Chapter 65 The sword and the scabbard (2)
“Lady Chen, I want to have a talk with you. Can your servants leave temporarily?” Qi Shengwen got straight to the point.
Chen Hui looked at Qi Shengwen whose attitude suddenly changed. She felt a familiar aura from him. After pondering a bit, she motioned for the three to stay a bit further away.
Xiao Liu didn’t agree, “Lady Chen, lord issued the order that these little ones can’t leave you for half a step…”
“It is not that I let you hide,” Chen Hui said, “See, you can go to that table. Isn’t it alright that you can see me over here?”
Xiao Liu still seemed unwilling, but with Chen Hui’s insistence, he still went with Xiao Wu and Xiao Tiao.
Chen Hui looked at Qi Shengwen, “Gentleman Qi, you can speak now.”
Qi Shengwen said, “What does Lady Chen think about Lord Li going to supervise the army?”
Chen Hui said, “I am just a woman, what can I have to think about it? I don’t understand.”
Qi Shengwen also didn’t mind and continued, “Then…you have heard about the sword and the scabbard, right?”
“What does gentleman Qi mean?” Chen Hui started to be on guard
Qi Shengwen said, “Lady Chen is the scabbard and Lord Li is the sword.”
Chen Hui…she felt that those words were a bit absurd. What she is the scabbard and Li Youde is the sword? He doesn’t have the tool, alright?!
“I think you are wrong,” Chen Hui said expressionlessly.
Qi Shengwen said, “Oh, what is Lady Chen’s opinion?”
Chen Hui said, “I don’t have one. I simply feel that you are speaking nonsense.”
Qi Shengwen was dumbstruck and smiled helplessly, “Why does Lady Chen say this? Forget it, I will say it to Lady Chen directly…This humble one hopes that Lady Chen can go together with Lord Li this time.”
It was Chen Hui’s turn to be dumbstruck this time, “Go together? You mean go together to the battlefield?”
“That is right,” Qi Shengwen said, “If Lady Chen agrees, the soldiers at the frontline will be grateful to lady.”
Chen Hui felt that Qi Shengwen was starting to speak nonsense again. What use does the frontline have with her, a woman? Military prostitute? She alone wouldn’t be enough!
“I don’t understand what you are saying,” Chen Hui said.
“Does Lady Chen really not understand or is Lady Chen pretending to not understand?” Qi Shengwen laughed, “From this humble one’s understanding, Lord Li pampers Lady Chen very much and from this humble one’s observation Lady Chen is smart and kind-hearted…If Lady Chen can help alongside, Lord Li would probably be like a tiger that has grown wings.”
- A tiger that has grown wings: with redoubled power
Chen Hui understood Qi Shengwen’s meaning through his beating around the bush. He said that she was the scabbard and Li Youde the sword, so, she was the one who could control Li Youde. If she went with him, if Lord Li messes around by then, she could help restrain him a bit.”
She felt that Qi Shengwen thought too highly of her, but…he who thought like this really has a discerning eye.
“This…Gentleman Qi probably thought too much,” Chen Hui said, “I’m just a gift that my father sent to Lord Li. How can I have an influence on lord?”
Qi Shengwen smiled, “This humble one didn’t expect that…Lady Chen doesn’t know how important you are to Lord Li.”
“How important?” Chen Hui asked curiously and expectantly. She was a bit confused and really wanted to hear something from the eyes of a true outsider.
Chen Hui’s attitude was not within Qi Shengwen’s expectations. As for how she should face him, he hadn’t thought about it carefully, but he had never expected it to be like this. It was…as if she hoped that he could persuade her.
Qi Shengwen said, “At Tanmen Temple that day, this humble one saw with this humble one’s own eyes how…excited Lord Li looked when he learned of the whereabouts of Lady Chen.”
“That’s it?” Chen Hui was disappointed.
“That is not enough?” Qi Shengwen asked puzzled.
Chen Hui said, “Presumably, gentleman Qi doesn’t know. At that time, lord thought that I had fled. When he got news about me, he was probably very excited about catching me and be able to give me a taste of the top twenty tortures!”
Qi Shengwen endured the impulse to ask which were the “top twenty tortures” and said, “Lady Chen, this humble one is also a man and knows that the appearance of Lord Li at that time is not like what Lady Chen said…”
He didn’t expect that a sentence from him would make Chen Hui laugh as if she heard some joke.
“’Also’? Gentleman Qi, you are the same as Lord Li?” Chen Hui laughed.
For the first time, Qi Shengwen had the urge to swing his sleeve and leave. He said with a dark expression, “Does Lady Chen also talk like this in front of Lord Li?”
“Of course, I don’t dare,” Chen Hui admitted very straightforwardly that she was a timid person, “But gentleman Qi, are you still going to file a complaint in front of Lord Li?”
That was naturally impossible.
Qi Shengwen took a deep breath and decided to go back to the topic, “Anyway, Lady Chen can please think about it for the people.”
Chen Hui really didn’t have the time to think about it for the people. She wasn’t so big-hearted and can also not change the ways of the world. The only thing she could change was her attitude towards this world. This was also what she did after she had time-traveled.
She smiled and said, “Gentleman Qi, you knew who I was from the first time you saw me, right?” Qi Shengwen looked very different before and after. When the two met for the first time, he looked like he wanted to get close to her as if he had fallen in love with her at first sight. She was afraid of causing harm to others, but it turned out that she had been schemed against from the beginning to the end.
Qi Shengwen was dumbstruck and didn’t conceal, “Lady Chen is truly wise. Indeed, two days before that, this humble one saw Lord Li and Lady Chen go to the bookstore together.”
“Gentleman Qi is amazing!” Chen Hui applauded and said, “It is almost on par with me.”
“What?” No matter how amazing Qi Shengwen was, it was impossible to understand that Chen Hui’s ‘on par’ was talking about the acting skills of the two.
Chen Hui didn’t continue and only said, “I understand what gentleman Qi means. You don’t have anything more to say, right?”
“But Lady Chen hasn’t answered this humble one yet.”
Chen Hui said, “Has gentleman Qi seen a cat that is in a box that you will never know whether it is alive or dead before you open the box?”
Qi Shengwen frowned, “Lady Chen means…”
“Before you see the army leave that day, you won’t know whether I agreed or not,” Chen Hui smiled evilly at him, stood up and walked towards Xiao Tiao and the others.
Only Chen Hui knew whether she had been persuaded by Qi Shengwen.
She knew that Xiao Liao wanted to know very much what Qi Shengwen said to her, but she didn’t want to talk about it. When they returned to Li residence, Chen Hui prepared herself and waited for Li Youde to return.
From Qi Shengwen’s point of view, she seemed to have become the rope to bind the evil dragon, but how could she have such a big influence? She didn’t even have the ability to make Li Youde let her go to the battlefield together…Although, she hasn’t decided whether she wanted to be persuaded or not by Qi Shengwen, she really wanted to try this.
After a day, Chen Hui didn’t sleep for the whole night and waited for Li Youde to return.
Li Youde yawned as he entered the main room. He didn’t expect that when he turned his head, he saw Chen Hui who he didn’t know from when she had followed him, entering the main room.
“Why don’t you sleep in the middle of the night and sway here like a ghost?” Li Youde was truly tired and asked lazily.
Chen Hui smiled strangely, “Lord, how do you know that the me in front of you is not a ghost?”
Li Youde was dumbstruck. His sleepiness had been scared away in an instant. He stared at Chen Hui for a while and saw that she chuckled, “Lord, this Lady Chen is joking with you.”
Joking?!
Before Li Youde could get angry, he saw Chen Hui reveal a brilliant smile, “Lord, this Lady Chen has thought well about it these few days. This Lady Chen wants to accompany lord to the battlefield!”
The anger that Li Youde hasn’t vented has been suppressed by Chen Hui. A wave of new anger rushed up. This caused his voice to be shrill, “Nonsense!”
Chen Hui thought, see, she has guessed right, right?
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