After Gao married the prince, the sick and weak concubine lost her horse

Chapter 174: Showing Weakness 174
This is really a narrow road for enemies.

As soon as this person was mentioned, Shen Qingci immediately thought of the situation of being drugged by him in that house before.

Although he didn't succeed in the end, Shen Qingci felt humiliated and angry when he thought of this scene.

She subconsciously clenched her fists.

However, now is not the time to confront these people head-on.

Shen Qingci sat back to his original place, and his face quickly regained his composure.

She raised her hand to open the curtain of the carriage, only to see that the people on both sides met at the intersection of Baifu Street.

Although the road is wide, but because there are a lot of people on both sides, and they didn't avoid it in time, one turned east and the other went west, and they met head-on at this intersection.

The streets were crowded with people watching the excitement.

Qingyun turned his head, moved closer to the curtain of the carriage, lowered his voice and said: "Master, do you want to let me go?"

When Qingyun asked this sentence, the driver of the other party had already raised the reins, obviously not intending to get out of the way.

Yang Jiong, Sheng Tingjing's personal guard, was leaning against the side of the carriage with his sword in his arms, and he didn't seem to be going forward to salute. Obviously, he was instructed by his master. We will have to see Sheng Tingye's reaction.

Sheng Tingye narrowed his eyes slightly, and was about to speak when Shen Qingci suddenly tugged at his arm.

She blinked her eyes: "My lord, it won't matter if you let them go."

There was a playful smile on her face, and a calculating light flashed in her eyes.

She was already extremely beautiful, but today she deliberately dressed up when she came home, and this sly smile made her even more glamorous and unparalleled.

It is so beautiful that people can't take their eyes off it.

Sheng Tingye was dazed for that moment, but it was only for a moment, before Shen Qingci could even see it, he returned to his usual indifference and alienation.

Seeing Shen Qingci's expression, and thinking about her words, Sheng Tingye immediately understood.

He turned his head and told Qingyun: "Let."

As soon as this remark came out, even Qing Yun outside was a little surprised.

Master let go so easily?
Although he was puzzled, Qingyun did not dare to question or disobey Sheng Tingye's order.

He just came to his senses, raised the reins, and heard Shen Qingci say again: "Let, the wider the better, it's best for us to hide by the side of the road."

Qingyun didn't know why, but he did it anyway.

Only then did they avoid the driver, and Wang An and his party immediately followed them head-on, not to mention the driver, and even the guards who followed were all arrogant as if they were victorious roosters.

When King An's carriage occupied most of the street and rubbed shoulders with Sheng Tingye's carriage, Sheng Tingjing slowly opened the curtain and greeted the opposite carriage: "The third brother can accompany the third younger sister back to the door, it can be seen My body is much better."

Sheng Tingye didn't even raise the curtains of the car for his strange ambiguity, and only let Qingyun reply: "If you go back to King An, my master is in poor health and can't stand the wind. Please forgive me, King An."

This is to make it clear that I don't want to talk to him.

Wang An was not annoyed by being slapped in public, he smiled slightly, and put down the curtain, originally wanting to show his magnanimity in public.

But unexpectedly, it was said here that Sheng Tingye couldn't stand the wind, and Shen Qingci had already raised the corner of the curtain on the other side of the carriage facing the street, just enough for passers-by to glimpse the scene inside the carriage.

In just a split second, there were exclamations everywhere.

"Oh my god! Princess Ning is as beautiful as a fairy!"

"Prince Ning is also handsome and extraordinary, astonishing as a heavenly man!"

"The two of them are a match made in heaven!"

……

Because of these exclamations, more and more people approached where their carriage was, just to witness the demeanor of the two of them.

Of course, there are also many whispering discussions about the two of them being weak, seriously ill, seriously injured, and regretful.

Of course Shen Qingci didn't care.

She also deliberately made a gesture and inadvertently opened the curtain a little bit.

Because they wanted to avoid Sheng Tingjing and his party, their carriage moved as close to the side of the road as possible, keeping within walking distance of the pedestrians on both sides.

Before the curtain was raised, Shen Qingci had already burst into tears.

Her eyes were red, half terrified, half choked up and said: "My lord, second brother won't still be angry with you over the Jiangbei ink corruption case, right?"

"You also handled it impartially, petitioning for the people, and you were assassinated and seriously injured and almost lost your life. Who told them Zhang's family..."

The exclamations and whispers in the surrounding area have already stopped because of Shen Qingci's opening, and almost all the people held their breath, and pricked up their ears to listen to the pair of fairy-like figures who walked out of a picture scroll inside. dialogue.

But Shen Qing was only halfway through his speech when he choked up, looking as if he couldn't continue speaking.

At this time, Sheng Tingye coughed dryly and said weakly: "Second brother has a bad temper, it doesn't matter if we let him go."

The voices of the two were "not loud", but it was enough for the people nearby to watch with their ears pricked up to hear clearly.

As soon as this remark came out, there was a gasp in the air.

In the past few days, the Jiangbei ink corruption case has been raging.

The third prince Sheng Tingye and Lin Yue secretly went to Jiangbei for a thorough investigation, and immediately involved more than a dozen officials from the household department, among them were many members of the Zhang family, one of the four major families.

Due to the fact that the relief funds were not received in time due to corruption, it is unknown how many people died.

In the Jiangbei area, it almost aroused public outrage.

Even in Kyoto, thousands of miles away from Jiangbei, people complained about this matter.

At the beginning, only some people around the carriage of King Ning's Mansion heard it.

But soon, one pass ten, ten pass one hundred.

But after a while, the people in Prince An's Mansion hadn't walked out of the street, and the eyes of the people around them all changed.

"Meeting on a narrow road" just now, Prince An's Mansion also "runs" the carriage of Prince Ning's Mansion, Shen Qingci's "dialogue" with Sheng Tingye, plus Sheng Tingye's last sentence "Second brother has a bad temper, it doesn't matter if we let him some."

For a while, words such as narrow-mindedness, hatred, arrogance, bullying siblings... were all posted on An Wang Sheng Tingjing's head.

It turns out that three people become tigers, and people's words are formidable.

What's more, there are too many people on Baifu Street who "witnessed" and heard "with their own ears".

Coupled with the public anger aroused by the Jiangbei ink corruption case, Sheng Tingjing never imagined that his reputation, which he had painstakingly managed for decades, would be completely ruined in just a short moment.

On the other hand, Sheng Tingye's side was originally famous, but now because of his uprightness and standing up for the people, he was plotted to be assassinated, seriously injured and almost lost his life, which won a lot of applause.

The carriage of Prince Ning's Mansion just avoided the carriage of Prince An's Mansion, and everyone was distressed and unwilling to see it.

I feel sorry for his efforts and concessions, but I am not willing to let such a good prince be bullied to such an extent.

For a while, as King An's reputation plummeted, King Ning's status in the hearts of the people rose even higher.

Of course, this is something.

And all of this is due to the small "action" of Shen Qingci and Sheng Tingye.

The team from Prince An's Mansion had already passed by, and as the curtain of the carriage was lowered to block the prying eyes from outside, the grievance and tears in Shen Qingci's eyes faded instantly.

Thinking of Sheng Tingye's last sentence "the finishing touch", she was about to say that she couldn't tell that Sheng Tingye was quite good at acting.

Unexpectedly, when she turned her head, she saw that the other party was looking at her with a half-smile.

"The princess is good at acting."

Good means, good calculation.

Just a few words can have the effect of four or two.

The moment Qingyun asked her a question, she thought of a countermeasure, and cleverly used the current situation to arouse the emotions of the people.

Although Sheng Tingye knew that she was extremely intelligent, this time it still surprised him a little.

The smile on the corner of his mouth just broke out, and the piercing pain broke out from the tip of his heart in an instant.

Sheng Tingye's smile turned cold instantly.

And this expression naturally had another meaning in Shen Qingci's eyes.

Although he was smiling, this smile immediately reminded Shen Qingci of the first time they were in the Jiang family's cemetery, she played a terminally ill country girl to perfection in order to save her life.

Shen Qingci's scalp was a little numb, fearing that he would settle accounts after the autumn, he smiled brightly: "The prince is even more powerful, how can I dare to use an ax in front of the prince with my petty skills."

Fearing that Sheng Tingye would continue this topic, Shen Qingci quickly changed the subject and said, "By the way, I don't know how Mr. Lin is doing now?"

Thinking of Zhao Miaosheng's rabbit-like eyes, Shen Qingci couldn't help but sigh.

Sheng Tingye saw her expression in his eyes, he closed his eyes, and there was no trace of joy or anger in his cold tone.

"You care about him?"

Hearing this, Shen Qingci didn't even think about it, and said casually: "Of course."

As soon as the words fell, Shen Qingci suddenly felt that Sheng Tingye's gaze on her was a little cold.

She suddenly felt a chill.

Although she didn't know why, she turned her head to look at Sheng Tingye, and subconsciously added: "He is also in our camp, right?"

As soon as the words fell, the people around him clearly didn't move at all, even the way they looked at her didn't change.

But Shen Qingci inexplicably felt a sense of oppression.

At that moment, Shen Qingci's mind turned quickly, trying hard to recall which sentence he said was wrong.

But she thought about it seriously, and she didn't think there was anything wrong. It couldn't be that he didn't regard her as one of his camp now, right?

That's why you feel disgusted and conflicted when you hear this?
After struggling again and again, Shen Qingci said tentatively: "My lord, you, me, aren't we together?"

What she wanted to say was, aren't they now grasshoppers tied to a boat and tied to a rope?

But when he thought that after hearing this, he might feel that she was vulgar again, so Shen Qing dismissed her and chose the next best thing, using this euphemism.

And these words stepped on Sheng Tingye's heart.

Are they together?
of course.

The hostility and coldness around him faded instantly, and even the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise slightly.

However, at the same time, the bone-piercing pain immediately spread from the heart.

The smile on the corner of Sheng Tingye's mouth has not yet opened, he pursed his thin lips lightly, and said with a self-deceiving coldness: "Who wants to be with you?"

Shen Qingci, who was suddenly dumped with a cold face: "..."

She felt that there was something wrong with the expression of what she said just now, which made him misunderstand?

Thinking that he might have misunderstood, or even mistakenly thought that he had that kind of thoughts on him, Shen Qingci's brain buzzed, almost exploding.

She turned her head to explain, but the carriage stopped at this moment.

Qing Yun, who was driving in front, reached the edge of the curtain and respectfully said: "My lord, my concubine, the Shen residence is here."

(End of this chapter)