Chapter 51 Hateful Chen Ting
After finishing the conversation with Ji Mingyi, a servant came in from outside the door and said, "Master, the people from the Duke's Mansion are here to take their wife back to the mansion."
"This is such a coincidence." Ji Mingyi clapped his hands and smiled: "We have finished discussing the matter, the rain has stopped, and the lady's family is here to pick us up."
The people who came up were Tao Hong and Wu Tong. Shen Wangshu nodded to his partners: "Then I will go back. Boss Ji can send the deed to the Duke's Mansion later."
Ji Mingyi nodded in agreement, and then personally sent Shen Wangshu to the door of Furong Building. Seeing that she was about to leave, the person behind the screen clenched his fists excitedly - if, if he didn't meet Nian Nian tonight, he would probably never see her again in the future!
The infinite excitement in his heart healed the broken heart that day. Gu Ziliang suddenly walked out from behind the screen and impulsively opened his mouth to stop him: "Wait..."
Before he could finish the word "wait", Ji Mingyi, who had deliberately lagged behind Shen Wangshu, slammed the door of the box quickly, shutting out the voice of Prince Bao.
He knew that this kid would never change his bad habits. He had just been punished by Chen Ting, and now he had forgotten the pain... He had just agreed to just take a look, but now he wants to cause trouble again, right?
Fortunately, he had already expected Gu Ziliang to do this.
Shen Wangshu did hear some movement behind him, and he paused, wondering, “Is there… in the room?”
Ji Mingyi opened his fan to block her view and asked calmly, "How is the room?"
"I seemed to hear some noise in the house."
"Madam, you heard it wrong. It's the cat next door that ran out." She looked in the direction Ji Mingyi pointed, and sure enough, a snow-white shadow ran over quickly.
Shen Wangshu no longer doubted anything, and followed Tao Hong Wutong out of Furong Building and got on the carriage of the Duke's Mansion.
Ji Mingyi watched the carriage leave with a smile on his face, then he sighed lightly and leisurely returned to the box where he had just talked with the general's wife.
As soon as I opened the door, I saw Gu Ziliang with a long face, sitting on a stool angrily waiting to be questioned.
"Ji Mingyi! Why did you just...?"
"What did you promise me before?" Ji Mingyi interrupted his questioning and said confidently, "Did you promise not to see Shen Wangshu? You almost broke your promise, and I was just helping you do it."
Gu Ziliang's eyes were red: "I said so, but this is my last chance to see Nian Nian, can't I regret it?"
Ji Mingyi: “…” You’re going back on your word and still feeling justified?
"She was completely different just now," Gu Ziliang recalled, feeling emotional and sad: "Nian Nian used to treat money as dirt, it's impossible for her to be so calculating for these material things."
"Now I have fallen to the point of haggling over a few taels of silver with a businessman like you who is full of the stink of money."
But it is undeniable that the calmness and composure she showed when she was talking to Ji Mingyi just now had another kind of fascinating liveliness... It was as if it had given a layer of bright color to the Shen Wangshu who was once trapped in the boudoir, making her live again.
Ji Mingyi was speechless: "Without silver, will you starve every day?"
If it weren't for this businessman who reeks of money, the Prince Bao would have been living on the streets in Moyun.
Gu Ziliang said: "Anyway, it's all your fault for not letting us see each other for the last time."
"...Is it that people don't even want to see you?"
Since they were not on the same page, Ji Mingyi said, "When are you leaving tomorrow? I will send someone to see you off."
Just to receive this useless guy, he risked getting into trouble and almost lost a big client.
Send him away quickly, he needs to start trying to curry favor with the general’s wife!
"Tomorrow morning," Gu Ziliang said listlessly.
He will leave this sad city early tomorrow morning.
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In the carriage, Taohong saw that her wife had gone out and changed her clothes, hair accessories and makeup. Even the smell of her body was no longer the milk soap she had used yesterday. She didn't know what happened and was very panicked: "Madam? Didn't the general come out with you? Why are you the only one left now?"
"And this dress...what's up with the dress? Where's the previous one?"
When talking about this, Shen Wangshu got angry: "Damn Chen Ting, he suddenly left in the middle of the date just now, and then it rained heavily, and the clothes I wore when I came out were all soaked!"
Then he was invited by Ji Mingyi, the owner of Furonglou, to go upstairs to have a cup of hot tea, change clothes, and discuss a business deal.
In addition to these, he also met a lecher, and Shen Wangshu personally performed a sterilization operation on him... Let's not mention this for now, so as not to affect his gentle image in their hearts.
In short, the excitement she had when she first came out tonight has disappeared. Although her mood is not terrible, Chen Ting will never be able to sleep in the house again because he has been left out for no reason and without an explanation.
Seeing that the lady was so angry that she called the general by his name, Taohong felt distressed and angry. She didn't care that Wutong was still there, and complained in a low voice: "What is the general doing? It's a good Qixi Festival..."
Shen Wangshu took a deep breath: “Let’s go back first.”
Wutong knew the inside story better than the two people who had just arrived at the Duke's Mansion. Hearing this, he said, "Don't be surprised, Madam. The general has a sudden illness on three days every month, and it's almost always these days. That's why he deliberately avoided you."
Sudden illness?
Shen Wangshu asked, "What kind of serious illness?"
"I only know that it is a hidden disease. When the general is ill, he will find a deserted place to spend the night. I don't know the details."
Shen Wangshu tried hard to recall the original novel - he had never heard that the general who guards the country had any serious illness... Could it be that because he was a supporting character, the book did not go into details?
However, even the servants in the Rongguo Mansion did not know what disease Chen Ting had, nor did they know where he was being treated alone. It seemed that he should not be discovered by outsiders.
When they returned to the Duke's Mansion, the three of them were stopped at the door before they even stepped into the gate of Xuanji Courtyard.
The burly Chen Hu was guarding the courtyard himself. Seeing that it was the general's wife, his attitude was quite good, but the burly old man spoke in a rough voice, which sounded fierce no matter how you listened to it: "The general has ordered that no one is allowed to approach Xuanji Courtyard tonight!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a breathless servant ran over and stammered, "Madam, the old lady wants you to go to the Jingsi Hall... to study the Prajna Sutra..."
Oh no! The general had just told him to send his wife away tactfully, and it seems he is late.
Shen Wangshu: “…”
Chen Ting wanted to hide something from her, couldn't he be a little more considerate? The testimonies on both sides didn't match up, isn't that too misleading? !
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