Chapter 41: The Storm at the Banquet
"It's rare for Miss Shen and Princess Zhaoyue to come, and there is nothing to entertain in the mansion, so why don't you pour wine and cloth dishes for the two of you."
Following Meng Jin's instructions, a woman holding a wine jug appeared next to Shen Ruowen, and as soon as she stretched out her hand to pour wine for Shen Ruowen, she keenly saw the scars hidden by the woman under her sleeves.
Turn your head and look at each other.
"Sister-in-law?"
Shen Ruowen only dared to call out after confirming it for a long time, because the woman in front of her with a haggard face and a withered description was really difficult to associate with the gentle and beautiful eldest sister-in-law in her memory.
"Concubine Zhang, I've seen Miss Shen."
The woman's eyes are hollow, and the movements of the salute are dull and wooden, what kind of torture can be experienced to make a woman like this.
"Yo, isn't this the former young lady of the Shen family? At the beginning, he abandoned the General's Mansion to climb the high branches, but now how did he fall to this step. ”
During the feast, the mean lady began to peel off the scars.
"Hired as a wife and a concubine, the young lady married into the Meng Mansion with a big belly, and the gap between the young lady of the dignified General's Mansion and the current concubine room in the Meng family is really big enough."
"Speaking of this past, it was less than a year and a half since the death of the eldest prince Shen, the young lady's vision is really accurate enough, and she has found a way back for herself in Rexiaoli..."
The lady who spoke suddenly didn't dare to continue, because she saw Shen Ruowen's gaze sweeping towards her, it was an expression that she had never had in her cognition, she wasn't sure what it was, but she knew very well that if she continued to talk about it, something would happen.
Shen Ruowen helped Zhang up, pinched her thin hand, and smiled: "How has the eldest sister-in-law been doing all these years?" ”
When she asked this sentence, her heart was sour, her eyes were swollen, and her throat seemed to be stuffed with a ball of cotton, and it was very uncomfortable to not get up or down.
Zhang's was surprised, she thought that she had made the Shen family lose face back then, and her mother-in-law was so angry that she died, according to Shen Ruowen's temperament, she must hate herself to death.
But now, she is asking herself how she is doing.
Where will it be good, maybe the current self has suffered the greatest retribution, after all, back then, he did not firmly guard the general's mansion that was about to sink, in the end, he took into account that he was still young, and obeyed the family's arrangement to marry into the Meng Mansion, this is a woman.
Her life is over, but the eldest lady in front of her is different, she will never accept her fate.
Even if the Shen family was worried about internal and external troubles back then, and all the huge general's mansions fell on her, but she carried it alone, and she came to this day with all kinds of difficulties, so that the Shen family not only did not fall, but was still the unsurpassable general's mansion.
Zhang's settled down, she knew what Meng's mother and daughter were calling her to do today, not just to embarrass her sister-in-law, and she didn't let them get their way.
"Miss Xie Shen cares, the concubine has been doing well over the years, and I thank you ladies for your trouble, but you are no different from the concubines, and you are not the same as the body of Pu Liu in the house, Miss Shen is the young master of the General's Mansion, the commander of the Northwest Army, and finally the phoenix that soars in the nine heavens!"
"Enough, what do you want to talk about on such an occasion! Something that can't be put on the table! ”
Mrs. Meng on the throne finally spoke, she didn't let this Zhang family come to praise Shen Ruowen.
Back then, it was Shen Ruowen's mother who went to the meeting in person, and the scene where the woman was so angry that she vomited blood hadn't been seen for a long time, and today it was good to let Shen Ruowen go crazy in front of the noble daughters of the family and lose her face, who knew that the half-dead Zhang family on weekdays would help her speak.
Zhang retreated according to his words, but before leaving, he nodded at Shen Ruowen, Shen Ruowen understood, it was encouragement and blessing.
"The little concubine is talking nonsense, don't take it to heart, Miss Shen, you too."
The general's wife, Zhuang, has a dignified and general appearance, and at first glance she occupies a considerable position among these women.
Immediately echoed and echoed again, to be honest, Zhang's words just now did hit their sore feet, even if they were prominent, they really couldn't compare with Shen Ruowen, who held military power and was in charge of a general's mansion.
Sending off the eldest sister-in-law, Shen Ruowen almost instantly turned back into the Shen family's straw bag that made countless people in the capital extremely disgusted, just now they made her feel unhappy, and she desperately wanted to vent at this time.
"Heh, it's really strange, the Meng family has always been from a scholarly family, martial arts and virtues, and his son doesn't feel shameless when he marries a married woman, but instead criticizes a weak woman, and now he is not ashamed but proud to show off."
His eyes swept back and forth between Meng Jin and Mrs. Meng a few times, and he sneered: "Mrs. General is really tolerant of all rivers and rivers, dignified and decent, but I don't know how Miss Shen, who is also from the Meng Mansion, has learned how well she has learned her virtues, don't be the same as your brother." ”
There was an uproar, an uproar.
Everyone didn't expect that this unlearned straw bag would say this about Meng Jin, but after carefully pondering the meaning of her words, a slap didn't make a sound, when the Zhang family was not chaste and married into the Meng family, but there was also half of Meng Feng's responsibility, and the Meng family didn't see how clean it was.
Now that Shen Ruowen has directly linked Meng Feng's actions with Meng Jin, this will inevitably make people question the family style of the Meng family.
The capital is not the only one of the Meng family, that is, among the ladies and ladies present, no matter how good they are on the surface, there are many arrogances in their hearts who are not used to the Meng family.
Especially Meng Jin, who has always regarded herself as a detached and talented woman, but the men in the capital eat her very much, and she has countless supporters, and is regarded as the first beauty of the Xuan Dynasty.
But after Shen Ruowen said this today, Meng Jin was appreciated by the supporters of the men in the capital, from another point of view, there was a problem with the family style, and he liked to attract bees and butterflies.
Shen Ruowen's knife pierced, many people think that God is cool!
In the silence of the audience, Meng Jin's good friend couldn't stand it anymore, and began to stand up and forcibly change the topic: "I heard that the marriage between Miss Shen and His Second Highness has been prepared in the Ministry of Rites, and I believe that you will not be able to eat at the same table with us in the near future." ”
Shen Ruowen looked at it, what a coincidence, isn't this Zhang Ying who danced at the palace banquet before and "accidentally" pushed herself off the high platform, she is the daughter of the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, and she has high credibility in saying this.
"Then what's the matter, this princess hasn't chosen a marriage partner yet, how could King Chen's marriage be decided so quickly."
Zhaoyue, who had been working hard next to her, couldn't sit still at first, she came to Xuanchao to make peace, and now the prince's future is uncertain, and there is only such a King Chen in the court who meets the requirements of An Yuguo.
Shen Ruowen pulled Zhaoyue to sit down, wiped her mouth, and smiled at Zhang Ying with a spring breeze on her face: "Last time, I heard that you were rewarded with two ear shaves by the queen's mother, what's the matter, this time you want to taste the concubine's mother?" ”
"You!"
It's okay not to mention it, as soon as she mentioned the last time she was framed by Shen Ruowen, Zhang Ying was angry, it was obvious that Shen Ruowen deliberately framed herself, and now she is embarrassed to take it out and say that she is holding back her anger today to settle the account.
"You yourself are making waves in the capital, stirring up gossip everywhere, and you don't let people talk about it?"
Shen Ruowen raised her eyebrows, looking at Miss Zhang, who was revealed after these few moves, it was really boring to quarrel with these people.
"Gossip this kind of thing, some can be transmitted, and some should be cautious, the prince's marriage is the government affairs of the DPRK and China, you will come as soon as you open your mouth, in addition to ruining my reputation, it will make it difficult for the concubine to do, and the Lord Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites is such a tutor?"
"You are an orphan girl who deserves to talk to us about tutoring, do you have a tutor? Oh, forgot, the Shen family is alone now, what are you...... Yes! Yes! ”
Zhang Ying, who was condescending and aggressive, suddenly covered her face and screamed, and the people who had been staring at this side didn't react to what was happening, only to see soup oozing from Zhang Ying's fingers covering her eyes, so she was not embarrassed.
The dishes in Shen Ruowen's hand were deducted casually at this time, and her eyebrows flowed: "It's just spicy soup, what's the call." ”
Hu spicy soup? That's it? Do you try it in your eyes?
Everyone hurts when they think about it, and at the same time, they are extremely glad that they didn't go out to talk too much just now, Shen Ruowen is like this, no matter where she goes, she can make you jump in a few moments.
Zhao Yue, who had been sitting next to her, was also dumbfounded, this Shen Ruowen didn't look back just now, just sat like this, raised her backhand, and splashed Zhang Ying's eyes with such precision with the spicy soup in the dish.
Tut-tut, this look is practiced.
Suddenly, there was a lot of work on the table, and Zhang Ying, who was spicy and her eyes were red, was appeased and left.
And at this time, the culprit, people directly used everyone's hands and feet as a background cloth, ate and drank, clapped their hands, and planned to leave.
Raising her slender jade hand to cover her nose and burping with satisfaction, Shen Ruowen stood up, and first came to the lady of the Meng family to salute and say hello, after all, this is a banquet for female dependents, or is she the leader.
"Thank you really for the general's wife today's hospitality, but after all, the sister-in-law is young and ignorant, which has disturbed the interest of the eldest lady, and the next time there is such a banquet, don't send invitations to the general's mansion, I am a thick-skinned person, and my mother's urgency is different, and it is not easy to be disgusted."
The general's wife of the Meng family, Zhuang, boasted of being from a famous family, and had always been a noble lady, but at this time, her face was a little unbearable, and the subtle twitching of the cheek muscles under the thick fat powder could be seen clearly, presumably clenching her back molars.
"Stop!"
Rao is as elegant as Zhuang's, and he can't hold back at this time, today's Shen Ruowen is really too deceitful, and the revenge that broke her son Meng Feng's tendon before has not had time to be avenged, and today she is so arrogant that she will do it in the General's Mansion in public!
Shen Ruowen, who was about to leave with her hands behind her back, suddenly became interested when she saw her appearance, and deliberately lowered her head and stepped forward to admire her angry pig liver.
"Ah, Madame, is this angry? Don't, in order to pull a large family in the General's Mansion over the years, I have fished in the pile of beggars in the three sects and nine streams, and this scene has not yet reached the point, you are angry like this, if you still play next time, I can't find a good scar to reveal. ”
What kind of person is this, Mrs. Zhuang only felt that she had met a hooligan ruffian, and all the words about women's etiquette, righteousness and shame did not work for her.
"Is the General's Mansion something you can step on if you want? What do you think, you are! ”
Almost gritting his teeth, the Zhuang family finally took out the momentum of the general's wife.
Shen Ruowen smiled at the sky, and when she lowered her head again, she also changed into the same tough posture, and her words were like ice: "Your Meng family is not easy to step on, my Shen family will be easy to step on?" If the Meng family wants to play, I, Shen Ruowen, will definitely accompany me to the end, so that you can all take a good look at what I am. ”
Arrogant, domineering, and unreasonable.
Everyone's concept of the eldest lady of the Shen family has been clearly consolidated again today.
On the carriage back, Zhaoyue found that Shen Ruowen was trembling, although she closed her eyes and closed her eyes, and looked like no one was allowed to enter, but her fists were always tightened, as if something was forcing her.
What kind of woman is this? For the first time, Zhaoyue saw such a suppressed forbearance in people other than her eldest sister.