Chapter 84 Part 5: Chaos

Sure enough, not long after Shen Yurong showed up, Jiang Li soon saw a woman’s silhouette come over leisurely in the dark night. Who else was it if not Princess Yongning?

Truly not a long time had passed, and the man sings and the woman follows.

Jiang Li stared at Princess Yongning, trying her best to conceal her ice-cold expression. However, Ji Heng took in the entire scene and as he held the handle of his fan thoughtfully, a strange light flashed in his eyes.

Princess Yongning took her time before gathering with the crowd, just asking with a surprised face what had happened.

Shen Yurong hurriedly comforted Shen Ruyun in a few words then stood up and walked towards the awkward Zhou Yan Bang who was standing together with Jiang Yu’e.

Zhou Yan Bang didn’t know if it was due to the drug, but he wasn’t completely sober yet. He looked as if he didn’t know fear, also not understanding how grave the matter was, he remained somewhat dizzy.

Shen Yurong saw him like that and directly walked to face Ningyuan Maquis. He said: “Master Zhou, you should give an answer to my sister.”

Ningyuan Marquis was ashamed and angry at being spoken to by a younger generation with a tough stance like this in front of so many colleagues. However, he understood clearly that the matter today was Zhou Yan Bang’s fault. Although annoyed at heart, his face showed remorse, suitable for the situation. He said: “All due to this old man being unable to educate properly and let this inferior son cause a great disaster. Young master Shen, no need to speak much, I will certainly let this inferior son give an account to your younger sister!”

Shen Yurong standing up for his younger sister like this had made the surrounding noble daughters who saw it had envy in their eyes. In addition, Shen Yurong had good looks, many people looked at him with admiration in their eyes.

Jiang Li snorted disdainfully. Putting up the front of a righteous noble person by speaking like that, who knew of his undertaking of killing his wife and exterminating his successor, all done to climb up? Really shameless.

Unfortunately, he was born with a deceptive good look, tricking females to be fond of him.

Ji Heng said: “Young master Shen is quite responsible.”

Jiang Li originally wanted to ignore him, but hearing other people praising Shen Yurong, she couldn’t help retorting. At once she replied, not salty but not mildly: “Duke Su’s requirements of people are very low.”

“Second miss doesn’t like young master Shen?” Ji Heng asked, “strange, young master Shen is handsome, gentle and refined, why don’t you like him?”

Jiang Li laughed sarcastically: “After death, only a pile of bones left, why should one like?”

“Second miss has a Buddha nature, free from vulgarity,” Ji Heng said: “so you don’t look at the external appearance.”

Only then Jiang Li recalled that this person in front of her, Duke Su, loved beauty and hated ugliness. Doesn’t he look at a person’s exterior the most? She didn’t know why she wanted to argue with Ji Heng and said: “Then, since young master Shen looks this good, Duke Su might as well consider receiving him into the residence, it will be more fragrant.”

She was saying that Shen Yurong was the same as a young male pet.

For quite some time, there was no reply from Ji Heng. Perhaps he was choked by Jiang Li’s words. As Jiang Li was about to lift her head to look at him, she heard Ji Heng’s voice. He sighed and said: “Didn’t expect second miss to be experienced and knowledgeable, making people surprised.”

He’s saying that she had seen these kinds of things before, basically not a decent, well-bred young lady at all!

Jiang Li was too lazy to speak. She wasn’t originally a noble daughter native of Yanjing, also not a girl from a wealthy family. She basically disliked being bound and loved freedom. How others saw her, she didn’t care. Now, she only wished to see Zhou Yan Bang’s ending.

But on the other side, Princess Yongning had finally finished listening to the whole sequence of events from a palace maid. Her eyes turned and she walked forward.

This was Cheng Wang’s younger sister. Facing Liu taifei’s most doted daughter, everyone had to lowered themselves three points. Princess Yongning opened her mouth with a smile: “How are you going to explain? A young girl’s reputation is the most important. Miss Shen is also an honorable miss; she was disrespected in vain. In the future, how is she going to get married?” Her sight swept over the stunned Zhou Yan Bang, smiled slightly, and said: “Luckily your two families are well-matched. It’s not difficult to talk about this matter. Just let Ningyuan Marquis’s heir marry Miss Shen, wouldn’t it be to everyone’s joy and satisfaction?”

Jiang You Yao’s body stiffened and she looked at Princess Yongning in disbelief.

Shen Ruyun crawled in mother Shen’s embrace, trying her best to cover up the delight in her eyes.

Jiang Yu’e was anxious and frightened. Princess Yongning speaking up was only talking about Shen Ruyun, without mentioning her. Could it be because she was a shu born daughter that she wasn’t worthy to be discussed in the same sentence with Shen Ruyun? Jiang Yu’e felt deeply humiliated but she could only lower her head and unwillingly looked at her skirt.

Jiang Li pulled her hands back into her sleeves, couldn’t help clenching them into fists. The smile at the corner of her mouth also appeared mocking.

Princess Yongning played a good hand, she had clearly seen Shen Ruyun’s thoughts. She just came to push the boat with the current to please the little sister-in-law. Perhaps, it wasn’t that she wanted to please the little sister-in-law, because according to Princess Yongning’s temperament, she definitely would not hold Shen Ruyun in her eyes. It was nothing more than to help Shen Ruyun so that Shen Yurong would be grateful to her to some extent.

If before it was just a suspicion that the Shen family had known the relationship between Princess Yongning and Shen Yurong early on, with the current sentence, Jiang Li was certain.

They had indeed known it from long ago.