Chapter 29 The confrontation (1)
After all, Qingshu had dealt with Chen Hui before. At that time, she felt that this Lady Chen was very weird and didn’t play the cards according to common sense. At this moment, she was sure that this Lady Chen was indeed as she thought, making it difficult for others to keep up with her pace.
Qingshu pretended she didn’t hear Chen Hui say that she had no relationship with the cat. She just said sincerely to her, “Lady Chen, Lady Jiang wants to see you. She doesn’t have malicious intentions. I ask Lady Chen to give her some face.”
Chen Hui thought for a moment and accepted. In fact, she was still a bit curious about the relationship between Li Youde and Lady Jiang. She just didn’t know if she could ask Lady Jiang to satisfy her curiosity. Before, she heard Li Youde mention that a servant had been killed when he mentioned Jiaofang Shi. If she run in front of Lady Jiang and asked about it and Li Youde got to know afterwards, she would probably be beaten half to death. The life that she had tried to save for half a day couldn’t take a few beatings…
Jiaofang Shi was a department in ancient China where girls where taught how to serve officials. It was like a brothel specially for the people at the court.Chen Hui followed Qingshu and walked into the courtyard. As Qingshu walked, she said, “The cat ran in by itself. I don’t know how she found it, but it went directly into Lady Jiang’s room. Fortunately, it was pretty well-behaved. So, Lady Jiang didn’t suffer a shock.”
Chen Hui said, “This cat probably become an essence and particularly choose beautiful women and go to them.”
Qingshu was stupefied. Why did she feel that Lady Chen was praising her lady? However, it didn’t feel right…but no matter how she listened, she didn’t feel that it had another meaning.
When Qingshu was puzzled, the group had already arrived outside of the main room.
Qingshu said, “Xiao Wu, you can wait outside for a moment.”
After all, this was Lady Jiang’s boudoir and it wasn’t appropriate to let a man in.
Xiao Wu didn’t mind. It should be said that he was grateful that Chen Hui didn’t let him face Lady Jiang and that cat alone. So, he didn’t have any objections now and was overjoyed to stay outside.
Chen Hui followed and walked in. There were all kinds of elegant decorations in the house. It looked more stylish than Chrysanthemum Yard. She suddenly realized that as far as Chrysanthemum Yard was concerned, Li Youde didn’t like luxurious things and his main room looked quite ordinary.
Lady Jiang was sitting there. Lying on her lap was Li Sancai that had been scared away by the rat. The cat didn’t feel a bit ashamed because of its incompetence. Instead, it snorted comfortably with Lady Jiang stroking it.
Hearing the movement, Jiang Bihan raised her head and nodded slightly at Chen Hui, “Lady Chen, sit wherever you like.”
Chen Hui smiled and said, “Thank you.”
She sat poised on the chair at the other side of the round table and didn’t show any impatience. She only stared at the cat lying on Jiang Bihan’s lap. A thing that lives off her while secretly helping other. Really useless.
Jiang Bihan finally withdrew her attention from the cat, looked at Chen Hui and said, “I presumptuously invited Lady Chen today for a chat, I hope Lady Chen don’t take offense.”
“It’s nothing. Anyway, I’m idle.” Chen Hui smiled, “This cat looks to be very close to Lady Jiang.”
Jiang Bihan smiled slightly, “Maybe we have fate.”
Chen Hui nodded, “The thing like fate is indeed too wonderful for words. For example, originally I and Lady Jiang were completely unrelated to one another and had actually met in this small world. It is indeed a hard to come by fate.”
Jiang Bihan glanced at Chen Hui with a bit surprise. After considered for a while, she said, “The matter of last time…doesn’t Lady Chen blame me?”
Chen Hui smiled and said, “It’s already a matter of the past. Why bother to mention it again?” She bent her eyes, “Could it be that if I say that I blame Lady Jiang, Lady Jiang could still kneel a whole afternoon as repayment?”
Jiang Bihan’s face suddenly paled.
Chen Hui seemed to smile unconsciously, “I was only joking. Lady Jiang doesn’t have to take it seriously. Lady Jiang, it seems that you like this cat very much.”
Jiang Bihan was a bit stunned and said with a reluctant expression, “I indeed took a fancy on it.”
“Originally, I don’t mind giving it to Lady Jiang,” Chen Hui said with a difficult expression, “But it was given to me by lord…”
The hand of Jiang Bihan stroking the cat stiffened. She raised her eyes to look at Chen Hui and said, “Since it was given by lord, then, Bihan naturally won’t rob something Lady Chen cherish.”
Chen Hui rested her chin on one hand and looked at Jiang Bihan with an unconventional appearance, “It can’t be said that this is robbing something someone cherish…if Lady Jiang go tell lord that you want it, lord will presumably give it to you without saying anything, isn’t that right?”
Lady Jiang suddenly turned her head to look at Chen Hui and said with a hint of panic in her surprise, “I…I didn’t say that…”
Chen Hui smiled and said, “Lady Jiang, in fact, there is something that I have always felt very strange about.” She took a glance at Qingshu who was not far away. Suddenly, she leaned to Jiang Bihan’s ear and whispered, “Lady Jiang must really dislike me for “seizing” Lord Li, right? But why doesn’t Lady Jiang do one more step? I heard that Lady Jiang had always treated Lord Li indifferently. However, someone like him treated Lady Jiang with so much courtesy…If Lady Jiang is willing to take one step further and please Lord Li, I think that Lord Li will definitely fulfil every request of Lady Jiang, isn’t that right?”
Jiang Bihan’s complexion paled again and suddenly glared at Chen Hui. Her face was full of anger from being humiliated.
Chen Hui chuckled, “Could it be that…Lady Jiang is afraid of some methods of Lord Li? It couldn’t be that you have also seen the box of jade genitals in lord’s room, right?”
Jiang Bihan was ashamed and anger. She glared at Chen Hui and was unable to utter a word.
Qingshu hurriedly came forward and said, “Lady Jiang, are you okay?” She glanced once at Chen Hui again and the condemnation in her eyes was very clear.
Chen Hui smiled and said, “I only said some private words to Lady Jiang, can you even bother with this?”
Jiang Bihan had calmed down, signaled at Qingshu for her retreat and looked at Chen Hui with composure.
Chen Hui asked, “Lady Jiang got afraid?”
Jiang Bihan bit her lower lips and said nothing.
Chen Hui leaned over again, looked at Jiang Bihan and whispered, “Lady Jiang, in fact, that matter isn’t as terrible as you think…With a closing of the eyes, it will have passed. Maybe you can still feel something from it.”
Chen Hui despised herself as she spoke. What was she talking about? Not proper at all and so not like her at all.
Chapter 29 The confrontation (1)
After all, Qingshu had dealt with Chen Hui before. At that time, she felt that this Lady Chen was very weird and didn’t play the cards according to common sense. At this moment, she was sure that this Lady Chen was indeed as she thought, making it difficult for others to keep up with her pace.
Qingshu pretended she didn’t hear Chen Hui say that she had no relationship with the cat. She just said sincerely to her, “Lady Chen, Lady Jiang wants to see you. She doesn’t have malicious intentions. I ask Lady Chen to give her some face.”
Chen Hui thought for a moment and accepted. In fact, she was still a bit curious about the relationship between Li Youde and Lady Jiang. She just didn’t know if she could ask Lady Jiang to satisfy her curiosity. Before, she heard Li Youde mention that a servant had been killed when he mentioned Jiaofang Shi. If she run in front of Lady Jiang and asked about it and Li Youde got to know afterwards, she would probably be beaten half to death. The life that she had tried to save for half a day couldn’t take a few beatings…
Jiaofang Shi was a department in ancient China where girls where taught how to serve officials. It was like a brothel specially for the people at the court.Chen Hui followed Qingshu and walked into the courtyard. As Qingshu walked, she said, “The cat ran in by itself. I don’t know how she found it, but it went directly into Lady Jiang’s room. Fortunately, it was pretty well-behaved. So, Lady Jiang didn’t suffer a shock.”
Chen Hui said, “This cat probably become an essence and particularly choose beautiful women and go to them.”
Qingshu was stupefied. Why did she feel that Lady Chen was praising her lady? However, it didn’t feel right…but no matter how she listened, she didn’t feel that it had another meaning.
When Qingshu was puzzled, the group had already arrived outside of the main room.
Qingshu said, “Xiao Wu, you can wait outside for a moment.”
After all, this was Lady Jiang’s boudoir and it wasn’t appropriate to let a man in.
Xiao Wu didn’t mind. It should be said that he was grateful that Chen Hui didn’t let him face Lady Jiang and that cat alone. So, he didn’t have any objections now and was overjoyed to stay outside.
Chen Hui followed and walked in. There were all kinds of elegant decorations in the house. It looked more stylish than Chrysanthemum Yard. She suddenly realized that as far as Chrysanthemum Yard was concerned, Li Youde didn’t like luxurious things and his main room looked quite ordinary.
Lady Jiang was sitting there. Lying on her lap was Li Sancai that had been scared away by the rat. The cat didn’t feel a bit ashamed because of its incompetence. Instead, it snorted comfortably with Lady Jiang stroking it.
Hearing the movement, Jiang Bihan raised her head and nodded slightly at Chen Hui, “Lady Chen, sit wherever you like.”
Chen Hui smiled and said, “Thank you.”
She sat poised on the chair at the other side of the round table and didn’t show any impatience. She only stared at the cat lying on Jiang Bihan’s lap. A thing that lives off her while secretly helping other. Really useless.
Jiang Bihan finally withdrew her attention from the cat, looked at Chen Hui and said, “I presumptuously invited Lady Chen today for a chat, I hope Lady Chen don’t take offense.”
“It’s nothing. Anyway, I’m idle.” Chen Hui smiled, “This cat looks to be very close to Lady Jiang.”
Jiang Bihan smiled slightly, “Maybe we have fate.”
Chen Hui nodded, “The thing like fate is indeed too wonderful for words. For example, originally I and Lady Jiang were completely unrelated to one another and had actually met in this small world. It is indeed a hard to come by fate.”
Jiang Bihan glanced at Chen Hui with a bit surprise. After considered for a while, she said, “The matter of last time…doesn’t Lady Chen blame me?”
Chen Hui smiled and said, “It’s already a matter of the past. Why bother to mention it again?” She bent her eyes, “Could it be that if I say that I blame Lady Jiang, Lady Jiang could still kneel a whole afternoon as repayment?”
Jiang Bihan’s face suddenly paled.
Chen Hui seemed to smile unconsciously, “I was only joking. Lady Jiang doesn’t have to take it seriously. Lady Jiang, it seems that you like this cat very much.”
Jiang Bihan was a bit stunned and said with a reluctant expression, “I indeed took a fancy on it.”
“Originally, I don’t mind giving it to Lady Jiang,” Chen Hui said with a difficult expression, “But it was given to me by lord…”
The hand of Jiang Bihan stroking the cat stiffened. She raised her eyes to look at Chen Hui and said, “Since it was given by lord, then, Bihan naturally won’t rob something Lady Chen cherish.”
Chen Hui rested her chin on one hand and looked at Jiang Bihan with an unconventional appearance, “It can’t be said that this is robbing something someone cherish…if Lady Jiang go tell lord that you want it, lord will presumably give it to you without saying anything, isn’t that right?”
Lady Jiang suddenly turned her head to look at Chen Hui and said with a hint of panic in her surprise, “I…I didn’t say that…”
Chen Hui smiled and said, “Lady Jiang, in fact, there is something that I have always felt very strange about.” She took a glance at Qingshu who was not far away. Suddenly, she leaned to Jiang Bihan’s ear and whispered, “Lady Jiang must really dislike me for “seizing” Lord Li, right? But why doesn’t Lady Jiang do one more step? I heard that Lady Jiang had always treated Lord Li indifferently. However, someone like him treated Lady Jiang with so much courtesy…If Lady Jiang is willing to take one step further and please Lord Li, I think that Lord Li will definitely fulfil every request of Lady Jiang, isn’t that right?”
Jiang Bihan’s complexion paled again and suddenly glared at Chen Hui. Her face was full of anger from being humiliated.
Chen Hui chuckled, “Could it be that…Lady Jiang is afraid of some methods of Lord Li? It couldn’t be that you have also seen the box of jade genitals in lord’s room, right?”
Jiang Bihan was ashamed and anger. She glared at Chen Hui and was unable to utter a word.
Qingshu hurriedly came forward and said, “Lady Jiang, are you okay?” She glanced once at Chen Hui again and the condemnation in her eyes was very clear.
Chen Hui smiled and said, “I only said some private words to Lady Jiang, can you even bother with this?”
Jiang Bihan had calmed down, signaled at Qingshu for her retreat and looked at Chen Hui with composure.
Chen Hui asked, “Lady Jiang got afraid?”
Jiang Bihan bit her lower lips and said nothing.
Chen Hui leaned over again, looked at Jiang Bihan and whispered, “Lady Jiang, in fact, that matter isn’t as terrible as you think…With a closing of the eyes, it will have passed. Maybe you can still feel something from it.”
Chen Hui despised herself as she spoke. What was she talking about? Not proper at all and so not like her at all.
