Chapter 464: Chapter 464

Inside the room, other than the occasional sound of pages turning, there was silence.

The embroidery ladies shifted their gaze from the girl back to the rabbit dozing off in its elevated position, attentively examining and finding the right angle against the light, contemplating where to start stitching, while skillfully splitting the threads with their nimble fingers.

Time passed quickly. It was time for lunch.

The old embroiderers opposite packed up and left the room, planning not to stay for lunch as they were off duty, each carrying their small baskets.

Seeing this, the new embroiderers in the room put down their needles, their faces full of suspicion.

The girl slowly closed her book, rubbing her sore eyes and leaning casually against something.

"Have you all watched carefully?"

She was tempting them.

"Master it, and you can take a break."

She slowly got up, thinking about the pomegranate wine that had been brewing in the kitchen for a long time. It must be ready to drink.

After a full meal and a rest, the embroiderers were busy again, but the concubine’s couch was empty.

"During the meal, she was sitting with Xiu’er."

Xiu’er, being one of the younger ones among them, looked up.

"The Boss also took time off, she asked us to be more self-disciplined."

Someone sighed in relief.

"It’s better if she’s not here; whenever the Boss is around, I always feel she’ll come by with her chilling stride and scold me fiercely. But oddly, I kind of miss her when she’s not around."

"I’m not afraid of the Madam scolding me; I’m just afraid she’ll come over and ask me why I had three children."

She still remembered how the girl looked sadly at him.

"Are you and your husband getting along well?"

Her heart skipped a beat, thinking the man had kept a mistress. Then she heard Shen Hua ask sadly,

"Have you considered having another one?"

"I remember that, Manager Sun was also there, twisting the Boss’s ear at the time."

—So the old problem has flared up again, huh!

"Seeing her demeanor, the Boss intends to teach us personally; the last time she casually gave me some tips, and I benefited a lot from it. It is indeed our fortune. But I’m not sure what book she was looking at just now, she was so serious, it might have been a rare volume of Su Embroidery left by the Madam."

The embroiderer closest to Shen Hua earlier fell silent.

"I did catch a glimpse of a phrase in the book."

The person recited with numbness: "The rain was getting heavier. You couldn’t tell if it was rain or tears on Situ Lei’s face as he clung to her tightly and shouted in agony, don’t leave! You can only be mine."

The room fell completely silent.

Shen Hua took her Situ Leitian to the restaurant.

Upon entering the private room, she glanced at Zheng Qianyu.

"Why did you call me here again?"

Zheng Qianyu was stirring a soup spoon with one hand, her eyes downturned in nervousness, hesitating to speak.

Looking across her, sat the chubby and meaty noble son, Wang Xu.

Shen Hua squinted her eyes.

"What are you doing here?"

Wang Xu quickly stood up and answered, "Stepmother, we have been quite close these past few days."

He continued the previous topic, "We found we have similar interests, so we took the opportunity to pay respect together."

"She is a few years older than me, the third eldest at home, I have to call her ’third sister’."

What a chaotic relationship this is.

You call her ’third sister’, and call me ’stepmother’?

So, am I that old in relation?

Shen Hua was at a loss for words, just about to approach when she suddenly stopped.

A long-sealed memory was completely awakened.

She tried hard to remember, who did Zheng Qianyu marry in her past life?

At that time she was in complete despair and had completely cut ties with the outside world. Aunt Sun couldn’t see her, Zheng Qianyu couldn’t either.

But she heard it from a maid delivering meals at the mansion.

Memories fragmented like pieces, just as her head was about to split, it seemed again heard by her ear.

"Lady Zheng certainly has skills, clinging onto a high branch. She managed to secure a good marriage, I heard it’s with someone from Tongzhou. Just by looking at his attire, you can tell he’s no ordinary man. Lady Zheng came with people wanting to see Madam, but the young man had them turned away. What of it? When it comes to the Shen Family’s affairs, can outsiders really meddle?"

"Lady Zheng was furious, the distinguished young man by her side, who is a year younger than her, even said he would go back to Tongzhou to seek help from his father. But it was too late, the girl is about to be sent away. Did you hear? They are engaged, yet that man still calls her ’Third Sister’."

Shen Hua suddenly felt a shock.

In her previous life, in Fengzhou, Magistrate Hu hadn’t encountered any issues, thus Magistrate Wang hadn’t been assigned here to take his post.

That... explained it all.

She suppressed the shock she felt at the moment, and sat down next to Zheng Qianyu.

Zheng Qianyu let out a heavy sigh.

"It seems my little uncle is about to be betrothed. Mother has been busy arranging these past few days. Knowing this, I felt terribly upset."

Shen Hua held a folding fan, gently waving it a few times. But then she forgot to keep waving it.

The fan was exquisite and delicate, made with a thin elegant gauze, and the pattern on it featured orchids of different colors on each side.

One side yellow, the other pink. Each side shaded with a gradient of over a dozen colors.

"He came to our residence this morning, as Daddy was still worried about my situation. Do you know what he said?"

"He actually mentioned a classmate of his, with good character, saying if I was willing, he would help set us up."

Zheng Qianyu angrily said, "What does he mean by that? Avoiding me !"

Wang Xu got carried away by the emotion: "How could he behave ! I see it as hypocrisy! Are you not good enough for him?"

This statement made Zheng Qianyu pause.

She defended, "My little uncle means well for me; the person he mentioned, I did meet him, and he is indeed not bad."

Lady Zheng, frustrated: "But he has already seen all of me!"

"And yet he’s going on to see other girls immediately. Can’t he wait? Or is he deliberately avoiding me?"

Wang Xu, echoing her words: "You have a point. In the end, you are the one at a disadvantage, even if you offended him first. In my view, he’s not a good person."

"You can’t say that about him; everyone credits my little uncle highly. He’s knowledgeable, upright, and even expressly told me not to think of that matter again in the future, for which he apologizes. Look, he doesn’t even blame me."

He shouldn’t even have shown up.

"I really deserve to die!"

Zheng Qianyu turned to look at Shen Hua: "You come up with the most ideas, what do you think I should do?"

"Lately, the more I think about it, the more I feel I’m a match for my little uncle."

Not just a match, but it’s exciting.

Shen Hua found a capable young man, she couldn’t compare, but she must exceed her in one aspect.

She grabbed Shen Hua’s arm: "What should I do to win him over?"

Shen Hua brushed her hand away.

"Do you... really want to know?"

Wang Xu, sincerely showing loyalty: "Just help her, over such a small matter, this person can’t eat or sleep, I think she might go crazy."

Shen Hua swallowed her saliva.

She mumbled, "There indeed is a way."

"Say it!" Zheng Qianyu sat up straight, eyes intense.

Shen Hua drank some tea to calm her nerves. She glanced outside at the sky, dark and heavy, it looked like it would rain.

"They say a bold woman fears a persistent man, it seems reversing the roles might also work. Seeing that he is about to be engaged, you can no longer afford to be reserved."

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Shen Hua flipped open a book, showing Zheng Qianyu a passage about Situ Leitian.

The latter’s eyes widened with terror.

"No... that’s not appropriate."

Shen Hua: "He got what he wanted."

Wang Xu looked at them, full of excitement.

"I’ve decided for you! Go!"

Shen Hua’s eyes gleamed with brightness.

Looking forward to the drama, looking forward to the drama.

Without a wife, without a wife.

Wang Xu egged her on: "Don’t pull back and make us look down on you! Be bold! I’ve got your back, brother!"