Chapter 8: The Banquet
Shen Yushu's footsteps faltered, "Big sister, why is grandfather with you?" ”
Shen Qingshuang saw that the anxious look on his face had faded slightly, and he understood that he must not be able to find Old Marquis Shen's urgency.
She told the old Marquis Shen about running to her yard to watch the rabbits.
Old Marquis Shen didn't know anyone when he was sick, and his personality was a bit like a child.
At this time, Old Madam Shen and Mrs. Shen also heard the movement and ran out.
Seeing that Old Marquis Shen was very well-behaved standing beside Shen Qingshuang, both of them couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Old Madam Shen looked at Shen Qingshuang, moved her lips and wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't speak.
Shen Qingshuang asked Mrs. Shen to go back to her yard.
"Shiso, you go to the pharmacy and buy the medicinal herbs written on it."
Shisu took the paper and didn't ask much, so he respectfully agreed.
Shen Qingshuang was very satisfied with this, and Mrs. Shen was still very good at training people.
After Zi Su bought the medicinal herbs back, Shen Qingshuang took the medicinal herbs and locked herself in the room.
It wasn't until late evening that she finally came out of her room.
Seeing this, Xiang Zhi and Shiso immediately put down their work and greeted them.
"Miss, Madame just sent someone to ask Miss if she is going to the main hall for dinner."
At noon, Shen Qingshuang was busy making medicines, and she didn't go out of the room, but only ate a few snacks in her room.
Old Madam Shen and Shen Qingyan wished that she would not appear in front of everyone, so naturally they would not dislike her for not going to eat.
Shen Qingshuang nodded, "Let's go." ”
As soon as I walked halfway, I saw a sneaky figure at the corner of the rockery in front of me.
Shen Qingshuang's apricot eyes narrowed, and she made a silent gesture towards Xiangzhi and Zisu.
Then he walked lightly towards the figure.
Xiang Zhi and Shisu looked at her with some concern, and called out silently with worried faces, "Miss." ”
Shen Qingshuang ignored the two, the more she looked, the more she felt that the sneaky figure was a little familiar.
It seems to be the old marquis Shen......
In order to hide from his subordinates, Old Marquis Shen squatted here in the rockery for a long time, and his legs were numb.
As soon as he stood up and moved his legs and feet, as soon as he turned his head, he saw Shen Qingshuang walking towards him.
Old Marquis Shen was taken aback and couldn't help but take two steps back.
Shen Qingshuang saw that he looked at him with a strange look, and knew that he had forgotten about himself again.
"Grandfather, do you want to eat sugar?" Shen Qingshuang took out the medicine she had made today and shook it at Old Marquis Shen.
"Sugar?" Old Marquis Shen walked towards Shen Qingshuang suspiciously, looking at the pill in her hand with a strong medicinal fragrance full of curiosity.
Shen Qingshuang nodded and handed him the pill, "You swallow it in your mouth." ”
Old Marquis Shen obediently did so.
Watching Old Marquis Shen eat the pill, Shen Qingshuang took him to the main hall.
When the meal was approaching, Old Marquis Shen ran away again, and Old Madam Shen and the others suddenly lost the mood to eat.
When Shen Qingshuang walked into the main hall with Old Marquis Shen, everyone was stunned.
The corners of Old Madam Shen's old lips couldn't help twitching twice, "Did your grandfather run to your yard again?" ”
Shen Qingshuang shook her head, "I saw my grandfather at the rockery, so I brought him over." ”
Everyone was taken aback, and they were relieved to see that the old marquis was not injured.
……
Shen Qingshuang would give Old Marquis Shen a medicine she made every day.
In the blink of an eye, it was the day of the banquet.
Mrs. Shen invited many nobles from the capital.
Shen Qingshuang also got up early in the morning to dress up.
Today, after all, she is the protagonist, so Xiang Zhi and Shiso dress her up more solemnly.
"Miss, you are so beautiful!"
Xiang Zhi and Zi Su looked at Shen Qingshuang, who was dressed up, and said with amazed eyes.
"Frost, have you done your makeup?" Mrs. Shen's voice rang out from far and near.
"The guests are coming soon, you can go to the main courtyard with your mother."
Shen Qingshuang listened to Mrs. Shen's voice, and walked out of the room while responding.
Mrs. Shen looked at Shen Qingshuang who walked in front of her, and her eyes couldn't help but pass a touch of amazement.
Not long after Shen Qingshuang arrived at the main hall with Mrs. Shen, guests came one after another.
Everyone who saw it was amazed by Shen Qingshuang's beauty, and Shen Qingyan almost gritted his teeth with jealousy.
There are many noble ladies who are with Shen Qingyan who still know that Shen Qingyan is just the adopted daughter of the Shen family.
Some of them are more snobbish, and they are not as enthusiastic about Shen Qingyan as before.
Shen Qingyan is actually very inferior to his true identity, so his mind is also very sensitive.
Others just distanced themselves from her a little, and she felt it.
I was even more disgusted and jealous of Shen Qingshuang in my heart.
"Qingyan, listen to my mother, you and your sister swapped identities at the beginning." There was a girl who liked to inquire about things, so she began to gossip, "Why did you swap identities in the first place?" ”
This matter can actually be regarded as a secret of the Shen family.
Because Mrs. Shen is more superstitious, she is worried that this kind of thing will not spread well.
He ordered that no one should spread the word to the outside world.
But now that Shen Qingshuang is back and has held a banquet for her, this matter is not a secret.
Shen Qingyan's eyes flickered, and he sighed deliberately, arousing the curiosity of others, "I tell you, don't spread the word to the outside." ”
"Don't worry, don't worry, we'll just listen to it, and we won't spread it out."
"Actually, it's the eldest sister who is fateful, and she can't stay in the Shen family before the age of thirteen, otherwise she will kill the people of the Shen family, so my grandmother found a way to let her and I swap identities."
"Hit?" These four words can startle those noble girls.
Shen Qingyan nodded.
"Will she pay it back now?"
Shen Qingyan shook her head and lowered her voice mysteriously, "As soon as she came back, I had a red rash. Even my grandfather was sick......"
This means that Shen Qingshuang will infect her evil qi to the people around her.
In order to prove the credibility of his words, Shen Qingyan deliberately exposed his wrist, and there were traces of the rash on it.
"Oh my God!" The dense red rash marks on Shen Qingyan's arms were indeed terrifying, and those noble ladies couldn't help but cover their mouths and take a few steps back.
Mrs. Shen took Shen Qingshuang around, and after the introduction, she wanted to let Shen Qingshuang and the nobles in the capital get familiar with each other.
"Shuang'er, do you know all these ladies and ladies?"
Shen Qingshuang nodded, "I know them all." ”
"Okay, then the lady will go and greet these ladies, and you can also go and talk to those ladies."
Shen Qingshuang knew that Mrs. Shen was for her good, and wanted her to quickly integrate into the circle of the capital.
He nodded in response.
But before he could get to the nobles, he saw that they had fled as if they had seen a flood of beasts.