"Shen Qingwu, don't take me to see my father, he will beat me to death." Zhou Silin tried hard to raise her hand to pull Shen Qingwu.
Shen Qingwu thought: This guy is quite self-aware.
Zhou Silin continued to cry and beg, and the people who came to watch the show were dumbfounded. What kind of reversal was this?
Does Zhou Silin's mother know that she's not the Censor's daughter? No, I still have to go to the Zhou family to see for myself. The Censor has such a big melon, I'll make sure it's ripe.
Shen Qingwu thought deliberately in his heart.
"Wow—" Zhou Silin cried even more miserably, "What are you talking about? My mother loves my father the most and will never betray him."
Shen Qingwu, "..."
She confirmed what she had thought.
But Zhou Silin's words made the onlookers smell the scent of gossip.
Many people know that the concubine of Censor Zhou Jing is his childhood sweetheart Zhou Hui.
It was only because Zhou Jing's family was poor that he missed his chance to marry.
Zhou Hui's retreat forced Zhou Jing to leave his hometown with a sigh of relief, and then married a wife who shared the same feelings with him in Kyoto.
But many years later, when he returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors, he suddenly discovered that Zhou Hui had never married and was lonely and helpless. She was cold and heartless to him back then just because she didn't want to drag him down.
Zhou Jing was moved and, at his wife's persuasion, took Zhou Hui as his concubine.
The harmonious relationship between wife and concubine is also a good story in Kyoto.
But why would Zhou Jing and Zhou Hui's daughter say such a thing out of nowhere?
Zhou Silin was completely unaware of this and just cried and offered to treat her to a meal to apologize.
"Alright, alright, stop crying. Did you bring enough silver?" Shen Qingwu asked with a smile, "You should know that I eat a lot, right?"
Zhou Silin stopped crying and nodded through sobs, "I know, I brought enough banknotes."
Shen Qingwu, [Did you anticipate the outcome and know you couldn't beat me, so you brought the banknotes with you?]
"Yeah." Zhou Silin nodded obediently, then was stunned again. Shen Qingwu didn't say anything.
She looked at Shen Qingwu in surprise with her tearful eyes, but she cried so hard that her vision was blurry and a little unclear. But she was sure that Shen Qingwu had not spoken a word just now.
She had a bold idea in her mind: she seemed to be able to hear what Shen Qingwu was thinking.
She is so amazing.
But wasn't she exposed just now?
Thinking of this, she just thought that she had just said "hmm" unintentionally.
The nose grumbled and said, "Well, Shen Qingwu, can you untie it for me? I'll wipe my tears and I won't run away."
【Empty Qi bag.】
Shen Qingwu felt disgusted and raised his hand to whip Zhou Silin, causing her to spin in circles and the whip to slip.
Shen Qingwu discovered that this time Zhou Silin was indeed restrained and pretended not to hear his thoughts.
"Let's go to Wangyue Tower. If you don't bring enough silver, I will force you to wash dishes there today." Shen Qingwu took Zhou Silin's whip and swung it twice in the air.
Of course Zhou Silin didn't dare to run, so she followed obediently.
"Are you treating me to dinner today?" While waiting for the food to be served, Shen Qingwu drank from a large bowl of wine, but Zhou Silin did not drink at all.
"I just don't believe you're as powerful as they say." Zhou Silin said innocently, "But I have to be prepared for any eventuality. If I really can't win, then a wise man won't suffer a loss in the face of adversity."
After saying this, her face was full of pride, and she felt that she was really smart.
Look at Zhou Silin, then think of Xiao Qingyi.
Shen Qingwu thought, there is indeed a difference between being really stupid and pretending to be stupid.
"But Shen Qingwu, you were a fool before, and now you may be the daughter of a criminal. I really think you are not worthy of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Why don't you cancel the engagement?" Zhou Silin asked curiously, biting her chopsticks.
Shen Qingwu, "Do you want me to disobey your orders and be beheaded?"
Zhou Silin rolled her eyes and said, "That seems to be the case. This marriage is not up to you."
Shen Qingwu drank a bowl of wine.
Everyone in Kyoto knows that the emperor's power is supreme, but they insist on asking her to disobey the order. They are all sick in the head.
"When you were stupid before, you didn't understand what we were saying. Now that you are not stupid anymore, I thought that if you were smart, you would take the initiative to cancel the engagement. Now that you said that, it is my fault." Zhou Silin reflected on herself.
"That's good to know." Shen Qingwu nodded lightly.
"Then are you showing off like this in public just to make the prince cancel the engagement? You don't want to marry him either, right?" Zhou Silin's eyes suddenly lit up, and she felt that she had discovered her blind spot.
But after saying this, she was confused, "But why? The prince is so good, handsome, talented in both civil and military affairs, and even better. How could anyone not want to marry him?"
Shen Qingwu drank another bowl of wine and asked her, "What about you? Do you want to?"
"I'm a concubine's daughter, I don't deserve it." Zhou Silin said without hesitation, she had never thought about this question.
"You are quite self-aware. Although you are a concubine's daughter, you have a good family background. It is not impossible for you to become the prince's concubine." Shen Qingwu said.
Zhou Silin shook her head in judgment, "I don't want to. My mother said that I have to be the legal wife in the future. It doesn't matter if my family background is poor, but I am the daughter of the censor, even if I am a concubine's daughter, I am not that bad, but I have to be the legal wife anyway."
"You never thought of meddling in other people's business. Were you instigated by someone, or are you just bored?" Shen Qingwu asked her directly.
Zhou Silin, "...I'm just bored."
Shen Qingwu shook his head, "You win."
Zhou Silin continued, "I just couldn't stand you before. How could a fool become the future Crown Princess? Then everyone will have to kneel down to you, a fool. Doesn't that mean we are even worse than fools?"
Shen Qingwu didn't want to talk. This was the capital city, under the feet of the emperor, where it was rare to be ignorant.
"Are you really not afraid of anything happening to the Shen family?" Zhou Silin was silent for a while and then asked again.
"God has his own arrangements." Shen Qingwu pointed to the blue sky outside the window.
Zhou Silin leaned out the window and looked at the sky. "What are your plans?"
She stretched her neck until it was tired, but couldn't figure out what was going on, so she sat back down.
"Is your Shen family really not collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country? Why aren't you anxious at all? Why don't you look for evidence or ask for help?"
"Then I'll ask you for help. Can you go to your father and plead for my family?" Shen Qingwu asked, a little temptingly. "Your father is the imperial censor of the current dynasty. If he is willing to speak for our family, he won't have any problem calling a horse a zebra."
Zhou Silin's face changed drastically. She stood up and shouted angrily, "Shen Qingwu, how can you be so shameless? My father is the most fair and honest person. He would never do such a treacherous thing!"
"It seems that Miss Shen has no shortage of people to entertain guests at Wangyue Tower." The door of the box was pushed open at this time.
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