Marriage of the Di Daughter
Chapter 144.2: Part 2: Inside Information

Jiang Li laughed, “It’s nothing more than being forced by the situation.”

When she was Xue Fang Fei and after she was married into the Shen family, she washed her hands and made soup for her husband, mother-in-law and sister-in-law. Due to her outstanding craftsmanship and the not so well-off economic condition of the Shen family, they saved on hiring a cook. She could make the roast venison eaten in winter best, but mother Shen did not let her make this in the house. She said the taste of this dish was too heavy, something that only a farmer and a hunter would eat and was not presentable.

So the winter’s delight in roasting and drinking was gone. Come to think of it now, since she got married and entered the Shen family, she had sacrificed a lot of things, that was, her freedom.

She sank into her own thoughts until Ji Heng’s voice brought her out of her reverie. He said, “Another day, the duke mansion can roast venison.” He looked at Jiang Li and said with a smile, “You do it.”

“Me?” Jiang Li was surprised.

“I can’t.” Ji Heng’s beautiful eyes squinted, “Of course you have to do it.”

“But…..” Her relationship with Ji Heng had not reached the stage where she could roast venison in his mansion! This is the duke’s mansion, not Jiang’s residence, why would she go to the duke’s mansion to roast venison, is the duke’s mansion a restaurant or a tavern?

“Good good good!” Old general Ji was the first to praise and laughed heartily, his appellation towards Jiang Li also changed, from little girl Jiang changed to little girl Li. He said, “Little girl Li, just come! The mansion will have all the ingredients prepared, you just need to roast! Just tell this old man what you need, will definitely not let you be busy!”

Just roasting would already be very tiring, right?

“Not bad, I think this proposal is good.” Wen Ren Yao simply liked places that were lively and he still wanted to play a role. “I’ve never eaten roast venison! What second miss said just now made me drool. Since that’s the case, then let’s agree on a time. We will all come over when the second miss roast venison. How about also making that beggar’s bird? Then we can taste it together!”

Kong Liu, “Agreed.”

Lu Ji, “….. agreed.”

Situ Jiuyue, “…..” Though she did not say anything, she did not refuse, it was clearly a tacit agreement.

Jiang Li, “I don’t agree.”

Her “I don’t agree”, did not make a splash, drowned in everyone’s lively discussion. Jiang Li was depressed, couldn’t help looking at Ji Heng and saw he was resting his chin in his hand and looking back at her. His eyes had a delight in succeeding to play a joke on her.

He simply didn’t like cooking, so he also pulled her into the water. Is this called must not let him go into hell by himself?

Truly treacherous.

At the end of the meal, Jiang Li became inexplicably unhappy. After the meal, everyone scattered. Wen Ren Yao wanted to pull Jiang Li to the duke mansions flower beds to appreciate the flowers. He said, “Don’t come close, just look at them from afar. In the middle of winter, only this place has flowers growing in the middle of winter.”

He really treated the duke’s mansion as his own home, not awkward at all. However, only Wen Ren Yao could do such a thing as inviting a girl to appreciate flowers in the middle of winter.

Jiang Li stood still in front of the door and asked, “I’m curious about something and want to take the liberty to ask, what is the relationship between young master Wen and the duke?”

Situ Jiuyue and Ji Heng at least had known each other since childhood and grew up together. Wen Ren Yao’s conduct evidently showed that he was very familiar with Ji Heng and the duke’s mansion. Situ Jiuyue was an expert in poison, what was the identity of Wen Ren Yao? He looked like a good child from a wealthy family, the kind without a brain.

“My grandfather and old general Ji are friends, my father and general Ji are friends, Ji Heng and I….. are sort of friends!”

Jiang Li, “Why did you say sort of?”

“Tsk, Ji Heng does not recognize me as his friend.” Wen Ren You felt really wronged, “He dislikes me.”

Jiang Li, “…..” In this regard, Wen Ren Yao was not wronged. Who wanted to show off this kind of friend, no one would be willing to admit to it.

“But my father and my grandfather are both dead, only I remain in my family.” Wen Ren Yao said, “He has to admit even if he refused to, if I’m not there, who would give him divination?”

“Divination?” Jiang Li was dumbfounded.

“Our house is the Immortal Door, we can divine good and bad luck, almost always accurately. However, we can only divine one person throughout our life.” She looked apologetically at Jiang Li. “Even though I admire Miss Jiang second greatly, forgive me for not being able to disobey the master’s command and cannot do divination for Miss Jiang second.”

Jiang Li was flabbergasted, as it turned out, Wen Ren Yao was a genuine Master, different from the swindler Taoist priest Chong Xu. But….. looking at him, it’s really difficult for people to believe.

“Actually, I also thought that I am talented, but can only commit to one person, it’s truly too wasteful. Especially because everytime I do a divination for Ji Heng, the results are always the same. For many years, the divination for him, aside from one woman, the other things are the same, there’s nothing unusual.”

“Woman?” Jiang Li asked curiously, “What woman?”

“Ji Heng’s fate is bound to a woman.” Wen Ren Yao moved closer to speak, “You can’t tell anyone else, when I did a divination for Ji Heng that year, I found out that in his life, he’s connected to a woman. Simply said, whether he succeeds or loses will depend on this woman, becoming a Buddha or a devil. The writing that came out at that time was like this…..”

“Wen Ren Yao.” Before he could finish speaking, a voice interrupted from behind. The two people turned around to see and saw Ji Heng standing at the courtyard gate, looking at them from neither far nor near.

It’s unknown how much of their conversation was heard by Ji Heng.

Jiang Li was embarrassed from being caught talking about someone else behind their back. After thinking, she said, “There’s some things that I have to discuss with the duke, I won’t delay young master Wen’s time any longer.”

“Eh?” Wen Ren Yao asked, “Not going to appreciate the flowers?”

“No.” Jiang Li smiled, “Maybe next time.”

Wen Ren Yao touched his nose and walked away unwillingly. Jiang Li walked towards Ji Heng, smiled and called out, “Duke.”