In the bridal chamber, the wedding candles flickered, the bright red was everywhere, and with the beautiful lady in bright red, it was truly a festive and charming atmosphere. However, Zhu Ying, who was alone in the empty room, was so bored that she and Liu Qing sat in the large bed and played backgammon.
It's not that she was so unbridled on her wedding night, it's really... too boring! At least like the day her sister-in-law got married, someone came to the bridal chamber to watch the excitement, or even to provoke her, then she could at least find something to do, at least to cheer herself up, unlike now when she just wanted to yawn and sleep!
Are all the women who disliked her, Miss Zhu, dead? No, it should be that these people did not receive the invitations. Even if they wanted to vent their anger, they could not get in... Oh, if she had known this, she would have sent out ten or eight invitations to see if anyone would be so angry that they would come to trouble her. At least she would have something to do!
Liu Qing could see Zhu Ying's boredom, but even though she won three games in a row, she didn't see the competitive Zhu Ying fight back. Therefore, she could only put down the dice and backgammon in her hands, coughed and said, "Except for Sanlang, most of Zhang Xueshi's students haven't married yet. Besides, even if they did, how many of them would dare to bother you?"
"Besides, for people like Princess Deyang and Princess Yongping, their two brothers had just died, so it would be difficult for them to come to Zhang Garden in person..."
Before Liu Qing could finish her words, Zhu Ying snorted and said, "Forget about Deyang, but Yongping will never come, because if she comes, someone in the palace will urge her to get married, and she is almost hating it now! Besides, I don't care about this so-called face. But no one is ambitious enough to confront me, how boring!"
Liu Qing didn't know what to say at this moment. Other girls wished that there were fewer female relatives coming to watch the fun on their wedding night, so as to avoid teasing and all kinds of nitpicking, but it was the opposite for Zhu Ying. The eldest lady actually despised those who didn't come as having no ambition... How could this be justified
She didn't want to continue this topic at all, so she could only rack her brains to change the subject. Finally, she thought, "By the way, I heard that there are a lot of guests in Zhang Garden today. There are fifty banquet tables set up everywhere. It's so lively!"
Zhu Ying remembered Zhang Shou's mention of the pile of invitations sent out by Ah Liu, and she finally got interested. She stroked her chin thoughtfully, but when she asked Liu Qing who was coming, she went to Wu's place in the backyard at first, so the third young lady of the Lu family, who didn't know much about it, shook her head helplessly, saying that she didn't know.
So Zhu Ying simply called in Mother Chu, the woman her mother had given her as a dowry, and told her to go to the front and ask who the guests were. This was not a very polite move, but when it happened to Zhu Ying, no one, whether Mother Chu or Liu Qing, had any objection.
As long as Zhu Ying didn't insist on sneaking off to watch the wedding banquet, they would be relieved! If that really happened, they would complain bitterly.
Mother Chu left quietly, and Zhu Ying left the backgammon game that she had no interest in playing at the moment, and simply pulled Liu Qing aside to ask about her married life with Lu Sanlang. Although the Lu family had a large population, Mrs. Lu had already arranged for the youngest son to live alone, so when Liu Qing talked about this, she had nothing but good things to say about her mother-in-law.