Chapter 33: The First Time I Saw Him

After returning from the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, the backyard of the Shen family was very lively for a while, and everyone was talking about what happened at the Lantern Festival, talking about the excitement and harvest. Sure enough, as Shen Wan said to herself, the lanterns she made herself compared to the lanterns on Xianghe Street. Shen Ning had to sigh again at Shen Wan's craftsmanship, she ingeniously divided the lantern into two layers, the inside is a lamp gall, and the outside is a layer of fine yarn, I don't know how she did it, the lamp will also rotate, the palace characters depicted on it are all flowing, as if I also saw butterflies vibrating their wings among the flowers, this is really amazing, no wonder the girls on the street are staring at her lanterns with envy and jealousy.

Shen Mi also harvested a lot of hairpins and rouge and other items from her daughter's family, which were given to her by the merchant for free, all because of her guessing skills, which was really shocking. On the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, the government and merchants have set up a lot of riddle lantern sheds, which is also a consistent tradition of Jingzhao, if you guess right, there will be a lot of gifts. Shen Mi usually doesn't have any hobbies and skills, so she reads, paints and embroiders. This riddle is useful since it is read in the book, and because of this, Shen Ning discovered that this taciturn sister actually has a smart mind, and no matter how difficult the riddle is, she can quickly guess it.

Aunt Li laughed and had a little pride, and Shen Hu directly praised this niece for her ability - because of this ability, their female dependents have gained a lot, and even Shen Yu also got a peony beaded blonde hairpin from Shen Mi.

With this excitement, it didn't take long for it to reach the twentieth day of the first month. The wedding of the second prince is a major event in the court, needless to say about Shen Huashan, Shen Zejing and other men, Shen Yu's and Shen An's all cheered up and took Shen Ning to participate in the wedding of the second prince.

Shen Ning and Chen Wanrou knew each other because of the incident at the Flower Dynasty Festival last year, but they were not very familiar with each other, and the Shen and Chen families did not have any extra friendship. Before the wedding, Shen Ning did not go to add makeup to Shen Wanrou, but I heard that there were many people who went to the Chen family to add makeup, not counting the bride price of the young eunuch, and the Chen family's dowry was full of seventy-two, which envied the Jingzhao girl, and it can also be seen that the royal family and the Chen family attach great importance to the wedding.

The wedding of the second prince is very grand, strictly speaking, this is the most grand wedding so far except for the Changtai Dynasty, except for the emperor's wedding. In the early years, when the prince got married, he was sick and weak, and for the sake of the prince's body, he didn't have much to feast guests, and the princess's father, Wu Chaoneng, was only a nobleman in the court and had no real power, so naturally he couldn't be compared with Chen Zhihao, the current secretary of the military department.

Not only the Shen family, but also the rest of the officials' families are also very cautious, and many people have to attend the wedding banquets in the Second Prince's Mansion and the Chen family, and they are also extremely busy. Carefully speaking, the ministers of the DPRK and China were all guests of the two families, so many officials went to the house of Chen Zhihao, the secretary of the Ministry of War, in the morning to drink the wedding wine of the Chen family's daughter, and went to the second prince's mansion in the evening to drink the wedding banquet of the second prince's wife. Shen Yu's family didn't have much friendship with Chen Lin and Chen Zhao's family, and because she was pregnant, so as not to bump into the joy, she didn't go to Chen's mansion, and the group went straight to the second prince's mansion.

The second prince located on Shifu Street has long been renovated. The cornices in front of the house, the trees in the courtyard are hung with red silk, and the precious spices specially prepared for the newlyweds are also burning with a curling fragrance, revealing the luxury and festivity of marriage inside and out, and the officials of Taichang Temple and Shaofu Supervisor act as the guide to welcome the ceremony, and the whole scene is festive and grand.

This is the first time Shen Ning has participated in a royal wedding, of course, he doesn't count that time. When the crown princess Wu got married, Shen Zejing was still in Fengnan County, and Shen Ning had never heard of it. When he arrived at the Second Prince's Mansion, when he saw the scene of the wedding arrangement, Shen Ning's eyes darkened, the prince had a certain etiquette system when he got married, and in her previous life, when she married Shangguan Changzhi, it was also a similar arrangement.

The auspicious clothes and ritual utensils that conform to the etiquette system, the bright red characters and the swaying red silk, set off the dazzling candlelight, entered Shen Ning's dim eyes. It turns out that all this is like this in the eyes of outsiders, such a dizzy fascination, what was her mood at the time? Nervous? I can't remember, I just remember that I seem to have drunk a lot of water, and Liu's mother stopped it......

Shen Ning followed Shen Yu and Shen An's family to meet the second prince's biological mother, Concubine De, and the emperor and queen were naturally in the palace; Then I went to the new house to meet the bride, and Gong Xinci, who was going to get married soon, also came to the wedding banquet, and Zheng Shaoyi, the youngest daughter of the Hubu Shangshu, has always been good friends with Chen Wanrou, and of course she also came. The new house was very lively, and Chen Wanrou's face was flushed and shy, which caused many people to joke. After a while, a female official came to invite everyone to leave the wedding room and go to the banquet place, saying that the banquet was about to begin.

The female official took Shen Yu's and Gong Xinci and his party to the hall where the banquet was held, and the hall in the wedding room was also not far away, and the group was in a hurry, and suddenly the female officer stopped, and bowed to the oncoming group, and when Shen Yu and the others saw the people who came, they also hurriedly saluted.

The group of people who met them, the crown prince and the princess at the head, followed by several princes who were not married, the fifth prince, the tenth prince, the twelfth prince and a few princesses, all of whom were descendants of royal nobles, seemed to be coming to see the younger brother and sister-in-law of the second princess.

That's it, Shen Ning saw Shangguan Changzhi. This is the first time she has seen him since she was reborn, and seeing him in the group is still as warm as ever, and his smile makes people feel close. With just one glance, Shen Ning was full of irrepressible hatred, wanting to rush forward and tear off that gentle face, wanting to rush forward and kill him and kill him......

She once loved him deeply, and once made a wish in front of the Buddha that life and death would accompany her and be as good as a mandarin duck every day, but he destroyed her Shen family, beat the child in her womb alive, and imprisoned her in the cold palace of Changchun for 17 years, and when she said goodbye, she found that she was only left with this monstrous hatred and resentment towards him, how could he be worthy of her!

Love wants to live, evil wants to die, the ancients are not wrong.

"This is the family of Shen Huashan, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, right? No need to be polite. The voice of the crown princess Wu reached Shen Ning's ears, and she realized where she was, so she had to hold her hands tightly until the palms of her hands were tingling and moist, suppressing the coldness and resentment around her, and turning to look at the crown prince and the crown princess.

The crown prince Shangguan Ruchu wore a crown of nine golden cicadas and three beams, and a silk robe showed that his face was unusually white, and his eyes were deep-set and his eyes were dull. This is clearly a long-term illness, and even the aura around the crown princess Wu who accompanied her was as dull as ash, without the slightest sense of nominal and honorable wealth, which seemed out of place in this festive scene.

Just glanced at it, Shen Ning lowered his head, and Shen Huashan's thoughts, in Shen Ning's mind, the prince and the princess are not to worry at all, the prince is weak, the princess has not come out for many years, and in the thirty-eighth year of Changtai, the prince and the princess also went, and the prince is not a climate at all, so Shangguan Changzhi will have a chance......

Shangguan Changzhi blinked, he also saw Shen Yu's family and a group of little girls, Gong Xinci he knew, he heard the introduction, the youngest girl was the Shen family, did he see it wrong? Why do you think that this little girl seems to have a deep hatred when she looks at him? He hadn't seen her, had he? After a closer look, I found that the little girl was standing there quietly, with a beautiful face, where did the hatred come from? He secretly laughed at himself, thinking that he had been thinking too much about the second child's marriage in the past few days, and he remembered the official positions of Shen Huashan and Shen Zejing.

Thinking of this, he showed an eager smile to Shen Yu and the others, and asked them if they had just seen the second emperor's sister-in-law, etc., the tone was gentle and warm, Shen Ning lowered his head until the crown prince and princess and his party walked away, and the expression on his face was also faint, thinking, I am still too weak, fortunately, it will not be common, otherwise I would not be able to hide it......

Shen Yu and the others soon came back from the wedding banquet of the second prince, the reason was that Shen Yu felt that the fetus was kicking hard, and also felt a little flustered, and was extremely nervous for a while, so he hurriedly returned to Jingtai Street and summoned the doctor to take a look, the Tao is that the pulse is peaceful and there is nothing wrong, it should be that the wedding banquet is lively and noisy, and the fetus will also be a little restless, and a few doses of nourishing and non-dry fetal medicine were prescribed, so that Shen Yu's peace of mind could recuperate, and he left.

Frightened by Shen Yu's family, Shen Ning didn't have time to think about how it felt to see Shangguan Changzhi, he was very worried about Shen Yu's family and the fetus, listened carefully to the doctor's words, and told Yu's mother to serve Shen Yu's family well, and then returned to Qingzhuju.

When Qiu Ge helped Shen Ning take off her coat, she heard Shen Ning exhale slightly in pain, and when she turned over Shen Ning's two palms, she was stunned: she saw that the two palms had eight and a half moon-shaped finger marks, extremely deep and deep, and the flesh in the palms was exposed, and there were a lot of blood stains that had congealed on them, and the two palms looked extremely hideous.

"Girl, this is ......" Qiu Ge trembled but couldn't finish a sentence, she didn't understand how Shen Ning got such a wound back, this deep scar, you have to clench your fists hard to form it, she doesn't understand this little master at all, although she has been by Shen Ning's side, she has more contact with things, and her vision and thinking are much broader, but Qiu Ge feels that she doesn't know more and more about Shen Ning, what happened to her, and now she has made this scar again......

"It's okay, it's okay, it'll be fine in two days......" Shen Ning hissed, she didn't think it at the time, but now it is starting to hurt Because of this pain, she saw that Shangguan Changzhi's hatred has also dissipated a lot, and there is a little regret in her heart, feeling that it is really not worth tossing her palm like this for that person. I saw him for the first time after being reborn, and after the resentment, there were only three words, yes, not worth it.

Fortunately, the scars look terrifying, and under Qiu Ge's care, they will be fine in a few days, leaving only a few white marks, and I believe that if the time is longer, they will disappear.