Chapter 159
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The charity gala was very successful. After the gala, it raised two million taels of charity, which far exceeded Shen Yuntang's expectations. He did not keep a single cent and gave it all to the emperor.
The emperor even praised Shen Yuntang in the court, gave him an imperial edict, and said that when his children grew up, they could go to the palace to study with the other princes.
Shen Yuntang's good deed was also mentioned in the news. Not only the people in the disaster area, but people all over the country said that the couple were kind-hearted and that Cheng Yeran had married a good husband.
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"What are you tinkering with? You started working on it as soon as you got here. Have you written the article?" Shao Hui came to him in the evening when he had nothing to do. Seeing him working on glass, he asked curiously, "Did you record my heroic figure?"
"Of course I wrote it. Why did you come here? Aren't you going to discuss strategy? When will this war be over? I also want to go home to see my wife and children." Cheng Yeran missed Shen Yuntang and the children so much that before leaving, he recorded some videos of Shen Yuntang and Xingxing. When it was late at night and no one was around, she would take them out and watch them.
You can only watch the video but can't touch it. The more you watch it, the more you think about it.
"In about three months, I guarantee they will surrender. My father has personally taken action. They are already scared when they hear my father's name and won't be able to hold on for long." Shao Hui is very confident in his father.
"Three months..." Cheng Yeran wished he could win tomorrow, but they were fast enough. If it took a long time, he would like to make some cement and rebuild the city wall.
He showed Shao Hui the glass he had made these days, "This is the glass I made. It's not successful yet. I guess I need to experiment for a while."
"Isn't this colored glass? But the one you made is more transparent and looks better." Shao Hui picked it up and looked at it, then took out a small colored glass pendant from his arms.
This pendant is round with a hole in the middle, made in the shape of a jade pendant. It is more translucent than jade, but contains many impurities in the middle and is not as good as his failed products.
The glass he made was made according to the experience summed up by generations. He did not look down on the pendant in Shao Hui's hand just because he was good at it. "Where did you get this? Why haven't I seen it in Beijing?"
"This was taken off an enemy general when we killed him during the war a few days ago. I thought it looked pretty, so I'm going to take it back and give it to Lin Yu." Shao Hui wiped the pendant and threw it on the table with disdain. "I heard it's something used by the royal family and not circulated among the people. But now it seems that it's not as good-looking as the failed one you made casually. When you finish your research, help me make a better-looking one. Can it be used as a hairpin? I want to make one for Lin Yu, the kind with flowers..."
Shao Hui described some flowers to him, and Cheng Yeran was speechless. Why did Shao Hui seem to understand men's hearts better than them? Why did he have a straight male aesthetic?
"Listen to me, you should ask Lin Yu what to do. Don't do as you say, otherwise he won't wear it even once, and it will be a waste of things." Cheng Yeran advised him from the perspective of an experienced person.
"But I want to give him a surprise." Shao Hui felt that he had a good aesthetic sense. No one had ever said that the way he dressed was unfashionable. He felt that Cheng Yeran was prejudiced against him.
Cheng Yeran patted his shoulder and said, "Young man, you will understand when you reach my age. I gave my husband a box of hairpins before. They were all the patterns you just described. Ever since I gave them to him, he has kept them at the bottom of the box. He felt it was an insult to him to wear them on his head."
Shao Hui's eyes widened in shock, "Is it really that serious?"
Cheng Yeran nodded vigorously: "Really, I gave him a gift out of kindness, and he felt that I was insulting his eyes."
Shao Hui nodded, "Okay, let's go back and ask Lin Yu first, I won't act on my own."
The war was over in less than three months. A general and a prince of the enemy were killed, and the enemy lost more than 100,000 troops. The emperor of the enemy country finally surrendered and signed a war agreement, agreeing to pay tribute to them every year and to send a princess to marry the emperor.
When the Second Prince returned, he joked to Cheng Yeran, "I thought you were going to send me a princess as my bride."
During this period of time, he saw Cheng Yeran and Shao Hui showing their love and he also wanted to fall in love. He felt sad and anxious and wanted to meet his true love as soon as possible.
Cheng Yeran asked him: "Aren't you and Shao Hui's sister a couple?"
The second prince immediately frowned and waved his hands: "She and I are close friends, just like you and Shao Hui. Can you and Shao Hui get married?"
Cheng Yeran glanced at Shao Hui, who almost vomited, "Don't use us as an example!"
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They returned to Beijing in triumph. This time they were gone for almost a year. When they came back, Xingxing had forgotten who Cheng Yeran was. He looked at Cheng Yeran curiously and saw Cheng Yeran hugging Shen Yuntang and hitting him hard with his hands.
Cheng Yeran picked up the little guy and kissed his little face hard, "I'm your father, don't you remember?"
"Don't scare him, or the child will cry." Shen Yuntang rubbed Xingxing's head and told him, "This is your father."
Xingxing tilted his head and looked at Cheng Yeran: "Dad, Dad?"
"Can talk?!" Cheng Yeran didn't expect that the child couldn't crawl when he left, but could actually talk when he came back. "Can a child over one year old talk? Is our child a genius?"
Shen Yuntang felt that he had too deep a filter for his own child and did not tell him that he could call daddy and mommy when he was one year old.
Cheng Yeran handed the child to the wet nurse and asked her to take the child out to feed him. He couldn't wait to hug Shen Yuntang. He hadn't seen him for almost a year. He missed him so much every night that he was going crazy. Except for this year, Shen Yuntang had just given birth to a child before he left. He didn't touch Shen Yuntang after and in the months before giving birth. He had endured for too long.
This time, they were just like the first time they were together, no one could control themselves.
They didn't even have time to perform their favorite role-playing game. Instead, they proceeded more directly, using only their original identities without using anyone else's outer garments.
Shen Yuntang has been living as a father for the past year, but when Cheng Yeran came back and held him in his arms, he realized that he was still the person who needed care. He had not changed anything, and Cheng Yeran had not changed his attitude towards him because he had a child.
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After Shao Hui came back, he asked his family to prepare for the wedding.
He would try to finish it within two months. In a few months, the neighboring country would send a princess over for marriage, and he would be busy again. He didn't want anything to affect his marriage with Lin Yu.
The general's mansion attached great importance to this wedding. The old general even said that he would give Shao Hui a bigger courtyard and upgrade the furniture inside. He also allocated more servants to their courtyard for Lin Yu to serve after he married into the family.
The general's mansion is different from the royal mansion. Both Shao Hui's father and his brothers only married one wife, unlike the royal mansion which has concubines. The interpersonal relationships in the general's mansion are simple, and Lin Yu does not need to engage in house fighting after marrying in.
The old general sent wedding invitations to all his relatives and friends, and this time he wanted to have a grand wedding.
There was also a grand ceremony on the wedding day. The wedding procession walked through several streets, beating gongs and drums, and throwing wedding candies, melon seeds, and copper coins to the onlookers, so that everyone could share in the joy and let the whole city know that their family was having a wedding and join in the fun.
The team also passed by Zhao Yanlin's house. Zhao Yanlin was standing at the door looking in with a very ugly expression.
He thought Shao Hui only treated Lin Yu as a mistress, and as long as he told Lin Yu that he wanted to remarry, Lin Yu would come back without hesitation.
But who could have thought that Shao Hui would actually be willing to marry a divorced boy, and that the status of their two families was so mismatched. Shao Hui was of noble status, so how could he possibly fall in love with Lin Yu, a country boy?
He felt that with his current status, Lin Yu was not worthy of him. He gave Lin Yu this opportunity out of old friendship, but Shao Hui snatched it away.
Zhao's father and mother were also watching from the side, their faces were very unpleasant, "How shameless, getting married for the second time and making such a big fuss."
My sister-in-law behind me was eating melon seeds and said, "I don't know what kind of seductive tricks he used to seduce the young general. I'm afraid it's not his skill in that area."
Zhao Yanlin turned around and glared at her, "You two stop saying bad things about him behind his back, he's not that kind of person!"
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Everyone was afraid of Zhao Yanlin. The economic power was in Zhao Yanlin's hands. If anyone displeased him, he would say he would resign and return to his hometown to farm. Even his parents had to look at his face.
Zhao's father and mother hurried into the house, and the eldest brother also pulled his sister-in-law back quickly, and whispered to him not to mess with Zhao Yanlin.
The eldest sister-in-law whispered to the eldest brother, "A few months ago, I wrote to Lin Yu's parents, telling them the news that Lin Yu remarried. I received a letter from my parents before, saying that Lin Yu's brother had a fight with someone at home and crippled him. They couldn't afford to pay the compensation even if they sold everything they had. I sent this letter home. Do you think they will come to make trouble with Lin Yu?"
At this moment, Lin Yu's mother and brother were standing outside the general's mansion, but there were too many people watching, so they couldn't get any closer, and they were also afraid.
They came from a small place and had never seen such a big mansion gate. There were also guards guarding the gate. The guards had swords in their hands, and they looked like they could kill people at any time. They didn't dare to step forward and speak, and just stood at the door and watched hesitantly.
It was not until they saw Lin Yu getting off the sedan chair that they hurriedly tried to squeeze through the crowd, stepped forward to pull Lin Yu, and called them to stop until they saw Lin Yu was about to enter the mansion.
The general's housekeeper stood at the door, afraid that something might go wrong. He looked around and listened carefully. He immediately noticed that something was wrong with the two people, and told the servants to take them away to prevent them from ruining the wedding.
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