CHAPTER 27

The next day, Song Yuanzhi understood what Lu Shaoyou meant by his words.

Madam Liu, who was not seen for a long time, wore a warm smile on her face and warmly assured Song Yuanzhi, “Don’t worry about your marriage; your father and I have discussed it well and will definitely let you get married in style, and won’t let the others see the joke!”

Song Yuanzhi looked at Madam Liu suspiciously. She always felt that she didn’t have any good intentions; both of them have already separated, so why was Madam Liu being so generous? What’s more, her words were accompanied by Song Yan’s thin-skinned goods, which sounded even more unbelievable.

Perhaps the meaning in Song Yuanzhi’s gaze was too obvious; Madam Liu couldn’t help but laugh bitterly and completely admit, “The Marquis of Zhenbei holds you in high regard, so I won’t tolerate any wrongdoing on your part. I really don’t like you, but I have to think about Lan’er as well.”

Thinking of last night, Momo Liu let someone go to convey the threat given by Lu Shaoyou to Madam Liu. So other than coming over to flatter Song Yuanzhi, what else can she do?

It turned out that Lu Shaoyou had secretly done something behind her back! Song Yuanzhi realized that Madam Liu and Song Yan couldn’t be so submissive if not for that. Song Yuanzhi had always thought about how she should react if Madam Liu did something on her wedding day, but she didn’t realize that Lu Shaoyou was more straightforward and killed the seed in the cradle.

Thinking of this, Song Yuanzhi’s mouth could not help but rise and curiously ask Madam Liu, “Did Marquis say something to you?”

Madam Liu smiled bitterly, thinking of Momo Liu’s words from yesterday, “If you dare to harm our master, then Song Lilan will only be worse off,” and then looking at Song Yuanzhi, who had a bright smile without any gloom. Madam Liu sighed only after a long time; her eyes were complicated, and thousands of unwillingnesses were all fused into this sigh. “You have a good life.”

Song Yuanzhi thought that Madam Liu was envying her and nodded without ceremony, “That’s natural!”

If her fate was not good, how could she meet Lu Shaoyou?

Madam Liu could only smile bitterly and regretted all her mistakes. If she had known that, she would have let Song Lilan take over this marriage in the first place.

If Lu Shaoyou knew what Madam Liu was thinking, he would have been furious and cursed. Do you really think that this Marquis is a ragpicker who wants anything dirty and smelly? He is good to good people and extremely bad to bad people.

At this point, Xuanyuan Yu and Lu Shaoyou unprecedentedly reached a consensus.

How can Song Lilan have a good impression in Xuanyuan Yu’s mind with the presence of Hongshao? Hongshao has been in the Song residence for so many years and is the original owner’s personal maid, so she is familiar with Song Lilan’s black history; hence, casually mentioning a few things can make Xuanyuan Yu’s impression of Song Lilan fall again and again. At first, Xuanyuan Yu thought that Song Lilan had a sweet and kind nature, but after Hongshao told him her reality, his attitude towards Song Lilan turned bitter.

Xuanyuan Yu himself is of unique nature; hence, his disgust is also very straightforward: the bride price sent by Marquis of Nan’an House is perfunctory to extreme; even the ordinary people who do not know too much about it can see that the bride price is too low, and they started discussing, “Marquis of Nan’an House sent such a good bride price!”

“Who said that? Have you forgotten the bride price the Marquis of Zhenbei gave to the Song family’s eldest daughter? It’s very elegant! All of them are rare treasures, and all of them are of great significance, and the ones at the top were bestowed by His Majesty!”

“These are both marquis houses who are marrying the daughter from the Song family, so how come the bride price is so different?”

“Don’t we know about the affairs of the nobles? Definitely, this Song family’s second girl will not have a good time in the future; I am afraid the Marquis of Nan’an’s son does not put her in his heart.”

There is also one woman who recently married her son; she also nodded and whispered to participate in the discussion, ‘That’s right, even though my family is not rich, when my son married my daughter-in-law, we spent a lot of effort to give a large bride price and almost emptied our family savings. The Marquis of Nan’an son’s bride price, at first glance, is not thoughtful as well as does not look like a husband who cares about his wife.’

This bunch of people lively started chatting away about the Zhenbei Marquis and Marquis Nan’an’s son, these two young men, and comparing them.
The results of this comparison were shocking of themselves: clearly, Marquis Nan’an’s son was nothing when compared to the Zhenbei Marquis; why did they initially think that the Marquis Nan’an’s son is the entire capital’s most outstanding young talent? These two were clearly not on the same level; how could they be compared?

This was ridiculous!

What’s even more outrageous is that Marquis Nan’an’s son was even more popular than Marquis Zhenbei’s. What is this strange thing? How can he be popular with such a personality? Are their brains stuck in mush?

If Song Yuanzhi were here, she would have kindly told them: It’s not that your brains are covered in mush, but that the novel’s author is too powerful, and for the sake of their favorite male lead, their bad personality can be hidden or given an excuse of past traumas, etc.

Now that the people are aware of this, it also proves that the influence of the plot is getting weaker and weaker, and Song Yuanzhi doesn’t have to worry that she won’t be able to avoid the plot, or she will lose her life.

Xuanyuan Yu, however, felt a burst of panic, and in the darkness, he felt as if he had lost a particularly important thing, but there is nothing he can do about it, and his mood worsened. After hearing that the people praised Lu Shaoyou and degraded himself, Xuanyuan Yu’s mood was extremely bad; he put all the blame for such things directly on the head of Song Lilan and waited for her to marry over to clear this debt with her.

As for Lu Shaoyou and Song Yuanzhi… Xuanyuan Yu sneered, these two thorns in his life will one day have to beg him for their lives and deaths!

Soon it was the Mid-Autumn Festival. Early this morning, Song Yuanzhi was woken up by Momo Liu and asked her to take a bath, do her makeup , dress up, and then wait for the groom to come to meet the bride.

Song Yan and Madam Liu’s status was not quite enough to comb Song Yuanzhi’s hair. So Lu Shaoyou and Madam Qin invited an auspicious lady who is none other than the Yongkang emperor’s mother’s eldest daughter, the eldest Princess Shuhui.

This is the eldest sister of the current Emperor, the eldest princess Shuhui. With this kind of status of an auspicious lady, even the whole capital can’t find someone similar. Once this news spread, many people were full of envy and jealousy, but there are still a lot of ladies who hurried to find a source to get an invitation to wedding so that they can bring their daughters over, saying that they came to help Song Yuanzhi get ready, but in fact, they just want to show their daughters in front of Princess Shuhui.

Everyone knows that, when the Yongkang Emperor succeeded the throne, Princess Shuhui was one of the people who supported him wholeheartedly. So the Yongkang Emperor has always respected this elder sister. However, the Princess Shuhui lives in a very low-profile way; she doesn’t go out often and just stays in her house.

What’s more, the son of Princess Shuhui, Marquis Chang’an’s son Youxin, is also the capital city’s famous handsome gentleman who is talented, praised many times by the Yongkang Emperor, and most importantly, he is still unmarried!

Such a good man and still unmarried, how can’t the hearts of the bachelor ladies of the capital not flutter?

So far, Song Yuanzhi’s make-up room was filled with many nobleladies and women’s; some people and the original owner were acquaintances, but they behaved as if they were longtime best friends.
When the onlookers saw this, they only thought that Song Yuanzhi was really popular; half of the capital’s noblewoman came to do her make-up and send her off; that means she is also a person with a very good temperament; or else, how can so many noblewomen come for her marriage?

In that moment, even Song Lilan, her own sister, was at the end of the line.

Madam Liu was afraid that Song Lilan would cause trouble at this critical moment, so she didn’t dare to let Song Lilan out of her sight and kept Song Lilan under control.

Song Yuanzhi dealt with this group of smooth noblewomen with quite a bit of effort. The good thing was that everyone had high IQ, so they started talking among themselves neatly and tried to think of ways on how to give the bridegroom a difficult problem later.

Song Yuanzhi also unconsciously relaxed, smiling and watching them discuss, to the point that the atmosphere was joyful and happy. She also suggested some new ways to enrich the process of welcoming the bridegroom and bride for these Ring Dynasty people.

All the people were very happy. Princess Shuhui was virtual pointing at Song Yuanzhi’s forehead and said happily, “This kind of quirky nature; no wonder Ah-Ji considers you as his apple of the eye!”

When the people heard this, a boom sound of laughter spread around, and while Song Yuanzhi’s face turned red, her nervousness gradually calmed down. She finally had a little bit of the new bride’s consciousness, feeling both expectant and apprehensive and was thinking where Lu Shaoyou will be this time.

Not long after, they heard the drums and gongs outside; the shouts from the main door penetrated into the inner courtyard: “The groom is here! The groom is here!”

Song Yuanzhi tugged the handkerchief tightly, pursed her lips, and smiled; her eyes rippled with sweetness, and her ears were already crimson.