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Chapter 37 Chapter 41
She discerned incense from the night, and after finding his trace, people improved.
Seeing Shen Ce in the daytime, he couldn't recognize it, but at night, under the night blindness, he couldn't see everything, and he could smell the fragrance on Shen Ce's body. He was in no hurry to let her recognize him, lest he would feel anxious and distressed when he saw the injuries he brought back from Jingzhou.
During the day, she reads and writes every day, and has to do morning and evening classes in front of the Buddha. In the morning, he had to make three kowtows. Shen Ce had seen it for a long time and asked Yuanxi what she was asking for. Yuanxi only knew that it had something to do with Shen Ce's troubles in Jingzhou City. She never mentioned it.
At dusk, she would bathe and change clothes, pick her favorite clothes to wear, put a few books on the short table, and ask Yuanxi to prepare tea and cakes. After getting ready, she sat in the water pavilion watching the koi, waiting for the sunset, before Shen Ce returned home.
Shen Ce looked for her several times during the day, and was too diligent. She would not see her again, and people said: "Sir, have you heard of Mo Shangsang? In the future, Mr. will have a wife, and Zhaozhao will have a prince in his heart."
After Shen Ce got this answer, he sat quietly for a long time and stopped looking for her.
Therefore, Chaisang has a night market.
Soon, the night market became famous in the south, and the literati passed it on. Chaisang after sunset is a fairyland on earth.
High-rise buildings in the city, water corridors, under the eaves of the street, the lights are always on. Zhaozhao likes to enjoy lanterns, so Shen Ce ordered that every household should hold the lanterns. Those whose lights are better than their neighbors will be rewarded.
Guarded by the Shen family army, Chai Sang has become the only place in Middle-earth where there will be no rebellion, prosperous and happy.
In less than half a year, it was described by literati as: a city of gold and jade, a rich and noble world.
Under the order of Shen Ce, Chaisang dug a canal to drain water and laid a vertical and horizontal water network. The boat on the water is the most eye-catching scene.
The most talked about is the arrogant one, which belongs to Shen Zhaozhao. Often after sunset, she and Shen Ce boarded the boat and traveled all night. Sometimes Zhaozhao would invite talented people on board, and she and Shen Ce would talk about the past and the present together. Anyone who has boarded that ship will have a prosperous official career, or his poems and paintings will be famous since then.
"There are two beautiful dancers in the southern border. One is in the capital and has been concubine; the other is in Wuling County." In a small alley, a person scooping wine under a lamp handed the bamboo tube in his hand to a Confucian scholar in Tsing Yi, " But when Chai Sang is here, I want to tell Lang Jun that the person who is best at dancing in our southern border is actually surnamed Shen."
The man handed the bamboo tube to another girl: "The county king forbids people to talk about his sister. Otherwise, Shen's Zhaozhao would have been famous in the Middle Earth long ago."
The bamboo tube was taken over by a scholar and stuffed into the girl's hands, and the wine seller knew that the girl had a problem with her eyes.
"My brother came to see Shen Zhaozhao because of his fame," the girl asked the handsome scholar beside him, "Is that so? Brother?"
"Yes, I have been admiring it for a long time."
"Then you go to the water and wait in the corridor. If you are lucky, you can see a painting boat. The boat is full of soldiers, the lanterns are all red, and there is no women's banquet. That is the Shen family painting boat."
"Why are the lanterns all red, they belong to the Shen family?" She never noticed. He doesn't look like someone who would ban people from using red.
"The people respect him, and when they see the red lanterns used by the Shen family's painting boat, they all avoid him."
She rejoiced in her heart, raised her head, and drank everything in the bamboo tube.
...
Shen Ce winked at the people behind him, and the Dead Servants who were following behind in disguise gathered around them. One of them handed a piece of silver to the shopkeeper, and whispered, the shop was closed tonight. Zhaozhao couldn't see anyone, and he didn't know that his brother secretly arranged it, and he was still lying in front of the wine vat, sniffing this worthless roadside wine.
"Brother, I still want to drink. You pay more for the wine, and I'll scoop it myself." The girl's hand couldn't stop, and she went to get the wooden spoon for scooping the wine.
He sighed lightly, fearing that she would fall into the wine vat and keep his eyes close to her.
Pedestrians on this street have disappeared. The people of Chaisang had a tacit understanding. The county king didnβt like that outsiders looked at his sister more. When he heard that Shen Zhaozhao was coming, he took the reward and went away.
Shen Shi Zhaozhao, who was holding a wine jar and a wooden spoon, had no idea that she went out every night, and the people expected her to come to her street. The king of the county was generous, and the reward he gave was equal to one month's business.
Holding the wine jar, Zhaozhao will also analyze the pros and cons of the dynasty with her brother: "Brother, you are a tiger on Chai Sang, and you are addicted to singing and dancing," she whispered to him, "The emperor finally gave you a chance to breathe."
Her hand slipped and the wooden spoon fell into the bucket. Shen Ce fished out the wooden spoon and stuffed it into her again.
If Zhaozhao is the general, I am afraid that he is the only person in the southern border who can restrain him. Today's Shen Ce seems to be beautiful, but in fact it is full of crises.
The people who were killed or injured in Jingzhou were all subordinates who knew him well and followed him for many years. Although they will be able to recruit talents in the future, they are all outsiders and lack loyalty.
Zhao Zhao put on her skirt and stepped into the store: "Why is the boss gone?"
She looked around, and except for Shen Ce's figure, there was no third person.
"The boss said that business is not good, so I went to watch the moon by the riverside." His voice said.
"Doing business like this..." She was amazed and rolled up her sleeves, "I'll sell wine." She stumbled and was pulled by Shen Ce.
Shen Ce thought she would be happy that she didn't fall, but unexpectedly, the person holding the wooden spoon frowned in dissatisfaction and muttered, "Brother, your martial arts are so good, you are reluctant to fall with me?"
Outside the door, the Dead Servants disappeared, leaving face for the county king.
Shen Ce stumbled on her while she was walking forward, then hugged her and fell to the ground, putting her hands behind her head. Thought that she was well thought out, she still felt pain in her arms.
"Where did you meet?" He wanted to check.
She laughed softly: "I didn't encounter it, I lied to you."
He was about to pick her up, but her eyes darkened. His heart also became still, and people remained still.
Her hand touched his face.
"You come back every night at night, are you a human? Or a ghost?" She whispered in her heart, "I'm not afraid of a ghost, I just want to understand, when will you... stop coming back?"
Seeing that her eyes were red, Shen Ce remained silent.
"Since I was rescued, I thought it was God's suggestion," she whispered, "let me avenge you. These days, I often think that if you want to recruit a son-in-law in the Shen family army, then the military power will not be affected. You will be out. I just can't think about it, who is more loyal to you?" She took advantage of the wine to say what she said in her heart to Shen Ce's "soul". She has no martial arts skills, but knows how to use soldiers. The husband-in-law, keep the military power, slowly hibernate and wait for revenge, "I don't want to leave you in the underworld, you wait for me, I will avenge your revenge, and I will come to you."
A few days ago, Yu Rong said that Zhaozhao often had imaginings in the daytime, and asked Yu Rong if he liked him. If he got married, he could have a concubine and have children, but he could not enter his boudoir. Yu Rong was dripping with cold sweat, and hurriedly came to talk to Shen Ce.
After hearing this, his heart was like a boulder...
The faint scent of wine lingered on his face.
On her eyelids, her hand stroked: "You pick me up from Wuling County, passing by Poyang Lake, it's dusk..." The grassland by the lake is vast, Shen Ce sat on the stone beside the water, letting the war horses drink water.
That was the only time for the two to relax during their "escape". At dusk, the water was full of shock. She looked at him, saw Jinghong in his eyes, and only felt that it would be better to escape to the ends of the earth from now on.
She stopped saying, "I am glad you come every night."
He saw her lips, slightly opened and closed, a cluster of wildfire hidden in her chest, and every word she said added fuel to the fire.
He suddenly asked, "Zhaozhao knocks three times a day, what is the third knock?"
Her cheeks were flushed if she was caught by a glimpse of what was on her mind, and she would not say anything when she was drunk.
She was lying in his arms, drunk as a dream, far outside the door, the noise from the street was pouring into her ears. She laughed until the breath that belonged to a man was in front of her people.
The two breathed each other, she thought, she was probably crazy drunk.
"I heard you turned down a gentleman?" he asked.
"I have a prince in my heart, who is it?" he asked again.
Her eyelashes fluttered slightly. What is the use of knowing Langjun? With the river in the waist facing the sword, it is worth alluring gold. Fifteen is the leader, seventeen is a cavalry general, six is ββthe first rank, and the king sits on the bank of the river.
She was afraid that he would ask again, and wanted to distract him. She wanted to say that the business in this store was poor, so she needed to buy more wine to take care of the boss.
But from this, thought, this must be a dream, which restaurant can let its guests mess around here.
Neighbors, laughing.
The girl's breathing was closer than those.
The man's hot breath almost reached his lips, and Zhaozhao's whole body shook... She held her breath. She didn't know what to do, what to respond, clutching his shirt. Shen Ce looked at her trembling lips, as if her throat was burnt dry, which was worse than thirst after injury.
In the adjacent street, someone shouted that the king's boat had arrived.
In the bursts of cheers, the breathing of the girl below him became heavier... He rubbed her lips with his fingertips, and she was even more stimulated, and her breathing became faster and faster. The fleeting feeling, she couldn't see it, she couldn't be sure whether it was his finger just touched, or...
Shen Ce lay down beside her.
He looked at the night sky outside the door, and his vision was not as good as the grassland and desert next to Poyang Lake. He closed his eyes and wanted to take her to the desert by the Poyang Lake, where there is hot sand on the south of the Yangtze River, Zhaozhao would like the touch of stepping on it with bare feet.
Before dawn, she was woken up on the wine seller's recliner.
Shen Ce told her not to sleep, and held her hand, from the pre-Qin Baijia to the Han... As the day dawned, the man who was holding her hand became clear in front of her eyes. She was confused at first, then dissipated like a fog.
Zhaozhao held his hand and refused to let it go. He let her hold it. The two looked at each other and smiled. They really looked like a young couple in a restaurant.
Soon, a beautiful woman from Wuling County who was famous for her dance came to Chaisang.
She built a painting boat with her life savings, and only invited literati to board the boat, and she wrote poems and paintings to pay for the wine. Words gradually spread, and the beautiful woman came from afar to find Shen Lang. Shen Ce ignored it, and the beautiful woman sent the scroll to Shen's house.
Women in the South are free and easy, whoever they adore is who they adore, and everyone is happy to see a beauty with a hero. What's more, there are only two women who are good at dancing. One of them entered the palace early, and the other is only Shen Ce who can afford to marry. Yuanxi learned gossip every sentence, but she didn't answer, and when she saw Shen Ce didn't mention it, she didn't mention it. One day, when she went to the study, she saw a picture of the beautiful woman on Shen Ce's table.
"Brother, what is a spy?" She glanced at the picture scroll and asked him feintly.
In Shen Ce's eyes, there is a smile: "The army is in opposition."
She nodded: "I re-read Zuo Zhuan yesterday. There were female spies in the Xia Dynasty, and they were amazing."
Shen Ce rolled up the scroll and put it aside.
She thought that her brother was good at strategy and could see through it, but she didn't think that Shen Ce actually boarded someone's painting boat on the night of the Lantern Festival.
She has never seen outsiders and is in charge of foreign affairs, so she is afraid that Shen Ce will be mistaken by her beauty and forcibly board the ship.
Inside and outside the painting boat were the army of the Shen family. No one could stop Zhaozhao. She walked to the dance room with the wooden door closed. Two of the four generals stood outside the door. The two saw Zhaozhao coming and looked at each other. They were not familiar with Zhaozhao and wanted to ask Yu Rong from inside to explain.
The music was booming inside, and she hesitated whether to wait here or go in... Suddenly, "The Prince" was soft to the bone, she pushed the door open, and strode in.
Inside the screen, men and women lie on the couch embracing each other in the misty gauze.
The musicians played music as if they had never been seen before.
She was suffocated, turned around and left, and suddenly someone grabbed her wrist. The man clenched from her wrist and slid down, onto the back of her hand.
She just saw that there were two people standing behind the musician, both hidden in the dark.
One was Yu Rong, who couldn't help laughing and tried to keep his eyes from looking at the spring light behind the screen, but the person who pulled his hand and let him go to his side had bright eyes under the deep brow bone. It was Shen Ce.