Chapter 180 The Woman Who Lives at the Top of Wife Selection Standards
Chapter 180 A woman who is at the top of the criteria for choosing a wife
Chu Nanzhi was restless throughout the next day, thinking about the fish fry and Sun Wuji's case at the same time.
After lunch, she sat down quietly on a cliff not far from the village, looking down at the river rushing down in the distance, listening to the surging waves, and slowly fell into deep thought.
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I don’t know how much time passed, but I suddenly heard the sound of footsteps behind me.
She turned around and saw a pair of sparkling black eyes, staring at herself quietly.
"What's got you so upset?"
The person coming towards me was Xie Jingchen.
He slowly walked to Chu Nanzhi and sat down, turning his face to her and smiling lightly: "I heard that you have been sitting here all afternoon."
Chu Nanzhi responded with a warm smile, picked up a stone and threw it into the distance.
Then she glanced at him helplessly and said slowly: "You and I"
Just as the word "husband" was about to come out of her mouth, she immediately stopped.
It was really difficult to define his relationship with Lin Jinxiao, so he had to say instead: "He is very similar to a person I know. He is stubborn and loves to show off."
"You are talking about your husband, right?"
Xie Jingchen glanced at her with a wry smile. Under the setting sun, his golden cheeks looked particularly charming: "It seems that your husband is also a resolute, courageous and charming husband."
"You are pretty good at being pretty."
Chu Nanzhi snorted angrily, even though he was so depressed, he still didn't forget to boast about himself.
Xie Jingchen sneered inadvertently, looked into the distance with forlorn eyes, and asked sadly: "Why are you so interested in Nanhua Temple?"
Hearing this, Chu Nanzhi turned his head to the side with a calm face, and looked at this handsome and picturesque face with gentle eyes. Guessing that he wanted to fulfill his promise, he answered bluntly:
"Being entrusted by others is a matter of loyalty."
Xie Jingchen suddenly understood and said frankly: "It's okay to tell you this matter, but it may not be of any benefit to you."
"It's not necessarily a bad thing to know more."
Chu Nanzhi pursed her lips indifferently, turned her head and continued to look at the rushing river in the distance.
Xie Jingchen knew that he could not defeat this beautiful woman, so he had to compromise: "How much do you know about Jingling City?"
Nothing.
Chu Nanzhi almost said it. In addition to knowing that there was an emperor and high-ranking princes and ministers living in Jinling City, the rest of the information in her memory was that there was a well-respected queen mother and a queen mother in the palace.
Xie Jingchen saw the embarrassment on her face and said to himself: "Twenty-two years ago, there was a shocking palace coup in Jingling City. Have you heard of it?"
Chu Nanzhi shook his head in confusion.
Not to mention that the original owner had not yet been born at that time, even if it happened now, something like this, which concerns the royal family's face, would not easily spread to the lower class people to avoid unrest.
Xie Jingchen smiled: "That's true. How can you know what's going on among the upper-class royal families of your empire if you spend all your time in the village fighting around like this?"
There was some sarcasm in his tone.
Chu Nanzhi just glanced over angrily, and Xie Jingchen immediately turned a blind eye and continued:
"Twenty-two years ago, Lin Ting'an, the former crown prince of the Dahe Empire, was jealous of Emperor Chonghua and was given poisonous wine. He died tragically in the East Palace. The entire East Palace suffered misfortunes. It is said that fifty-eight courtiers followed the former crown prince and died.
In the past, many important ministers abandoned their posts and retired because of this. Emperor Chonghua later learned that he had believed the rumors. He was very sad about this. He took the initiative to meditate and took several young people with him.
The eldest princess escaped into the Taoist gate."
Hearing this, Chu Nanzhi suddenly realized that he finally understood why Mr. Chang and Mr. Nie lived in seclusion in the countryside. It turned out to be because they were implicated in the incident involving the former prince.
Chang Lao, as the mentor of the late Crown Prince Lin Luoan, the then Crown Prince and Tutor, could not help but be disheartened when encountering such a terrible incident. It is no wonder that Lin Jinxiao said that Jingling City was the sad place for the two elders.
Xie Jingchen added: "What is puzzling is that before the Daxing Emperor of Nanhua Temple passed the throne, he did not pass the throne to his other two legitimate sons, but instead summoned the Qinghe Clan to the Qinghe Clan.
You think it's ridiculous to lead all the nobles to the capital to serve the king and kill his own son?"
"It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous."
Chu Nanzhi looked sideways with resentment, looking at his gloating face, it was really disgusting: "So is this why you risked your life to sneak into Nanhua Temple? Just to get these talking points for people's entertainment?"
"I'm not that good at leisure and elegance."
Xie Jingchen casually picked up a stone and threw it gently: "I want to inquire about something."
"What's the matter?"
Xie Jingchen smiled charmingly: "It is said that after the death of the late Prince Lin Ting'an, there was an unborn posthumous son living among the people. Of course, this news is not accurate, so I wanted to go to Nanhua Temple to inquire about it."
"Why are you asking about this?"
As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Chu Nanzhi gradually realized that something was wrong, and asked anxiously: "Do you have ulterior motives? What are your intentions?"
"What can I have in mind? I just want to know more interesting things about the Lin family."
Xie Jingchen said with a mysterious smile: "Let me tell you another interesting thing. Just after the Qinghe clan entered the capital, the new emperor who received the edict of the Zen throne was assassinated on the way to the heaven-sacrifice ceremony.
He died before he even ascended the throne. It’s unbelievable that such a horrific thing could happen in the mighty capital of the capital, and then he had no choice but to hastily support the young emperor Lin Jinsheng.”
When Xie Jingchen mentioned this, Chu Nanzhi roughly guessed his intention to go to Nanhua Temple, and first confirmed: "Are you from Baiyu?"
Xie Jingchen looked shocked: "How did you find out?"
Chu Nanzhi frowned and chuckled: "You said so yourself last time I visited Nanhua."
"Don't try to trick me, I never said this."
Chu Nanzhi pursed her lips and smiled and said in detail: "Gelsemium mostly grows in humid and warm places. It is intolerant of low temperatures and afraid of high temperatures. Those that meet these conditions will naturally breed more in places farther south. Last time
You said that there are such plants everywhere in your hometown, then your hometown must be the extreme south, which is not the boundary of the ten tribes of Baiyu."
"As expected of a woman who is at the top of my criteria for choosing a wife."
Xie Jingchen shook his head and sighed.
I didn't expect this woman to be able to deduce her own origin from this matter. She was really smart, so she had to admit with conviction: "You are right, I am indeed from Baiyu."
"In that case, let me guess again why you ended up in such an embarrassing situation."
Chu Nanzhi glanced over with a stern gaze: "If my guess is correct, you were injured this time because you were chased by Princess Shu's people, which made you so embarrassed that you almost lost your life."
"How did you find out?"
After being hit directly by her, Xie Jingchen's calm and calm face showed an expression of shock again.