allonlinenovel Chapter 743 True Friends
Chapter 743 True Friends
Shen Wantang looked up blankly: "Alliance? What alliance?"
Qiao Zhiyu smiled. "Help me gain a foothold in the Duke's Mansion and speak well of me in front of Madam Gu and my brother-in-law. You must help me when I'm in trouble. When I go to find my brother-in-law, you must cover for me and don't let my cousin catch me. Then I promise you that I will never appear in front of Gu Qianhan and will not do anything to destroy your relationship as husband and wife!"
"It sounds like I'm doing all the work for you, but you haven't done anything for me!"
"Isn't it the biggest favor for you if I don't appear in front of Gu Qianhan?"
"It's okay, just show up in front of him. I'm curious, I can't get into his study, but can you?"
Qiao Zhiyu stamped her feet in anger. "You!! Why are you so stubborn? You're so confident and arrogant. Be careful that Gu Qianhan doesn't get snatched away by someone else. Even without me, my cousin will arrange for someone else to get close to him. It's best for you to form an alliance with me!"
Shen Wantang looked nonchalant: "Instead of looking for a woman for my husband, I think your cousin should worry about whether her own husband will be snatched away by someone else!"
Seeing that he couldn't persuade her, Qiao Zhiyu turned around and left angrily.
After she left, Shen Wantang's expression returned to calm.
After drinking a sip of tea and eating a piece of chestnut cake that Qiao Zhiyu was very craving, she washed her hands and sat down at the desk.
"Dujuan, grind the ink."
"Young Madam, are you going to practice calligraphy? Why are you practicing calligraphy at this time today? Are you mad at Qiao Zhiyu?"
Shen Wantang laughed: "How could I be so angry with her? I'm not practicing calligraphy, I'm writing a petition."
Du Juan was surprised: "Complaint? What complaint? Who are you suing?"
Shen Wantang did not explain, but waited for Du Juan to grind the ink and started writing.
But before he had written a few words, Gu Qianning came.
"A Tang!"
Gu Qianning rushed in like a gust of wind. Seeing her sitting at the desk writing, she was stunned: "Are you okay?"
Shen Wantang was puzzled: "What's wrong with me?"
"I heard that my sister-in-law and her servile cousin were looking for trouble with you, so I hurried over to help you!"
Shen Wantang laughed: "I really didn't make the wrong friends. No matter what happens, you always side with me without any discrimination!"
Gu Qianning looked at her angrily: "What do you mean by indiscriminate? You're talking as if you were wrong. I know everything about what happened yesterday. It was my sister-in-law and my second brother who were wrong. You didn't do anything wrong at all!"
After she finished speaking, she took a box from the maid and placed it in front of Shen Wantang.
"what is this?"
"Blood bird's nest!"
"For me?"
"Yeah, I think you seem to like this. I don't eat this, so I'm giving you all mine!"
Shen Wantang opened the box and saw that it was full of the best blood bird's nest. It was probably given to her by Mrs. Gu, but she had put it away and never eaten a single bite.
It can be seen that she really doesn't like to eat this.
So Shen Wantang gave this and that last night, but not to Gu Qianning, because she remembered that Gu Qianning said that she didn't eat bird's nest.
Shen Wantang didn't bother to be polite and accepted it directly. She smiled and bowed to Gu Qianning: "Thank you very much, Miss Gu!"
"You're being so polite to me!"
Gu Qianning pulled her over and asked softly, "Why did your sister-in-law bring her cousin here? Did she use her status as your sister-in-law to embarrass you?"
"No, don't worry. Even if she gives me a hard time, I can handle it."
"Really not?"
"Not really."
"Impossible? You know, your carriage broke down yesterday, and someone was sent back to deliver a message, asking the palace to send a carriage to pick you up. My sister-in-law deliberately refused to see Manager Pang, so Manager Pang didn't send a carriage to pick you up! I didn't even know about this at first. I only found out after my brother came back. Otherwise, why would she send a carriage? I would have gone to pick you up myself long ago!"
Shen Wantang was a little surprised: "I guessed that she did it on purpose, but how can you be so sure that she deliberately avoided meeting Manager Pang?"
"It's very simple, because there has never been such a situation before. My carriage broke down once, and when I sent someone to deliver a message, Manager Pang directly ordered a carriage to pick me up. The other masters in the mansion did the same. Such a small matter does not need to be reported to the sister-in-law! If the sister-in-law had to personally take care of even something like sending a carriage, wouldn't she be exhausted to death?"
Shen Wantang sighed slightly: "So that's how it is!"
She had only been married for a short time and really didn't know how the Duke's Mansion managed its affairs.
She also thought that Meng Yunlan liked to do everything herself. She had to handle all the mundane affairs of the Duke's Mansion personally, and the stewards had to report everything to her. That was why she was so tired that her energy and blood were depleted, and she was exhausted both physically and mentally, so that she could not conceive.
Because this is how Meng Yunlan behaved in front of Mrs. Gu.
When she went to pay her respects in the early morning, she would casually talk about some small matters in the mansion. When people heard it, they would feel that she personally took care of even the small matters of the Duke's Mansion and was particularly attentive in managing mundane affairs.
Every time she said this, Mrs. Gu would praise her, and she was very understanding of her difficulties and felt sorry for her.
Thinking of this, Shen Wantang laughed sarcastically, "I really thought that Housekeeper Meng Yunlan was working so hard, but it turns out she was only working so hard for me."
"If someone else's carriage breaks down, they can just go pick it up. But when it's my turn, Manager Pang still has to go and report to Meng Yunlan."
"It's clear that she had already told the stewards that if they encountered any issues concerning me, they had to report them before taking any action. Without her order, no one dared to act on their own."
Gu Qianning saw that she had seen through the trick, and guilt appeared on her face: "I'm sorry, Atang, I didn't know that my sister-in-law was such a person before. I was praising her in front of you, but she turned out to be so petty that she refused to even send you a carriage."
Shen Wantang patted her hand soothingly: "Why are you apologizing? It has nothing to do with you. You haven't wronged me. On the contrary, you are the one who has done the most for me. I have the good fortune of having you as my friend!"
Gu Qianning still felt guilty: "I hope you don't mind marrying into my family and having too many troubles. I originally thought that you would just enjoy a peaceful life after marrying in, but who knew... who knew that one after another would make you worry, your eldest sister-in-law bullying you, and even your second brother has lost his mind. I feel so sorry for you."
Her guilt came from the bottom of her heart, because when Shen Wantang married into the Duke's Mansion, she faced more than just being bullied by her own people. More importantly, she was actually taking a huge risk and she might very well be implicated and die.
She just felt that she had to be extra nice to Shen Wantang to make up for the risks she took.
As a result, Shen Wantang suffered setbacks one after another yesterday. One moment, Gu Qianhan's people stopped Shen Wantang and didn't let her enter the study. The next moment, Meng Yunlan deliberately didn't send anyone to pick up Shen Wantang and took her back home, leaving her outside in the rain for an hour.
The only thing that made Gu Qianning feel relieved was that her elder brother was as reliable as ever and had brought the person back.
Without my eldest brother, this family would probably fall apart.