Pei Shu didn't speak, and what echoed in the room was always Chen Ying's quiet voice like water.

"In this world, it is said that men should have ambitions, but no one has ever given women the opportunity to realize their ambitions. Now what I want to do is work hard for my ambition. Her voice grew low, as if to herself: "Maybe this road is not an inch, or there is no such road in this world." And all I can do is go wherever I can. ”

The last ten words seemed to have exhausted all of Chen Ying's strength, she quietly closed her voice, with a strange smile on her clean face, and looked at Pei Shu like this, as if she was waiting for his answer.

Or rather, it was waiting for his refusal.

She couldn't expect the men of the Great Chu Dynasty to understand her dream, but she didn't want to decorate it with lies.

When confronted with criminals or the truth, she does frequently use trickery and use some tricks to get the information she wants.

Only dreams and beliefs cannot be disappointed.

Therefore, she told Pei Shu the truth, including those thoughts and thoughts that seemed crazy in this era.

She wasn't afraid to be taken for a madman.

An eccentric woman who can get the gold medal of the Imperial Detective is originally different from most people in this era.

The room was suffocatingly quiet.

The north wind gently rolled up the curtain and sent the fine snow and fragrant fragrance into the room, and although the cold breath was pleasant, it could not sweep away the heavy atmosphere.

Pei Shu always sat silently, bowing his eyebrows and bowing his head, like an old monk in a trance.

He was silent for so long that Chen Ying even wondered if he had heard her words.

Fortunately, after a long wait, Pei Shu finally opened his mouth, and the first sentence he said negated Chen Ying's guess.

"I think I can help you." His voice was still hoarse, but the grief was gone, replaced by a strange sense of relief: "I want to take the lead, and I want to run for it." However, I am afraid that those specific matters will still be decided by the third master, because, in a month, I may have to leave. ”

Chen Ying looked at him for a moment and exhaled silently.

At this moment, she was as relieved as he was.

"Thank you, little marquis." She stood up and solemnly bowed to him with a woman's courtesy.

Dressed in arrow sleeves, she performed such a woman's ceremony, which was really weird, Pei Shu couldn't help but pull the corners of her lips, revealing a funny look: "That's it, I owe you too much favor, I have to pay it back." ”

Chen Ying stood up straight, with a solemn expression: "A little favor is not enough to repay the high righteousness of the little marquis." In the future, if the little marquis needs my Chen Ying's help, please speak, I dare not disobey. ”

When Pei Shu heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned.

He looked at Chen Ying for a while, opened his mouth to say something, but stopped, and the expression on his face suddenly became extremely strange.

After a full minute, he finally opened his lips, and his voice was as mellow as old wine, as if the room was full of mist.

"It's a deal." He spit out these four words and smiled at Chen Ying.

This is the second time Chen Ying has seen him laugh like this, and the last time he laughed like this was when the maze of Devil Crying Ridge was first broken.

"Thank you, little marquis." She also smiled back, thanked her again, and then took off her robe and returned to her seat, raised her hand and swept her sideburns casually, and said: "Originally, I just wanted to ask the little marquis to come forward and make a start, but now the situation in Jinan Mansion makes me a little worried." ”

Although she stays at home these days, she can still feel that the local atmosphere in Jinan is relatively closed, and the rules for young women are stricter than elsewhere.

It is precisely because of this that she put things off until now, and gave up her plan to ask Guo Wan to come forward.

Guo Wan's identity is special enough, and Chen Ying doesn't want to bring her too much trouble. When the situation stabilizes, perhaps they can seek cooperation again.

Although Pei Shu didn't understand Chen Ying's meaning, he also knew that it was not easy to implement such a thing that had never happened since the beginning of the world.

"I wonder if the little marquis can tell His Royal Highness the Crown Prince that I am willing to help resettle the displaced people?" Chen Ying bluntly said his own method, picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea: "I think that if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince helps from the side, at least this shelter can be run." ”

As for the girls' school, if it really doesn't work, you can put it aside for the time being, anyway, it's just a name, and teaching can also be carried out in the shelter.

Pei Shu didn't speak, only held the teacup and drank tea, his eyebrows locked.

Chen Ying knew that this matter was not easy, and continued: "There are a lot of displaced people in Dengzhou Prefecture, and it should be difficult to complete the resettlement in a short period of time. Even if they were to be repatriated to their hometowns, a considerable number of them would have nowhere to be resettled. After all, it is difficult to say whether the fields that have been abandoned for many years can be replanted. And if these homeless people have nowhere to go, then the end of the Dengzhou Mansion ink corruption case will be a little not very good. What if they return to Shandong next year to beg for food? Is it still up to the imperial court to continue to allocate funds? ”

This is a temporary countermeasure she came up with after hearing that Pei Shu had made an appointment and that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was still stranded in Jinan.

She didn't have a lot of money on hand, but it was enough to cover the cost of the first phase of the school and the shelter. And as long as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is willing to endorse her, why worry that she can't find a way to make money?

There is a lot of abandoned land in the suburbs of Jinan, and she doesn't ask for much, as long as she can allocate dozens of acres, plus the 20,000 taels she earned, with the price of the Great Chu Dynasty, she thinks it can meet the needs for a considerable period of time.

"There is also abandoned land around Jinan Mansion, and I have asked my uncle about this. If I can set aside some fields for the displaced women and children to cultivate, I can help resettle more displaced people. Chen Ying said again.

She believes that knowledge is power, and knowledge can also be exchanged for food and money, as long as time passes, these women of the Great Chu Dynasty will be able to open up their own road to self-reliance, and then feed back to the "Women's Federation" and girls' schools.

"Your Highness, please...... Maybe. Pei Shu's voice suddenly sounded, interrupting Chen Ying's thoughts.

She looked at him, but saw that he had walked to the red clay stove at some point, and was idly fiddling with the charcoal fire in the furnace, and his voice was a little lazy: "Those homeless people are indeed numerous, and at least half of them have not had time to return to their hometowns, and now the weather is too cold for them to set off, and most of them have nothing, even if they return to their hometowns, let alone food and clothing, it is a fluke not to starve to death." ”