Reborn Princess

After Zhou Cechen finished speaking, he saw that Tang Song was still reluctant to leave, so he turned around and asked, "Anything else?"

Tang Song hesitated for a moment and said, "A spy in the city reported that someone close to the queen has been trying to find out about Fusheng Tower."

Zhou Cechen said: "Let them spread the news about Fusheng Tower."

Tang Song glanced at Zhou Cechen and said, "Your Highness, this Fusheng Tower has always been managed by Young Marquis Lu. If the queen wants to find out anything, will you tell me everything?"

Zhou Cechen glanced at Tang Song, and that look made Tang Song feel a chill down his spine.

"Whatever she wants to investigate, let Lu Hanze do his best to investigate it."

"Yes."

After Tang Song left, Zhou Cechen turned and looked at Shen Lilan in the pavilion.

Shen Xilan picked up the calligraphy she had just written. She looked at the words on the paper for a while, shook her head and put it down. She put the words aside and took out a piece of paper to write again.

A hand reached out and picked up the written words. Shen Xilan looked up and saw Zhou Cechen holding her calligraphy and reading it.

She stood up and wanted to take the calligraphy, Zhou Cechen held it high and Shen Xilan reached out to grab it.

But he was so tall that Shen Xilan couldn't reach him even if she stretched out her arms, so she hugged Zhou Cechen's neck and tried to climb on top of him.

"The bridge is like a rainbow, the water is like the sky, and a leaf floats in the mist and rain." Zhou Cechen read out the contents on the paper.

Shen Lilan stopped in mid-air and had already finished reading.

"Lu You's "Longing"." Zhou Cechen lowered his eyes and looked at the person hanging on him. He was afraid that she would fall, so he put one hand on her waist.

Shen Xilan gave up struggling. She hung on Zhou Cechen, sighed, and wanted to get down, but Zhou Cechen didn't let go.

“Why did you write this?”

"The days I've lived in Yangzhou are really comfortable and uninhibited. I was born in such a beautiful place and I feel inspired."

Zhou Cechen nodded, "The handwriting is very beautiful."

Seeing that Zhou Cechen's hand was reluctant to let go, Shen Xilan was too lazy to struggle. After hearing what Zhou Cechen said, she felt a little disappointed.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Cechen felt her little emotion.

"Imitating your handwriting doesn't need to be beautiful."

The most important feature of the Slender Gold style is that it is strong and vigorous, as sharp as "bending iron and breaking gold", but Zhou Cechen said that her handwriting is beautiful.

Zhou Cechen took a look at Shen Lilan's handwriting and said, "You haven't seen my handwriting when I was young. My handwriting back then is 80% similar to yours now."

Shen Lilan was a little surprised, "Eighty percent like?"

"Handwriting changes with experience and age. Perhaps after I turned sixteen, I got used to fighting on the battlefield, so naturally even the strength of my handwriting changed."

"You are only seventeen now, the same age as I was then. How can you write like someone in their twenties?"

Shen Xilan blinked her eyes. She was indeed seventeen in this life, but after being reborn, she was actually more than seventeen years old. She was over twenty years old.

Seeing that Shen Lilan's thoughts were drifting away, Zhou Cechen put down the words in his hand and picked up Shen Lilan.

Shen Lilan was suddenly picked up by him, and she didn't know what Zhou Cechen wanted to do.

"Your Majesty." She called him.

"Come out with me."

Shen Lilan saw him carrying her back to the room and taking out a set of clothes for her.

"It's inconvenient to go into the city, so please change into the clothes Tang Song brought."

Shen Lilan looked at the clothes in his hand, a light blue gown worn by scholars.

"As a man?"

"It will be safer." Zhou Cechen replied.

At the door of the room, Shen Xilan changed her clothes and opened the door. Her eyes lit up. Zhou Cechen had also changed into the moon-white gown that scholars most often wore.

Zhou Cechen looked at Shen Xilan, who had changed his clothes, with a deep look in his eyes.

When Shen Lilan saw Zhou Cechen staring at her, she realized what she was wearing.

"What's wrong?" Shen Lilan looked at his clothes.

Zhou Cechen walked forward, his tall figure blocking the sun from shining on Shen Lilan.

"It looks good," he said.

Shen Xilan touched the clothes on her body. Does she look good in men's clothes?

"Let's go." He pulled Shen Lilan up and was about to leave but Shen Lilan broke free.

"We are men, how can you hold my hand outside?" Shen Lilan said.

Zhou Cechen looked at his empty hands, then looked up at Shen Xilan. He felt helpless for a moment.

"Zhou Jinzhi, we have agreed that you are not allowed to hold hands or get close to each other outside today."

Zhou Cechen saw her calling him Zhou Jinzhi in a serious manner, and he smiled and said, "Listen to my wife."

"Stop, stop, stop. Why are you calling me Madam? Call me Brother Jinning."

Tang Song followed Zhou Cechen and listened to the conversation between his princess and prince. He found it funny for a moment, but he didn't dare to laugh out loud.

"What? Madam, do you want to be my brother for life?" Zhou Cechen looked at Shen Lilan who forced her to retreat.

"No." Shen Xilan's hand immediately stopped Zhou Cechen from moving forward.

"One day is enough." Shen Lilan looked at Zhou Cechen with a smile.

Zhou Cechen looked at her cunning eyes and finally gave in. "Okay, Madam, it's one day at a time."

"It's Brother Jinning." Shen Lilan reminded him.

"Okay, Brother Jinning said it will be one day at a time." Zhou Cechen and Shen Lilan walked out, and the people following them could hear the helplessness in the prince's tone.

After the two got off the carriage outside the city, Zhou Cechen took Shen Lilan all the way to a small alley. Shen Lilan roughly guessed who he was going to take her to see.

It was not until the old woman came to open the door after he knocked that Shen Lilan confirmed his thoughts.

Zhou Cechen has found the person who was involved in his mother's death.

When the old woman opened the door and saw two scholars, she bent over and asked, "Who are you?"

"People from the capital."

Hearing these four words, the old woman immediately wanted to close the door, but Zhou Cechen stretched out a hand to block her.

"Yang Youhua is my mother."

The old woman stopped and looked at Zhou Cechen, sizing him up.

Shen Xilan looked at her and saw that she was not moving. Just as he was about to speak, the old woman opened the door.

"Come in."

The door was closed, and Zhou Cechen and Shen Lilan entered the yard. It was a bit shabby inside, but it was cleaned up.

"Please sit down." The old woman poured them some water. "I don't have any tea here. You can just drink what you like."

Zhou Cechen answered directly: "Are you the senior maid who served my mother back then?"

"I am not a senior palace maid, but an old woman who can barely make ends meet. I don't know what you are asking."

"Aunt Suyun." Zhou Cechen looked at the old woman, "How did my mother die?"

The old woman paused while holding the kettle. "Like I said before, I'm not a palace maid, and I don't know what you want to ask."

After the old woman finished speaking, she put down the kettle and walked into the house. Zhou Cechen and Shen Lilan looked at each other.

Then the two of them got up and went into the house, where the old lady was busy moving firewood.

Seeing this, Zhou Cechen went to help her move firewood. The old woman was fetching water, so Zhou Cechen went to help her fetch water.

"Hey, I told you I don't know anything. Just drink your tea and leave. Don't come looking for me again."

Seeing that the two of them were at a stalemate, Shen Lilan stepped forward and said, "Grandma, don't you remember me?"

The old lady looked at Shen Lilan and frowned, "You..."

Shen Lilan took off the hairpin on her head, and her black hair spread out like silk. The old lady hesitated for a moment and said, "You are my benefactor!"