Liu Shen deliberately let it slip and didn't rush to ask her for help. Instead, he chatted with her about the progress of the recent accounting...
Pei Xueyan also knew the identity of his 'consultant' and said bluntly: "As you guessed, I personally sent the three shopkeepers who made false accounts for personal gain to the government this morning. The evidence is conclusive, and the government also punished them according to Daqian regulations. Once they are convicted, they won’t be able to get out for ten to eight years.”
"Before that, I asked the old man for advice using the words you taught me."
"I was quite nervous at first, but unexpectedly, the old man was very satisfied with my idea. Hearing that I wanted to use some means to scare people, he even offered me manpower to help me make plans."
"You are right..."
Pei Xueyan said with some frustration: "The old man is indeed not a good man and a trustworthy man. His vicious plots and ruthless methods are completely unlike the kind old man I have known for more than a year."
What makes her frustrated is not that Mr. Song is duplicitous...
But as a daughter-in-law, she didn't even see the old man she had been with day and night for more than a year, but she was irritated by the person in front of her who had never been in contact with the old man and could figure out his intentions from just a few words.
Pei Xueyan thinks that she is not stupid, but in front of the man in front of her, she is not good at arithmetic, and she seems not very good at dealing with people...
Arithmetic is nothing more than arithmetic, it can't be compared. Is this person's behavior in the world as he said...
Over the top?
"Young lady, why do you have to worry so much?"
Liu Shen could naturally see the frustration in her expression, and said with a smile: "I have said before that the authorities are fascinated by the onlookers, and the young mistress shows off her wisdom. It is just that she is a member of the authorities, so she did not see clearly. If the young mistress is a bystander, naturally I can see it more clearly than anyone else.”
"You don't need to comfort me."
Pei Xueyan curled her lips in disgust and muttered: "You said you knew arithmetic from birth, and I believed it; but you are obviously not older than me, how can you be so familiar with this way of life?"
As she spoke, she looked Liu Shen up and down and asked seriously, "Are you that smart?"
"Hahahahaha~"
Liu Shen was amused by her contrasting cuteness and laughed heartily. He smiled narrowly and said: "Smart people only make friends with smart people. Isn't it that a smart person like me has made friends with a young mistress? A smart person like me doesn't May I ask for help from you, young mistress?"
"That's it, that's it!!"
Pei Xueyan was coaxed to raise her pink neck, with a look full of arrogance. She waved her hand and said quite proudly: "We are friends. We should support and help each other. Besides, Liu Shen, you are a helper." You’ve done me a big favor, just tell me if you have anything.”
"There is indeed something."
Seeing that all the dishes were served, Liu Shen skillfully tore off half of a red-skinned duck and asked while eating, "Do you still remember where we first met?"
"of course I remember."
Pei Xueyan nodded and joked: "When I was carrying the Bodhisattva statue in the Song family ancestral hall, at first glance, I felt that you were the most pleasing to the eye among the nine people."
"Thank you, young lady, for your appreciation."
Liu Shen glared at her angrily and said, "I heard you say that the Bodhisattva statue of the Song family was carried in by a martial artist from the third realm?"
"yes."
Pei Xueyan nodded and asked in confusion: "That's what the old man said, what's wrong?"
"Nothing, just a little curious."
Liu Shen shook his head and asked with slightly moved eyes: "I think that Bodhisattva statue has been receiving incense in the Song family ancestral hall for many years. Why did Mr. Song suddenly think of smashing it?"
"Because it's useless..."
Pei Xueyan curled her lips and explained: "The old man never had any heirs when he was young. Later, he asked an eminent monk to tell his fortune. The eminent monk said that there was something wrong with the Song family's feng shui. He asked the old man to settle in Heyang County to change the feng shui, and then ask the Bodhisattva to respect it. It’s like returning to one’s house to make offerings to the path of change.”
"It's strange to say that the old man actually gave birth to a son within a few years after doing this."
"The old man was overjoyed to have a son in his middle age. He kept in mind what the eminent monk said. As long as he worships the Bodhisattva statue with devotion for thirty years, he will be safe."
"As a result, the old man has worshiped the Bodhisattva statue devoutly for more than 20 years, but his only son passed away a year ago. The white-haired man gave the black-haired man a gift, but the old man gave him his only son. How sad and angry is the old man?"
"Perhaps it's because I miss people after seeing things. The old man smashed the Bodhisattva statue to vent his anger no matter what."
"..."
Liu Shen nodded thoughtfully and asked, "So, that Bodhisattva statue was actually placed in the Song family ancestral hall by the eminent monk?"
"Yes."
"Does the young lady know the name of that eminent monk?"
"Um?"
Pei Xueyan glanced at him in surprise and asked, "Why do you ask this?"
"Nothing, nothing."
Liu Shen smiled and said casually: "I also believe in fate. I am inevitably a little curious when I hear that Mr. Song met such an eminent monk."
Pei Xueyan didn't have any doubts after hearing this, she just shook her head and said, "The old man told me just now during a casual chat. As for the name of the eminent monk, I really don't know, and the old man didn't tell me either."
As she spoke, she muttered with an unhappy expression: "Didn't you say you wanted to ask me for help if you have something? Why are you asking about such irrelevant things?"
"..."
Liu Shen laughed sarcastically when he heard this and asked, "Does the Song family have any warriors now?"
"I really don't know that."
Pei Xueyan frowned and shook her head, saying: "I have only been in the Song family for a year, and before my husband died, I was just a decoration for the occasion. After his death, the old man was afraid that no one would die, so he let me come into contact with him. In the final analysis, we have only come into contact with all matters big and small in the Song family in the past few months."
"..."
Liu Shen was a little disappointed when he heard this...
He originally thought that if the Song family raised a martial artist, he could introduce him through his relationship with the young mistress, and perhaps he could use this internal skill to copy and learn from it.
Nowadays, Pei Xueyan, the young lady of the Song family, doesn't know if the Song family has any warriors, so that idea is naturally unrealistic.
Seeing a hint of disappointment in his expression, Pei Xueyan hurriedly asked, "Why are you asking about Wu Fu? I can help you find out when I get back."
Liu Shen nodded, and then started practicing sword skills with the "Crazy Demon Sword Technique" he got from Yuan Xiaofei and Yu Hong a few days ago, but found that there were only moves but no internal strength, and the embarrassment of what he had just planned. One by one.
"You want to practice martial arts!?"
After hearing this, Pei Xueyan stared at him with wide eyes. Then she seemed to think of something interesting and said, "I heard people say that practicing martial arts has to start from a young age. Isn't it too late for you to start learning at this age?" How much?"
"You have ambitions but not your youth."
"How old are you?"
"How old?"
When Liu Shen heard this, he paused in his eating movements. He put down his chopsticks and stretched out his hands to stretch out a chopstick. He said seriously: "To be honest, there are a full eighteen..."
"eighteen?"
Pei Xueyan saw his movements and the faint complacency in his expression, and asked inexplicably: "Are you only eighteen years old?"
"Huh? Are you asking about your age?"
Liu Shen's face straightened, he hurriedly picked up his chopsticks and took a bite of his rice, then changed his words and said, "That's not eighteen, I'm just seventeen this year."
"Seventeen?"
Pei Xueyan was slightly distracted when he heard him say that she was only seventeen years old. After she regained her composure, she sneered and joked: "Although I saw that you haven't reached the crown yet, I really didn't expect that you are only seventeen. No..."
She paused suddenly as she spoke, and then asked with wide eyes: "What did you just say, eighteen?"
"..."
Liu Shen hunched his neck and buried his head in cooking, pretending he couldn't hear...
Seeing his posture, Pei Xueyan seemed to have confirmed her suspicion. Her charming cheeks couldn't help but get hot, and she secretly despised the brat in front of her for eating her own tofu again.
'Smelly brother, you don't even have a long beard, so you can act like a gangster, right? '
Although she was ashamed and annoyed in her heart, she pretended to be nothing, and said with a smile: "I don't know if the Song family has martial arts, but the internal strength you want is there, and I have a good book in my hand. Internal strength…”
"Um?"
When Liu Shen heard that Pei Xueyan had a book of excellent internal energy in his hand, the action of planning the rice suddenly stopped in the air. After putting down the bowl and chopsticks, he immediately changed his face: "Young lady, you are so lucky~"
"Ouch~"
Pei Xueyan put her hands on her chest and did not look at him. She just looked at herself and said sadly: "I have been working hard for a few days and my shoulders are a little sore. Tsk, tsk, a bit sore."
She didn't realize at all that her movements made the already voluptuous peaks look even more majestic...
"..."
