My old husband who can read minds

Chapter 3 Ning Jieyu’s mentality exploded ([-])

The fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month is the annual Moon Worship Festival in the Yong Dynasty.

Folk customs emphasize offering sacrifices, reunions, worshiping the moon, and setting off lanterns.

The female family members of Marquis Wenxin's mansion got up and dressed up before dawn, and the mansion was abuzz with people.

What Shen Yuan was wearing was a lake-blue Sichuan brocade palace dress given to her by the Queen Mother when she was newly married. The matching jewelry was a sapphire-set pearl headpiece. It was dignified and elegant, very suitable for her status as the crown prince's wife.

Today, almost all the female relatives of the third room of the Qin family came out. When Shen Yuan finished packing and arrived at the front door of the house with the four masters and servants of Mo Zhu, everyone was busy getting into their cars.

Soon, the clatter of horses' hooves resounded in the cool morning mist, heading all the way to the end of Suzaku Street.

Today's moon worship banquet in the palace was held in the Xiefang Hall on the side of Yongshou Palace. When the female family members of the Qin family arrived, the hall was already filled with charming guests from all over the house, and it was very lively.

Princess Hetai was of high status and no one dared to mess with her. Shen Yuan made up her mind to hang out with her mother-in-law today and not leave even half a step away.

At half past midnight, the concubines from the harem arrived one after another.

The Queen Mother made her final appearance. Shen Yuan looked at her quietly for a few times. The old lady's face was quite rich and kind.

In the harem surrounded by flowers, there was a concubine who was extremely beautiful in a rouge red fairy dress.

Two curved smoky eyebrows, a pair of affectionate eyes, a charming and beautiful face, and a charming smile.

It can be said that she overwhelmed the whole audience with her beauty, and many female relatives were stunned.

Seeing this posture, Shen Yuan understood.

Needless to say, that woman must be Song Yunjin, the heroine of the original novel.

After all, the other party is known as "the most beautiful woman in Shengjing" and the most beautiful woman in the Yong Dynasty for more than 200 years.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but Shen Yuan always felt that the current Ning Jieyu's eyes were always passing over him, as if she was weighing her.

The original owner and Song Yunjin had met before. At that time, the other party was the eldest granddaughter of Duke Anguo, a person whom all the women in Shengjing looked up to and envied.

The background of the original owner's family was just that of a fourth-grade Beijing official, barely on the threshold of entering the upper class circles, and had no connection with the high-ranking heroine.

The only intersection between the two was that Shen Yuan picked up the other's love and married into the Wenxin Hou Mansion.

Thinking back to the time when Qin He refused to marry until the age of 22 because of Song Yunjin, the old lady and Princess Hetai had no choice but to "openly select a daughter-in-law" in the whole city.

How did Shen Yuan finally get selected?It was only because she looked similar to the heroine in the blind date portrait that Prince Gou agreed to marry her.

Pretending not to see the other party's slightly thoughtful eyes, Shen Yuan gathered her thoughts and focused on the banquet in front of her.

After the luncheon, it was time to accompany the Queen Mother on a tour of the palace to enjoy the flowers.

Shen Yuan stayed close to her mother-in-law until Princess Hetai was summoned by the queen.

She understood that the main drama was about to begin today.

After a while, a palace maid came to deliver a message, saying, "Empress Jieyu has invited the Crown Prince's wife to come to the palace to talk."

Shen Yuan agreed with a smile, then turned to Mrs. Jiang and Mrs. Guo and explained: "Second aunt, third aunt, Ning Jieyu wants to talk to her niece-in-law. I will go and come back. If my mother-in-law comes back, please trouble you two. Auntie, let me tell my niece-in-law." Madam Jiang glanced at the palace maid, and said with a kind smile: "Since Empress Jieyu invites you, you can go ahead. Take all four of Mo Zhu with you, don't delay the noble lady too much. When it comes time, your mother-in-law will have her second aunt to tell you."

Shen Yuan nodded and exchanged a look with Jiang. Knowing that the other party understood what she meant, she followed the maid with Mo Zhu and others.

Mrs. Jiang raised her eyebrows at a nun waiting beside her, who followed closely behind Shen Yuan and his party. She didn't turn back until she saw them entering the Yaoguang Hall.

The four of them, Mo Zhu, were left outside the palace. When Shen Yuan entered the palace alone, he saw Song Yunjin half-leaning on a soft couch, looking at him lazily.

"My wife, Mrs. Qin Shen, has met Ning Jieyu. My dearest queen, I am in peace."

Shen Yuan bowed to the palace without changing her expression, and stood quietly in the palace with her head bowed, letting the other party look at her.

"Yeah! He is quite polite."

Song Yunjin had an incomprehensible expression and said calmly: "Come here, show Mrs. Qin a seat and give her some tea."

"Thank you, Empress Jieyu, for giving me a seat to watch."

Shen Yuan bowed politely again and remained motionless after sitting down.

Anyway, she was in no hurry, just waiting for the heroine to make her move.

Song Yunjin did deliberately tease her, but when she saw that Shen Yuan was like an old monk in trance without even moving his eyebrows, she felt bored.

"Is it possible that Mrs. Qin is not at all curious about why I want to see you?" There was a coldness in her voice.

Shen Yuan looked at her eyes and nose, and replied dully: "It's an honor to be invited by your Majesty, how dare I dare to speculate without authorization."

Her behavior was polite and humble, which made Song Yunjin feel as helpless as a fist hitting cotton.

"Logically speaking, I should actually call you Cousin-in-law. Inviting you to visit me today is just a way for relatives to reminisce about old times. Mrs. Shen, you really don't need to be too formal."

Song Yunjin suddenly softened his voice and said with a sweet smile.

"The empress's status is precious, and I dare not make any mistakes."

Shen Yuan still answered sternly, you say yours and I'll do mine.

But she felt clear in her heart: "It seems that the heroine is going to play the emotional card."

The Song family is the queen's natal family, so logically, Qin He can be called the queen's cousin, and the Qin and Song families are barely cousins.

Later, the Song family was accidentally involved in the case of the second prince (the Queen's direct descendant) embezzling Mo Junzhi, and was deprived of the title and reprimanded by the Holy Emperor.

All the men were dismissed from their official positions, and all the female family members took back their royal titles. From the dignified first-class Anguo Duke's mansion, it was reduced to an empty shell of common people, the "Song Family". It was quite miserable.

If not, the Song family would no longer have to bring the most promising granddaughter of the whole family into the palace. Let the queen and Song Yunjin's aunt and nephew serve the same husband, which would inevitably lead to the unsavory reputation of "selling one's daughter for glory".

However, all these are the Song family and the heroine's own choices, and they should suffer the consequences. Shen Yuan does not think they deserve sympathy.

(End of this chapter)