Chapter 243 - Getting Closer
Rendong waited for people to walk away and quietly approached: "Miss, if by reason, this handkerchief really isn't worth anything, is what Miss said about the private endowment a precaution against them?"
An Qingran smiled bitterly: "What do you know, now everyone has to be guarded, especially this Shen family ......"
Rendong really didn’t understand.
That said, Fang Shi’s smiling face turned ugly as she walked out of the courtyard.
Shen Zhiyun did not know the reason, but only whispered: this An Qing Ran has a good reputation, but I did not expect to act so improperly, such petty, stingy, if it were me, I would have given my aunt a pearl, not to mention a handkerchief.
Fang shi gave her daughter a deep look, “What do you know, this is where she acts most properly. Although you are older than her, you really need to learn from her in this regard and grow an extra eye ……”
“Why can’t I understand?” Shen Zhiyun still said unconvinced.
Fang Shi sighed: "You, I was thinking of taking her handkerchief back and giving it to your brother, and making it true when the time came, it was unexpected that she was so alert."
As soon as Shen Zhiyun heard her mother say this, she skimmed her lips: "She has been so much of a schemer, and you still want to marry her in, and you are not afraid that she will bully Brother when the time comes ......"
“Once she is in the Shen family, she will be a member of the Shen family, and she is not that ignorant shrew. Moreover, your great-aunt has said that she is extremely intelligent and knowledgeable, and she has many strategies. Once she has married, she will be able to help our Shen family to shine, this is your great aunt's intention, I was hesitating before, but now it seems that I am extremely satisfied with her."
When Shen Zhiyun heard her mother say this, her heart was dismayed: "Maybe she is just a petty, and being analyzed by you guys like this over and over again, she has become a fine ......"
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Fang Shi just smiled and stopped talking.
An Qingran went to Dongnuange.
She can’t sleep at night without seeing her brother several times a day. Now that Mingchen is especially cute and fatter than he was a few days ago, he is just regaining his health. She is paying particular attention to him for fear that something else will happen.
Lian Jin Yu is extra busy these days, because there are some guests in, she has a lot more work to do, including the guests’s consumption expenses, and there are several maids and pozis specially arranged to take care of those people.
"Mother, did the Shen family say how long they were staying?" An Qing Ran asked her mother.
Lian Jingyu shook her head, "How is it good to ask, how long will this relative stay, there is only retention, it's impossible to kick someone out."
An Qingran sighed, “Mother, do you know what my aunt done today?”
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An Qingran told her mother what had happened now. When Lian Jingyu heard it, her face was quite ugly.
She did not expect her daughter, who was her pride and joy, to be the object of someone else's calculations, and what she would do with so many people thinking about her.
This matter is also considered to be over.
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Lanxiao Pavilion.
Lian Jinrong sat in front of the mirror looking at her blossom-like face, her face bursting with laughter and her hand even fiddling with a white jade hairpin. Last night she served the General well, and just now he sent this hairpin for her. The hairpin is not worth much, but his thoughtfulness is something that has not been seen in the past year.
Before, he was a good husband. Any good things had to pass her own hands before Lian Jinyu’s turn. But now, it had been so long since she had made new clothes and she hadn’t even added a pair of shoes when she was reduced to a lowly concubine.
She stuck the hairpin left and right, but it didn't feel right any way, An Yanran came in, shouting at her mother while taking the hairpin from her hand, and stuck it diagonally between her clouds' manes like hair bun.
Lian Jinrong smiled.
”Mother is so beautiful.” An Yanran blurted out.
”I’m old…” Lian Jinrong sighed.
”My mother is not old at all, but I think that person is a lot older this year. It seems that giving birth is not a good thing.” The person in An Yanran’s mouth is naturally Lian Jinyu.
“What does a little child like you know, if there is no An Mingchen, how could she continue to be in charge of the house? As for her old age?I think it's because her precious daughter doesn't let her worry, don't you know? That new Shen Zhihua is thinking of her again, there is a Crown Prince at the top and a Gongzi at the bottom, a daughter doesn't know how many families want to marry her…”
Lian Jinrong sneered at the corner of her mouth.
An Yanran didn’t take it seriously: "She'd better marry Shen Zhihua, so that, but she'll be inferior to me in the future, and I'll be a royal concubine even if I don't count, don't you think so?"
"That is natural, that is why I will praise the two children properly with your grandmother later and say how well matched they are, why not ask your grandmother to speak directly to your father, your father is filial, he will not object ......"
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“Yes, even if Shen Zhihua won the first prize, so what, how does he compare with the imperial son?” An Yanran said as if like An Qingran married Shen Zhihua.
After the two mother and daughter had spoken for a while, An Yanran left contentedly, deciding to go and talk to Shen Zhiyun for a while.
Shen Zhiyun had nothing special about An Yanran. She had just returned from An Qingran’s courtyard and was still thinking about her mother’s words and did not feel that An Qingran was good in any way.
“Jiejie, this is a special rouge made in the palace…” An Yanran took out a rouge box made of carved silver and placed it in front of Shen Zhiyun.
Shen Zhiyun was certainly interested in the Palace-made objects, which she had not seen at all, but played with them for a while: “I heard that you’re the Consort of Kang (cefei), is this a gift from the Kang Wang?”
An Yanran hated it in her heart, this Shen Zhiyun was doing it on purpose, right?
But again, it looked like she had no intention and she obviously didn’t know the reason for it, so she didn’t mind and just smiled: “It’s not really a gift from Kang Wang, it’s something given to my mother by my aunt, who is Shu Guifei.”
Shen Zhiyun’s eyes visibly lit up, and the expression on her face was much more friendly: “Yanran, then you will soon be marrying into the royal family, congratulations indeed.”
“Thank you, just has jiejie ever settled on someone?” An Yanran began to chat.
"No." Shen Zhiyun's face heated up, "Mother said, we don't necessarily settle anywhere in the future, if my brother does well in the exams, maybe he will become an official in the capital, then we will come to the capital, so, don't spare me to decide my family first."
“Oh, Big Brother Shen’s knowledge so good and match for Sister Qingran.”
“Why? Qingran is quite knowledgeable?”
“Of course, her poetry and dance is also considered a masterpiece, and that poetry is so good that many men can’t compete with it.” Even though An Yanran was taking advantage, but complimenting An Qingran was hard on her heart.
Shen Zhiyun nodded at that and thinking to herself that maybe she really did have some skills and could be worthy of her brother?
Those two spoke for a while, and An Yanran left.
