Quick Transmigration: The Mad Beauty Refuses to Be the Scapegoat!-Chapter 389 - 11: The General Mansion’s Cast-Off Scapegoat Wife (Part 11)

Chapter 389: Chapter 11: The General Mansion’s Cast-Off Scapegoat Wife (Part 11)

Jiang Lai felt for the first time that she was so close to death.

In reality, even when she lay as a vegetative patient on a hospital bed, she didn’t feel like this. Today, lying on Tie Yi’s bed, she was seriously contemplating her funeral arrangements.

Until dawn, Tie Yi still wasn’t satisfied, but considering Jiang Lai’s fragile life, he could only hold her in his arms and fall asleep with restraint.

His back was covered with blood marks, yet Tie Yi didn’t find it painful. On the contrary, seeing the clear nail and teeth marks on his arm, the man gently touched them. Immediately, looking at the woman in his arms, the fire in his heart ignited again with the wind.

"I can’t take it anymore..."

"No, I need to sleep."

"Tie Yi... get off..."

Even in her dreams, Jiang Lai could feel that suffocating sensation overwhelming her.

Her heart truly enjoyed it, but her arms and legs seemed to have a mind of their own, wanting to run away from home.

When Tie Yi got up to leave, she could sense the large warm presence beside her suddenly vanish, and even covering herself with the quilt, Jiang Lai still shivered slightly.

The bed was too hard and the quilt too thin. Tie Yi noticed how thinly dressed the person on the bed was, looked at the gray sky outside, hesitated for a moment, and then lifted the quilt and lay back down.

No morning practice today, it shouldn’t be a big issue.

Sure enough, as soon as he lay back down, Jiang Lai, who had been curled up, snuggled over again, her slender soft arms around his waist, her fair rosy face pressed against his chest, breathing evenly.

In the end, Tie Yi left when the sun was high in the sky, instructing others before leaving to place several more stoves in the room.

The guards outside had been waiting for a long time. Since the General hadn’t shown up, they didn’t dare to wander around.

After a long while, the General finally appeared, striding briskly and exuding an undeniably relaxed and joyous aura.

"Mount the horse, head to the barracks."

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"Madam, the guests are almost all here. Would you like to get up and go to the door with the General to greet them?"

Chun Yue’s voice became incredibly gentle. Jiang Lai struggled to open her eyes, looking at the bare ceiling in front of her, taking a long time to realize where she was.

She glanced out the window; it was still somewhat gray.

Guests had arrived this early?

"You’re silly, you’ve been sleeping for a whole day and night and still want to sleep."

Jiang Lai’s muddled mind finally reacted; today was the old lady’s birthday banquet.

"Hmm, come in."

Chun Yue looked at Jiang Lai’s closet full of clothes, all in the same colors, either dark yellow or pink, dark and bright, not a single piece that was suitable and elegant.

"Madam, which outfit will you wear today?"

Jiang Lai yawned, sitting by the table, propping her chin and pointing to the only blue piece among the pile of clothes.

"This one."

"For the old lady’s birthday banquet today, won’t this one be too plain?"

If Miss Xu were in red, people who didn’t know might think she was the lady of the General Mansion.

"This one."

After getting married, Jiang Lai coiled her long hair into a married woman’s bun, with her head full of black hair adorned with just a simple jade hairpin, making her striking face even more enchanting yet not overly flamboyant.

Guests outside the General Mansion came in a steady stream, each one a prominent figure in the Capital City, including royal relatives and high-ranking officials.

Xu Ruling stood with the old lady at the door welcoming guests, the old lady experiencing such a grand occasion for the first time, her face grinning from ear to ear at the birthday gifts brought by those people. At this time, seeing Jiang Lai coming from afar, the smile on her face diminished a bit.

"What time is it already? Why are you only arriving now?"

Jiang Lai walked up and directly intervened between Xu Ruling and the old lady, leaning in close and said.

"Mother, you go sit inside, where does the birthday star stand at the door? Let me handle it here."

The old lady looked at her, half-believing, half-doubting. She wasn’t of noble origin herself, forty years ago she was still farming with her husband, married a good husband, gave birth to a good son, and that’s how she smoothly made her way to this position. Usually living with her son on the border, she had never seen such a grand event as a Capital City noble’s birthday banquet.

Jiang Lai smiled, reached into her sleeve and pulled out a jade hairpin, inserting it into the old lady’s silver-white bun.

She followed it by removing all the other ornaments in the old lady’s hair before she could get angry, handed over a small copper mirror.

"Look, isn’t this much better?"

The old lady looked at herself in the mirror, although the luxurious pearls and jades were gone, the simple jade hairpin made her appear so much more dignified and graceful, understated yet unsophisticated.

She looked like a noble old lady who had resided in a grand household for a long time.

"You do know quite a bit."

For example, that girl Ruling used to have meticulous thoughts and was quite considerate.

Jiang Lai, however, just curved her lips slightly in a smile.

"You go in quickly, the real esteemed guests are still behind."

The old lady returned to her residence with the support of maids, head held high, her face full of smiles.

Xu Ruling, standing beside the whole time, couldn’t get a word in. Beside her, no one could ever criticize the old lady’s outfit.

Jiang Lai retracted her smile, while Xu Ruling masked her inner dissatisfaction with a smile, greeting the coming and going guests.

At this moment, a carriage pulled up outside the General Mansion, and as soon as the first person got off, Xu Ruling, smiling, went outside to greet them warmly, directly holding the sleeve of the person who got off.

"Sister Yu, you’ve finally come. I’ve been waiting for you for so long."

The entire Marquis Mansion arrived.

It was clear they valued the General, the new rising star of the Capital City; the Heir of the Marquis Mansion, the youngest son of the Marquis and Madam, Jiang Huai, personally carried a red wooden box as he walked in.

The whole family came, even bringing a concubine, Madam Zhao.

Xu Ruling, holding Jiang Yu’s hand, entered, looking at Jiang Lai.

"Madam, your mother also came to see you. After so many days of not seeing each other, you both surely have much to say, so I won’t disturb you."

After speaking, she continued to chat and laugh with Madam of the Marquis Mansion, looking as though she was quite close to the Marquis Mansion family, almost more like a member of the Jiang Family than Jiang Lai.

Madam Zhao eagerly walked over, looking at Jiang Lai, her eyes full of longing and concern.

Her acting skills were good, but in Jiang Lai’s eyes, they appeared somewhat clumsy.

"Oh Lian’er, why do you look so pale? Is the General not treating you well?"

Jiang Lai touched her rosy, pinkish face, treating her words as nonsense.

At this time, Madam Zhao noticed Jiang Lai’s clothes and attire, realizing in her heart: in the General Mansion, she certainly wouldn’t have had a good time; otherwise, how could a large General Mansion not even afford a good set of clothes for her?

Seeing Jiang Lai not doing well, Madam Zhao was relieved.

A girl married off only would not fare well to remain in her natal family’s grasp; otherwise, if she lived well and became the mistress, how would her natal family’s words have any weight?

"The medicine I gave you, have you not been taking it recently?"