Chapter 43: No Face and No Skin
Wei Ji raised his eyes to look at her, fourteen-year-old Wei Min was really tender, you must know that Wei Min later, even if she was greatly wronged, she still had a relaxed expression in front of her, she used to admire her open-minded sister very much, so when she went on the eve of another expedition, her stepmother proposed to let her widowed sister enter the Langya Mansion to accompany and take care of Yajia for her, she did not hesitate and accepted it gladly.
"My sister's brain really understands, sister, my luck is so good. Wei Ji imitated Wei Min's sentence structure, and replied angrily that people were not worth their lives.
Wei Min's smooth little face twitched unnaturally a few times, and his big eyes, which were already a little red, gradually formed a layer of mist...... Well, looking at it this way, it's really pitiful!
I remember that in her previous life, one of her personal soldiers had mentioned to her that there were rumors in the market that her brother-in-law in the medicine jar died violently, but in fact, she was angry with her sister.
She hadn't heard of this, but she heard that the pro-soldier had secretly liked her sister, so she analyzed that it was probably the pro-soldier who couldn't ask for it, and then became resentful, and finally developed into malicious slander, so she beat the pro-soldier out with a mess!
But looking at Wei Min's appearance, who would believe that kind of rumor?
Her stepmother glanced at her father, and she said, "Ge, how can you talk to your sister!"
Without waiting for Wei Ji to respond, Wei Min suddenly burst into tears, then covered his face with his hands, turned around and staggered out...... Well, if you want to make people feel distressed, you will feel as much distress as you want!
Wei Ji watched Wei Min leave coldly, turned back to Wei Yi and said, "Father, I'm really sorry, I broke your own daughter's heart." β
Hearing her words, Wei Yi was stunned for a moment, then his face turned red, and he covered his lips with his fist and coughed lightly: "You kid really can't speak, and you're about to become a princess, how can it be good to go on like this?" and muttered in a very low voice: "It's also brought up by Aunt Lan, why is the gap so big?"
Wei Jian didn't hear her father's words, and smiled heartlessly, yes, she and her mother were brought up by her aunt, if you don't go through this experience again, there is not much difference in life circumstances - receive the same education, do the same stupid things, and get the same fate......
Her stepmother rubbed her temples with a towel on her fingers, and said tiredly: "Okay Bojian, don't blindly complain about the child, after all, she grew up in the mountains, she has never seen much of the world, and she can't be blamed for acting unscrupulously!" Then he turned to Wei Ji and said lovingly: "Ge, your father is also worried about you, you will marry into the palace in a few days, you don't know how to please the world, it's just a matter of not being rude to speak, how can you not make your father worry that you will suffer in the future?" You go back first, and later I will ask Ruizhu to invite the palace people who taught your sister etiquette at the beginning, and you follow her to learn the rules first. "Bo Jian is her father's cousin.
Wei Jia nodded obediently.
Her stepmother glared at Aunt Fang, who was standing with her hands down: "It's like a piece of wood, haven't you seen Ju Ge holding such a big box?" It was rewarded by the eldest princess of Yangping, even if she was curious, as long as Wei Ge didn't take the initiative to show them, they wouldn't be able to ask too much - at least at this juncture, they couldn't.
Yu Jiang finally spoke, how dare Aunt Fang be stunned, and hurriedly took two steps forward to take the brocade box from Wei Yan's hand, trembling and holding it in her arms.
Wei Ji thanked her stepmother, covered her face with the crumpled flower cloth, turned and retreated, and Aunt Fang followed suit.
She walked a little slowly, and before she could step out of the door, she took a look at Ruizhu who came back with water, and took advantage of the gap between nodding to Ruizhu, and swept back from the corner of her eye, and sure enough, she saw her stepmother throw away the towel she had used to wipe after shaking her hand just now with a disgusted face.
Then, not long after she walked out of the room, she heard the sound of washing her hands and her stepmother whispering, "No, we have to find a way to ......."
yes, gotta figure figure it out!
Walking all the way back to the East Courtyard, the servants encountered on the way, ignoring her strange appearance, nodded their heads in unison, it was obvious - everyone had heard the rumors, well, the speed of transmission was amazing!
From afar, I saw my aunt, Yajia and Yudu, lined up, waiting at the door, stretching their necks and waiting for her to come back.
Finding her, the vigorous Yudu was the first to jump over, followed by the energetic Yajia, and finally the old aunt, but it was the aunt who spoke first: "How is it, didn't make the eldest princess and the prince embarrassed?" Then she found Aunt Fang who was following her, looking at the eye-catching big brocade box, and the aunt couldn't help asking, "What is that?"
Wei Ji lifted the brocade box: "This is the eldest princess's gift to me." β
After receiving this reply, the aunt breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems that the eldest princess is not surprised." Then he reached out to take the brocade box: "Give it to me." β
Aunt Fang smiled and said, "I'll send it to the girl." β
Seeing that Aunt Fang didn't want to let go, her aunt didn't insist anymore and let Aunt Fang enter the hospital.
Aunt Fang went straight to the guard's room, and according to the guard's instructions, she put the brocade box on her bookcase, but did not retire after putting it down, but lowered her hand to stand next to the bookcase with an expectant face.
Aunt still has a lot of questions to ask Wei Yan, Aunt Fang is here, how can it be as convenient as usual, so she didn't satisfy Aunt Fang's curiosity empathetically, but unceremoniously ordered the expulsion: "Aunt her, there's nothing important here, you go and get busy with yours." β
Aunt Fang still wanted to say something, but when she raised her eyes and saw Wei Yan's gloomy expression, she swallowed her saliva: "Girl, the old maid will step back, if you have any matter, just send someone to tell the old maid." β
Wei Jia nodded: "Well, you can go." β
Aunt Fang turned around three times at this time, and reluctantly left, her expression was almost as vivid as when Sima Run was leaving!
The aunt was also very curious about what the eldest princess of Yangping gave Wei Ji, but she was more concerned about Sima Run's attitude towards Wei Ji, so as soon as Aunt Fang left, she immediately took Wei Yan's pimple hand and asked: "I saw Shizi just now, how was it - he saw you like this, but did he show any dissatisfaction?"
Wei Jia tugged at the corners of his mouth, word by word: "He is very satisfied." β
The aunt approvingly: "I didn't judge people by their appearance, and they were as good as rumored." After praising it, he was a little skeptical, and looked at Wei Ji's expression: "Did the prince say anything?"
Wei Yan squeezed out a smile reluctantly: "He said that after I marry him, he will definitely listen to me, and he will definitely not make me unhappy." β
The aunt asked in disbelief: "Did His Royal Highness really say that?"
Wei Yan nodded heavily: "I really said it." β
So the aunt smiled: "Meeting before the big wedding is already very unorthodox, and you can't be allowed to go further, so those words were said by the prince in public, right?"
Wei Ji nodded: "Well, so many pairs of eyes staring, he actually said it without shame." β
The aunt blamed her: "How can you talk about this child, the prince said this in public, it is clearly so that everyone knows how much he likes you, you should feel honored, not to mention that this kind of guarantee should have been your promise to your husband, not what your husband said to you!" Although he blamed her, he still folded his hands while talking, and moved out of the old way: "Thank God, for giving my girl such a good husband!" Reading and reading, the old tears were rampant, and he choked up: "Shuang'er, you have a spirit in the sky, and you can also look at it......"
Her mother was born in August, and Xin Jin is frost, which is frost in small words.
Yajia took out a scarf, wiped her aunt's tears helplessly, and stammered comfortingly: "Auntie...... Good ...... Don't be sad ......"
Yudu, who had been neglected for a long time, also stepped forward and rubbed on his aunt's calf.
Wei Ji's hardened heart was soaked by her aunt's tears again, and she took a deep breath: "Auntie, let's not talk about that, come and see what the eldest princess gave me." As he spoke, he lifted the lid.
My aunt stretched out her head and looked at it, puzzled, "Why did I give you a set of drinking utensils?"
Although she also drinks, normally speaking, the meeting gift to the unmarried sister-in-law should be something of practical value to her daughter's family, right?
The brocade box contained a jade pot with six luminous cups.
Wei Ji reached out and picked one up and looked at the sunlight outside the windowβthis glow-in-the-dark cup was even better than the two she was taken to by Wang Xuan!
Look at each one to make sure that the six cups should come from the same piece of jade, one is already precious, and one set can definitely sell for a lot of money...... Well, if something goes wrong with Wang Xuan's side, as soon as the limelight passes, she will sell this set of wine utensils for a big house......
The fingertips inadvertently scraped the pattern on the jade pot, and suddenly felt a trace of strangeness, and hurriedly picked up the jade pot to check it in the sun.
"Ge, what's wrong?" the aunt couldn't help but ask out loud when she saw her expression.
"This jade pot and cup are not a set. Wei Jian concluded.
"Don't they all look the same?"
Wei Jian held the pot in one hand and the cup in the other, and compared them together: "Auntie, you see, there are some slight discrepancies between the patterns on the body of the pot and the wine glass, and it is difficult to find if you don't look carefully." "It stands to reason that the eldest princess of Yangping is cautious about giving away things, and this situation should not occur.
The aunt muttered: "Anyway, I can't see the old woman, what does it matter if it's a set or not!"
That's right, anyway, it doesn't affect their selling for a lot of money, so what's the point of whether it's the "original match"! Thinking about it like this, I don't bother to pay attention to them anymore, the flask and the glass are put back in, and the lid of the box is buttoned, and it is just left behind.
In the afternoon, Ruizhu was ordered to bring the palace people to teach the guards, and when he entered the door, he heard the following conversation:
"Auntie, why did you let our rice be cooked in advance?"
"In the morning, you said that you were going to eat cut bread and jump pills tonight, and at noon you said that you wanted to eat boiled rice and steamed fish tonight, and just now you were arguing about eating pork skin cake and corn porridge.