Chapter 553: Let’s Separate
Wen Yan held her chin and recalled carefully.
The New Year gifts she prepared were all quite conventional.
It's just some clothes, bags and jewelry.
They were all carefully designed and made by her.
There were taboos on patterns and fabrics. Before sending it to the palace, she even consulted her stepmother to see if there was anything inappropriate.
She thought about it over and over but couldn't find the problem.
Wen Yan continued to ask Madam Bai, "Mother, could it be that there was a needle hidden in my clothes that I didn't remove properly and it pricked someone?
If that’s the case, the problem can be either big or small.”
Wen Yan suddenly remembered the Qing family's donation of the title, and immediately suggested: "The emperor must still be short of silver. I wonder if donating another eight hundred or nine hundred thousand taels can atone for his sins?"
Why!
Even if the emperor agrees, I'm afraid she will be spared the death penalty but will be punished alive.
I'm afraid the emperor can no longer keep his golden thigh.
She struggled and took great pains to hold it steady.
Wen Yan sighed inwardly.
But he looked at Mrs. Bai with a sharp gaze.
"Uh...well..." Mrs. Bai couldn't stand her sincere look, so she hesitated and couldn't tell the specific reason for a while.
Mrs. Bai looked at Meng Chifei for help.
Meng Chifei pursed his lips into a straight line.
She seemed to want to turn away, but forced herself to stay still.
"Oh..." Wen Yan sighed deeply, lowered his eyelids, and looked lost.
But she quickly put on a heroic expression and said, "Never mind, I have committed such a big mistake, you will definitely not let me off easily.
I'll take out all my wealth and give Sister Chi Fei to the Empress as a maid, and that should be enough to atone for the crime!"
Meng Chifei, who had originally pursed his lips, suddenly opened his mouth wide enough to fit an egg.
Ning Tan, who had been keeping his head down, suddenly burst out laughing.
"Okay, you, you've seen it a long time ago, and you're deliberately teasing me. Just wait and see how I'm going to deal with you." Meng Chifei pounced on Wen Yan.
He pulled Wen Yan into his arms and started tickling her all over.
Meng Chifei has long arms and great strength.
Wen Yan fell into her hands and had no power to fight back.
She laughed so hard that she soon ran out of breath and begged Meng Chifei for mercy: "I was wrong, I was wrong, isn't that okay?"
Mrs. Bai and Ning Tan watched the two of them fighting and laughed.
Meng Chifei didn't let Wen Yan go until she collapsed.
Wen Yan sat up, smoothed her messy hair, wrinkled her nose and snorted: "You guys teamed up to deceive me, luckily I reacted quickly, otherwise I would have been fooled by you!"
Mrs. Bai held her in her arms and coaxed her: "It was all Chi Fei's idea. Mother will help you teach her a lesson. Don't let her eat anything delicious for three days."
Meng Chifei immediately complained: "It was clearly a conspiracy between the three of us, wuwu..."
Ning Tan covered her mouth with his hand, preventing her from saying another word.
Laugh and joke for a while.
Mrs. Bai then told her why she came to look for her.
"The Empress has indeed issued an order for you and your wife to attend a banquet in the palace on New Year's Eve."
This time, it was Wen Yan's turn to be shocked.
"Attend the palace banquet! Can we not go? The time to return to the village has already been set." Wen Yan really didn't want to attend the palace banquet.
In her previous life, as the wife of the Crown Prince of the Marquis of Jinping, she also attended two palace banquets.
The food was delicious though.
But I have to be so cautious in what I say and do, it's too restrictive and uncomfortable.
Madam Bai said, “I’m afraid not.
Attending the New Year's Eve palace banquet is an honor that no one else can even ask for. To turn it down would be ignorant of the current situation."
Wen Yan pouted and sighed: "Okay, on New Year's Eve, Ying Zhilin and I will go to the palace with my adoptive mother."
Mrs. Bai suddenly said to Meng Chifei and Ning, "You two go to the store and pick out two clothes first. Let Yanyan talk to me for a while."
"oh."
"Oh well."
Meng Chifei pulled Ning Tan out of the carriage.
Wen Yan looked at Madam Bai: "Mom, do you have something to tell me?"
Mrs. Bai held Wen Yan's hand. Thinking of the relationship between Wen Yan and Ying Zhilin, she opened her mouth several times but failed to get straight to the point. Instead, she said, "There's something we've always wanted to talk to you about."
Wen Yan hadn't realized the seriousness of the matter yet: "What's the matter? Mother, you are so serious, I'm scared."
Mrs. Bai coughed awkwardly, then got straight to the point: "Ahem, you, Yanyan, what do you think of Ying Zhilin?"
Wen Yan guessed what her stepmother wanted to ask and smiled sheepishly: "Ying Zhilin is handsome, and so far, his character seems to be decent. I actually like him quite a bit."
Mrs. Bai covered her chest, feeling as if the sky was falling.
It seems that what Lin said is true.
Yanyan really only wants his body and doesn't want to take responsibility.
How could she be raised astray when she was such a good girl?
"If you like him, why do you want to divorce him?"
Wen Yan sighed, "Men are so fickle. I don't want my future to be controlled by men."
"So you're just going to stay with him like this without knowing the reason? If others find out, it will damage your reputation."
Wen Yan frowned slightly and began to think seriously.
She nodded first, then shook her head: "My stepmother is right. I can't go against the world just for the sake of temporary beauty.
Then I will go back and look for a house and move out of Ying Zhilin’s house as soon as possible.
Then we can reveal the divorce matter."
"...Don't!" Mrs. Bai was extremely anxious. How could she make such a rash decision? "Don't you like that boy very much? Why are you so determined to get a divorce?"
“Yes, I like it.
But even if we get divorced, it won’t affect my sleep… ahem, just treat us like family and friends!”
Mrs. Bai sighed, "Are you really going to do this?"
Wen Yan frowned and said, “I have to go back and tell Ying Zhilin.
He is a very delicate person, cries easily and is very difficult to comfort.
It gives me a headache just thinking about it.”
A smile appeared in Mrs. Bai's eyes.
Although the two are divorced, they are still much more loving than ordinary couples.
Forget it, she'd better just wait and see.
Even if the divorce is exposed, Wen Yan will be protected by her.
Princess Jinghe can keep male favorites and search for beauties everywhere, so what’s the problem with her adopted daughter keeping one or two men!
Make up your mind.
Mrs. Bai said, "It's up to you if you make up your mind. No matter what decision you make, I will support you."
"Thank you, stepmother." Wen Yan leaned in Mrs. Bai's arms and acted coquettishly.
Mrs. Bai touched her head lovingly.
**
New Year's Eve is here in the blink of an eye.
Wen Yan had already sent people back to the village for the festival gifts, and took the opportunity to bring the elderly and children from home to the capital to celebrate New Year's Eve together.
That day, they got up early and started working.
Clean the house thoroughly inside and out.
Everyone was busy and happy as they put up new Spring Festival couplets and door gods, hung lanterns, pasted window flowers, and prepared the reunion banquet.
Even Wen Yan, who doesn't cook much, went to help pick vegetables today.
The family reunited at noon, met up at the general's residence in the afternoon, and then went to the palace together.
When they arrived at the palace gate, there were already many carriages parked there.
After Wen Yan got off the car, he immediately saw several familiar faces.
"Wen Yan, why are you here? You're not trying to take advantage of the Meng family's connections to attend the palace banquet, are you?"
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