Chapter 62 This is a good place
Xie Weisong, who was standing by, sneered when he heard her words.
How naive! He had no intention of letting her go.
“Bang!!”
Shi Jianli looked at her coldly and slapped her, "You are pitiful, but am I not innocent? You know he is a beast, yet you want to hand me over to him?"
Xie Xuezhi's face twisted, blood came out of her mouth in pain, and her ears were buzzing for a while.
"You and Xie Weisong are the same kind of people. You don't deserve pity."
It is said that when a person is about to die, his words are good, but when death was approaching, Xie Xuezhi was still assuming that if her plan succeeded, she could step on others to gain freedom.
Shi Jianli withdrew her hand, rubbed her burning palm, walked to the side, and kicked Xie Weisong in the thigh.
"Ah!!!" The half-dead Xie Weisong suddenly screamed like a pig being slaughtered, and his body began to twitch in pain.
Shi Jianli paused and looked at Ji Rangzhou's subordinates, "I'm not very strong."
The implication is that Xie Weisong is committing fraud.
The subordinate was silent for a moment, then forced a smile and said truthfully, "Before Xie Weisong came in, Prince Ming handed the evidence of Xie Weisong's lewdness and violence to our lord and ordered him to be castrated."
Then he said lightly, "You kicked his thigh, maybe you pulled it."
Shi Jianli was silent for a moment, then coughed lightly and said, "Excuse me, sir. I'll go back first."
It’s good that he didn’t die. I don’t know if he will be punished if he accidentally kicked to death an important imperial criminal who was to be executed in the vegetable market as a warning to the public.
"Miss Shi, are you just going to slap and kick me?" The subordinates thought she was going to do something.
"I'm just here to vent my anger. It's all good once I vent it. There's no need to bother with two dead people." All she wanted was to feel at ease.
Upon hearing this, the subordinate ordered the jailer to drag the two men back to the prison again.
Shi Jianli handed the purse filled with silver to his subordinate and said, "Thank you for your hard work, sir."
After she left, the subordinate placed the purse on Ji Rangzhou's desk and said, "Sir, this was given to you by Miss Shi."
"Just take it." Ji Rangzhou glanced at the purse. "What did she do?"
"He slapped Xie Xuezhi so hard that blood came out of her mouth, and kicked Xie Weisong. Xie Weisong was pulled to the place where he was castrated and screamed like a pig being slaughtered." The subordinate replied.
"knew."
Shi Jianli got on the carriage and rubbed her still red palms after sitting down.
Xianyue held her hand and said distressedly: "Miss, you said you wanted to beat her earlier. It would be better to use a piece of wood. Look, your hands are red."
The slap was very crisp.
"It will go away after a while. It's okay. I just wanted to vent my anger. After slapping her and kicking Xie Weisong, I feel much better."
After returning home and waking up from a nap in the afternoon, Shi Jianli took Lanxing for a stroll in the garden. Soon they met Mingyuelin and Mingyuesi who had returned.
Seeing that Mingyue Si seemed to be in a good mood, Shi Jianli asked, "Fourth sister, what do you think of that young master?"
Mingyue Si, who had just been questioned by Mingyue Lin and Qiao Ruoying, blushed again when she heard this. "It's quite good. I just came back and I'm a little tired, so I'll go back and rest first."
Mingyuelin also said that he was tired and wanted to go back to take a nap.
"Yeah, okay." Shi Jianli nodded and fed the fish for a while before going back.
In the next few days, I went to the private school every day and occasionally went to accompany Qiao Ruoying.
Another day, as they entered Qionghua Courtyard, Qiao Ruoying handed Shi Jianli three portraits. "Take a look. They were just sent by a familiar matchmaker. I think they all look good, especially Young Master Yu. He's as good-looking as your cousin."
Shi Jianli took the paper, retracted her fingers, and her eyes fell on the man in the portrait.
He looks cheerful and has a dignified bearing.
The portrait is extremely lifelike, and his appearance is indeed handsome and extraordinary. Look at the lower right corner, you will see his name.
Yu Wenye.
Looking at the other two pictures, they don’t seem that outstanding when compared to this one by Mr. Yu.
Shi Jianli looked back again, with her eyes lowered and slightly absent-minded, her gaze focused on a corner of the drawing paper.
After thinking for a long time, she handed Yu Wenye's portrait to Qiao Ruoying and said, "This Mr. Yu is good. Let's take him."
Let’s just pretend that all the ambiguities in the past never happened.
The Duke's wife looked down on her family background, and she was the only one who felt uncomfortable forcing herself to do so. Men always asked their wives to be filial to their mothers, not to mention that Mingzhao was indeed a filial son.
Under the pressure of filial piety, countless wives have suffered injustice throughout history.
Yuan Yuhe also said that day that she had almost chosen the candidate for the eldest daughter-in-law, and Mingzhao had no objection.
My aunt spent a long time trying to understand the old lady's temperament, which was why she avoided any conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Could she rely on my uncle? My uncle was not good at talking, and when he did, the old lady got even angrier. In the end, it was my aunt's quick wit that finally smoothed over the conflict.
She didn't want to please people who already had prejudices against her; that would be very frustrating.
The men her aunt picked for her were relatively easy to handle, so she could live without having to worry about her mother-in-law's mood.
Qiao Ruoying curled her lips, her face full of joy, "After picking so many, you finally found one you liked."
"Is this Mr. Yu related to the Jining Marquis' Mansion?" Shi Jianli picked up the tea and scraped off the tea foam.
The prince of Jining Marquisate and the future consort of Princess Kangning was named Yu Heming, and this young master was named Yu Wenye. Since she had read a little, she naturally connected the two names together.
"There is some connection. This branch of Master Yu is a distant branch of the Jining Marquisate. It was originally in decline and had become increasingly distant from the Jining Marquisate. However, Master Yu was very ambitious and had a reputation for talent since he was young, so the Jining Marquisate also valued him."
"Prince Yu has taken him with him, giving him some errands to train him. With the care of the Jining Marquisate, his future achievements are certain to be remarkable. He is twenty years old this year and was the top scorer in the last autumn imperial examination in Kyoto."
Shi Jianli took a sip of tea and said, "If that's the case, then his family must have had many matchmakers come to their house. Wouldn't families with similar talents be vying to choose him as their son-in-law?"
"His mother is holding him back, saying he should study hard first and pass the imperial examination before getting married. There's no rush, and there will be more suitable families for him to marry. His mother said she heard of your reputation and sent this portrait to me."
When Shi Jianli heard this, she didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
"Since you've agreed, I'll arrange for Madam Yu to have Mr. Yu meet you on the first day of her month off. I need to observe carefully and meet him in person before I can make a final decision."
"You can arrange it."
Qiao Ruoying pinched her face and said, "Si'er blushed when she heard that we were going to see each other, even before she said anything. But you are different. You act as if it has nothing to do with you."
"We're just meeting each other, not getting married, so why should I blush?" she asked gently.
Qiao Ruoying snorted and laughed, "You do have a point. Go and have fun. I'll arrange for someone to take a message to the Yu family."
"Okay." Shi Jianli sat for a while and left only after Ming Weishen came back.
The day before the monthly holiday, Mingzhao returned victoriously from suppressing bandits and led his army back to the capital. After reporting on his work, he took his brothers back to the Duke's Mansion.
The mansion received the news early, and Shi Jianli was dragged by Mingyuelin to the gate of the mansion to welcome them back.
The old lady took her grandchildren to look at each of them one by one, asking about their well-being. After hearing that they were all unharmed and had more or less made contributions, the old lady, who had not seen her eldest grandchildren for more than 20 days, was even more beaming.
"You just came back today, and I think you must be tired. I will give you a banquet tomorrow night to welcome you back."
"Okay, thank you grandma." Mingzhao was still helping the old lady back home. He glanced towards the second house and saw Shi Jianli talking to Mingzhou with a smile on her face.
After the two families separated, Mingzhao followed his mother and younger brothers and sisters back to the East Palace.
After walking for a while, Yuan Yuhe returned to Minghuayuan with her maid.
Mingyue suddenly sighed as she walked.
Mingzhao turned around and asked in confusion, "What's wrong? You look so depressed. Weren't you so happy just now?"
"Alas, I wanted to go to the farm tomorrow to practice riding and hunting, but Sister Li is going to see her, so I can only go and accompany Fourth Sister to embroider."
"What do you want to see?" Mingzhao's throat tightened, his hands unconsciously clenched into fists, and he was very nervous.
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