As soon as you enter, you can smell the aroma of wine all over the yard.

After fermentation, the grain exudes a mellow aroma. There is also a green plum tree in the yard, the sour aroma of the fruit is mouth-watering.

After Shen Mengyao entered, she asked the store owner to dig the wine out from under the tree and remove the mud seal. The sweet aroma of the plum wine immediately filled the whole garden.

"How is this wine? Is it acceptable to Madam Wang?"

Madam Wang used her wide sleeves to fan the aroma of the wine and nodded, "It is indeed a pleasant aroma. I heard that this plum wine needs to be buried underground for half a year before it can be taken out and drunk. It will taste better. I wonder how long this wine has been buried."

Shen Mengyao smiled slightly: "It is said that this wine was buried years ago, and now it has been more than half a year. Madam Wang is really very knowledgeable."

The aroma of the ripe plums in the wine made even Mrs. Wang greedy. She quickly asked the shopkeeper to bring out a wine glass and fill it up so that she could taste it carefully.

She took a sip and praised it highly: "This wine is indeed rich in aroma, mellow in taste, and long in aftertaste. The princess has good taste."

Shen Mengyao smiled and said, "In that case, Madam Wang might as well take a few jars back and let Lord Wang taste them carefully."

"There is only a carriage here today, I'm afraid it can't accommodate all the carriages." Mrs. Wang hesitated.

"That's not difficult. I've talked to the store owner and asked him to bring out a few more jars. How about when they're ready another day, Madam Wang can come and pick them up?" Shen Mengyao said with a chuckle.

Mrs. Wang naturally agreed readily.

She had already deployed her people in the yard, so it was not difficult for her to know what day Li Junfeng usually went to see Meng Yuehuan.

As soon as he arrived, Shen Mengyao invited Mrs. Wang, opened some good wine, and said that they wanted to go on an outing together to enjoy the scenery. Mrs. Wang naturally invited other noble ladies.

Dozens of jars of wine were tied onto the cart, and Mrs. Wang smiled from ear to ear: "My husband is so happy."

"It's not as good as the one in the palace. The palace has a kind of imperial wine that has been aged for more than ten years. The taste is very good." Shen Mengyao said with a smile.

"This is already considered delicious. I don't have the luxury of tasting the food brewed in the palace." Madam Wang laughed and joked, "The princess grew up in the palace, so she is really knowledgeable."

Shen Mengyao covered her mouth and chuckled: "How could that be true!"

Mrs. Wang saw a small jar and asked someone to move it to their carriage so that she could taste it when she went on the outing later.

But when he turned around, he suddenly saw Li Junfeng hurriedly passing through the alley and going straight to a small courtyard with a private entrance next to it.

"Hey, isn't that Mr. Li?"

She spoke subconsciously.

Hearing the sound, Shen Mengyao immediately walked out of the yard.

"Li Junfeng? Did you see it wrong? This is a residential area for ordinary people."

Kyoto is clearly divided into different areas. This is Tamagoyomi, and there are generally no shops here. The green plum wine is not put up for sale. They just came here after finding out about it by chance.

Mrs. Wang had just lamented that she spoke too quickly, but now she became anxious when she heard this: "I have met Mr. Li several times, how could I have been wrong?"

"Where did he go?" Shen Mengyao's face turned cold.

Mrs. Wang pointed to the wooden door that had just been half-closed. There were flower branches sticking out from the door, which looked very romantic.

"Right there."

Shen Mengyao walked quickly forward and raised her hand to knock on the door, but stopped in mid-air, then seemed to have lost her courage and turned around to pace back and forth.

Although Mrs. Wang did not have a very good impression of Li Junfeng, it was definitely not a bad one. This was mainly because Zhu often kept telling her how outstanding her son was.

Although she felt strange, she did not think of going in another direction. She just smiled and asked, "Master Li is here to meet a friend. Princess, you can find out by asking."

"Maybe Madam Wang didn't know before..." Shen Mengyao said halfway and threw her sleeves: "I'm too embarrassed to say it out loud."

Mrs. Wang smiled and asked, "Why is it so difficult to say this?"

Shen Mengyao sighed: "It's embarrassing to tell others about it. My husband and his cousin from another country were caught having an affair. I was just afraid..."

"Then we have to go and take a look." Madam Wang's face changed: "You are married by the emperor, how could he do this? Keeping a concubine is a shameful thing. We must go and find out the truth."

As soon as she finished speaking, she walked forward quickly and knocked on the door.

Soon, a little maid opened the door, stuck her head out, glanced at them and asked, "What do you want to see our lady for?"

"Your wife?" Madam Wang glanced at him and said, "Could it be that your wife is the boss here? Who was the person who just came in?"

"That's our master." The maid said ignorantly.

"Oh, you want to live a happy life. You have built your own mansion outside and live very happily." Mrs. Wang spoke up for her.

The other ladies also came forward to help.

Perhaps because the noise here was too loud, all the nearby residents gathered around and looked at the situation here curiously.

Mrs. Wang did not give him any face. She took advantage of the crowd and forced her way in, blocking him in the room.

"Oh, as expected, I'm not seeing things! Princess, come and see!"

Li Junfeng's face changed when he heard the word "Princess".

Why is Shen Mengyao here? He quickly exchanged a glance with Meng Yuehuan.

Meng Yuehuan cleared her throat and calmed down: "It's okay, cousin."

Shen Mengyao walked in quickly. The furnishings in the yard were exactly the same as what she had seen in her previous life when her soul was floating away. The two of them were living happily here, just like a real couple.

She was kept in the dark and had no idea what was going on. When she thought of this, she felt as sick as if she had swallowed a fly.

"It's really you. Didn't you say you would send her to the countryside? Why is she here? Did you hide it from me and let her secretly become your mistress?"

Li Junfeng stepped forward and explained with a specious reason: "There is no one left at home. She will only be bullied if she returns to the countryside. I didn't inform you because I was afraid you would think too much!"

"Ah!"

Shen Mengyao sneered, her eyes full of disdain and anger.

She looked around. Every corner of this carefully decorated courtyard revealed traces of their sweet life, which was undoubtedly a mockery to her as the legal wife.

"Li Junfeng, who do you think I am, Shen Mengyao? You have deceived me like this, where do you put me?" Her voice was as cold as ice, and her eyes were full of anger: "Don't forget, our marriage was granted by the emperor himself, and I am backed by the Prince's Mansion and the royal family!"

Li Junfeng's face froze: "Mengyao, she is my cousin, what's wrong with me taking care of her?"

"Are you still going to argue here? Just now, this little maid said that a master and his wife live in this house."

Shen Mengyao caught the maid.

The little maid was trembling with fear.

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