Chapter 122
To enter a Buddhist temple, isn’t that the same as becoming a monk?
Rong Xiangzhi no matter how reluctant she was, she did not dare to argue, for fear that Wen Zhongqing would get impatient and really repudiate her. She fell into Wen Zhongqing’s arms with some weakness, and said sadly: “My dear husband, I know that I am wrong.”
This matter was finally covered up and concealed, and the Duke and Duchess of England breathed a sigh of relief. Xiangzhi’s labor was still nine months away. As long as she behaved well during this period of time, when the baby was born, the mother and child would be together, and there might still be room for things to be turned around.
After Mr. and Mrs. Wen Zhongqing’s carriage leaves, the Duke of England comes and salutes Mr. and Mrs. Yu, “Thank you for saving the face of the Duke of England’s family.”
Rong Xiangmian looks at his father’s tired face and no longer straight back and cannot bear for him to worry about this anymore. Seeing that the storm had passed, Liu said, “Since this matter has been resolved, let’s put Laifu and Yiyun back, there are still big and small things to assign to them.”
Zhou Xian Yang smiled and said, “Mother-in-law, don’t worry, Laifu and Yiyun are capable and competent, Jing Yi Yuan is short of manpower, so I’ll borrow them for a while. When we return to the royal residence, we will naturally return them to the Duke of State’s residence.”
Xiangmian will understand, this witness must be held in their hands, otherwise let them go back, randomly out of an “accident”, is dead without proof. She immediately said: “Father and mother rest assured, we will not make things difficult for them, as usual, to give them a monthly payment.”
And touched a soft nail, Liu thought back to this day’s insults, the Yu Wang House of the carriage dead stare before returning to the house.
After entering the house, the Duke of State called Rong Xiang Gu and his wife to come: “Your wife is getting up in age, and her health is not very good, so you should take good care of yourself in the future. Let Xiang Gu’s daughter-in-law take care of the house’s trivial matters.”
Mr. and Mrs. Rong Xiang Gu cautiously glanced at their mother’s pale face and agreed.
The carriage stopped at the entrance of Jing Yi Yuan, and Zhou Xian Yang was the first to dismount, habitually walking to the carriage and reaching out to help Rong Xiang Gu down.
Her hand stopped in the air, and she was slow to move.
“Am I not even worthy of helping you off now?”
Looking at his hand with scars running through it, Rong Xiangshi said in a low voice, “Doing something outside for now, now that you’re back you don’t have to pretend to be any more gracious.”
Zhou Xian Yang raised his eyes slightly, his gentle eyes instantly becoming sharp. Without saying a word, he directly stepped forward and grabbed Rong Xiangshi’s calf.
“Alas. What are you doing?”
Rong Xiangmian rolled his eyes and was carried horizontally in his arms, heading straight for the garden.
The royal guards habitually avoided it, but the feathered guards did not have this self-consciousness, looking at Rong Xiangmian’s face was scarlet, and the weather was hot, she was even more annoyed, pushing Zhou Xian Yang: “Put me down! She pushed Zhou Xian Yang, “Put me down! We’ve already made up!”
Zhou Xian Yang traveled to Feng Ming Xuan and stopped, waiting for her to stand up, his eyes looked down at her and laughed: “So far away, it’s so hot, and you don’t serve tea when guests come, is this the Rong family’s way of hospitality for the fourth girl?”
“You also know that you are a guest, in the future Jing Yi Yuan is not a place where you can be reckless.” Rong Xiangyang frowned in displeasure.
Zhou Xian Yang restrained his smile and did not speak.
Rong Xiangmian still had someone serve her a chilled fruit drink, and personally brought it to him to thank him for helping her out at the State Duke’s Mansion, but also wanted to hurry him to finish it and send him off.
Zhou Xian Yang was slow and easy: “What are you thanking me for? This matter started because of me, I should be the one to clean it up.”
He then swept the table, “What? Jing Yi Yuan’s hospitality is so simple, not even a plate of fruit or pastries.”
Rong Xiangshi was impatient: “What exactly do you want to do? Just now, Qiong Hua Road could have parted ways to go back to Yuhuang Mansion, why did you follow me?”
“Have you forgotten? The Empress Dowager and the Emperor both said yesterday that they wanted to reward the Yü Wang Mansion for their hard work in receiving the driver. I have to wait here for the palace’s inner official who will announce the decree to come before I leave, otherwise it would seem like a great disrespect.”
After being busy for half a day, she did forget about this. Rong Xiangxian nodded, “Alright, come on, serve King Yu well.”
Saying this, he led his maid back to his island.
Seeing Feiyun Feixue welcoming her, she hurriedly told them to prepare some ointment to remove blood stasis, and give Linlang and Zhenru medicine.
Meng Zhenru originally thought that she would be reprimanded when she returned to the mansion, but she didn’t realize that the crown princess was concerned about her injuries first, so she immediately knelt down, “The first time I went out with the crown princess I caused such a big trouble, so I ask that the crown princess be reprimanded.”
Xiangmian signaled her to get up, “You are also innocently implicated, the third sister is angry with me but not good to attack, only to charge you to vent their anger, it is you who are aggrieved.”
“Wangfei stood up for slave girl, slave girl is not aggrieved.”
Rong Xiangmian frowned: “There’s no need to address me as wangfei in the future. He and I have already made peace and are just waiting to pick a suitable opportunity to inform the palace.”
Zhenru froze, “Then, the slave girl will be called ‘girl’ just like sister Linlang.”
“Hmm,” Rong Xiangmian thought for a moment, “By the way, when the weather cools down a bit, I’ll go out and look at the house. Once summer is over, I won’t live in Jing Yi Yuan. The three of them will definitely follow me, what about you? You’re a member of the Yuhang Mansion, will you follow him or me?”
Meng Zhenru immediately knelt down again, “The slave girl has been loyal to the girl all her life, naturally she will follow the girl!”
Rong Xiangmian laughed lightly, “Loyal to me, in the future don’t go to the Yu Wang Mansion to deliver messages.”
Steeply being poked and prodded in her small mind, Zhen Ru was momentarily speechless, Lin Lang was busy saying at the side: “Today it was me who asked her to go and pass on the message. This is something that can’t be faced by the girl alone, if the girl is angry, she should chastise me first.”
Rong Xiangmian sighed, she knew that they were also thinking of her. Only saying that it would not be repeated next time.
The palace officials soon arrived at Jing Yi Yuan, Rong Xiang See immediately went there, and Zhou Xian Yang led all the people in the garden to thank the grace together.
They discuss how all the rewards will be converted into cash and distributed to the people in the garden, with the Yü Wang family adding another reward, which naturally makes the guards and their subordinates happy.
Zhou Xian Yang leaves the rewards to Rong Xiang Xiang, so that she can give them away. He also picked up a brocade box, “You can keep this pair of night pearl, the light is soft and does not affect your sleep, but it can also illuminate. If you wake up with nightmares at night, you won’t be so scared.”
Rong Xiangshi received the brocade box containing the night pearl and lowered her head and hmmm’d.
With her being so cold, Zhou Xian Yang also felt that it would be boring to die here, so he called Xiao Bei and prepared to leave.
Rong Xiangyang suddenly called out to him, “I’m going to find some houses and move there in the fall. But my dowry is still in the royal residence, so I need to send a few people over to get it from you.”
Zhou Xian Yang’s eyebrows jumped, and he couldn’t hide the shifting emotions on that handsome face, but in the end, he still stabilized himself and said without moving, “No need to bother, I’ll have someone send it over before nightfall.”
Rong Xiangshi added, “And my Konghou and Fubao!”
Zhou Xian Yang took a deep breath, “The blessing bag was your mother’s birthday gift to me back then.”
“But that’s all my mother left behind, can’t you let me have it?”
Zhou Xian Yang’s veins popped on his forehead and he sighed silently, “Fine, I’ll send it to you all together. Besides your dowry, your mother’s things, what else do you want?”
Rong Xiangshi shook his head, “Everything else is outside the body, I don’t want it.”
“You really don’t want any of it?” Zhou Xian Yang asked one more question.
Rong Xiangmi thought he was confirming, and nodded his head heavily, “Well, if you use it, you can keep it, but if you don’t use it, you can throw it away or give it to someone else.”
Zhou Xian Yang looked at Rong Xiang Mi as if he was incredulous, and a few words popped out of his mouth, “Do you think it’s possible for me to lose your things or give them to someone else?”
Rong Xiangxian said it casually, and looking at him like that, he knew that he had made him angry.
“I didn’t mean that, wasn’t I afraid of inconveniencing you? No, I will bring people to move them all back?” As Rong Xiangmian explained, Zhou Xian Yang turned around, “That’s just it, I know what to do with it myself.”
When he looked back again, he had already gotten on his horse and ran away.
At dusk, a few large boxes from the Yuhang Mansion came into the Jing Yi Yuan, only they were not sent by messenger, it was Zhou Xian Yang himself who brought people to transport them and put them in the Kun Yu Xuan.
“Houses in Jinling are not cheap, take your time to look around.” Zhou Xian Yang said and left the key, and also instructed Xiao Nan to take good care of the fourth girl, especially to look at the house to deal with people, it is inevitable to come across the things of the skin, and asked her to pay attention.
Rong Xiang See silently opens the box at the side, only taking out the small box of dowry that he brought to Yuhuangfu, the rest of Yuhuangfu’s industrial documents, gold, silver and jade, none of them have been touched.
“The rest you take back. Previously, I used the money from the royal family to buy a few plots of land outside the capital, and the deeds are here, so I’m afraid that you won’t know about it and it’ll be wasted for nothing.”
When Zhou Xian Yang saw her holding the small box with a finished look, he suddenly couldn’t hold himself together any longer and asked aloud, “Is it necessary for you to calculate so clearly with me?”
Rong Xiangshi was a bit strange, “Since we are divorcing, naturally the family property will be divided.”
“It’s not up to you alone to decide how to divide the family property. These are for you, I don’t want them.”
Zhou Xian Yang put down his words and left the door ahead of him, Rong Xiang Xiang shouted after him, “Don’t get carried away, even if you’re a nobleman, it’s hard to get around without silver. There are so many people up and down the Yuhang Mansion, don’t they eat?”
“I’ll go back and dismiss everyone. What’s the point of having so many people when you’re all alone?” Zhou Xian Yang turned back around, his expression in disbelief.
Rong Xiangyang saw that he was making a scene, like a child, and exasperatedly said, “If you’re like this, in the future, when the new Wangfei enters the palace, are you going to live off of other people’s dowries, and eat a soft meal? It’s better to carry it back!”
Now, Zhou Xian Yang was even more furious, his jaw tightened, trying to restrain his anger, he instructed Xiao Bei: “Tell the people of Jing Yi Yuan, whoever dares to carry the box back, I’ll let him have a life to go, no life to return!”
But his harsh words were useless to Rong Xiangmian, she didn’t bother to talk to him, and immediately instructed the maidservant, “Count and register all the things, and then seal the Kun Yu Xuan, and have it guarded by special people, and wait until His Highness Yulin gets married one day, and then send these as a congratulatory gift directly to him. I don’t believe that he will still dare to kill the person who sends the congratulatory gift at that time.”
After saying this, Zhou Xian Yang was furious and laughed.
He paced in place for a few steps, pursing his lips and staring at Rong Xiangmian for a long time, wanting to ask what her heart was made of and why she was so good at precisely pissing him off.
That was when he suddenly realized why he always felt that she was different today. Today, she wore her boudoir hair style, the same as when she was at the City Hall and the Polo Grounds.
She had really been holding back and wanting to make peace for a long time.
He was suddenly deflated and smiled coldly with downcast eyes, ”You won’t have the chance to send a congratulatory gift. If you really want to send it, just wait until you’re mourning me.”
Said, flung away the hem, striding away.
“What kind of person is this …… Anything can be said!” Rong Xiangxian was not in a good mood and twisted his body to walk away as well.
Lin Lang and Meng Zhenru were on the sidelines, crying and laughing.
Glancing at Xiao Nan again, she rolled her eyes, “There’s actually someone who doesn’t want more money! Don’t give it to me!”