Chapter 496 The Last Time

The moonlight is dim and the shadows of the trees are swaying, in the backyard of Li's mansion in Dongcheng.

Looking at the thin back sitting under the tree, Li Guangyuan sighed lightly and walked slowly over with his wife.

The slight footsteps woke up the tranced girl. Shi Yun turned around and saw her parents coming on the moon. She quickly stood up to greet her and said softly: "Dad, Mom."

Looking at her daughter who was obviously much thinner, Mrs. Li's nose felt sore, she tightly held her hand, and called out: "You've been miserable, my son..." Shi Yun looked at her haggard and worried parents, and her eyes were red and said: "It's all a daughter..." The mother and daughter hugged their heads and choked up.

Li Guangyuan felt uncomfortable. After sitting down on the stone pier, he said softly: "Madam, don't do this, let's talk well." Then Mrs. Li separated from her daughter, and the two of them sat down on the stone pier, but their hands were tightly clasped together.

Looking at his daughter deeply, Li Guangyuan nodded at Mrs. Li. Such things should be asked by his mother, just as his father is the backing.

Mrs. Li understood and thought for a while and asked carefully: "Daughter, this matter is coming. What is your thought in your heart? Can you tell me about it?"

Shiyun lowered her head and said, "Dad and mom, don't worry, my daughter is very good, and she has no idea..."

Mrs. Li sighed and said, "You are the flesh that fell from my mother's body. I'm happy or not, I can still see it." She stroked Shi Yun's cold face and said quietly, "It was so good when I was a child. I told my mother everything. It's not like now. I don't want to reveal a little bit of lawsuits in my heart."

Li Guangyuan and his wife looked at each other, and Li Guangyuan said softly in understanding: "You guys chat slowly, I'll go for a walk there."

Shi Yun was about to get up and see him off, but her mother grabbed him and said softly: "We, mother and daughter, say a few intimate words." Shi Yun sat down again, lowered her head without saying a word.

Mrs. Li looked at her daughter's sad look and felt her heart tugging. She sat over and hugged Shiyun's shoulders and said softly: "Mom is a person who has experienced it. I know how uncomfortable it is to marry another person..."

Shi Yun looked up in shock and opened her mouth slightly, "You... don't like my father?" Although she had a lot of knots in her heart, her mother's personal revelations were still tempting.

"What are you talking nonsense?" Mrs. Li looked away and saw that the old man had disappeared in the Yuemen Cave. Then she explained in a low voice: "It turned out that your grandfather had a good relationship with Wen Yanbo and intended to betroth him to his younger brother... Wen Yantao, if it weren't for the war, both sides might have been engaged." She said with a little embarrassedly: "At that time, the Empress Dowager took us ladies and wives to deliver water and meals to the city and rescued the wounded, so she happened to know him... The young girl, who had just fallen in love, thought the other party was the future husband, so she naturally had to look at him differently." Although twenty years had passed, Mrs. Li was still a little shy.

Shi Yun widened her eyes and listened to her mother telling a very story: "He liked me very much at that time and was able to coax people, but he was not as bad as he did later, so we could talk to each other very well and had a secret meeting."

Unexpectedly, my mother was so unrestrained when she was young, Shi Yun opened her mouth slightly and was surprised. When she said that, Mrs. Li also felt that there was an ambiguity and quickly reached out to her lips and fanned: "Just walk and talk together, and she ended with etiquette..."

Shiyun nodded obediently, without gossip. Mrs. Li was afraid that the more she was going to be darker, so she skipped the wheel and said, "I was my first love at that time, and I didn't think about anything else. I thought I would go darker with that person for the rest of my life." As she said that, she looked at Shiyun with deep meaning, and then said, "But after the war, Prime Minister Wen fought against the common people and excluded the old forces. Your grandfather was also demoted in the same year as Prime Minister Jiang. In anger, he betrothed me to the Li family and married me to your father."

After saying that, he pulled up his daughter's hand with emotion and said, "It can be said that everything you have encountered now is for the mother who has experienced it." Shi Yun was clear-headed and naturally knew that her mother would not hesitate to self-destruct the gossip in order to establish an empathy so that she could listen to her persuasion.

Sure enough, I listened to my mother's words and said earnestly: "So you should listen to my mother's mental journey over the years, which should be helpful to you." Shiyun nodded and said: "My mother, please speak, my child listen carefully."

"When I heard this news, I was at a loss, sad, and even cried." Mrs. Li said in a low voice: "But marriage is the order of parents, and the words of the matchmaker, and my opinions cannot play any role."

"Then you get married?" Shiyun asked softly.

"Otherwise, what else can I do?" Mrs. Li sighed and said, "At that time, your grandfather was in a depressed mood and was lingering in sickness. How could she make things difficult for her mother?" She said, "Although I never let go, both parties have chosen the name of the Jina name and got engaged and hired it without delay. On the day of the marriage, although I was unwilling, I could only change into a wedding dress and cried into the sedan chair... Fortunately, the older girl would cry when she got married." It is said that it was because of "not crying but not being filial."

"Then I bowed to the hall with tears and entered the bridal chamber. I became a couple with your father in a daze. At first I couldn't figure it out, but the road was already done and it was hard to stop the water. I tried to accept it." Speaking of this, Mrs. Li said with a long sigh: "So I found that your father is a good person, gentle, honest, and able to let me spoil me. My mother's thoughts gradually turned to your father. Later, with you and your brother, I naturally took the original relationship indifferent."

"How could you forget..." Shi Yun said quietly.

Mrs. Li was silent at first, then looked at her daughter with a detached face and said, "What do women want in their lives? Isn't they just a warm and harmonious family, a husband who knows cold and warm, and a few obedient and sensible children?" She smiled happily and said softly, "If you have all these mothers, what else can you be satisfied with?"

"But your feelings..." Although the third party is his father, Shiyun now likes to listen to stories about sticking to love.

"I'm telling you so much, I want to tell you a truth," Mrs. Li said slowly: "A girl of fifteen or sixteen or seventeen or eighteen can live in dreams, and everything is so beautiful." Speaking of this, she changed the subject and said: "But people always have to face reality. After exposing their fantasies, you will find how childish you are."

"For example, what I think of Wen Yantao," he sighed, "He is sweet-mouthed, can make people happy, and will give me a lot of small gifts. At the beginning, I regarded him as the best person in the world. But in a few years, I realized his bad deeds. Looking at his years of corruptness and abuse of power and selling official positions, it was a bad thing, and he finally lost his life." Mrs. Li said with gratitude: "If your grandfather had really betrothed me to him, how could he have the happy time today?"

Shiyun nodded, held her mother's hand and said, "I'm so happy for you, mom."

Mrs. Li felt that the fire was coming, and held her daughter in her arms, and smiled and said, "I won't talk about my mother anymore. You know all the secrets of my mother. This is unfair."

Relaxing comfortably in his mother's arms, Shiyun chuckled and said, "Then if you want to know, just ask."

Mrs. Li nodded and asked softly: "What do you think of the Shen family?"

"Shen's family," Shi Yun said lightly: "The wealthy and prominent families in the world are rich and prominent military officials in charge of military power." This sentence clearly outlines the outline of the Shen family.

Mrs. Li nodded and smiled, "Yes, it's a good match with our family." She said and asked again, "Talk about Shen Zilan, what is your impression of him?"

Shi Yun sat up without any trace and whispered: "I don't have any impression."

Mrs. Li smiled and said, "I have seen this child Zilan. She is so handsome. She is still the second best in the new subject, so her knowledge is naturally good. He is also the grandson of the Shen family, and her tutoring is not bad." In order to make her daughter have a little favor with him, Mrs. Li has reached the point of being nonsense.

Shi Yun smiled slightly and nodded, "I know..." She didn't seem to argue with her mother, so she said vaguely: "It's one of the four young masters at the time." Mrs. Li pretended not to hear the sarcastic meaning of her daughter's words, and concluded with a smile: "So my Shi Yun is not at all with her child."

Shiyun didn't want to listen at all. People connected themselves with other men, even if it was their mother who said this, they felt a burst of boredom and couldn't help but whisper: "It's my daughter who can't stand it."

When Mrs. Li heard this, she thought to herself: 'I say so much, feelings are nonsense!' She was just thinking about the words, but she saw her husband poking his head outside the Yuemen Cave. She waved her hand, and Li Guangyuan came over and said, "How are you talking?"

Mrs. Li gave him a look of 'I have no choice' and smiled bitterly: "You can say a few words too."

Li Guangyuan sat down and cleared his throat and said, "Daughter, Dad doesn't want you to be sad, but Your Majesty personally pointed out the marriage, and we can't do anything to do, and we can't violate it."

Shiyun nodded slowly and said, "The child understands, and he doesn't want his parents to go against it."

Li Guangyuan looked at Shi Yun's mother in surprise, meaning: 'Isn't this easy to communicate?' Mrs. Li gave him a look of 'you continue'. Li Guangyuan had to continue: "Since you can't violate it, you can only do it. Since you have to do it or not, why not do it as you are happy?"

Through the moonlight, Shiyun saw her parents' worried gaze, and she felt even more worried. After a while of silence, she said softly: "Don't worry, my daughter won't make you embarrassed."

"Are you not having trouble?" Mrs. Li asked softly.

"My daughter has never had a bad time." Shi Yun whispered.

Both the couple breathed a sigh of relief, and Mrs. Li said with relief: "That's good, that's good!" Li Guangyuan also twisted his beard and smiled: "The daughter is so sensible..."

"It's night, parents, let's take a break soon." Shiyun stood up and said.

"It's good." The couple was content to persuade their daughter to change their minds, so they stood up and left. When they reached the door, Mrs. Li turned around and told her: "You go to bed early, try your wedding dress tomorrow morning. It's better to change it if it doesn't fit."

Shiyun nodded and sent her parents away.

Leaving her daughter's garden, Li Guangyuan and his wife looked at each other and started talking softly...

"The master is still very good, and he convinced his daughter in a few words." Mrs. Li sighed with her husband's arms.

"Where are," Li Guangyuan said modestly: "It is mainly because my wife laid the foundation in the early stage that I can achieve it overnight."

Mrs. Li chuckled, gave her husband a charming look that "You are aware of your appearance", and made Li Shangshu's body feel halfway.

After walking for another period, Li Guangyuan asked a little uneasy: "Is Shiyun a little too easy to talk to?"

Mrs. Li looked at him with a angrily look and said, "You are so troublesome. My daughter doesn't want to see us hurt, so she would rather be wronged." Hearing the lady say this, Li Guangyuan suppressed the suspicion in his heart and nodded, "You still understand your daughter's mind." He said and sighed, "It's so wronged our daughter."

Mrs. Li raised her eyebrows and said, "I think it's better than marrying the fifth prince." As she said that, she remembered the old tent of the guy who was in his skirt, and couldn't help but look slightly red and said, "I'm just a playboy."

Li Guangyuan shook his head slightly and said, "You don't know the fifth prince. He can go from a helpless proton to this point today, but it's not a benefit from anyone's fortune." Looking back on his experiences over the years, he sighed with infinite regret: "The fifth prince is soaring and shaking the dragon and tiger steps, and the sun is the sun; he has great ambitions and swallowing the world. Compared with him, Shen Zilan is just from heaven and the other is from earth."

"So what? We really let our daughter make a side room for him to serve the Jade Princess of Chu?" Mrs. Li's tone gradually increased and said, "It's better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix!"

Li Guangyuan smiled bitterly and said, "Isn't the inner courtyard of the royal palace an ordinary family? The princess is also a noble person. Why should I serve the princess?"

"So, Shiyun didn't take advantage of her as a concubine, and the master is still very sorry?" Mrs. Li sneered: "Let's go to sleep in the study tonight."

Li Guangyuan quickly remedyed: "If you don't be a concubine, you won't be a concubine, our daughter will only be the wife of the wife..."

Mrs. Li did not smile and only heard her sigh: "I hope that boy Shen Zilan can cherish our precious daughter."

"I hope..." Li Guangyuan also sighed.

Shiyun stood in the yard for a while, but finally couldn't help but Jin Wen's urging and walked hand in hand to the embroidery building with her.

"Miss, do you really want to marry that Shen Zilan?" Jinwen said with a sad face. She was not much better than Shi Yun. As a personal maid, dowry is her fate. In order to enhance friendship with her future husband and consolidate her status as a wife, this kind of dowry girl will marry the master as a concubine.

Of course, if the lady can marry the prince, it would be a different matter. I believe the prince will give Shi Gan a face... Her marriage depends on the lady's marriage. If the lady married Shen Zilan, then she and Shi Gan would not have a chance.

Shiyun understood the worries in her heart and said softly: "Don't worry, although we are called masters and servants, we are actually like brothers and sisters. I will always do the last thing for you."

Jinwen widened her eyes and said, "What's the matter?"

Shi Yun stuffed a treasure bag into her sleeve and said with her ears: "Go tomorrow and I will say to Uncle Hu Wang, and you will leave quickly. In this bag is a certificate of deposit and related seals from His Royal Highness's money house. The signature is your name. You can take out a piece of stuff by this." As she said that, she glanced at the stunned little girl Jinwen, hugged her and said, "That's the dowry I prepared for you," and said, "It's a pity that I can't see your wedding with Shi Gan, but you have to live a good life..."

Jin Wen was already in tears, shook her head and choked, "Miss, I won't leave you..."

Shiyun patted her back lightly and smiled, "You always want to get married, can you still be a maid for others for the rest of your life?"

"I will be a maid for you for the rest of my life..." Jinwen tightly grabbed Shiyun's corner of her clothes, as if she was afraid that she would abandon her.

Shi Yun sighed softly, and was about to speak, but she heard someone gently say in the darkness under the eaves: "What a deep affection for master and servant, I feel sour in my nose."
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