Sheng Weiqiao was relieved then and shook her head, "No, I have to accompany my grandfather."
"I heard that Senior Master Sheng has always cherished Sheng Shuihe. How is he now?" Huan Yehe nodded understandingly and comforted her, "Lose at sunrise and gain at sunset. I hope that he won't be so sad!"
Sheng Weiqiao thanked her for her concern and said, "My grandfather is generally okay now. But after this happened, he was a little worried after all."
When Huan Yehe was about to answer, the Grand Princess Wuyang found that it was almost the time, so she coughed a few times. Everyone in the hall understood it naturally, so they stopped talking successively. The Grand Princess laughed and said, "It is a flower-enjoying banquet, but we just stay in the room, enjoying the potted plants. It's really boring. Why not go to the garden to have a drink while enjoying the flowers?"
"This is an opportunity for the guests who come over today to sh
A maid walked forward and explained with a smile, "Because there were so many guests here today, His Highness said that we would take a few more pots of wine over. Maybe the pots were buried so deeply, so His Highness was afraid that the servants would break them up when digging. So he asked them to dig slowly. Thus, he is somewhat late now."Huan Yehe, Cao Zhu, and some others mediated, "It’s not time for dinner. Let’s drink some rose syrup and mint syrup and eat some snacks at first. It's okay for the wine to be brought over slowly."Meng Lipiao and Meng Liti also said, "As the saying goes: Good dinner is worthy of waiting. So is the wine.""I shouldn't have let him do that." Grand Princess Wuyang only had one son, Li Shengxu. Over the years, she had been worried about his poor health all the time. Naturally, she wouldn't have the heart to blame him for just being late. She just felt that it was a snub to the guests, so she pretended t
Despite her regret for attending this banquet, Sheng Weiqiao had to stay and watch.Thanks to the finesse of the Grand Princess Wuyang, nobody suspected that the banquet which supposedly arranged for youngsters to find a match was merely meant to match Sheng Weiqiao with Li Shengxu...Hence, Sheng Weiqiao got to stay out of the conflict between Meng Lipiao and Princess Deping.And the guests only figured that the Grand Princess Wuyang gave this new princess privilege was for the sake of the Empress Dowager, the Empress, and her Secretary General Tu Ruchuan when she seated Sheng Weiqiao beside Li Shengxu, considering the Grand Princess Wuyang had earnestly expressed that "It's the first time that Princess Kangzhao visits my mansion" and introduced Sheng Weiqiao as "a daughter of Secretary Tu's former colleague".After all, they didn't think the Grand Princess, a widow who had lost her husband Yangwu Marquis Li Junze in early
Sheng Weiqiao expected that there would be a big fight after she returned to the banquet, but she bumped into Meng Lipiao and Princess Deping very shortly, who were looking around for her and Li Shengxu.Sheng Weiqiao and Li Shengxu noticed them first through the luxuriant shrubbery on a meandering path lined with flowers.Walking alongside Princess Deping, Meng Lipiao seemed to have dropped her mask in the absence of other guests, "I can't believe that a girl of your age is brazen enough to attend a banquet like this! Normally, she should be looking after their children at home now, unlike you! And you even began to think about marrying Shengxu, just because Her Highness was too soft-hearted to chase you out! Please, even an ordinary family won't consider marriage with you, let alone Her Highness, who must have somehow learned about how you set up my sixth brother before!""You're the last girl to whom she would ever marry off her son!"
They had met Sheng Weiqiao before, Meng Lipiao and Princess Deping shared the same opinion that she was a squeamish daughter of a squire from a remote county.Hence, they were expecting Sheng Weiqiao to flinch and run away when Princess Deping brought up her supposed engagement with Xu Baomo!However, they turned out to be the ones left behind by her, trembling in madness. They exchanged a few glances, and stepped to chase up!“I've got a feeling that my mother and I were both cheated!" Li Shengxu murmured as Sheng Weiqiao dragged him, "You were described as a girl tactless, broad-minded, ingenuous, and credulous who I would like to back up in that situation!""I supposed it would be a thousand years before you finally offered to back me up!" Sheng Weiqiao laughed coldly, "And how dare you claim that you were cheated? I am the more likely victim, to think how my... my grandfather praised you as a generous refined handsome man and a
Since she tried to egg him on, Li Shengxu said sternly, "Am I such a mean person? That happened so many years ago! How could I still remember that as a dignified man!"But he hit Meng Lipiao's eyes with a punch before Sheng Weiqiao could react!"Shengxu... Shengxu, you hit me!" Meng Lipiao covered her eyes before she rolled her sleeves and she got frozen, "We have known each other since childhood. In the early days, my thirteenth sister and I used to come here to play with you. But now you... You hit me for this b*tch?"Sheng Weiqiao was also stunned, "How could you really hit her?"Anyway, Meng Lipiao was Li Shengxu's aunt, and she came to the Grand Princess Wuyang Family as a guest. Sheng Weiqiao thought that even if Li Shengxu hated her, he would at best stop her or say something hurtful to her.It seemed that he hated Meng Lipiao's bullying in the past so much that he had hit her really!"How ca
When Xu Baomo and Princess Deping exchanged amorous glances, Li Shengxu had just caught up with Sheng Weiqiao, "Slow down. Slow down... Why do you walk so fast?""You want to use me again?" Originally, Sheng Weiqiao hadn't planned to wait for him. But she was not familiar with the Grand Princess Wuyang Family, and when Li Shengxu took her away from the banquet, they walked so fast when he was worried about being caught up with by Meng Lipiao and Princess Deping. Therefore, she didn't have the chance to pay attention to her surroundings at all. So at this time, she walked around without a destination and finally walked into a dead end. Looking at the wall in front of her, she had to stop.She sneered, "You must have been beaten by Meng Lipiao so many times since you was a child in light of your resentment against her just now... Will you vent all your anger just by beating her once? If you had made her injured, she would have put all the blame on me s
When Twelfth Miss Meng and Thirteenth Miss Meng were speaking in low murmurs, Meng Guihan was having an intimate talk with his elder brother Meng Guiyu at the edge of the flowering shrubs, just a short distance away from the two sisters. "Sixth Brother, Princess Kangzhao left here a long time ago and has not come back yet. Maybe someone stopped her somewhere to pour out his or her heart. Just a moment ago, I asked a maid whether she had seen Princess Kangzhao, and she told me that she had seen Princess Kangzhao ask for directions at a short distance from here. As I estimated, she would arrive here after a while. You cannot miss such a good opportunity!"Hearing that, Meng Guiyu frowned. He was really curious about Sheng Weiqiao and intended to have more contact with her. But after all, he valued his siblings most at the moment. Thus, to him, that Meng Guihan put his heart and soul into pairing him off with Sheng Weiqiao was a big headache, "What about you? Today, almost
After they came to an agreement, Meng Liti helped her cousin with the makeup, and then they stepped out of the room with a graceful manner in their maids' company as if nothing had happened.Very shortly, they caught Meng Guihan peeking out from behind a tree on their way."Seventh Brother, what are you doing?" Meng Lipiao and Meng Liti exchanged a quizzical glance and they went up to ask him in a low voice."Eh?" Being caught off guard, Meng Guihan was startled before he turned back and found his two cousins. But being loath to let them in on his secret, he only frowned, "Nothing much... What are you doing here?""Seventh Brother, are you in a place to question us?" Meng Lipiao wasn't in a good mood despite having hatched a plan for revenge already, so she got impatient naturally when Meng Guihan, whose fourth branch was always scorned by the other three, responded to her in an offhand manner. So she said coldly, "You're al