Capítulo 1827: Chapter 1834: Liu Xi’s Plan (3)
Cai Wei didn’t really mind, she offered them a seat, then laughed teasingly at Juhua and said, “Let see, has Miss Shen shown any promise after getting married?”
Juhua rolled her eyes and said rcilessly, “What promise? It’s good enough if she didn’t die from frustration!”
Li Sheng, hearing Juhua’s words, suddenly looked at Juhua nervously and signaled her to not say more. Everyone in the Capital knew that Empress Dowager was good friends with her. What Shen Juhua was saying was clearly a complaint against the Empress Dowager, and if the Empress Dowager really blad him, he’d be in serious trouble!
However, the Empress Dowager didn’t continue asking, she just ordered the palace maidens to serve tea. Then she picked up a brocade box from the desk next to her and laughed, “You are having your grand wedding, and I don’t have anything good to give you. Here is a pair of Mandarin Duck Jade Pendants. They seem auspicious and match the joy of your new marriage, so I’ll give them to you as a wedding gift!”
Xiao Zhi handed the brocade box to Shen Juhua, and when Juhua opened it, she saw that the pair of intricately carved Mandarin Duck Jade Pendants were made from the finest mutton fat white jade. The craftsmanship was exquisite, the jade was translucent and pure, smooth and tender, like congealed fat, without any impurities. It was clearly a piece of beautiful jade.
“Oh dear, this is too valuable!”
“Thank the Empress Dowager for her gift!”
Juhua was about to refuse, but Li Sheng had already stood up and expressed his gratitude to Cai Wei.
Cai Wei glanced at Li Sheng and smiled faintly, “There’s no need to be polite, Juhua and I have been friends for a long ti. Sending her a decent congratulatory gift is only proper. Young Master Li, this is your first ti entering the palace, right? Huan Qiu, take him around to see the sights inside the palace, so this visit won’t be in vain!”
Upon hearing this, Li Sheng hurriedly tucked his sleeves, bowed deeply, and followed Huan Qiu out.
As soon as he was out, Cai Wei said to Juhua, “They just got married, what has frustrated you so much that you feel you’re going to die? Tell and I’ll listen!”
Juhua had long planned to tell Cai Wei about this matter. Hearing Cai Wei ask, she poured out the whole story like beans from a bamboo tube.
Cai Wei, upon hearing that Li Sheng turned out to be from Qing County, couldn’t help but feel a stir in her heart. She suddenly rembered when she had seen this son-in-law.
Last year, when the Empress Dowager had just passed away, she and Nangong Yi went to Lingbei and passed through Qing County. While dining at Lady Shen’s Roast Duck, they saw downstairs a group of people escorting a pair of n and won to the county governnt office. It was said that the man had eloped with the courtesan from the brothel and had been captured by people, and that man was Li Sheng.
She still rembered the look of deep agony Li Sheng had when the madam was beating the courtesan nad Yiyi. Who would have thought that in just a year’s ti, he had beco Juhua’s husband!
Is it that he had already forgotten about Yiyi, traveled to the Capital, and t the Shen family accidentally, thus marrying Juhua? Or was it that he had long planned it, staged an accidental eting, beca the Shen family’s son-in-law, and planned for other things in the future?
If it was the first case, Li Sheng had already broken ties with Yiyi, and sincerely wanted to live with Juhua. She could leave their conflicts alone, after all, it’s matters between the couple, and it’s not good to interfere too much. But if it was the second case, where Li Sheng married into the Shen family with ulterior motives and deceived Juhua, she would definitely show him the consequences of deceiving others!
“Hey, Cai Wei! Cai Wei! What are you thinking?”
Seeing Cai Wei in a stupor, Juhua couldn’t help but stretch out her arm and wave it remotely in front of her.
Cai Wei ca back to her senses and laughed, “I was thinking, Uncle Shen and Aunt Shen happily married off their son-in-law, but the newlywed son-in-law imdiately wants to return ho to honor his ancestors. Not only can he not stay with them for the New Year, but he also takes away their precious daughter. It’s really heartbreaking!”
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