After breaking off the marriage, the Zhuangyuan Lang who was picked up was dressed weakly every day

Chapter 77 Extremely Unusual
All the officials in the Great Zhou Dynasty took a bath once every five days. When Shen Yanhan went to the Duke of Qi's mansion to find Meng Changqing who was taking a bath, by chance, he happened upon the birthday party of Wang Zhang, the Duke of Qi's wife.

Shen Yanhan got off the carriage with Cai Xizhu. After explaining his purpose of visit, he waited at the gate of Qi Duke's Mansion.

In front of the gate of the Duke of Qi's mansion, there are cars and horses, people coming and going, and it is very lively.

Cai Xizhu looked at the crowded scene, and then looked at the four large gold characters of "Qi Guogongfu". Her heart beat as if it was about to jump out of her chest. Not only did she have a strong curiosity to find out what happened, but also from the majestic momentum. There is a sense of unattainability in the words.

The two sides were tormented in their hearts. Cai Xizhu was really worried, so she retreated a little and said: "Jiaojiao, or I should wait for you here, and you can go in and see Meng Silang by yourself."

Shen Yanhan looked at her in confusion, "Why? You're already here, why don't you go in and take a look?"

Cai Xizhu hesitated and said: "This mansion looks extremely luxurious at first glance. You can see that there are too many people. I... am a little scared."

"Are you afraid?" Shen Yanhan said confidently: "No matter how luxurious and extraordinary the mansion is, the people living there are just ordinary people like you and me. No one has three heads and six arms, so what is so scary?"

"But……"

"Then are you afraid that Meng Silang won't see us?" Shen Yanhan interrupted Cai Xizhu.

Cai Xizhu's cheeks were slightly red and she said, "That's not true."

Although he had not made it to the last step that day, the two of them treated each other sincerely. Although the relationship between the two was somewhat inexplicable and difficult to define, she did not avoid him because of it. Meng Changqing was so free and easy. Mr. Lang should not really refuse to see her.

"No, then come in." Shen Yanhan smiled, and whispered into Cai Xizhu's ear: "Don't you always say you want to see the world? Now, 'Qi Guogong', there is no family in Lin'an Prefecture that is more prestigious than this. It’s so high! You and I can’t miss this opportunity. To be honest with you, I have never set foot in such a luxurious place, and I really want to take the opportunity to come and observe it.”

"Have you really never been here? But isn't your father a high-ranking official?" Cai Xizhu said.

Shen Yanhan thought of her father, Shen Guci, who had no relationship and was appointed as the fifth-rank Imperial College Secretary, and commented: "His official position is not very prominent, but our Shen family has no foundation. If he can reach the fifth rank, he is also considered He has become capable. However, he has always been a noble person and rarely interacts with people other than his colleagues in the Imperial College. Therefore, it has been like this since my mother was alive. We rarely go to other homes, so naturally we have less opportunities to meet the distinguished family. 's mansion."

Thinking that her father was the same and didn't have much contact with outsiders. Even though he opened a clinic and a pharmacy, many times when visitors came, she could only hide in her room. Cai Xizhu looked at Shen Yanhan and couldn't help but feel uneasy. There are some feelings of sympathy for each other.

She sighed: "I see..."

Shen Yanhan: "That's not true."

While the two young ladies were whispering to each other, a bullock cart stopped.

Shen Yanhan couldn't help but pause while talking to Cai Xizhu, and looked at the familiar car.

After a while, the people in the car slowly got out of the car.As expected, it was her stepmother Wen Rong and her stepsister Shen Hui.

Several people looked at each other with obvious surprise in their eyes, as if they were asking: Why are you here?

Wen Rong glanced around Shen Yanhan and saw that her face was becoming more and more beautiful. Although her clothes were unique, they were not as formal as attending a banquet. She couldn't help but feel a little suspicious in her eyes.

She took Shen Hui a few steps forward, stretched out her hand to hold Shen Yanhan's wrist, and said at the same time: "Madam, what a coincidence, you are also here to attend the banquet?"

Shen Yanhan avoided her intimate movements and took a small step back.

Before she could answer, Wen Rong had just finished her words and looked behind Shen Yanhan. Shen Hui continued: "I heard that eldest sister now lives in Zhuangzi, but is it true? eldest sister, why are you willing to lose her? Daddy and us?"

Her tone sounded like lamentation, and there was a kind of sadness in her eyes. She had a delicate and pitiful girlish attitude, as if someone had let her down.

Shen Yanhan's heart shrank, as if he even stopped breathing.

She is living a comfortable and comfortable life now, but it has been a long time since she has dealt with someone who is hypocritical.

Thinking that she was no longer a member of Shen Guyi's family, and essentially had nothing to do with the mother and daughter in front of him, Shen Yanhan had no intention of dealing with the two of them anymore, and said calmly: "Well, I live in the western suburbs, come here. There’s something going on here.”

This was a cold attitude that was obviously unwilling to communicate. Shen Hui looked slightly suffocated by the cold water poured on her by Shen Yanhan.

Wen Rong had developed a delicate heart over the years, and she curled her lips without any surprise, then took another step forward and took Shen Yanhan's wrist.

Shen Yanhan only felt that this kind of intimacy was really inexplicable. Just when he was about to pull away his hand, the person who had just entered the door came out and said, "Mrs. Shen is invited, Mrs. Shen is invited, Mrs. Shen."

"Let's go." Wen Rong said warmly, holding Shen Yanhan's wrist and walking inside.

In front of the many guests of Duke Qi's residence at the door, Shen Yanhan pulled her wrist but failed to break free. She simply gave up her struggle and followed Wen Rong's footsteps into Meng's residence without saying a word.

After entering the courtyard and heading towards the banquet hall, the person who guided Shen Yanhan said: "Ms. Shen, please come this way."

Shen Yanhan stopped and looked at Wen Rong. Seeing that Wen Rong didn't seem to let go of her, she said, "Mrs. Shen, are you pulling me like this to force me to the banquet?"

The distant and unfamiliar "Mrs. Shen" voice stopped the smile on Wen Rong's face.

After a while, Wen Rong asked: "Why do you say such things, madam? Aren't you here for the banquet?"

Not far away was a crowd of guests, and Shen Yanhan knew that Wen Rong actually didn't have any sincerity for her.She left the Shen family in August, and it has been more than a few months now. They knew that she lived alone in that poor village. If they really cared about her, there were Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Winter Solstice and other festivals during this period, so they would have come to care for her long ago. .

If Wen Rong really took her to the banquet, she would just sing with Shen Hui again, and talk about what they thought was her "glorious achievement" of running away from home without permission, just like she did just now, which would make her look unkind and unfilial in front of others.

She behaves upright and doesn't care about other people's opinions, but today she came to Qi Duke's Mansion not for these trivial matters that have long been insignificant to her.

Looking straight at Wen Rong, Shen Yan said in a cold voice: "Mrs. Shen, you and I know very well that I am no longer the eldest lady of the Shen family. Now there is only this young lady behind you. When you call me like this, I Not worthy of it.”

"Jiao Jiao." Wen Rong frowned and called her by her nickname, "You left home in anger, and there is always a time to calm down, right? Do you know how worried your father and us are when you are alone outside these days?"

I am so worried, why does no one ever come to visit Zhuangzi?Shen Yanhan secretly clenched his fists and kept thinking to himself: Just listen to it. If you listen to it for a few times, you will think she is farting.

But she, Shen Yanhan, was never one who could endure it.

She didn't want to bear the anger of her biological father, Shen Guci, so why did she rush to bear the thorn in the side of this concubine?

Wen Rong was still saying: "Your father doesn't think about food or tea. He is so thin that he almost loses his appearance..." Shen Yanhan looked at her and interrupted her: "Then Mrs. Shen still wants to go out to socialize. Why don't you stay home and take care of me?"

With such a cold tone and a straightforward rhetorical question, Wen Rong couldn't help but feel a little dazed.

The Shen Yanhan in front of her could be said to be sharp and sharp, but he was still that simple child who she believed in after saying a few words?

She stretched out her hand again to hold Shen Yanhan's wrist and said with a serious face, "Maybe you can go back and see your father?"

Shen Yanhan raised his hand, suppressed half of the anger in his heart, looked at Wen Rong, and said quietly: "Mrs. Shen, are you sure you really want to discuss your family affairs with me here in the Duke of Qi's Mansion on such an occasion? What?"

Facing the unconcealed disgust in Shen Yanhan's eyes, Wen Rong looked hurt, "Jiaojiao, how can you talk like this? I'm doing this for the sake of your father and daughter..."

"My dear..." Meng Changqing's smiling voice came suddenly, "Third brother and sister, you are here to welcome me. I haven't seen you coming for a long time, but you turned out to be busy chatting with people here."

As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Yanhan breathed a sigh of relief.

There were complicated emotions in Wen Rong and Shen Hui's eyes.

Of course there is shock.

She was both surprised that Meng Silang, who was extremely difficult to please, seemed to be very familiar with Shen Yanhan, and also surprised by the "third younger brother and sister" in his words.

Admittedly, they had heard a little bit about Shen Yanhan's activities in Qingshui Village. He renovated the house, lived with his cousin, and got married. Although Qingshui Village was in the countryside, it was so close to Lin'an Mansion, so the news didn't come out. It doesn't take much effort, and the speed is naturally not slow.

Shen Hui looked at Meng Changqing, then at Shen Yanhan, still astonished and said: "Meng Silang, you just said that my eldest sister is your 'third younger sister'?"

After finishing her words, Meng Changqing glanced at her but ignored her.

Shen Hui turned to look at Shen Yanhan again, and said in a panic: "Sister, are you married? When did you get married? Dad doesn't know, right? How could you be so hasty?"

Shen Yanhan didn't know if Shen Hui was really panicked or just pretending to be panicked.

But Shen Yanhan, who had nothing to do with the Shen family anymore, had never had such a moment when she deeply felt that it would be better not to meet the Shen family again.

Because meeting now means letting her recall the past.

And her profound memories of them and Shen Gu Ci, when she thinks about it now, they are not very warm.

Because of her "filial piety", she rarely wore new clothes, but Shen Hui had plenty of them. She also ate vegetarian food, and whenever there was delicious food, Shen Yu was always close to her husband at home; Liu Lian's mother Qi Yun's Many dowries were kept and used by Shen Gu because she was too young; and the original female envoys around Qi Yun were also dismissed one by one...

In the past, when she was young, she could not understand people's hearts, but now Shen Yanhan understood it.

In the years after Qi Yun's death, this sister and her mother were like sheep that slowly ate away at her few hopes for the grassland, silently eating her grass. She simply changed places, but they still chased her.

Recalling the way Wen Rong looked behind her when she was at the door of Meng's Mansion, she looked intently to see who she would show up with, and at this moment, her head was not a girl's style at all, which could be seen at a glance. Shen Yanhan looked thoughtful as she could tell whether she was married or not.

After a moment, she smiled softly, and replied with a relaxed and pleasant look: "I have become independent. Naturally, I can take charge of my own affairs."

She then turned sideways and asked Meng Changqing: "Second brother, do you think so?"

Meng Changqing nodded and cooperated as she wished: "That's not true."

After that, he glanced at Cai Xizhu behind Shen Yanhan, bent down, made a "please" gesture with his folding fan, and asked, "You came to me, but something happened?"

Shen Yanhan's purpose for asking him to take measurements was clear.

Meng Changqing paused and looked at her sideways, "Measure you?"

For some reason, when he said this, his eyes glanced at Cai Xizhu's face intentionally or unintentionally.

It's like asking: Don't you know my size?

Cai Xizhu's heartbeat quickened when he looked at her sideways, and her cheeks turned red.She turned away her face, pretending not to understand.

Meng Changqing looked at her meaningfully again, turned back to Shen Yanhan and said, "You want to make clothes for me?"

Shen Yanhan nodded.

Meng Changqing sighed in his heart: Qin Yuehuai had given him so much money, but he could one day get it back.

He took Shen Yanhan and Cai Xizhu and went straight back to his "Zhilan Garden".

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The backs of Shen Yanhan and Meng Changqing disappeared around the corner, and the emotion on Shen Hui's face changed from surprise to indifference.

She dug her eyes out unkindly and asked Wen Rong, "Mom, don't you send someone to find out who her husband is?"

Wen Rong looked at her daughter, who had never been able to hide her inner thoughts, and pulled her towards the banquet. She smiled warmly at the Meng family member who was leading the way, "Thank you for the long wait."

When walking side by side with Shen Hui, Wen Rong whispered: "If you have anything to say, let's talk about it back home."

Shen Yanhan called Meng Changqing "second brother", but he was clearly ranked fourth, which was extremely unusual.

Come to think of it, her husband is also a respectable man.

Thinking of this, Wen Rong's mind, which had just been feeling relaxed for a few months, suddenly became a little heavier again.

Some things should be done right from the beginning.

Shen Hui wanted to say something to Wen Rong, but she saw the stern look in her mother's eyes at a glance. She was frightened and nodded.

(End of this chapter)