When Shen Jing returned to the Su Family, the things he had left in the dilapidated house had already been moved.
These items were sorted and sent to the room he shared with Su Yourong.
Seeing Shen Jing walk in, Su Yourong put down the paper in her hand and looked at him with a smile, "The great scholar is back?"
"Huh?"
Shen Jing was confused, "What great scholar?"
Su Yourong suppressed her smile and pointed to the paper on the table.
Shen Jing quickly walked over and picked up the paper.
Leaning alone on the dangerous railing, gazing at distant mountains, love follows cloud shadows into the secluded forest.
Pitying the fragrance, I often sigh at the short flowering period, my heart entrusted to the clear breeze, accompanying the moon's chant.
My only love is Lianxin!
Ah, crap!
What kind of terrible poem is this!
It's truly disgusting!
I'm going to throw up my dinner from last night.
Shen Jing was so embarrassed he wished he could find a hole to crawl into. He quickly exerted twelve-tenths of his Dragon Claw Hand's power, tearing the paper in his hand into shreds.
"What are you doing!"
Su Yourong feigned a scolding, "Such a masterpiece, why did you tear it? If you kept it, maybe you could even publish a poetry collection later!"
"Cough, cough…"
Shen Jing coughed awkwardly twice, "If you don't want me to eat dinner, just say so. Don't disgust me any further!"
Disgusting!
It was truly disgusting!
How could that guy before have written such disgusting things?
"Alas, men!"
Su Yourong desperately suppressed her smile, shaking her head and sighing softly, "When in love, only Lianxin is loved. When not in love, things one painstakingly wrote are disgusting even to look at…"
"Are you done yet?"
Shen Jing's kingly aura surged. He showed his palm and squinted at Su Yourong's perky butt, "If you keep this up, I'll have to let you experience the Shen Family's household rules!"
"Pah!"
Su Yourong lightly spat, then pointed to the stack of papers next to her, "There's a whole pile more! Although the quality is a bit lacking, the emotion is sincere and passionate. It made me so moved I almost cried…"
What the heck?
There's more?
Shen Jing quickly picked up the other stack of papers to examine them.
Love poems!
They were all damn love poems!
Either praising Song Lianxin, or expressing his feelings for Song Lianxin.
Shen Jing didn't know about the quality, high or low.
But he was truly disgusted!
"Brazier, brazier!"
Shen Jing really couldn't bear to look any longer. He quickly took the stack of papers and threw them into the brazier, then carried the brazier and ran outside the door.
Damn it, all these disgusting things had to be burned.
Seeing Shen Jing's appearance, Su Yourong couldn't help but burst into laughter.
A moment later, Su Yourong picked up a scroll from nearby and walked behind Shen Jing, who was lighting the fire outside the door, "There are also several paintings by a certain great scholar. These paintings are lifelike and vivid, clearly the result of painstaking effort…"
"I…"
Shen Jing's face twitched.
Nima!
How many stupid things did this lovesick man do!
Shen Jing snatched the scroll from Su Yourong's hand without a word, didn't even bother to look at it, and threw it directly into the brazier, then shivered and stood up.
Facing Su Yourong's teasing gaze, Shen Jing felt even more embarrassed, yet he brazenly spoke like a philosopher: "This isn't my dark history, this is just the path I took to get here!"
Just as Su Yourong was about to laugh, Shen Jing stared at the burning brazier and started to provide his own background music, "Fishing boats by the misty river, lights dim…"
Hmm?
Su Yourong suppressed her smile.
This tune…
So strange!
The lyrics were also so strange!
But it sounded pleasant to the ear.
It wasn't until Shen Jing stopped because he didn't know how to sing the rest that Su Yourong came back to her senses.
"You truly are a lovesick man!"
Su Yourong's face was again full of smiles, and she teased, "Not only did you write poems and paint, but you also composed music for her…"
"Stop, stop!"
Shen Jing quickly stopped Su Yourong, "I am burying my past! Just consider this a dirge I'm singing for my past!"
Saying that, Shen Jing quickly ran back into the house, rummaging through his pile of things to see if there were any other similar disgusting items.
If they were to be burned, they should all be burned together!
Burned cleanly and thoroughly!
He couldn't let these things occasionally pop up and disgust him.
"Don't look!"
Su Yourong at the doorway turned her head and looked over, "We've already looked for you."
"Oh, oh."
Shen Jing felt a little relieved, then turned his head to tease Su Yourong, "I say, you're not jealous, are you?"
"Yes, I am!"
Su Yourong smiled generously, "You did so much for Song Lianxin, but you've done nothing for me. How can I not be jealous? My request isn't high, just finish writing the ode to the goddess of the luo river for me!"
"…"
Shen Jing's face was covered in black lines.
This request isn't high?
Make me travel back in time to memorize the ode to the goddess of the luo river first!
Alas!
He had already told her that that thing was plagiarized, why didn't she believe him?
When he was about to die in the future, he had to publish a transmigration guide, telling future transmigrators that things of such high quality as the ode to the goddess of the luo river really shouldn't be copied casually!
Otherwise, one might accidentally…
"Let's forget about writing that thing!"
Shen Jing chuckled, "When I have time another day, I'll draw a few pictures for you!"
"No, no!"
Su Yourong smiled, "You should still write poems!"
She was also skilled in zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting. Although she said that Shen Jing's paintings were vivid and lifelike, she knew very well what the actual quality of those paintings was.
Making him paint was not as good as making him write poems!
Although, the quality of those love poems he wrote for Song Lianxin wasn't that great either.
"I can't write them!"
Shen Jing refused without thinking, "If you want me to sing some love songs or say some sweet nothings to you, that's no problem!"
"Pah!"
Su Yourong lightly spat, "You're better off painting!"
Just as the two were bantering, Chi Chi ran over, her face full of joy: "Young Master, people from the Zhao Family and the Song Family have come with generous gifts to apologize. Madam Su said she's too lazy to deal with it and wants you to handle it as you see fit."
"Apologize?"
Shen Jing was slightly surprised.
What's going on?
Why are they coming to apologize now?
Logically speaking, even if they were afraid of the Su Family, they should have come to apologize yesterday at this time or early this morning, right?
Is there a reason they chose this time to apologize?
Or was it a decision made after a long psychological struggle?
"Let's go, let's go see!"
Su Yourong didn't think too much and urged Shen Jing.
"Mm."
Shen Jing agreed, leading Su Yourong and Chi Chi out, but he had already made up his mind.
They can apologize!
However, it wouldn't be as simple as just bringing a gift to get off the hook!
The Song Family still owed him hundreds of thousands of guan!
Turning a corner in the corridor, the two met Madam Su, who was leisurely sitting there drinking tea.
"What did you do today?"
Madam Su asked Shen Jing with interest, "You just went out for a stroll, and these two families came to apologize! Your methods are quite good!"
"I didn't do anything."
Shen Jing smiled and shook his head, "I estimate they are afraid of Madam Mother-in-law's prestige, afraid that you will seek revenge on them for me!"
"Stop flattering me! Hurry up and send them away, don't ruin my mood!"
Madam Su glared at Shen Jing with a smile, then called out to Su Yourong and Chi Chi, "You two don't get involved, let him handle it himself!"