Translator: Jalyss
Editor: Odyssey
Chapter 282 – My Son Has Facial Paralysis (part 13)
Therefore, Jiang Hewen took great pains to get the desserts. County Princess Wanyi only tasted a little of each, and said lightly, “It tastes good.”
Then, there was nothing.
Jiang Hewen’s eyes widened slightly. Was that all? This was obviously a gap between his expectations and reality! How much thought and money did he spend to find the master? Then, he spent a lot of money to invite the master to come and make these two boxes of snacks.
In the end, this light sentence was said?
Jiang Hewen didn’t expect County Princess Wanyi to be moved by these boxes of snacks and then fall in love with him. But at least, shouldn’t she be a little moved? But County Princess Wanyi looked like she was used to it.
Was she used to it? Jiang Hewen suddenly came to his senses. He was wrong. He shouldn’t treat County Princess Wanyi like an ordinary person! Ordinary women may be moved to tears because of this, but who was the county princess? She was from the imperial family! What hadn’t she seen? What kind of delicacies hadn’t she eaten? How many people were around her, racking their brains in order to try and make her smile? How could she be moved by such a trivial matter?
Jiang Hewen wanted to understand this. Although he was not reconciled, he was more excited. This was the real golden ticket!
Such a woman was worth conquering! As a man, the more one couldn’t get what one wanted, the more one would cherish it.
It just so happened that the pekinese raised by County Princess Wanyi ran over. Jiang Hewen simply threw the rest of the snacks on the ground. County Princess Wanyi stared at him. “What are you doing?!”
“Since these pastries can’t make County Princess smile, they should be given to the dog!” Jiang Hewen chuckled lightly.
“Who cares about those desserts? My household’s County Princess is distressed for the dog! Do you know what my household’s Baixue usually eats? You just gave him snacks? Besides, the ground is so dirty. My household’s Baixue eats off silver platters.” A maid quickly picked up the pekinese.
Jiang Hewen couldn’t keep his expression straight when the maid told him off like this. These maids were too disrespectful to him, the future county princess consort! Jiang Hewen looked at the County Princess Wanyi, wanting to see what the county princess would say.
Princess Wanyi didn’t even look at him. She just stared at the pekinese. “Quick, get some water to rinse its mouth. Then, let the veterinarian see it. Don’t let him get sick.”
Jiang Hewen was a little annoyed and angry. He stood up with a sigh. “County Princess!”
“Young Master Jiang should go back first! Yuning, send Young Master Jiang out,” County Princess Wanyi ordered without raising her eyes.
She knew that Jiang Hewen felt unhappy that she regarded Baixue more than him. But why would he dare to compare himself with Baixue. Was he even worthy? Hanwen gave her Baixue. When her son was not by her side, Baixue kept her company.
“Young Master Jiang, please come here!” a maid said to Jiang Hewen with a light smile.
Jiang Hewen knew that he had been rash. The county princess was not an ordinary woman. The relationship between them is that the county princess is on top and he is on the bottom. He should not be angry with the county princess.
But the county princess had already issued an expulsion order and it was not good for him to stay. He had to pretend to be calm. “County Princess should rest well. I will come back tomorrow.”
Princess Wanyi hummed and turned her head.
Seeing this, Jiang Hewen had no choice but to follow the maid out.
After Jiang Hewen left, County Princess Wanyi raised her head. No wonder the eldest princess wanted a divorce. This person was really a piece of work! This bitch was unreasonable!
“Go, call a few young masters here,” County Princess Wanyi ordered. Jiang Hewen must not be taking her seriously! She was a dignified county princess! He was just a man, and a cover. He dared to be angry with her? Tch! He was overreaching!
“Yes,” the maid replied.
Not long after, several handsome young men came in. All the maids serving in the house went out. After a while, there was laughter in the room. The servants serving in other courtyards had become accustomed to this, and no one cared.
Over there, Jiang Hewen was racking his brains, thinking how to get the county princess to smile. He didn’t know that his head was already covered with green clouds despite not being married yet. And even if he knew, so what? He didn’t dare to do anything. He was reluctant to give up this marriage that could make him soar!
Li Su also received the news.
Li Zhong frowned and said, “This county princess is really special! Good, very good! I heard that Jiang Hewen spent a lot of money to find the master, and he spent a lot of money to ask the master to come out again. In the end, it cost about tens of thousands of taels! In the end, those cakes were rejected by the person herself and instead eaten by a dog. This is because the Jiang family is not poor, so he can spend it like this.”
Li Su had a headache. “Uncle Zhong, didn’t you say it? Don’t provoke Prince Kang’s mansion and County Princess Wanyi. They are from the imperial family and the emperor relies heavily on Prince Kang’s mansion. Let’s try not to have any conflicts with them.”
“I didn’t provoke them. I just sent someone to tail Jiang Hewen. This is what the servants of Prince Kang’s mansion said.” Li Zhong looked innocent.
“That’s good. But Uncle Zhong, don’t deliberately send someone to stare at Jiang Hewen. There’s no need.”
“I didn’t deliberately send someone to stare at him. It just so happened to turn out like that.” Li Zhong laughed.
Li Su couldn’t think about it anymore. “Okay, Uncle Zhong, it’s fine as long as you know what you’re doing. If you have been sending people to stare at Jiang Hewen, maybe he thought I was obsessed with him! That would be disgusting.”
Li Zhong was just a straightforward person. He didn’t think in such a convoluted manner, so it was a little strange to hear Li Su say this. “Is that possible?” He looked at Wen Yu and Wen Mo.
The two nodded in succession.
Li Zhong suddenly had a disgusted expression on his face. “Damn it! Hurry up and tell them to come back quickly!”
Then, without waiting for Li Su to say anything, he quickly turned around and left.
Seeing this, Li Su smiled helplessly.
Wen Yu and Wen Mo also laughed. “Eldest Princess, what should be prepared for the young master today?”
“Yesterday’s squirrel fish was good. I heard that Mr. Xue also likes to eat it, so prepare more. Also, prepare a sweet and sour pork loin,” Li Su said after thinking about it for a while.
“I didn’t expect Mr. Xue to like sweets even when he is old!” Wen Mo said with a smile. She then went to the kitchen.
Li Su snickered to herself. It was not Mr. Xue, but Li Chen who liked sweets. However, although Li Chen was a small child, his thoughts were hidden deep and he never showed it. Now that he often considered himself a man, he was even more reluctant to let outsiders know that he liked sweets.
If it wasn’t for Li Su’s careful observation when she was having dinner with him, she really wouldn’t have figured it out. However, in order to maintain Li Chen’s self-esteem as a young man, Li Su acted as if she did not know, and only occasionally arranged a few sweets to satisfy him.
The first time Li Su and County Princess Wanyi met was in the empress dowager’s palace. Li Su went to the palace to greet the empress dowager and it so happened that the empress dowager had summoned County Princess Wanyi, so they bumped into each other.
When the empress dowager saw that Li Su was here, she wanted to save some face for Wanyi, so she stopped her admonishment. “Sit down. If you were half as sensible as Su Su, then We could rest assured. When We see your mother in the future, we will be able to explain things to her. For the sake of a man, you continue to waste yourself!”
County Princess Wanyi snorted. “She has never met someone like Hanwen. If she had, she may not be better than me. There are no rivers to one who has crossed the ocean, and no clouds to one who has passed Mount Wu1. How could she know such a feeling?”
When Li Su came in, she just heard the last sentence and said with a smile, “This poem is a good poem, but County Princess should know that Yuan Zhen wrote this poem when mourning for his deceased wife, Wei Cong. The year his wife died, he got together with Xue Tao. One year after Wei Cong’s death, Yuan Zhen remarried Concubine An Xian, and after Concubine An Xian died, Yuan Zhen married another wife. Yuan Zhen’s feelings are just self-deception!”
County Princess Wanyi looked at the empress dowager. Was that really true?
The empress dowager nodded and then said, “We asked you to read more books, but you didn’t listen. Shame on you!”
Li Su greeted the empress dowager with a smile, and the empress dowager asked for her to sit down.
County Princess Wanyi reluctantly gave Li Su a half salute. The other party was the empress dowager’s adopted daughter and her elder.
Li Su smiled and said, “Has County Princess read The Romance of the West Chamber?2 It is said that the prototype of Zhang Sheng in The Romance of the West Chamber is Yuan Zhen himself. It is also said that Cui Yingying is a real person, and her boudoir name is Shuangwen. However, unlike in The Romance of the West Chamber, the real Zhang Sheng abandoned Cui Yingying and married someone else in the end.”
This was the first time that County Princess Wanyi had heard of such a thing and she was dubious. “What is your intention by telling me this? Are you questioning my feelings for Hanwen?”
Li Su smiled. Wasn’t it just a question? In her words, she always expressed her deep love for Kong Hanwen, the consort who passed away early; however, she raised so many men, and spent time drinking and dreaming of death. Kong Hanwen’s tomb had long since become a green grassland.
But Li Su wouldn’t say it directly. “How could it be? I just heard the poem from County Princess. County Princess is worrying too much.”
County Princess Wanyi wanted to say more, but the empress dowager frowned. “Wanyi, Su Su is Our adopted daughter and the eldest princess appointed by His Majesty. She’s your aunt. Watch your etiquette!”
County Princess Wanyi glanced at Li Su angrily and stopped talking.
“Don’t be angry, Empress Dowager. I think Princess Wanyi is sincere and cute, and she is different from other people.” Li Su smiled.
In fact, she really didn’t like people like County Princess Wanyi. It wasn’t that she disliked County Princess Wanyi’s unrestrained nature, but she hated that she was doing such things while flaunting her affection. Was this what it meant to like someone? Was this what it meant to love someone? Don’t sully those words, okay?
Although Li Su didn’t believe that she would meet her true love, she believed that there was such a thing as true love. She felt that the behavior of County Princess Wanyi tarnished the words.
The empress dowager smiled and looked at Li Su. “How is Chen’er doing recently?”
“Chen’er has benefited a lot from following Mr. Xue. Now, he doesn’t always think about practicing martial arts.” Li Su pursed her lips and smiled.
“Mr. Xue is a great scholar in the world. It is a blessing for Chen’er to be personally taught by him. You must cherish it,” the empress dowager said with a smile.
“Yes.” Li Su smiled.
County Princess Wanyi remembered the fact that her father also intended to let his nephew study with Mr. Xue but had to discard this idea.
She was about to speak, but was stopped by the empress dowager’s eyes.
County Princess Wanyi was a little unhappy. The empress dowager really had a favourite!
When the empress dowager saw that County Princess Wanyi couldn’t understand what she meant, she felt a little helpless. This child…
1.(曾經滄海難為水，除卻巫山不是雲) Idiom: means that one who has seen the world doesn’t stop at small things. I didn’t convert this idiom to an English one so that Li Su’s response in the next paragraph makes sense.↩
2.(西廂記) The Romance of the West Chamber is a play that was written by Wang Shifu in the Yuan Dynasty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_of_the_Western_Chamber↩
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