Chapter 9 I didn’t show up again?
Two days passed in a blink of an eye. Huaiwen went out to buy things as instructed by Shen Zhejiang. He had nothing to do, and Shen Zhejiang’s health had improved a little, so he went out with him.
Inside the carriage, on Shen Zhejiang’s knees was a green brocade box with gold patterns, inside which was a short knife with a silver frost all over it.
This sword is forged from the black iron and cold silver of Longyin Mountain. It is so sharp that it can cut hair. The main pattern is intertwined with fine leaves and bamboos, emitting a dazzling brilliance from beginning to end.
“Sir, His Majesty has arranged all matters for your marriage, why do you still want to personally prepare a valuable gift for Miss Wang?”
Huaiwen sat on the carriage, driving the horse through the mixed crowd, and chatted with Shen Zhejiang.
Shen Zhejiang retracted his gaze, closed the lid of the box, and said slowly: “Miss Wang has been following her father in and out of the military camp since she was young. She was determined to go
into the battlefield to kill the enemy and win fame. I respect her for being a heroine, but it’s a pity that she will never have the chance again.” There has never been a saying in Yan Country that women go to the battlefield. Shen Zhejiang regrets that such an extraordinary woman was disturbed by the secular world and her ambitions could not be fulfilled. In fact, he sympathizes with her.
The purpose of his giving this gift was to hope that Miss Wang would never give up her inner desire.
At this moment, a shadow rushed in.
“Zheng——!”
A sharp arrow whizzed past Shen Zhejiang’s face as fast as lightning and nailed into the car board behind him, with the tail of the arrow buzzing.
Just a hair’s breadth away, it would have pierced through Shen Zhejiang’s head!
The carriage braked suddenly.
Still in shock, Shen Zhejiang fell forward by inertia and hit his forehead. He rubbed it and asked, “Huaiwen, what’s going on?”
“Sir, someone is blocking the way.”
“Chen Zhejiang, get out!”
someone shouted.
Shen Zhejiang lifted the curtain of the carriage and saw a handsome young man standing under the bright sun, with black hair tied up high and a haughty face. He was holding a bow in his hand and wearing a black tight-fitting suit, looking very heroic.
The arrow just now was shot by him.
Shen Zhejiang didn’t remember having seen this man before, let alone offending him, so he asked, “Who are you?”
The young man was proud, with a bow on his arm, and introduced himself, “Wang Chengming, the second young master of the Minister of War’s Mansion, why don’t you kowtow and greet me?”
“Why are you blocking my way in public, Second Young Master Wang?”
Although he asked this, Shen Zhejiang quickly guessed that he might have come for his eldest sister’s wedding.
It is indeed so.
Wang Chengming had an extremely bad temper: “Oh, the man my sister wants to marry is you? You look so sick, and you might be lying in the coffin at any time. My sister doesn’t like you! Go and break off the engagement!” Shen
Zhejiang was not someone who was easy to bully, but he was not willing to bother with a junior. He said in a cold voice: “If there is any misunderstanding, please come with me to my house, Young Master Wang, to have a talk.”
“What can I talk to you about? My father said that you are a sinner of our dynasty, a rat in the gutter! I am an upright person, how could I associate with someone like you! If I were you, I would have banged my head against the wall and died!”
These words were too radical.
Pedestrians on the street were attracted over and stopped to join in the fun. Customers in teahouses and restaurants also leaned out to look in, and a tide of discussion surrounded them.
“Isn’t that the talented Shen who was famous in the capital? I heard that at the age of fifteen, he single-handedly repelled an army of 100,000 strong that was stationed in the Kingdom of Qing. It’s a pity that he ended up in such a situation when he was so promising at a young age.
” “Haha, why are you sighing for him? There are five people in my family, five of us! We died under the swords of his father and the rebels! People like him should be drowned in spit!”
“…”
Shen Zhejiang’s face turned pale for a moment, as if countless thorns pierced his back, and his fingers pinching the car curtain were shaking.
When Huaiwen saw that his master was being bullied, he immediately started arguing with him: “Is this the upbringing of your Wang family? No matter what, my master is the prince’s tutor and will soon be your brother-in-law! The second young master Wang doesn’t have any official title. He just took advantage of the Minister of War and he points at people and scolds them in the street. Do you dare to insult His Majesty in the temple one day?”
Wang Chengming was like a powder keg that could explode at any time: “You call me a dog?!”
“Why are you barking and shouting otherwise?” Huaiwen retorted with his head held high.
The people around immediately burst into laughter.
Shen Zhejiang got off the carriage and whispered, “Huaiwen, you get on the carriage first.”
Huaiwen hesitated for a moment: “Yes, sir.”
“Second Young Master Wang, my servant was outspoken, I apologize to you on his behalf,” Shen Zhejiang bowed to him politely, then raised his eyes, calm but sharp, “What you just said is indeed insulting. Second Young Master Wang must not have read the books of sages, then I will ask you about the military books, which volume of which military book mentions that people are divided into high and low?”
Wang Chengming’s face froze for a moment, then he shouted, “Bullshit! The military books talk about training troops and deploying battle formations, how can there be such things?! I will be a general respected by thousands of people in the Yan Dynasty in the future, how can you teach me a lesson?!”
“Since Second Young Master Wang doesn’t understand, let me explain it to you,” Shen Zhejiang glanced at the people who were watching the show with great interest, and his eyes fell on Wang Chengming again. “The Art of War by Sun Tzu says, ‘A general should be wise, trustworthy, benevolent, courageous, and strict.’ A wise man is one who has wisdom and strategy, and a benevolent man is one who is kind. Second Young Master Wang acted rashly just to stop me in public to ask for an explanation, which is unwise. Moreover, your words are vulgar, and you believe that people are divided into high and low, which is unkind. It is difficult for a general to be without wisdom and kindness.” ”
What a mess?!”
Wang Chengming immediately put an arrow on the bow, and used his shoulder and arm to aim at the heart of Shen Zhejiang opposite him. With a whoosh, the arrow broke through the air and rushed out, taking Shen Zhejiang’s life.
“Sir, be careful!” Huaiwen screamed.
The sharp arrow rushed towards him almost in the blink of an eye, forcing Shen Zhejiang to take a step back involuntarily, and the arrow reflected in his eyes gradually became larger.
Shen Zhejiang’s mind went blank and he even forgot to avoid it.
In a flash, the arrow suddenly hung in the air, and then retreated at an incredible speed in an instant.
“You little brat! I think you’re itching for trouble, aren’t you?”
A heroic woman who was also dressed in tight clothes stood on the eaves closest to Wang Chengming. Her long hair, half-bound in a high ponytail, fluttered in the wind.
She had a fair face that was beautiful and resolute, and her eyes, which were as sharp as a knife, made her look even more fierce. Her figure was extremely tall and straight. From a distance, she looked like a solitary, upright and unrestrained red plum.
Shen Zhejiang quickly came back to his senses, only to see that the woman was holding a thin rattan whip in her hand, dragging it on the eaves, with an arrow wrapped around the end of the whip.
The one who just saved his life was this woman.
Before he could say thank you, any expression on Wang Chengming’s face suddenly froze and he turned his neck stiffly.
“Ah, sister?”
In fact, you don’t need to look, you can tell who is coming just by listening to the voice.
This woman was none other than Wang Chengming’s elder sister, Wang Xiuyi. She had loved wielding swords and guns since she was a child, and had developed a whip technique that was difficult for ordinary people to match. However, the reason why her whip technique had reached such a high level of perfection was inseparable from Wang Chengming’s contribution.
“I told you to stay at home obediently, but you insisted on causing trouble for me?”
Wang Xiuyi jumped off the ground, turned her wrist and swung the rattan whip, which hit Wang Chengming’s face hard.
“Sister, I was wrong! Ah! Stop hitting me!”
The arrogant Young Master Wang Er suddenly shrank into a turtle, dropped his bow and arrow, and fled through the streets with his head in his hands, shouting loudly.
The scene was extremely funny and made everyone laugh.
It looks like there will be another topic of conversation in the capital tomorrow.
Shen Zhejiang: “…”
Seeing that Wang Chengming was being chased and beaten, he felt a little pitiful. The punishment was much heavier than the one he usually gave to Xiao Zhinian, so he couldn’t bear it and said, “Miss Wang, if you keep hitting him, he might break some bones.”
“Don’t worry, he won’t die,” Wang Xiuyi grabbed Wang Chengming’s ears and brought him directly to Shen Zhejiang, her eyebrows raised, “Go and apologize to him!”
“Sister! He…ah! It hurts!” Wang Chengming’s face was distorted with pain. As the saying goes, a man who knows the times is a hero. He immediately shouted to Shen Zhejiang, “I’m sorry!! Sister, let go!”
Wang Xiuyi slapped her brother on the back of the head: “Take care of yourself! Go home and I’ll punish you! Let’s see if you dare to do it again in the future? Go back!”
Then she turned around, as if she had changed her face, and said to Shen Zhejiang embarrassedly but politely: “Sir Shen, my brother is ignorant. I’m really sorry. I will come to your house to apologize another day.” Shen
Zhejiang was puzzled: “Miss Wang, have you forgotten that you and I are still married?”