Chapter 255: Old Flame
“Second Madam, there were too many people in line, it took some time, sorry to keep you waiting.”
The maidservant pushed open the door and entered, carrying a pastry basket in her hand.
She saw an extra Xiao Yanci in the room who had popped up from who knows where, and said nervously, “Who are you? How dare you barge into Second Madam’s dormitory room?”
“Second Madam? I wonder which mansion’s Second Madam this is?” Xiao Yanci looked at Jiang Yihuan with a half-smile.
“Our madam is Jing’an Marquis Manor’s Second Madam.”
“Shut up!” Jiang Yihuan interrupted the maidservant’s words and scolded angrily, “You go out first. This person is… my fellow townsman, we’re catching up on old times.”
“Yes.”
After the maidservant left, Jiang Yihuan looked at Xiao Yanci who had sat down and said, “You divorced me, there’s no relationship between us anymore, from now on we’ll pretend not to know each other.”
“Pretend not to know each other?” Xiao Yanci chuckled lightly, “You made me lose such a big face, and now you want to cut ties, is that possible?”
“What do you want?”
“You’re now Jing’an Marquis Manor’s madam, how impressive.” Xiao Yanci said, “Since you’re living so well now, you can’t just ignore your old lover, right?”
Jiang Yihuan gripped her handkerchief tightly.
Murderous intent flashed in her eyes.
Xiao Yanci said indifferently, “Don’t think of playing tricks. If anything happens to me, all those things you did before will become known to everyone. If Marquis Jing’an finds out you were once a slut anyone could sleep with, I wonder if he’d still let you be this madam? You’re good at pretending, your current man probably hasn’t seen your real face, has he?”
“What exactly do you want? We’ll mind our own business, not interfere with each other, wouldn’t that be good? Aren’t you also going to marry Prime Minister Wang’s daughter?” Jiang Yihuan said unwillingly.
“So you knew my situation long ago.” Xiao Yanci said, “Since you knew my whereabouts long ago, why didn’t you come find me? We were lovers after all, in this unfamiliar place, we could meet up for tea and chat whether there’s something or not.”
As Xiao Yanci spoke, he walked toward Jiang Yihuan and pulled her into his arms.
Jiang Yihuan was stunned and pushed at Xiao Yanci, but heard him lower his voice threateningly, “Call out louder, let that maidservant come in and see what we’re doing.”
In the next door dormitory room, a pair of man and woman were watching the situation opposite through a secret hole in the wall. Seeing that something spicy was about to happen next door, Zhou Wangshu quickly covered Su Yaoguang’s eyes.
The letter Xiao Yanci received was sent by Zhou Wangshu’s man, the purpose was to let this pair of old lovers meet sooner, and the current development was within their expectations.
“Mr. Xiao doesn’t mind the dirtiness.” Su Yaoguang said with a face full of disgust.
In her previous life, she actually felt sad for such a man, it was simply her brain rusting.
Luckily in her previous life he didn’t touch her, otherwise wouldn’t she be disgusted to death?
“We’ve watched the play next door, now let’s watch the play on stage! Today’s play is called ‘Romantic Third Scholar Chronicles’, very exciting, we can’t miss it.”
“From the name… it’s related to that scumbag next door?” Su Yaoguang guessed.
“The newly selected Third Scholar is a romantic, we need to publicize it well for him.” Zhou Wangshu said, “This matter is known only to heaven, earth, you, and me, I’m an unnamed hero.”
Su Yaoguang forked a piece of fruit and fed it into his mouth, laughing, “Devious and cunning, but I like it.”
The whole play was about how the Third Scholar fell into slavery, how he was groped and picked over by a group of women, finally bought by a peasant woman, then how he fell in love with that peasant woman’s daughter, successfully escaped slave status, and got the opportunity to study. During the imperial examination, he brought his newlywed wife, was seen being affectionate, making the whole audience sigh.
The whole play mixed truth and falsehood, the actors humorously performed how the Third Scholar caught his wife being intimate with an ugly man, how he angrily wrote the divorce letter on the spot, and so on.
There were quite a few people here today to listen to the play, mostly from powerful families, now the entire process of the newly selected Third Scholar being cuckolded gave everyone a vivid picture.
Xiao Yanci was next door being intimate with his old lover. Perhaps because Jiang Yihuan was no longer his wife now, stealing someone else’s woman was more stimulating, so he was so engrossed and didn’t notice the play on stage was acting out his past.
Of course, with Jiang Yihuan, there was inevitably that Wen Shi. The scene of two women serving one husband during the epidemic was also performed vividly, making people think he was a lustful fiend.
This play not only publicized how the newly selected Third Scholar Xiao Yanci was cuckolded, but also let everyone know how lustful this man was, not even sparing a widow in the countryside.
“The world is declining, morals are corrupt.”
Su Yaoguang watched the whole play, ate too many pastries and tea, and couldn’t eat dinner.
Zhou Wangshu pulled her to stroll the night market, to help digest.
The commotion next door had long stopped. After all, there was still a maidservant guarding outside, they didn’t dare go too far. Anyway, this pair of old lovers had hooked up, there would be plenty of opportunities later.
This nail was already driven in, just wait for the time to pull it out, then those eyesores could also disappear.
“Do you think Prime Minister Wang will still marry his daughter to Xiao Yanci?” Su Yaoguang and Zhou Wangshu strolled on the street.
“With today’s fire added, Prime Minister Wang is even less willing to marry his daughter to such a person. Prime Minister Wang isn’t a good thing either, but it’s his carefully raised daughter, of course he wants to make good use of her value, he definitely looks down on someone worthless like Xiao Yanci.”
“If it’s to exchange for value, he could just marry that Miss Wang to some royal noble, no need to pick a commoner-born Third Scholar.”
“Do you know why?” Zhou Wangshu mysteriously leaned over.
“Why?” Su Yaoguang was curious.
Zhou Wangshu leaned close to her ear and said, “This Miss Wang visited her uncle’s house, was tricked into bed by her male cousin, such a deflowered woman wouldn’t dare marry into a noble family.”
“How do you know these secrets?” Su Yaoguang looked at him suspiciously.
“Mm… I found out by accident.” Zhou Wangshu pulled her toward the front where people were doing juggling.
Su Yaoguang saw the acrobats and stopped pursuing the earlier topic, quickly putting the matter behind her.
Jiang Yihuan sat in the horse-drawn carriage, lazily looking outside, and when she saw Su Yaoguang and Zhou Wangshu in the crowd, cold light flashed in her eyes.
She must climb higher, higher than Su Yaoguang and Zhou Wangshu.
How could that bitch Su Yaoguang have such good luck.
Why?
She was unwilling.
She was now Marquis Jing’an’s madam, as long as she maintained her current identity and status, she would later be the head of Jing’an Marquis Manor. As for Xiao Yanci, he was actually an official now, they could mutually utilize each other.
If she spoke a few good words for Xiao Yanci, let Marquis Jing’an promote him, let him stand steadier in officialdom than Zhou Wangshu, it would also benefit her.
