The Devious First Daughter

Chapter 120. Planning and Responses

Surely, the auspicious date chosen by the palace would not be delayed by the fact that the elder brother of a consort would take an examination, so Ning Xueyan's wedding would not be delayed by Ning Huaiyuan's taking the imperial examination.

The dowry would be sent the day before. Since Ning Xueyan was a consort, she did not need to put up pageantry as Commandery Princess Xianyun did, but all the relatives and friends had been informed. Today was not the wedding date, so only a few close marital relatives came to the Lord Protector's Manor.

Ning Xueyan got up relatively early and visited Madam Dowager to send her morning greeting. Rarely, Madam Dowager asked Ning Xueyan to have breakfast with her, and Ning Xueyan also chatted with Madam Dowager for a while. Ning Qingshan and Ning Lingyun were also there. Ostensibly, the three of them were in harmony, and Madam Dowager was very satisfied with it.

The rare scene was that Madam Dowager Liu even came out to chat for a while. After a while, a guest came. Since Ning Xueyan was a bride-to-be, it was not suitable for her to stay here, so she went back.

On the way, Ning Xueyan drove Lanning back to the Bright Frost Garden. At this time, the Bright Frost Garden was in a mess. Although all the people of the Bright Frost Garden were there, they still thought that it was too late to do the sorting and counting, and the maids and older female servants from the other courtyards who temporarily came to help them were many. So, Ning Xueyan did not want to go back and only wanted to go around alone.

There was no one around her, and many servants in the backyard had gone to the Bright Frost Garden or Madam Dowager's Lucky Garden to help others. The whole backyard was empty. She walked slowly and remembered that it was not the first time to send the dowry, but now she thought it was only a joke.

At that time, she was quite excited, thinking that the man she married was her beloved man, to whom she gave her heart and love!

With three years of waiting and three years of love, she had secret joy, imagining the harmonious and happy days of being a married woman.

At that time, the dowry was what it was when she moved in. The dowry items had been counted a few days before, and she just needed to ask some people to take them out. At that time, she didn't know anything. Madam Ling said that her courtyard was not big enough to hold these items, they should be moved to Ning Ziyan's place for the time being, and Ning Ziyan would send the dowry, lest that her place should be so noisy that her quietness was disturbed.

So, she stupidly believed Madam Ling. Then, she let her carry the dowry to Ning Ziyan's courtyard, and then it was sent from Ning Ziyan's courtyard under the eyes of everyone. Recalling it now, she thought that she was so stupid. Others only saw that the dowry was carried out from Ning Ziyan's courtyard, so they naturally thought that it was Ning Ziyan who was about to marry.

But no one knew that the dowry was carried out from her courtyard previously. Those who carried the dowry were not many: these few confidants of Madam Ling and those of the Cloud Reflection Courtyard. And they carried it away in the night. The night when Ning Ziyan's dowry was sent was the time she died miserably.

After Ning Ziying lost all her value, her death was inevitable. The man who once told her that he would be good to her wholeheartedly watched her be drowned in the lotus pond...

She could not help but walk to the Cloud Reflection Courtyard. After the incident of the Cloud Reflection Courtyard broke out, the staff of the Ministry of Justice once lived here for some time, but now when the case gradually became less important, the staff of the Ministry of Justice rarely came here, and the door of the Cloud Reflection Courtyard had been sealed with a strip of red paper.