Farmer girl swaps husbands: buys a sickly villain and pampers him

Chapter 255 Old Flame

"Second Madam, there were too many people in line, it took a while, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."

A maid pushed open the door and entered, carrying a basket of snacks.

She saw Xiao Yanci suddenly appear in the room and asked nervously, "Who are you? Why are you trespassing into the Second Madam's room?"

"Second Madam? I wonder which household this Second Madam belongs to?" Xiao Yanci looked at Jiang Yihuan with a half-smile.

"Our lady is the second lady of the Marquis of Jing'an's household."

"Shut up!" Jiang Yihuan interrupted the maid, angrily saying, "You go out first. This person is... my fellow villager, let's catch up."

"Yes."

After the maid left, Jiang Yihuan looked at Xiao Yanci, who had sat down, and said, "You divorce me. We have no relationship anymore. From now on, we'll pretend we don't know each other."

"Don't know each other?" Xiao Yanci chuckled. "You've made me lose face so badly, and now you want to sever ties? Is that even possible?"

"What do you want?"

“You are now the lady of the Marquis of Jing’an’s household, that’s quite remarkable,” Xiao Yanci said. “Since you’re doing so well now, you can’t just abandon your old flame, can you?”

Jiang Yihuan clenched her handkerchief tightly.

A murderous glint flashed in her eyes.

Xiao Yanci said calmly, "Don't try to play tricks. If anything happens to me, everyone will know what you've done. If Marquis Jing'an knew that you were once a promiscuous woman, I wonder if he would still let you be this so-called lady? You're always putting on an act. Your current man probably hasn't seen your true face, has he?"

"What exactly do you want? Wouldn't it be better if we just kept to ourselves and didn't interfere with each other? Aren't you going to marry the young lady from the Prime Minister's mansion too?" Jiang Yihuan said unwillingly.

"So you already knew about my situation," Xiao Yanci said. "Since you knew my whereabouts all along, why didn't you come looking for me? We were once lovers, after all. In this unfamiliar place, we could have met up for tea and reminisced whenever we had free time."

As Xiao Yanci spoke, he walked towards Jiang Yihuan and pulled her into his arms.

Jiang Yihuan was stunned. She pushed Xiao Yanci, but heard him threaten in a low voice: "Shout louder, let that maid come in and see what we're doing."

In the next room, a man and a woman were watching what was happening across the way through a hidden hole in the wall. Seeing that an offensive scene was about to unfold next door, Zhou Wangshu quickly covered Su Yaoguang's eyes.

The letter Xiao Yanci received was sent by Zhou Wangshu, with the aim of arranging for the two former lovers to meet sooner. The current development was exactly what they expected.

"Doesn't the guy surnamed Xiao find it dirty?" Su Yaoguang said with a look of disgust.

In her past life, she was heartbroken over such a man; she must have been out of her mind.

Fortunately, he didn't touch her in his past life, otherwise he would have been disgusted to death.
"Let's watch the play on stage after we've seen the play next door! Today's play is called 'The Romantic Scholar', it's very exciting, we can't miss it."

"Judging from this name... is it related to that scumbag next door?" Su Yaoguang guessed.

“The newly crowned third-place scholar is a romantic, we should give him a good publicity,” Zhou Wangshu said. “This matter is known only to heaven, earth, you, and me, I’m just an unsung hero.”

Su Yaoguang forked a piece of fruit and fed it to him, laughing, "Insidious and cunning, but I like it."

The play depicts how a top scholar (探花) falls into slavery, how he is harassed and harassed by a group of women, and how he is eventually bought by a peasant woman. It then recounts how he falls in love with the woman's daughter, successfully escapes slavery, and gains the opportunity to study. During the imperial examinations, he takes his newlywed wife, only to be caught in the act of intimacy, causing a stir among the audience. The play blends reality and fiction, with the actors humorously portraying how the scholar discovers his wife's affair with an unattractive man and how he angrily writes a letter of divorce on the spot.

There were quite a few people who came to listen to the opera today, mostly from powerful and influential families. The whole process of the newly appointed third-ranked scholar being cuckolded gave everyone a vivid picture.

Xiao Yanci was making love with his former lover next door. Perhaps it was because Jiang Yihuan was no longer his wife, and it was more exciting to steal someone else's woman, that he was so engrossed in his own world, unaware that the performance on stage was a reenactment of his past.

Of course, with Jiang Yihuan involved, there was inevitably that Wen woman. The scene of two women serving one husband during the epidemic was portrayed so vividly that it made him seem like a lecherous fiend.

This scene not only publicized the fact that Xiao Yanci, the newly appointed third-ranked scholar, was cuckolded, but also let everyone know how lustful this man was, not even sparing widows in the countryside.

"The world is going to the dogs, and morality is deteriorating."

After watching the entire play, Su Yaoguang ate too many pastries and tea and couldn't eat dinner.

Zhou Wangshu took her to stroll through the night market, hoping to digest their food.

The commotion next door had long since subsided. After all, there was a maid guarding the outside, so they didn't dare go too far. Anyway, these two former lovers had gotten back together; there would be plenty of opportunities in the future.

The nail has been driven in; we're just waiting for the right time to pull it out, which will also make those eyesores disappear.

"Do you think Prime Minister Wang will still marry his daughter to Xiao Yanci?" Su Yaoguang and Zhou Wangshu were strolling on the street.

"With this added fuel to the fire today, Prime Minister Wang is even less willing to marry his daughter to such a person. Prime Minister Wang is no good either, but he has raised his daughter with great care, so of course he wants to make good use of her value. He certainly wouldn't look down on someone like Xiao Yanci who has no value."

"If it's about exchanging value, you could have married that Miss Wang off to some royal family or nobleman. You shouldn't have chosen such a commoner who was only a third-ranked scholar."

"Do you know why?" Zhou Wangshu leaned closer mysteriously.

"Why?" Su Yaoguang asked curiously.

Zhou Wangshu leaned close to her ear and said, "This Miss Wang went to visit her uncle's family and was seduced by her cousin. Such a used woman would not dare to marry into a powerful family."

"How do you know these secrets?" Su Yaoguang looked at him suspiciously.

"Um... I found out by accident." Zhou Wangshu pulled her towards the area where the juggling act was taking place.

Upon seeing the acrobats, Su Yaoguang stopped pursuing the previous topic and quickly put it out of her mind.

Jiang Yihuan sat in the carriage, lazily looking outside. When she saw Su Yaoguang and Zhou Wangshu in the crowd, a cold glint flashed in her eyes.

She must climb higher, higher than Su Yaoguang and Zhou Wangshu.

How could that bitch Su Yaoguang have such good luck?

why?
She is not reconciled.

She is now the Lady of Jing'an Marquis, and as long as she maintains her current status, she will be the head of the Jing'an Marquis's household in the future. As for Xiao Yanci, he is now an official, and they can use each other.

If she could say a good word for Xiao Yanci and get Marquis Jing'an to promote him, making him more secure in his official career than Zhou Wangshu, it would also benefit her.