Chapter 102: Promise
Shen Yu pursed her lips, "I'm afraid of getting you into trouble."
"Fine words and a flattering manner."
Xie Tingzhou scolded her, but his eyes softened. "You only know the way forward but not the aftermath. You still need someone to clean up for you..."
"Wipe your ass." Chen Yu continued what he hadn't finished saying.
Xie Tingzhou lowered his eyes and looked at her. She was just above his shoulders, still a little girl who had not fully grown up.
"We have already taken care of the aftermath for you, but since you have been to Bashan College repeatedly, the people there must have known you. Stay out of the house for the short term and be careful not to be targeted."
Shen Yu responded obediently, walked closer and said, "I have one more thing I want to ask."
Xie Tingzhou: "What's the matter?"
"This incident today is a big deal. Are those students okay?"
Although she dragged those students into this cycle, she was not a cold-hearted person after all, and she was somewhat worried about their safety.
"What do you think?" Xie Tingzhou tilted his head and glanced at her. "How can the emperor be so easy to control? Thousands of students forced him to give orders. Which emperor can swallow this?"
“But…” Shen Yu frowned and said, “Once the emperor orders a punishment, it will surely cause public outrage.”
Xie Tingzhou couldn't help but look at her twice more. It was obvious that she was not reckless and had put some thought into it.
"Emperor Tongxu did not issue any order, but there were plenty of people to share his worries. The commander of the imperial guards ordered the arrest of several leading students. Each of them was beaten with 20 sticks to serve as a warning to others, and then they would come back to apologize to the emperor."
Shen Yu gritted her teeth, "What a good dog the emperor raised."
Since he helped Emperor Tongxu to bite someone, Emperor Tongxu only needed to give him a symbolic punishment and he could distance himself from the matter.
"What did you say to those students?" Xie Tingzhou asked, "They didn't back down despite the threats."
Chen Yu said: "You may not believe it, but I didn't say anything inflammatory. I just told you what I saw and heard at the border."
It's not incitement, but those students already have a sense of justice in their hearts.
Although writers cannot go into battle to kill enemies, their pens are like warriors' swords, and sometimes even sharper than swords.
The Great Zhou is in trouble, how can the students just sit back and do nothing?
Xie Tingzhou nodded in agreement, "If a person who wants to achieve great things gets bogged down in trivialities and details, he will only stop moving forward."
"But what can I accomplish?"
Chen Yu sighed in distress, leaned on the table and said, "Isn't it strange? My father always said in my dreams that I can save more people, but I don't know who else I can save."
Xie Tingzhou said: "What a coincidence, a senior monk once said the same thing to me."
"Really?" Chen Yu asked in surprise, "Did you save him?"
Xie Tingzhou tilted her
Eyes, "How many times did you say I saved you?"
Chen Yu curled her lips, "Your Highness's great kindness, Chen Yu has no way to repay you."
Xie Tingzhou snorted, "If you have nothing to repay me, then you won't repay me?"
He walked slowly to the bookshelf and ran his fingertips across the shelves one by one.
The fingers were as slender as jade, with thin calluses between them, and it was obvious that he was used to a life of luxury.
"It's not that I won't repay you." Chen Yu withdrew her gaze from his hand, thought for a moment and said, "It's just that you don't lack anything, but I don't have much, so I don't know what I can give you."
Xie Tingzhou stopped paddling his fingers and looked over. "How do you know that what you have is not what I want?"
"Yeah?"
"Yes." Xie Tingzhou stared into her eyes intently.
It is often said in the folks that if you can't repay someone with anything, then you should give yourself to him. If she gave herself to him, she would feel that she was taking advantage of Xie Tingzhou.
Shen Yu's pupils turned slightly, and after thinking for a moment, she nodded heavily, "I understand."
"What do you understand?"
Chen Yu said a little embarrassedly: "But I can't give it to you now."
Xie Tingzhou breathed easier, feeling a little nervous, and explained, "I'm not forcing you to do this in exchange for a favor."
"I understand." Chen Yu said, "It's just that I don't have much silver notes on me now. Your Highness Xiao Qian will definitely not look down on it. It's not convenient to withdraw large sums of silver from the shops in Shengjing. I'll write a letter and send it to you..."
"Chen Yu!" Xie Tingzhou warned.
Shen Yu was confused, "What's wrong?"
Xie Tingzhou sneered, "How much silver are you going to use to reward me?"
Chen Yu said solemnly: "Your Highness's great kindness, no amount of silver can repay you, I am prepared to give you one million taels as a reward, if you think it is too little, you can increase it."
"Miss Shen spent a million. How dare I complain that it's too little?"
How much is a million?
During the Kaiping period, the annual tax silver of the Great Zhou Dynasty was between 15 million and 20 million taels. That was the heyday of the Great Zhou Dynasty, a grand occasion two hundred years ago.
Nowadays, things are getting worse than before. Last year, the tax revenue for the whole year was less than five million taels, and the national treasury has a huge deficit.
The first thing she asked for was a million taels of silver. One million taels could support so many soldiers on the border, which shows how rich the Hezhou Lu family has become.
Chen Yu was not stupid, she could tell the good from the bad in his words, she smiled and said: "It's just that Bo has a little family property."
Xie Tingzhou raised his hand and pressed his brows.
"Do you have a headache again?" Chen Yu asked quickly.
Yes, it’s a headache. She’s angry.
Xie Tingzhou felt that he needed to slow down. How could such a smart person
But now it is like wood.
"Do you want to call a doctor?"
Xie Tingzhou: “No need.”
Shen Yu was relieved to see that Xie Tingzhou did not look bad and looked better.
"My grandmother also had headaches all the time. The doctor said it was just like that as people age."
Xie Tingzhou put down his hand, "Are you comforting me or mocking me for being old?"
Shen Yu quickly explained: "I didn't mean that."
Xie Tingzhou let out a breath and looked out the window. It had rained frequently in Shengjing in the past few days, and moisture had formed on the tiles on the windows.
He raised his hand and touched the bookshelf again, and pulled out a book at random.
Chen Yu raised her eyelids and took a quick look. When she lowered her eyelids, she suddenly remembered something was wrong. The pornographic pictures she had put there were still sandwiched in there. Who knew which one Xie Tingzhou had drawn?
"Don't turn over!" Chen Yu shouted loudly.
Everything in front of her seemed to slow down. She saw Xie Tingzhou's slender jade-like fingers had already turned the pages of the book, and then his thin and cold eyelids slowly lifted and looked towards her.
As soon as Xie Tingzhou opened the book, he saw a figure jumping down from the desk, holding on to it.
Xie Tingzhou subconsciously felt something was wrong, and when Shen Yu reached out to grab the book, he raised his hand and asked, "What are you doing?"
Chen Yu looked up at the book that she couldn't reach in panic, "This book is not good."
Xie Tingzhou half-smiled, "Why is this book not good?"
"This book is damp and has never been dried. I'll show it to you after I dry it."
Chen Yu wanted to snatch it, but Xie Tingzhou hid the book behind him. When she moved to the left, he moved to the right, and when she moved to the right, he moved to the left.
Xie Tingzhou had a feeling that this book was not that simple, so he picked it up and randomly opened a page, then lowered his eyes and smiled at her.
Chen Yu didn't even dare to raise her head, thinking that she was so embarrassed, and then she heard Xie Tingzhou ask, "Are you worried that I will laugh at you for reading a storybook?"
Chen Yu suddenly raised her head, was stunned for a moment, and then nodded, "Yes, I was afraid that you would laugh at me for not doing my job properly."
Xie Tingzhou casually flipped through two pages, closed the book and put it back on the bookshelf.
Shen Yu breathed a sigh of relief, but worried that Xie Tingzhou would continue to flip over, she quickly poured a cup of tea from the table and handed it to him.
"Your Highness, have some tea."
Xie Tingzhou took it and glanced at the teacup. "If someone is too attentive to you for no reason, he is either a traitor or a thief. Did you poison me or do you want something?"
"Is there no other possibility?"
Xie Tingzhou raised his eyelids and asked, "What else is possible?"
"For example..." Chen Yu stretched out her tone, "For example, the tea is cold, which means I am driving customers away."
The stone-blue figure turned and disappeared at the door in a blink of an eye. He was no longer seen holding the tea bowl, and a laugh escaped from his throat.
"No rules."
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