This time it was Chu Yao's turn to laugh out loud.
While fanning himself with a palm-leaf fan to cool off, he laughed wantonly, "Qi Yuanliang, you actually let a kid of eleven or twelve trick you into believing something?"
Qi Shan glared at Chu Yao unhappily, his eyes hinting at a threat, but unfortunately Chu Yao was not afraid of him at all and just kept laughing at him.
"Mr. Shen, who did you meet outside?"
The eye threat didn't work, so Qi Shan decisively changed the subject.
Shen Tang said: "A man named Gu."
Qi Shan waited for her to describe it in detail, but all he got was nonsense.
Chu Yao had come to interfere and joined in the discussion, saying, "Gu, male or female?"
Shen Tang understood the elegant meaning of the music and immediately joined in the teasing.
"Ah, can an old lover be a man?"
Chu Yao teased, "Well, it's hard to say. The fact that Xianggu Pavilion like Yuehua Tower has been doing a prosperous business and making a lot of money for many years shows that this trend is still very popular nowadays. Qi Yuanliang's reputation as a playboy in his youth, what if..."
Shen Tang smacked his lips: "He really is a man."
Chu Yao ignored Qi Shan's expression as he wanted to put the half-woven bamboo strips upside down on his head and continued to act stupidly: "What does that person look like?"
Qi Shan spoke up to interrupt the double act between the master and servant.
He said firmly: "Nothing will happen!"
Shen Tang and the other two did not dare to tease too much, lest they really piss him off. Chu Yao continued to wave his palm-leaf fan, urging the little fat boy to continue practicing, but his ears pricked up secretly, and most of his attention was on Shen Tang and Qi Shan. Qi Shan said, "Tell me, who is it?"
Shen Tang: "I really don't know his name."
Qi Shan was both angry and amused, his teeth itching: "I don't know his real name, only his last name, how can you just say he's my 'old lover'?"
"It was the gentleman in Yuehua Tower, the scholar who hid Gong Cheng with the waiter. He said he knew your 'scholar's way', and there was a hint of alienation in his words. If he was not your old lover, then he was your enemy or rival. Otherwise, how could he know so much? Okay, I was wrong too. I used the term old lover incorrectly."
Qi Shan's expression suddenly changed.
"My 'Scribe's Way'?"
"I think this guy has bad intentions. He still dares to sow discord with me even though he has the upper hand over me. His original words were like this—" Shen Tang imitated Mr. Gu's tone, making faces and even some small expressions. "I feel like I've known Mr. Shen for a long time. I'm worried about you, so I said this. If you don't believe me, Mr. Shen might as well go back and ask Qi Yuanliang about the way of the scholar."
Qishan's expression became very intriguing.
With a faint smile on his lips, he asked, "Young Master Shen, do you also want to know the way of a scholar?"
Shen Tang said truthfully: "I am a little curious, but the answer is not important. The process of revealing the secret is what I want. If you just confess and put the answer in front of me, it will lose a lot of fun. Well, it shouldn't be mind reading, right?"
Qi Shan asked back: "That fellow's way of being a scholar is to read minds?"
Shen Tang: “…”
Qishan: "My way as a scribe is not to read minds."
Shen Tang breathed a sigh of relief.
Qi Shan's eyes turned subtle: "You seem very lucky?"
Shen Tang subconsciously said: "I am thankful, otherwise I..."
"Otherwise, whatever you are planning about me in your mind will be exposed. Is that what you want to say?" Qi Shan felt his fist harden.
Shen Tang: “…”
Her silence told something silently. Qi Shan narrowed his eyes slightly and took in her expression: "You really made it up."
This statement was made in the firm tone of a declarative sentence.
Shen Tang: “…”
|?ω?｀)No, no, it’s unfair!
After the joke, the topic should return to the main track.
"My way of writing is indeed feared by others, even worse than 'mind reading'. If young master Shen is afraid, don't go along with people like me." Qi Shan no longer "threatened" Shen Tang, but his expression was unusually gloomy.
Shen Tang didn't say anything.
The atmosphere was so heavy that it made people feel hot and uncomfortable.
Chu Yao was waving a palm-leaf fan.
The air was quiet, and Qishan's fingers, as they were weaving bamboo strips, revealed his emotions. He subconsciously exerted so much force that his knuckles turned white.
Shen Tang frowned and thought: "Is it so serious?"
Not only did these words fail to ease the atmosphere, but they pushed it to another tense peak, causing Chu Yao to become nervous.
"I don't know much about the ways of scholars. The only things I know are from Mr. Wuhui." Shen Tang didn't quite understand why Qi Shan was so serious, and looked puzzled. "When making friends, do we need to consider the other person's ways of scholars? You people have a high threshold for making friends..."
Isn't it said that the Way of the Sage is a trump card that can work wonders at critical moments and will generally not be revealed to outsiders
Qishan asked back, "What if it's not just about making friends?"
Shen Tang was completely stumped by this question.
Suddenly, an idea occurred to her.
"You-you-"
Shen Tang seemed to have suffered a huge blow.
She covered her chest with one hand and quickly backed away on the wooden floor of the corridor with the other hand, with an expression that said "don't come over here". Under the puzzled eyes of Qi Shan and the others, she loudly questioned Qi Shan: "Qi Yuanliang, I want to be sworn brothers with you, do you want to be registered as my hukou?"
Chu Yao: “…”
Qishan: “…”
Finally, she couldn't stand it anymore and threw the half-woven bamboo strips on Shen Tang's head, gritting her teeth and saying, "If you can't speak human language, don't speak!"
Shen Tang: “…”
Qi Shan strode back to her room, still not in the right state. In addition to sworn brotherhood or raising a child to register as a resident, what other relationship could they develop? Does this relationship require knowing the other's ways as a scholar
Shen Tang took down the bamboo strips and widened his eyes.
"It's really not pleasant to speak half-heartedly."
Chu Yao said: "Some things can only be understood but not expressed in words."
Shen Tang curled his lips: "I think I, Shen Tang, am smart and wise, but it's too difficult for me to let people understand half of my words..."
This is a "guiding NPC" with his own opinions.
Shen Tang turned to Chu Yao for advice: "Mr. Wuhui knows what he wants to 'understand', how about - reveal it?"
Chu Yao seemed to be speaking to Shen Tang, but also seemed to be muttering to himself: "Now is not the right time. We will know when the time is right."
Shen Tang was confused.
Her expression now must be the same as the black question mark face!
Out of worry, she could only follow him holding the bamboo strips, and kept talking to the closed door: "Yuanliang? Yuanliang? Yuanliang? Are you there? I have said it in advance, I really won't fall for any schemes to sow discord. Since the way of a scholar is related to one's own personality or certain characteristics, what is there to be afraid of? Although we have known each other for a short time, I believe you are a good person."
As long as it's not mind reading.
How is this different from "silence" for talkative people
There was no response from inside the house, so Shen Tang shouted a few more times.
Finally, the wooden door of the room was opened from the inside.
Qi Shan calmly looked at Shen Tang, who looked innocent, with his hands folded in his sleeves, leaning against the door, and asked her with a playful look, "What if my way as a scholar is to 'kill my master'?"
Shen Tang: “???”
lord murder
Damn, there is such a thing as the way of literati.
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