PDLP Chapter 232 Some are happy and some are sad
Chapter 232 Some are happy and some are sad
Seeing Lu Chenshuang's disbelief, Xiaoman quickly said, "Miss, it's true. I saw it with my own eyes."
Lu Chenshuang glanced at Xiaoman and asked with a smile: "Why, did you go to the Ji family again? Didn't they kick you out?"
No matter what, Lu Chenshuang is the former wife of Marquis Jingyang, and Xiaoman is Lu Chenshuang's personal maid. This is known to many people in the capital.
Now that Marquis Jingyang is going to marry a new wife, she, the personal maid of the former wife, ran to watch the fun. Anyone who watched would see it as a joke.
Xiaoman laughed and said, "The Ji family is in chaos, so how can they have time to take care of me and my servants?
You don’t know how ugly Mrs. Ji and Miss Ji’s faces were.
If I hadn’t been afraid of being beaten, I would have laughed out loud on the spot.”
Lu Chenshuang looked at Xiaoman's cunning appearance and smiled too.
She would not mock the girl from the Ji family, and of course she would not sympathize with her. This kind of marriage with a purpose was destined to come at a price.
Lu Chenshuang had already heard from Mu Hansu that the marriage between the Ji and Jing families might not be that simple.
But she never expected that Jingyang Marquis's Mansion would tamper with the betrothal gifts, and she didn't know whose idea it was.
Based on her understanding of the people in Jingyang Marquis' Mansion, it was most likely done by the Madam Dowager, because she has always been a short-sighted person.
But these have nothing to do with Lu Chenshuang.
She also has a headache now. Lin has been forcing her to embroider her wedding dress these past two days.
Lu Chenshuang's proposal was a perfect success, but the Ji family and the Jingyang Marquis' Mansion were on the verge of a catastrophe.
Let’s talk about the Ji family first. Miss Ji was humiliated by the Jingyang Marquis’s Mansion in public. She immediately lost face and went back to her room.
Lord Ji and Madam Ji also forced themselves to see off the guests who came to congratulate them.
After everyone left, Madam Ji started fighting with Lord Ji. Madam Ji had never agreed with her daughter marrying Jing Zhaoyan. After all, Jing Zhaoyan's reputation had already been ruined when he had an affair with Liu Anran without a matchmaker.
But Ji Xiangping insisted on marrying into the Jingyang Marquis's family.
Finally, Miss Ji nodded herself, and Mrs. Ji gave up.
But Mrs. Ji never expected that the Jingyang Marquis's Mansion would be so excessive.
It would have been fine if she just had to carry those broken boxes, but they were actually filled with stones. How could she go out and meet people in the future? She would be laughed at to death by those ladies who were at odds with her.
Lord Ji also had his own difficulties. He didn't want to get married, but he had no choice.
Now that things have come to this, he has no choice but to go all the way.
Besides, my daughter's appearance is hard to describe. If she had one-third of the beauty of her younger sisters, she would not be still unmarried.
No matter how much of a jerk Jing Zhaoyan is, at least he's good-looking. There's nothing to complain about his appearance.
Seeing that Lord Ji refused to give in no matter how much she made a fuss, Mrs. Ji got so angry that she scratched Lord Ji's face.
Lord Ji was also angry. This incident was embarrassing enough in itself, and now that his face was scratched, how could he attend court and meet his colleagues?
So in anger he fought back and beat Mrs. Ji, then stormed out.
Just when Madam Ji was in unbearable pain, a servant came to report that Miss Ji had hanged herself, which immediately frightened Madam Ji to death.
She ignored the pain in her body and hurried to Miss Ji's yard.
Fortunately, she was discovered in time and Miss Ji was rescued.
Mrs. Ji looked at the marks on Miss Ji's neck, hugged her and burst into tears out of heartache.
Miss Ji looked more like a man with her numb expression.
She looked like Ji Xiangping, with a big square face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and her figure was more sturdy than that of the average girl.
If this appearance were on a man, it could be considered handsome, but it would be a bit out of place on a woman.
Mrs. Ji cried enough and hugged Miss Ji and said, "You are trying to kill me.
If you don't want to get married, I will find a way, even if it means risking my life."
Miss Ji then took a closer look at Madam Ji and found a black bruise at the corner of her mouth, and knew that she had had a conflict with Lord Ji.
She suppressed her sadness and said, "Mom, please don't have conflicts with Dad because of me anymore, I will get married.
I agreed to this marriage myself, so I will accept it no matter what it takes."
At the beginning, Lord Ji did seek Miss Ji's opinion on this marriage.
However, Master Ji's words were very suggestive, saying that Jing Zhaoyan and Lu Chenshuang divorced because Lu Chenshuang was jealous and could not tolerate a concubine. He also relied on his merits in treating the Queen Mother's eye disease to ask for a divorce letter.
He also said that a woman like Lu Chenshuang, who had no talent, no looks and was jealous, was destined to remain unmarried for the rest of her life, and asked Miss Ji not to learn from her.
Miss Ji is indeed inferior about her appearance, so she doesn't like to go out very often.
Therefore, she believed everything Lord Ji said without a doubt, and she was indeed moved when she saw Jing Zhaoyan's portrait.
She thought she could handle the mess in Jingyang Marquis' Mansion.
But I didn't expect that she couldn't bear just the offer.
She really didn't expect that the people in Jingyang Marquis' Mansion would be so dishonest, but what else could she do now that things had come to this?
She didn't know who to blame.
At the same time, the atmosphere in Jingyang Marquis Mansion was not much better.
Jing Zhaoyan lost face in the Ji family today. When he returned home, he went straight to the lady's Ci'an Hall.
Liu Anran and Haiyue were accompanying the lady.
However, both of them did not look very good. It was understandable that the men they liked were getting engaged, but unfortunately the bride was not them. It would be strange for them to be happy.
The lady was also very worried. Ever since Lu Chenshuang and Jing Zhaoyan divorced, life in the Jingyang Marquis' Mansion had become even more difficult.
He always asks for money, and the family has no income, so it is really stretching to make ends meet relying solely on Jing Zhaoyan's salary.
Moreover, the lady's family members would come to ask for money from time to time.
She really couldn't come up with a decent betrothal gift, but in order to look good, she made up her mind and put a few large stones in the box containing the betrothal gift.
She didn't know if she would be discovered, so she prayed that she would not be discovered.
The mother-in-law, daughter-in-law and three others had different thoughts, so it was surprisingly quiet.
But this silence was broken by the angry Jing Zhaoyan, who no longer cared about his usual filial piety in front of the lady.
He asked as soon as he opened his mouth: "Mother, you insisted on letting me marry this girl from the Ji family, but why did you tamper with the betrothal gifts? You made me lose such a big person.
Do you know how many eyes were watching? There were stones in the betrothal box.
How can I face people in the future?"
Not to mention Jing Zhaoyan, even Haiyue and Liu Anran felt ashamed.
The two looked at each other, and saw a funny look in each other's eyes, saying "Luckily the person they were engaged to was not me."
The lady opened her mouth but said nothing. She was the one who did it, and she couldn't shirk responsibility even if she wanted to.