Chapter 12 Closing the Deal
Although my father and eldest sister tried their best to cover up my kidnapping, the news of Miss Zhou's disappearance spread all over Shengjing within a day, as if someone was deliberately behind it. For a while, the whole capital was frantically speculating about the fact of Miss Tuesday's disappearance, and as for the major teahouses, it was even more lively, with all kinds of rumors such as "Miss Tuesday eloped with someone", "Miss Tuesday was kidnapped by robbers", "Miss Tuesday died a long time ago", "Miss Tuesday disappeared for more than three days", etc......
On the one hand, Zhou Fu's anxious father and mother, and on the other hand, I am imprisoned to the point that I have no love, what is this Shang Dagongzi for?
Since the death of Qianxun, Shang Wen has been living in a simple place, and has not done anything except chanting poetry and painting, and even Lord Shang of Shangshu Mansion has already claimed that the lord is located in the second son Shang Yan. Is this Shangwen eyeing me now just because I look like Chihiro?
Anyway, in the three days that I was confined, I finally figured out something, that is, this kidnapping incident must not be Shang Wen's own doing, I'm afraid that the help of Wu Wangfu is indispensable behind this, who will it be? Li Yu or my eldest sister?
I don't know Li Yu, the only time we met was when he was drunk, I guess he forgot about it after he woke up, but I am the eldest sister and sister, what reason does she have to harm me? But under the pretense of using the eldest sister's birth as bait, and having the guards of the Wu Mansion to lead the way, this must not be something that others outside the Wu Mansion can do.
I hammered my head and looked around again. During the three days I was imprisoned, I was constantly thinking about how to get out, but without exception, I couldn't find any way to do it. Because Shang Wen directly imprisoned me in a private cell in Shangshu Mansion, even if Sandalwood knew that I was kidnapped in the palace, my father would definitely not find me, who would reveal that he had a private cell clock? And Wu Wangfu, it is estimated that he opened the mansion early to inspect and prove his innocence. In short, it doesn't matter how much it counts, this dumb man is all settled by my Zhou family.
"Miss Tuesday is really bold, it's all at this time, and she can still look so stable." I looked up and saw Shang Wen standing at the entrance of the cell with his hands behind his back, and behind him was a maidservant with a drinking utensil, and it seemed that he wanted to talk to me this time. In the past twenty years of my previous life, I Zhou Min had never seen any scenes, so how could I be unstable because of the disaster of a single prison.
"Master Shang said with a smile, if you don't come again, I'm afraid the little girl won't be able to sit still." It was the first time Shang Wen had appeared in this cell since he entered the cell, which made me think that he had forgotten about me.
"Shang came this time to ask Miss Tuesday, how did you think about the last time?" Sure enough, Shang Wen still didn't give up the idea of getting engaged to me, what was it for, so that Shang Wen did not hesitate to use kidnapping to force me to comply.
"It's okay to get engaged, but you have to promise me one condition, that is, I must know the reason why you are in a hurry to get engaged to me this time." Thirty-six strategies, taking is the best policy, since you can't go, you can only use the strategy of delaying the army. I pretended to accede to Shangwen's request.
"Put the stuff on the table first, and then stand down." Shang Wen shook his hand and dismissed the maidservant behind him, and after opening the cell door for me, he sat down at the table and poured the wine.
There was nothing to say for a while, I sat down and took a sip of my glass, my throat instantly flooded with a burning pain, I frowned slightly, and then coughed violently, it seemed that a whole century had passed since the last time I drank.
"Miss Tuesday is the first time to drink a bar." Looking at me coughing, a trace of worry suddenly flashed between Shang Wen's eyebrows, but he was pressed down in an instant, and continued to return to his original lonely eyebrows.
"Sort of." After I was reborn, I had long forgotten the taste of wine, I never thought about it so spicy, I still remember when Li Yu just died, and I always thought that the wine was not strong enough, and I thought it was because my heart was destroyed at the beginning.
"If you can't drink it, don't drink it, I didn't ask you to drink with me, I wanted to negotiate a deal with Miss Tuesday."
"What a deal."
"You promised to be engaged to me, and in three years I will help you ascend to the throne." The moment Shang Wen said the conditions, I was stunned.
"Why?" I got up and poured myself a glass of wine.
"For the sake of your eldest sister, I believe that with Miss Tuesday's intelligence, she has already guessed one or two of what happened before, but there is no evidence, and now I can clearly tell you that the person behind me is your eldest sister, as for the rest, I can't tell you, and you will naturally understand it in the future." I looked at Shang Wen, I don't know why, at that moment I actually chose to believe it without hesitation.
"Okay, please prepare the matchmaker dowry gift, and we'll see you in Zhou's mansion." I picked up the wine glass in front of me, said word by word to Shang Wen, and then drank the wine in my hand.
"It's a deal."
Subsequently, I went to the outside of the city under Shang Wen's arrangement, in order to avoid suspicion, I needed to cooperate with him to play a story of a hero saving the beauty outside the city, and then informed the world that the second lady of the Zhou Mansion was tied up by the enemy of the royal mansion, and was rescued by the eldest son of the Shang family on the way to transfer, so that Shang Wen not only has a reason to propose marriage, but also has the reputation of a hero to save the beauty, and our story will also be widely praised and become a beautiful story in Shengjing, Shang Wen is really good-hearted.
The carriage carried me out of the city, and I knew that what was going to happen next would be enough to change my life.