The Evil Man’s Lazy Lady Chapter 47 (Part 2)
Chapter 47: Older Sister’s Wedding Night (2) Original translation is from tenderflower's blog.
Don’t know how long it took, only Qin-shi and Shu Wan were left talking. Shu Lan was drowsy, listening in a daze, and her eyelids were getting heavier and heavier.
“Ah Wan, when a woman gets married, she will inevitably suffer that pain. Listen to your mother...”
“Mother, you...”
The voices of the mother and daughter also became lower and lower.
The next morning, the Shu family started to get busy.
Shu Lan sat obediently on the heated-brick bed, watching a beaming old woman help her older sister with her make-up, smearing and smearing her face. When the old woman finally finished her work, she was shocked to find that her older sister had been tricked by her. She couldn’t see the original appearance at all. She had a layer of fine white powder on her face, and her lips were a little red, which was not as good-looking as before.
But she kept in mind her mother’s advice when she got up in the morning. She just watched silently with wide eyes and said nothing without a second thought.
There was the sound of beating drums and music outside, and the old woman suddenly covered her older sister with a red veil. When the noise outside finally quieted down, she helped her older sister out.
Shu Lan followed and ran outside. She saw Cheng Qingran her brother-in-law in bright red happy clothes. She heard her older sister’s low cry and saw bean-sized tears dripping from the red veil and fell on the dry blue brick ground. Daddy said something stiffy, and Mother was sobbing. Everyone obviously said that it was a good thing for her older sister to marry, so why should her mother and older sister cry?
After the ceremony, her older brother bent down and personally carried her older sister into the big red sedan chair.
Shu Lan wanted to go out, but her mother held her hand, so she could only stare blankly at the sedan chair as the sound of music got farther and farther away.
In the yard was a layer of fragments of firecracker smoke, which was kind of desolate after the excitement.
It turned out this was married. She could no longer sleep in the same bed with her older sister. Shu Lan threw herself in her mother’s arms and cried.
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On the other side, because Cheng Qingran was the only one in his family, after bowing to the ancestral tablets, Shu Wan was helped to wait in the bridal chamber. There was no noise from a large number of relatives around. The room was quiet, only the two personal maids in the outer room deliberately softened the sound of walking around.
She listened to the commotion from the front yard and hoped Cheng Qingran would not come back so soon. She hadn’t figured out how to face him.
Fangzhu came out of the house, glanced at the two little maids guarding the door of the bridal chamber, and bit her lip lightly.
She thought it was a country girl, but she didn’t expect to bring maids here. The two rough-ordering ones were okay to say, these two were plain-looking but they seemed to be taught. They act calmly and generously, neither needing her help nor listening to her orders. She wanted to arrange the list of head maids of the Tingyu Pavilion but was not allowed. There was also a wet nurse surnamed Li, who was not easy to handle. A pair of eyes that seemed to be smiling but were actually sharp, made her feel like her little thought had nowhere to hide.
Fangzhu clenched the handkerchief angrily, knowing he would get married and that he was interested in women, she would definitely start early...
Some people hope the day would be long, and others hope the day would be short.
Cheng Qingran sent away the last wave of guests, ordered the servants to bolt down the gate, and strode towards the backyard.
“Master is back!” The maids announced dutifully.
Shu Wan’s sleepiness receded like a tide. She sat upright. Her thin, white, hands tucked into her wide sleeves, trembling faintly.
Cheng Qingran’s calm and low command came from outside the room: “You all withdraw, there is no need to wait here.” Then there was the soft closing sound of the door.
Shu Wan’s heart was like a deer rushing. She silently counted Cheng Qingran’s footsteps until a pair of black boots stopped in front of her, and she hurriedly closed her eyes.
The top of her head seemed to be lightened as the veil was removed.
Shu Wan knew Cheng Qingran must be looking at her, but she didn’t know whether to look up at him or take the initiative to say something.
Cheng Qingran tried to find a familiar shadow on the face in front of him, but after looking at it for a long time, except for the trembling thick eyelashes that disturbed his heart, he didn’t see the slightest bit of Shu Wan’s original face.
Seeing her nervousness softened his heart and he said with a soft laugh, “Aren’t you tired after sitting for a day? Go wash first, water is ready over there.”
Shu Wan was pardoned, and without looking at Cheng Qingran, she lowered her head and ran out.
Cheng Qingran looked at her back and smiled. He turned back and touched the big red bed under him, thinking of Shu Wan lying on it after a moment, he was short of breath. Fortunately, the sound of water in the side room reminded him, so he got up and walked to the wardrobe, raised a delicate long wooden box, opened it, and a quiet floral fragrance immediately lingered on his nose.
When he was ready to put down the red gauze curtain embroidered with rich peonies, the sound of water stopped over there.
Cheng Qingran strode over.
Shu Wan was about to put the towel on the screen when a pair of big hands suddenly wrapped around her waist, and then the warm breath fell on her ear and neck, only to hear the man whisper in her ear hoarsely: “Ah Wan, I’ve been looking forward to this day for so long...”
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