Both the need for a celebratory occasion and a change of luck were quite urgent, and the wedding day arrived in the blink of an eye.
Sitting in front of the mirror waiting to be made up, her clear eyes watched from the mirror as Xiaochun and Xiaomei packed the valuable items she had snatched in the past few days into large burlap sacks.
From Liu’s place, and from this Xianzizhu courtyard, four large sacks were filled to the brim.
Miss, are we really taking all these things? Xiaochun asked uncertainly.
I snatched them with my own ability, why wouldn’t I take them?
Xiaomei chuckled, carrying a heavy burlap sack in each hand, Miss is right.
Just then, the people who were going to do her makeup and Liu Mama, who was assigned to her as a dowry attendant, came in. They were accompanied by two high-class maids, who, upon seeing Xiaochun and Xiaomei, looked down on them.
What are you doing here? Don’t you know your place? Is this somewhere you can stay?
What are you carrying? Get out quickly!
Xiaochun and Xiaomei quickly left with the sacks.
The two maids exchanged a look with Liu Mama, then stood on either side of Chu Zhiyi and began to speak ill of the eunuch Lan Huaiyu.
Ruthless and tyrannical.
Capricious and unpredictable.
The people he has harmed could fill a city.
His mansion, built with gold and jade, is full of wronged souls, and his illness is because the wronged souls he killed are taking revenge.
Seeing Chu Zhiyi lower her eyes, appearing frightened, Liu Mama and the two maids exchanged a look and smiled triumphantly.
A wild girl who grew up in the countryside, isn’t it easy to scare her?
Madam instructed them to scare her first, so that she would inevitably be uneasy after entering the eunuch’s mansion, and then take the opportunity to poison her to death.
At that time, they could say that she was so frightened and terrified that she couldn’t bear it and committed suicide by taking poison, and no one’s responsibility would be pursued.
Chu Zhiyi lowered her eyes to hide the smile in her eyes, as if she didn’t know Lan Huaiyu.
In her previous life as Yingfeng, she had worked with Lan Huaiyu for nearly half a year.
When the Yunu from the border invaded, she was the main general and he was the supervising officer. Although their positions were different at that time, they cooperated tacitly after a brief period of adjustment on the battlefield.
He seemed cold and cruel, but he was also truly righteous.
In several battles with the Yunu, the two worked together to determine the offensive and defensive strategies, and their ideas were sometimes surprisingly consistent.
He would even scold her after she single-handedly entered the enemy camp and cut off the dog’s head of the enemy general, because he was worried that she would lose her life if she was so reckless.
After capturing four cities, the Yunu raised a white flag and requested a truce. On the night before returning to the capital, the army celebrated with barbecue and drinks, and she and Lan Huaiyu got drunk and put their arms around each other’s shoulders, calling each other brothers.
But his temper was a bit…
After putting their arms around each other that night, he didn’t pay much attention to her, as if he was avoiding her.
After returning to the capital and entering the palace to meet the emperor, he was also cold and indifferent, as if he didn’t know her.
And because the Yingfeng General and her, the woman of Prince Fengshi, had a ‘scandal’, Yingfeng ‘had to’ leave the capital to guard the border, and Lan Huaiyu never saw Yingfeng again.
But later, when she met Lan Huaiyu at a palace banquet as Prince Fengshi’s woman, his eyes looked like they were hiding two sharp knives, as if he wanted to cut her into pieces.
But no matter how strange his temper was, Chu Zhiyi’s impression of him was more positive.
And she also knew a big secret about him.
Why would she be afraid of him?
After finishing her makeup, she covered her head with a red veil and went to the main hall to bid farewell to her parents.
Neither Chu Zheng nor Liu had the reluctance of normal parents marrying off their daughter.
One was calculating how to ask for benefits from the Empress and the eunuch to take his career a step higher, and when the concubine Wan Niang’s belly would move, his waist ached from plowing in the fields these past few nights.
One was distressed about the dowry, eighty-six sets each for two daughters, and her heart was bleeding.
The wedding procession arrived.
Chu Miaomiao was not marrying Fengshi as his first wife, so in the end she was just a concubine, and the procession was not too luxurious.
Lan Huaiyu’s side was a eunuch, using a procession for marrying a legal wife, but the overall atmosphere was strange.
The eldest son of Chu’s second uncle, Chu Zixing, ran to Chu Miaomiao under the signal of his parents and bent down, Eldest sister, your younger brother will carry you to the wedding sedan.
Chu’s third uncle and his wife timidly looked at the second brother and his wife, and pushed their weak eldest son, Chu Chengcai, to carry Chu Zhiyi.
Eldest sister, I’ll carry you.
Chu Zixing heard it and muttered disdainfully, What kind of eldest sister is she? A country bumpkin!
Chu Chengcai was thin, so Chu Zhiyi leaned on his back and also lifted her energy to reduce some of the burden on him.
The one who carried her in her previous life was also this young man. They basically didn’t interact and she didn’t know much about him, but she knew that he fell into a puddle in the city after getting drunk a month later and drowned.
After the new bride left the main hall, Jiang, the wife of Chu’s second uncle, ran to Liu.
Sister-in-law, don’t be too sad. It’s natural for a daughter to get married when she grows up. In the future, my Zixing will do his filial piety to elder brother and sister-in-law, and it’s not impossible to adopt him into your family. He will definitely be as filial as a biological son.
Liu only felt like her heart had been stabbed, and looking at Jiang’s smug look, she really wanted to tear her apart in the hall.
Chu Zheng was also unhappy, and he was even more certain that his family property was being coveted by his second and third younger brothers, and the abacus beads were hitting him in the face!
He couldn’t help but be anxious about when Wan Niang’s belly would move, and he would bring her home once she was pregnant.
Liu also carefully observed Chu Zheng’s face, and her heart skipped a beat. Had this old dog already gotten a bastard pregnant outside?
The new bride got into the wedding sedan, and the wedding processions set off separately.
The wedding sedan in the eunuch’s mansion was luxurious and formal, and Chu Miaomiao, sitting in the simple and narrow wedding sedan, was envious.
But when she thought that Chu Zhiyi was about to fall into a ghost cave, and her future was about to embark on the peak of her life, her envy instantly disappeared.
The eunuch’s mansion was as luxurious as the legends said, and Liu Mama and the four maids were wide-eyed.
Gold and silver jewelry were only worthy of being used as decorations for green plants, and even the stones under their feet were valuable.
There was no wedding ceremony, and the Heyuan courtyard prepared for the new madam was large and luxurious. The crystal beads could actually be polished so round and transparent, but they were carelessly made into curtains?
Too extravagant!
After sitting down on the big bed, Chu Zhiyi lifted the veil herself, watching Liu Mama and the two maids only staring at the furnishings in the room with glowing eyes.
Call Xiaochun and Xiaomei in.
Miss, they are rough maids and cannot serve you personally.
Call them in, don’t make me say it a third time.
The three of them exchanged a look and called Xiaochun and Xiaomei in.
First, she whispered to Xiaomei to tell Xiaoshun to find a place to hide, and then she told Liu Mama and the three of them to stand by the window.
Why is that? Liu Mama frowned, her breath already uneven.
Why? Just because I am your master. Go stand there, the three of you stand side by side and block the window.
The three of them were full of anger and silently cursed, reluctantly standing in front of the window.
They just happened to block the window, and when the assassins attacked, they could gloriously send the first wave of heads!