0p0 Chapter 168 Treat it as farewell
Chapter 168 Treat it as farewell
Ever since their last conversation in the study, there seemed to be an invisible barrier between the two of them. Although they were close, there was always a slight sense of distance.
Everyone in Prince Xian's mansion was puzzled by the current cold war between the two.
Since Qiao Shinian stopped entering Mu Qingchen's yard, she has been concentrating on practicing dancing in her own yard. She has not forgotten that if she travels through time again, she will have to go to school, and she will have a performance a few days after school starts.
The best dancers in the capital frequently went in and out of the palace every day to choreograph dances for her, and the days passed by one by one.
When the willow branches sprouted, good news finally came: Chu Wen had stopped the war.
Emperor Chuwen proposed a marriage to ensure peace between the two countries.
This was naturally a case of taking advantage and acting cute. After more than half a year of war, Chu Wen successfully plundered three cities of the Zhou Kingdom.
Oh, for Chu Wen, it should be about regaining lost territory.
The Emperor of Zhou was obviously dissatisfied with this proposal, but as the Zhou State was weak, he had to agree to it even if he didn't want to.
As a result, the princesses of the Zhou royal family who were of marriageable age were all worried for a while, and in the end, the unlucky Princess Murong became a princess who was married to a foreign country.
The day Princess Murong left, Zhou Kingdom had already started the third round of potato planting. Regarding the fact that the potatoes were previously planted in a greenhouse constructed with charcoal fire, Qiao Shinian could only say that no matter how poor a country is, it cannot make the royal family poor.
Traveling through time again, Qiao Shinian gave Wen Jiu a waterproof luminous tattoo sticker.
According to a netizen's answer, luminous tattoo stickers were a safe bet in ancient times. For the ancients, this was the advent of a miracle.
The Emperor of Zhou received a small bottle of antipyretic granules from Wen Jiu. Wen Jiu looked at the hesitant and suspicious eyes of the Emperor of Zhou and the officials, and told them nonchalantly, "The goddess said that it is easiest to catch a cold and have a fever when the seasons change, which is what we call a cold, so she gave me some medicine to treat the cold."
The tattoo on his neck has not been discovered yet.
Deliberately showing off and letting people discover it inadvertently can have different effects.
As the few people who had been hiding beside Wen Jiu, they had naturally discovered Qiao Shinian's strangeness a long time ago. Yu Changming even selfishly took her away for questioning when Qiao Shinian left the palace, regardless of the risk of being exposed.
After leaving the palace and getting on the carriage back to the prince's mansion, Qiao Shinian was intercepted again.
"Didn't you say you would find a chance to repay me if I owed you a favor? So now I need you to repay me for it."
Facing Mo Lin, Qiao Shinian hesitated for a moment: "What do you need me to do?"
"I made a girl angry, and I want to buy her something as an apology." Mo Lin said with a smile, "Help me choose, and I'll borrow your time for a day, and then you'll pay off the favor you owe me, how about that?"
Qiao Shinian looked at Mo Lin. He was as free and easy as always. She turned her head to He Huan and said, "Please go back and tell Mu Qingchen that I won't be coming back for lunch and dinner."
"Yes, girl."
"Let's go." Qiao Shinian called out, and Mo Lin jumped on his horse and followed the carriage.
It was an almost familiar street, and Qiao Shinian was gradually becoming familiar with the architecture of the capital.
"Which girl? What are you angry about?" Qiao Shinian got out of the car with Yingzhu's help and came to Mo Lin.
Mo Lin looked at her sideways and smiled awkwardly: "I drank some wine and said some nonsense."
"What are the girl's hobbies?"
As the two walked, Qiao Shinian asked questions.
Mo Lin frowned and thought for a moment: "Dancing... counts?"
"What are you going to buy her as an apology?"
"Women only want gold, silver, jewelry, and silk and satin clothes." Mo Lin turned his head to look at Qiao Shinian again.
This time, when he turned his head to look at Qiao Shinian, Qiao Shinian also turned his head to look at him. Their eyes met, and Mo Lin quickly turned his face away: "I have never coaxed a woman so seriously when she is angry, so I don't know how to choose things."
"Allow me to be narcissistic for a moment. If you are going to apologize to me, Mr. Mo, then there is no need to do this." Qiao Shinian stopped and looked at Mo Lin. She was no longer as innocent as before. "That night, I made it clear that people with different beliefs cannot work together. My philosophy is different from yours, and I don't agree with your thoughts, so we should not have any intersection."
After that, Qiao Shinian added: "If it wasn't for me, then after I repay you this time, I don't want to have any contact with you again. It can be regarded as the fulfillment of our past relationship. I don't want to use my emotions to take advantage of you in the future."
Mo Lin froze in place, his hands clenched into fists. "That day, I said stupid things to humiliate you. I know I embarrassed you, so I came to apologize today. Please don't be angry."
Qiao Shinian shrugged and smiled, took two steps forward and patted his back: "We agreed to go shopping with you today. Since you really want to apologize to me, then I also said that you don't have to do this. Even if you buy it, I won't accept it. Why don't you go buy what you need and get to know each other? We don't have any big disputes, we just have different positions and opinions.
I don't want to distance myself from you or pretend to be nice to you, so I think it's better to speak out. You are not a bad person, you just think differently from me, and I don't need to curry favor with you, so I will be honest with you."
Mo Lin chuckled and looked at Qiao Shinian with sadness in his eyes: "Can't you just pretend nothing happened?"
"Let's do this. It's good for both us. This way, I won't have the chance to use you if one day I need to. I'm afraid I'll do so. I'll feel guilty." Qiao Shinian smiled at him. This smile was just like the smile that Qiao Shinian often showed in his memory.
It seemed as if the two of them were still the same as before.
On this day, he went to the shop for the first time to choose satin for his clothes, and to choose waist ornaments and sword tassels.
In his opinion, this was a farewell to Qiao Shinian, but there was no sign of reluctance on Qiao Shinian's face. Even when they went to the restaurant for dinner in the evening, she was particularly active in squeezing over when she saw something interesting.
"Is there water in the sky? If there is no water, then why does it rain? If there is water in the sky, then why does it leak down and become rain?" Qiao Shinian squeezed into the crowd and looked at two questions on a piece of paper.
After reading it, her eyes lit up: "Those who give satisfactory and convincing answers will receive twenty gold coins."
“This kind of question…” Mo Lin pushed the person next to him away and stood over. The man wanted to get angry, but when he saw Mo Lin’s attire, he knew that he was someone he couldn’t afford to offend, so he walked aside in gloom.
"Brother, who is the person who set this question? Does anyone have an answer?" Qiao Shinian was quite tempted when he saw the twenty gold reward.
My heart is beating uncontrollably, this is simply a golden question!
"No! I heard that this question was raised by a young master of a well-traveled merchant company, and it has been up for three days." The man next to him looked at Qiao Shinian and said, "Young lady, don't join in the fun. No knowledgeable scholars in the capital can solve it. Dozens of people have given answers in the past three days, but they were all rejected."
"Waiter, bring me some paper and pen!" Qiao Shinian pushed the crowded crowd, waved and shouted to the waiter.
"I'm determined to get this gold!" She looked at Mo Lin with high spirits, then raised her eyebrows and smiled, "This is not in the agreement, and we didn't agree that I can't make money during this period, so I won't share the money I make with you!"
"Okay." Mo Lin looked at her and nodded in response.
Later, when Qiao Shinian was writing furiously, he raised his head and looked towards somewhere on the second floor, and saw Mu Qingchen staring at him, with endless coldness in his eyes.
Mo Lin looked at Qiao Shinian, then at the man who didn't come downstairs. In just a moment, he guessed that he might have had a quarrel with Qiao Shinian. When he looked up at Mu Qingchen, he raised his eyebrows provocatively, leaned closer to Qiao Shinian, and bent over to ask, "What did you write?"
"Stay away from me, you're blocking my light." Qiao Shinian frowned and moved aside in dissatisfaction, "Don't peek at my money-making secrets. I'll tell you after I hand them over."