After washing up, she went out with Xianglan.
A heavy snow fell last night, silently, and overnight, everything was covered in silver.
Jade trees and coral branches, snow reflecting the cold light—the charm of winter lingers.
When Shen Qiyin arrived at Zhuijin Hall, Jiang Wan and Shen Mengyin had already arrived.
Madam Shen, dressed neatly, sat at the head of the table, waiting for her daughter-in-law, who had just entered the family yesterday, to serve her tea.
But this wait lasted until the sun was high in the sky.
Madam Shen's face turned green.
Jiang Wan yawned repeatedly, glancing several times toward the door with a gloating look in her eyes.
It doesn't matter if I just stay in a relationship.
From the moment they arrived at Zhuijintang, they ate and drank non-stop. When they got tired of sitting, they would get up and wander around. When they had enough exercise, they would even sit there and take a nap.
Xianglan was completely baffled.
She figured that given their second young lady's personality, if someone asked her to wait like this, wouldn't she just leave? How could she possibly have the patience to wait here?
Something's strange!
The real reason is—
She wanted to see what the commotion was like.
You can sleep anytime, but excitement isn't something you can experience every day.
Xiao Yan told her that this Lady Li's past was not simple.
I heard that in her early years, she married a minor official in Yongzhou, and after the marriage, she cheated on him.
Perhaps because of Consort Hui, the matter did not escalate in the end; otherwise, if it had been any other woman, she would have faced legal trouble even if she hadn't been drowned in a pig cage.
However, she was divorced as a result.
Later, she married into a merchant family.
But not long after she married into the family, her mother-in-law was abused to death, and her brother-in-law was forced to separate from the family and was kicked out.
A few years later, the two divorced.
Then she filed a lawsuit and sent her husband to jail.
Upon hearing this, Shen Qiyin thought to herself, "This person is clearly not one to swallow their pride. If they enter the Shen family, it would be a miracle if they could live a good life."
Just as she expected.
On the very first day, they gave the old lady a taste of her own medicine.
Despite sending wave after wave of people to urge her, Lady Li remained nowhere to be seen.
She arrived late, just as lunchtime was approaching.
Madam Shen was already in a bad mood, and when she saw her appearance, her disgust was even more obvious. She exclaimed in surprise, "You, how come you look like this?!"
"Mother!" Shen Cang hurriedly spoke, frantically giving Old Madam Shen meaningful glances, fearing he might displease this shrew.
God knows, we already had a huge argument this morning over asking her to come and serve tea.
His face still hurts.
Li Zhenzhu looked at Madam Shen quietly for a while, then said directly, "You talk as if you're better looking than me!"
"you……"
"Besides, if I were really that beautiful, would your son be good enough for me?" As she spoke, Li Zhenzhu glanced up and down at Shen Cang, her eyes looking at him as if he were a basket of rotten apricots. "I may not be good-looking, but I'm a hundred times better than your son!"
A piercing gaze fell upon Shen Cang, who stiffened and nodded repeatedly: "...Yes, yes, yes, Madam is right. Being able to marry you is a blessing from our ancestors, our Shen family's ancestral graves must be emitting auspicious smoke."
Li Zhenzhu finally smiled after hearing this.
Madam Shen was furious and said sarcastically, "A wedding ceremony is bound to be tiring. It's too much trouble for you to come and pay your respects."
It's not hard to hear the underlying meaning in those words.
If it were any other newlywed wife, she might have taken the opportunity to apologize, but Li Zhenzhu rolled her eyes and said irritably, "You know it's difficult for people, yet you still called me here?"
Madam Shen was clearly taken aback by such a remark and was completely stunned.
Li Zhenzhu ignored her reaction and found a chair to sit down.
Shen Cang was restless beside him.
In front of his two daughters, Shen Qiyin and Shen Mengyin, and his concubine Jiang Wan, he naturally couldn't appear too weak, so he tried to remind her, "Madam, we haven't served tea to Mother yet."
Upon hearing this, Old Madam Shen immediately turned her face away: "I dare not drink the tea she offers!"
"The way you're talking makes it sound like I could kill you with a handful of rat poison!"
"How dare you speak to me like that?"
"Say it with your mouth, what? Didn't you see it?"
Madam Shen was so angry that she could hardly breathe.
Her hand trembled as she pointed at Li Zhenzhu, but she spoke to Shen Cang: "Look at this, look at this! What kind of wife did you marry? She's going to drive me crazy!"
Shen Cang pursed his lips and remained silent.
He thought to himself, "What am I looking at! This isn't a marriage I wanted to marry; it's a marriage bestowed by His Majesty!"
Besides, it was she who pressed his head down to receive the imperial edict that day.
Now they're blaming him!
There was a moment of silence in the room, and the atmosphere was inevitably awkward.
At this moment, Shen Mengyin suddenly stood up, picked up a cup of tea, and walked towards Li Zhenzhu: "Mother, please have some tea."
Li Zhenzhu gave a nonchalant reply, took the tea, blew on it, and casually asked, "Are you that Er Ya who works as a doctor outside?"
“Mother has misunderstood, I am not.” She lowered her eyes and looked incredibly obedient: “My name is Mengyin, the fourth in the family.”
"The person my mother was talking about is my second older sister."
She paused for a moment before continuing, "No wonder Mother admitted her mistake. I lost my composure and rushed to greet Mother, thus overstepping the order of my second sister."
Li Zhenzhu impatiently put down her teacup, rolled her eyes at her, and said, "Who asked you so many questions?"
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