Chapter XXVIII
When I returned to Zhou's house, Shang Wen was playing chess with my father in the study, I didn't want to say more, so I just went over to ask for a good man and went straight to the room.
"Why did you come back so late, your father and monk have been waiting for you to come back for dinner." My mother saw that my face was wrong, and she followed me all the way.
"The carriage that the Queen Mother arranged to take me home broke down, so I walked back by myself."
"You kid, how can the carriage break so easily, you must be playing crazy again."
"Mother, I'm a little tired, can I leave the big things for tomorrow?" I stopped and said to my mother with an unusually tired expression. Now I just want to go back to my room and sort out everything properly.
"Okay, then I'll have someone bring you dinner." My mother hesitated for a moment and then replied to me with a worried face, in fact, looking at my mother's expression now, I knew that she had something to say to me, but now I really just want to be quiet.
"I don't want to eat, you better go and ask Sandalwood to help me prepare the bath water, I want to take a hot bath and rest."
"Okay, it's just Shang Gongzi's side." The mother wanted to speak and stopped.
"I know it all, I'll talk to you tomorrow, okay?"
"You know everything?" My mother looked at me distrustfully and asked.
"Well, it's all there." I nodded, I didn't know what my mother wanted to say to me, so I just hoped to send her away as soon as possible.
"Then you rest for a while, and my mother will let Sandalwood prepare immediately."
"Well, my mother also told my father by the way, and said that my daughter was unwell and went to sleep first."
"Okay."
In fact, from the first time I came to Zhou's mansion to see my mother's relatives, I saw a worried look in her eyes, it was a kind of sadness that hit my heart deeply, I knew that what my mother wanted to say to me today would not be small.
After taking a shower, I let Sandalwood send everyone out, and in the end it was just me, and it felt like the whole world was quiet.
In the afternoon, the things in Shangshufu have been replaying in my mind, and after seeing the earrings, I knew that the person in the painting was the queen of the dynasty, my own sister Emperor E.
It seems that there must have been something between my sister and Shangwen that I don't know. Since it can be determined that my sister has a relationship with Shangwen, then the original guqin, kidnapping, engagement, framing and other things make sense. I know that the Queen Mother is definitely not pure in these things, but what kind of role does my sister play in this?
I held on to keep myself from sleeping, and I knew he would come back.
Sure enough, just after the hour, Shang Wen appeared in my room, it seems that I still understand him quite well, and when Shang Wen walked to my bed, I slowly sat up.
"Didn't sleep?" He didn't seem surprised at all when he saw me sit up.
"Hmm."
"You know I'm coming?"
"Hmm."
"You left the roses in the study?"
"Hmm."
"You know everything?"
"I know, I don't know."
"I like your sister, a long, long time ago." After being silent for a long time, Shang Wen said this sentence softly.
In fact, the moment I saw the painting, I guessed it, but when these words really came out of Shang Wen's mouth, I still felt inexplicably uncomfortable. It turns out that everything in the past is just my infatuation and mistake.
"Hmm." I tried to make my voice sound the same as usual.
"You don't blame me?"
"Why should I blame you?" You don't like me, I already know it, and where do you blame it.
"I lied to you."
"I know."
"You don't want to know why I lied to you?"
"No need, tomorrow I will find my father to withdraw from our marriage."
"No need, the emperor has issued an order this morning to abolish the marriage contract between the eldest prince of Shangfu and the second miss of Zhoufu, and on the first day of the first month, I will marry the niece of the queen mother, Ruyi Gege, as his wife."
So that's the case, I said how my mother looked like she wanted to talk today, and so did Sandalwood, who had been avoiding me, and it seemed that she was worried that this would make me sad.
"In that case, Master Shang, please go back."
I said this word by word, and then quickly lay down with my back to Shang Wen, although I still have a lot of questions now, although I want to know everything, although the current hazy truth is very annoying, but the tears in the corners of my eyes do not allow me to continue to ask.
That's it, what can I do if I know or don't know, in my previous life, am I still not living well enough?
"Min'er......" Shang Wen's voice came from behind him.
"Master Shang, please go back."
"Min'er, I'm sorry......"
I didn't answer, Shangwen didn't speak again, and the only sound left in the room was my small sobs. Maybe I was tired from crying, and it didn't take long for me to fall asleep.
When I woke up again, it was already noon, probably because I was in a bad mood, my mother didn't urge me to get up this morning, but now I'm not a little girl, how can I be stumped by this ethereal love. That's it, at least I still have my family, and after figuring it out, I stretched out and got out of bed.
Shang Wen left me a letter on the table, along with the white jade chess I gave him at the beginning. The chess pieces are black and white, and the black ones are in my hands.
"Master Shang, do you still like this gift?"
"I like it, as long as it's given by the second lady, Shang likes it."
The past is still vivid, and now that he has sent this white son back, it is really ironic.
I took a deep breath and took the letter from the table, maybe he would actually leave something I wanted to know.