Rebirth of the Malicious Empress of Military Lineage

184-185

Chapter 184: Betrothal Gifts 

These few days the Shen family was caught in a very strange mood. Because of Shen Miao's bestowed marriage, everyone seemed to be clouded with anxiety. Even though everyone was trying to express joy, but one could not hide the bleakness of it at the end.

Shen Xin and Luo Xue Yan would leave early and return home late daily, most likely they were searching of ways to get this marriage rescinded but they returned without success. Upon some thought it was as so, since Emperor Wen Hui had concealed from the entire court of officials to write this decree, most likely it was to sever Shen Xin's intention of refusing. A Monarch's words were not of a joking matter and words spoken were like water that was splashed. In the previous dynasty there was a Princess who fancied a Zhuang Yuan (top scorer in the Imperial examinations) but that Zhuang Yuan already had a wife but it was because of the phrase of 'Monarch's words were not of a joking matter' that he divorced his wife and married another?

Every time when Shen Qiu saw Shen Miao, he would have a conscience-stricken expression and these days he would often gift Shen Miao some rare treasures. He only said, "Older Brother do not have any abilities and can only find these playthings for you."

Shen Miao was rather speechless with the Shen family's mood. She naturally knew that things were not that bad but she could not tell the Shen family so. If Shen Xin knew that Xie Jing Xing's real reason, one feared that there would even more trouble.

In Ming Qi she has to think about the Shen family but on the contrary, it was not convenient for her to take action but once she was in Great Liang, it would likely be much easier to do many things by using Xie Jing Xing's name.

She was relaxed but the people by her side all thought she was pretended. When she was reading in the room today, she saw Bai Lu run in a hurry and said, "Young Lady, Furen want you to quickly go to the main hall. The people from Prince Rui residence had come to send the list of betrothal gifts."

Shen Miao was startled. List of betrothal gifts?

Xie Jing Xing was really extremely daring. He obviously knew that the Shen family did not want to see him and even hated him but he actually dare to send the list of betrothal gifts over. Wasn't this adding fuel into the fire?

However thinking about Xie Jing Xing's absolutely unrestrained temperament, this was indeed something he could do.

Upon reaching the main hall, one could see from afar that Luo Xue Yan was holding a long thing and beside Luo Xue Yan, Shen Qiu and Shen Xin was standing as they stretched their heads over. Luo Tan pursed her lips while Luo Ling's gaze became complicated. In short, everyone's was behaving very strangely.

When Shen Miao stepped into the room, she only then found out that other than the Shen family, there was someone else standing in the room. After looking clearly at that person's appearance, Shen Miao almost choked. Shen Miao had seen this middle aged man that had a big beard before, he seemed to be a guard that was always following Xie Jing Xing and Cong Yang would call him 'Tie Yi'. From a glance, one could tell that he was a brave person with martial arts but today he deliberately wore a red robe and on it, there were gold embroidered peaches and clouds. Most likely it was bring out the cheerful atmosphere but Tie Yi's complexion was dark so by wearing this attire, the heroisms were all covered up and on contrary, he look foolish.

Upon seeing her, Tie Yi bowed at her and said seriously, "Wang Fei (Prince Consort)."

Translator note: When the author refers to a position, I will be using Prince Consort. When it is referring to a person, like there, I will use Wang Fei instead.

This time even Shen Qiu could not help but cough and glared at Tie Yi, "Don't call that inconsiderately."

Tie Yi simply did not pay any attention to him.