Chapter 51 Chapter 51 A Gift for Her
Xie Ji extended his hand, but when he saw that she hadn't taken it yet, he pursed his lips tightly, feeling nervous. "Don't you like the clothes I prepared for you?"
Or maybe, I just don't like him as a person, so I even resist the clothes he prepared.
"No." Jiang Wu shook his head. "I was just thinking about something."
Jiang Wu suddenly looked up at him, with a complicated expression. She wanted to say something, but swallowed it back.
"Ask whatever you want. Madam, don't forget that I am your husband."
Lately, he seems to always emphasize his identity as a husband.
He had already taken the initiative to speak. Jiang Wu, whose hands were almost twisted into knots, really had something to ask him. After considering for a long time, he spoke a little nervously, "If I wasn't your engaged wife, would you chase me away?"
As she said this, she stared at him intently, trying to discern the difference between him and the one in her dreams.
If it was him in the dream, Jiang Wu believed that he would definitely throw her a divorce letter without hesitation, and would also say with disgust that she was a vain liar.
So, what would he say in reality?
Xie Ji was not surprised that she would ask this question, but what was surprising was that she asked it after everything was settled.
He did not answer immediately. Instead, he picked up the boiling water on the square wooden table with cloud pattern and blue lotus, poured it into the teapot with tea leaves. After washing one cup of tea, he opened the secret compartment and took out a round-bellied porcelain bottle. He used tweezers to pick out a piece of milky white sugar cube from it and placed it on the empty bowl, then poured the second brewed tea into the bowl.
"This is a way of eating that came from the grasslands. It's rich and mellow. You should like it."
"But it's a little hot now. You have to wait until it cools down before drinking it."
Jiang Wu's nose twitched as he smelled the milk and tea aroma in the air, and saliva began to accumulate in his mouth.
She thought, without even tasting it, she could guess that it must taste good.
While Jiang Wu was waiting for the milk tea to cool down, she suddenly remembered something important. She looked up at him again with a hint of anger, "You haven't answered my question yet."
Xie Ji met her gaze without avoiding it, "Because I don't think this question needs an answer."
When displeasure showed in her eyes, Xie Ji said slowly, "If I am not your true husband, will you divorce me and marry someone else who is truly engaged to you?"
"Of course not." Jiang Wu said this subconsciously, then realized something was wrong. With a puffed-up face, he pointed his finger at him and asked angrily, "Isn't it me who asked you? How did you ask me?"
In response to his wife's question, Xie Ji, with a smile as bright as spring water in his eyes, reached out and pressed down the finger she was using to point at people, bringing it back into his palm. "Madam's answer is naturally my answer as well."
Jiang Wu pulled her hand back and felt that he was shameless. She was so angry that the corners of her eyes turned red. "Will you chase me away in the future?"
"Why should I drive you away?" When had he ever given her this illusion?
Thinking of her fate in the dream, Jiang Wu met his eyes and said seriously, "Of course you like another woman, and you think I'm an eyesore."
Hearing this, Xie Ji's brows furrowed deeply, and he became even more puzzled as to what he had done wrong that always made her want to break up with him and live out her own life.
Finally, he met her gaze seriously, his eyes filled with seriousness and meticulousness, and said every word, "If I marry you, I will be prepared to be responsible for you for the rest of my life. The essence of marriage is that even if there is no love, two people have to walk hand in hand, rather than thinking of abandoning ship and escaping from the beginning."
"I don't know where Madam got the idea that I would drive you away and divorce you. But I can tell you here very seriously and responsibly that there has never been a case of divorce or reconciliation in the Xie family, either in the past or now."
"No matter who you were before or what you did, you only have one identity now, that is my wife." Besides, she is his wife.
When Jiang Wu finished the last syllable, his heartbeat seemed to be missing a piece, and then it suddenly accelerated, so fast that it seemed like it was going to jump out of his chest.
Summer was clearly over, so why did her cheeks feel so hot, as if a hard-boiled egg had been rolled on them?
When Xie Ji said these words for the first time, his ears turned slightly red and he lowered his eyes to hide his inner panic.
Would his sudden words scare her and make her think he was too frivolous?
For a moment, the carriage was so quiet that even the sound of each other's breathing could be heard clearly.
Even when the carriage reached the downtown area, voices could still be heard from both sides of the street, even on a rainy day.
Even though he made a promise, Jiang Wu still pinched her fingers, feeling uneasy. "What if, by some chance, you really fall in love with someone else, remember to tell me."
"Don't worry, ma'am. What you worry about will never happen." He agreed to marry her, which meant he was ready to take responsibility for her life, unless she wanted to leave, not him, there would be a day when he would let go.
Even if everything he said now was a lie, for Jiang Wu, even if it was a lie to her, it was still good at this moment.
Xie Ji, trying to hide his shame, coughed lightly and picked up the milk tea which was at the perfect temperature. "It's cold now. Madam, try it. Is it to your liking?"
Compared to the peaceful life here, Shen Tingxue was almost mad with anger. As soon as she returned to the house, she couldn't control herself and smashed everything in the house to pieces.
Why did this perfect plan fail? Not only did it fail, but it also made that bitch Jiang Wu look pitiful in the eyes of the people.
She didn't understand why she couldn't change the plot or become the heroine even though she had traveled into the book. Moreover, she didn't provoke Jiang Wu like the previous idiot did.
Shen Tingxue was pacing back and forth in the room in agitation, biting her fingers, when Xie Yu suddenly appeared outside the door. Without waiting for the maid to announce it, he raised his hand and knocked on the door, "Princess, the master wants you to come over for something."
"Master, do you have something to talk to me about?" Shen Tingxue didn't understand why her master wanted to see her at this time. Although she was excited, she felt more uneasy.
Could it be that he discovered something, but she thought she was doing things secretly and no one would find out.
"I don't know. I have to wait until the princess comes there in person to find out."
"Okay, wait a moment." When Shen Tingxue suppressed her anxiety and prepared to go out, she noticed that the room was smashed so badly that there was no place to stand, and she couldn't help but feel a layer of regret in her heart.
You have to know that the original character is a cold and talented woman who is not happy about things or sad about herself, and she has a strong inner core and would never do such an emotional thing.
Could it be that this body has been occupied by the previous idiot for too long, and even she has been infected with the stupid disease.
But now is not the time to think so much. The important thing is to see the master. As for the things that she smashed, just secretly ask Qiaozhi to buy them to replace them.
The meeting place was not in the study, but in the pavilion next to Merlin.
This was the first time in so long that the master took the initiative to see her. How could Shen Tingxue not be happy or displeased? She endured the joy in her heart and walked towards the man in the pavilion, her eyes full of charm, "Master, Changle is here."
Xie Ji didn't beat around the bush, but got straight to the point. "After the rain stops, you can move back to your Princess Mansion. It's been a while, and your Princess Mansion should have been repaired."
With a smile frozen on her lips, Shen Tingxue raised her head in disbelief, digging her fingernails into her palms to suppress the question that was about to roar out. Her eyes widened and a faint red hue appeared on the outer layer. "Is it that Master's wife is unhappy that Changle is living in the mansion? Or did Changle do something wrong and make Master unhappy, so Master wants to drive Changle away."
Xie Ji cast a scrutinizing gaze at the girl in front of him and asked the question again, "Are you really Changle?"
Although she told him about her past with Changle last time, his reason told him that she was not Changle.
Originally, he kept the person under his nose in order to find evidence more easily, but after she returned home, she started to stay indoors, so that the people he arranged had no way to start.
Then, why not let someone leave Xie Mansion and give it a try?
Shen Tingxue, who didn't understand why he asked about this again, felt uneasy. Her eyelashes trembled and tears fell. "Master, do you still not believe in Changle?"
She had practiced many times in front of the mirror and knew in what posture she would cry the most beautifully and most evoke pity. She also didn't believe that a man would be as indifferent as a piece of wood when seeing a beautiful woman crying.
Xie Ji ignored her sophistry and dropped another bombshell, "You arranged for the Yun family, right?"
Shen Tingxue, whose fingertips were curled up, didn’t understand what he had found out. She only knew that some things were forgotten once she admitted them, and she even forgot to continue squeezing out tears, “How is it possible, Changle had never known those people before.”
"Master, has anyone told you something bad about Changle? But Master, don't you know exactly what kind of person Changle is?"
"If you want Changle to move out, Master can just tell you directly. Changle is not the kind of person who would be unreasonable and insist on staying." Shen Tingxue didn't know if she had been exposed. She really wanted to continue to take advantage of her proximity, but he was obviously on guard against her.
If I continue to stay, it will probably backfire. It is better to retreat in order to advance.
Jiang Wu, who had just come out of a hot bath, heard the news that Shen Tingxue had moved out.
Jiang Wu suddenly recalled the malicious look she gave him in the yamen. Could it be that the Yun family’s arrival had something to do with her?
She didn't care about her undried hair and went to the bookshelf to look for it. Then she pulled out a book. When she opened the book, there was a scribbled picture inside that only she could understand.
The picture shows all the events that happened in the dream. She chose to draw them because she was worried that she would forget them due to her poor memory.
The Shen Tingxue in the dream was not completely innocent, because she played an indirect role in her death, and even played a role in fueling the flames.
Jiang Wu never understood why, with so many men in the world, she had to fall in love with her master, a married man at that. She had even hooked up with him before he divorced her, and had acted in ambiguous ways with him in front of her, his wife, many times.
I also don’t understand why she can easily come up with so many poems of completely different styles.
Jiang Wu felt guilty about what she was about to do, as it might be somewhat immoral. But then she thought about how many times she had indirectly harmed her, and she had simply written down the poems she had composed in her dreams.
Anyway, she knows so many poems and is a famous talented woman in Dayan. It shouldn't be a big deal if she loses these few poems.
Besides, she had no intention of using these poems herself, but just wanted them to spread before they came out of her mouth.
When Yu Shu came back from outside, she saw that Madam hadn't even wiped her hair yet, but was just lying on the table writing something. She couldn't help but ask curiously, "Madam, what are you writing?"
Worried that she might peek, Jiang Wu nervously pulled over a calligraphy copybook to cover her face. "I just remembered I haven't practiced calligraphy in a long time, and my hand is a little stiff, so I came here to practice."
Then, unable to hide her embarrassment, she said, "You know, my husband always checks at night to see if I've completed my daytime homework."
Yu Shu immediately felt sorry for her lady. Not only did she have to do so much homework every day, but she also had to be spanked on the palms by adults at night and was dragged out for exercise before dawn.
If it were her, she wouldn't be able to survive such a hard life for even a single day.
Jiang Wu, who was unaware that he was being pitied, was reciting the poems word by word from memory. Fortunately, he could read now, so he had not forgotten too much of the poems.
I just don’t know if Shen Tingxue will like the gift she gave her.
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