Grudge Breaker

Chapter 352: Born in the Morning and Died in the Evening (Part )
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"Oh my, no wonder my left eyelid has been twitching this morning, it turns out that Master Si Chen has come to visit!"

When the proprietress of the rouge and powder shop on Water Street saw Mo Tingfeng and Sang Pu come in, her eyes narrowed into slits with a smile, making the pink shadow on her eyelids even more eye-catching.

"The girl that Lord Si Chen loves the most, I remember you! You are like a fairy. I haven't seen you for a while, and you look even more beautiful!"

The proprietress wiped her hands carefully with a handkerchief, then took Sang Pu's arm affectionately and was about to take her to see the new goods. She looked so familiar with the place that it seemed as if they both came here often.

Mo Tingfeng felt a little uncomfortable. Although he had lived for more than a thousand years, he had no experience of having a proper tryst with a woman. Now he was just imitating what Zhuang Yuheng did last time when he brought Song Weichen to buy rouge and powder, hoping to make the girl happy. He was not sure whether Sang Pu liked it, so he explained in a low voice,
"I'm busy with official duties, so there are only a few places I can think of to relax with Weiwei. These are all things that women like. She enjoyed it when she was there, so I think... you will like it too."

It's embarrassing to say, but when they were walking along the way, every time they passed by a store stall, Mo Tingfeng would subconsciously ask Sang Pu if he wanted velvet flowers, necklaces, roasted chestnuts, or candied haws according to Song Weichen's preferences, and Sang Pu would always smile and shake his head.

After this happened a few times, Mo Tingfeng became visibly uneasy. This was clearly the woman he had been thinking about for a thousand years, so how come he didn't know how to get along with her now that she was right in front of him?

He didn't know what she liked to eat, nor did he know what she was interested in, and he didn't even know what topic to talk about. Although he had countless questions about things thousands of years ago, he held the words back when they came to his lips.

Seeing Mo Tingfeng at a loss, Sang Pu smiled faintly and nodded as a response to her liking for this rouge and powder shop, then let the proprietress take her to try on her beauty.

……

In fact, she grew up in a brothel, and what she hated most, besides the smell of alcohol, was the smell of cosmetics.

These smells always reminded her of the villa, and the group of canaries trapped in cages. For a bite of beggar's food, they put on thick rouge and powder every day to please all kinds of men. Some of them got shameful diseases and skin ulcers because of this. They would use thicker powder and heavier fragrance to cover up the stench of their rotting skin.

So Sang Pu subconsciously felt that the smell of powder was not clean.

She preferred the natural scent of clean skin after a bath - Mo Tingfeng had this scent when he came to the villa to listen to the piano. It was not covered by the smell of alcohol and cosmetics, but seemed even more innocent.

Thinking of Mo Tingfeng in the past, Sang Pu curled the corners of her lips, and a trace of special affection flashed across her eyes, but it disappeared in an instant. She thought about what happened later - later she herself also had that kind of fragrance that was pungent and pungent.

Especially after the "Tian Zhiming Ghost Festival", the night when she went to the box to meet the king's uncle, she, Sang Pu, was even worse than those "sisters" in the other courtyard.

Thinking of that night, Sang Pu frowned slightly, and even felt a little nauseous. The sharp-eyed proprietress saw this and immediately stopped applying powder to her face. She looked at Mo Tingfeng and then at Sang Pu, and suddenly clapped her hands.

"Oh my! Is the girl pregnant?"

At that time, Mo Tingfeng was sitting at the elegant table drinking tea, waiting for them to try on his beauty. When he heard this, he couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of tea.

"Pfft! Cough cough cough..."

When the proprietress saw his reaction, she quickly covered her mouth with a handkerchief, looked around with a smile, and bowed repeatedly to Mo Tingfeng.
"Oh, Master Si Chen, look at my stupid mouth! I know, I know, but I won't say anything, I won't say anything!"

Then, as if she had thought of something, she hastily took out a cotton puff and wiped away all the rouge and powder on Sang Pu's face.
"Oh, my dear, this perfume powder contains musk, and the rouge contains lead powder and cinnabar, both of which can harm the fetus. Your body is precious, so you must not use them during this period! If...if...oh, I will be committing a great sin!"

The store was not big, and there were many female customers who came in groups to choose cosmetics. When they heard the proprietress's voice, they raised their bronze mirrors and pretended to look at themselves, but actually they were looking at the two people.

There were two women who were obviously members of the noble family. They were obviously familiar with the affairs of these "big shots". When they saw that it was Lord Si Chen who brought Sang Pu, they raised their handkerchiefs to cover their faces and whispered to the people next to them.

"Look, that's her."

"I heard that she secretly slept with Lord Si Chen by using the aphrodisiac sachet. The princess came to stay at Si Chen's mansion a few days ago, just to punish her."

"Yes, yes, yes. I heard from the people in the Ruan Mansion that she was forced to drink saffron, and she had a miscarriage of a boy, which was already fully formed. The resentful spirit was still there, so she specially performed a ritual. How come she is pregnant again so soon?"

"Looking at how much Lord Si Chen dotes on me, I'm afraid I'll have to compete with the eldest princess in the future."

"Is she qualified for this? Isn't she just a musician?"

…Several people were whispering in a very low voice, but Mo Tingfeng had such good hearing that he heard every word.

His cheeks tightened again and again. Although he never hit a woman, he couldn't stand listening to Song Weichen being framed like this. He couldn't help but use his fingertips to secretly exert force, and the Sancai covered bowl in his hand "smashed" into pieces of porcelain on the table.

"roll."

He was not looking at the women when he said this, but they all felt a chill on their backs, their faces turned pale with fright, they hurriedly threw away the powder in their hands, lowered their heads and covered their faces with handkerchiefs, avoided his sight and ran out of the door.

The proprietress didn't have the same hearing ability as Mo Tingfeng, and had no idea what was going on. Seeing his sudden outburst, she was so scared that her knees went weak and she fell to the ground, her forehead resting on the cold blue bricks, her voice trembling and out of tune.

"Please forgive me, sir! I am ignorant and dumb, I deserve to have my tongue twisted! Please... please just treat me like a fart..."

The lady boss apologized while feeling annoyed. This Lord Si Chen was a famous cold-faced devil in the sleeping world. How could she think she could chat with him just because he smiled at other women? She was really being rude today! No, this was not being rude, it was simply a sin!

Feeling regretful and scared at the same time, he fell to his knees on the ground and started sobbing.

Mo Tingfeng had not expected that taking Sang Pu to a store would turn out like this. He blamed himself in his heart and took out an ingot of imperial silver and placed it on the table.
"I'm sorry to interrupt your business."

Sang Pu bent over and helped the proprietress up.
"Lord Si Chen was thinking about an important official case, so he was upset. He got angry when he heard the noise around him. It has nothing to do with you, so please don't take it to heart."

It was no longer appropriate to stay any longer, so they left the powder shop and strolled along the water street - the wind was stronger on the waterside, and it was not safe near the water, so he quietly switched places with Sang Pu and protected him on the inside.

But because of the incident just now, Mo Tingfeng's face was very dark. The pedestrians who used to come over to greet Lord Si Chen when they saw him no longer dared to come forward, which gave the two people space to talk.

"Sang Pu, the reason why I just now..."

"I heard it all."

Before Mo Tingfeng could explain, Sang Pu had already spoken. She was now using Song Weichen's body, and although it was weak, it had a level C or higher magical power, so it was not difficult for her to hear the whispers of several people.

"Weiwei is not the woman they say she is!"

Mo Tingfeng was a little anxious.
"She is an innocent girl. We haven't... married her legally yet. I can't possibly touch her."

Compared to Mo Tingfeng, Sang Pu was much more indifferent, mainly because she had experienced too many such things as gossip. Living in the brothel, she had never been innocent in the eyes of the world.

When Sang Pu first heard those people gossiping, she knew that someone was deliberately trying to discredit Song Weichen. She just didn't understand why Mo Tingfeng was so eager to explain to her.

"Why are you telling me this, Mr. Mo?"

"because……"

Mo Tingfeng looked painful, and hesitated for a long time before speaking.
"Because you are an innocent girl, you were innocent a thousand years ago, and you will be innocent a thousand years later. A thousand years ago, I owed you a formal wedding, and a thousand years later, I will never let you down, Weiwei."

"Wedding..."

Sang Pu murmured along, his eyes flickering. A thousand years ago, at the grand wedding of the prince's uncle that shocked the capital, she had deliberately dressed in red, walked through the city without covering herself with a sedan chair curtain, and even deliberately made an excuse to cause trouble in front of the mansion gate, and lifted her veil in public so that people could clearly see that it was her. Didn't he see it too?

"Mr. Mo, have you forgotten that Sang Pu was married a thousand years ago and is no longer an innocent girl. What happened between you and me...is over a long time ago. Mr. Mo, please do not let Miss Song down."

"Sang Pu..."

Mo Tingfeng looked more and more painful.
"After Weiwei recalled her previous memory about you, she told me one thing - Sang Pu died because of you."

"Why were you so determined to marry the uncle of the emperor? Even today, you still don't want to tell me the truth?"