Chapter 608
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The matter of Princess Ming An in the Ding capital had set off an uproar among the commoners, but the people from the Supreme Court of Justice were unable to find any results after a long time. Emperor Wen Hui would get angry every few days and even implicated a number of officials, but there was a faint unsettled result. The Crown Prince of the Qin country, HuangFu Hao, was naturally dissatisfied but the people that he sent out did not find anything wrong. As time passed, the common people's enthusiasm for this matter gradually faded. After all, one had to eat and live, and one could not withstand the cold of winter even if one guarded an unsettled case.
In the cold winter days of the Ding capital, there was a big matter in the Shen residence.
Shen Yue was engaged and would soon be married off.
The family that Shen Yue was talking about was the Minister of Land, the Wang family that Shen Wan and Chen Rou Qiu favoured. The Wang family only had two sons and the younger son was not even ten years old. The eldest son was Wang Bi, the person who was engaged to Shen Yue. Wang Bi was twenty four this year and had already entered officialdom, holding a position in the scholar's residence. He was knowledgeable and was a person with boundless prospects. Even though the position of the Minister of Land was not one of the most important officials in the court, it was inevitable that the colleagues would have more dealings with the Minister of Land. If one was related to the Wang family, there would be a lot of help in one's future career.
The help in one's career was naturally seen through Shen Wan's eyes. From Chen Rou Qiu's point of view, Wang Bi was the eldest son of the Wang family and currently there were no Tongfang concubines in the residence. Coincidentally Shen Yue was well-educated and had a strong bookish taste so if she was able to marry over, she would be able to hold onto Wang Bi's heart and in the future she would be able to stand firm in the Wang family and give birth to a son and a daughter, then she would be able to rest easy for the rest of her life.
The marriage was directly set by Chen Rou Qiu and the Wang family and the Geng card was changed. When Shen Yue knew about the matter, she naturally made a big fuss. It was just that the usually gentle Chen Rou Qiu seemed to be determined to marry her off and Shen Wan, who had always doted on her, did not listen to Shen Yue's pleas. Old Shen Furen was even more happy to see it happen. If Shen Yue did not marry in the Shen residence, she would have one more mouth to eat and now the days in the Shen residence were difficult.
Shen Yue was too noisy and even if Shen Wan usually did not punish his daughter, this time he felt that Shen Yue was too much and in a fit of anger, he locked Shen Yue in the ancestral hall and wanted Shen Yue to reflect on herself.
This night, Shen Yue sat alone in the ancestral hall and cried silently.
There were traces of fire in the ancestral hall. It was ironic to say that the last time Shen Miao was locked up in this ancestral hall, Ren Wan Yun attempted to make Shen Miao marry and take the opportunity to exchange marriage with Shen Qing. Who knew that there was a fire midway and coincidentally Shen Xin left the capital at that time thus Shen Miao escaped a calamity. Shen Yue looked at the tightly closed doors of the ancestral hall. It seemed that from that time onwards, everything went smoothly for Shen Miao. Because Shen Xin and wife and Shen Qiu were behind Shen Miao to support her, Shen Miao was unscrupulous in whatever she did. Shen Yue believed that if there was a day that Shen Miao wanted to marry Fu Xiu Yi, Shen Xin and wife would not be like Chen Rou Qiu and Shen Wan to stop it.
And Shen Miao indeed admired Fu Xiu Yi in the past and if there was a day that Shen Miao's old love was rekindled and the current Shen Xin made a comeback with power in his hands, would Fu Xiu Yi reject? Moreover Shen Miao was no longer the idiot that was ridiculed by the entire capital two years ago.
Once she thought that Shen Miao might be together with Fu Xiu Yi, Shen Yue's heart was particularly uncomfortable. She unwillingly thought, why did Shen Miao not burn to death during the fire in the ancestral hall?
Just as she was thinking, she heard the sound of the doorknob moving outside. Shen Yue thought that it was Chen Rou Qiu who sent someone to deliver food to her and said in a fit of pique, "I do not want anything. Go out."
That sound continued and Shen Yue angrily said, "Ask you to scram!"
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