Chapter 257 Sending Parents Away (1)

Dinner was finally ready, with six dishes and one soup, a combination of meat and vegetables, and a good taste. They were all made by Nangong Yi and Caiwei.

Shopkeeper Li sat at the dining table, smiling as he watched Caiwei busying around, bringing plates of hot, fragrant food to the table. He stroked his beard, shook his head and said, "Wei girl is really a good girl. I don't know which boy will marry her home in the future!"

Nangong Yi was sitting there, looking at Caiwei's busy back with a loving look. When he heard what Shopkeeper Li said, his gentle eyes suddenly dimmed.

He said dully: "Mr. Li, you once said that we are destined to be husband and wife!"

Manager Li said nonchalantly: "Yes, I did say that, but people's fate is not immutable. Wei's fate was very bad before. Her face showed that she should have a disaster this year, but she is still alive and well now, isn't she? So, fate is half determined by heaven and half by human practice!"

Nangong Yi heard this and smiled bitterly, feeling melancholy.

Whether it was determined by heaven or by human practice, he was destined to have no chance with her. He had a heavy responsibility. If he married her willfully, those old ministers who supported him would be extremely disappointed. They were also counting on their merits in following the dragon to find a mother of the country for their daughter or granddaughter in the future. If he married Caiwei, those ministers would be angry and might even turn to the prince's camp.

At that time, not only him, but also his mother, sister, grandparents, and her newly married wife, would be poisoned by the prince's party, no one would be spared!

So, he still couldn't marry her, and let her be a concubine, she was absolutely unwilling. What she wanted was a marriage for life, and this, as she said herself, was her unchanging principle and the bottom line that could not be crossed in this life.

He couldn't give her the marriage she wanted, so he could only bear the pain and let her go. However, whenever he thought that she would one day wear a wedding dress for another man and become another man's wife, his heart felt like a piece of it had been dug out, and he felt panic...

The door curtain was lifted, and Caiwei came in with the last dish, put the dish on the table, took off her apron, sat down, and pointed to the last dish of fish sprinkled with red pepper and said to Shopkeeper Li: "Shopkeeper Li, you have to eat this dish carefully, this is cooked by your master himself, it's very precious!"

Shopkeeper Li laughed, picked up the chopsticks, scooped up a piece of white and tender fish meat and tasted it, nodded and said: "Well, not bad, you can tell that it was instructed by an expert after you taste it!"

Nangong Yi heard it, and Junyan's face smiled a little, looking in the direction of Caiwei, this pot of boiled fish, wasn't it made by her instructions!

The dinner was delicious. Shopkeeper Li was sweating profusely while eating. He kept asking, "Girl, what's the name of this dish?"

"Fish-flavored pork shreds!"

"Yeah, it's delicious. How about this one?"

"Fried eggs with cumin."

"Tsk tsk! Really good! You are really a clever girl. I wonder who will marry you in the future."

Hearing that Shopkeeper Li mentioned this again, Nangong Yi frowned slightly and glanced at the girl.

Normally, when a girl hears others talking about her future marriage, she will lower her head shyly, with a spring on her face and infinite shyness. However, this little girl pouted her lips indifferently, as if she was very disdainful of the talk of marriage. She continued to eat calmly without changing her face.