Inside the room, other than the occasional sound of pages turning, there was silence.
The embroidery ladies shifted their gaze from the girl back to the rabbit dozing off in its elevated position, attentively examining and finding the right angle against the light, contemplating where to start stitching, while skillfully splitting the threads with their nimble fingers.
Ti passed quickly. It was ti for lunch.
The old embroiderers opposite packed up and left the room, planning not to stay for lunch as they were off duty, each carrying their small baskets.
Seeing this, the new embroiderers in the room put down their needles, their faces full of suspicion.
The girl slowly closed her book, rubbing her sore eyes and leaning casually against sothing.
"Have you all watched carefully?"
She was tempting them.
"Master it, and you can take a break."
She slowly got up, thinking about the pogranate wine that had been brewing in the kitchen for a long ti. It must be ready to drink.
After a full al and a rest, the embroiderers were busy again, but the concubine’s couch was empty.
"Where is the Boss?"
"During the al, she was sitting with Xiu’er."
Xiu’er, being one of the younger ones among them, looked up.
"The Boss also took ti off, she asked us to be more self-disciplined."
Soone sighed in relief.
"It’s better if she’s not here; whenever the Boss is around, I always feel she’ll co by with her chilling stride and scold fiercely. But oddly, I kind of miss her when she’s not around."
"I’m not afraid of the Madam scolding ; I’m just afraid she’ll co over and ask why I had three children."
She still rembered how the girl looked sadly at him.
"Are you and your husband getting along well?"
Her heart skipped a beat, thinking the man had kept a mistress. Then she heard Shen Hua ask sadly,
"Have you considered having another one?"
"I rember that, Manager Sun was also there, twisting the Boss’s ear at the ti."
Furiously.
—So the old problem has flared up again, huh!
"Seeing her deanor, the Boss intends to teach us personally; the last ti she casually gave so tips, and I benefited a lot from it. It is indeed our fortune. But I’m not sure what book she was looking at just now, she was so serious, it might have been a rare volu of Su Embroidery left by the Madam."
The embroiderer closest to Shen Hua earlier fell silent.
"I did catch a glimpse of a phrase in the book."
"What phrase?"
The person recited with numbness: "The rain was getting heavier. You couldn’t tell if it was rain or tears on Situ Lei’s face as he clung to her tightly and shouted in agony, don’t leave! You can only be mine."
The room fell completely silent.
Shen Hua took her Situ Leitian to the restaurant.
Upon entering the private room, she glanced at Zheng Qianyu.
"Why did you call here again?"
Zheng Qianyu was stirring a soup spoon with one hand, her eyes downturned in nervousness, hesitating to speak.
Looking across her, sat the chubby and aty noble son, Wang Xu.
Shen Hua squinted her eyes.
"What are you doing here?"
Wang Xu quickly stood up and answered, "Stepmother, we have been quite close these past few days."
He continued the previous topic, "We found we have similar interests, so we took the opportunity to pay respect together."
"She is a few years older than , the third eldest at ho, I have to call her ’third sister’."
What a chaotic relationship this is.
You call her ’third sister’, and call ’stepmother’?
So, am I that old in relation?
Shen Hua was at a loss for words, just about to approach when she suddenly stopped.
A long-sealed mory was completely awakened.
In a past life...
She tried hard to rember, who did Zheng Qianyu marry in her past life?
At that ti she was in complete despair and had completely cut ties with the outside world. Aunt Sun couldn’t see her, Zheng Qianyu couldn’t either.
But she heard it from a maid delivering als at the mansion.
mories fragnted like pieces, just as her head was about to split, it seed again heard by her ear.
"Lady Zheng certainly has skills, clinging onto a high branch. She managed to secure a good marriage, I heard it’s with soone from Tongzhou. Just by looking at his attire, you can tell he’s no ordinary man. Lady Zheng ca with people wanting to see Madam, but the young man had them turned away. What of it? When it cos to the Shen Family’s affairs, can outsiders really ddle?"
"Lady Zheng was furious, the distinguished young man by her side, who is a year younger than her, even said he would go back to Tongzhou to seek help from his father. But it was too late, the girl is about to be sent away. Did you hear? They are engaged, yet that man still calls her ’Third Sister’."
Third Sister.
Shen Hua suddenly felt a shock.
In her previous life, in Fengzhou, Magistrate Hu hadn’t encountered any issues, thus Magistrate Wang hadn’t been assigned here to take his post.
That... explained it all.
She suppressed the shock she felt at the mont, and sat down next to Zheng Qianyu.
Zheng Qianyu let out a heavy sigh.
"It seems my little uncle is about to be betrothed. Mother has been busy arranging these past few days. Knowing this, I felt terribly upset."
Shen Hua held a folding fan, gently waving it a few tis. But then she forgot to keep waving it.
The fan was exquisite and delicate, made with a thin elegant gauze, and the pattern on it featured orchids of different colors on each side.
One side yellow, the other pink. Each side shaded with a gradient of over a dozen colors.
"He ca to our residence this morning, as Daddy was still worried about my situation. Do you know what he said?"
"He actually ntioned a classmate of his, with good character, saying if I was willing, he would help set us up."
Zheng Qianyu angrily said, "What does he an by that? Avoiding like this!"
Wang Xu got carried away by the emotion: "How could he behave like this! I see it as hypocrisy! Are you not good enough for him?"
This statent made Zheng Qianyu pause.
She defended, "My little uncle ans well for ; the person he ntioned, I did et him, and he is indeed not bad."
Wang Xu: "..."
Lady Zheng, frustrated: "But he has already seen all of !"
"And yet he’s going on to see other girls imdiately. Can’t he wait? Or is he deliberately avoiding ?"
Wang Xu, echoing her words: "You have a point. In the end, you are the one at a disadvantage, even if you offended him first. In my view, he’s not a good person."
"You can’t say that about him; everyone credits my little uncle highly. He’s knowledgeable, upright, and even expressly told not to think of that matter again in the future, for which he apologizes. Look, he doesn’t even bla ."
Wang Xu: "Heh."
He shouldn’t even have shown up.
"I really deserve to die!"
Zheng Qianyu turned to look at Shen Hua: "You co up with the most ideas, what do you think I should do?"
"Lately, the more I think about it, the more I feel I’m a match for my little uncle."
Not just a match, but it’s exciting.
Shen Hua found a capable young man, she couldn’t compare, but she must exceed her in one aspect.
She grabbed Shen Hua’s arm: "What should I do to win him over?"
Shen Hua brushed her hand away.
"Do you... really want to know?"
Wang Xu, sincerely showing loyalty: "Just help her, over such a small matter, this person can’t eat or sleep, I think she might go crazy."
Shen Hua swallowed her saliva.
She mumbled, "There indeed is a way."
"Say it!" Zheng Qianyu sat up straight, eyes intense.
Shen Hua drank so tea to calm her nerves. She glanced outside at the sky, dark and heavy, it looked like it would rain.
"They say a bold woman fears a persistent man, it seems reversing the roles might also work. Seeing that he is about to be engaged, you can no longer afford to be reserved."
Zheng Qianyu: "You’re right!"
Shen Hua flipped open a book, showing Zheng Qianyu a passage about Situ Leitian.
The latter’s eyes widened with terror.
"No... that’s not appropriate."
Shen Hua: "He got what he wanted."
Wang Xu looked at them, full of excitent.
"I’ve decided for you! Go!"
Shen Hua’s eyes glead with brightness.
Looking forward to the drama, looking forward to the drama.
Without a wife, without a wife.
Wang Xu egged her on: "Don’t pull back and make us look down on you! Be bold! I’ve got your back, brother!"
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