Encountered You

13; Plan all along

Li Xi Yue looked at Emperor's back coldly. That man was usually good to her, but he was definitely one of the cruellest people in Lian Dynasty. But it was ok, at least she got to secure her brother's title.

"Hong Ying, bring the medicine."
She looked at the colour of the medicine, gritted her teeth and finished it with one gulp. Then she gave back the bowl to Hong Ying, "Prepare food."

She looked at the plain porride stirred with chicken broth, with addition of some carrots and potatoes, and the pickled food cucumber on the side. She sighed and took the spoon and ate that, if it was not because she was in mourning period, she actually wanted to eat some Kung pao chicken, or Sichuan food that spicy, sour and savory in it.

"Hong Ying?"

"Yes, Junzhu?"

She looked at the plate, "can you tell the kitchen to prepare Mapo tofu?"

"but Junzhu, you are still sick..."

Li Xi Yue looked at Hong Ying, "then bring me some chili oil."

Chili oil usually contains pepper and a lot of additional seasonings, what she liked the most is how spicy that chilli oil was and how it made many food tasted so good to be true, it usually used as a dipping sauce for steamed buns or noodles.

"Your stomach can't digest it if you eat spicy foods now, Junzhu." Hong Ying said, "wait until three days, and Junzhu can eat as many spicy food as you can."

Li Xi Yue looked at Hong Ying then at the bland food in front of her, snorted and started to eat again. This is her mourning period she couldn't eat a lot of many food such as meats and sweets. She was a lazy person to be begin with, only loved to sleep, eat, read and repeated it without feel tired, but now in addition of mourning activities such as burning incense in the morning after she woke up, she must listened to Buddhist scripture, burned some paper moneys and prayed for her parents, now she must've review all of the accounts book of Wangfu in and out. Wangfu was just so big, she must've regulated the servants well, and also the businesses outside that thankfully, operated very well because she had a lot of subordinates that helped her, and also her mother's rich dowry.

Her mother was the only di daughter of the Duke Zhang's family's main branch, she hear some stories about her parents's wedding, there said that, when her mother marriage, the Dowry boxes surpassed what supposed to be, she was supposed to bring 128 dowry boxes as it was the traditional ways when a girl married a Prince, but her parents, due to their love to her, broke the traditions and let her carried 328 chest, that was already two times big, and even bigger than those Princesses of Imperial Family, her Dowry even surpassed Fang-shi's now the Empress Fang, wife of the Emperor, that's why when a box entered the Wangfu, there's another box that just bring outside by the servants.

And when she took out all of the account, she realized that it was definitely real, her mother's income was so rich she wonder why her mother must've feel sad after her father took another concubine, even if that concubine had son, her mother already gave birth to three children, two of her daughters were Junzhu in their own rights and her son was the Shizi, she had the power in Wangfu, and her dowry were extremely rich, even if Xian Wang wanted to divorced her, it was not like the Zhang family didn't want to take their daughter back, even Li Xi Yue could say that the Zhang family would be more happy to welcome their daughter and support her all her life, Wangfei Zhang had such a prestigious background, got loving family, yet still felt sad for a man?  Li Xi Yue felt like she was too young to understand this kind of complexity called men and women's relationship.

After she ate such a bland meal, she lied down to rest, if it was not for the scheme to got her brother his title back, she would be unwilling to did this kind of tiring things.

***

Three days later, the court roared when Emperor announced that Xian Wang Shizi's status would be elevated to Xian Wang, as the successor. Everyone were shocked, envious and amazed, how could this succession matter be solved quickly?

Every official looked at the second son of Old Duke Zhang, Wangfei Zhang's twin brother, the new Xian Wang's maternal uncle, thought that he was the one who had the petition delivered to Emperor, but the man was so slick, he quickly ran away after the mourning court ended and they sent Emperor back, making everyone sighed and felt annoyed.

But the news quickly stuffed their mouths, Emperor agreed quickly after he visited the sick An He Junzhu who fainted because she was fasting and observing mourning for her parents!

Everyone sighed emotionally, so in addition to wished a good father and mother when one wanted to reincarnated, they should wished for a good sister too? 

Everyone gritted their teeth hatefully, regretting why they didn't get An He Junzhu as their own daughter, there's always a news about how virtuous, kind, gentle and intelligent she was, she was the sole decision maker in the big Wangfu, the servants under her were so good, people who went there always prasied them for being orderly, even though they didn't caught a glimpse of An He Junzhu, with that kind of daughter, did they need to worry about their clan's future? 

Alas, An He Junzhu was the first daughter of Xian Wang, and Emperor's favourite niece, not their own daughter! Thus they began pondering, it was better to raiswd a daughter An He Junzhu instead of waiting for another person raised a daughter like her to be their daughter in law!

Thus, the noble society in Jian Capital chance again, instead of wishing to had a daughter in law like An He Junzhu, many Furen and old masters decided to raised their own daughters as An He Junzhu.