Chapter 036
Shu Ning felt a chill in her neck.
She could even hear her heartbeat.
She couldn't see King Mu's face, nor could she guess King Mu's mood, but Shu Ning tried to substitute King Mu's life: a young man who grew up in a small official family, he did not know his life experience, but could only see that his parents had a good relationship and enjoyed a decent life that ordinary people could not have. One day, his father was captured and executed. He relied on his weak mother for life. Soon his mother passed away and he was forced to go to the dock to work hard labor to make a living.
The dark days without seeing the future, and they suffered hard day by day. The hands that were used to holding the pen were unfamiliar with carrying bags of rice and grain. The boy was forced to fall into adversity, but his body was not used to this high-intensity torture. When the palm of his hand was grinding out of blood blisters, when the shoulders were sore that they could not lift them up, and when the food in front of him was full of leftovers, maybe, he would think that he had a marriage, maybe, he would hope that his fiancee's family would lend a helping hand and take him out of the boring and hopeless abyss.
But what was he waiting for?
It was Lord Song's disgusting face, it was a letter of return from the engagement handed over by Lord Song, and it was Lord Song's cold words urging him to press his handprints quickly.
Now that he has been crowned king, one person is more than ten thousand people. At this time, the fiancée who looked down on him at the beginning came to apologize.
Forgiveness is impossible.
Shu Ning couldn't kill someone so cruelly, but she would be more happy to hear that the other party's family was not satisfied, rather than how good they were.
"What compensation does the prince want?" His head was completely occupied by fear. Shuning hoped that King Mu could make any requests and their family would work hard.
But King Mu did not answer her, only had a long silence.
"Prince, talk, I'm very scared."
There was no movement behind her, there was only a cruel prince who could stab her at any time. Shu Ning was really afraid. Even if he wanted to kill her, saying a few more words would delay the time.
"What do you say?" The dagger turned around again, and the man asked coldly, without any fluctuations in his voice.
Shu Ning wiped the sweat left on his forehead and found a question for him: "Our family was betrayal and tore up their wedding letters. Are you not curious about how we were doing in Beijing? And you are not curious about how my father and the others reacted when you went to Beijing this time?"
King Mu was not curious, but since she said that, he suddenly wanted to listen.
"you say."
He was still standing behind her, looking at the white, tender neck.
He never forgot that he had a fiancée, and never forgot that the sarcasm or sympathy and regretted the Song family when they entered Beijing.
He was not curious, only hatred, and he just wanted this family to kneel in front of him and regretted the injustice he had taken to the wrongdoing.
Now, one of them comes to kneel down first.
He gave her a chance to repent, and he would listen, but he would never forgive.
King Mu was willing to hear her say, and Shu Ning breathed a little relieved, but she still didn't dare to relax completely. While observing his shadow on the ground, he talked about the life of Lord Song's family in the capital - it was really not very good.
When Lord Song was in Yangzhou, he was only a seventh-rank official. With his good ability to settle accounts, he was promoted to the head of the Qingli Department of the Ministry of Revenue. The name of the Beijing official is quite nice, and he can get only seven taels of silver every month. At the foot of the emperor, Lord Song did not even dare to earn a gray income. All the money he had accumulated in the past was spent on buying a house. He had to support a family of five in seven taels of money and six servants. Only a little can survive. His life was said to be free of food and clothing, but he would never dare to waste it.
"Once my mother was going to attend a banquet. She was afraid that she would be laughed at for being so shabby that she would be laughed at. She secretly spent five taels of silver to buy a silver hairpin. When my father found out, he scolded her fiercely. She didn't allow my mother to spend money any more, and forced my mother to turn off the hairpin. My mother cried for a long time before my father agreed to stay. However, every month she had to check the accounts, and my mother would never dare to use money without authorization again."
"It's not easy for my father. My colleagues in the Ministry of Revenue have birthday party to the elders. Other colleagues give gifts of five taels of silver, and my father also wants to give them. He asks my mother for money, but my mother doesn't give them. He said that I don't have grandfather and grandmother. Now I'll pay this gift in vain and I can't take it back in the future. I advised my father not to pretend to be fat. They had a big fight over this."
"My brother passed the imperial examination before, and he had too many social engagements. Friends took turns to treat him. My brother wanted to invite him, but his family had no money, so my brother often mocked him for this."
"My brother, seeing others wearing brocade robes and jade pendants, he wanted them, and cried when he couldn't. My mother was very angry about this. Although her family has entered Beijing, life is not as comfortable as when she was in Yangzhou. My father is often angry with the peak. Before he was forty, he has white hair on his head and wrinkles on his eyes."
Each of them cried bitterly, and before they knew it, Shu Ning actually said a lot, lowering her head, looking very sad for the family's difficulties.
King Mu stood behind, looking at her chattering expressionlessly.
The sound is nice, but it's too long-winded.
But it was these long-winded words that reminded him of his adoptive father and biological mother.
He had also heard his adoptive father complain about the huge expenses of favors in the officialdom. He also saw his biological mother's desire to look at him when she passed by the jewelry shop. He became a scholar and was asked by his friends to treat him. His mother was not only happy that he had a future, but also felt distressed for the money he spent like flowing water.
He did not have vain and asked his mother for a brocade and jade pendant, but his adoptive father died and his mother died of illness, and he had nothing left.
The vicious prince was silent for a long time.
Silence is more terrifying than speaking. Shu Ning was worried. He remembered that he had not mentioned the misery of the second girl of the Song family. He quickly added: "And I, in Yangzhou, I am the best girl from the neighborhood. The girls from the people in the same street envy me and flatter me. When we arrived in the capital, our family was poor and the ladies from rich businessmen dared to laugh at me. The ladies of high-ranking officials didn't take me seriously, and they lived a very angry life."
King Mu thought of himself.
He is now the fourth prince and King Mu. He is superior to the people, and the Song family is even more afraid of him. However, in the eyes of the nobles of the capital, in the eyes of the three royal brothers and even the concubines in the harem, he is just an illegitimate son of an extremely disgraceful background, and no one really respects him.
"It's very angry." King Mu said lightly, playing with the dagger and returning to the chair.
Shu Ning felt relieved without being threatened by the dagger at close range.
"You haven't said yet, how do you want to compensate me?" After seeing her fragile neck, King Mu's eyes fell on her face again, and then moved to her. The only thing the Song family can do to compensate for is her now.
Shu Ning absolutely did not want to sacrifice herself! One is that she didn’t want to take this path, and the other is that Miss Song Er in the original book tried it. King Mu didn’t take this trick at all. She was a very principled villain!
Besides beauty, what else can the Song family give?
Lord Song, who is as timid as a mouse, Du, who is a woman, is a big brother who is dedicated to studying, and is also a younger brother who is a junior high school student. The four people in the Song family can't count on anything.
Depend on yourself?
After Shu Ning wears books, he will inherit the skills of the character, like Lin Yingying's Chinese painting skills. But the second girl from the Song family is just a vase like Du. Even the female red girl Song Er whom she could learn in ancient ladies could not help, and even the other girl Song Er did not know anything about the piano, chess, calligraphy, painting and dance that had never been learned before.
In the end, Shu Ning had to ask for help in the things she learned in modern times.
She is best at comics, but His Highness Mu may not appreciate something that is so super-temporary.
The rest...
Shu Ning suddenly thought of cooking! She likes cooking and has a few specialties. What is there to match King Mu's appetite?
Shu Ning began to recall the plot about King Mu in the original book she sorted out before going to bed. As a villain, King Mu did a lot of bad things and also caused a lot of trouble for the male protagonist Chu Ling and the third prince Duan, who was supported by Chu Ling. As for the setting of King Mu's life...
The opportunity was left to those who were prepared, and Shu Ning remembered a while!
That plot is about King Mu and King Duan and Chu Ling going to the battlefield to lead troops together. Life on the battlefield is difficult, and even the princes could only eat big pot rice, buns, steamed buns, pancakes, meat porridge, and at most they were divided into some meat dishes. One day, King Duan suddenly heard someone shouting for mercy and hurried out with Chu Ling, and found that King Mu was making trouble in the kitchen.
It turned out that King Mu, who grew up in Yangzhou, did not like ordinary buns, but only loved Yangzhou snacks Sandianbao. When he was a coolie at the wharf, he had no choice. Since he became a prince in Beijing, His Highness Mu began to be a three-dianbao, and the chefs at home were specially found from Yangzhou. When he arrived at the military camp, His Highness Mu endured it for a long time. That day, he insisted that the chef in the kitchen make Sandianbao, and if he couldn't make it, he would chop his head.
The chef can make it, but what he makes is not that flavor.
At this moment, the kind and upright male protagonist Chu Ling took action. He said that he could not make Sandianbao, but he could make a pasta that was better than Sandianbao, which would ensure that everyone liked it.
King Mu sneered and asked him to try.
Chu Ling rolled up his sleeves, took advantage of his modern time travel man, and made a pot of Roujiamo!
As soon as the Roujiamo was released from the pot, the tempting aroma immediately conquered the kitchen chefs and King Duan's noses. They held the Roujiamo one by one and shouted delicious food. Only King Mu's face was gloomy and he didn't eat a bite. Later, Chu Ling and King Duan returned to the camp, and the next day, he used the side description method to say that His Highness Mu asked the kitchen chef to give him Roujiamo every time he finished.
Shuning:...
Maybe the Roujiamo is really delicious, so delicious that it can conquer the cruel and ruthless His Highness Mu, but Shuning won’t make that.
"Brother, you are now noble. The family is very short of money. You can't give away anything to the prince. You don't have any talent. The girl thinks that the prince may not be used to the food in the capital for the first time when he arrived in the capital. If the prince doesn't dislike it, the girl is willing to make some common snacks in Yangzhou for the prince to open the appetite for the prince."
Not dedication?
A strange color rose in King Mu's eyes.
"You can cook?" He looked at her fair and tender hands, not like he often went into the kitchen.
Shu Ning lowered her eyes and said, "It's not true, but the girl is not used to the food in Beijing. She occasionally secretly goes to the kitchen with her parents on her back to make fun of it."
“How does it taste?”
“It should be pretty good.”
King Mu sneered, as if he was sarcastic about her.
Shu Ning has confidence in her cooking skills and doesn't care.
"Come." King Mu suddenly said to the window.
Eunuch Wan immediately bent over and came in.
King Mu glanced at Shu Ning and said coldly: "Take her to the kitchen."
Although Eunuch Wan didn't understand what was happening in the study, he knew to obey and immediately led Shu Ning away.
When the door outside closed again and the surroundings returned to silence, King Mu picked up the dagger again and slashed the sharp edge of the blade with his calloused fingertips.
Give her a chance, the food is not delicious, and it is not too late to kill her again.
Chapter completed!