Because Li Zhibai chose to trust Xu Chang’an, and Shi Qingjun chose to indulge Xu Chang’an, she could only choose to follow suit.
Not to ntion... she also trusted Xu Chang’an.
She rely stepped in to play the bad woman who interrogates, after all, soone had to do such things.
Even so.
Would Zhu Tongjun truly be as uneasy and weak as Zhu Pingniang?
Zhu Pingniang shook her head, "But now I’m the Madam here, so I ought to be weak."
Sotis, a woman’s appropriate weakness is a weapon.
Unfortunately, this weapon didn’t work on the young man in front of her whose eyes were only on Yun Qian.
"I don’t have the capabilities of Ah Zi, can’t take care of everyone, so I can only do what I can do." Zhu Pingniang propped her face, looking at Xu Chang’an, "Chang’an, do you know what this place is called?"
"Beisang City?"
"It’s called Unfastened Boat."
Zhu Pingniang looked out the window at the Stone Ship: "The clever are labored and the wise are worried, the incapable have no desires, they drift like an unfastened boat... I ca up with the na Unfastened Boat, what do you think?"
Xu Chang’an blinked.
Ingenious people are more tired and wise people are worried, while those without capability have no ambitions... is Senior saying those who can, do more?
An Unfastened Boat has two anings.
One is freedom without any ties, aning carefree.
Two is taphorically wandering without a fixed course, like a rootless duckweed.
Whether this aning is good or bad is all in a thought.
When he first heard the term Unfastened Boat, he was thinking about which aning it truly took.
"The na is certainly exquisite, but I do not know which aning you intended with it." Xu Chang’an spoke up.
"Shouldn’t it be good? Shouldn’t it be carefree?" Zhu Pingniang looked at Xu Chang’an in disbelief, "Which woman in the world would assign it a gloomy aning?"
Xu Chang’an looked at Zhu Pingniang in silence.
Zhu Pingniang pursed her lips, "Alright, I’m that woman."
Are the won at the Flower Moon Building carefree?
How could that be?
So, it’s a reminder for herself, that however well the Flower Moon Building might be, for these won it is ultimately an Unfastened Boat, a rootless duckweed, floating without stability.
"But this is a Stone Ship." Xu Chang’an said.
Upon hearing this, Zhu Pingniang trembled slightly, raised her head to look over, and saw the young man’s side profile and the corner of his mouth curling into a smile as he gazed out the window.
"..."
Xu Chang’an suddenly understood.
Nad Unfastened Boat, it signifies drifting without stability, but Zhu Pingniang had built it into a Stone Ship, firmly embedded in the shore, bringing peace of mind.
Zhu Pingniang stared dumbfoundedly at Xu Chang’an for a mont, then she smiled.
"Stone Ship, so even if it’s not fastened, it can’t drift away with the waves..." Zhu Pingniang lowered her lashes, "Chang’an, prying too deeply into a woman’s heart isn’t sothing a married man should do."
"Pardon ." Xu Chang’an coughed awkwardly.
"It’s alright, sister is not angry with you." Zhu Pingniang shook her head, "My little thoughts have been caught by you, to be honest, this Stone Ship is built for myself."
She was actually a little tired.
Yes.
Tired.
The Unfastened Boat called Zhu Tongjun, always wandering carefree, now wants to be a Stone Ship, staying securely in one place, not wanting to go anywhere.
"Quite unambitious, right?" Zhu Pingniang stretched lazily.
Clearly, she was just a step away from Heavenly Dao, yet now, she wanted a ho... coincidentally, it was discovered by her youth.
"However, even if I am unambitious, it is only towards your teacher that I am... so it’s not your place to ddle." Zhu Pingniang stood up, bent down, and gently tapped Xu Chang’an’s forehead with her fingertip.
"So for sister’s future happiness, you have to keep an eye on being a spy next to Ah Bai for ."
She smiled.
"If you do this, then I won’t care about those peculiar things around you, how about it?"
Xu Chang’an: "..."
Clicking his tongue.
Almost forgot about this matter.
"Moreover, all these girls on this ship follow , as long as I have a ho, naturally, they will too. Therefore, this Unfastened Boat is a Stone Ship, because embedded by the shore, it can bear however many girls co."
"..."
Upon hearing this, Xu Chang’an froze.
What does Senior an?
This whole Flower Moon Building’s won... will be her dowry?
He was not wrong to think this way, right?
Xu Chang’an couldn’t help but swallow, his mind flashing with the serene nature of his own teacher.
After seeing the handwritten letter from Li Zhibai, he didn’t doubt the closeness between Li Zhibai and Zhu Pingniang at all.
About his teacher...
He briefly imagined Li Zhibai’s Sword Hall being surrounded by layers of won from the Flower Moon Building, and his mouth twitched.
Nothing to say.
Such a vast dowry, if anyone were really to marry this Senior Zhu in the future...
The scene would be too beautiful.
"What inappropriate things are you thinking?" Zhu Pingniang narrowed her eyes and smiled at Xu Chang’an.
"Nothing."
"Hmph, I can’t be bothered with you."
Zhu Pingniang pouted, then lightly sighed, "Chang’an, actually Lu’Er was right, sister really is an unequivocal bad woman."
Ah Bai is a gentlewoman.
So, Zhu Tongjun alone wasn’t enough, she wanted to drag along these suffering won in the mundane world, thinking that if she had a kind nature, maybe Ah Bai would take an extra look at her.
At the beginning, maybe she truly had this purpose in mind when she entered the Flower Moon Building.
Of course, that was a long ti ago.
"Chang’an, there’s sothing I want to ask you."
"?"
Xu Chang’an looked at Zhu Pingniang, who suddenly seed genuinely inquisitive, and was montarily baffled, before nodding, "Please, go ahead."
"Before you and Ms. Yun got together... when you were still working as a steward, you must have thought about how wonderful it would be to marry her... right?" Zhu Pingniang asked.
"...Yes... yes." Xu Chang’an, hearing this question, felt a bit uncomfortable but still admitted.
"Then... when that day finally ca, was there not even a trace of fear, not a mont of hesitation for you?" Zhu Pingniang’s emotions were complex.
Just like she wished to marry Li Zhibai.
A wish is a wish, but if Li Zhibai really agreed, the one who would be entangled would only be her.
Such a mindset isn’t precisely hypocritical, it’s like Zhu Pingniang herself doesn’t know what she’s afraid of; clearly, Ah Bai’s agreent would be a wonderful thing, sothing she’s longed for.
"Fear?" Xu Chang’an shook his head, giving Zhu Pingniang a deep look, thinking indeed.
This Senior is formidable, but regarding matters of love between n and won, she is sowhat... pure?
Fear?
What a joke.
Back then, he was just about ready to swallow Ms. Yun whole, where would fear co in?
If anything, it was only after becoming her husband and waking up the next day being held by her, he felt guilty as if he had tainted a treasure’s purity.
Fear, there wasn’t even the slightest bit.
So...
As an observer, Xu Chang’an vaguely sensed that perhaps this Senior Zhu... did not truly want her relationship with Li Zhibai to be a romantic partnership.
At least that feeling wasn’t quite the sa as between a man and a woman.
Unfortunately, he didn’t fully understand the nature of relationships between won, perhaps... romantic partnerships between them do arouse fear?
However, Xu Chang’an felt that he could understand Zhu Pingniang’s emotions from another perspective.
A lifelong yearning for the sea, yet upon realizing the perils of the sea, one hesitates to imrse oneself in it.
For instance, he always wanted Ms. Yun to not have her eyes full only of him, to see a broader world, and pursue sothing more worthy.
But if that day genuinely arrived—
He would probably be afraid too.
"Hmm?"
Xu Chang’an suddenly froze, looking again at the thoughtfully frowning woman in front of him.
Unfastened Boat, Unfastened Boat.
Unfastened.
So that’s how it is.
He misunderstood.
Just like he didn’t want to tie down Ms. Yun.
Senior also feared binding her teacher with the ties of matrimony.
Is this the nature of affection between won, or rather love?
Always feeding dog food Xu Chang’an, inadvertently, was shown the deep bond between Zhu Pingniang and Li Zhibai.
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