The wife of the Minister of Rites saw the maid coming in and asked quickly: "Is there a reply from General Shi's wife?"
The maid quickly took out Wen Shichu's reply: "Yes."
The wife of the Minister of Rites picked it up and took a look at it. She couldn't help but frowned and said, "This general's wife is so arrogant. I can't even invite her here, huh."
When Lord Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites came back from the palace, Madam Shangshu called him over, took out the reply from Wen Shichu, and said angrily: "You asked me to invite Madam Shi Ru, and I went to invite him, but she He didn’t want to deal with us at all, so you can’t blame me.”
Lord Shangshu read the reply and was a little surprised: "She doesn't want to accept the invitation? She doesn't even give the honor to our family?"
"Humph, what does our family mean? Shi Ru is a deviant. Didn't you see that he doesn't even recognize his own father? They don't want to pay attention to us at all." Mrs. Shangshu said.
The Minister of Etiquette threw the reply aside and said, "Forget it this time, just invite me again next time. If I don't come again, I'll take the initiative to come and be a guest."
After hearing this, Mrs. Shangshu suddenly became unhappy and said, "I still have to come to find her in person? Why? I can take the initiative to invite her to the banquet. It's already a difficult task. You still want me to take the initiative to come to find her?" Her? I'm a long time old, and I still have to please an old palace maid for your good nephew? Do you think of me as your wife? Your good nephew wants to win over Shi Hu, so let me be the one. My aunt is acting as a pawn for him, and I am not his biological mother, so why should I humiliate myself like this for him?!"
Seeing that his wife was angry, Master Shangshu of the Ministry of Etiquette quickly comforted him: "We are doing this for future generations. If the eldest prince ascends to the throne, how can we, as his mother clan, lose the glory? Isn't the merit of Conglong It’s so easy to earn. None of our sons have much potential. We can only continue our family’s century-old glory by following this path. Otherwise, if other princes ascend the throne, will our family still have a good life? It won’t be over for three generations. I can be down and out..."
The Minister of Rites persuaded his wife to continue to be friends with Wen Shichu.
However, Wen Shichu was not something they could just get along with if they wanted to. She was much more difficult to deal with than ordinary ladies. When people invited her to a banquet, she was not interested at all. When people sent invitations saying they wanted to visit her, she replied: It was not easy to entertain guests at home; when people wanted to "encounter" her outside, she would often choke them into silence after saying only a few words, and then she would leave calmly...
She was simply more difficult to deal with than Shi Ru, leaving the female relatives of various families who wanted to take advantage of her at a loss.
The invitations from other female housekeepers could be ignored, but there was only one family that even Wen Shichu couldn't refuse, and that was the royal family. After all, Shi Ru didn't intend to rebel, so Wen Shichu had to give the royal family some face.
The queen was going to hold a flower-viewing banquet and invited the female relatives from various families to the palace to participate. Wen Shichu was also among those entering the palace. When she received the invitation from the palace, she felt a little strange. After all, this would be her leaving the palace. After returning to the palace for the first time, but after returning this time, her identity has been completely different. Before, she was an ordinary palace maid who could only keep a low profile, and everyone with a higher rank than her had to be respectful; but this time she returned. She is already the wife of a first-grade general, no one can underestimate her.
"Even if you enter the palace, for the sake of your husband, those people won't dare to do anything to you. If you are wronged inside, you don't have to endure it for my sake. Just vent it out. As long as your husband and I If you don't fall down for a day, they will have to respect you for a day." Shi Ru warned Wen Shichu.
"What if it's the queen or the emperor who makes things difficult for me?" Wen Shichu asked him deliberately.
"Hmph, if they still have some brains, they won't make things difficult for you." Although Shi Li is famous for being good at fighting, it does not mean that he is not smart and has a weak sense of politics. On the contrary, he sees everything in the court clearly. Naturally, he knew that he was in this position. As long as he did not rebel, even the emperor would have to be afraid of him and tolerate him at the same time.
"Then I'm going to use your momentum to show off my power." Wen Shichu touched Shi Ru's chin and said with a smile.
Shi Ru was tickled by her touch and couldn't help but hold her hand, then kissed her and said, "It's my honor."
On the day of the flower viewing banquet, the queen was dressing up. She looked at herself in the mirror, stroking her hair and asking the maid standing beside her: "Qingyi, I heard that you had the best relationship with Wen Shichu in the past. What kind of person is she? Tell me carefully."
Qingyi was a close friend of the original owner in the palace. When they were still young maids, they lived in the same dormitory. Later, they gradually reached the position of eldest maid, and they have not lost contact. They occasionally talk together. Talk, but to say that they have a very good relationship and understand each other very well, it cannot be said. After all, they are both on duty and have little free time. Moreover, the two of them work at different times and do different things. It’s difficult to find a time when everyone is free.
Qingyi replied nervously: "Back to the empress, I have known Mrs. Wen Shangyi, no, Mrs. Shi for more than ten years. When I first entered the palace, I and Mrs. Shi lived in the same house. Mrs. Shi's personality He is gentle and kind, gets along well with everyone, does not quarrel with others, and is hard-working and hard-working..."
Qingyi told the queen everything about the original owner, and also added her own description of the original owner's character.
The original owner was indeed a gentle and kind-hearted woman. She was neither competitive nor aggressive. She was very decent in dealing with people, otherwise she would not have achieved the position of Shangyi. She could still live peacefully to the age of retirement, but she was too unlucky. He died on the eve of leaving the palace.
However, as a space beast, Shichu has nothing to do with the character of the original owner. Shichu is not a gentle and kind woman. She has a dark heart. It is impossible for others to plot against her, so the Queen's Ruyi The abacus was wrong.
Wen Shichu changed into a dress and led people into the palace. Other female officials' family members also arrived one after another. Wen Shichu was not familiar with them, but most of them knew each other. After all, when the original owner was a maid in the palace, I have seen these women.
"Mrs. Shi, are you here too?" A pretty lady in her twenties came over to Wen Shichu and said with a smile.
"Mrs. Wang, I've just arrived too." Wen Shichu replied politely. This Mrs. Wang is Wang Yushi's second wife. She is young and beautiful. I heard that Wang Yushi was obsessed with her, and even several of her deceased wife left behind. The children don't care anymore, it's commonly known as "if you have a stepmother, you have a stepfather".
