Use a substitute on your wedding night to scatter the ashes of your entire family

"They are a good match, they are a good match. I think these two children are a perfect match. If Madam doesn't mind, why not ask Miss Zhong in private first?"

How could Mrs. Zhong not be happy? This was a good marriage destined by heaven: "Okay, I'll tell you as soon as I have news."

"However, I heard that after the Duke was conferred the title, Madam received a lot of visiting cards."

Zhu Anhe waved his hand and said, "Hey, you know I'm not good at socializing, so I turned them all down and came here."

Here, Li Shuangwan and Zhong Jiawei were standing beside a pond full of lotus flowers.

"Princess, have you met Sister Wan?"

"No, but I heard that I look exactly like my eldest sister."

Zhong Jiawei looked at the lotus flowers in the pond, as if recalling something: "Sister Wan is very friendly. The first time she met me, she invited me to visit the Lantern Festival together."

"If it weren't for her, I, maybe even our Zhong Mansion would no longer exist."

She turned around and looked at Li Shuangwan: "A woman like that died so tragically, Princess, why don't you think God will open his eyes and see?"

Li Shuangwan chuckled and turned away: "If she knew you missed her so much, she would be very happy. But, Miss Zhong, she is gone, so why not look forward to the future."

Zhong Jiawei is not as good as Hu Muyan.

Hu Muyan was deeply hurt by the court of Northern Jin and hated the Ling royal family.

And she is self-reliant.

So, even if she knew her true identity, she would never tell anyone.

Just like she said, she wouldn't even tell Lu Dongqing.

But Zhong Jiawei was different. She was well raised by Mrs. Zhong, and her father was the chief academic officer of the Imperial College, which meant she was farther away from the center of power in the court than the Hu family.

Naturally, they could not see that the Northern Jin Dynasty was on the verge of collapse and its roots were rotten.

She is more dependent on the Zhong family. If they knew that she was actually Li Shuangwan, there is no guarantee that she would not tell her parents.

If I tell her, she will only wait until everything is settled or until she marries her brother.

In the distance, Li Shuangxi stared at the two of them with sinister eyes.

How could Li Shuangwan not know this? Moreover, ever since Li Shuangxi discovered Li Shuangzhi's secret the day before yesterday, she had asked Hong Shuang to keep an eye on her.

Li Shuangxi had a lot of bad feelings in her heart that she hadn't yet vented.

The guests arrived one after another, and Zhu Anhe and Mrs. Zhong also came out from the yard.

The host went to entertain the guests. Li Shuangwan sat next to Zhu Anhe, got close to her, blinked her big eyes and asked with a smile: "Mom, how was the talk?"

Zhu Anhe pulled his daughter to sit on a stone bench nearby: "You are the only one who is clever."

"Isn't Miss Zhong very good? Wouldn't she be a perfect wife for my brother?"

Zhu Anhe scolded her: "You are such a shameless girl."

Li Shuangwan tried to persuade her: "Mother, you sent us away and gave Miss Zhong the jade bracelet that your grandmother passed down to you. Aren't you going to discuss the marriage between my brother and Miss Zhong with Mrs. Zhong? Tell me quickly, how did the discussion with Mrs. Zhong go?"

Zhu Anhe raised his head proudly: "Can your mother help you? It's almost certain. It depends on what Miss Zhong thinks. I think your brother likes her too. Mother really likes Miss Zhong, too."

Li Shuangwan raised her eyebrows. Her brother had a good eye for choosing a wife.

The mother and daughter were talking in private when Li Shuangxi came over: "Aunt, Big Sister."

Li Shuangwan immediately stopped smiling and glanced at her calmly, "Why doesn't Third Sister stay with Second Aunt?"

"Mother has gone to chat with another lady. Big sister, second aunt, can I join you?"

She looked at the empty stool beside the stone table with pleading eyes and a somewhat pitiful look.

Li Shuangwan knew that this person was pretending again.

"Please sit down." Zhu Anhe couldn't bear to see her look so pitiful, so he patted the stone bench beside him and glared at his daughter.

Li Shuangxi's face showed joy. Just as she was about to sit down, she heard a few voices coming.

"Oh, isn't this the Duke's wife and the princess? It makes it easy for us to find them." Several ladies and girls walked over here.

Li Shuangwan and Zhu Anhe stood up and greeted them: "It turned out to be Madam Jiang, Madam Yuan, Madam Liu, Madam Liu, the wife of the Marquis of Yongning, and several girls."

Hong Shuang was behind everyone and nodded calmly at Li Shuangwan.

When several ladies came over, Li Shuangwan knew that what she asked Hongshuang to do was accomplished.

That Mrs. Jiang was Lu Ziqi’s wife, Mrs. Jiang.

Zhong Jiawei also came over, walked to the side of Li Shuangwan, and chuckled: "I saw that they were looking for the princess and the Duke's wife, so I followed them."

Li Shuangwan reached out and held her.

Li Shuangxi saw all this and she hated it. She hated that Li Shuangyan would rather be close to others than to her, his own sister.

Those ladies and girls came forward and filled the entire pavilion in an instant.

Li Shuangxi was pushed out of the crowd and retreated step by step, until she could only retreat to the stone steps outside the pavilion.

In their eyes, there was no difference between them and the slaves and servants serving in the mansion.

She stared at the backs of these people, her eyes were filled with hatred, and her face was as white as paper.

Unexpectedly, someone suddenly turned around and looked at her: "This is Miss Li San from the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, right?"

Li Shuangxi hurriedly lowered her head, hiding the jealousy and anger in her eyes, and behaved as obediently as an inconspicuous quail.

Zhu Anhe smiled and said, "Yes, she is the third young lady from our house. Xier, come quickly and meet Madam Jiang and several other ladies from Minister Lu's house."

When Li Shuangxi heard the words "Mrs. Jiang from Minister Lu's residence", her heart skipped a beat.

When she looked up, she saw Mrs. Jiang wearing a pomegranate red jacket and gold and emerald jewelry on her head. She was standing on a high step, looking down at her.

There were two rays of light in his eyes, and he scanned her up and down several times as if he was looking at an object. His eyes seemed to want to strip her naked, making her feel uncomfortable all over.

It turned out that she was Lu Ziqi's wife, an old woman over fifty years old.

"My little girl Li Shuangxi greets Madam Jiang and all the ladies." Li Shuangxi stepped forward and greeted them obediently.

Jiang raised his eyebrows and raised the corners of his mouth in disdain.

"It is said that the girls in the Zhenguo Mansion are all outstanding. Today, I see that they are all very beautiful. Although the third girl is a concubine's daughter, I didn't expect her appearance to be so outstanding. It seems that she takes after the concubine in the mansion."

That's a very impolite thing to say.

It has been said since ancient times that one should marry a virtuous wife and take a concubine who is beautiful.

This is an irony of Li Shuangxi's biological mother, Aunt Tong, who relied on her good looks to climb up to the second branch of the Li family.

It also satirizes that Li Shuangxi is going to follow in her biological mother's footsteps and become her husband's concubine.

Li Shuangxi's face turned red and she looked at Li Shuangyan for help.

She originally thought that no matter what, they were all from the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, and Li Shuangyan should come forward and say a few words for her.

She is a princess, so her words always carry some weight.