When Shen Zhuo returned home, the moon was already in the sky. As soon as she entered the door of Shen's mansion in a carriage, she saw Aunt Huang standing there with several wives. Shen Zhuo's heart skipped a beat and he thought to himself: Not good.
Sure enough, Shen Zhuo failed to return to Lanting Pavilion that night, but asked Aunt Huang to take her directly to the ancestral hall.
Shen Zhuo looked at the dark ancestral hall, and the door in the middle was quietly open. What she still doesn't understand is that Princess Pingyang is punishing her to kneel in the ancestral hall.
"Mommy..." Shen Zhuo took Nanny Huang's hand, shook it a few times, and whispered, "Is it too late for me to admit my mistake to you now?"
"You~~~" Nanny Huang sighed, with a look of helplessness on her face. She patted Shen Zhuo's hand gently, "Today was the second young master's big day, but the princess made you so angry that you didn't even have dinner. It's no use. The princess is angry now, so don't add to the anger."
"You go and kneel down. The second young master will return home later. Let him go to the princess to beg you for mercy."
"Thank you, Auntie~~~" Shen Zhuo said with a smile on his lips, holding Aunt Huang in his arms.
"Oh, by the way, the people I brought back are still injured, please help me take care of them."
"Don't worry, Butler Shen has just picked up the person, and he will be settled well."
So, Shen Zhuo once again knelt under the tablets of his ancestors, while Ying'er knelt on the corridor outside the ancestral hall to be punished with Shen Zhuo.
The weather was already in early summer, and Shen Zhuo's dress was so thin that she could only kneel down for a stick of incense before she couldn't stand it any longer, and her knees stung with pain. Shen Zhuo got up and sat down on the ground, rubbing his knees with his hands while chatting with his ancestors.
"Ancestors, there are many of you. Don't blame me for being unfilial. The ground is really too hard and it hurts my knees. Please let me slow down first and then kneel down later."
"Besides, it's unreasonable for my mother to punish me this time. I am saving people, not harming them. Even if I meet my ancestors, I should be praised, right?"
"So you can disrespect your ancestors by saving people?"
Suddenly a familiar voice came, the door was pushed open, the cold moonlight poured in, and a person walked against the light.
"Third brother!" Shen Zhuo jumped up from the ground and said happily, "Are you here to let me out?"
"Haha." Shen Xi gloated twice, then picked up the futon in his hand and waved it in front of Shen Zhuo.
"I brought you a futon, so just kneel down in peace."
Shen Zhuo curled his lips, grabbed the futon and stuffed it under his butt, and sat cross-legged on the ground with a look of despair on his face.
Seeing Shen Zhuo's slumped face, Shen Xi couldn't help but feel soft. He stretched out his hand to rub Shen Zhuo's head and said, "Please bear with it a little longer."
"I have sent people to look for Wei. Only he can save you now. You don't know how angry A Niang was today. Even her favorite white porcelain tea cup was broken by accident."
"Jiaojiao, you are really..." Shen Xi paused for a long time, seemingly speechless, and finally shook his head and said, "You actually did something like robbing a man on the street. Do you want to get married in the future?" Already?"
"Well, then I don't have any other options." Shen Zhuo muttered softly.
The other party is Guo Haotian. Is it useful to reason with him? Of course it's useless. If you want to take people away from him, you can only be more bullying, unreasonable, and a bully than he is.
"There are thousands of ways to save people, but you chose a way that kills a thousand enemies and damages yourself eight hundred. You are a girl who has not yet left the court." Shen Xi looked helpless.
Shen Xi thought of something and suddenly laughed, looking at Shen Zhuo narrowly: "By the way, I heard that Zhong Shaoqing is coming soon. Don't scare people then, otherwise I will definitely not be able to spare you."
Zhong Shaoqing? Shen Zhuo was startled.
This is an extremely distant name, so far away that it has been away from her for decades. This name has not been mentioned for a long time. But just now, at the moment she heard it, Shen Zhuo still remembered it. She didn't need any memories or reminders, she just remembered it naturally.
Zhong Shaoqing was the husband chosen by Princess Pingyang in her previous life. If she hadn't been obsessed with marrying Xiao Yi, then she probably would have married him.
Yanzhou is located in the hinterland of Tiansheng, with mountains, rivers and plains. It is a world-famous land of plenty. Princess Pingyang's best friend, Russell Qing, married to Yanzhou and Zhong Ming, the inspector of Yanzhou's Punishment Department. Russell Qing gave birth to three sons and one daughter. The second son is Zhong Shaoqing.
Yanzhou is not far from Beijing. If you follow the Cangjiang River, you can reach it in less than ten days. When Shen Zhuo was a child, he and Princess Pingyang went to Zhong's house to stay several times. Zhong Shaoqing and Shen Zhuo are similar in age, two years older than her. When Shen Zhuo lived in Zhong Mansion, the two often played together, and they were childhood sweethearts.
Zhong Shaoqing looked extremely good when he was a child. His skin was as white as snow, his hair was as black as ink, and his eyebrows were like paintings. He seemed to have been carefully carved by God. Someone once joked that he might not be reincarnated as a boy under the Guanyin Seat.
Zhong Shaoqing was the young master that Shen Zhuo once held on to and refused to let go, clamoring to marry him.
At that time, Shen Zhuo was five years old and Zhong Shaoqing was seven years old.
Shen Zhuo's childish talk and domineering willfulness when she was a child became her lifelong joke, and also contributed to the oral engagement between Princess Pingyang and Russell Qing.
In fact, this engagement should have been made by Shen Zhuo himself.
Shen Zhuo is fourteen this year and Zhong Shaoqing is sixteen. It's time to look at each other.
Alas~~~ Shen Zhuo suddenly felt guilty. She touched her nose and lowered her head. In her previous life, in order to dissuade Zhong Shaoqing from asking to marry her, she often played pranks on him, often scaring and teasing him.
In fact, this man is quite nice. He never complained about Shen Zhuo's condition or complained to anyone from beginning to end. He stayed in Kyoto for less than half a year before returning to Yanzhou. After that, Shen Zhuo never saw him again. I don’t know which girl he married in the end and how well he lived.
Shen Zhuo's mind rang with something Shen Yao had asked her, "Jiaojiao, why do you think that the people chosen by father and mother with decades of experience and vision are not as good as those we choose after just a few glances?" The person in it?"
Now that he thought about it, Shen Zhuo realized that Shen Yao was right. How can I compare my teenage years with the decades that my parents have lived?
Maybe, we can give it a try with Zhong Shaoqing in this life?
