
Mrs. He's marriage had been settled, so Wei Changying was in a good mood and urged Mrs. Huang to pay close attention to it and help them out at the critical moments. Mrs. Huang often ordered Mrs. He to go to the Ji Family to send Jiang Zheng random things. Mrs. He had always obeyed her. Even when she was a child, she did what Mrs. Huang told her. As for why she had to do so, she never bothered to ask. Anyway, she firmly believed that Mrs. Huang would never hurt her.
After several times, although Mrs. He always said that, "This is from the young madam," "The young madam remembered it," and "The young madam asked you how well you are," Jiang Zheng and Zhu Lei still considered that Mrs. He was caring about Jiang Zheng in the name of Wei Changying because they heard from Mrs. Huang that Mrs. He was interested in Jiang Zheng.
In Zhu Lei's words, after falling in love with Jiang Zheng at first sight, this Granny He scolded Jiang Zheng for more than ten years to wait for him to realize her heart. She refused to show out a little bit of love to him during these years.
Now even if Mrs. He was worried about Jiang Zheng's injury, how could she express it clearly? And Mrs. He's excuses looked not very trustworthy. Wei Changying was now taking care of the family affairs and had to fight with the sisters-in-law. She was busy all day, so how was it possible for her to personally care about Jiang Zheng so often? Besides, Wei Changying was the young madam of a big family. Even if she was sympathetic to her instructor, men and women should always keep the distance to make it impossible for her to send things almost every day.
So there was no doubt that this must be Mrs. He who casually found an excuse for this!
Jiang Zheng thought it was very reasonable. Once Mrs. He sent some snacks to him. He hummed that he wanted some chicken soup out of Zhu Lei's impassioned encouragement, "My master is a real man, and Mrs. He is such a shy person. If the master doesn't take the initiative, won't Mrs. He be the same as before? Is it the work of a good man to create such a delay and make Mrs. He sad in vain?"
Jiang Zheng, who thought he was absolutely an upright man, said tentatively, "I heard that the chicken soup you cook is very good. Could you bring me some when you come next time?"
Mrs. He, who was more or less single-minded, didn't think much about it at all. Most of the patients had to drink chicken soup to get the nutrition. Although Mrs. He was a wet nurse, she often cooked for Wei Changying. At this time, the cook always flattered, "Granny He's really good at cooking," "After seeing how Granny cooked this, I won't have the face to work here without consulting Granny." After hearing these often, Mrs. He also thought she was very good at cooking.
Besides, the young madam sent her to the Ji Family several times a day. Didn't it mean that she hoped Jiang Zheng would get better soon?
So Mrs. He simply agreed, "Do you want some ginseng in it? It will make you heal faster."
This shy woman had finally given herself away! Jiang Zheng was so happy to hear that he forgot how he answered that. In a word, that day, Zhu Lei poked over to find out the news after Mrs. He left. Jiang Zheng asked Zhu Lei to bring him the small box that he had all the way from Fengzhou: "Bring me the small bag at the bottom and open it."
There was a Suet Jade bracelet in the small baggage. Zhu Lei grew up in a poor family. As soon as he saw that the bracelet was flawless and glittering, he could not help admiring it again and again and said, "Master even has such a good thing? Is it for Granny He?"
"Well, it was left by your grandmother." Jiang Zheng sighed, "She originally wanted me to pass it on. But when I stopped thinking about getting married, I only regarded it as a souvenir, and I haven't looked at it for many years."
Zhu Lei flattered, "It turns out that it is a family heirloom of the master! With such a priceless bracelet, Granny He will definitely be moved by the master's heart at the first sight of it."
"What an inexperienced boy!" Jiang Zheng shook his head and said sadly, "It's a good bracelet for an ordinary family like us, but Mrs. He has been following the young madam. What kind of gold, beads, and jade has she not seen? I had met the young madam's leading maidservant several years ago. She also wore a hairpin with jade, which was not worse than this. I asked about this, and it was said that the young madam was tired of wearing it, so she gave it away casually. Mrs. He's in a higher position than the maidservants. I'm afraid that she has better hairpins…"
Zhu Lei said, "Why do you have to worry about it? If Granny He admires wealth, how can she fall in love with the master for many years? The guards of the Wei Family all know that master is poor and all the money has been spent on me!"
Jiang Zheng thought it was reasonable, so he asked his apprentice to put away the bracelet, "After my injury gets better..."
He did not say the following words, yet Zhu Lei already understood. The "good" apprentice secretly breathed a sigh of relief. When he was away from his master, he would have to pray to the heaven and earth for having no accident in this matter… At least no accident would happen until he slipped away to Youyan.
In the eyes of Wei Changying, she only hoped all the best for the matter between her wet nurse and the instructor. Considering that Jiang Zheng's injury was not fully healed, her husband had gone to Xiliang, and she was not sure about how her father-in-law's matter of abolishing the Crown Prince went, it was not clear whether to betroth her confidant wet nurse to Jiang Zheng at this moment would make the Empress think too much. And it was not clear whether it would cause trouble to her father-in-law.
Wei Changying decided to wait until Jiang Zheng was healed. And even if they were talking about getting married, she would send them out of the capital temporarily. It would not be too late to call them back after the Empress and Shen Xun lost their positions. Wei Changying stopped thinking about this matter when she reached this point. She was really busy right now…
In the second half of this year, there were so many wedding ceremonies.
In this month, Su Yuli would get married; in next month, after Gu Yiran got married, Su Yulee would also get married the next day; and the Crown Prince would get married in early November.
Although it was not necessary for Wei Changying to handle all this, she had to attend all of the weddings. So she had to prepare gifts and proper clothes for the occasions. She had to pay attention to the festivities, so as not to overwhelm the limelight of her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law. Every now and then she still had to have some small conflict with the two sisters-in-law in front of people or in private… Thus, it was not until the day Su Yuli got married that she could finally sit down and catch her breath.
A daughter like Su Yuli didn’t need Wei Zhengyin to worry about her too much. Her husband’s family was also in the capital, and she married into a family with a lower status so that she was not afraid of her mother-in-law’s oppression. However, Wei Zhengyin still burst into tears. For the apple of her eyes who had been pampered for more than ten years was going to marry others. Such an outpouring of emotions also made Wei Changying and a group of people who accompanied Su Yuli to dress up cry. Wei Changying thought of the reluctance of Madam Song on the day she got married and the cry from Old Madam Song, which were covered by the joyful music when she got into the carriage. She didn’t know whether she could have another chance to serve her mother and grandmother, so she cried especially hard.
Wei Changying was not able to control her emotions until Su Yuli went out to get on the carriage and the banquet of the Su Family started. She could not help but feel a little embarrassed for the fact that it was her cousin who was getting married, yet she cried more fiercely than her aunt and her cousin.
The servant prepared water to serve her to clean herself and put on light makeup again. Wei Changying checked her appearance in front of the bronze mirror, but she saw her sister-in-law Shen Cangning leaning on the soft couch not far behind her in the mirror. She nodded off bit by bit, and Wei Changying hurriedly asked Qin’ge to come over and wake her up.
Looking at Shen Cangning who was rubbing her eyes and looked confused, Wei Changying asked her, "Why are you here? You didn't go and play with the cousins from the Su Family?"
Shen Cangning took a long time to wake up and said listlessly, "My mother told me to follow you."
"Why?" Seeing that the colored sash tied to her hair was messed up, Wei Changying reached out and fixed it for her.
Shen Cangning sighed, "Cousins are all betrothed, and now they are all detained by the second aunt to learn the rules. I wanted to play with them, but they couldn't even get out of the yard. What's the point? My mother was worried about me, so she sent the third sister-in-law to keep an eye on me. The third sister-in-law, didn't you learn martial arts? Mother thinks you can keep an eye on me better."
Wei Changying didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry. When she was about to speak, Shen Cangning said again, "But my mother was also wrong. You couldn't control yourself when you cried so much just now. How could you have time to take care of me? If I really hadn't had a place to go, I would have left a long time ago."
"Since you haven't left, you can follow me then." Wei Changying secretly breathed a sigh of relief, smiled, touched the center of her eyebrow, and said.
Leading Shen Cangning to the table, Wei Changying had to apologize to the people nearby, "Just now I saw that my aunt was reluctant to let go of my cousin, and I immediately remembered what it was like when I got married. I don't know how my grandmother and mother in my mother's family are now, so I lost manners and made you laugh."
Even if she didn't say so, everyone could understand. They all smiled and told her not to care about this matter. Some of them made a few kind jokes.
They entered the table together, and Shen Cangning sat next to Wei Changying. This sister-in-law was used to making trouble, and now she was very lethargic without her sisters. She held her cheeks and picked the dishes in front of her. Her eyes were listless and dispirited.
Wei Changying talked to her several times, but Shen Cangning was still talking as little as she could… Seeing this, Wei Changying stopped bothering her.
In the middle of such a banquet, Wei Changjuan, who was not sitting far away, suddenly left the table, leaned down between Wei Changying and Shen Cangning, and said to Wei Changying, "Third Sister, I have something to say to you. But please don't be angry."
Although they were lineal cousins, they had never been very close because of Old Madam Song's advice and the competitive relationship between Wei Shengyi and Wei Changfeng. The last time during Princess Linchuan's birthday, Wei Changying was laughed at by others. Wei Changwan and Wei Changjuan also went away immediately.
After that, their relationship was even rustier. But they were all daughters of the big families, and they were still as polite as sisters in the scene. This kind of sudden private talk was too close for them during the banquet.
Wei Changying felt a little strange and said, "Seventh Sister, why will I be angry with you?"
"What the third sister said just now indeed came from your heart, but it was really inappropriate." Wei Changjuan's voice was sweet and very comfortable, but what she said made Wei Changying a little uncomfortable. She said, "Now that the third sister has got married. Then you are a member of the Shen Family. If you always talk about your mother's family in this way, it's hard for you to avoid seeming inattentive to the affairs of your husband's family!"
Wei Changying felt unhappy, so she said lightly, "It's not easy for the seventh sister, a girl who hasn't married yet, to persuade me. But I think that's a sentence that everyone could sympathize with. Besides, a woman who gets married is indeed regarded as a member of her husband's family from that on. But it does not mean that she has nothing to do with her mother's family in the future. Otherwise, doesn't it mean that women who have got married cannot go back to their mothers' house? What's more, the mother's family's elders cultivated and educated us. How can we not think about it at all?"
"The third sister, don't dislike me for being talkative! I'm just saying." Wei Changjuan heard the mockery in her tone, and the rims of her eyes immediately became red. She then said aggrievedly, "I am just thinking, the third sister, you just cried so hard, and now you only mention our grandmother and the first aunt. In case of others' misunderstanding, they will say that you didn't have a good life in your husband's house, so you miss your parents in your mother's family so much. This isn't…?"
Wei Changying was furious and said in a cold voice, "How could others not know what kind of life I have at my husband's house? My husband treats me with deep affection, and my mother-in-law treats me as if I were her own daughter. If this is not good, so what is good? The seventh sister, the second uncle, and the second aunt are here. I shouldn't have come to teach you as your cousin of the same generation. It's just that what you said is too rude! What does it mean that you, a girl who has not married yet, instigate here instead of learning the rules well and learning how to be virtuous? Our grandfather himself chose my husband's family. Are you saying that my grandfather has poor insight?"
Wei Changjuan immediately had tears in her eyes and said, "Dear sister, I was wrong. I don't know how to speak properly… But I heard that you just called the second aunt to be the aunt. But according to your husband's family, you should call her the third aunt. If you follow your mother's family everywhere like this, this…"
"What do I call my second aunt? This is something that even my mother-in-law doesn't care about!" When Wei Changying noticed that Wei Changjuan was about to cry, they had already attracted the attention of people around her. Someone was whispering to Wei Changjuan, who was talking to the female family member next to her. And Wei Changwan seemed to be ready to come over. She was really disgusted with this cousin and was about to reply to her like this.
Unexpectedly, Shen Cangning, who was sitting on the first position below, suddenly climbed up, walked over in a few steps, and raised her hands to push Wei Changjuan off a little!
Originally, Wei Changjuan's nearly crying during a good wedding already got attention from others. But now, Shen Cangning's action recruited several people to come around to stop the fight, "What's going on? What happened? It's a good day for Sister Su, and you are all sisters of Sister Su. Why are you fighting here? And the seventh Sister Wei even cried?"
At this time, Wei Changwan also brought a young woman dressed in light yellow clothes, rushed over, and said, "What are you doing, the third sister? The seventh sister is kind enough to remind you of this matter. Why did you and the fourth miss of the Shen Family make her cry?"
After she said this, everyone turned to look at Wei Changying…


