Embarrassing for the bride

Chapter 21

The Dragon Boat Festival is just around the corner, Yuzhi and the nanny made a few sachets, and planned to give them to Wen Zhaoling when the time came.When she embroidered the double lotus pattern on the surface of the sachet, she suddenly felt a little satisfied, and this kind of life seemed to be enough for her.There is a gentle husband-in-law who lives a life without worrying about food and clothing. Although he has to carefully serve Mrs. Tai and Mrs. Wen every day, his life is considered comfortable.

At noon, the Wen family got together for dinner.Master Wen wrote a rare letter and came back. Wen Zhaoling read the letter in front of everyone. It was nothing more than some polite words of homesickness, covering everything, even asking about the old housekeeper, but ignoring his first wife.Mrs. Tai sighed for a while, as if feeling reluctant to give up, she kept talking about how difficult it is for her son to be an official outside.Mrs. Wen just drank tea leisurely, as if she didn't care about anything, and she didn't care about Mr. Wen's indifference.

Seeing Yuzhi, she didn't know what it was like, a couple, why are they here?Turning his head to see Wen Zhaoling, he was frowning slightly, and when he saw her looking at him, he smiled at her again.

The atmosphere of the meal was somewhat gloomy because of Master Wen's letter, except for Jin's scolding from time to time to the prostitute Daimei who was standing behind her, there were almost no other voices.

Dai Mei is considered cautious, but Jin's anger is still there, so she still can't help but take it out on her.Although Wen Zhaoye couldn't stand it, he didn't dare to say anything because he was wronged.In the end, Daimei couldn't help sobbing, and the meal was even more boring.

Mrs. Wen couldn't stand it anymore, and said to Jin: "No matter what, don't make noise at this time, today is a festival."

Jin pursed her lips, and replied with a cold snort: "Mother doesn't know something, it's fine if she doesn't know how to serve people well, but if you still insist on asking me to tell you to take her to Mingyue Temple on the fifteenth day Xiang, really, I don’t even look at who I am.”

Mrs. Wen raised her eyebrows and looked at Daimei, "Oh? You want to go to Mingyue Nunnery to offer incense?"

Mrs. Wen always spoke plainly, but Daimei felt trembling when she heard it, she nodded repeatedly, "Returning to Madam, Daimei also believed in Buddhism since childhood."

Jin snorted coldly, "If you believe in Buddha, you still fall into such a place of fireworks, you really insult the Buddha."

Daimei bit her lower lip and wanted to cry, and it took a long time before she replied: "The Buddha said that all living beings are equal, and Daimei jumped into the pit of fire when she was desperate at the beginning."

Mrs. Wen frowned and glanced impatiently at Mrs. Jin, and then at the top position. She was afraid that her words would offend Mrs. Tai, who believed deeply in Buddhism, so she waved her hand to Daimei, interrupting the conversation between the two of them. Conversation, "Forget it, you just go with us on the fifteenth day."

Daimei's brows were beaming with joy when she heard the words, but she had already smiled with tears in her eyes, "Thank you Ma'am."

Kim snorted twice angrily.

Li smiled slightly at Yuzhi who was sitting not far away, and seemed to find it a little interesting.Yuzhi couldn't help but smile too, the days in the second room were a bit rough.

After dinner, Yuzhi and Wen Zhaoling were about to return to Boyuju, when Aqin came up to him and said, "Brother, how about we go get together in your yard?"

Wen Zhaoling smiled, "Who are we?"

Mrs. Li came out from behind A-Qin and said with a smile, "A-Qin and I, but I don't know if my eldest brother and sister-in-law would like it."

Yuzhi smiled and nodded, "Of course I am willing, I'm very welcome."

Li Shi and Aqin must also feel lonely seeing such a festive season, so if they want to find someone to accompany them, of course Yuzhi will not refuse unkindly.It's just that on the way the four of them went to Boyuju together, Wen Zhaoling whispered in Yuzhi's ear seemingly unintentionally: "I wanted to celebrate the festival with the two of you at first."

Yuzhi's ears were numb and itchy from the breath of his words, she couldn't help laughing, she quickly turned her head to look, and saw Aqin who was watching with a smile on her face, and Li Shi who turned her head and looked away, Immediately couldn't help but blush.Wen Zhaoling suppressed a smile and squeezed her hand.

When they arrived at Boyuju, Yuzhi asked Que Ya'er to prepare some snacks and bring a pot of realgar wine.A few people set up a small table in the yard and sat around, eating some snacks and chatting was very pleasant.Wen Zhaoling was in poor health, and basically could not drink other wines except rice wine, so Yuzhi only made tea for him, and she and Lishi Aqin both poured a glass of realgar wine.

Ah Qin is more lively, and although most of the things she says are irrelevant, they are also very interesting.Yuzhi was also interested in listening to it at first, but after that, she was basically talking about their childhood, so she couldn't get in the conversation.Both Li Shi and Wen Zhaoling grew up together, and there were naturally many topics to talk about when they were young. Yuzhi remembered that her childhood memories were almost all related to taking medicine and reading scriptures, and couldn't help but sigh inwardly.The only partner Ji Li can't be seen often now, I don't know what he is doing now.

Anyway, she couldn't get in the conversation, Yuzhi felt bored, so she drank a few glasses of wine without knowing it.Wen Zhaoling saw it from the side, and raised his hand to hold her hand, "Yuzhi, drink less, although it's realgar wine, it's still wine, be careful not to get drunk."

Yuzhi smiled, "No, I know."

Wen Zhaoling shook his head, "I can't see it, this is not the first time for you."

Yuzhi froze for a moment, "What?"

Wen Zhao smiled faintly, "It's nothing."

The afternoon sun shone in the yard, falling on the two of them, outlining their figures, and the picture was beautiful.Aqin clapped her hands and smiled when she saw her, "Brother and sister-in-law are quite different in age, but they look like a good match. They really look like a beautiful couple."

Wen Zhaoling put on a straight face, "What do you mean there is a lot of age difference? It sounds like your elder brother is already very old." Wen Zhaoling is seven years older than Yuzhi, and Yuzhi is only just as old, so how old can he be.However, Yuzhi also laughed when she heard this, and Wen Zhaoling continued to keep a straight face, "Even you think I'm too old?"

Yuzhi shook her head, "No, I just remembered what Fu Guipo said when she went to propose marriage, saying that you and I both have the word "Jade" in our names, what a beautiful couple, I didn't expect Ah Qin to say such a thing now .”

After hearing this, Aqin burst out laughing: "Is there such a thing? According to her words, wouldn't the girl with jade in her name be a beautiful couple with her elder brother?"

Yuzhi nodded, "No, that's what I said at the beginning."

Aqin laughed out loud, and suddenly pulled Mrs. Li and said to the two of them: "By the way, the third sister-in-law also has the word jade in her name, so isn't she and elder brother also a beautiful couple?" After talking, she laughed even harder. But he didn't notice the unnaturalness of the other three people because of this joke.

Yuzhi reacted quickly, and almost immediately asked Li with a smile: "It turns out that Liu Niang also has a word for jade in her name, but I don't know what it is called."

Mrs. Li smiled awkwardly, glanced at Wen Zhaoling, and said two words lightly: "Yu'e."

Suddenly, Yuzhi glanced at Wen Zhaoling beside him as if inadvertently, but saw that he lowered his eyes and didn't know what he was thinking, and his expression was dazed.

Although Yuzhi grew up in a nunnery, she didn't know much about men and women, but thanks to the story books she had been peeking at all the time, she read a lot of stories about gifted scholars and beautiful women, so she naturally knew some of the routines.Seeing the abnormal behavior of Li Shi and Wen Zhaoling just now because of A Qin's seemingly unintentional words, I felt a little uncomfortable. Could it be that there was something about these two people before?
When she thought of this, she immediately denied it. They just grew up together, why did she think so badly of them?
Having said that, my heart is a little blocked.When they talked about their childhood just now, Yuzhi felt uncomfortable.They have a childhood to share together, but they don't have it. It's better after seeing Ji Li, but what about before meeting Ji Li?The days when I was alone in the nunnery were actually not happy.

Probably because of drinking, Yuzhi's emotions that had been suppressed in her heart for a long time were gradually aroused, and she was quite sentimental.She smiled at Aqin and Li Shi who were facing each other, "I may be a little dizzy from drinking too much, so I'd better go back to the room and sleep, you guys talk slowly." She said without waiting for a few people to answer , then got up and walked towards the house.

Wen Zhaoling looked up at her in surprise, but didn't say much.

As soon as Yuzhi left, Ah Qin felt that it was boring, and stopped talking, just holding a piece of snack and chewing slowly.Mrs. Li looked at Wen Zhaoling, and finally her expression was not so embarrassing.

"Brother, how are you doing recently?"

Wen Zhaoling nodded, "It's much better. Yuzhi has always taken care of it carefully, and the medicine that Uncle Gu brought back is also good and very effective."

Li Shi smiled, and there was no further topic for a while.

Wen Zhaoling stared at a clump of bushes in the distance and thought, "Liu Niang, why haven't you been with Arong recently, but you've gotten closer to Yuzhi instead?"

Mrs. Li was taken aback, "They are all sisters-in-law, there is no difference between closeness and estrangement, big brother must have misunderstood."

"Well said, Liu Niang, you are smarter than everyone else, so you should understand what I mean." When Wen Zhaoling said this, he glanced at Aqin who was beside her, who was concentrating on picking a dish from the plate. He has no time to care about his favorite snacks.

Li's expression was a bit ugly, "Brother, I really don't understand what you said."

Wen Zhaoling glanced at her, got up and walked towards the bushes.Li's expression froze slightly, he glanced at Aqin beside him, followed him, and stood beside him.

Wen Zhaoling pointed to the bush in front of her and said to her, "Uncle planted this. He said it was a flower, but I said it was just some messy thorns."

When Mrs. Li heard him mentioning her deceased husband, she lowered her eyes slightly, her expression gloomy.

"Liu Niang, I know you are having a bad time in this family. Of course, maybe you have felt that your life is not good since the day you married into the Wen family, but as long as you want, I can find a way for you."

Li Shi looked up at him in astonishment, "What do you mean by brother?"

Wen Zhaoling still stared at the shrub, "I mean, I can ask my mother to make the decision, let you go back to your mother's house, and choose another good family to marry, even if it is to fill the house, it is better than staying alone all the time, isn't it? "

Li's face turned pale, and she looked at him in disbelief, "Boyu, you..."

Wen Zhaoling frowned, "It's better to call you big brother."

Mrs. Li stood there almost blankly, looked at him for a while, then turned around and walked out of the yard quickly, heading towards her residence without looking back.

Aqin finally finished chewing a piece of dim sum, took a sip of realgar wine slowly, found it unpalatable, and quickly vomited it out.Get up and walk to Wen Zhaoling's side, gave him a sneaky look, then laughed twice, "Brother, I'm right, there are too many women in this family who like you, but you still watch over Sister-in-law, don't do anything to offend her."

Wen Zhaoling sighed, "Aqin, even if you know something, you should treat it as if you don't know it, and stop talking nonsense in the future."

Ah Qin curled her lips, "So what, anyway, how many people believe what I said?" After saying this, she suddenly yelled into the main room: "Sister-in-law, I will come to see you sometime!" Then He ran away in a flash.

Wen Zhaoling shook his head, startled, really didn't know what to do with her.

Back in the room, Yuzhi was lying on the bed with her back facing out.Wen Zhaoling walked over and sat down next to the edge of the bed, just looked at her quietly, and asked after a long time: "Yuzhi, is there anything unhappy about you?"

Yuzhi pulled the quilt over her head, and hummed back: "No, I'm fine."

Wen Zhaoling heard her thick nasal voice, and raised his hand to pull her quilt, but Yuzhi refused to be pulled away by him. Wen Zhaoling simply used all his strength, pulled her to his side, and took advantage of the situation to bend down and hug her "Yuzhi, what's wrong? Are you crying?"

Yuzhi's eyes were a little red, as if she had been crying.She raised her hand to cover her eyes, "I didn't cry, I'm fine."

Wen Zhaoling sighed, "Did what we just said made you unhappy? Don't worry, Aqin was joking. How could I be a couple with others? I'm only a couple with you."

Yuzhi blushed and peeked at him from between her fingers, "I, I'm not because of this, I'm sad because you can't get what you said."

Wen Zhaoling was puzzled: "Is there anything you can't get in the mouth?"

Yuzhi moved her hand away, looked at him and sighed: "You were accompanied by someone when you were young, and you experienced everything together, but at that time I was still staying in Mingyue Nunnery."

Wen Zhaoling was stunned, and then laughed, "So it's because of this, you don't need to be sad, you were not alone in those days, someone was watching you all the time, but you didn't know it."

Yuzhi was startled, "Who?"

Wen Zhaoling lowered his eyes and smiled, "Me."

(End of this chapter)