Chapter 52 Patience
Shen Wan was completely deaf to the congratulations from the people around her. She was completely focused on how to escape. The imperial decree granted her marriage, and if she chose to fake her death, she would never be able to return to the Duke Dingguo's Mansion and would have to live her whole life in hiding.
Afraid of rejecting Xie Jingyu's kindness and making him unhappy, Chen Wan impulsively agreed to lend him the position of Crown Prince's Consort, and now she regrets it deeply.
This was Xie Jingyu's own fault. If he couldn't marry his beloved because of the imperial decree, it couldn't be her fault.
In fact, if it was just a few words of blame, Chen Wan would have ignored it. She was afraid that she would follow in Chen Yu's footsteps and that Xie Jingyu would kill her to make room for his beloved.
In Shen Wan's heart, Xie Jingyu is a man who can do anything.
If the Jingbei Palace can request an imperial decree for a marriage, they should also be able to request an imperial decree for a divorce in the future...
Shen Wan's heart was shaking like a sieve.
She didn't know how she got back to Mingyue Garden. She was in a daze, with her thoughts wandering.
Yun and Shen Ji were very satisfied with this marriage. In the afternoon, Yun brought her embroiderer to measure Shen Wan and prepare to embroider her wedding dress.
Yun discussed with Chen Wan what kind of wedding dress to make, and Chen Wan said, "Mother, you make the decision."
Yun said angrily, "Marrying is a lifelong event. It's not enough for mother to be satisfied. You also have to be satisfied yourself."
Yun married Chen Ji because there was a war going on at the border and they were in urgent need of food and fodder. She got married in haste, and after all these years, she still felt regretful.
The same thing happened to Chen Yu. She and the Prince of Zhaoping were engaged early on and had prepared their wedding dress, but because she fell into the water, the Zhaoping Marquis's Mansion broke off the engagement, and she had to marry the Prince of Yongqing Marquis's Mansion. Chen Yu was unwilling to wear the wedding dress prepared for marrying the Prince of Zhaoping Marquis on the bridal sedan chair of the Yongqing Marquis's Mansion, so she prepared another one and embroidered it in a hurry. Many details were not handled well enough. Yun Shi felt sorry, but she did not want to force Chen Yu, so she still agreed to her decision.
Yun didn't want Shen Wan to have any regrets about getting married, but her daughter didn't care at all.
Not only was she not paying attention, she also looked a little absent-minded. Yun asked, "Are you unwilling to marry the Prince of Jingbei?"
Shen Wan shook his head, "No."
"Then why can't mother feel that you are happy?" Yun asked.
Afraid that Yun Shi would worry, Shen Wan suppressed her worries about the future, took Yun Shi's arm and said, "My daughter just thinks about leaving her parents in the future, and I can't bear to leave them..."
Just one sentence dispelled Yun's worries.
We have all been through this, so we naturally understand Chen Wan’s worries and reluctance.
Yun touched Shen Wan's face and said with a smile, "Duke Dingguo's Mansion and Prince Jingbei's Mansion are not far away. If you miss your parents in the future, come back and visit them."
Shen Wan nodded obediently.
After discussing the pattern for the wedding dress embroidery, the embroidery room drew a blueprint and sent it to us. If there were no unsatisfactory aspects, we could start preparations.
Yun stayed for half an hour before leaving.
After Yun left, Shen Wan didn't continue to worry about it because there were more important things that diverted her attention.
A gray-white carrier pigeon landed on the window sill.
After waiting for so many days, there is finally news.
Three days.
I just have to endure Ye Caiwei for three more days.
It was just the last three days, and Shen Wan had endured it enough.
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The next day, Shen Wan took Shanhu to pay her respects to the old lady as usual.
Seeing that Shanhu was always by her side, Chen Wu said, "Second sister asked grandma to reluctantly give up Hongxiu and give her to you, but you only take Shanhu with you. Could it be that she is dissatisfied with Hongxiu?"
In the past, Shen Wan went in and out with them, but now she goes out with them less often. They have no idea where Shen Wan goes or what she does, and they feel like they are out of control.
Chen Wan smiled faintly, "Hongxiu was something I specifically asked my grandmother for, so how could she be dissatisfied? It's just that I have more important things to entrust to Hongxiu, so she doesn't have time to stay with me."
Ye Caiwei pretended to be dumbfounded and said, "The important thing that Second Cousin mentioned, isn't it about asking Hongxiu to help you embroider the Hundred Longevity Picture?"
Chen Wu said, "Preparing a birthday gift for grandma and having someone else do it for you, how can you be sincere at all?"
Chen Wan glanced at Chen Wu and said, "I underestimated the difficulty of embroidering a longevity picture with gold and silver threads. I sat in front of the embroidery frame for a long time and felt a little uneasy. My parents had finally helped me recover, and I didn't dare to tire myself and let them worry about it. So I asked Hongxiu to embroider it for me. My embroidery is not as good as Hongxiu's. Third sister thinks my sincerity is not enough, so I can only change it to a birthday gift for grandmother."
The old lady said, "Your health is more important, so it doesn't matter if you don't prepare a birthday gift for grandma."
If she doesn't prepare a birthday gift, she will be drowned in everyone's saliva.
Chen Wu asked, "What are you going to give to Grandmother?"
Shen Wan said, "I haven't thought about it yet, but I will definitely prepare it myself and won't ask anyone else to do it."
Unable to find out, Shen Wu gave up.
As soon as Chen Wan returned to Mingyue Garden, Ye Caiwei came. Chen Wan was sitting in front of the embroidery frame embroidering a picture of a hundred years of longevity. Ye Caiwei looked at it for a while, found it boring, and went to find Chen Yu.
Ye Caiwei stayed at Shen Yu's place for only a quarter of an hour before she asked for a gold hairpin inlaid with rubies and left. When Shen Wan found out, she felt a tightness in her chest. She hadn't been paying attention for just a quarter of an hour, and her elder sister was taken away by Ye Caiwei.
Chen Wan was so disappointed that she went to find Chen Yu and asked, "That was the hairpin that mother gave to my eldest sister. Why did my eldest sister give it to my cousin?"
Chen Yu said, "She held the hairpin and repeatedly praised its beauty. I saw that she really wanted it, so I gave it to her."
Chen Yu was gentle in nature and was not good at rejecting people. She didn't know that Ye Caiwei was not her biological cousin, but the second master's illegitimate daughter. When Ye Caiwei wanted the hairpin, no matter how reluctant she was, she would give it up when she thought of her uncle and aunt.
Seeing that Shen Wan was unhappy, Shen Yu said, "Mother loves her cousin very much. I will give her a hairpin as a gift. Mother won't mind."
Just because my mother didn’t care before doesn’t mean she doesn’t care now.
The second master and the old lady have deceived the eldest branch of the family and have been playing with them in their hands. Even if it's just a penny, my mother doesn't want to be taken advantage of again.
And it's not just Ye Caiwei, Chen Wu, Chen Yao and others have also taken advantage of their eldest sister.
Chen Wan said, "They just know that my eldest sister is thin-skinned and easy to talk to. They are all embarrassed to ask for my things, and I am embarrassed to refuse. In the future, if my eldest sister gives things away because it is difficult to refuse, I will go and get them back for you as soon as you give them to others."
"I will do what I say."
Chen Wan didn't like to force people, but this trick worked. Once she pushed Yun, the power of the head kitchen manager would completely fall into Yun's hands.
Shen Yu was really afraid that Shen Wan would do such a thing, so she immediately said, “Eldest sister knows, I won’t do such a thing again in the future.”
Chen Wan didn't go to Ye Caiwei to get the hairpin. After sending her back to the second room, she would take back all the things given to her cousin.
Shen Wan thought that in the last two days, Ye Caiwei could only take advantage of her a little and couldn't make any big waves. As a result, Ye Caiwei really made a mess for her, and Shen Ji and Yun had to clean up the mess for her.
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