Chapter 301: Being a Joke Again
Sister Tang reminded in a voice only He could hear, “Madam, please invite the lord into the house.”
He hurriedly said again, “Master, please come in.”
Zheng Ji walked into the hall room with a stiff upper lip and sat down at the eight-imperial table.
He sat on the other side.
Normally, He moved around in the bedroom and the side room, which had many charcoal pots, and the side room had a burnt kang. Even with the floor dragons burning, the hall room was still a bit cold.
Two maids brought in two charcoal pots, and two maids served tea. Sister Tang jogged to the kitchen in the backyard to see how the food and wine were prepared.
All the subordinates retired.
Only Zheng Ji and He were left in the room, He was nervous like a bride who was meeting her husband for the first time, her face was red, her hands tightly wringing her handkerchief, bowing her head and not daring to speak.
Her face is older and thinner than her peers, and the shy expression on her face is very out of place.
Zheng Ji seems to have been hit in the depths of his heart.
Zheng Ji was silent for a moment, and said in a harmonious voice, “It is not your fault that we have come this far, you have done a good job. Especially the teaching of Jing’er, he is very good. It’s my fault, I’ve wronged you.”
He’s tears flowed out and she hurriedly wiped them away with a handkerchief, “Master ……”
Zheng Ji added, “We are no longer young, and we have a son, there are some things …… we don’t want to think about. In addition to this matter, I promise that I will not apologize to you again, and I will not allow others to bully you. In the future, all the property in the mansion will be yours and Jing’er’s, and you will be rich and prosperous for the rest of your life, doing whatever you want to do.”
He wanted to give this woman a good life, there was only so much he could give. And what she wanted, he could never give.
He understood, Zheng Ji still meant that there would be no more conjugal love between them.
Then what is he doing here?
He squeezed the pad in her hand and asked, “What exactly does the master want to say?”
The voice was much colder.
Zheng Ji said, “At the end of last year, you sent someone to the Greenstone Nunnery to find old nun Wusi?”
He was shocked, it seemed like Zheng Ji knew everything. No wonder he suddenly came here, he came for the other two women, but not for himself.
She was furious and said coldly, “That’s right, I was the one who sent people to find Wusi. It was only after I went there that I realized that not only is His Lordship not cold, but he is also a sentimental person.”
Zheng Ji’s old face reddened as he cleared his throat and said, “I’ve already had people deal with Wusi. That old woman, who has left the house and still dares to chew on words and tarnish people’s reputation. There is also the Tang granny you sent, speak without moral character, dare to be reckless again also can not be left. This matter ends here, don’t spread it out ……”
He was so angry that her blood surged upwards, and said in a deep voice, “Wusi isn’t chewing her tongue, and Granny Tang didn’t speak unethically, it was originally that woman who was indiscreet and lost her virginity before marriage. There is even worse, she actually brought someone else’s child to marry another man ……”
“Enough!” Zheng Ji drank, thinking of his purpose of coming here, his voice lowered, permeated with coldness. “The dead are great, don’t talk about her like that.”
He’s eyes were bubbling with anger, “If you don’t talk about her, why did master come to my place? Oh, master wants to talk about your illegitimate daughter. It seems that you’ve already privately recognized each other, and master condescends to come here because he wants me to recognize her as my goddaughter, right?
“In this way, she can live in the Yichang Eldest Princess’s residence in name only, calling your father, the Eldest Princess’s grandmother, and her father-in-law’s grandfather. She will become a daughter of the Zheng family, but she won’t have to bear the title of illegitimate daughter. Master, am I that good to be bullied, being bullied by you all my life, and now letting an illegitimate daughter disgust me?”
The last sentence was squeezed out from between her teeth. She wanted to yell even more, but she had never yelled before when she was growing up.
She guessed that Jiang must have heard about that secret and met Zheng Ji in private. But the reputation of illegitimate daughters was bad, and Zheng Ji had lowered his profile to come to her today to give Jiang a good birth.
They mother and daughter had harmed their own lives, so why should they help her!
Then think of the bustle in this courtyard just now, the excitement of the underlings, and her own petulance …… He was so incomparably ashamed that she couldn t wait to burrow into the ground.
He himself has been a joke once again!
Zheng Ji froze, he did not expect He to actually think this way.
Zheng Ji mockingly pulled the corner of his mouth and said, ”On the contrary, Shiji doesn’t want to recognize me at all. She asked Resignation Mo to tell me that her adoptive father treated her like his own, and that she only has Jiang Chen as a father. She also said that Mingya also left this last wish before she died, that Shiji would always be Jiang Chen’s own daughter. So, nothing like what you said will happen, your worries are superfluous.”
The two titles “Mingya” and “Shiji” seriously irritated He again, she didn’t listen to anything else, but found these two names harsh to the ears.
He is her husband, married for so many years, has never called himself face to face, let alone call her by her maiden name. In front of others, her title was always “He”.
He pursed her thin lips stubbornly, her hands shaking as she twisted her handkerchief.
“It’s none of my business whose daughter she wants to be if she doesn’t identify herself with the master. Master didn’t come here just to tell me about this.”
Zheng Ji said, “There is not a single thing wrong with Shyi in that matter. You should not blame her, and even more so, you should not do anything that is unfavorable to her. I won’t allow it, and neither will the Cheng Guo Gongfu. You will leave each other alone, and each of you will be at peace ……”
He forbade He to touch Shiji, not only to protect Shiji, but also to protect He. What kind of people are Meng Elder Duke and Meng Ruimo, as long as He dares to make a move, he won’t be able to get well.
He’s tears overflowed her eyes again, ”Oh, the master came here, so he was afraid that I would be unfavorable to her and came to threaten me. Zheng Ji, I’m your rightful wife, why do you only remember that woman and her daughter’s goodness and turn a blind eye to mine?”
After saying this, she covered her face with a handkerchief and burst into tears. Afraid of being heard, the whimpering that she tried her best to suppress was exceptionally terrifying.
Zheng Ji’s heart was not good either. The woman in front of him gave him a good son, for more than ten years to filial piety on his behalf of his parents, he hoped that she could be good for years, he wanted to give him everything except feelings. But apparently, she wanted more. And he, was unable to give it.
When that crying sound is smaller, Zheng Ji added, “I heard that He Min is good in all aspects, only because of the title of the same scholar’s career is not good. And He Fei, all day doing nothing is not a solution. I’m going to the palace tomorrow to say goodbye to the emperor and will talk to him about family matters. If there are difficulties at home, it’s not safe to guard the border.”
He Min was the second nephew of He’s mother’s family, and was the only one of the He family’s generation to have a merit. But because he was a fellow scholar, it wasn’t easy to have a good future. He Fei is one of He’s favorite nephews, the literature is not good, Zheng Song arranged into the military camp he is too bitter, the eldest princess helped to get a small official, after making mistakes were thrown out.
The Grand Princess’s residence and Zheng Jing do not need He to worry about anything, she is worried about her mother’s family.
Zheng Ji was trying to exchange the prospects of He’s maternal family for Jiang Yishi’s peace of mind, as well as make He feel comfortable. In addition, he would keep a close friend who had followed him for years in the residence.