Did the Yang family reply?
Yong Ruo took a deep breath, suppressing the tension in her heart, and said to Aunt Gu, “Aunt, you"ve worked hard!” Turning to Feng Gongzi, she said, “Young master wishes to pluck plum blossoms. Please help yourself. This little girl will send Aunt Gu to see my mother.”
Feng Liao stood upright, glanced at Aunt Gu a little, then stopped looking at her, and said indifferently, “The girl doesn"t need to be polite.”
He turned his head to observe the bamboo nail array again.
Yong Ruo raised a decent smile and led Aunt Gu to see her mother.
At the front door of the main room, Gu Aunt whispered, “Who is the boy? He is a n.o.bleman! There are more than a dozen guards outside, and they questioned me for a while before letting me in.”
Yong Ruo said calmly, “On the Lantern Festival, I saw that the plum blossoms in the courtyard were very good, so I plucked some plum blossoms and took them to the lantern festival to sell them. I happened to meet an old lady from a n.o.ble family. The old lady felt pity for me, invited me to dinner, and rewarded me with a few pieces of silver. The next day she said that she liked this plum blossom and sent some meat and snacks and got some plum blossoms to put in the vase. Today, the Young Master came to talk about the plum blossoms again, and said that it had been s.n.a.t.c.hed, making the old lady distressed!”
She smiled lowly and said, “Ma"am, you say, among the big family, plum blossom is also worth grabbing, isn"t it funny? I don"t know who the young master is, but he looked to be a very rich person.”
Gu Aunt laughed casually, “Those rich people, who have enough to eat and drink, pay attention to elegance. The plum blossoms in your house are really pretty, and they can attract people.”
After entering the main room, she found her mother tortured with severe abdominal pain, and her face was pale.
Gu Aunt made the long story short. The eight characters were matched. The Yang family will come on the 20th, and the marriage was fixed on the 26th. Then she gave the Yang family"s formal letter of betrothal to her.
The marriage was tentatively finalized, and Yong Ruo felt a little confused.
This was the marriage she had chosen. It was also the marriage that she thought was best for her and the most suitable for her after several weighings. Why did she feel uncertain?
Yong Ruo calmly sent Gu Auntie out.
When she returned to the courtyard, she was about to see her mother"s situation but was stopped by Feng Liao.
Feng Liao"s face turned blue, gnashing his teeth, he whispered, “I heard that the woman was just a matchmaker, and she came with a marriage proposal in Yongchang for you?”
Yong Ruo shouted in her mind! Was he jealous? But at that moment she couldn"t say anything. She bowed her head and pretended to be stupid. She whispered, “Yes!”
“Then, do you know who Yang Qi is?” Feng Liao raised his voice and said, “He is a famous living dead! I heard that now he could barely move his eyelids. I don"t know how many days he got to live. Their family is looking for someone for chongxi. Your family has been cheated! A dignified son of a big government family must have a reason to marry a wife from a poor family! You were almost cheated to throw yourself into a fire pit!”
His fierce tone made Yong Ruo unable to act on.
She looked up at Feng Liao, said calmly, “I know! My mother also knows! Aunt Gu did not lie to us. I knew that I was going to Chongxi. But I don"t think it was a fire pit. I am very happy to agree! “
“You know?” Feng Liao"s face turned perturbed.
After a while, he wore a smirk. One was unable to make out whether he was disappointed, angry, or just sad. He said, “You would rather marry Yang Qi than … me?”
He said it clearly!
Yong Ruo was ashamed. She couldn"t pretend to be stupid anymore and play with his feelings!
She said in silence: “I once said that for women, honor is important! Although I want to live a life without worry, I won"t sell everything and be completely shameless. Even though the young master"s ident.i.ty is far more n.o.ble than Yang Qi"s… heh, after all, the status would be of a concubine! “
Feng Liao said, “Then you know, my concubine is far more honorable than Yang Qi"s wife?”
Yong Ruo murmured again, “n.o.bler than his wife?”
This Feng Liao was really a prince? ! Not emperor, right?
She did a quick calculation in her mind. That year was the fifteenth year of Cheng Tai, which meant that the emperor had been in power for at least fifteen years!
Feng Gongzi looked like he was 17 or 18 years old. Could he be a young emperor?
She thought about it in her heart and shook her head, negating the statement. She had never heard that the emperor had ascended the throne when he was two or three years old.
Moreover, if he was an emperor, it should not be so easy to get out of the palace, and his appearance out of the palace would be even richer.
She pondered for a moment and said solemnly, “The young master"s honor is n.o.ble, and the master"s wife will be more honorable. The higher a man"s status is, the more the number of women around him. This little girl is ordinary, and her family is poor. How dare I compete with n.o.ble women for a favor?”
“So, you"d rather go to Chongxi? Rather guard the living dead or become a widow?” Feng Liao"s eyes reeked of anger, but he somehow controlled his voice.
“I may not be a widow! Perhaps Yang Qi gongzi would be cured after Chongxi?” Yong Ruo said ironically, and her tone became indifferent, “Moreover, what"s so bad about being a widow? At least you don"t have to be trapped by the word “woman"s virtue”, smiling at her man who continues to pull other women into the room one by one! That would make me feel disgusted! Young master doesn"t know, I am not a virtuous woman. I"m jealous. I can"t see my man close to other women. My temperament is the most suitable for widowhood lest I am swept by jealousy, there will be no good end! “
“When you go to the Yang"s you will not be swept out of the house? Stop dreaming! Once Yang Qi has a three-long, two-short, it"s your end, I"m afraid it will be even more desolate than a concubine in my house!”
(Three longs and two shorts” is an idiom for death related to the coffin. The coffin is a patchwork of six pieces of wood.)
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