Shen Chen then understood what Wei An meant.
This is a person who will not destroy the bridge after crossing the river, but also wants to avoid getting his feet wet.
But everyone has their own plans, so even if you think so, it's not wrong. He smiled, poured Wei An a cup of tea as usual, frowned, and asked, "Do you think I'm too scheming to be associated with?"
Now that he had been discovered, Wei An looked at the exquisite plum blossom frozen stone cup in his hand, and then looked at the chrysanthemums floating on it, floating up and down in the water, gradually blooming in the water, and becoming a bunch of blooming flowers in the water. He raised his eyebrows and asked bluntly: "Isn't it?"
She smiled, put down the cup in her hand and looked downstairs. She stood higher and could see farther, but the things she saw were not clear, and she could not even make out the faces of the people walking on the street.
After a moment, he continued, "As for the matter of the King of Chu, none of us owes anyone anything. You helped the Ming and Wei families a lot, that's true. But I also helped you a lot, so we're even."
She raised the corner of her mouth with a half-smile: "But I thought that since we have such a good relationship, you would not plot against me."
She is someone who won't cause trouble.
Children who have no one to rely on are always particularly timid. If Peng Caichen had not gone too far in her previous life, killing her entire family and stepping on her daughter's corpse to climb up, she would have been a hopeless person no matter where she went.
In this life, I also took advantage of the light from the previous life and started to open up at the age of ten.
But the number of times she went out to socialize could be counted on one hand, so how could she possibly offend Li Gui Niang
Even if such an unrelated person was really jealous of her because she was the daughter of a vassal king, it was limited. She knew all these princesses and princesses. She looked at them like cats and dogs. She would joke with them when she was happy, but she would not say bad things when she was unhappy. She would not take them seriously at all.
But Li Gui Niang was like a firecracker that suddenly lit up and held on to her alone and refused to let go.
No matter how she thought about it, she felt something was wrong. But when she met Xie Liangcheng and heard that Shen Chen had taken the lead in opening the betting market, she understood everything.
Princess Changying had set her sights on the Third Prince before. She was obviously a favorite of the Emperor and Empress. Since her daughter failed to marry the Third Prince, and Prince Linjiang submitted a petition to ask for a lady to marry his son, wouldn't Emperor Longqing have to keep the money within the family
However, this is a good thing for Princess Changying's Mansion, but it is definitely not a good thing for Prince Linjiang's Mansion. This is clearly a chess piece, a spy, something that is used specifically to hinder others.
The Linjiang Palace did not want this daughter-in-law, but it could not openly say no, so naturally it had to make plans elsewhere.
Now that the Peng family incident has become such a big deal, there is now a sufficient reason - with Li Gui Niang's upbringing, how could she be the princess of a local prince
If Li Gui Niang is allowed to enter the Linjiang Palace again, I am afraid that people below will talk about how unkind Emperor Longqing is as a brother.
Shen Chen sat down opposite her in silence, and after a while he sighed, "I'm really sorry."
Wei An sneered and shook his head.
In her previous life, she knew that Shen Chen was a treacherous person, and would never waste anything that could be put to use. But she thought that this life would be different - they had the same interests from the beginning, and together they eliminated Cao An, Cao Wen, and later the King of Chu.
But Shen Chen still plotted against her without informing her.
Did he think that she would not suffer any loss? Or did he think it would be better if she suffered a loss? If she suffered a loss, Li Gui Niang would be even more guilty in the eyes of the emperor and the queen
"If I say it wasn't me, would you believe me?"
Shen Chen's hand holding the cup gradually turned red. For some reason, he felt a little uncomfortable when he saw Wei An's expressionless face.
He treats Wei An as a friend.
This little girl helped him a lot the first time they met. She was calm and smart in the face of danger. He had been with her for such a long time, schemed against so many people, and also avoided being schemed against many times. How could there be no affection between them
He never thought of plotting against Wei An.
Wei An raised his eyebrows and looked at him. Seeing that his black pupils were staring at him motionlessly, as if they were falling into the sunlight in the sky, he lowered his head again.
Shen Chen stopped talking, and after a while he said with a sigh, "There won't be a next time."
The frost on Wei An's face faded a lot. Seeing his appearance, an idea went around in his mind. In the end, he asked, "Is it the prince?"
Shen Chen is not a person who hides his head and shows his tail. He did it and he did it.
In his previous life, because of his father's death, he wiped out the entire family of Pingxi Hou Shen Liang. He was not tolerated by the Shen family and was scolded as a heartless person, but he still didn't care.
If it was really him who instigated Li Gui Niang behind the scenes this time, he would not deny it.
Wei An understood after a little thought.
This was probably Chu Jingxing's idea.
Chu Jingxing is different from Chu Jingwu. Chu Jingwu grew up with Shen Chen and has always regarded Shen Chen as his biological brother. But Chu Jingxing probably regards Shen Chen as someone who came to steal things.
At the end of the previous life, when King Linjiang was about to capture Jinling, Chu Jingxing still took the opportunity to get rid of Shen Chen. It can be seen that Chu Jingxing really has no feelings for this adopted brother.
Shen Chen didn't say anything. The tea in the frozen stone cup in front of him was still steaming.
Wei An's anger suddenly dissipated.
She remembered that Shen Chen knelt in front of his mother's grave for an entire night. He was such a ruthless man. She had sold intelligence to him so many times, but this was the only time she had seen him lose his composure.
This person looks the most cruel and cold-blooded, but in fact he values friendship more than anyone else.
If Chu Jingxing really wanted to kill him, he probably wouldn't have many complaints.
Shen Chen didn't say anything, so Wei An didn't say anything more. He sat with him for a while before looking up at him: "If there is one, there will be two..."
There are some things that smart people don't need to point out. After she said this, she didn't say anything more. She just took the cup and drank the tea in one go, then smiled and said, "I was just joking. I believe you."
Shen Chen smiled, which was rare. His already bright eyes became even brighter now. He raised the corners of his mouth and returned to his usual state. He took out a very small long and flat box from his sleeve pocket and pushed it to her: "Here, this is a thank-you gift for you."
Wei An didn't want to take it, but after thinking about it, he still reached out and took it, and asked him: "What is it?"
"You'll know when you open it." Shen Chen reached out to open it, and took out a round-headed white jade hairpin. He pressed his finger lightly on the head of the hairpin, and the hairpin body actually bounced open, and a thin needle shot out.
"I got these strange skills from the martial arts world." Shen Chen smiled and said, "I'll give them to you for self-defense."