Chapter 67 Excuse
Why does this person have to get to the bottom of this?
She's hiding so obviously, but you still have to get it clear.
He is clearly not that kind of person.
Chen Tang was secretly annoyed, but she could do nothing about it. The way they spoke was too ambiguous and dangerous. Xie Guimo's abnormality also scared her from the bottom of her heart and she wanted to escape. Chen Tang could only give in and beg, "The birthday banquet has already started for a while, and you haven't taken your seats yet. Duke Wen's Mansion should send someone to look for us..."
Xie Guimo saw the fear in Chen Tang's eyes, and blamed himself in his heart for scaring her. However, every time this woman went out, something bad happened. He was really worried if he didn't marry her as soon as possible.
He also didn't like wearing a mask when he saw her, but he was too impatient to eat the tofu, so he had to take it slowly.
Xie Guimo let go of Chen Tang, and Chen Tang asked, "Where are my maids and secret guards?"
Ginkgo was clearly following her, but she didn't know when he became her. The maid was taken away quietly, and I'm afraid Chen Shan was taken away as well. Since Chen Shan was ordered to protect her, he would not fail to show up at the critical moment. There was no other possibility except that he could not show up.
Ginkgo is loyal to her, and Chen Shan is a man sent by her to protect her. She can't just take care of herself and ignore them.
Chen Shan hid in the dark, and he didn't expect that when Chen Tang was in danger, he would still remember the maid and him. However, since the master was personally going to save the Crown Prince's Concubine, there was no need for him to take action.
Xie Guimo just looked into Chen Tang's eyes without saying anything, nor did he need to answer. Chen Tang heard Ginkgo's footsteps. Chen Tang glanced over and saw Ginkgo running towards her holding her skirt.
Chen Tang left quickly. Since Xie Guimo had released Ginkgo, he would not make things difficult for Chen Shan.
Seeing that Chen Tang was fine, Yin Xing was relieved and asked in a low voice, "Prince Jingyang didn't bully you, did he?"
Instead of answering, Shen Tang asked, "What about you?"
Gingko rubbed his neck and said, "The guard of Prince Jingyang, the one named Chen Qi, knocked this servant unconscious."
Ginkgo knew that Chen Qi knocked her out because he was afraid that she would discover the affair between the two men and that she and the girl would be killed. But he was too heavy-handed and her neck was almost in pain.
The master and servant went out from the southwest corner. Chen Tang was worried and looked around. Chen Shan knew that they were looking for him, so he showed up and said, "The Crown Prince's Consort is looking for me?"
Chen Tang asked, "Did your master come to Duke Wen's mansion today?"
this……
Chen Shan hesitated a little.
Chen Tang said, "Can't you tell me this?"
It’s not impossible.
Chen Shan nodded.
Chen Tang said, "I want to see him!"
...I just saw him.
Chen Shan looked embarrassed.
Chen Tang Yunxiu clenched her hands, "Is your master so afraid that I will know who he is?!"
Chen Tang had always felt that knowing who the man was was not that important, but the embarrassment she felt when she was pressed by the Prince of Jingyang just now and could not answer still lingered in her mind and could not be shaken off.
She had never wanted to know who he was so badly.
But Chen Shan couldn't give the answer that Shen Tang wanted.
I'm afraid that the master himself is very conflicted inside. He wants Miss Shen Er to know, but he is also afraid that she will know. He dare not say anything careless.
Chen Shan remained silent, and Chen Tang's heart sank little by little. She grabbed Yin Xing's hand and walked away.
After walking a few steps away, Ginkgo looked back and saw that Chen Shan was no longer standing where he had just stood.
Not far away, Chen Shan jumped up to block Xie Guimo's way, "Master, Miss Shen is very angry, she wants to see you..."
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As for Chen Tang, she walked to the garden with Ginkgo, and saw a maid trotting over, "Finally we found Miss Shen Er..."
Chen Tang said embarrassedly, "I just sprained my ankle over there, so I rested for a while."
I didn't say I was lost. It was rude to run around when I came to Duke Wen's mansion to celebrate his birthday. It was not honorable for a lady from a noble family to have such a poor sense of direction. I could only find a passable excuse.
"...How come Miss Shen also sprained her ankle?" the maid muttered in a low voice.
Shen Tang didn’t hear clearly and asked, “What’s wrong?”
The maid shook her head repeatedly and asked with concern, "Is Miss Shen Er seriously injured?"
Shen Tang shook his head, "It's okay."
The maid led Shen Tang to the banquet. The birthday banquet had already started and half of the food on the table had been eaten. Her seat next to Shen Ran was empty, so Shen Tang walked over and sat down.
Shen Ran whispered, “Where did the second sister go?”
Shen Tang showed the small note to Shen Ran.
After Shen Ran saw this, his eyes widened. Shen Tang said, "I went to look for Miss Li. I searched for a long time but couldn't find her. I also got lost. I wandered around for a long time before I got out..."
Chen Tang looked around, "Have you seen Miss Li?"
Since he came in, Chen Tang has been looking for Miss Li, but he didn't see her.
Shen Ran whispered, "She accidentally sprained her ankle and didn't sit down to eat. The maid took her back to the Yongning Marquis's Mansion."
Chen Tang, "..."
No wonder she said she sprained her ankle. The little maid in Duke Wen's mansion looked strange. It turned out that she was making an excuse to bump into Miss Li.
Chen Tang sat down at the table and listened to the ladies from prominent families talking and laughing. Over there, Miss Li got into the carriage and left Duke Wen's mansion.
She was exhausted all over and collapsed almost as soon as she got into the carriage. Today was her first time with sex and even though she had taken aphrodisiacs beforehand, the pain was still unbearable, especially since the Prince of Changping was not a man who would sympathize with women.
She did not regret giving herself to the Prince of Changping. Her life was ruined when she was dragged into the lake by Chen Tang and rescued by Young Master Wang.
But what she couldn't understand was that the maid clearly saw with her own eyes that Miss Shen Er and her maid received her handwritten letter and went to the southwest corner. Why did the ending go differently from the plan and she didn't discover her affair with the Marquis of Changping?
Miss Li asked the maid again, “Are you sure Miss Shen and the maid went there?”
The maid nodded heavily, "I saw it with my own eyes..."
But the place where she and the Prince of Changping had their affair had only one road and no forks. Since Miss Shen Er and the maid had gone there, why did they seem to have disappeared out of thin air? !
Miss Li clenched her teeth, and there was shocking horror in her eyes.
Her wedding date with Young Master Wang was set in the next two days, and today was almost her last chance to struggle. She had never thought of any accidents, so she placed all her hopes on Shen Tang, but he let her down. She was taken advantage of by the Prince of Changping, and in the end she got nothing. She was unwilling to accept this.
When Chen Tang took his seat, the birthday banquet was almost over. He only sat for half an hour before the banquet ended. The guests left the table, and Duke Wen and his wife saw everyone out of the house.
Young Master Wen was seeing off the guests in the front yard. When he saw Chen Tang coming over, he looked embarrassed. Chen Tang had come to Duke Wen's Mansion specifically to remind him not to compete in archery with the Prince of Changping. He had also made up his mind not to provoke the Prince of Changping, but when he was unlucky, there was nowhere to hide. He wanted to shoot an arrow as long as he didn't lose face for Duke Wen's Mansion, but when he let go, his hand accidentally shook.
Most people's hands shake, so the arrow will be shot off target or even miss the target, but he shot the arrow of the Marquis of Changping right through it...
Could he say that he felt like he was being frying in a frying pan throughout the birthday party?
He couldn't avoid offending the Prince of Changping, but then could he also avoid being schemed against by the Prince of Changping, losing half of Duke Wen's Mansion, and being beaten to pieces by his father?
No!
Since Miss Shen Er has reminded him, it means that it can be avoided.
He had already missed one opportunity, and he must not miss the second one, as he would have let down Miss Shen Er's reminder.
Chen Tang followed the Second Madam out of Duke Wen's Mansion and got on the carriage. She lifted the curtain, but the person she wanted to see didn't appear, so she lowered the curtain in disappointment.
The carriage stopped and started, and only sped up after leaving Duke Wen's Mansion, until it stopped in front of the gate of Marquis Pingyuan's Mansion.
After entering the mansion, in a place where no one was around, the Second Madam turned around and looked at Chen Tang and said, "Miss Li pushed you into the water. Whether it was an accident or she did it on purpose, she has learned her lesson. This matter has passed. Don't mention it in front of the Marquis and the old lady."
The second wife said this suddenly, obviously Shen Ran told her about the note.
Chen Tang showed the note to Chen Ran because she was in a bad mood and didn't want to be perfunctory with her. Miss Li's plot against her failed and she fell into trouble. She hated her so much that even if she confronted her, Miss Li would probably bite back.
Young Master Wang is the nephew of the Second Wife. Before Miss Li got married, she cheated on Young Master Wang and humiliated the Wang family. It is inevitable that there will be dog-eat-dog fights in the future, so she will just wait patiently.
"Don't worry, Auntie. I won't bother Grandmother and Father about this little thing."
That’s good.
But the Second Wife's expression did not improve because of Shen Tang's words. She paid all the compensation required by the Yongning Marquis's Mansion. After receiving the compensation, they did this to her. The Yongning Marquis's Mansion was so bold as to dare to play tricks on her!
The second wife's face was as gloomy as water.
Chen Tang followed the Second Madam to Songhe Hall and met the Old Madam before returning to Qingyi Garden.
As soon as I entered the house through the bead curtain, there was a knock on the window.
Chen Tang thought it was the man who came, and when he didn’t see the window open, he walked towards the window.
Pushing the window open, I saw Chen Shan standing outside the window and said, "My master asked my subordinate to tell Miss Shen Er that he will tell you who he is at the Lantern Festival in ten days."
Ten days was not a long time and it passed in the blink of an eye, but Chen Tang was in a hurry and found it difficult to wait.
She just wanted to know who he was and wanted to see what kind of face was hidden under the silver mask. Was it necessary to hide it like this? Since he didn't plan to keep it a secret from her, why did he delay for ten days?
If the man hadn't asked the emperor to help him pass on the message, Chen Tang would really have suspected that the man was deliberately playing a trick on her.
At the Lantern Festival half a year ago, she wanted to see his face, but he refused, saying that she would know when he came to propose marriage. In the end, he went back on his word and had no news for six months, and even for many years afterwards, he never showed up again. She suspected that he had already died at the hands of the Marquis of Changping. She wanted to see if he could keep his word this time.
"Tell your master that I will trust him one last time!"
After saying this, Chen Tang slammed the window shut.
She sat back on the small couch and drank some tea to calm her anger. She didn't know whether she was angry with the man, or with the Prince of Jingyang, or maybe she was just angry with herself.
Angry at my lack of determination.
When she was reborn and refused to marry in front of the bridal sedan, it was clear that she had made up her mind not to marry again in this life. She only wanted to find her lost elder brother, hoped that her father would live a long life, and hoped that the Jiang family would not be plotted against by those people. She had no other thoughts.
But she rejected the marriage proposal from the Prince of Jingyang. The man who had disappeared in the previous life appeared in front of her again. He did not care about her reputation at all and broke into her boudoir every now and then. He also sent people to protect her, which led to her being discovered by her father's people, who asked him to propose marriage to her. This matter was also reported to the emperor in an incredible way.
At this point, things were no longer under her control, and she had tacitly accepted in her heart that the man would come to propose marriage soon and she would marry him.
Who would have thought that when she went to Duke Wen's mansion to celebrate his birthday today, she would encounter the most embarrassing thing in her two lives. She listened to two live sex shows with her husband in her previous life. The man who had been so rude to her in her previous life actually said he would marry her under such circumstances.
Ever since Prince Jingyang said this, her heart has been in a mess. She kept thinking back to what Shen Xi said before she died in her previous life, saying that Xie Guimo liked her. She couldn't help wanting to find out why Xie Guimo was different from his previous life and kept saving her. When did she provoke him? She knew clearly that even if she found out, she would never marry Xie Guimo again.
Chen Tang didn't want to have anything to do with Xie Guimo anymore, so he said he was engaged. As a result, not only did he fail to reject Xie Guimo, he was also laughed at by him.
What a joke!
You don’t even know who the man you are going to marry is or what he looks like, yet you have the nerve to say that you are engaged.
These bastards!
In her previous life, she disappeared without a trace and had a sour face all day long, but in this life, both of them have become a dog-skin plaster. It's really weird.
The more Chen Tang thought about it, the angrier she became. She drank cup after cup of tea, forcing herself not to think about these trivial things and asking Ginkgo to find something for her to do to divert her attention.
Gingko didn’t know what Chen Tang was upset about, so she said, “Don’t you want to embroider your belt, young lady?”
The girl said that she would try her best to finish embroidering the belt as a gift for the man before the birthday banquet at Duke Wen's Mansion. However, she still hadn't finished it no matter how hard she tried. Before going to bed last night, the girl said that she would continue embroidering it after returning from congratulating the old lady on her birthday at Duke Wen's Mansion.
He kept saying he would marry her, but she just wanted to see his face, but he kept hiding it and delaying it, and he even asked her to embroider a belt for him?
Chen Tang looked at the embroidery frame with eyes spitting fire, almost burning the belt to ashes.
But Chen Tang finally embroidered it.
One thing is one thing. Although she was angry, she could not deny that the man did help her a lot. She could not be angry at the man for breaking his promise and then break her own promise. She must not do such a thing that would give people a chance to talk about her.
Chen Tang not only embroidered the belt, but also stayed up all night to embroider the purse she promised to give to the man despite being tired.
He was even angry and wanted to make Chen Shan stay awake so that he could deliver it to his master overnight.
Chen Tang just thought so, and Ginkgo did it directly. The girl was obviously very tired, but she still insisted on finishing the embroidery. It was obvious that she was anxious to send it to her future son-in-law. If she was not in a hurry, she could just embroider it tomorrow.
Looking at the belt and purse handed to him, Chen Shan thought that his master had already gone to bed by now, and he didn't dare to wake him up so late in the night to check the belt and purse, but he didn't dare to disobey the order of the Crown Princess.
It’s difficult to be a secret guard.
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