Chapter 175: Wedding Date
The people from Peach Blossom Workshop were at the doorway of Fenghua Pavilion, cracking melon seeds and watching the show.
Zhong Lanhua saw so many people gathered at the doorway, so she came over with a feather duster to drive them away. After chasing the people out of the shop, she closed the door, blocking the view from outside.
Xiao Yanci spotted Su Yaoguang whispering with Zhou Wangshu at a glance. The way Su Yaoguang looked at them was full of disdain and sarcasm, no longer showing the gentle and affectionate gaze from her previous life.
At that moment, Xiao Yanci felt a bit regretful.
In his previous life following Su Yaoguang, there weren’t so many frustrating things. Even though the Su family’s conditions were a bit poor, they never skimped on his food and clothing, giving him the best. But now, it seemed like nothing was going right.
When Jiang Yihuan held him and cried like a tearful beauty, Xiao Yanci secretly cursed himself for being inhumane. Jiang Yihuan depended on him wholeheartedly just like in his previous life, yet he actually hesitated for a moment. Also, in his previous life, they had such a cute child. Back then, the thing he felt most guilty about was not being able to openly admit he was the child’s father, causing the child to grow up being cursed as a bastard. Now he could marry Jiang Yihuan, they would be a proper husband and wife, and the children born later wouldn’t have to suffer grievances anymore.
“You saved me, and I’m very grateful, but it’s impossible for me to marry you.” Xiao Yanci said, “You’ve all seen it, Huan’er and I are the real couple.”
“The old lady hugged you and touched you, you’re the old lady’s man now.” Li Shengnan said fiercely, “And that woman, I’ve heard she was groped all over by over a dozen men.”
“That’s not true, I didn’t.” Jiang Yihuan cried as she said, “Those are all rumors.”
“Miss Li, you’re both women, why make things hard for her?” Xiao Yanci said angrily, “Huan’er and I met at the riverside, there were too many people yesterday, someone pushed us, causing us to fall into the water. You saved me, I’m very grateful. How about this, you tell me how much silver it takes to repay this kindness, I’ll give you the silver as repayment for your favor.”
The three Li Family brothers pulled Li Shengnan to the corner and quietly asked her what she was thinking.
“This man doesn’t want to marry you, forcing him to marry you means he won’t treat you well. No matter how handsome he is, if he gives you cold faces every day, life won’t be happy. How about we just take the silver? With the silver, if you want a handsome man, we’ll buy one for you. Didn’t you admire Boss Su across the way the most, saying she’s bold in love and hate, a heroine among women? Her handsome little husband was bought.”
Li Shengnan hesitated.
This man was quite good-looking, but good-looking is one thing, disrespectful is another.
“Fine then, one hundred taels.” Li Shengnan said, “Give a bit more, I want to buy a handsome husband.”
“One hundred taels?” Zhong Lanhua shouted, “Why don’t you go rob instead?”
“Either one hundred taels, or he marries me, you decide!” Li Shengnan wouldn’t budge.
Originally, seeing how good-looking this man was, she wanted to keep him by her side as her own man, but they insisted on haggling unwillingly. Now that she had conceded a step, there was no reason for her to concede further, after all, they owed her a life.
Su Yaoguang saw Zhaodi coming back from across the way and smiled, saying: “Did you hear what they said inside?”
Fenghua Pavilion had closed the door, the original onlookers had dispersed, Zhaodi was curious about the follow-up and stayed at the door listening for a while, from her expression, she must have heard something interesting.
“The Li Family agreed to settle it with silver, asking for one hundred taels, not one copper coin less. Zhong Lanhua cursed there for a long time, the Li Family nearly started fighting, in the end Jiang Yihuan persuaded Zhong Lanhua to pay the silver and resolve the matter.” Zhaodi said excitedly, “From what I heard, Jiang Yihuan and that Xiao Ci have their marriage settled, and to quell the recent gossip, it seems they’ll rush to hold the wedding.”
Pandi beside her said: “Didn’t Zhong Lanhua go around telling people that Xiao Ci only qualified to marry her family’s Jiang Yihuan after passing the juren exam? Now forget juren, he hasn’t even passed xiucai yet!”
“After such a scandal this time, how dare they wait any longer, afraid that if they delay, the gossip will make it so her family’s Jiang Yihuan can’t even hold her head up. Now they’ve directly announced it, saying the two little lovers had an accident during a rendezvous at the riverside, fell into the river from being too passionate, so now they’ll simply hold the wedding early, fulfilling this pair of lovers. As for the outside gossip, if it spreads at this time, they can rightfully report to the officials, saying those people molested a good woman and slandered her chastity. Such things that ruin reputation are severely opposed, a little scare and they won’t dare say anything.”
Zhou Wangshu nudged Su Yaoguang: “What are you spacing out for?”
Could it be that hearing Xiao Yanci was marrying Jiang Yihuan made her unhappy?
Su Yaoguang said: “I’m thinking of a recipe for new nail polish, I’ll talk after I figure it out.”
“You’re spacing out here just to think about business matters?”
“What else?” Su Yaoguang looked at him puzzled, “Now besides business matters, is there anything else for me to worry about?”
Now the whole family is living happily together, second aunt and cousin have escaped that abyss, maternal aunt and maternal uncle’s feelings are getting better and better, maternal uncle’s health is also improving.
Most importantly her mother, her mother is happy every day now, unlike in her previous life where she went white-haired early, full of wrinkles and frowning all day with resentment. Now she has a rosy complexion, not inferior to Zhong Lanhua at all. On the contrary, Zhong Lanhua, the famous pretty widow, has been having bad luck lately, time hasn’t spared her, she’s grown quite a few wrinkles and white hairs.
“I’m going to the academy.” Zhou Wangshu said.
Su Yaoguang waved her hand: “Go on!”
Zhou Wangshu lowered his head to look at her.
Su Yaoguang looked up puzzled: “What’s wrong?”
“You’re really okay?” Zhou Wangshu confirmed again.
Su Yaoguang touched Zhou Wangshu’s forehead: “You’d better not study anymore, I feel like you’ve studied yourself silly. What could be wrong with me?”
As soon as Zhou Wangshu left, Jia Chunni came over and said to Su Yaoguang: “That Yang Quan came to find Jing’er for a consultation.”
Su Yaoguang didn’t understand: “Which Yang Quan?”
“The master craftsman from Fenghua Pavilion across the way, all their shop’s cosmetics are made by him. He rarely shows his face usually, because there’s a black birthmark on his face, it looks quite scary.” Jia Chunni thought of the birthmark on Jiang Jing’s face too and quickly explained, “I’m not saying Jing’er’s birthmark is scary, Jing’er isn’t scary at all, I’m saying that Yang Quan is scary.”
“He came to find Jing’er because of that birthmark?” Su Yaoguang understood. “But Jing’er’s birthmark wasn’t congenital, it was from being poisoned later, I’m afraid it’ll disappoint him.”
