Chapter 465 Let Her Wake Up
Chapter 465 Let Her Wake Up
Early in the morning, after breakfast, Jiang Yan took Mrs. Jiang's hand and acted coquettishly.
"Mother, I miss Sister Ling. Can you let me go to the palace to find her?"
it is as expected.
Mrs. Jiang looked at Jiang Yan's eyes full of expectation, and her heart sank a little.
This was the first time in my daughter's life that she lied to herself.
If I didn't know the truth, seeing how excited my daughter was, I would definitely agree to let her go. The daughter I raised with so much effort treated me like this!
Seeing that something was not right with Mrs. Jiang's expression, those eyes that had always been kind were now so cold, as if they could see through her.
Jiang Yan felt a little guilty, looked away and asked, "Mom, what's wrong?"
Did her mother know that she was lying?
It should be impossible.
She didn't even tell her personal maid Xiangyu the purpose of her visit to the palace, so her mother had no way of knowing.
Mrs. Jiang thought that she had also been through this age before, and her understanding and perception of life were twenty years more than her daughter's. Her eyes softened a little.
Mrs. Jiang is a smart woman who has been running the Jiang family for so many years. If she objects now, Jiang Yan will rebel in the face of the opposition and her feelings for that man will become stronger and firmer!
She wanted Yan'er to see through this immature emotion and let it go on her own, so that it would not affect the relationship between mother and daughter.
Madam Jiang suppressed the emotion in her eyes, smiled and said, "Yan'er, your sister Ling is going to treat the prince's illness, you can't disturb her. Besides, she has just reunited with her grandfather, how can you disturb her!"
Jiang Yan breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Mrs. Jiang did not see through her.
She shook Madam Jiang's hand, leaned into Madam Jiang's arms and said coquettishly, "Mother, I will go see her and promise not to disturb Sister Ling from treating the prince."
Madam Jiang refused outright, "No! This is a matter of life and death, how can I let you mess around!"
"Mom." Jiang Yan pouted and acted coquettishly.
Madam Jiang looked at her daughter, paused, and suddenly her eyes lit up. She said mysteriously, "If Yan'er is obedient, I will take you to a fun place to watch a play this afternoon."
Seeing Madam Jiang's firm attitude, Jiang Yan pursed her lips, gave up the idea of going to the palace, and asked curiously, "Where are you taking me, mother?"
Madam Jiang nodded Jiang Yan's head and pretended to be mysterious, "Yan'er will know in the afternoon. If you are bored, go play with your nephew!"
When Jiang Yan mentioned Heng'er and thought of his soft little face, she forgot all her unhappy thoughts and took Xiangyu to her sister-in-law's yard.
After seeing Jiang Yan leave, Madam Jiang called the housekeeper and told him, "Go and do something."
In the afternoon, Mrs. Jiang brought Wang and Jiang Yan to Zuixianju.
"Mother, sister-in-law, why are we here? Haven't we had lunch yet?"
"You'll find out when you go in."
Although she didn't understand what her mother was going to do, Jiang Yan was still very happy to be able to go shopping with her mother and sister-in-law.
Jiang Yan took her mother's hand, walked through the corridor, and came to another building of Zuixianju. Before entering, she heard the sound of "Yiyaya" coming from inside.
It turned out to be a building dedicated to performing opera.
Jiang Yan had heard that the opera in Zuixianju was good, but Madam Jiang said that the place was full of good and bad people and did not allow her to come.
It was so strange today that her mother brought her here in person.
Jiang Yan looked around the building, seeing the exquisite figures of actors, and asked in confusion, "Didn't mother forbid me to come here before?"
Madam Jiang replied gently, "Yan'er will be coming of age next month, and she is also at the age to discuss marriage. In the future, she will be the head wife of someone else's family, and will inevitably be involved in weddings and funerals at home. I brought you here in advance to see it."
Speaking of marriage proposal, Jiang Yan's face flushed, and she said angrily, "Mom, I don't want to discuss marriage. I want to accompany you."
Although she didn't know how much sincerity was in her words, Mrs. Jiang was still happy when she heard it. She hoped that her daughter really thought so.
Madam Jiang said with a smile: "What nonsense! How can a young lady not discuss marriage?"
Wang followed suit: "I'm afraid that when the day comes for me to get married, my mother will want to keep me, but my sister won't agree!"
"Sister-in-law, you are teasing me too!" Jiang Yan was too embarrassed to look up and almost buried her little head in Mrs. Jiang's arms.
As soon as we arrived at the door, a little boy in a blue shirt greeted us. "Ladies and ladies, the elegant seats you reserved are upstairs. I will take you there."
Mrs. Jiang responded, and a little boy led the three people to an elegant seat on the second floor.
The private room was like a separate room, except that the wall facing the stage was empty and used as a viewing platform, with gauze curtains hanging on both sides to block the view to the left and right.
Mrs. Jiang and the other two sat down, with Jiang Yan and Wang sitting on their left and right.
On the table in front, the best Biluochun tea, as well as melon seeds, pastries and other snacks had been prepared in advance.
On the stage downstairs, preparations were still being made and the scenery was being set up.
It was Jiang Yan’s first time here, and she looked around with great interest at the decorative ornaments inside, all of which were very elegant.
There was no one on the other side, so Jiang Yan asked, "It looks like it's time to start, why haven't the people on the other side come yet?"
Wang smiled and explained, "My mother was worried that the show would be disturbed, so she covered this floor."
So that's how it is! Her mother really has the ability, and this amount of money is a drop in the bucket for the Jiang family.
Half a quarter of an hour after they sat down, a middle-aged man with a painted face and wearing a blue robe walked out in the center of the stage and announced the start of the opera. The sound of gongs and drums was deafening, and the opera instantly became lively. The main characters and supporting actors appeared on the stage together.
Jiang Yan looked at their strange postures and laughed while covering her handkerchief.
Watching the opera in the audience, Jiang Yan asked with a smile: "Why didn't mom take me to watch the opera before?"
Madam Jiang used the lid to stir the tea, took a sip, and then answered, "A play is like life. You were young before, and you couldn't understand it. Now Yan'er is grown up, and one day she will leave you. I will teach you everything I should teach you at the right time. I just hope that Yan'er's life will be better in the future."
Jiang Yan looked at Madam Jiang and her eyes became moist.
"Mother is the best mother. Eat some snacks so that you can have the strength to teach me!"
Jiang Yan smiled and fed a piece of cake to Mrs. Jiang, and also fed a piece to Wang who was standing beside her.
After a while, the play got to the point.
It tells the story of a daughter of a prime minister and a talented man who meet by chance and fall in love at first sight.
The first meeting was very beautiful. The talented man picked up the young lady's jade pendant and returned it to her. The young lady was moved and secretly fell in love with the talented man. She finally married him at the risk of committing suicide.
The talented man used the young lady's family power to rise rapidly to the top.
The talented man who had gained power felt that he had endured humiliation all these years, so he divorced his wife. The young lady was no longer young because she had been in charge of the household for many years. She had no way out after the divorce, so she died by hitting the door before leaving the house.
After the talented scholar's wife died, he took all of her dowry and remarried and had children.
Jiang Yan watched with tears in her eyes, and at the same time she gritted her teeth and scolded the talented man for being unfaithful.
The second story is about a rich lady and a servant in her mansion. The lady was also bewitched by the servant and married him. In the end, she found out that she was deceived and lost both her money and her man. In the end, she was tortured to death by the servant.
"How despicable! How could these men do this! Do the oaths they made mean nothing?" Jiang Yan clenched her fists tightly and angrily scolded the unfaithful men.
Jiang Mu said, "An oath has no proof. It may be useful to a gentleman, but it is just a word to a villain, who may not even acknowledge it afterwards."
After watching several similar operas in a row, Jiang Yan was so angry that she cried out that her stomach hurt.
This time, Jiang's mother was not in a hurry to take her back, but let her experience firsthand the pain and regret of being deceived and betrayed.
"How can these people be so shameless! Why do they choose to cheat these kind-hearted women?"
"A man is innocent, but guilty of possessing a treasure."
Jiang Yan watched the actors on the stage go down, and dragged Sazi to ask her mother: "Aren't these women smarter? How can they be deceived so easily!"
Mrs. Jiang once again taught her daughter: "People's hearts are hidden, and it is the hardest to tell. So cut off the possibility of being deceived from the root."
Another play came on, also about the prime minister's daughter. After meeting a talented man, she was separated by her family and married to a marquis' son who was of equal social status.
In the lord's house, everyone is equal in all aspects, there is no such thing as taking advantage of others, and the two of them respect each other and love each other all their lives.
Another story is about a young lady from an aristocratic family marrying a young man from an aristocratic family. Although they eventually divorced due to their incompatibility in personality, the young man was not short of money and did not withhold the girl's dowry.
Because of the benefits brought by the marriage, the woman was treated well when she returned to her parents' home, and finally found her ideal husband and remarried, living a happy life.
Jiang Yan finally fell silent and didn't say another word. Mrs. Jiang knew that her daughter had taken her words to heart.
"Marrying someone of equal social status is a rule passed down from our ancestors, and there must be a reason for it. Only when both parties are equal and neither is inferior to the other can they understand each other and live together for a lifetime. Even if they can't live together, with the upbringing they have received since childhood, it won't be too bad."
"The gap is too big. No one can feel what another person is thinking. People who crawl out of the mud are often more ruthless than ordinary people. In order to cover up their ruthlessness, like normal people, they can do anything."
On the way back, Madam Jiang held Jiang Yan's hand and said earnestly: "Yan'er, you are at the age to discuss marriage. When you choose a husband in the future, you should choose someone who is already good, not someone who promises to change.
He is willing to change for you at this moment, but he will change for something else the next moment."
Jiang Yan's face was solemn. She lowered her head and returned to her yard without saying a word.
After Madam Jiang asked Xiangyu, Jiang Yan's personal maid, to take good care of her grandson, she went to see her grandson with Wang.
"Mother, aren't you going to look after my younger sister?" Wang held the child in her arms, her eyes filled with worry.
Madam Jiang spun the rattle in her hand and smiled: "Let her calm down on her own. If she is still not awake, I have other ways to make her sober."
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