Did the third place winner regret it today?

Chapter 62

When Shen Ti came out of the bathroom, Yin Shi had already washed his face and rinsed his mouth.
She glanced at him, Shen Ti held back her laughter, walked to the side room, sat on the couch, and took the tea handed to her by the maid.
Yin Shi also followed him out, sat on the couch, and asked him, "Why did you come back so early today? Where are my brothers?"
Shen Ti took a sip of tea: "My uncles have their own plans for the afternoon, and they said I don't need to worry about it."

My eldest brother has lived in Beijing for a few years, but both cousins ​​are visiting Beijing for the first time. What arrangements do you have that don't require Shen Ti to accompany you?
Or... is there any arrangement that you don't want your brother-in-law Shen Ti to follow?

Yin Shi understood it as soon as he thought about it and sneered.
When she raised her eyes, she saw Shen Ti holding a teacup and looking at her.
Yin Shi raised his eyebrows.
Shen Ti gently used the lid to push away the tea leaves, but her eyes were on Yin Shi.
"Sister, you..." he said, "you really know a lot."

His voice is soft and slow, but it can give people pressure.
Even though he is still so young, he was born a nobleman, a master, and a superior. Shaped by the environment, he knew how to put pressure on others since he was a child.

Yin Shi chuckled.
"Everything is already there. You can understand it naturally by hearing, seeing and thinking about it," she said. "Of course, we women are not as free as you men to go out. We see and hear much more than we do, so we seem to understand much more than we do."
"In fact, even if you are a woman, if you are willing to look, listen, and think, you can understand what you should understand."

"My brothers are like that at home, and they go in and out of those places. I am so old now, I can't be like my younger sisters and nieces who haven't even reached the age of marriage yet, and know nothing."
"Why would I send you away? Of course it's because you're my brother-in-law, and my new brother-in-law. No matter what, it's not appropriate for me to go to a place like that with you on our wedding day."

"As for you," Yin Shi sighed, "I praised you last night for nothing. I thought you had never been there before, that you were clean and didn't know anything about it. Looking at you, have you been there before?"

Shen Ti raised her eyelids.
"Sister is only a few months older than me. To be honest, we are the same age. But sister always looks down on me. Sister never thinks that no matter how young I am, I am also a government official. I have to deal with more social events and meet more people than my uncles."

Yin Shi suddenly realized.
She did feel enlightened. Because of the difference in time and space, she always had the illusion that Shen Ti's winning the third place in the imperial examination and entering the Imperial Academy was to "go to college."
It was also because of his age that although she was clear about it intellectually, she actually always subconsciously treated him as a student.

But in fact, Shen Ti has already become an official.
Although he is still of a low rank and wears a green robe, he is equivalent to a central selected student in another time and space, with a good family background. He is on the best career path, which is enviable.
But since you are an official, you have entered the officialdom. What is the officialdom like? From ancient times to the present, even in different time and space, it is the same.

Yin Shi defended himself seriously: "I have never looked down on you in terms of knowledge and career."
Shen Ti stared at her.
In what way did she despise him?
...Male and female, right?
It makes people even more angry.

"No, Jiyun." Yin Shi sat up from his knees, leaned forward on the couch, and approached Shen Ti. "Why are you so hostile to me?"
Shen Ti paused.
Yin Shi leaned forward again and asked clearly, "Have you forgotten that we are not real husband and wife?"
Shen Ti and her eyes met.

Was she putting pressure on him by moving forward like this?
Shen Ti turned around to drink tea, not facing her directly, and said: "There is no such thing as hostility, sister, please stop talking nonsense..."
Yin Shi interrupted him: "Silly, I am on your side!"

Shen Ti turned back to look at her.
She sat back down, smiling and annoyed: "I said at the Donglin Temple that I would cooperate with you in everything and make sure you and Feng become a couple. I will bear the title of your legal wife and will also fulfill the responsibilities of a legal wife."

"Just tell me directly what I did wrong these days, don't treat me like this." Yin Shi's eyes were filled with grievance, "Before I came here from Huaixi, I imagined that the two of us would work together and discuss things. I had a very good imagination at that time."

Shen Ti stared at her while holding the tea.
After a while, he put down the teacup and rubbed his forehead: "Speak properly."
I see through it and I won't fall for it.

Yin Shi said innocently: "You treated me like that, so I can only treat you like this."
"What did I do to my sister?" Shen Ti asked, "I have never been impolite to my sister."
Shen Ti admitted that he was a little emotional just now, but it was nothing serious and he didn't mean to be "bad" to her.

"You can't do to me like you just did."
"What kind?"
"so--"
Yin Shi lowered his face slightly, then raised his eyes and looked straight ahead.
"That's it. See?"

When used in film and television works, it is called Kubrick gaze.
When written in novels, it is usually written as "lift the eyelids".
This way of looking at people can put psychological pressure on them.

"..." Shen Ti, "Do I have it?"
"You don't admit it, do you?"
"Okay." Shen Ti admitted.
Although he didn't know what Kubrick or raising his eyelids were, he certainly knew how much pressure talking to people in this way could put on the other person.
He actually used it on Yin Shi, which was wrong when you think about it.

"I don't do that, and neither should you," he said.
For some reason he didn't want to see her fake look just now.
Yin Shi thought that something was worth pondering: "But you did that just to make me do that, didn't you?"
Putting pressure on people is not just about making them give in.

"I have come all the way to your home in the capital. If you treat me badly, you will show me your displeasure." She said, "After my brothers leave, who will support me?"
"No, in fact, they won't support me even if they are here."
"It's because you're newly married that they can't bring themselves to take you with them today. In the future, I'm afraid they will be able to enjoy the wedding feast with you happily."

"You must also understand how much the Yin family is looking forward to this marriage."
"I married into your family because I can't rely on anyone."
"only you."
"I trust you and have high hopes for you, so I don't disguise myself in front of you. That might make you unhappy." "So, Jiyun, if you want to use your power as a husband on me, I can do as you wish."
"It's nothing more than being gentle, respectful and frugal in front of you, pretending to be a good wife."
"I have lived like this for 18 years. It won't be difficult for me to continue living like this for the rest of my life."
Yin Shi smiled and said, "What do you think? How about I start performing for you right now?"

Shen Ti's eyes were fixed on the couch.
When she finished speaking, he raised his eyes and said, "I was wrong just now. I won't do that again in the future. You shouldn't do that either."
He would feel uncomfortable. He would really feel uncomfortable if Yin Shi pretended to be humble in front of him.
He still liked her annoying look.

And what she just said was true. After she got married, she had no one to rely on.
She came just for him.
We clapped our hands three times in Donglin Temple. How could we forget our original intention?
How could I betray her trust?

Yin Shi stared at him: "Then, won't you give me the cold shoulder in the future?"
"No." Shen Ti's neck turned slightly red, feeling a little embarrassed.
His neck turned red, and Yin Shi believed that he was sincere. She became happy: "Jiyun, I like your frankness, your courage to admit what you do, and your understanding of others."
"It sounds simple, but it's actually very difficult to do. Many people can't even admit it. Not to mention thinking about others, it's very difficult for them."

How could she say "I like you" so easily in front of others, especially to a man?
Shen Ti began to feel the temperature of her neck.
When he was eighteen, few people could make his neck hot anymore.
The two most recent times were by Yin Shi.

"Ahem..." He turned his head away and was about to speak when Lu Yan's voice suddenly rang out from outside the door: "Hanlin, we found it."
Great.
Shen Ti immediately took advantage of the situation and said, "Bring it in."

Yin Shi looked over and saw the lattice door opened. Lu Yan came in holding a zither and handed it to Shen Ti.
Shen Ti sat cross-legged, placed the zither on her knees, plucked it a few times, and asked while tuning the strings: "Sister, you also learned to play the zither, right? I saw there was a zither in your dowry list, why didn't I see it? Haven't you packed up the boxes yet?"

Now it was Yin Shi's turn to cough.
Because when I was cleaning up the day before yesterday, I had already picked up the piano. Kui Er asked directly: "Do we still need to put this thing out?"
What if some female elder saw it and forced her to perform on the spot? Yin Shi would not dig such a trap for herself. She waved her hand decisively: "Whoever plays it, put it in the warehouse."
It should be hanging on the warehouse wall now.

"It's just for show. I don't play it. There's no need to show it off." Yin Shi was thick-skinned and dared to admit, "If relatives and elders came and saw me, they would force me to play a song. If I don't play it, it will be embarrassing. If I play it... it might be even more embarrassing for you."

Shen Ti turned her face away.
His neck was no longer red, and had returned to a fair and clean complexion.
Yin Shi was speechless: "Laugh if you want to. Not everyone has musical talent...musical talent."

The skill of nourishing qi is not necessary at this moment. People at least need a place where they can completely relax and someone in front of whom they don't have to act pretentiously.
In Shen Ti's memory, that person a few years ago was Mrs. Shen.
But as he grew older, returned from studying abroad for several years, had conflicts with his parents, etc. He could no longer return to his previous state in front of Mrs. Shen.

These days, Yin Shi had broken his Qi cultivation skills several times. Now, he really felt that there was no need to be so arrogant in front of her.
Turning back, I saw that the corners of his mouth were still raised.

Although Yin Shi looked sweet and tender, she was actually very tough and difficult to deal with. Shen Ti once felt that she was suppressed by her, which led to her emotional backlash today.
Who would have thought that she, a person who taught herself "The Great Music of the Intercourse of Yin and Yang of Heaven and Earth", would be so frustrated in learning the piano.
It's really funny.

"What's going on?" Shen Ti asked, "Is it the teacher who can't do it? Qin can't do it? Or...um..."
Or is it just that the human being is not good enough?
Yin Shi sighed: "I don't want villains to succeed."
If you can't succeed now, when will you?
Shen Ti smiled even more happily.

All right. Yin Shi admitted: "Neither of them works very well."
I don't have any musical talent to begin with, and the teacher's teaching method is very dogmatic, which doesn't arouse my interest.
Moreover, the Yin family's girls' school was very relaxed, with adults not caring much about the girls' study. It was originally a place for girls to kill time.
Sisters like to go there, mainly because it is a place where everyone gathers.

"How much have you learned?" Shen Ti asked.
Yin Shi said: "I know the basic fingerings, but I only know one piece of music, "Xiang Fei Yuan", and I can't remember the whole thing now. I don't know anything else. I'm really not interested in this."
If someone else played it and it sounded good, she would definitely be happy to listen to it. But her own playing was really not that good, she couldn't find any fun in it, and there was no one to encourage her, so she gave up.

In ancient times, listening to music became inconvenient. One had to keep musicians. The Yin family did have some, but they were only for the masters and sons, mainly for banquets and entertaining guests. The family did not allow girls to have contact with musicians.
Although prostitutes are different, they have something in common.
Come to think of it, Yin Shi hasn't listened to any music for quite a while.
Especially in small places, one of the characteristics of ancient times was quietness.

"Let me teach you." Shen Ti suggested.
"That's not necessary." Yin Shi wanted to refuse.
"The zither and flowers, poetry and painting, books and tea, have always been inseparable. Sister has the heart to grow flowers, and I don't believe you don't have the heart to tune the zither." He said, "When mother came to the capital, she had never even touched a zither. It was father who taught her, and now her zither skills are as good as anyone else's."

Indeed, in the side room where Mrs. Shen lived, Yin Shi saw the piano table and the piano. It seemed to have become a part of Mrs. Shen's daily life.
Yin Shi just didn't expect that Mrs. Shen had never learned to play the piano before she got married.
But think about it, that was almost twenty years ago, and the Yin family was just a small merchant family at that time. It was a great achievement for a girl to be able to read, and she probably couldn't even master the fine arts of music, chess, calligraphy and painting.
After twenty years of development and accumulation, it was not until Yin Shi's generation that she began to become a pampered rich girl and had the conditions to learn the piano.

"If mother can learn well, I don't believe that sister can't. You both have the surname Yin." Shen Ti said, "Sister, why don't you trust me for once? I will be your teacher."
"how?"

(End of this chapter)