Did the third place winner regret it today?

Chapter 47

The bridal chamber is called Jingrongyuan.
In the main room of Jingrong Courtyard, Shen Ti came out of the bathroom and saw the maids retreating and closing the lattice door.
Yin Shi was sitting at the table in a middle-length dress.
She sat on the brocade stool with her legs crossed.
She really doesn't regard him as her husband, she is so comfortable with him.

Shen Ti then also felt at ease.
Although only one day had passed, he was already able to get along naturally and relax with Yin Shi, who was only wearing a middle shirt.
He walked over and asked: "What are you looking at?"

"Have you seen my dowry list?" Yin Shi asked.
Shen Ti nodded: "Father showed it to me."
What does it mean to take a look? Yin Shi asked, "Did you take a good look?"
Shen Ti admitted: "I didn't look carefully."

Yin Shi spread out the folded leaflet: "Then take a closer look."
Shen Ti cast his eyes on the list, looked at it for a moment, and nodded: "Your dowry is quite generous."
Yes, the relatives I have met these days also said so. They all said that the bride's dowry was very good.
He never cared about it. Because the dowry was a woman's private property, he was not the kind of man who coveted a woman's dowry. Besides, he and she were not real husband and wife, so he didn't ask about her dowry.

Yin Shi pointed with his white fingers: "Two thousand taels of silver are my dowry. But in fact, there are another ten thousand taels and a large amount of raw silk. These two big items have never been in my hands and are not on the dowry list. My brothers told me that they have been directly handed over to my father. In addition, Huaixi has a mulberry garden, which also belongs to the Shen family through this marriage. Someone will come to deliver the income regularly in the future."

Shen Ti looked up in surprise.
Okay, no need to ask. Yin Shi already knew from his expression that he knew nothing.
How funny is this society? They let their children get married and have children to carry on the family line when they are fourteen, fifteen or sixteen years old, but they also say that they are considered adults only when they reach the age of twenty.

Even after you come of age, get married, or become a father, you are not allowed to have private property. Everything belongs to the public. Only when your parents die and the family property is divided, only then can you be considered to have real personal property.
Shen Ti just took advantage of being an only child. No one else shared the property with him, so everything in the house was his. This feeling was not so strong.

Shen Ti was the same age as her, eighteen years old this year, and had not yet come of age. It was obvious that the Shen family had not yet disclosed to him the family's large assets.
Probably because he had been reading sage books to prepare for the imperial examinations, and had been working in the Hanlin Academy, a prestigious government office, since he entered the government. He had never lacked money, and he had not yet married, so his parents felt that there was no need to explain to him.

Because he was a genius in studying and passed the imperial examination at a young age, Shen Ti entered the government at this age. In fact, many of the men who were interested in the imperial examinations, the so-called scholars, had not passed the examinations until they were 30 or 40 years old, and they did not earn a penny and relied on their wives to support them. Moreover, the more such people were, the less they knew how much money there was for firewood, rice, oil and salt.

In the ancient Chinese novels that Yin Shi read in his previous life, he had seen several heroines or supporting actresses who married with large sums of money but ended up living a miserable life.
She can't do that.
She had to let Shen Ti know that she came with 12,000 taels of silver and a large amount of raw silk. The mulberry garden in Huaixi was not given to her. The money earned was given directly to the Shen family every year.

"I brought these here not for my own use, but for my family. I guess your uncle thought you were still young, so he hasn't told you in detail yet." Yin Shi said, "If you want to know, you might as well ask your uncle."
"You are a married woman now, so you should figure out your family's assets and stop letting them treat you like a child."
This really hit Shen Ti's sore spot.
The young man said in a deep voice: "I will ask clearly tomorrow."

"Actually, it's a cooperation between the two families." Yin Shi said, "I don't know the specific operation, but the Shen family must have helped the Yin family a lot. The Yin family made money, so of course they have to give back. The two families benefit each other, which is a good thing. The nature should be like this. You should have an idea in mind first, don't go and question your uncle without knowing anything."
Shen Ti agreed: "Okay."

Yin Shi put the dowry list into the secret drawer of the bedside cabinet and took out the hairpin that was loosely tied up her hair: "Put on the lamp cover and go to sleep."
Shen Ti covered the lamp with the lampshade, and the room suddenly became dark.

The cover was lightproof, but there was a small hole. The light inside was kept on all night, and the faint light shone through the small hole, leaving a ray of light in the room.
This is the dark light.
If you need to get up at night, you don’t have to light the lamp in the dark, just lift the lampshade.

Yin Shi put up half of the tent and left the other half for Shen Ti to make an entrance.
Shen Ti stepped on the footstool and saw her taking off her shoes and climbing onto the bed.
The girl's beautiful feet never see the sunlight, but even in the dim light they look as white as snow.
She bent her slender waist and crawled into the bed.

Shen Ti turned around and put down the other half of the curtain. The dim light of the dark lamp was also blocked outside the bed, and nothing could be seen in the small space for a while.
Great.

Shen Ti also took off her shoes, got on the bed and lay flat on her back.
I don't know why I feel a little hot. Shen Ti closed her eyes and silently recited the Taoist "Calming Mantra" and "Purifying Heart Sutra" again, but she still felt hot.
Is the tent too thick and stuffy?
Shen Ti wondered whether she should ask the maid to change the curtain to a thinner one tomorrow.

No, it’s an unfamiliar scent in the enclosed space.
"What kind of perfume does sister use?" Shen Ti asked.
"It's not incense, it's the floral soap I made myself." Yin Shi reacted, "Isn't it too fragrant?"

The things she used on her wedding night yesterday were all prepared by the Shen family. Today, the maids also put her usual things into the clean room.
It was difficult to take a shower every day in this time and space. Not only was it expensive, but it also required a lot of manpower. But Yin Shi would scrub himself every day to keep himself fresh.
She used the soap she made today, and now she has a scent that she didn’t have yesterday.

She realized that the ancients paid attention to incense because there were not so many fragrant things in this time and space, unlike the time and space of her previous life, when people who washed their faces, washed their hair, took a bath, wiped their hands, wiped their faces, and wiped their bodies all had their own fragrance.
So here, everyone is quite sensitive to aromas. Many people can even identify which spices are used by their nose. "Yes, there are some, mainly the strong floral scent," said Shen Ti.
Yin Shi was alone before, but now and in the future, he will share a bed with Shen Ti. Once the bed curtains are put down, the two of them are in a closed space.
Now that we live together, we can no longer treat each other the same way as before and have to consider each other.
"Then I won't need it anymore." Yin Shi said, "It just so happens that the last piece is almost used up."

Shen Ti asked: "Will my sister mix incense?"
People at that time loved to burn incense. Not only the rich, but also ordinary people could buy ready-made incense from the incense shop to burn.
People who are particular about spices mix their own spices.

"I have learned a little bit, but I am not proficient in it." Yin Shi replied, "Because I have a lot of flowers in my yard, they are always fragrant, so I don't use incense very often."
Shen Ti said: "You still have to use it. Otherwise, people will keep asking you why you don't use it, which will be annoying."
"Do you have to entertain a lot of relatives?"
"Anyway, there are quite a few. The clan members don't live far away. It only takes half a day to get to the old house after leaving the capital."
"Okay, I'll look back then."

Shen Ti volunteered: "Let me help my sister make some incense."
"what?"
"It's what I use on myself. I made it myself. The scent is light and clear, and it smells soothing. It's called Three--"
Shen Ti's voice stopped abruptly.
In the darkness, a shadow approached him.

She brought all her body temperature over.
And breathing.
There is also fragrance.
Shen Ti didn't dare to move, his whole body was stiff.

Yin Shi leaned close to his shoulder and sniffed.
"It smells really good." She praised, "What's your name?"
Shen Ti answered with some difficulty: "Three evens."
"Hmm, it's really nice, very elegant." After comparison, Yin Shi felt that his own floral scent was indeed more aggressive.

In fact, the fragrance of soap is used on the body and will dissipate quickly. It is not as long-lasting as incense on clothes.
Because she had just scrubbed it, the smell was stronger now.

But she said, "You can mix other fragrances, right? Mix one for me. I want something light and fresh like this."
He added: "If you are busy, give me the prescription and I can make it myself."

"I'm not busy." She stepped back, and Shen Ti finally felt like she could breathe again. "Sister, don't you like Sanyunxiang?"
He hoped she would use the same perfume as him.
This way, there will be no other scent in the tent.
It won't make people agitated.

Shen Ti firmly believed that she had no evil thoughts towards her cousin.
His cousin was willing to help him and Feng Luoyi get together, and had no intention of becoming their real husband and wife. This was all clear, and he accepted it. If that was the case, and she was honest and upright, how could he have any evil thoughts?
If that's the case, you're not worthy of being called a gentleman.

But the body is another matter.
Sometimes the body doesn't listen to the brain.
The mind is clear, but the eyes see, the nose smells, the ears hear, and the body has its own ideas.

Thick bed curtains do have their advantages!
Strong light-shielding properties!
Nothing can be seen.
Shen Ti changed her mind about asking the maid to change the bed curtains tomorrow.

Faced with this silly straight man, Yin Shi just wanted to sigh.
"Silly brother," she said, "I use the same perfume as you, Miss Feng will definitely be unhappy."
Shen Ti was stunned and said uncertainly: "It's just incense..."
In the darkness, Yin Shi was heard to make a "tsk" sound.
"Forget it. I can't explain it to you." She said, "But she is already very pitiful. There is no need to make her sad over such a small matter."

Her voice is very nice.
Southerners speak in a soft and sticky tone.
It appears more gentle.
My body calmed down without knowing how, just like it stood up without knowing how.

If it weren't for Feng Luoyi's incident, it would actually be nice to marry such a gentle wife.
Shen Ti had never considered getting married before.
Because before he even considered the idea of ​​"getting married", his parents had already chosen a wife for him. Young people basically have no say in this matter.
What kind of wife and whom to marry are all decided by parents.

But then he thought, if nothing had happened to the Feng family and Feng Luoyi had not fallen, the wife he would marry would be Feng Luoyi, and would never be his cousin who lived far away in Huaixi.
In that case, he and his cousin would probably only meet once in their lives as children and never have any contact with each other again until they died.
He would not have the idea of ​​"it would be nice to marry her" now.
The fate of life is really mysterious.

Just as he was sighing, Yin Shi suddenly reached out his hand, crossed over Shen Ti's body, pulled a corner of the thin blanket that he had placed on the side to cover his belly.
"No matter how hot it is, you must cover your belly button," she said.
"Let me tell you, we Chinese... we Chinese... no, we people of the Great Mu Country, even if there is only one leaf left in the world, it must be placed on the belly button of the people of Great Mu." She lectured him, "If your belly button gets cold, your whole body will get cold, and you'll get sick."

In the darkness, Shen Ti was silent.
She saw clearly that he was not covered with a blanket.
Did she see his physical condition just now?
Shen Ti was struck by lightning.

(End of this chapter)