Chapter 36 Chapter 36 She really remarried.
Isn’t this the date he and Zhu Chentan had chosen for their wedding?
When Zhu Chentan came over a few days ago, he said that the wedding date had to be postponed, for fear that it would clash with the Shen family in the Marquis' Mansion. Then no one would come to their wedding banquet, which would make the atmosphere cold and lose face for both families.
It is not auspicious to postpone the wedding, especially when everything is ready.
But at that time he felt inexplicably fortunate and relieved.
It seems that subconsciously I always don't want to get married so early.
I can’t say why.
Perhaps it is because he is to be promoted to the position of Minister of Rites?
But if that is really the case, then it would be important for him to marry Zhu Chentan as soon as possible, because only after that, the Zhu family and their colleagues would be able to support him wholeheartedly.
He really didn't want to admit it and was still waiting for Zhu Yinluan.
Because she has never come back to admit her mistake.
Thinking back, she had a huge fight with him and insisted on getting a divorce just because Zhu Yinluan was going to marry her.
Now...if he really marries Zhu Chentan, will she never come back?
Secretly, he still wanted to wait for Zhu Yinluan. After all, she had been in the Wei family for several years and helped him with some things. She had no credit and no hard work, so he should wait for her.
But who would have known... after waiting so long, she actually received an invitation to marry into a wealthy family again?
This wedding invitation was like a bolt from the blue, which made him frightened and angry inside and out, and he found it difficult to accept it.
When Pang Shi heard that Wei Ruzhuo rushed home in anger, she thought something had happened and came to see him in person.
From a distance, I could see Wei Ruzhuo sitting quietly in the study with a gloomy face, staring at a red letter on the table... seemed to be a letter? Or something else.
Pangzi called him as he walked inside.
Wei Ruzhuo suddenly came back to his senses, put away the wedding invitation, and went out to greet Pang Shi, "Hasn't mother been feeling unwell these days? Why is she here?"
"Brother Zhuo, what's wrong with you?" After getting closer, Pang Shi noticed that he was soaked all over and there was nothing on the table.
Pang said, "It's just the end of spring, but this late spring cold is severe. How did you get into this state? How did the people around you take care of you?"
Pang Shi started questioning her right away, and the maids around her hurriedly prepared clean clothes and hot water.
Wei Ruzhuo pinched his brows and suppressed his anger. When he spoke, his voice was a little hoarse, "I did it accidentally just now."
In that moment of panic, he couldn't find a perfect excuse, and it was good enough that he could maintain such superficial calm.
"What happened?" Pang Shi waited for him to come out after he had showered and changed his clothes.
Just now, Pang Shi interrogated the servants here, and no one knew what was going on. She thought Fang Zhongyue was not serving her well enough, so Pang Shi sent someone to ask, and Fang Zhongyue said in panic that he didn't know.
Even after Wei Ruzhuo had cleaned up, one could still see the ugly expression on his face.
Pangzi was extremely anxious and asked him to speak quickly.
Being asked this question made Wei Ruzhuo very annoyed, but he couldn't speak loudly, so he just avoided the question and said, "It's just a matter of government affairs, mother, don't worry."
"How can I not be worried? Could it be that you are being bullied again? But didn't the Shangshu say that he would take care of you?"
In order to get close to the Shangshu Mansion and help the Shangshu solve his problems, Pang Shi had to make arrangements for Wei Ruzhuo through the social etiquette, and she even used some of her dowry.
If this can't be done, I really don't know what to do.
Pang Zi was still frightened when he thought of the last unexpected disaster.
"It's not about the Shangshu Mansion, but my son is worried that he won't be selected as the Shangshu. After all, the other three officials are also eyeing him covetously..."
This statement was not wrong. If that person was really Zhu Yinluan, and she had managed to climb up the social ladder, she would definitely take revenge on the Wei and Zhu families.
Right now, Wei Ruzhuo feels so confused and confused that it is hard to describe.
"Just worried?" Pang Shi breathed a sigh of relief, "Is there really nothing wrong?"
"Nothing happened. Mother is worrying too much. It's getting late. Mother, go to bed. You are not feeling well."
After repeated questioning, Wei Ruzhuo still said that nothing happened. Pang Shi was worried, so she could only send someone to inform Zhu Chentan.
The next day, Zhu Chentan went to the government office to look for Wei Ruzhuo.
He was busy with official business and was in a bad mood, but he couldn't avoid the meeting. Besides, he wanted to confirm something, so he met Zhu Chentan in a teahouse next to the government office and asked her if she knew who the woman Shen Jingzhan married was.
Zhu Chentan was confused, "I don't know, this woman is very well hidden, I heard from my mother that even the noble families don't know where she came from."
"Is there no news at all?" Haven't the wedding invitations been sent out?
How come no one who had attended his and Zhu Yinluan’s wedding banquet noticed anything unusual?
Thinking of this, Wei Ruzhuo suddenly paused.
He got married to Zhu Yinluan a few years ago. At that time, the Wei family was convicted, he did not have a respectable official position, and Zhu Yinluan was a concubine's daughter, so not many people came, mainly because Pang Shi did not send many wedding invitations.
Besides, even if the people who came were not from prominent families, could they receive wedding invitations from the Shen and Shi families?
Even the Zhu family couldn't get it now, so he still managed to get a wedding invitation through the Shangshu.
Wei Ruzhuo wondered if Zhu Yinluan had done this on purpose, trying to get someone to send the wedding invitation to him?
But on second thought, I felt it was impossible.
Does Zhu Yinluan have such great ability?
If the person she married was really her, shouldn't she cut ties with the Zhu family and the Wei family? Why did she want him to go? Wasn't she afraid? Or did she want him to go and see, to give him a warning?
"Ruzhuo, why don't you speak? What happened?" Zhu Chentan was left alone to drink tea, but he still asked him patiently.
Wei Ruzhuo thought about it and decided not to tell Zhu Chentan.
He just said, "I got a wedding invitation."
"What wedding invitation?" Zhu Chentan was shocked. "Could it be the wedding invitation from the Shen family and the Shi family?!"
"Yeah." Wei Ruzhuo nodded.
"This is good news!" Zhu Chentan was instantly delighted.
She was actually able to attend the wedding banquet of a wealthy family. She and her mother were ridiculed a few days ago. Now that the Wei family has received the invitation, she must go and let those people see whether she is qualified to attend a banquet of a wealthy family.
The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. Zhu Chentan reached out to him, "Where's the wedding invitation? Can I see it?"
"I haven't brought the wedding invitation out yet. I left it at home." Wei Ruzhuo concealed the truth.
Looking at Zhu Chentan's smiling face in front of him, he suddenly wondered, if Zhu Chentan saw the names of the people above, would he still be able to smile?
Turning around, he felt it was ridiculous again. Why couldn't Zhu Chentan laugh?
Zhu Yinluan is her sister, and Zhu Chentan is not like Zhu Yinluan who flatters the powerful and looks down on the weak. She only knows how to curry favor with the rich and powerful. Zhu Chentan was forced to marry Luo Xuan, and now she turns around and marries him, all because of their years of love. She is not a vain woman.
If she was really vain, she would not have gone back to marry him. She was pleased with him.
"Did Zhu Yinluan go back to the Zhu family these days?"
Hearing this, the smile on Zhu Chentan's face disappeared, "Why are you asking her?"
Without waiting for Wei Ruzhuo to answer, she instantly realized that her tone was not very good, and immediately changed it, "Why did you suddenly think of asking your sister today?"
Wei Ruzhuo had already thought of an excuse, "When she left the Wei family, she took a deed to her mother's land. I want to ask her to return it. If she goes to the Zhu family, remember to let me know."
"So it's a land deed." Zhu Chentan looked at Wei Ruzhuo's face, trying to tell the truth from his words. Seeing that he didn't look moved and had always been like that, he relaxed.
"Yes, did she go?"
"She didn't go." Zhu Chentan said, "Since the last time she left the Wei family, she never went back."
"She not only took the Wei family's land deeds, but also took the family's shops and farms, occupying them and refusing to return them."
Zhu Chentan rolled his eyes and cast a net, "I heard from my mother that she sold the shop that my mother gave her and bought a house in the southwest of the capital, where every inch of land is worth a lot of money."
Wei Ruzhuo's eyes flickered, "Really?"
"Yes." Seeing his reaction, Zhu Chentan couldn't help but sneer in his heart.
He couldn't be still thinking about Zhu Yinluan.
When I talked to him in his spare time these days, I never saw him like this. He was either a little impatient or absent-minded.
Today he was focused and interested.
"only……"
"Just what?" Wei Ruzhuo didn't notice the sneer flashing in the depths of Zhu Chentan's eyes.
"My mother came to her house twice. She was worried that something might happen to her outside. She tried to persuade her to come home. But she felt that my mother was meddling in her affairs and didn't want to be controlled by her family, so she moved away. Recently, my mother sent people to look for her, but the house was empty."
"The house is empty?" Did she go to Shi's house?
"If you don't believe me, I can tell you the exact address. You can go and see for yourself what she is doing and how she is doing."
Wei Ruzhuo finally realized that something was wrong.
After he came back to his senses, he smiled and said, "Chen Tan, don't worry, I just want the land deed."
"Really?" Zhu Chentan couldn't help but snorted.
"Yes." He looked at Zhu Chentan, not knowing whether he was saying this to her or to himself, "I have no feelings for Zhu Yinluan."
"What about the past?" Zhu Chentan insisted, "Didn't you have feelings for her in the past? You lived with her day and night for three or four years, even sleeping in the same bed with her, and even giving birth to a child with her..."
Fortunately, Zhu Yinluan cannot give birth, otherwise I would not be able to drive her away, Zhu Chentan thought secretly in his heart.
But her words made Wei Ruzhuo distracted.
Regardless of whether that person is Zhu Yinluan or not, she might remarry after leaving the Wei family.
If there really was a blind man who didn't despise her and fell in love with her, then Zhu Yinluan would definitely sleep in the same bed with that man, even give birth to children together, and do all kinds of intimate things with him...
The more he thought about it, the angrier Wei Ruzhuo became.
How is that possible!
"Ruzhuo, why don't you speak? What are you thinking about?" Zhu Chentan didn't wait for his answer and began to urge him.
"I'm just thinking about how to get the land deed back from her. Don't worry, I have never liked Zhu Yinluan..."
He just felt that this woman had fooled him and was angry and annoyed.
After all, this vain woman, not long after divorcing him, actually married into a rich family again. If it was really her, then she and Shen Jingzhan must have been in contact for a long time, and I'm afraid they have secretly given and received each other countless times.
Hearing these words and seeing his gloomy face, Zhu Chentan reluctantly felt relieved.
"That's good……"
She took the initiative to reach out and touch the back of Wei Ruzhuo's hand.
As the wedding date approaches, Zhu Yinluan can't help but feel nervous.
She was originally going to make her wedding dress herself.
But who knew that the Shen family sent it over and said that she didn't need to work hard and didn't need to prepare anything. She could review all matters, big or small, but she didn't need to be busy and was very idle.
Zhu Yinluan tried it on beforehand and found it to be a perfect fit, as if it was tailor-made for her.
After putting it on, she looks noble, elegant and dazzling.
Especially the Phoenix Crown...
It was made entirely of pure gold leaves. Zhu Yinluan's first reaction was the same as Mingya's: so beautiful... so heavy... how much silver did it cost?
In addition, there were countless bracelets, hairpins and necklaces. Even though Zhu Yinluan was not moved by power and wealth, she couldn't help but stare in amazement at this moment.
She felt ashamed of it and couldn't help but ask, "Isn't this too generous?"
Being so prominent, I’m afraid it’s not good?
More importantly, she and Shen Jingzhan were just a "marriage of convenience" just to please his family, but he actually took it so seriously. This was something Zhu Yinluan had not expected. Was it because of the etiquette of a noble family?
But the people of the Shi family said it was good. This was because Shen Jingzhan valued her and gave her face. After she got married, no one would dare to look down on her and bully her anymore.
In this case, Zhu Yinluan didn't know what to say, for fear of saying something wrong and causing others to misunderstand.
"Miss, you only wore light-colored dresses in the past. This red color looks so beautiful!" Mingya kept boasting, and Jiaohui agreed.
Miss Shi and the maids nearby also nodded and said that she was pretty and had a graceful figure. The brighter clothes made her look more beautiful. People couldn't help but look at her. She was really beautiful.
"Cousin Zhan will definitely be happy to see this!"
"Yeah yeah!"
“…”
Zhu Yinluan had rarely heard such compliments since she was a child, and she was extremely embarrassed, especially the last sentence. Even though she had no feelings for Shen Jingzhan, she could not stand the booing of the crowd. She was teased so much that she could not help but lower her head, and her ears turned red.
Time is almost up, and it’s the wedding day.
Zhu Yinluan was called up early. She ate some snacks to fill her stomach. After washing up, she sat in front of the dressing table, closed her eyes and let the maids put on makeup for her.
The sun gradually brightened, and when the phoenix crown pressed down on her, Zhu Yinluan felt it was so heavy that she couldn't help but frown.
Wealth and splendor look dazzling, but when the crown is pressed down on the head, it is extremely heavy and cannot be supported without some strength.
Just like the marriage between her and Shen Jingzhan, it was glorious and dazzling, but what she had to face was probably not easy either. She couldn't help but worry and get nervous in her heart.
When she opened her eyes and saw herself in the bronze mirror wearing wedding clothes and red makeup, she was in a trance again. She actually got married again... and married Chen Jingzhan.
These days, she has been following Shen Xiyun to meet with relatives and friends of the Shi family and the Shen family's side branches, and she can hardly spare the time.
Some people can't come to the wedding banquet, or want to meet her in person in advance.
Zhu Yinluan had never been taken seriously and noticed by so many people before, and everyone was extremely curious about her.
She guessed that someone might have guessed her identity, but no one mentioned the Shen family or the Zhu family, and no one showed any contempt in front of them. Zhu Yinluan never heard a word of discussion behind her back.
The days she stayed at Shi's house were peaceful and calm, and it could even be said that these were some of the few comfortable and leisurely times she had.
She has been thoughtful and sensitive since she was young. The three girls in the Shi family are all cheerful, and her two brothers are also generous. They know her true identity, that she was born as a concubine and was divorced after remarrying for four years, but they have no prejudice against her. They even say that a hero does not care about his origin and praise her.
He even tried to comfort her in a roundabout way, fearing that she would feel inferior and cowardly and be wronged after marrying into the Shen family. He would give her special instructions in advance, telling her who the people in the Shen family were, what their personalities were like, and what their habits were.
When I was following Pang Shi before, I also heard Fang Zhongyue mention who were the members of the Shen family. But now that I am at the Shi family, I have a more comprehensive understanding.
Shi Congwei walked in from the side and saw her staring at the bronze mirror in a daze, so he comforted her, "Sister Luan'er, don't be afraid. Cousin Zhan loves you, and the aunts and uncles of the Shen family won't make it difficult for you."
Afraid that she would be hungry, she handed her a purse full of fruits and pastries, and told her to be careful when eating so as not to stain her lip balm.
"There are many guests outside. My brothers have arranged for someone to block the door. We must give Master Shen a warning today to let him know that you are not easy to marry, so that he will not treat you badly in the future!"
Zhu Yinluan felt that she had never had the friendship of brothers and sisters in the Zhu family. When she listened to Shi Congwei talking to her about things outside, her nose felt sour.
Shi Congwei took her hand and patted the back of her hand. Seeing her eyes were slightly red, he coaxed and teased her.
"Sister Luan'er, why are you crying? Are you worried about cousin Zhan being embarrassed by his brothers?"
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