"Mr. Shen, no, Madam Shen, do you have anything else to say?"
Shen Tang stood there in a daze.
The mind and brain are completely empty.
I never expected that Mr. Gu would be the first to notice it.
but-
She felt she could still struggle.
"Mrs. Shen? Mr. Gu thinks I'm a woman? A woman with a literary heart? Don't you think this story is too absurd? Even the folk tales wouldn't dare to make up such a story!"
Before she had accumulated enough strength, a woman who was generally recognized as incapable of both literary and martial arts had literary talents. Whether she was regarded as a model of curiosity or an ominous sign, it was a disaster for her. It would be fine if Qi Shan and the others knew about it. She had never concealed it, and even guessed when they would discover the truth, but it was not the case with Mr. Gu in front of her.
If he knew—
Shen Tang could only give him a sword, the sooner he died the sooner he would be reborn!
Mr. Gu stroked his fan leisurely and smiled, taking a sip of Lanling wine: "Absurd? Before the thief star came to the world, who knew that there would be literary and military courage, and that verbal criticism and writing would become reality? In this absurd world, no matter what bizarre events happen, they are not absurd."
Shen Tang said coldly: "Mr. Gu, you are wrong."
Mr. Gu pointed at Wu Ling, who was still recovering from the kick, and said, "Do you know this person? Why does he only have one ear?"
"I'm not interested in knowing."
"She tried to murder you during her exile, but you took advantage of the situation and escaped with your spirit of words. The escort officers mistook her for your accomplice. Since there was one person missing and they couldn't explain to the people in Xiaocheng, they cut off her ear to impersonate you. Therefore, during the previous investigation, we received the news that the eldest lady of the Shen family had passed away. Tell me, am I right or wrong?"
Shen Tang had a blank expression on his face: "Nonsense."
Mr. Gu softened his expression and guided me: "Don't be so cautious. I have no ill intentions. You are the most interesting person I have met in all these years. If you were the eldest lady of the Shen family, there would be no conflict of interest between you and me. Why would I harm you?"
Shen Tang sneered, "I know how suspicious people are. The smarter they are, the more suspicious they are. You assert that I am the eldest lady of the Shen family just based on the 'dowry' you mentioned. Why are you going through so much trouble? Once you take off your clothes, won't you know everything? It's really boring and a waste of time to keep guessing here."
The blade of the sword in his hand was against his neck.
"Mr. Gu, do you have the courage to make a bet with me?"
"What's the bet?"
Shen Tang did not tell the content of the bet. She first told the stakes, with a chilling coldness on her face. She spoke each word with a pause, as if a judge was whispering in her ear: "If I win the bet, I want your head."
"What if I win?"
"If Mr. Gu wins, come and take my life if you dare. But this possibility seems unlikely, after all, it is Mr. Gu who has the sword hanging on his neck, not me." Shen Tang smiled, "I have one thing I don't understand, I wonder if you can explain it to me?"
Mr. Gu's eyelids trembled: "You ask."
"In fact, your mind reading is not a word spirit at all, but your 'Scholar's Way', right? Does that Weng Zhi know about it?"
Eavesdropping on thoughts with words and reading minds as the "Scholar's Way" are two completely different concepts. The former is just a compulsory course that every strategist must take, but the latter is a cancer that everyone fears.
Mr. Gu: “…”
Even though the sword was hanging on his neck, his face turned pale, and red threads started from the corners of his eyes, almost covering his entire eye sockets. Looking at this expression, Shen Tang had discovered the truth.
"Before you and I make this bet, I have to settle an old account."
She threw the sword behind her without looking back.
With a thud, the sword sank into the wooden floor.
He just happened to stop the dancer who was trying to sneak away with her hands covering her shoulders. The other musicians had already been frightened by the incident and fled in all directions.
"where did you go?"
Shen Tang stood up, looked back, and approached Wu Ling with a faint smile.
As she took a step closer, Wu Ling took a step back with her hands on the ground. The hatred that had previously made her want to tear Shen Tang's face apart had long been replaced by fear. The grudges she had experienced on the way to exile came to her mind, and she trembled and shook her head to beg for mercy: "You, please let me go, I was wrong—"
Shen Tang tilted his head: "You said you were wrong?"
“Yes, yes, yes, yes—” He nodded rapidly.
"An apology spoken after causing harm stinks more than maggots in a toilet. Are you the dowry of the eldest lady of the Shen family? That's ridiculous! Then how could you have the heart to hurt someone?"
When Wu Ling heard this, her anger temporarily overwhelmed her fear.
She raised her voice and said, "Why not? What do you have to question me? Do you really think you are from a noble family? You are not a lady! You are just a fool, a madman whose origin is unknown! You, you can speak, but you are a man?"
After a pause, she cleared her guilty conscience and said confidently, "So what if I am a dowry? If Madam Shen had not married into the Gong family, I would not have been implicated and sold as an inferior..."
The experience of more than a month on the road of exile was a nightmare!
She held her head in agony, memories flashing through her mind.
What followed was a roar full of hatred.
She wanted to bite off the flesh and blood of the Shen family lady and swallow it in her dreams. The Shen family was exterminated, and it was the nine clans of the Shen family that were exterminated. What did it have to do with a servant like her
If she hadn't married into the Gong family, she wouldn't have encountered all this!
Why couldn't she retaliate
Besides, she was only taking revenge on a fool.
She is not the real Miss Shen.
Did she do anything wrong
Shen Tang: “…???”
Mr. Gu, who thought he had won, said: "...???"
The air in the private room was quiet, with only the dancer's heavy breathing due to fear being heard.
Shen Tang rubbed his swollen temples, sighed and asked Mr. Gu: "Sir, do you still want to participate in the bet just now?"
Mr. Gu said indifferently: "No."
Shen Tang: "I think so too, then forget it."
What kind of shit is this? (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
Mr. Gu stood up, pointed at Shen Tang and asked Wu Ling: "Since the person you framed on the way to exile was this Mr. Shen, and he got away successfully, then where did the real Miss Shen go?"
Shen Tang: “…”
Good job!
She became Shen Lang again. The scholar's expression changes faster than turning the pages of a book.
Mr. Gu followed the orders of the groom and conducted an in-depth investigation into Shen Tang's identity. In addition to the necessary surveillance, he also had to trace the source. He personally came to the Jiaofang, endured the headache, listened to the inner thoughts of the dancers among the countless noisy voices, and took out a lot of words.
Unexpectedly, misunderstanding still occurred.
Shen Tang was indeed in the exile team of Gong family, and was also known as the eldest lady of Shen family, but she was dressed as a woman, and was suspected of playing a person with mental problems, so she was retaliated by the dowry dancers. Finally, Shen Lang seized the opportunity and successfully escaped to Xiaocheng.
The logic is indeed sound.
The dancer refused to answer.
Shen Tang put a sword to her throat, drawing a thread of blood.
"explain!"
Wu Ling collapsed under the pressure of murderous intent and told what she knew.
The eldest lady of the Shen family disappeared before her marriage and her whereabouts were unknown. Later, Shen Tang appeared. Everyone said that the eldest lady Shen accidentally fell into the water and hit her head. She became stupid and ignorant.
As the wedding date approached, the matter was suppressed.
Outsiders may not know, but how could the personal servant not recognize it
As for Shen Tang—
Wu Ling trembled and said: "Coffin..."
Mr. Gu didn't hear clearly: "What?"
"I heard from the servants guarding the corner gate in the backyard that one night, a very strange coffin was brought back. The person lying inside looked about 60% like Madam Shen. If she dressed up, she would look exactly like her."
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