Chongfei Manual - Chapter 117.1

Chapter 117.1

Chapter: 117 . 1 out of 171

Jiang Miao Lan originally wasn't meant to be a person in this world . But, since she had come here, she should forget everything about the past and stay here to continue living .

Jiang Miao Lan had met Wei Kun during Mid-Autumn Festival . On that day, she was guessing the riddle underneath a colorful lantern . At that time, his key strength was his scholarly knowledge . He could correctly guess ten riddles in a single breath without being wrong . As Wei Kun was passing through the streets, he saw half of her face from the side and became foolish .  The surrounding multi-colored lanterns illuminated her face .

Her almond eyes were as bright as lustrous gems . Her nose was elegant and her eyes were mysterious . Her flower-like lips were slightly curved upwards . Her entire body was bursting forth with the radiance of excitement . What made Wei Kun feel even more unexpected was that her clothing was very shabby as if she was wearing someone else's clothing . It wasn't fitting at all . There was even an obvious mended patch on one of the sleeves . Compared to the magnificently dressed young ladies that were at the Lantern Festival, Jiang Miao Lan's appearance could be considered poor . However, this didn't seem to have the slightest affect on her .

She won the lanterns one after another until she could barely hold them with her hands . It made the surrounding gifted scholars and beautiful ladies cast sidelong glances at her .

Jiang Miao Lan was in high spirits . She pointed towards a colored lantern on her left side and said, "In the green cluster, there is a little bit of red, xu fei ge, guess a type of medicinal herb . "

"I guess its cinnabar (硃砂) . Am I right?"

(T/N: Xu fei ge means its a riddle where the answer is a word that’s consist of two Chinese characters that share the same radical (the symbol on the left of each character) .

The stall owner was both happy and depressed . The expression on his face was rich and colorful . "Correct . But . . . could you move to another place? You've already taken all of the lanterns from my place . It's not fun for everyone else . . . "

Jiang Miao Lan took the eight-treasure style rabbit lantern from the stall owner, smiled, nodded, and left .

During the Lantern Festival, there were places to guess riddles everywhere . As she continued walking down the street, Jiang Miao Lan easily won more than a dozen colorful lanterns . She cleverly sold the colorful lanterns to the nearby servant girls of young ladies from wealthy families . The money she earned from this would be enough for her to live off of for many days .

Like a ghost, Wei Kun followed her as she walked . When she walked to the entrance of a tunnel, Jiang Miao Lan turned around without any warning and readily caught him .

Wei Kun rubbed his nose and asked, "I saw that you were very skilled at guessing riddles . Would you be willing to go to the teahouse down the street with me?"

Just like this, this was how the two of them met .

After Wei Kun found out that Jiang Miao Lan orphan, he was very caring towards her and even purchased a residence for her without his parents' knowledge . When Wei Kun had free time, he would go over there to see her . It was only then that he discovered she was an exquisite and elegant girl when she wasn't wearing her shabby clothing . During that night on the Lantern Festival, he had only seen a glimpse of her dirty face . So, he had only though she was good-looking . He hadn't expected that she would as sparkling and clear as a lustrous gem .

Jiang Miao Lan always had many bizarre ideas . For example, playing poker, making perfume from various flower petals, and fermenting grape wine . . . Jiang Miao Lan had a lovely voice . She would sing songs that Wei Kun had never heard of . She was sweet, agreeable, and unique . She made people feel intoxicated . From Wei Kun's point of view, Jiang Miao Lan was a treasure . A treasure that was able to do anything .

After the two of them knew each other for a year, Wei Kun couldn't resist confessing to his family . He told Duke Ying and Old Madam that he wanted to marry an orphan without any family background .

Later, things happened as mentioned before . Duke Ying and his wife didn't agree, so Wei Kun kneeled outside of their doors for three days and three nights until they were forced to agree .

After Jiang Miao Lan married into his family, Old Madam Luo-shi didn't care for her . However, for the sake of Wei Kun, Luo-shi didn't make things too difficult for Jiang Miao Lan . Luo-shi just rarely spoke to Jiang Miao Lan when she came to pay respect and wish her good health every morning .

Three months after their wedding, Jiang Miao Lan became pregnant .

Wei Kun was wild with joy and treated her with increasing attentiveness .

The first three months were good . The married couple loved and cherished each other . They seemed like they were stuck together by glue . They were so affection with each other that other people would blush when looking at them .

However, Luo-shi still didn't like this daughter-in-law and wanted to find another woman to serve Wei Kun while Jiang Miao Lan was pregnant . That woman was Count Zhong Yi's family's Du Yue Ying .

Although Du Yue Ying was born from Count Zhong Yi's family's side branch, the circumstances of her birth weren’t good . Her father was concubine-born, so it wouldn't be wronging her to make her into Wei Kun's concubine .

Luo-shi had also privately asked Du Yue Ying for her opinion . Du Yue Ying's blushing face and lowered head showed that she tacitly agreed .

However, when Old Madam mentioned this to Wei Kun, he refused to agree, so this matter came to nothing .

After October, Jiang Miao Lan gave birth to fraternal twins . The son and daughter were healthy . However, she almost died because she had lost too much blood while giving birth . On that day, Wei Kun was taking highest level imperial civil examination . He only had time to briefly look before leaving to take the examination .

As a result, Wei Kun made a mistake that wasn't like him . When the results came out, Wei Kun didn't pass .

During that time, Wei Kun was in low spirits . After hearing that Jiang Miao Lan's body was weak, he thought it wouldn't be good to infect her with his moodiness, so he moved to his study . When Wei Kun visited Jiang Miao Lan, most of the time he was seeing her sleeping appearance . Even if she wasn't sleeping, Jiang Miao Lan wasn't in the mood to talk . Her mind was focused on their two newly born children .

During this period, one of Wei Kun's classmates and close friend suddenly died . His death was a heavy blow to Wei Kun . Wei Kun became fond of drinking . He would often go to the lake pavilion in the back of the residence to drown his sorrows by drinking by himself .

So, when Du Yu Ying came to Duke Ying's residence with Count Zhong Yi's wife for Wei Chang Hong and Wei Luo's one-month-old birthday, she saw Wei Kun's depressed appearance .

At the time, Du Yue Ying was still very clever and knew that she should act out her plan starting from Wei Kun . She kept him company while he was depressed . She praised, encouraged, and comforted him . Although Wei Kun felt very thankful towards Du Yue Ying, he still maintained some distance between them and didn't overstep the bounds of what was proper .

Du Yue Ying stayed at Duke Ying's residence for a month under the excuse of accompanying Old Madam .

This was the period of time that Jiang Miao Lan was recuperating, but there was something wrong with her body . Her health became worse and worse . At the end, she couldn't even get out of bed . Wei Kun would take out two hours each day to keep her company . Jiang Miao Lan knew that he was busy studying for the next examination, so she didn't ask him to stay for long . Usually, she would ask him to leave after an hour .

Until one day, when he was walking around the courtyard with Jiang Miao Lan on a day that she was feeling slightly better, they met Du Yue Ying at the lakeside . Du Yue Ying accidentally stepped on a stone and her body started falling backwards .

Without even thinking, Wei Kun let go of Jiang Miao Lan's hand to support Du Yue Ying .

This was the first time that Jiang Miao Lan met Du Yue Ying .