Help! The innocent prince always tries to seduce me clumsily

Chu Shitong doesn't like to live off others, and she is just pretending for fun, it's not like she is really broke.

"No, I guess I'll have money after this matter is resolved."

Si Jingli also realized that what he said was a little inappropriate. After all, in his eyes, Chu Shitong was a man and a prince at that, so he naturally attached great importance to his own face.

Although Si Jingli's words just now were said very sincerely, they probably touched Chu Shitong's self-esteem to some extent.

"OK then."

After they finished their meal, Chu Shitong stood up to pay the bill and Si Jingli followed her.

Chu Shitong felt in his purse twice and found only small change but no copper coins.

She raised her eyes and glanced at Si Jingli. She had just teased the young master that she only had twenty cents. If she took out a piece of change, Si Jingli would probably seize on her teasing and make a scene again.

Unexpectedly, this glance happened to meet Si Jingli's gaze.

"..."

The atmosphere was a little awkward.

The old man at the wonton stall was waiting to collect money.

Chu Shitong sighed, ready to accept the consequences of his boasting. He reached into his purse and took out a piece of silver. Before he could take it out, Si Jingli suddenly spoke.

"I give!"

Chu Shitong:?

She looked at Si Jingli in confusion, "Didn't we agree that I would give it to you?"

Si Jingli stood in front of Chu Shitong, took out a silver ingot from his purse and stuffed it into the old man's hand, acting like a wealthy man, and said, "No need to change."

Chu Shitong: ???

That silver is estimated to be ten taels!

Seeing Si Jingli being taken advantage of, Chu Shitong quickly spoke out to stop him, "Shi... don't give it to me, I have it here."

Si Jingli said calmly and firmly, "No need. I can't take back the money I gave out."

The old man was overjoyed holding the silver ingot.

Chu Shitong was very helpless.

After the two men walked out of the wonton stall, Chu Shitong couldn't help but ask.

"Your Highness, why did you give him so much?"

A bowl of wontons costs ten coins, and ten taels of silver is ten thousand coins.

Damn it, this is such a big injustice.

Si Jingli snorted coldly and said, "Didn't you say you had twenty coins?"

Chu Shitong was about to say that she did have it, but Si Jingli said again.

"You actually didn't, did you?"

Chu Shitong was stunned.

Si Jingli showed a sly smile, leaned close to her ear and said, "I guessed that you had no money. If you had, you would definitely take it out, but you couldn't take it out, and you looked at me and asked for help, so I paid for you. Your purse looks heavy, but it's actually full of stones, right?"

Chu Shitong looked at Si Jingli's face as he was begging for praise and thought he was silly and cute. It was clearly an extremely stupid behavior, but it made her feel a little touched.

Chu Shitong smiled helplessly, "Your Highness is really..."

"What is it really?"

"I really want to marry His Royal Highness the Crown Prince right here."

Si Jingli's face turned red and he immediately looked around, fearing that someone might have heard what Chu Shitong said.

His face flushed as he whispered, "You are really becoming more and more reckless. You dare to say this on the street. If others hear it, how can I live?"

Chu Shitong didn't care about this kind of thing at all. Anyway, all the officials in Jingzhou had been replaced by his own people, and no one dared to say anything.

"Then your highness should die, and I will commit suicide for love. That's not impossible."

"It's a beautiful thought."

Si Jingli was so embarrassed that he took two quick steps to distance himself from her, and couldn't help cursing under his breath.

"I will not be buried with you."

Chu Shitong chased after him with a smile.

"If you are not buried with me, when you go to the underworld, others will think that you and I do not know each other. If you do not recognize me by then, we will never know each other again in the next life."

Si Jingli suddenly stopped and a hesitant look appeared on his face. He seemed to be thinking seriously about what Chu Shitong said.

Chu Shitong looked at him with a gentle gaze and a hint of smile, "Even so, Your Highness, do you not want to be buried with me? Or is one life enough for us?"

Si Jingli hesitated for a long time. He remembered the contents of the notebook he had read a few days ago.

The storybook tells the story of a man and a woman, who are deeply in love and have an unending love relationship as a human and a ghost. They have been reincarnated three times but have never been truly together. Either the man died of a serious illness, or the woman got married before she met the man.

In their last life, the two searched for each other for their entire lives and found each other just before they died. However, both of them were terminally ill due to various reasons. Although they got married, neither of them lived past their wedding night.

Finally they met in the underworld, and their souls had already forgotten each other.

Si Jingli was very afraid that he and Chu Shitong would end up like in the storybook, and he spoke out in a wronged tone.

"Then I'd better bury it with you."

Seeing Chu Shitong's smile getting deeper and deeper, Si Jing turned away, coughed awkwardly twice, and pretended to be serious and said, "I just think that since you and I can't get married in this life, we can get married in the next life. But in the next life, you have to be reincarnated as a woman, and I have to be a man, and I want to be on top."

Chu Shitong laughed, "Okay."

I didn't expect that the young master cared so much about the affairs of the upper and lower classes.

Chu Shitong was just joking, but she didn't expect Si Jingli to look at her very seriously.

"Chu Shitong, you can't forget me."

Si Jingli spoke every word, and his eyes and brows were filled with a rare seriousness as he looked at Chu Shitong.

"Even if you die, you can't forget me."

Chu Shitong did not respond casually as he thought, but said to him seriously, "Okay."

Si Jingli's heart suddenly became much brighter because of this one word.

It seemed that Chu Shitong had never made such a serious promise to him.

The childish verbal agreement made him unconsciously feel a kind of plain happiness, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but secretly rise.

Chu Shitong smiled slightly and said, "Of course it's okay if you don't forget me. Then please say that you like me the most as a reward, Your Highness."

Si Jingli: “…”

The corners of his mouth that had just risen fell instantly.

Si Jingli said angrily: "You are taking advantage of the situation!"

Chu Shitong nodded happily.

"Yes."

Chu Shitong's direct admission made Si Jingli a little at a loss. He looked at the people coming and going on the long street, and an inexplicable feeling arose spontaneously, as if at this moment, all the passers-by looked at him strangely, as if they were waiting for him to speak.

Si Jingli was angry and embarrassed, "I will never say that in front of so many people!"

Chu Shitong glanced around and it was clear that there was no one around, and the people on the street were all staying far away from them.

She raised her eyebrows and looked at Si Jingli, saying, "Your Highness the Crown Prince promised me before, is the deal going to be cancelled?"

"you!"

Si Jingli felt uncomfortable all over. If he were asked to say it out loud in the street, even in the smallest voice, he would be too shy, okay?

"It seems that His Royal Highness wants to cancel it." Chu Shitong said: "Well, since His Royal Highness has decided this, I can't do anything about it."

"Who said I was canceling?"

Si Jingli was forced into a desperate situation step by step by Chu Shitong.

Although he felt this was very shameful, he also felt that Chu Shitong was a bad person at heart.

But in my heart, I felt a strange liking for Chu Shitong's behavior of begging me to say that he liked her.

Chu Shitong urged maliciously, "Then Your Highness, just speak up. Otherwise, if someone approaches you later, Your Highness will definitely be embarrassed."

Si Jingli quickly looked around to make sure that no one was around, then bit his lip and whispered, "I... I like Chu Shitong the most..."

The boy's unique and spiritual voice became soft due to shyness.

After he finished speaking, he didn't even have time to look at Chu Shitong's reaction before his face felt so hot that it was about to smoke. He quickly covered his face in shame.

Chu Shitong felt instantly refreshed. As expected, it was more fun to bully the adorable little prince.

"Then I will just try to be liked by His Royal Highness."

"what?!"

Si Jingli's expression changed instantly, but the blush on the tips of his ears still remained.

"It's your honor that my prince likes you, don't be ungrateful!"

This sentence seems familiar.

When Chu Shitong heard that he was going to make trouble again, he immediately admitted his mistake and said, "Okay, okay, it's my honor. I am very honored."

Si Jingli felt that he had spoken too loudly just now. He looked around and saw someone looking at him. He couldn't tell whether he was embarrassed or angry, so he turned around and left. Chu Shitong immediately chased after him with a shameless face. He chased him for three blocks and finally coaxed this little ancestor into compliance with his words of flattery.

......

After sending Si Jingli back to the inn, Chu Shitong received a letter from Ji Shu, which was delivered at full speed.

I originally thought it was an emergency, but I didn't expect that Ji Shu wrote this letter because of Wang Zexu.

Ji Shu said that Wang Zexu suddenly came to his house, but Chu Shitong was not in the capital, so Wang Zexu must have known that. Ji Shu refused to receive the guest according to the convention, and he could not entertain the guest when the host was not there. Unexpectedly, Wang Zexu gave him a letter, begging him to deliver it to Chu Shitong as soon as possible, saying that he had something very important to discuss with her. Ji Shu did not dare to make a decision casually, so he sent someone to deliver it urgently over a hundred miles away.

Judging from the date, it should have been written two days ago.

Inside the envelope was a letter from Wang Zexu to him, and Chu Shitong opened it and took a look.

As he watched, Chu Shitong frowned again.

The reason why Wang Zexu came this time was because of the little palace maid Huaying.

Probably what happened was that Wang Zexu listened to Chu Shitong's words before and took Chu Shiyu to Concubine Li's palace, thus preventing Huaying from continuing to be punished.

Although Chu Shiyu did not punish Concubine Li for this incident, he did not stay in Concubine Li's palace.

Originally this was a very normal thing. Passing by a palace did not mean that one had to rest in that palace tonight. However, Concubine Li always felt that Huaying had caused her to fall out of favor, so she did not dare to confront her openly and instead schemed against her in secret.

Wang Zexu wrote this letter because Huaying was going to be given by Concubine Li to an old and ugly eunuch as her partner.

Wang Zexu was really anxious, but he really had no way to stop it, so he could only write a letter to Chu Shitong, begging him with helpless words, hoping that Chu Shitong could help him think of a solution.

Chu Shitong was also in a dilemma. He could only ask for help from two people, Yun Xiangrong and Chu Shifeng.

It was almost impossible to ask Yun Xiangrong for help, so the only option was to ask Chu Shifeng for help.

Originally, Chu Shitong was not a person who liked to meddle in other people's affairs, but Wang Zexu's position and value in the palace were irreplaceable by others. He was basically a chess piece that could not be abandoned, so Chu Shitong had to help this time.

She thought about it for a long time, and finally wrote a letter to Chu Shifeng, hoping that he could get Huaying out from Concubine Li.

In order to avoid suspicion, Chu Shitong claimed that his maid Bishui was Huaying's fellow villager. Huaying asked him for help. Chu Shitong was kind-hearted and did not want to let such a good girl be treated like this by Concubine Li, so he hoped that Chu Shifeng could give Huaying to him.

She also wrote a letter to Wang Zexu, asking him to communicate the information with Huaying in advance so that Chu Shifeng would not be exposed during the investigation.

Chu Shitong was afraid that Chu Shifeng would find fault with him, so he wrote a few words to express his longing for Chu Shifeng during the days he was away from the capital. He also picked out some gifts from Jingzhou to send to him, and that was it.

Chu Shitong has done everything she could. If Huaying really cannot be saved, there is nothing Chu Shitong can do. She has already done her best.

......

On August 13, almost all the people in the Wu Mansion were killed. Yueying sent a message saying that Wu Wenchang was going crazy. After killing his mother and wife in front of him, Wu Wenchang was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot.

Chu Shitong felt that Wu Wenchang was really stubborn, so he had to focus more on Liu Zeshan for the time being.

A man pretending to be Wu Wenchang from the governor's mansion sent a message saying that Liu Zeshan invited him to a brothel for a gathering. Chu Shitong asked him to refuse on the grounds that the imperial guards were monitoring him more strictly recently and it was inconvenient for him to go in and out of the brothel.

On August 14, Rushuang came back.

As luck would have it, Si Jingli was there when I came back.

However, this time, Si Jingli was reading a storybook in front of the window, while Chu Shitong was painting beside him. The room was very quiet except for Si Jingli's occasional laugh.

"Chu Shitong, you should really take a look at this storybook, it's very interesting."

Chu Shitong said: "I am not interested in books written by the Southern School Yuan Xi."

What interesting things can Yuan Xi write?

"Don't you not read storybooks? How do you know all this?" Si Jingli said with interest, "The books written by this Southern School writer Yuan Xi are really interesting. Have you read her 'Gun Version of Journey to the West'? Except for the weird name, everything else is interesting. This 'True Records of Tomb Robbers' is also interesting."

"I just happened to hear a few words."

Rushuang appeared in the room and stepped forward and said, "Your Highness."

Seeing Rushuang coming back, Si Jingli knew that she had something important to do, so he didn't say anything more.

Chu Shitong asked: "How is it?"

Rushuang answered truthfully: "Liu Zeshan didn't like any of our people."

Chu Shitong: “….”

She rubbed her brows with a headache, "Is Liu Zeshan's standards so high?"

"I have long said that he has very high standards... He doesn't like ordinary beautiful women."

This put Chu Shitong in a dilemma again. She wanted to capture Liu Zeshan alive. If she forced him, and Liu Zeshan committed suicide during the process, then she would have no idea where the remaining money that Wu Wenchang had not mentioned was.

Si Jingli suddenly said: "What's so good about those girls? I think you are much prettier than those girls, although you are still not as good-looking as this prince."