Blessed

Chapter 111 The Pain That Can't Be Asked For
Shen Xian was sitting in the carriage, leaning casually on the royal blue five-panel flower pillow. He was wearing a dark blue robe and a big cloak today. He is now a commanding officer that even court officials fear.Over the years, Yuzhu has witnessed him grow from a young and handsome young man to a man of extraordinary demeanor.

Shen Xian told Yuzhu about the things in the palace for a few hours, his princess mother was unreliable, but his grandmother, the concubine, was a very virtuous and generous woman, who treated him and Shen Mei well when they were young, but died young.

Yuzhu hugged the teacup and listened quietly, grabbing some fruit from the small table in the middle to eat from time to time.

There are often small snacks such as candied nuts in the carriage, Shen Xian peeled a small plate of melon seeds and handed it to Yuzhu.Yuzhu took it and said thank you, the food was delicious.Seeing that she was eating happily, Shen Xian helped peel a few walnuts, and when she was about to arrive at the Imperial Temple, Yuzhu's stomach was full.

The imperial temple was built in the middle of the mountain, the two went up the mountain, the licorice stayed at the foot of the mountain, and only a few guards followed from a distance.

The mountain is several hundred meters high, and there are repaired steps. Halfway through the climb, Yuzhu was a little out of breath. Shen Xian reached out and held her hand. Yuzhu was stunned, and looked up at him. Concentrated, "Go up the mountain quickly, the empress dowager already knows that we are going to the mountain, so prepare the vegetarian feast early."

Hearing what he said, Yuzhu couldn't help rubbing her stomach, and muttered, "You fed me so many nuts and drank a lot of tea, how can I eat it?"

Shen Xian took a look at her, and said softly, "You should eat more." Seeing that she was much thinner than last time, and her figure was a little thin, he hoped that she would eat a little fatter, as she was when she was a child. .

Yuzhu looked at him pitifully, "I really can't eat more, and you can help me eat more when I go up the mountain."

Xu Shi's wedding is approaching, Shen Xian is in a particularly good mood, slightly raised the corner of his lower lip, "Okay."

Going to the mountain, the empress dowager was already standing in the backyard waiting, she was a little excited to see the two of them.Concubine Tai lived on the mountain for ten years, Shen Xian and Shen Mei came to visit twice, so it was inconvenient to disturb her too much.Seeing the two of them, Concubine Tai was a little excited, held Yuzhu's hand and smiled, "I already know about the engagement between you and Ah Xian, which is really great." She looked back at Shen Xian, "When we get married, You should treat Jiaojiao better."

Shen Xian was silent for a moment, "It's natural." How could he treat her badly, Xiao thought it took several years to marry her home.

The concubine took Yuzhu and walked into the house, "I asked the kitchen to make your favorite vegetarian dishes, and you can eat more later."

After lunch in the concubine's room, the concubine held Yuzhu and talked for a while before letting her go, and it was not until Shen Shi that the two of them left.Shen Xian sent Yuzhu back to Jiang's mansion before turning around and getting into the carriage to go back to Shen's house.There are still a lot of things that need to be taken care of for the wedding, and he has to send a few secret guards to guard the Jiang family secretly, in case the third prince and Concubine Mu are in a hurry to jump over the wall and do something.

He found out about the third prince's forced marriage to Yuzhu. He only found out about the third prince asking the owner of the gambling shop to frame the Mu family. As for Jiang Xun's matter, even though the murderer was caught, he also investigated it. The murderer only admitted to the Liu family. He did what happened to the girl, and he said that someone bribed him, and asked who instigated it, but the murderer said he didn't know, and he didn't even see the person's face.

This matter is naturally inseparable from the third prince and Concubine Mu Gui, but there is no evidence, and he can't tell the emperor.

Not two days after returning from the imperial temple, the concubine added a dowry to the jade beads, a pot of red coral tree bonsai, a box of second-class oriental beads, a gold inlaid coral headband, a gold inlaid green and gold Fangsheng hanging, and a double positive bead pendant One piece, four pairs of gold bracelets, a pair of golden lotus crab hairpins, a pair of golden lotus bonsai hairpins, a pair of golden pine spirit birthday hairpins, two rubies, two sapphires, a set of coral beads, a set of bluestone beads, and turquoise beads A plate, beeswax court beads, in addition to all kinds of satin mink, satin squirrel fur mink, all kinds of high-quality fur, silk and satin, ten real estate properties, a thousand acres of land.

Among them, the most expensive one is the pot of red coral bonsai, a three-layer peach-shaped pot, made of cloisonné enamel, painted enamel, chiseled gold, and various techniques. In front of the pottery pot are two bats spreading their wings, holding the The cloisonné enamel Tuanfu characters surrounded by chiseled gold flowing clouds, and the pot is a large red coral tree, which is huge in shape and bright in color.

The concubine has a noble status, so these things are naturally given to Yuzhu in the form of rewards, and someone also brought an oral order to Yuzhu, praising Yuzhu for her beauty, her gentle nature, intelligence and quickness, and her calm and gentle appearance. I wish the two of you A happy marriage for a hundred years.

This honor and dowry do not need to be married to a few princesses.

After Emperor Ruiwu heard about it, he also rewarded a lot of dowry, and made Yuzhu the head of Fuchang County, with a thousand households in the city.

Not to mention marrying the Shen family with such an identity, there is no problem in marrying the royal family.

No matter what the people in the capital are talking about about the marriage between the Jiang and Chen families, or about the Fuchang county magistrate, Yuzhu doesn't know anything about it. Yuzhu has lost weight these days, and the Jiang family can all see her nervousness, feeling helpless.

This is the only way for a girl to get married. The eldest aunt, the second aunt, the second sister and the third sister all came to persuade Yuzhu, but Yuzhu was still a little panicked.

It's the first time you marry someone in two lifetimes, and it's fake not to be nervous.

Soon it was the day before the wedding, the Jiang family set up a banquet at home, and invited their relatives and friends to have a meal. Dinner, but she will get up early tomorrow morning to prepare for her wedding, relatives at home are very considerate and ask Mrs. Mu to take her back to rest earlier.

Mrs. Mu led Yuzhu back to Fuyun Courtyard, and let the maids wait on her to wash and wash. Yuzhu was wearing a crescent-colored jacket and a cloak and leaned on the couch to talk to Mrs. Mu. Mrs. Mu handed her a small box with red eyes. Said, "This is something your mother gave you. When you get married tomorrow, you will be someone else's wife. You can no longer be your mother's precious daughter. Being a man is always different from being a girl. Mother used to nag you. So much, I won’t talk about it today, you should also rest earlier, so that you can be in good condition tomorrow and be a beautiful bride.”

Yuzhu suppressed the sourness in her heart, and acted like a baby to Mu, "Mother, I remember, besides, I married Brother Shen. The princess doesn't care about things, and Brother Shen treats me well. The sister-in-law at home is also my best sister. There is no difference before getting married, and I will often come back to accompany you and Daddy."

Having said that, she still knows that a married woman is always different from a girl in her boudoir.

Mrs. Mu wiped her eyes and said with a smile, "Silly girl, what are you talking about."

Yuzhu laughed softly, and moved the wooden box in her hand, suddenly curious about what was inside, she looked at Mrs Mu, "Mother, what is in here?" Mother gave her a lot of dowry, gold, silver and jade jewelry from the shop field Treasure, Yuzhu asked, curiously opened the wooden box, only to find that inside was a thick stack of banknotes and a jade pendant token from the bank.

Yuzhu raised her head in astonishment, "Mother..."

Mrs. Mu caressed the top of Yuzhu's head, "This is the 20 taels of silver note, and the other is the token of the bank, which is all the profits of the jewelry shop over the years. Mother will give them all to you, and you will have to take care of the shop yourself in the future." Even if you are married, if you have these things next to you, your in-laws will not look down on you."

Yuzhu lowered her head, "Mother, thank you."

The mother and daughter talked for a while, Mrs. Mu told her to go to bed early, and she would bring Quanfuren and Xi Po to help her dress up early in the morning.When the people left, Yuzhu handed the box to Licorice for her to put away, and she hugged the bed brocade and leaned casually on the imperial concubine's couch under the window sill.

The window lattices were half open, and Jiang's mansion had red lanterns hanging everywhere because of the approaching wedding, the shadows outside the windows were vague and foggy.After a while, Bai Shao came over and whispered, "Girl, Mr. Xie is here, wait outside."

Yuzhu thought for a while, "Let him in."

While waiting for Xie Che to come in, Yu Zhu went into the side room and changed her clothes. The middle coat she was wearing was naturally not easy to meet guests, so she changed into a light purple long skirt with hang silk and a crescent moon dress. Putting on a cloak, Xie Che was already sitting on the stool in the middle of the room drinking tea when he went to the outside room. He was sitting there upright, looking very tall from behind.Hearing the movement, he turned his head and looked very calm. When Yuzhu walked over, he could smell the strong smell of wine.

Her sense of taste and smell is more sensitive than the average person, knowing that with such a strong smell of wine, he probably drank a lot, so he turned around and told Licorice, "Go to the kitchen and make some hangover soup."

Licorice stepped back.

Xie Che went to look at the other two maids, and said in a low voice, "You guys also retreat."

The two servant girls didn't move, Yuzhu said, "Go to Xici Room and wait."

The maid stepped back, Yuzhu sat down opposite Xie Che, the room was silent for a moment, the two looked at each other across the table, Xie Che said softly, "Jiao Jiao is getting married tomorrow, I'll come and see you."

Yuzhu said, "Brother Xie, you drank a lot of wine. After a while, Licorice brought you hangover soup. You drink some and go to rest earlier. You have been very busy in the past few days. You should take a good rest in the next few days."

But he smiled lightly, took out a brocade box from his arms, stood up and walked to Yuzhu and handed it to her, "This is a dowry for you, you can put it away."

Yuzhu hesitated, and finally took it. The elders in the family and her brothers and sisters all added makeup. Xie Che rarely saw her these days. He went out of town a few days ago and seemed to be investigating something. He only came back a few days ago. He added make-up to it, and he couldn't justify it.

Yuzhu reached out to take it, Xie Che's hand was tightly clutching the brocade box, and the veins on the back of his hand were a little bulging.When Yuzhu took the other end of the brocade box, he suddenly reached out to hold her hand and pulled her into his arms. Yuzhu hit his chest just like that, and the familiar faint scent of pen and ink and his daughter's red wine rushed into his nostrils. She was a little stunned by the bump, and murmured, "What are you doing?"

Xie Che tightly tightened his arms, and hugged her tightly in his arms. He lowered his head slightly, resting his chin lightly on the top of her hair, carrying a faint fruity scent.The soaps she uses are all mixed with flower juice and fruity scents, and they smell very good.

"Hold me for a while." His voice became softer and softer, like smoke, "You are getting married tomorrow, let me hug you for a while."

The hand that was already pushing on his chest was put down again, Yuzhu stayed there not daring to move, and finally said softly after a while, "Brother Xie, it's getting late, you should go back to your room to rest earlier."

"Yeah." He still refused to let go.

Until the sound of footsteps came from outside, Xie Che finally let go. His eyes were a little red, and he turned his head slightly to look outside the door, "You should rest early." After saying that, he turned and left without looking back, passing by the room. At the door, Licorice came in with hangover soup, saw him come out and said, "Master, the hangover soup is ready, don't you want to drink some?"

"No need." His voice started to be a little cold, and he strode away without pausing for a moment, until he reached the corridor where there was no one, and he slammed his fist on the red lacquered wooden pillar beside him with great force , There was a crisp fracture sound, he propped his hands on the pillar, bowed his head and panted, the pain in his heart could not be suppressed no matter what, it was the pain that could not be asked for.

Yuzhu waited for Xie Che to leave, and was stunned for a long time. Licorice came over and asked, "Girl, why don't I send the sober soup to Young Master Xie? The servant just smelled the alcohol on the young master. I'm afraid I drank a lot. If I don't sober up tomorrow morning It will definitely give you a headache."

Yuzhu snorted, "You go."

Licorice quickly sent back hangover soup, and Yuzhu also changed her clothes and lay down on the bed to rest. She thought it was difficult to fall asleep after tossing and turning. The footsteps of maids and servants came.

(End of this chapter)