Chapter 91 - Delay the Wedding (1/2)
Shi Qingxue was so anxious. She didn’t care about it and pushed Zhu away, walking inside. “I really have something important to tell my father. Don’t stop us.”
But Zhu didn’t obey and forcefully stood in front of her. “My Lady, I am guarding outside as Princess Royal ordered. Please forgive me.”
Shi Qingxue could hardly explain to the stubborn maid and she was afraid that she would delay it, so she said arrogantly, “I don’t care who ordered you. Step aside.”
Wenren Chi grabbed Shi Qingxue’s arm and comforted her softly, “Don’t be like this. This is Grandma’s residence. You can’t act recklessly. Let’s go out and wait.”
Then he showed Zhu an apologetic smile and pulled Qingxue back to wait outside the Shou’an Hall.
Zhu played with the pendant on her waist indifferently and didn’t even glance at Wenren Chi.
Her disrespect made Shi Qingxue furious, but Wenren Chi restrained her and she couldn’t lose her temper.
“Chi, what are you doing? Why didn’t you let me teach that snobbish bitch a lesson?”
Wenren Chi smiled bitterly. “When you want to kick a dog, you have to know who its owner is. If you teach Grandma’s maid a lesson in her residence, no matter what the reason is, the outsiders would only say that you don’t know the etiquette.”
Shi Qingxue didn’t care. “If I have to suffer injustice for the sake of the etiquette, I would rather not know it. I am not afraid that others would say that.”
Wenren Chi was astonished and looked at Qingxue blankly. With complex emotions inside, he could hardly control himself, but at last, he turned away and pretended not to mind it. “Why did you argue with a maid? Are you going to bite a dog after it bites you?”
Shi Qingxue was going to explode because of Wenren Chi’s inattentive attitude. She was worried about his marriage, but he was carefree. Fine, she wouldn’t get involved in it anymore.
But…
“Father must be inside talking with Grandma about your marriage to my sister. We have to go in now. If Father said that, we can never save it.”
Wenren Chi was not anxious, but gazed at Qingxue. “Don’t you want me to marry Baoning?”
Shi Qingxue shook her head without thinking and answered briskly, “Of course yes. I hope you can marry her.”
Wenren Chi had a bitter smile in his heart but looked more carefree. “In this case, we don’t need to go inside and say anything.”
“Ah? What’s wrong?” Shi Qingxue couldn’t understand and frowned, staring at Wenren Chi. “Didn’t you say that it’s not you who wrote the letter to propose marriage?”
Wenren Chi nodded. “But it doesn’t matter. I…”
He paused for a while and then continued firmly, “I am going to marry Baoning.”
“What happened about that letter? Who did it?” Shi Qingxue didn’t doubt Wenren Chi’s sincerity, but the marriage was significant and there must be nothing wrong.
Wenren Chi knew that he couldn’t fool Qingxue, so he replied frankly, “In the past few days, I wondered if I can make Baoning live a happy life, so I hesitated to propose marriage. My friend couldn’t bear to see me dispirited, so he sent a letter to Father out of kindness. Perhaps he wanted to help me bring about the marriage by this chance.”
“Oh, no wonder that happened.”
Qingxue believed Wenren Chi’s explanation easily but murmured, “Someone is really addicted to making a match.”
Wenren Chi was unable either to laugh or to cry. What…
At this time, Shi Junhe walked out of the Shou’an Hall happily. Seeing the two, he asked with a smile, “You can’t even wait for such a short time? You came here to get the news, right?”
Hearing the joke, they knew that Shi Junhe thought they came here because they were anxious to know Mo Shujun’s opinion about the marriage.
Shi Qingxue didn’t explain but looked at Shi Junhe with expectancy. “What did Grandma say?”
Shi Junhe showed a bigger smile. “What can she say? She always dotes on Baoning and likes Chi. Now they love each other and would get married. Of course she agrees, but she mentioned a requirement.”
Shi Qingxue asked in a hurry, “What requirement?”
“Baoning is an Infanta with an honorable status, and her marriage can’t be random. We should ask His Majesty to grant it.”
Shi Qingxue heaved a sigh of relief and also smiled. “It should be easy. We just need His Majesty to grant their marriage, but we don’t know if it would fit the wedding date Mother has chosen.”
The emperor would grant the marriage, and the date would be up to him. He wouldn’t care about the wedding date they had decided.
Shi Junhe was helpless. Dong Hui had expected this marriage for a long time and was anxious since they got the letter, but now they would ask the emperor to grant the marriage, so she might be unable to handle it.
“There is something else!” Shi Qingxue wanted to tell her father that somebody wrote the letter to propose marriage under Wenren Chi’s name, but Wenren Chi pulled her arm. It was obvious that he didn’t want her to say it.