Deceive me, Marry me - Chapter 87
Chapter 87 Sheng Lanci, “I Was Tricked into Marriage!”
Sheng Lanci, who knew clearly his daughter’s temper, had prepared to comfort his furious sweetheart. However, Sheng Weiqiao didn’t lose her temper. Instead, she promised to be a good girl in the future. With tears in his eyes, Sheng Lanci said, “How much have you suffered these days! You are so obedient now!”
After coaxing Sheng Weiqiao back to Zhuying Mini Villa, as his daughter washed up and dressed, he went back to the Spring House and asked Madam Feng with anger, “How can you put our sweetheart in the ancestral hall for half a month? Do you know how frightened she is?!”
Madam Feng pounded the table and stood up, showing no weakness, “Don’t you feel humiliated?! If it were not that you went out to handle things about the second branch in a hurry, and I was afraid that she would be out of my supervision, I would not lock her in the ancestral hall. I only allowed Shuihe to visit her for fear that the boy from Xu Family would seduce her!”
She was not Sheng Lanci, who had high expectations of her future son-in-law’s ability. In her view, her future son-in-law should be close to her family with no possibility of going far away. Then, it would be convenient for Sheng Weiqiao to go back home after getting married. Thus, she could enjoy the happiness of the family union!
As for talents, the medium level would be okay as long as he treated her daughter well. People who were not smart had fewer tricks!
Although Xu Baomo had been kind since he came into the family, even risking his life for her, Madam Feng didn’t want her daughter to marry him at all because he would definitely go back to Chang’an to inherit the title of marquis in the future!
However, news from servants indicated that Sheng Weiqiao and Xu Baomo were very close, and they even painted lotus flowers in the garden!
Thinking of the scene that she dated with Sheng Lanci before marrying him, she was worried.
She had only one child. If Sheng Weiqiao fell in love with Xu Baomo and wanted to marry him, Madam Feng couldn’t stop her. After all, her father, Senior Master Sheng, was very supportive of this!
Judging by Xu Baomo himself and the status of Xu Family, Madam Feng had no reason to object.
If she expressed her reluctance to let her daughter marry far away, Senior Master Sheng would persuade her like, “we, as parents and elders, should wish our children a better life instead of trapping them around us.”
Before she found that herself, Madam Feng made Sheng Weiqiao reflect in the ancestral hall without hesitation. As for Xu Baomo, he was an honored guest of Sheng Family without immoral behavior. He had helped Sheng Family. Madam Feng worried that he read her mind, which affected good relationships between two families and indicated that she returned kindness with ingratitude.
Therefore, she pretended to punish her daughter fiercely, and no maids or people were allowed to visit her. As for serving meals, Sheng Shuihe must do this himself. If she ordered servants to serve meals, Xu Baomo would have a chance to bribe them and pass love letters. She used the excuse that she was busy taking care of her parents-in-law and handling things about the second branch. As expected, although Xu Baomo wandered outside the ancestral hall frequently, he didn’t bother her.
“Even if you want to estrange them, you needn’t lock sweetheart in the ancestral hall!” Sheng Lanci lowered his voice when he felt that his wife was angry. He said with both aggrievance and embarrassment, “Feng Family is not far away from Xuanyu Family. You could have asked my mother-in-law or Elder Sister to send someone to pick up sweetheart, and she can live there for a few days. Without banquets and festivals, will that boy from Xu Family follow her?”
“Father and mother were sick, Second Sister died, and Second Brother was just released from prison today!” Madam Feng glanced at him with disdain. She sneered, “At the moment, if she had fun in the family of her grandmother or aunt, wouldn’t people see her as an unfilial one? Though she was locked in the ancestral hall for some days, people praised her as a filial girl who initiated to pray for his grandparents in front of ancestors!”
Her husband was quite shrewd in daily life. Why did he get confused every time handling things about his daughter?!
Madam Feng also cared about Sheng Weiqiao. Seeing her husband’s anxious facial expressions, she asked slowly, “You mentioned that sweetheart was frightened badly, really? The ancestral hall is in Sheng Family, and I let Shuihe visit her every day. At night, maids would be sent to accompany her in secret. According to them, the child had been fine!”
“Do you know what she said with bare feet after I entered the house?” Sheng Lan said sadly, “She said that she knew she was wrong. In the past, if we did this, she would lose her temper and complain that she was locked in the house for such a long time!”
Madam Feng also panicked when she heard this, “How could this be possible? Except that she was not allowed to leave the ancestral hall, I didn’t maltreat her! Even the meals prepared for her were various!”
Although their daughter was a person hard to admit mistakes, she was raised as an apple of their eye. When she was angry, even if she knew that she was wrong, she would not compromise!
Sheng Weiqiao was locked in the ancestral hall for about half a month. Not only Sheng Lanci, who returned from the long journey, but Madam Feng had made preparations to take much time to pacify her daughter after handling things of the second branch. Who knew that their daughter was like this?
At the moment, both of them were worried, “The kid… did she really think that we didn’t care for her? Or how could she be frightened like this?”
Sheng Lanci said with a sad face, “Yes. And you. Even if you wanted sweetheart to be far away from that boy, you shouldn’t have locked her for such a long time. Not to mention that you have arranged Weirao in Zhuying Mini Villa, and Yingjiang lives next to her. Even if he goes to Zhuying Mini Villa every day, with so many people around, how can he seduce her? You could have made sweetheart serve father and mother. Because such a humiliating thing happened, and would he be thin-skinned to make father and mother apologize for their poor entertainment?”
Madam Feng didn’t refute, and she stood up with serious facial expressions, “I’ll go with you and take a look! “
The couple came to Zhuying Mini Villa in a hurry. At the moment, Sheng Weiqiao had just finished dressing and washing up. She could bathe in the ancestral hall, but Madam Feng did not allow her to bring maids. She had to do everything by herself, which was less relaxing and comfortable than being surrounded by many people in her own house.
At the moment, Lvjin and Lvqi led a small group of twelve or thirteen-year-old maids to serve her. They dried her long hair with handkerchiefs, massaged her shoulders and legs, and fed her small pieces of fruit and pastries. All of them showed concern for her and said, “Miss has suffered these days!”
After bathing and changing clothes, Sheng Weiqiao obviously became more energetic, but she still frowned frequently. The anxious appearance made her parents worried even more. This was the time to judge one’s reacting ability!
With tears in eyes, Sheng Lanci quickly stepped forward and grabbed the fruit tray in the maid’s hands. While feeding the fruit to her daughter, he said with a trembling voice, “Sweetheart! You were aggrieved these days! You are the apple of my eye and have never suffered such grievances before!”
Then, Madam Feng wiped her tears, “I told you that our sweetheart was gentle and sensible, and there was no need to lock her for half a month. However, you stuck to teach her a lesson. How many times I wanted to visit sweetheart and take her back! But you forbade that! If that estranged us, I would not let go of you!!!”
“!!!!!!” Sheng Lanci turned his head and stared at his wife in a dumbfounded state. He thought, “Haven’t we agreed to let her feel the care and love of both of her parents?!”
You betrayed me after entering the door!
While pinching the soft part of his ribs under cover of his body, Madam Feng glared at her daughter with motherly love, “Sweetie, how are you feeling now? My poor girl! Since he came back, I had persuaded him many times to let you out, and he finally agreed!”
“Sweetheart, don’t believe what your mother said! It was dad who picked you up today. Dad loves you so much, so how could it be possible that I locked you in the ancestral hall?! Dad was not in the family these days and knew nothing about your experience!” Sheng Lanci’s face was twitching because of the pinching. He looked at his wife, who showed “you would be so dead if you didn’t take the blame”, and his daughter, who showed “you were such a bad dad, and I hadn’t known that all along”. He finally made a decision and tried to argue, “Sweetheart, the reason why you were imprisoned in the ancestral hall…”
“Lanci, at this moment! This is not the time to be obscure!” Madam Feng pinched the part of his waist and wrung hardly. She ignored her husband’s trembling, raised her eyebrows, and sneered, “Yes! You cared so much about sweetheart that you left when sweetheart missed you the most, and you didn’t have to see her! Sweetheart is our daughter, and we shared a blood relationship. Even if she knows that you are strict with her, can she hate you? Why did you cover that? It seemed that you didn’t trust our sweetheart!”
Nonsense!
Why didn’t he find that Madam Feng can recriminate so badly before!?
Was she still his gentle and beautiful wife by the first marriage?
He felt that he was tricked into marrying her!!!
Sheng Lanci felt terrible and was about to fight back, but he didn’t realize that Madam Feng was near his ear and said quickly, “At least one of us should be trustable to sweetheart, and then one can help to effect a compromise for the other. Now that sweetheart trusts me, if you still continue to expose me, sweetheart will be disappointed at both of us. How much effort will it take to comfort her!”
His wife was not only good at putting the blame on the victim but also good at threatening!
His tears fell as he turned to his daughter, who stared at him angrily. Sheng Lanci finally convinced himself to say, “Sweetheart, it’s dad’s fault! I shouldn’t have followed your grandfather’s advice and have been strict with you….”
He saw his wife as his role model. She passed the buck to him, and he did so too!
Anyway, Senior Master Sheng had not recovered yet. Even if sweetheart visited her grandfather, she wouldn’t care much about that. Sheng Lanci thought it less critical whether Sheng Weiqiao would be indifferent to him or not!
As long as his daughter was still intimate to him!
If his father weren’t treated well by his granddaughter, he should think up a method to handle that!
The worst thing was that he was beaten badly by him!
Anyway, he was used to that since he was little!
After their intriguing against each other, Sheng Weiqiao finally believed that she was still favored by them.
Feeling relieved, she felt arrogant and became unreasonable again. Sheng Weiqiao raised her chin high and was about to say, “I don’t listen! I don’t listen! Neither of you loves me, cares about me, attaches importance to me, or likes me.” While a maid outside the door coughed, she wondered whether she should disturb or not.
Sheng Weiqiao, who sat on the couch toward the door, recognized that the maid was Wanchun favored by Madam Feng. She nodded subconsciously and said, “What happened?”
“People of Ao Family came, and Senior Master hoped that Eldest Master and Eldest Madam could entertain them!” Wanchun felt relieved. As for such things, she should report without hesitation. People of Sheng Family all knew that Second Miss was favored by the whole family. After being locked in the ancestral hall for about half of a month, she was picked up by Sheng Lanci himself, and it was time for them to bond. Although she was Madam Feng’s trusted subordinate, she dared not to disturb them without permission.
After all, Senior Master Sheng would not directly punish his daughter-in-law’s close attendants. Therefore, Madam Feng’s impression on her was much more important than that of Senior Master!
Now, taking the opportunity of Sheng Weiqiao’s asking questions, she said quickly, “Senior Master of Ao Family led their Eldest Master, Eldest Madam, Childe, and Miss here. Now, they are approaching Jinxue House. Second Master is in mourning, Third Master went out early in the morning, and Third Madam has to serve Old Madam, so Senior Master wanted you to go there quickly for fear that they felt we neglected them!”