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Chapter 178 Shen Hua Too Ashamed to Lift Her Head

Chapter 178: Chapter 178 Shen Hua Too Ashamed to Lift Her Head

The relatives in the main courtyard, some flattering, some obsequiously ingratiating. After all, the Yongchang Marquis Mansion is the most promising branch of the Xuan Family.

Old Madam Xuan’s smile never faded, but mostly it was for her grandson’s marriage.

Cui Xuan didn’t stay long before she took Qiao Si out, and Shen Hua, feeling stifled in the room, didn’t want to stay and followed them.

While going to find her sister-in-law’s home, they had to pass through a winding corridor over the water.

She then settled Shen Hua there.

"This place, where I came most often after leaving the boudoir, has many precious fish in the pond, all hand-fed by me at the time."

She took great care of it.

Nanny Fang smiled on the side.

"Indeed, Lady, when you were first getting married, your only worry was that these fish wouldn’t be fed. It was the first time you tried to take them as part of your dowry."

Shen Hua loved gossip. She looked at Nanny Fang with twinkling eyes, walking and tilting her head to listen to her.

Seeing her like this, Nanny Fang couldn’t help but spill more with a smile: "The Dowager refuted it on the spot, but it was Lady’s brother who kept promising, almost swore that he’d take good care of the fish. Only then did she get in the flower sedan chair."

Before getting married, which girl doesn’t have a bit of her own temperament? Moreover, these were all of Cui Xuan’s efforts, and furthermore, she was unwilling to be a wife of the Cui family.

Cui Xuan smiled, recalling the past, yet her eyes turned dim.

She was quite talented, and as a girl had harbored youthful fantasies. Shengjing was full of talented men; she loved literature, how could she fancy a rude military general?

One was literate, the other wielded swords and sticks. Even their speech couldn’t align. Comparing the two, the truth was shallow.

Time and again he exhausted her deep into the night.

Cui Xuan was somewhat afraid of the marital bed. Thus, she looked forward every day for Cui Yang to go to the battlefield soon.

Having married, she should regard him as her husband. But in the end, she harbored grievances, blaming him for his lack of tenderness.

What slightly changed her view of Cui Yang was initially when she hadn’t yet conceived Cui Bai, one rare occasion she left the mansion to accompany her family to the Daoist School. Just reaching mid-mountain, a sudden torrential rain started.

Utterly unprepared, without umbrella, without raincoat. Chaos ensued on the spot.

In just moments, everyone was thoroughly drenched.

To come here, one’s heart must be sincere, how could they turn back midway? It was strictly forbidden.

Dowager Cui, supported step by step by maids, ascended the steps, while her pregnant sister-in-law and attentive brother struggled considerably.

The rain blurred her vision, drifting across her cheeks, following the contours of her slender neck downwards. Nanny Fang protected her, but amidst the panic, she nearly slipped.

At that moment, Cui Yang arrived.

He should have been in the military camp.

Without a word, the man picked her up; this mountain path was truly nothing to him.

"How did you get here?"

"Saw the weather turning bad. Feared the mountain path would be tough for you."

The man took two steps at a time, easily overtaking his sister-in-law and quickly surpassing Dowager Xuan.

It was just after their wedding, how could they be so intimate in front of others?

"You’re walking too fast, don’t slip. Just set me down."

She said in alarm.

"Don’t you trust your husband?"

"Would I dare let you fall?"

"Why are your legs shaking? I deliberately didn’t disturb you last night."

His words deeply embarrassed Cui Xuan.

What she disliked the most was Cui Yang’s indelicate, inelegant speech regardless of the situation.

Yet Cui Yang effortlessly got her into the Daoist School. After boiling some water, he went down the mountain to fetch clean clothes.

His hustle back and forth, seemed as if it was his duty.

She saw it in her eyes, resentments aside, a girl’s heart could flutter too.

Latterly, she had Cui Bai, and had a loving period with Cui Yang. Until the Wu Family appeared. Time and again, they wore down her temper, making her face the reality.

And Cui Yang let her down, over and over.

Her gaze toward Cui Yang faded, her emotions waned.

She did everything a wife should do, yet alone lacked warmth.

Cui Yang also changed, becoming taciturn and reticent.

Wasn’t she the same?

Sitting face to face, yet nothing to say.

Cui Xuan shook off these thoughts. The people were gone; there was no sense in fussing over these matters anymore.

"Mrs. Wu, please accompany Miss Shen. If she gets tired, take her to the side room to rest."

She instructed Shen Hua: "Don’t be formal, just talk to Nanny Fang if you need anything."

Shen Hua nodded and watched as she and Qiao Si left to help. Then Shen Hua went to pick up the fish food placed on the stone table.

She took a small handful and leaned against the railing, looking down into the water, which was very clear but had a thin layer of ice due to the severe cold weather.

Shen Hua shifted her gaze, picked up a thin pole nearby, and slightly poked a hole in the ice on the surface of the pond.

Breaking the ice.

And thus she fed the fish intermittently.

"Does the Lady raise fish for eating?"

Shen Hua asked.

Nanny Fang: "They are naturally for viewing."

The fish quickly swam near, competing vigorously for the food.

"What a pity."

Shen Hua lamented: "They must be incredibly plump and delicious."

Nanny Fang: ?

These words, she had heard from the Marquis.

That was when the Eldest Young Master had not passed away, and the Second Young Master was not yet the Marquis, still a noble son of high spirits.

Second Young Master, while accompanying Cui Xuan back to the Xuan Family, idly brought his spoiled cat to fish by the waterside pavilion.

The cat excitedly waved its fluffy tail, pointing its paw at the fish in the pond.

"Don’t rush."

The young man rubbed its big-headed head.

"Want to eat it raw or make it into soup?"

"Miao Miao."

Twice.

Cui Yun: "Oh, so you want it raw."

With a ’snap’, Xue Tuan, being quick-tempered, slapped away Cui Yun’s hand. Its fur bristled in annoyance.

The young man, however, laughed. He even continued teasing it.

"I’ve never seen anyone as finicky as you, refusing raw fish last time and not even eating raw mice, but now you propose it yourself. What, do you want to watch Mama punish me?"

Nanny Fang listened with fear and trepidation.

"Second Young Master, you can’t eat these fish. The Lady forbids it."

"It’s just a reprimand at most."

"Such plump and delicious raw fish, it would really be a waste not to eat it."

Nanny Fang laughed as she recounted the incident. She didn’t notice the girl stiffen for a moment.

Shen Hua guiltily asked: "What happened afterward?"

"Caught a total of two fish."

Nanny Fang smiled helplessly: "Both were prepared by the kitchen; kept one for himself and sent one to the Lady."

"The Lady initially thought it was bought from outside. After tasting it, she even instructed us to make the same dish again tomorrow."

At that time, Cui Yun walked in.

—Simple, if Mama wants to eat, I’ll just go fish at my maternal grandmother’s place.

—You!

At that moment, Cui Xuan punished Cui Yun to face the wall and reflect, then felt a pain in her heart out of anger.

Shen Hua continued to feel guilty.

"Did the Lady eat fish afterward?"

"She didn’t."

Lowering her head, she murmured quietly: "Ah, what a waste."

"It’s not really so."

Nanny Fang spoke with mixed feelings.

"Before the Second Young Master was sent to face the wall, seeing that the Lady wouldn’t eat it, he also took it away, saying his cat loves to eat it."

Shen Hua, ashamed, couldn’t lift her head.

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