“Tell me the truth, did you go to the palace to beg His Majesty two days ago?!”
Cui Shaoze jumped off the carriage in anger, rushed to Wen Si and questioned her loudly.
Wen Si frowned slightly, “I did enter the palace, but what does that have to do with you…”
“I knew you were such a wicked woman!”
When Cui Shaoze heard her admit it, he interrupted her without waiting for her to finish, his cold face full of disgust: “Do you think that you can make me withdraw my words of canceling the engagement by asking His Majesty? I tell you, it’s impossible!”
“I have said it before, I, Cui Shaoze, will never marry a vicious woman like you in my life. Even if His Majesty personally issues an order, I will never let you succeed!”
Wen Si felt very cold in her heart.
She also thought Cui Shaoze was ridiculous. “It’s true that I entered the palace, but why do you think I entered the palace for you?”
“You’re still trying to quibble! Yue’er has already told me what you said to her.”
Just as Cui Shaoze was questioning Wen Si, Wen Yue also got off the carriage behind him.
Wen Yue was not at the Wen family, but instead followed Cui Shaoze’s carriage back.
It’s obvious that he went to find Cui Shaoze specifically, which is why this situation happened.
Wen Si looked at Wen Yue coldly and asked, “I really want to know what I said to you?”
Wen Yue looked a little guilty, “Fifth sister, have you forgotten? Two days ago, after the coming-of-age ceremony, you were locked up in the ancestral hall by our father. When I went to see you, you told me that you regretted it and didn’t want to cancel the engagement because you still loved cousin Shaoze. You asked me to return cousin Shaoze to you, but I felt that cousin Shaoze’s choice should be respected, so I didn’t agree to your request. But…but sister, I didn’t expect you to…to run away from home and go to the palace to ask to see His Majesty.”
As she spoke, Wen Yue actually started to cry: “I’m sorry, Fifth Sister, it’s all my fault. I really didn’t expect that you liked Cousin Shaoze so much. If I had known that, I would have agreed to you that night, and you wouldn’t have to do such a dangerous thing.”
“What nonsense! Yue’er, don’t agree to anything she says!”
Cui Shaoze took Wen Yue into his arms with heartache, and while coaxing her, he glared at Wen Si fiercely.
What a great actor.
Wen Si sneered in her heart.
Oh.
How come she didn’t know that Wen Yue came to see her when she was imprisoned in the ancestral hall? You said all these things?
Not only can he act, he can also write.
No wonder Wen Yue could fool the Wen family and Cui Shaoze.
But this is not the most important thing.
Only a few people knew that she had been to the palace to meet His Majesty. If Wen Yue told him about Cui Shaoze, then how did Wen Yue know it?
Could it be that… Wen Yue has been sending people to monitor her?
Wen Si narrowed her eyes.
“Wen Si, I don’t care what you asked for from His Majesty when you entered the palace, you must immediately go to His Majesty and retract your words, otherwise I will never let you go today!”
His Majesty’s decree should arrive soon. Wen Si was too lazy to waste any more words with this man. She just threw down a sentence “Don’t be so self-indulgent” and turned to go in.
But after hearing what Wen Si said, Cui Shaoze felt that Wen Si was guilty, did not dare to admit it, and wanted to continue to pester him.
When he saw Wen Si turning around and trying to escape, he grabbed her right wrist and pulled her back, “Stop! You can’t leave until this matter is resolved today!”
Wen Si staggered when he pulled her and almost fell to the ground.
She finally couldn’t bear it anymore and slapped Cui Shaoze hard with her other hand.
“Bang!”
Wen Si shook off Cui Shaoze’s hand in the face of his angry gaze, and said with disgust: “Do you think that you are so charming that every woman will cling to you? Be devoted to you? Then I tell you, it’s not like that!”
“Because no woman would really like someone like you who is so arrogant, self-righteous, and doesn’t know how to respect others. Even if it’s Wen Yue, do you think she really likes you?”
What Wen Yue likes is not Cui Shaoze as a person, but his identity.
She remembered it clearly in her previous life. Cui Shaoze was too arrogant and offended someone he shouldn’t have offended, so his legs were crippled and he became a disabled person.
It was also that time that Wen Yue abandoned him without hesitation.
“Fifth sister, stop talking. If you want to scold someone, just scold me instead of cousin Shaoze, okay?”
Wen Yue felt that Wen Si seemed to have taken the wrong medicine these past two days and was becoming more and more abnormal.
Seeing that she was trying to expose herself, Wen Yue immediately took advantage of the situation and acted pitiful.
Sure enough, Cui Shaoze was fooled.
“Stop stirring up trouble here!”
Cui Shaoze didn’t believe what Wen Si said at all. He protected Wen Yue behind him and said angrily: “Yuer is not like you. She is kind and simple, and even more innocent. She is a thousand times and ten thousand times better than you, and a vicious person like you will never be as good as her!”
Wen Si caught sight of something with her sharp eyes, and the next second she slapped Cui Shaoze again.
“Bang!”
With a slap on each side, Cui Shaoze’s face was swollen.
This completely annoyed Cui Shaoze, “Wen Si, you are looking for death!”
In a rage, he raised his hand to hit Wen Si back.
But the next second, a high-pitched voice came from behind him –
“The imperial edict has arrived!”
Cui Shaoze’s face changed, he quickly retracted his action, turned around and knelt down.
Looking back, I saw that it was Eunuch De who was beside His Majesty, who came with people to announce the decree.
The gatekeeper, who had been hiding inside the door watching the show, quickly ran in to inform his masters.
When the eldest son Wen Changyun came out with his three younger brothers, they found that Wen Si had returned, but for some reason Cui Shaoze was also here.
“Father is not here, so I, Wen Changyun, will lead my brothers and sisters to receive the decree on your behalf!”
Wen Changyun is on duty at the Imperial Envoy’s Office in the court and is also a subject of Your Majesty.
Eunuch De smiled and said, “It doesn’t matter. Today’s imperial edict is not for the Duke of Zhenguo, but for Miss Wen Wu from His Majesty.”
For Xiaowu?
Wen Changyun and others didn’t know what was going on. When they heard that it was an order for Wen Si, they were all confused.
Then I looked at the person at the door——
Wen Si’s expression remained unchanged.
Wen Yue looked a little nervous.
Cui Shaoze’s face was full of anger, and he glared at Wen Si with resentment from time to time.
Wen Changyun discovered that these three people seemed to know what the imperial edict was about.
But what Wen Changyun didn’t know was that the three of them were thinking completely different things.
For example, Cui Shaoze——
“Eunuch De, does His Majesty really want me to get married with Wen Si? If so, I must meet His Majesty first!”
“Cui Shaoze, who do you think you are?!”
He was afraid that once the imperial decree was announced, the situation would become a foregone conclusion!
Eunuch De was stunned for a moment, then he understood something.
He smiled slightly and said calmly, “We haven’t started reading out the emperor’s will yet, so Prince Cui doesn’t need to be so anxious.”
“But……”
Cui Shaoze wanted to say something, but Wen Changyun shouted, “Cui Shaoze, don’t be presumptuous in front of the imperial edict!”
Cui Shaoze, who was still a little unwilling, was immediately held down by Wen Changyun. “Shaoze is young and ignorant, please forgive me, Eunuch De. Reading the emperor’s will is more important, please continue.”
Xiao Dezi then coldly withdrew his gaze, unfolded the bright yellow imperial edict, and then announced something that no one present had expected.
“Wen Si, listen to your orders.”
Wen Si lowered her eyes and knelt down respectfully: “Wen Si accepts your order.”
“The Emperor, in compliance with the Will of Heaven, proclaims:
Today, there is Wen Si, the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo. She is kind and upright, benevolent and righteous, compassionate to the world, and cares about her country. She is willing to repay her country with her life and become a nun to pray for the country and the people. I am very pleased, so I specially confer the title of Saint Maiden Fu Ming on Wen Si, let her practice Buddhism with her hair uncut, and give her the Buddhist name Wuyou – I decree this! ”
