Chapter 72 We All Heard It
Under the pomegranate tree, two figures are vague.
"Wanwan, don't be reluctant. Give more of those beautiful jewelry to Chen Li. She just came to Beijing from Lingnan and doesn't have many friends. Now is a good opportunity to make friends with her!" Jiang Wenxing persuaded.
Jiang Wan looked unhappy. She kicked the orchid grass beside the gravel path and muttered:
"I know, I know! Dad has reminded me many times. I don't have many nice jewelry, and I don't want to give it to her..."
"Besides, she gave me a paste-like sauce as a return gift... She is really a country girl, giving people country specialties when she comes to the city... You still want me to eat that thing, it's so disgusting, I won't eat it!"
Jiang Wenxing was helpless, "You, the Shen family said that it was Shen Li who made the sauce herself. If you don't eat it, how can you praise her in front of her?"
"I forced the maids to eat a spoonful, and they said it was sweet, so I just praised it for being sweet and delicious... Why would someone give such a low-grade thing as a return gift? She's like this, and she's the daughter of the Grand Tutor..." Jiang Wan's tone was full of disgust and jealousy.
This country girl, who is not even as good as a hair of hers, is now a noble lady sought after by everyone in the capital. She is really jealous.
"Don't have this attitude in front of Shen Li! She is very useful to you!" Jiang Wenxing frowned.
"I'm not a fool. In front of her, I will definitely treat her like my own sister and praise her to the skies..." Jiang Wan said immediately.
This is the Jiang family's backyard and there are no outsiders here.
The brother and sister spoke without restraint.
Jiang Rong frowned as she listened, and suddenly she heard a slight rustling sound coming from the side.
I saw a little girl in green standing behind a rockery nearby.
At this moment, the little girl's eyes were filled with tears. She silently raised the sleeve at the back of her hand to wipe her tears, suppressed her grievances, and turned to leave.
Turning back, he met Jiang Rong's eyes.
Chen Li was a little flustered for a moment, as if she had been caught eavesdropping on others, and she hurriedly explained:
"I... I'm lost... I didn't mean to..."
She had to go to the toilet urgently, but the Jiang family garden was too big, so she took a lot of detours and finally reached the backyard.
Jiang Rong looked at her and recalled some things from his previous life.
After the destruction of the Xie family army, Shen Li always came to Xie's house to accompany her and brought her snacks that she made herself.
Chen Li was very worried about her, but was not good at expressing herself, so she stayed with her silently day after day.
At that time, Jiang Rong always thought that Shen Wenyuan was not convenient to have close contact with her, so he asked his sister to come.
"You heard it all." Jiang Rong looked at her.
Shen Li's face became even more embarrassed, "I didn't mean to eavesdrop..."
"Since you heard it, how can you just turn around and leave?" Jiang Rong grabbed her hand, walked straight in, and shouted:
"Stop!"
Jiang Wenxing and Jiang Wan, who were almost out of the garden, turned back at the same time.
Seeing Chen Li, both of them felt guilty.
"Why are my sister and the sister from the Shen family here?" Jiang Wenxing was a smooth talker, so he pretended nothing had happened and said:
"The front hall specially prepared a lot of Beijing snacks for Sister Shen. I wonder if they are to Sister Shen's taste?"
Jiang Rong exposed it coldly, "We heard everything you said just now."
Jiang Wan's expression changed instantly.
"Give the lychee jam back!" Jiang Rong said coldly.
Jiang Wan was a little flustered, but she had to make a fuss: "That was a gift from the Shen family to us, why are you trying to steal it?"
"Because you don't know what's good for you, you don't deserve to eat. If you don't hand it over, I will ask my uncle to come and let him hear what you just said." Jiang Rong's voice was cold.
Jiang Wan was most afraid of her father, so she quickly ordered the maid, "Go get it!"
“Chen Li, that’s not what I meant…I just don’t eat sweets…I can’t get used to it…” Jiang Wan tried to make amends.
Shen Li gritted her teeth with tears in her eyes, turned her head away and ignored her.
After a while, the maid hurriedly brought back the litchi jam.
Jade stepped forward and took the sauce.
Jiang Rong took Chen Li with him, turned around and left.
Looking at the backs of the two people leaving, Jiang Wan jumped in anger:
"Jiang Rong will definitely say bad things about me behind my back, what should I do? Brother!"
Jiang Wenxing was speechless.
Does Jiang Rong need to say bad things about you? What you just said was bad enough.
"Chen Li is the easiest one to deceive. Since such an accident happened, we can just focus on the other people in the Shen family. By the way, the most important one is the Prince of the Northern King! You all know what happened in the capital recently, right? Even the Crown Prince doesn't dare to go against the Prince of the Northern King. This most powerful man in Daxia really lives up to his reputation!" Jiang Wenxing was full of excitement.
He doesn't understand the game behind these things and can only see the superficial results.
That is, the Northern Prince's wife beat the Crown Prince's cousin, and the Crown Prince didn't dare to rescue him.
Beiwang Mansion, the strongest!
You have to curry favor with them!
"I expected that the prince would come to our Jiang family today, so I made preparations several days in advance...but Jiang Rong always ruins my plans, big brother, please help me delay the time..." Jiang Wan's eyes were full of ambition.
She will definitely be able to replace Jiang Rong!
"Okay, I'll go find her." Jiang Wenxing was very happy to help her.
He had never considered Jiang Rong as his own. Of course, the position of the Crown Prince's Consort was won by his own sister, so he could also benefit from it.
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Shen Li followed Jiang Rong to her boudoir.
"Your makeup is smudged from crying. Please fix it." Jiang Rong took her to the dressing mirror.
Chen Li said awkwardly, "No... no need..."
"If you go out like this, everyone will know that you cried." Jiang Rong said.
Chen Li looked at the traces of powder on her face that were washed away by tears in the mirror and stopped talking.
Feicui stepped forward, picked up the clean water to wipe Chen Li's face, and then took out the rouge and powder from the dressing box to touch up.
Jiang Rong glanced at the lychee sauce he had just brought back and said:
“Your sauce is delicious.”
"Thank you, Princess. You don't have to comfort me. I understand. The things I gave you are not presentable enough..." Chen Li said, tears welling up in her red eyes again.
"I'm not comforting you. To be honest, lychees are rare in Beijing, and there's no lychee sauce either. We all think this sauce is very fresh and tastes really good." Jiang Rong said calmly:
"Fei Cui also used it to develop a new dessert called Thousand Layer Lychee Cake. It is made of white jade glutinous rice cake with lychee sauce. It is a novel dessert. It was sent to Songhetang yesterday, and the concubine praised it highly..."
Shen MLZLli's eyes widened, "Really...really?"
"Of course. Our concubine even asked where the lychee sauce was obtained, and she wanted to buy a few more bottles so that the chef in the mansion could make some snacks for us." Feicui smiled and took over the conversation: "Miss Chen is really ingenious. She preserved the taste of lychees and made it very delicious."
Chen Li's face turned slightly red when she was praised, "Lychees are everywhere in Lingnan, I just thought it would be a pity if they were not eaten up and went bad... so I made it into sauce. Toffee likes it, so I'll have someone send two bottles when I get home!"
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