amaotonovel Chapter 187: Older Single Woman Shi Yuqi
Chapter 187: Older Single Woman Shi Yuqi
"If Third Brother is really worried, why don't we go home in a few days and exchange engagement letters. Then we can invite the villagers to a banquet to tell everyone that our marriage is officially settled. As for the wedding date, can we talk about it later?" Shen Wanning said after thinking it over again and again.
Lin Jingyou grabbed Shen Wanning's hand, looked into her eyes and said, "Since Wanning doesn't want to get married so early, I won't force you. The engagement matter is all up to Wanning." This was considered an agreement.
Shen Wanning lowered her head, nodded, and said nothing more.
The next morning, Shen Wanning was still washing up when Lin Jingyou came over.
"Third brother, why are you looking for me so early if you're not going to school?" Shen Wanning still had a handkerchief in her hand and hadn't had time to wash her face.
Lin Jingyou walked over, took the handkerchief from her hand, washed it in the basin, wrung it dry, and gently wiped her face.
"Wan Ning, have you forgotten? Didn't you say yesterday that you and Uncle Chen would take me to and from school together? But Wan Ning didn't show up, so I had to come and call you myself."
Although she had always been served by others, this was the first time she had someone wash her face. Shen Wanning was embarrassed and wanted to snatch the handkerchief back from his hand. "Then Third Brother, please sit down and wait for a while. I will do it myself."
Lin Jingyou held the handkerchief tightly, "Let me do it. Wan Ning needs to get used to it. This won't be the last time."
Shen Wanning was defeated and had no choice but to let him wipe her face.
The two of them went to the lobby to have breakfast together. Zhang San and his friends bought the breakfast from the street and heated it up after they came back.
Before I even went out, I saw Chen the Hunter and Shi Yuqi arguing with each other, and I didn't know what they were talking about.
Shen Wanning and the other person walked forward and asked, "What are Uncle Chen and Miss Shi talking about?"
Hunter Chen was startled and quickly let go. "No...nothing. I'm just not used to having my clothes washed by a strange little girl."
Even when Lin Yueliang lived in his house before, he only asked Lin Yueliang to help with cooking, and occasionally asked Lin Yueliang to wash outdoor clothes, but he always washed his pajamas himself.
But when he got here, Shi Yuqi insisted that Shen Wanning had already paid him, so all his clothes had to be washed together. He felt embarrassed, so he was arguing with Shi Yuqi here.
"Miss Shen, Mr. Chen doesn't want me to wash his clothes. I've already told you that you've paid him." Shi Yuqi stepped forward and said.
Shen Wanning chuckled twice, "Maybe he's just not used to it. Just let him be."
Shi Yuqi lowered her head in embarrassment. "Ms. Shen pays me so much. If I don't do more work, I'll feel sorry for the money she pays me."
"It's okay. If they don't want to wash your clothes, just wash less clothes and you can relax." Shen Wanning replied.
Shi Yuqi sighed again and said nonchalantly, "Well, I can understand that Third Master Lin doesn't want to wash his clothes for us because he's worried I might ruin them. But I didn't expect Master Chen to be unwilling to do that either. I don't think his clothes are expensive, and I wouldn't ruin them by washing them."
Lin Jingyou's ears flushed when he was suddenly called out. He wasn't worried about the clothes getting ruined. It was just that he had been with Shen Wanning every day these days, so his mind was naturally distracted at night. It was certainly not convenient for him to ask another woman to help wash his clothes.
"I...we country people are used to working on our own and don't like asking others to help us wash clothes." Hunter Chen defended.
"Well, if you need my help with washing clothes in the future, Master Chen, just give them to me. I will make sure they are clean and won't get damaged."
After saying that, Shi Yuqi said something to Shen Wanning and the others, then left the Lin residence with a basin of dirty clothes.
On the way to send Lin Jingyou to Bailu Academy, Chen the Hunter said inwardly: Oh no, my pajamas were just snatched away by Shi Yuqi. I was so busy sending Lin Jingyou to school that I forgot to take it back.
"Wan Ning, what's going on with Miss Shi? Why does she look like she's thirty years old, but still unmarried?" Hunter Chen asked as he just thought of his pajamas.
Shen Wanning replied, "Speaking of which, Miss Shi also had a miserable life. She was once engaged and originally planned to marry at the age of fifteen. Unfortunately, a month before her wedding, her father suddenly passed away, forcing her to observe a three-year mourning period.
Three years later, when she was about to get married, her fiancé was killed by bandits on his way to the imperial examination. When she was in her twenties, she finally arranged a marriage through someone, but on the eve of the wedding, her mother passed away.
So Miss Shi observed mourning for her mother for another three years. As a result, the neighbors all said she was unmarriageable. Therefore, she has remained unmarried until now, at the age of thirty-one.
"Alas, if that's the case, she is indeed a woman with a miserable life. She is just a weak woman who has done nothing, but she is labeled as a woman who brings bad luck to her husband. How pitiful! Life is difficult for women." Hunter Chen sighed.
After sending Lin Jingyou to Bailu Academy, before getting off the carriage, he hugged Shen Wanning and kissed her again and again, and then got off the carriage reluctantly.
Now, the Fuzhou prefect had just received a memorial from County Magistrate He, along with a cart of sweet potatoes.
He opened the letter and read it. It specifically mentioned that sweet potatoes were discovered and cultivated by a woman named Shen Wanning from Daqing Village. This woman was exactly the one Lin Jieyuan was engaged to.
When County Magistrate He sent someone to deliver the reward of 100 taels of silver that day, two constables heard the villagers talking about the engagement of Lin Jingyou and Shen Wanning, so County Magistrate He knew about it.
The Fuzhou prefect thought about it again and again, and wrote a long memorial. Most of it praised Shen Wanning's hard work and how she considered the country and the people after discovering sweet potatoes and selflessly donated them.
In the end, he wrote another memorial, this time to impeach the governor Huang Wei.
It clearly records that Huang Wei, the governor of Fuzhou, deliberately lied that an assassin was trying to kill him in order to find his illegitimate child with a prostitute. As a result, he closed the gates of Fuzhou for three days and searched every house, causing widespread resentment among the people and almost causing a riot.
It was difficult to tell whether this story was true or not, and he didn't know whether it was true or not. He only heard that from that day on, Hongxiu brought a young monk who looked exactly like her to the governor's residence and left the young monk there.
He had been scolded for Huang Wei during the city lockdown, and he had also been angry with Huang Wei for ruining the Luming Banquet by showing up uninvited.
Huang Wei is not the only one who has a backer in the capital, he also has one, so he is not afraid of Huang Wei.
This time I found an opportunity, on the one hand, to explain my political achievements in Fuzhou City, and on the other hand, to take the opportunity to report Huang Wei. The emperor will definitely not sit idly by.