Disguise Pill', change its appearance, and beat him up?" 】
This was all just a joke. Shen Cui was amused by him and laughed out loud. [After all, he is the biological son of the plane's laws. Will there be retribution if I beat him? 】
The system did not answer, but only said: [I will show you something good. 】
[Another lullaby?] 】Chen Cui still remembered the last time when Mu Yunchuan affected her mood and the system played songs for her.
The system said no, and then played a video on the screen - it was the scene where 'Zhang Sheng' put Mu Yunchuan in a sack and dragged him to the back alley to beat him up. He beat him in various ways for 5 minutes, and at the end he gave a close-up of Mu Yunchuan's 'pig head'.
With the help of high-tech means, the scene was so real that it felt like watching it live, and everyone in Shen Cui almost laughed themselves silly.
After the playback, the system's laughing voice sounded in her ears, "If we are afraid of being retaliated by the rules if we operate in reality, then it will be fine if we simulate it." 】
After laughing, Shen Cui thought about it carefully.
Although Mu Yunchuan looked a bit more domineering after taking off his disguise.
But it must be said that things developed in the direction that Shen Cui expected.
As for Mu Yunchuan, the hero of the original book, he cannot be considered a great and glorious good man, but he is definitely not a villain who talks nonsense.
Today, he was able to talk to her through Buddhist teachings, which was very difficult for a person of his kind.
The final result can be described as a brief handshake and peace.
Of course, Mu Yunchuan didn’t mean to let bygones be bygones, but to give it a chance and continue to wait and see.
This wait-and-see approach doesn't mean it will disturb her life. She can just live her life the way she wants.
Since Zhou would not be around anymore, she and Mu Yunchuan could skip the most basic step of writing letters to each other and only needed to communicate with Zhou via correspondence.
Thinking that he and Zhou would leave tomorrow and she didn't know when she would see Zhou again, Shen Cui didn't go back to bed to rest. Instead, she went to find Zhou and asked her if she needed anything else.
Zhou was packing her bags and said, "No need, I saved all the money I earned. And my husband said he has money, and he won't let me spend money on hiring a carriage or buying food."
"Do you want to buy some clothes?"
When Zhou was well off, she started a small needlework business, but she was reluctant to make some nice clothes for herself.
Moreover, Chen Cui also heard that the climate in the capital was different from here, and it was easy to get sick if you couldn't adapt to the local climate and water.
"What a brain!" Zhou slapped her head, opened the box and took out a large bundle. Inside were two thick winter coats, two thin summer clothes, and two autumn clothes that were neither thin nor thick.
They are all the sizes of Chen Cui and Mu Erpang, and they contain clothes for all seasons.
"I was busy taking on jobs at home before and had no time to spare. I've been free lately, so I made some clothes for mother and Erpang." Zhou showed Chen Cui the clothes she made for Mu Erpang, "I specially left some space at the cuffs. When Erpang grows taller, mother can sew these places and put them down."
Chen Cui had already prepared herself mentally to separate from Zhou, but after Zhou did this, she really felt jealous again.
"After I leave, who are you going to ask to cook for me? Besides, our house is so big now. Although there are servants from the Wei family cleaning the front and back rooms, it will take a lot of time just to clean the back rooms. Listen to me, don't think about doing everything yourself, you have to hire someone."
Shen Cui said that she could save it, "I will definitely hire another person."
Earlier, Chen Cui asked Zhou not to think she was nagging, but when it came time to say goodbye, Zhou said more than she did.
He told her this and that, and even when Mu Yunchuan came back from outside, they hadn't finished their private conversation.
After Mu Yunchuan came back, he called Shen Cui "mother". Shen Cui nodded casually, and then Mu Yunchuan went out again.
The two did not have any other communication, but Zhou immediately asked in surprise: "Mother and husband... reconciled?"
In the past, Zhou must have only cared about Mu Yunchuan, but people are made of kindhearted people. After three years of getting along, both of them became people she cared about.
Privately, Zhou certainly hopes that the whole family will be fine, but rationally, Zhou knows that it is impossible, and she cannot forgive anything on behalf of Mu Yunchuan.
But my mother-in-law has indeed changed visibly, and is now a completely different person than before.
Sometimes, Zhou even had some fantastic thoughts, that if the present Chen Cui and the former evil mother-in-law were separated into two people, then all problems would be solved.
So now that she noticed that their relationship had eased, Zhou was very surprised. She was even happier than when she knew that Mu Yunchuan agreed to let her go to Beijing to accompany him for the exam!
Chen Cui uttered an ambiguous 'hmm', "It can be considered a temporary peace. How did you know that?"
Zhou couldn't put it into words. She felt that this thing was hard to describe in words, but she just felt it.
Later, after dinner, Mu Erpang came to talk to Shen Cui. He was also very happy and asked directly: "Brother, you finally believe that we are different from the past, right?"
These youngsters usually don't mention this matter, but how can they not be concerned about it?
In Mu Erpang's heart, his biological mother is definitely more important than his eldest brother. He was the one who knew best that his mother had changed for the better, and he was also the one who least wanted others to look at her with the old eyes.
So when Chen Cui said that she wanted to move the academy to Qingzhou Prefecture, Mu Erpang agreed with both hands.
Because when they were in the village, some people couldn't stand them doing well, and would say sarcastic things behind their backs and bring up old stories.
Although Mu Erpang was ignorant and mundane in the past, he actually had a basic impression of many things. When others mentioned them, he could remember the corresponding things. He knew that they were not wrong and had no way to refute them.
Now that he is away from those people in the village and has the recognition of his eldest brother, his mother can completely let go of the past and break away from her former self who did bad things.
He was not a cunning person to begin with, and he couldn't hide his words in front of Shen Cui. He blurted out everything that was on his mind when he was happy.
Chen Cui really didn't expect that those gossiping villagers would gossip in front of the child, otherwise he would have taken him away from the village long ago.
If her fat son hadn't grown up now, Shen Cui would really want to hold him in her arms and give him a good rub.
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Early the next morning, Mu Yunchuan and Zhou set off, and Chen Cui, as an elder, did not have to see them off.
Mu Erpang sent them to the door.
After they left, Shen Cui fetched a bucket of water, wrung out a cloth, and prepared to clean the back room.
After sending someone off, Mu Erpang came back and saw her preparing to work, and he rushed to say that he would go.
He went to the back room and came back in the blink of an eye. He said, "Sister-in-law didn't mess up anything when she packed her luggage. She even made the bed and wiped the furniture that she didn't take away spotlessly. There was nothing much to clean. But they seem to have forgotten something."
Mu Yunchuan and Zhou are both careful people, how could they have missed something?
Shen Cui thought about this and said, "Maybe it's something you don't want anymore?"
Mu Erpang also said it didn't look like it, and then he handed the thing to Chen Cui to look at - a blue-covered "Collection of Poems and Essays by Mu Yunchuan", and it was a manuscript!
Chen Cui had already recalled the relevant plot of the original book before. After Mu Yunchuan won the top spot in high school, he published a collection of poems and essays, which was a hot seller as soon as it was published.
From the initial price of two taels of silver per copy, the price was raised to five taels of silver per copy due to supply and demand.
Later, when he won six prizes in a row, the collection of poems and essays was sold at a terrifying price.
And this manuscript he left behind...can be exchanged for at least several hundred, or even thousands of taels of silver in the future!
Mu Yunchuan does not have an omniscient perspective, but he has always been clear about his plans and positioning. He naturally knows that this manuscript will be priceless after he becomes famous in the future.
If Shen Cui'an had done her duty and taken care of and taught Zhou before, which was considered a gesture of goodwill from her side, then this manuscript should be a gesture of goodwill from Mu Yunchuan?
Moreover, this "show of goodwill" was indeed circuitous and full of twists and turns, because if Chen Cui was just pretending to reconcile, she would naturally deal with his things at will, and it would be impossible for her to wait until it was really valuable. If he realized what happened a few years later, wouldn't he be so upset that he died?
Only if she really changes will she keep it and wait for the day when it appreciates in value.
Later, after Zhou followed Mu Yunchuan to the capital and settled down, she wrote a letter home to report her safety.
When Chen Cui wrote back to Zhou, she expressed her concern and advice to her, and also asked if they had left anything behind.
A month later, Zhou wrote back, saying that she had not left anything behind, but she asked Mu Yunchuan, who said that it seemed that a book was left behind, but it was not something important, so she asked Chen Cui to deal with it casually.
[I said this person is like a honeycomb briquet, with eight hundred tricks in his head! 】While Chen Cui was complaining to the system, she locked the manuscript, which would be worth a fortune in the future, into the deepest layer of the cage.
Of course, that is a story for later. Back to the present, a few days after Mu Yunchuan and Zhou left, Cui Fei came over to eat with Wei Shu and the others after school.
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