"Haven't you considered that the Seven Killings Sect is right here? Who sent me here? And why did they send me here?"
She spoke these words to Ji Tingwan calmly, as if she were an elder.
But what Ji Tingwan heard was of great importance: it was her imperial grandfather who had brought Chen Nian here!
"Stop spreading these lies!" Ji Tingwan clearly didn't believe Shen Nianyi's words; how dare she speak so presumptuously about the current emperor! "We all know what kind of person you are! My father, my mother..."
“You were well protected by your mother,” Shen Nianyi said, glancing at Ji Tingwan with a look that seemed to be looking through the child at another person. “Unfortunately, you are not as good as your mother.”
Chen Nianyi seemed to have given it serious thought, and finally concluded: "You are not even one-tenth as good as your mother was back then."
"I have also met your three older brothers. It's a pity that we have searched all over the country and found no one as wonderful as your mother."
Ji Tingwan did not understand the meaning of Chen Nianyi.
She never imagined that this former enemy of her mother would not speak ill of her mother or bitterly accuse her of taking her father away from him!
She said, "You are not as good as your mother. We have searched all over the country and have never found another person as wonderful as your mother."
What's the meaning?
Just as the atmosphere inside the room became tense, a knock came from outside the door.
"who?"
"I."
Coral quickly went to open the door.
It was a middle-aged woman wearing a hood. When she took off the hood, Ji Tingwan was surprised: "Auntie..."
The newcomer was clearly of extraordinary bearing; the only person Ji Tingwan could address as "aunt" was the current emperor's daughter.
Shen Nianyi didn't forget to introduce Tian Ning: "This is His Majesty's eldest daughter—Princess Shuwan."
The human realm is truly lively. Tianning is watching with great interest. Princess Shuwan and Shen Nian are on the same side?
Ji Tingwan's memory of Princess Shuwan was not good either.
This princess once took a fancy to the top scholar in the imperial examination that year, but the top scholar was infatuated with her mother. Ji Tingwan heard from her wet nurse that Princess Shuwan held a grudge and made things difficult for her mother back then.
However, after Chen Nianyi left the capital, Princess Shuwan paid the price for her spoiled and willful behavior. She was punished by her grandfather and confined to a house, and married to a good-for-nothing from a poor noble family.
Why are there so many people here?
Princess Shuwan glanced at Ji Tingwan with disdain, her disgust undisguised. She looked even more puzzled when she saw the unfamiliar faces of Tian Ning and the others.
"It's nothing, just chatting casually with the kids," Shen Nianyi said.
"What are you going to talk about?" Princess Shuwan asked.
“We talked about the young princess’s mother,” Shen Nianyi replied.
"Oh?" Princess Shuwan seemed intrigued. "Ji Qianqiu."
"That arrogant and conceited woman back then was the kind of person who dared to criticize even noble ladies and princesses!"
Mentioning that year, Chen Nian smiled and asked, "Does the princess still remember?"
“Of course! How could I forget!” Princess Shuwan said, “Ji Qianqiu! She was the first person to dare to point her finger at me and curse! She said that even a princess cannot be so spoiled and willful as to disregard human life! Those maids who are lowly in my eyes are also precious daughters in their families' hearts, and they are loved by others…”
Shen Nianyi continued, "Ji Qianqiu also said that we are slaves imprisoned by feudal ideology."
She said, "Why can't women go to school, take the imperial examinations, become officials, do business, or initiate divorce from their husbands?"
"So she founded the first school that allowed women to attend, pioneered women's participation in imperial examinations and commerce, and helped peasant women who were beaten by their husbands..."
She also said, "Are you really willing to tolerate a man having multiple wives and concubines? Are you so foolish as to fight over a man?"
...
Chen Nianyi and Princess Shuwan chatted back and forth, and eventually they both laughed.
“She was a wonderful person,” Princess Shuwan said, “but what has become of her now?”
After saying that, Princess Shuwan rolled her eyes at Ji Tingwan.
Ji Tingwan: "???"
“That’s right,” Shen Nian nodded and said, “Without Ji Qianqiu, there would be no us today.”
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