As for Helian Heng climbing into bed in the middle of the night, both of them tacitly kept it a secret.
Jiang Sui and Xiao Hechuan pretended they knew nothing.
However, it was not so easy for Fang Miaoke to forgive Helian Heng. He would secretly come to Zhuangyuan Mansion to find her every night, hug her and sleep until the early morning. He would leave when it was almost dawn.
He repeated this over and over again, as if he never got tired.
He also bribed the two palace maids and ordered them not to reveal the matter to anyone, especially not to let anyone in the palace know.
Their task was only to take good care of Fang Miao and report her safety to their superiors on time. As for other things, they did not consider them at all.
Just like that, a month passed. Jiang Sui was already almost nine months pregnant and her body was getting heavier. Xia Wanning, who was pregnant with twins, was not much better off than her. She was six months pregnant and her belly was frighteningly big.
Helian Jing didn't let her walk around or walk too far, for fear that she would bump into something.
The two pregnant women with limited mobility could not get together often to chat and gossip. Jiang Sui's life was slightly better than Xia Wanning's, at least she had Fang Miao by her side.
Princess Anle's palace has been built and the emperor has set a date for the wedding.
Today, the Xuanping Marquis' Mansion is holding a wedding banquet. Their family is marrying a princess, so the specifications are naturally different from those of ordinary aristocratic families.
In Kyoto, weddings of ordinary people and merchants were already held in a grand manner, not to mention the weddings of aristocratic families.
This time, Princess Anle and Cheng Moyang's wedding banquet will be held at the Marquis Xuanping's Mansion. After the wedding, the couple will move to the princess's mansion.
The princess's mansion was built not far from the Marquis Xuanping's mansion, so it was quite convenient for the couple to go home.
Because he was marrying a princess, the etiquette and rules to be followed were more complicated. Jiang was very busy this month and had to make time to visit her daughter every time.
Fortunately, everything went smoothly and the wedding was held as scheduled.
Today, there were a lot of people at the Marquis Xuanping's Mansion. Jiang Sui was not feeling well, so she held her belly and came to the Mansion to watch the ceremony with the help of Xiao's mother and Xiao Hechuan.
After Cheng Moyang returned from Huizhou, he often met with the princess and took her out of the palace to play. The two got along more and more naturally.
Anle didn't act like a princess at all when she was with him, and Cheng Moyang didn't feel any pressure at all when he was with her.
They like each other, and their feelings heat up quickly as they spend more time together.
Anle is like a little elf, smart, playful, yet considerate.
Today, the Emperor and the Empress came out of the palace to watch the ceremony in person. Anle is the Emperor's favorite daughter, born to the Empress, and the legitimate daughter of the Central Palace.
Also coming to the Marquis Xuanping's mansion today are the princes and the eldest princess. The princes in their fiefdoms have also sent people to deliver gifts.
They cannot leave their own fiefdom, but they also know how to make their presence felt.
The wedding was grand and smooth, and Cheng Moyang successfully became the prince consort.
However, the Xuanping Marquis Mansion was in a festive mood today. On the other side, in the Chastity Hall far away on some unknown hill, Cheng Xueyun was washing clothes with great effort.
When she first came to the Chastity Hall, she acted like the legitimate daughter of Marquis Xuanping, refusing to do this or that, and spoke to other people in the Chastity Hall in a rude tone.
Her arrogant and domineering character doomed her to have a bad life in the Chastity Hall, because she was not liked by others and she even dared to contradict the hall master.
In this case, she has more things to do every day than others, and she suffers the most exclusion, and no one wants to be friends with her.
The sentence Cheng Xueyun said most often was:
"Just wait. When my father and brother come to pick me up, I will make you suffer."
She was the only one deceiving herself. Who among those who entered this chastity hall did not have some status in the beginning?
This is the Chastity Hall opened by the royal family. No matter young or old, all those here were sent here because they committed crimes within the family or failed in their tricks. Each and every one of them is very cunning.
In the beginning, everyone is proud and unwilling to accept the consequences, but in the end, don’t they have to obey the arrangements obediently?
Few of those who enter this chastity hall will ever see the light of day again.
People of Cheng Xueyun's rank will not try to curry favor with those in high positions in the Chastity Hall, so they will just be relegated to the bottom and work until they die.
Every day, she does the hardest and most tiring work in the hall.
For example, in the middle of winter, she is the one who does the dishes, clothes and vegetables.
After a long time, her hands were covered with chilblains. If she didn't work hard, she would be beaten and go hungry.
Gradually, Cheng Xueyun also became more obedient. She was no longer as arrogant and confrontational as she was when she first arrived.
The main reason is that they were beaten and scared of hunger. If they were not honest, they would not know whether they could survive this winter.
But despite this, she never missed any opportunity to escape from the Chastity Hall. She firmly believed that as long as she escaped from the Chastity Hall and returned to Kyoto, her father, mother and brother would see her miserable state and would definitely protect her.
She could also promise that she would never argue with Jiang Sui again, and anything would be fine as long as he didn't send her back to the Chastity Hall.
But her naive ideas were nothing but wishful thinking. She could never leave the Chastity Hall in her lifetime unless the sky fell.
There were soldiers guarding outside the Chastity Hall, and it was deep in the mountains and forests. Once he got out of the Chastity Hall, he might not be able to hide from the eyes of the soldiers. Even if he could hide from the eyes of the soldiers, he could not escape from the mountains.
Unless, one day, my family comes to pick me up.
Cheng Xueyun finally finished washing the clothes, her hands were frozen. She had been brought up in a pampered environment, but now she had to do the rough work done by the inferior people whom she once looked down upon the most.
When I arrived at the kitchen, the hot meal had already been eaten, leaving only two frozen steamed buns.
In order to fill her stomach, she took it and started to eat it, and tears fell uncontrollably.
Thinking back to the time when I did something wrong, my father and mother, out of their past friendship, did not treat me harshly. At least they did not treat me harshly in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation. The most they did was to confine me to house arrest.
Afterwards, I also thought about finding a good husband's family for myself, but I was so stupid at that time, and I was so picky that I didn't like this or that.
Now, there is nothing.
Only after suffering a lot will people know how to cherish and regret. Cheng Xueyun is a typical example. She wishes time could go back so that she could make the right choice.
She ate the cold steamed buns, crying silently. The cold steamed buns in her mouth mixed with her tears, and she felt endless bitterness and regret...
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