Transmigration: From Farmer To Empress
Chapter 1107 - 1112: Thousand-Year-Old Ginseng (3)

Chapter 1107: Chapter 1112: Thousand-Year-Old Ginseng (3)

"It seems tonight is going to be another all-nighter..."

However, her worries were superfluous. When the man emerged from the Cleansing Room, exhilarated, Cai Wei’s menstruation unexpectedly arrived!

Perhaps it was due to the nervousness of her grand wedding these days, or perhaps because she had been tormented too harshly last night, but her menstruation had arrived a whole seven or eight days early. Nangong Yi, upon hearing this news, turned pale with anger. He glared at Cai Wei, grinding his teeth, wishing he could send her menstruation back.

Cai Wei had never welcomed this relative so warmly before. With her dear aunt having arrived, she no longer had to worry about being tormented to death tonight by that beast...

By nightfall, Nangong Yi was extremely depressed. Before, when he didn’t know the delights of sexual pleasure, it didn’t matter, but now that he had tasted meat, being forced to only watch and not partake was a torture worse than hunger or injury. He sighed and tossed and turned on the couch for most of the night, took two cold baths, and finally fell asleep as he grew weary...

The next day,

It was the third day since Cai Wei had married into the family, and according to the customs of the Great Jin, it was the day for her in-laws to inspect the bridal gifts, known as the ’Unbox Ceremony Gift.’

As the Empress, Cai Wei’s dowry was handled by the Internal Affairs Department and was funded by the National Treasury; arguably, it should not need inspection. However, early in the morning, the chief steward of Jade Palace, Chen Shangxi, came with a message, saying the Empress Dowager would soon arrive with all the High Concubines, Royal Consorts, and Princesses to inspect the Empress’s dowry.

Nangong Yi heard this and frowned unhappily, saying, "The dowries of Empressess in the Great Jin have always been managed by the Internal Affairs Department. There is nothing to inspect. If the Imperial Mother likes to see gold and silver treasures, let Meng Huaian take her to the National Treasury for a good look!"

Chen Shangxi responded, "Your Majesty, although it’s true that the dowries of the Empresses of the Great Jin have always been handled by the Internal Affairs Department, each Empress also brought some personal bridal gifts from her own family when she married. When our Empress Dowager married the Retired Emperor, the Empress Dowager also had her dowry inspected, and the first Empress Dowager’s dowry was checked by our Empress Dowager as well, so, hehe..."

By now, Cai Wei had already woken up and was lazing on the couch. Hearing that the Empress Dowager wanted to inspect her dowry, she knew what it meant:

The Empress Dowager must have thought Cai Wei was just a minor merchant’s daughter, unable to present anything decent as a dowry, and wanted to use the Unbox Ceremony Gift as a way to humiliate her, to deflate her spirits.

Fortunately, she had known in advance that the Empress Dowager was dissatisfied with her origins and expected her to use the inspection of the dowry as an opportunity to intimidate her. Therefore, while still at her parents’ house, she had ensured her dowry was well-prepared. Her "Space" was filled with countless treasures; merely taking a few items as her dowry would certainly be deemed unprecedented in the Great Jin.

It wasn’t because she wanted to boast, or because she was ostentatious, but because the Empress Dowager looked down on her origins, frequently using language like "a shepherdess picking up cow dung" to humiliate her—she had no choice but to retaliate and give her a lesson, letting her understand what real opulence was!

In the outer room, Nangong Yi was instructing Chen Shangxi to step down and not to bring up the matter of checking the dowry again, but Cai Wei had already come out.

Dressed in peach red lingerie and having simply done her hair in a Falling Horses hairstyle, she came out and said to Nangong Yi, "Since such is the palace’s rule, how could I be the one to break it?"

Then, turning to Chen Shangxi, she said, "Please trouble Grand Eunuch to go back and inform the Imperial Mother that my bridal gifts have been prepared, and I am ready to welcome the Imperial Mother and all the High Concubines at any time."

"Yes, I will go back and report right away!"

Chen Shangxi left, and Nangong Yi, with a look of helplessness, said, "I have just refused them, and the Imperial Mother is always critical and difficult to please, why did you agree to it?"