Chapter 57 Tanmen Temple (3)
“Don’t say it as if we are doing something bad!” Commandery Princess Shuning blushed, “I and cousin sister Rong happened to pass by and can’t bear to disturb them.”
Chen Hui also looked over following Commandery Princess Shuning’s words. She found out that those people were a bit familiar. It was Qi Shengwen and his friends. After listening for a while, she understood. They were contending poems and verses and expressed their opinions about the current affairs of the world. They discussed very livelily. The most prominent among them was the young man who sneaked glances at Zheng Rongrong before. She heard them call him brother Wei. And the Qi Shengwen who she knew was looking at his friends with a smile on his face and hardly expressed any opinions.
“This gentleman Wei…is very knowledgeable,” Zheng Rongrong said softly.
Although Commandery Princess Shuning was unruly, she had also studied while growing up. Perhaps, she may not understand very much about the current affairs of the world, but she had skimmed through poems and could hear whether a poem was good or bad. After hearing that, she nodded, “Indeed, that gentleman Wei is indeed a literary talent.” She turned around and asked Chen Hui, “Lady Chen which one do you think have literary talent?”
Chen Hui said, “I am illiterate. I don’t know.”
Commandery Princess Shuning glared at her, “Nonsense! You are clearly literate!” She paused. Suddenly, she leaned over and asked, “Lady Chen, it is not that you took a fancy on one of them, right?”
“No, they are too good. I can’t climb to their status,” Chen hui said casually, “Do you plan to continue to watch here? Or go out meet up with them?”
“How, how can we do that?!” Commandery Princess Shuning actually looked a bit eager to try, but she still refused.
Zheng Rongrong naturally had the same attitude, “Let’s go, let’s go elsewhere.”
Chen Hui didn’t say anything and followed.
After walking around for a while, Commandery Princess Shuning and Zheng Rongrong who came out earlier, returned first. Chen Hui was very energetic because she had just slept and she took Xiao Tiao to the front yard and visited the halls. Unlike the modern time where the name of the Buddha statues was hung in front of the statue, she was baffled looking at them now and just treated them as a lively scene.
It was still raining. Chen Hui felt that they might really have to stay here today. After returning, Commandery Princess Shuning and Zheng Rongrong told her that they had decided to stay for one night and they planned to send someone back to notify. At this time, Commandery Princess Shuning remembered that she didn’t know where Chen Hui lived, so, she asked where she lived so that her (S) servant could go inform her (CH) family.
Of course, it was impossible for Chen Hui to tell her and just told her that it was enough to let her (S) servant go to Li Clan’s Cloth Shop to inform them.
Seeing that she couldn’t ask further and also seeing that Chen Hui’s face seemed complex and that it was a subject to be avoided, she didn’t ask anymore. Instead, she noticed something else, “Right, Lady Chen, isn’t your surname Chen? Why is your cloth shop called Li Clan’s Cloth Shop?”
Chen Hui said, “Because this shop was in the hands of a boss surnamed Li. He owed a lot of money to my family. So, he used this shop to pay off the debt.”
This answer was reasonable. Commandery Princess Shuning didn’t question further.
The three of time played for a while and then asked their servant to go get the food. They ate dinner in the abode and then chatted for a while. Afterwards, each went back to their own room and prepared to sleep.
Chen Hui didn’t have difficulties sleeping in a bed other than her own and slept fairly well. It was just that she woke up in the middle of the night because she had to go to bathroom. She glanced outside. It was dark and scary. Although she was embarrassed, she woke up Xiao Tiao to accompany her to the bathroom. There were servants guarding outside while they slept. There was no doubt about safety. Chen Hui nodded slightly at the servants who still had great vitality and went out.
She went to the toilet to solve her own problem. Chen Hui looked at the full moon in the sky. Suddenly, her heart also seemed to be serene.
It has been more than two months since she came to this era. From almost dying from ramming her head into the pillar to now that she didn’t have to worry about clothes and food, unexpectedly only two months have passed. To her, it seemed more like two years.
Perhaps, because the night was prone to make people have many thoughts, Chen Hui couldn’t help but think of Li Youde. He was in the palace at this moment. Perhaps, he was already asleep. Perhaps, he was racking his brains about how to please the emperor. Since ancient times, how many powerful eunuchs had a good ending? Perhaps, it was already wrong when she got the idea in the beginning that if she followed him, she would have meat to eat. Even if her identity was still that of a free person, if something happens to Li Youde, she probably couldn’t run away, right? However, what could she do even if there was another way? That Li Clan’s Cloth Shop was flourishing now was completely because of Li Youde. She has seen another newly opened store in the same street being harassed by a few hooligans that it couldn’t continue its business anymore. At her side, because of Li Youde’s protection, even if those hooligans saw it, they would avoid it. Without him, she was afraid that she wouldn’t be able to survive in such an era of imperfect legal system.
Besides, Li Youde had said in the beginning that he preferred her death than letting her go. And where could she escape to…? Forget it, let’s not think about this anymore. It is good as it is now. It was fine as long as she could maintain the current balance.
Just as Chen Hui was about to go back to her room, Xiao Tiao suddenly hesitated and said, “Lady, there seems to be a figure in the front.
Chen Hui looked over in surprise. There was indeed a vague shadow on the ground.
Xiao Tiao was holding a lantern in her hand. She reached her arm over there but still couldn’t see clearly. As soon as she took a step forward, Chen Hui grabbed her.
“No need to go look,” Chen Hui hesitated, “Perhaps, it is better to go back and call someone over.”
No matter what it was, it was very scary that it lay there on the ground in the middle of the night.
Xiao Tiao naturally listened to Chen Hui and hurriedly retracted her steps. She led the way and hurriedly walked to the abode.
Chen Hui wanted to follow, but something grabbed her waist. She stiffened. That thing crawled to her neck. She felt cold all over for a moment.
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