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Chapter 685: Many Cheats 6
However, Shen Erniang was still thinking, this "Collection of Poems and Lyrics" was really not made by Lady Jing'an? After all, if she became so popular, it would be the most disadvantageous to her and her daughter. According to whoever would benefit the most from bringing her down, they would be the murderer. Lady Jing'an and her daughter were highly suspicious.

But at this moment, Shen Erniang did not dare to question the wife of Marquis Jing'an, because Marquis Jing'an was obviously angry.

When Jing'an Bo heard her words, he slammed the table and cursed, "Asshole! Do you know how much of a joke you will bring to Jing'an Bo's Mansion? Hurry up and tell everyone immediately that these poems were written by great ancient poets. You just got these poems by accident and thought they were well written, so you wrote them down for everyone to see if everyone thinks these poems are well written as you do."

What Jing'an Marquis meant was that she should not say that she copied the poem just to test everyone's opinion on the poem and whether they shared the same opinion as hers. This would minimize the extent to which she would be laughed at and, of course, would also reduce the damage to Jing'an Marquis's Mansion.

It must be said that Jing'an Bo's plan was the best solution, because Shen Erniang had already copied it and was discovered. There was no other way except to force an explanation like this.

Although everyone knew that what Shen Erniang said was just an excuse, as long as the people in Jing'an Marquis's Mansion insisted that Shen Erniang posted those poems for the purpose of sharing and not plagiarism, there was nothing others could do.

Shen Erniang naturally did not dare to disobey Jing'an Earl's arrangement, so she did as she was told.

She also knew that it would be impossible for her not to do as Jing'an Earl asked.

It's a pity that she was so popular before. You know, before that, many princes and nobles had extended olive branches to her and had a good impression of her. If she had fought for it, she might have been able to marry him.

Now she says that those poems were not written by herself but by others, and she was just sharing them. Then she has lost the halo of a talented woman, and she is afraid that she will not be able to marry those princes and nobles. How can she not feel regretful?
So Shen Erniang asked tentatively: "Father, can we...wait until someone wants to get engaged to me, and then talk about this after the engagement?"

She just wanted to arrange a good marriage first.

As long as she is willing, this will happen quickly. After all, she is a talented woman and is admired by many people.

But Jing'an Bo understood what she was planning after hearing her words - Isn't it just to cheat for a better marriage? - His face darkened and he said, "Are you out of your mind? This person sent us this book of poems to remind us that someone outside knows what you did. After you got the book, you didn't clarify it quickly, and you planned to cheat for marriage under the banner of a talented woman. Aren't you afraid that the people in the dark will see that you are unrepentant and directly expose this matter? Besides, even if you get someone to get engaged to you, after you get engaged and say that your poem is not written by you, the other party will still maintain the engagement relationship with you and will not cancel the engagement? By then, you will lose the halo of a talented woman, and someone will cancel the engagement. It will be difficult for you to marry into an ordinary family. Now that you have made it clear, at least you can marry into an ordinary family."

After Shen Erniang heard this, she thought that this was true, and she couldn't help feeling uncomfortable. She thought that the news was exposed too quickly. If she had waited until she got married to expose it, she wouldn't have to worry about it. After all, an engagement could be cancelled, but if she was married, in this world, and with her background, divorce would generally not be allowed.

But she knew that it was still in time for the engagement, but it was too late for the marriage. After all, the time from engagement to marriage was very long, and she was afraid that it would be too late and the news would be exposed. Shen Erniang had no choice but to reluctantly follow Jing'an Bo's instructions and say these words to the outside world.

When the people outside heard Shen Erniang say that she just thought those poems were good, so she shared them with everyone to see if everyone also thought those poems were good, there was an uproar.

After all, what Shen Erniang said was a lie. Didn’t she just plagiarize and then admit it?
They said that those poems were so good that they didn't seem like they could be written by Shen Er Niang. Now it seems that, indeed, they were not written by Shen Er Niang.

Also, since it was plagiarized, shouldn't Shen Erniang return the first prize she won at those poetry meetings? After all, if it was plagiarized, how could Shen Erniang be qualified to take the first prize?

——Shen Erniang naturally didn't want to return those things. After all, with such a thing happening, she was afraid that she would not be able to marry into a wealthy family as she had planned. If she couldn't marry into a wealthy family, she would not have much private money. In this way, the first prizes she won from the poetry competition before would be a large sum of money for her. As long as the other party didn't ask her for it, she would not take the initiative to return it. After all, in this era, it was too difficult for her, a concubine's daughter who had no one to support her privately, to save some private money. So how could she be willing to give up such a large sum of property? Anyway, she wouldn't return it. I think the wife of the Marquis of Jing'an would also use her own things to make up the gap for the reputation of the Marquis of Jing'an's Mansion.

Would the wife of Jing'an Marquis pay for the bets out of her own pocket for Shen Erniang? How could it be possible! If she had to make up for it, it would be Jing'an Marquis. Why would she do that? After all, the reputation of Jing'an Marquis's mansion was damaged, and she was not the only one affected. Everyone in the mansion would be affected, so why should she rush to pay for everyone in the mansion?

Although it was impossible to pay out of her own pocket to make up for the prize money that Shen Erniang had not returned, Lady Jing'an couldn't ask Shen Erniang to return the things she had won before without her saying so, in case the girl couldn't tell good from bad and had a grudge against her, thinking that she was forcing her to return those things. Anyway, if she didn't return the prize money, it would be Shen Erniang's own reputation that would be damaged, so she had nothing to worry about.

There is no need to worry that Shen Er Niang will not return the prize money and the reputation of the Jing'an Marquis's Mansion will be damaged. If Jing'an Marquis knew about this, he would definitely react. He would either pay the prize money for Shen Er Niang himself or ask Shen Er Niang to return the prize money she had received before. Anyway, she would be satisfied as long as she didn't have to do the evil thing.

The wife of the Marquis of Jing'an guessed correctly. Soon, the Marquis of Jing'an heard people outside talking about the prize. Fearing that it would bring bad reputation to the Marquis of Jing'an's mansion, he asked Shen Erniang to take out the prize and return it to the person who offered it that day.

Shen Erniang naturally didn't want to take out the things she had obtained, but because it was Jing'an Earl's request, she didn't dare not take it. She could only take it out honestly and return the things.

Fortunately, this matter was not caused by Lady Jing'an, so Shen Erniang could not blame Lady Jing'an at this moment - although she was still suspicious and always felt that it was Lady Jing'an who was whispering in her ear, otherwise the mansion would have paid the money back and would not have asked a little girl like her to return it.

But she never thought that it was normal for Jing'an Bo to ask her to return it, because Jing'an Bo had several children. If she took the prize money and didn't return it, and Jing'an Bo used the public money to buy things to compensate those people, then, after spending money on Shen Erniang, should he also spend money on others? Otherwise, why should he only spend money on her?