The guards of the princess's residence all recognized Yu Shu's face. Jing Chen had told them that if she came to find him, they didn't need to send a message and could directly invite her in.
"Lord Yu, please wait a moment. I will invite our young master to come over."
The steward of the front yard was a tall and thin eunuch surnamed Ning. After Eunuch Ning settled Yu Shu down, he left in a hurry.
Jing Chen was the only master of the large princess's residence. As long as he returned to the residence, there would be a group of servants paying attention to him no matter where he was. Eunuch Ning casually asked a guard at the second gate and found out that Jing Chen was not in Sushi Pavilion at the moment, but with Great Aunt Shui Yun.
Eunuch Ning searched all the way. Just as he walked to the door of the courtyard, he heard a burst of intermittent sobbing coming from inside. The sobbing sounded very sad. It seemed to be Aunt Shui Yun. Otherwise, what other woman would make a ruckus in the Princess Residence?
Eunuch Ning hesitated for a moment and looked around the courtyard. There was no one in the courtyard, so he didn't dare to rush in.
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"Shui Yun, don't be willful. Drink the medicine and rest. Tomorrow, I will report to the emperor and find someone to escort you back to Mount Longhu."
Jing Chen came back not long ago. As soon as he entered the door, he heard the servant report that Shui Yun was angry and threw things all over the house. He was afraid that she would hurt her muscles and bones again, so he had to go and comfort her.
Who knew that he would know that she hadn't taken medicine for half a month without him knowing. The medicine and ointment that he asked people to prepare were all secretly thrown away by her.
"I don't want to drink, wu … I don't want you to care about me. Take the medicine away, take it away!" After Shui Yun came back, she only asked the servant to wipe her face. She didn't even want to change her clothes. There were bald tea stains on her neckline. Her hair was disheveled and her eyelids were red and swollen. Tears were dripping down her eyes. She didn't look like her usual refreshing appearance. People couldn't bear to see her like this.
Jing Chen frowned and handed the bowl of medicine to the servant. He reached out to hold her wheelchair to prevent her from moving. He tried to ease his tone and asked,
"If you don't drink the medicine, how will your injured muscles and bones recover? If it becomes a chronic disease, you will no longer be able to use the Black Iron Formula in the future. You will regret it."
Shui Yun raised her trembling left hand and wiped her tears with the back of her hand. Like a child who had been wronged, she could no longer pretend to be indifferent to Jing Chen's estrangement.
"You've long been bewitched by that demoness to the point where you can't tell north from south. Why would you still care about whether I'm good or bad? Today, she bullied me like that, and you still say that it's my fault. What's wrong with me? I just don't want to see you foolishly being used by her!"
"She didn't use me. Don't let your imagination run wild all day."
"Why didn't she use you? If it weren't for you, she wouldn't have been able to become an official in the Celestial Commissioner. She wouldn't have been able to strut around! From the beginning, I felt that she was a villain, but you liked her. No matter how I persuaded you, it was useless. Senior Brother, if you don't listen to me now, sooner or later, she will sell you out for glory and wealth! "
At first, Jing Chen still patiently comforted her, but the more she talked, the more outrageous she became. His attitude suddenly became cold. "I said that you don't need to worry about my affairs. This time, you came to make things difficult for me. I said that I would send you back to Mount Longhu. I wasn't trying to scare you. I will arrange for you to go as soon as possible. Don't make trouble anymore."
At this point, he didn't want to blame anyone. But after getting to the bottom of it, he and Yu Shu changed from a pair of lovers to the situation they were in today because of Shui Yun.
This time, he was determined to send her away.
Shui Yun suddenly raised her head, and a pair of resentful eyes were glued to Jing Chen's face. Her red eyes were brewing emotions that he didn't understand, but he heard her hoarse voice.
"You and I were childhood sweethearts, and we grew up together. All the brothers and sisters in the sect knew that you had bad luck, so they all avoided you. Only I was not afraid of being implicated by you and treated you as always. Do you remember? When I was eleven and you were fifteen, because you saved a mountain man who was lost, he was eaten by a tiger on his way down the mountain. Martial Uncle punished you to face the wall at the top of the cliff, and no one was allowed to send you food. Only I was worried that you would be hungry, so I sneaked up the cliff to see you. I was careless and was bitten by a poisonous snake on the back of my neck, and I almost died. "
Hearing this, Jing Chen was in a trance for a moment, and then said softly, "I remember."
He starved on the cliff for seven days, and every day, he only drank some sweet dew to quench his thirst and picked wild fruits to satisfy his hunger. On the eighth day, Shui Yun went up the cliff to look for him, and when she saw him, she fainted. He found that she was bitten by a poisonous snake, but he didn't have time to send her back for treatment. Instead, he sucked her blood to cure the poison and found the Seven Step Grass nearby to detoxify her.
As a result, Shui Yun woke up and slapped him.
Shui Yun let out a sorrowful laugh, and said, "Then you must also remember that after I woke up, I slapped you. We, the people of the Dao Sect, although hate the formalities, but we also know that there is a difference between men and women. You and I had skin contact, and you are the only man who has ever taken advantage of me. Senior Martial Brother, oh Senior Martial Brother, do you really not understand, or are you just pretending? You didn't understand my feelings for you before, but do you still not understand now? "
She looked at him in a daze, and couldn't help but feel a trace of hope in her chest. However, seeing his expression slowly change from surprise to helplessness, and from helplessness to embarrassment, but there was no joy, her heart sank inch by inch.
"Shui Yun, I — —" Jing Chen turned his head to avoid Shui Yun's burning gaze, and said in a low voice,
"I don't have any romantic feelings for you."
He had read the Biography of Liu Yi given to him by Yu Shu many times. That was the first time he knew about love, and she taught him what romantic feelings were. To him, it was something that he couldn't suppress no matter how many times he chanted the Clear Heart Incantation.
He had feelings for Xiaoyu, but he didn't have feelings for his junior sister.
"Then let me ask you a question," Shui Yun refused to back down, and raised her head to ask, "In your heart, between me and Miss Yu, who is more important?"
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Jing Chen shook his head, "You are my junior sister, and she is my friend. Why do we have to compare?"
"Then let me ask you this. If Miss Yu and I are in danger together, and you save one, but the other will die, then who will you save first?"
Jing Chen didn't know how to be perfunctory, and he didn't know how to lie. He thought for a moment, and then said, "I can't choose."
One was his junior sister from the same sect, and the other was the person he liked. He didn't want to see either of them die.
"Hahaha," Shui Yun suddenly laughed. As she laughed, tears fell, and she was indescribably sad, "Why can't you choose? Didn't you already choose? Today, she and I were both humiliated. You looked at me coldly, but you didn't dare to blame her for me. Senior Brother, you are so cruel to me. I came all the way to the capital to find you, hoping that you would find the person to destroy my life as soon as possible. Maybe one day, I can live with you together, but you threw away my sincere heart like a pair of worn-out shoes. How can I bear this! Ah!? "
In the end, she was just a pitiful person who couldn't get what she wanted and couldn't get what she wanted.
Listening to Shui Yun's accusations, Jing Chen couldn't help but blame himself. She cried so hard, but he was also moved. After hesitating for a moment, he finally raised his hand and gently placed it on her head, trying to forgive her for what she had done to others and herself.
He had always wondered why she always targeted Yu Shu, and now he had the answer.
"Don't cry, it's all my fault."
As he stroked her hair, all of Shui Yun's pride and backbone disappeared. She wrapped her arms around Jing Chen's waist, buried her head in his arms, and sobbed —
"Senior Brother, don't, don't ignore me … Don't hate me, let, let's be like before, okay? I will listen to you. You like Miss Yu, I won't fight with her anymore. If you let me drink the medicine, I will obediently drink the medicine. Don't let me go, Senior Brother, boohoo …"
Jing Chen's eyes dimmed. He patted her on the shoulder and let her vent for a while. It wasn't until her crying gradually subsided and her tears dried up that he made a promise with her:
"Don't interfere in my affairs anymore, don't target Yu Shu anymore. Take good care of your injuries. If you can do it, I won't send you away. Otherwise, I won't believe anything you say anymore."
Shui Yun hurriedly nodded and promised, "I'll remember, I won't do it again."
The two had just made an agreement. Eunuch Ning, who had been waiting outside for a long time, finally waited until the crying inside stopped. Then he quietly went to the door and reported in a loud voice,
"Young master, Official Yu is here to visit."
The two people in the room heard it at the same time. Shui Yun twisted her neck uncomfortably. Jing Chen glanced at her, walked to the door, opened it, and said to Eunuch Ning, who was standing there with a shrimp-like waist,
"Let's go, take me there."
"Wait," Shui Yun hurriedly stopped him and ignored Eunuch Ning. She bit her lip and begged, "Can I go with you? I want to see Miss Yu and apologize to her in person."
Jing Chen didn't say anything. He just quietly observed the expression on her face to see if she was sincere.
"I'm serious," Shui Yun sniffed and said with a pout, "Can you believe me again?"
"… Call someone in to help you freshen up. I'll wait for you outside."
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Yu Shu sat for more than an hour. In the middle, she got up and walked her legs twice before Jing Chen came. Seeing Jing Chen push Shui Yun in, Yu Shu's eyebrows were almost raised to her forehead.
She glanced at Shui Yun's eyelids that were so swollen that she could barely open them, then shifted her gaze to Jing Chen. She saw that there was a patch of uneven color at the waist of his white robe. She immediately had an idea.
"Jing Chen, I have something to discuss with you. Can I talk to you in private?"
Outside of the Celestial Commissioner, Yu Shu didn't deliberately call him the Right Magistrate to make sarcastic remarks about Jing Chen, not to mention that she was the one asking for help.
Jing Chen could see that she didn't want to see Shui Yun. He wanted to explain, but Shui Yun said first, "Miss Yu, I insisted on seeing you. Can you listen to me first?
Yu Shu squinted at her and saw that Shui Yun was struggling to keep her eyelids open and trying to pretend to be sincere. She didn't think much of it in her heart. This morning at Taixi Restaurant, she fought with her like a black-eyed chicken. Now she came to show off. She didn't buy it.
"I have nothing to say to you."
Seeing that Yu Shu refused to buy it, Shui Yun turned her head and gave Jing Chen a pleading look.
Jing Chen didn't want Yu Shu to misunderstand, so he had to say, "Shui Yun knows she was wrong. She wants to apologize to you."
Shui Yun hurriedly replied, "Yes, I'm here to apologize. Today's matter was my fault. I shouldn't have made up those crimes to frame you. I already know I was wrong. Can you forgive me this time for the sake of Senior Brother's feelings? I promised my senior brother that I won't make things difficult for you in the future. "
Hearing this, Yu Shu pursed her lips and looked at the 'sincere' Shui Yun with a faint smile. She said, "There's no need to apologize. I can't accept it. Besides, you maliciously spread rumors about me. I also scolded you a few times. It's not like I lost anything."
Shui Yun's expression was a bit embarrassed. In fact, what Yu Shu said was right. The person who lost today wasn't the other person, but she.
"Is there anything else? If not, can you leave for a while? I have something important to talk to Jing Chen about. It's not convenient for you to be present." Yu Shu's straightforwardness was annoying.
Although Shui Yun was mentally prepared to be ridiculed by her, when she really met her, she realized that she had overestimated her forbearance.
"Go back and rest." Jing Chen turned his back and whispered to Shui Yun, "Remember what you promised me."
Finishing, he ignored Shui Yun's hesitant expression and had Eunuch Ning send her away.
When Shui Yun left, Jing Chen and Yu Shu intentionally didn't mention her again. It was as if the assessment during the day hadn't happened. The two went to a quiet place and the servants left. Only then did they feel at ease to talk.
"What urgent matter is there to find me so urgently?" Jing Chen knew that Yu Shu wouldn't come to the Princess fu for no reason.
On the way here, Yu Shu thought about it and decided to tell Jing Chen, "I want to tell you something. You have to be calm. Whether you are surprised or angry, you have to listen to what I have to say."
Jing Chen was confused, but he still nodded and promised her, "Speak, I'm listening."
Yu Shu looked around and made sure there wasn't a single person around. She moved closer to him and said in a small voice, "The portrait you gave me yesterday, I know who that person is."
Jing Chen's eyes narrowed, and he couldn't help but press his hands down on the stone table.
"My eldest brother has a chief in his fu, surnamed Xu. Last May, I saw him in Yiyang."
As expected, Jing Chen was shocked and said, "Your eldest brother, Xue Rui? It's his family's servant. Are you sure you didn't make a mistake? "
The person who caused him to lose his memory and be seriously injured was actually the Right Prime Minister!?
Yu Shu frowned and said, "I'd rather I made a mistake. Unless that Governor Xu has a twin brother who looks exactly like him, I won't make a mistake."
She didn't have a photographic memory, but some people and things that left a deep impression on her, once she remembered them, she wouldn't forget them easily.
Jing Chen was silent.
Yu Shu didn't have the mood to guess what he was thinking at the moment. She talked to him according to the draft she prepared on the way:
"At present, you only remember such a person. You can't confirm who ordered him to kill you, and it may not be Minister Xue. But if you give the portrait to the emperor, once they find out who the person in the portrait is, the whole Xue family will be out of luck. Even my eldest brother will be suspected by the emperor as a traitor."
"I'll tell you the truth. I just want you to do me a favor. Go to the palace and find out if the Emperor wants to put up a wanted poster or conduct a secret search. You have to let me know. Don't keep me in the dark."
Yu Shu shamelessly came to plead with Jing Chen. She also knew that this was not moral. Jing Chen was the victim, but she wanted to persuade him to help her keep a lookout for the suspect. So she didn't want to lie to him.
But she had no other way. In order to protect Xue Rui, she could only put down the old grudges and come to Jing Chen to ask for a favor.
"Don't you have any doubts?" Jing Chen suddenly asked her, "If it was Prime Minister Xue who sent people to kill me, how could Xue Rui not know about it? Do you believe him so much? "
Yu Shu frowned. Her eyes met his probing gaze indifferently, and she slowly said a few words.
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