Chapter 190: Have Big Brother Mo Bring Her Dowry And Marry Her To Me
Mo Ziyuan arrived very quickly, and Fu Jing had already been settled by Meng Yixuan on the bed in the guest room. He also called Cui Shi over to check his wound. When Mo Ziyuan arrived, Cui Shi was cleaning his wound.
“Beaten? Your dad did it?” Mo Ziyuan leaned in to look at the ferocious wound on his back, then stabbed at his lung channel.
Fu Jing gave a bitter smile, enduring the intense pain on his back as he replied: “Isn’t that right? Hiss~ Isn’t it all because of you? I’m in such a miserable state, and you still—hiss~ you still won’t give me a good look…”
“Your dad beating you is none of my business! Don’t try to play the victim with me here!” Mo Ziyuan disdainfully moved his chair to the side and sat down.
“Alright, Zi Yuan, stop provoking him. We called you here for serious matters.” Meng Yichen saw that although Mo Ziyuan was acting very disdainful, the worry in his eyes and his frustration at Fu Jing’s failure were very obvious, so he knew the knot in his heart had been mostly untied. The rest depended on Fu Jing’s attitude toward Lin Xin.
“What serious matters?” Mo Ziyuan instinctively felt that what they wanted to say was probably related to the beating Fu Jing had received.
“My dad plans to marry Fu Qing to you as an equal wife. I couldn’t stop it, and I expect my mom will soon approach the Dingguo Duke’s Wife. See what you can do about it!” Fu Jing straightforwardly laid out the whole matter.
“No way!” Mo Ziyuan was truly shocked. “Didn’t Fu Qing tell you that I was at the Ten Fragrance Pavilion at the time? She’s already been like that with the Heir of Marquis Zhaoyang, and she still wants to marry me? This woman is crazy!” Mo Ziyuan felt utter disgust just mentioning Fu Qing.
“You don’t know how important the title of Heir’s Wife of Dingguo Duke is to the Fu family. What they want is for Fu Qing to get through your family’s door; as for how her life turns out later, my dad and the others have probably already prepared for the worst. My mom has likely already taught Fu Qing many ways to survive in the inner courtyard.” Fu Jing spoke with a face full of helplessness.
“I won’t agree.” Mo Ziyuan stated firmly.
“Don’t forget, your family also has a Dingguo Duke’s Wife who is eyeing the heir’s position covetously! As long as the Fu family offers enough benefits, selling you off isn’t impossible.” Meng Yixuan reminded him.
Mo Ziyuan’s face turned extremely ugly. He abruptly stood up, bowed deeply to Fu Jing and Meng Yixuan, and said, “Thank you for reminding me about this. I won’t say anything else. Fu Jing, take good care of your wound. I’m leaving first.”
Watching his hasty departing figure, Fu Jing twitched the corner of his mouth. Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly felt Cui Shi’s hand press heavily while bandaging him, causing him to cry out in pain involuntarily.
“Old Cui, be gentler.” Meng Yixuan quickly said to Cui Shi.
Cui Shi snorted, lifted his eyelids without speaking, but didn’t lighten his movements at all.
Fu Jing felt this undeserved disaster was particularly unfair and couldn’t help saying: “Old Cui, this matter wasn’t caused by me. Isn’t it unreasonable for you to take it out on me like this!”
Cui Shi snorted. “You already said it’s taking it out on you. Let me ask when have you ever seen taking it out on someone be reasonable?”
Fu Jing was speechless.
Meng Yixuan coughed dryly with his fist against his lips and changed the subject: “I wonder how Zi Yuan will handle this matter.”
“Hmph!” Cui Shi glared at Fu Jing with displeasure in his eyes and nose. “If it were up to me, one dose of medicine would settle it once and for all.”
Fu Jing: “…”
Meng Yixuan: “…”
After leaving the Meng Family, Mo Ziyuan went straight to Lin Xin’s home and repeated Fu Jing’s words to her word for word. Finally, he said: “Xin’er, I want to enter the palace and ask His Majesty to grant us a marriage. You… are you willing?”
Lin Xin frowned. “Your family…”
“You don’t need to worry about them. Once the imperial decree for the marriage is issued, I’ll move out of the Duke’s Mansion. I said I won’t let you be wronged…”
How could she not be wronged? After all this maneuvering, Xin’er’s reputation would definitely be ruined. Hats like “shrew” and “disrespectful to in-laws” would surely be piled on her head one after another. He didn’t even dare to imagine how much malice she would face then.
“Didn’t you say His Majesty is going to appoint me as County Princess? Then have him grant you to me. It can be exchanged with the merit from nurturing the prince.” Lin Xin’s response made Mo Ziyuan’s eyes light up. His whole person seemed to instantly return from the icy peak of a snow mountain to warm flatland, with his invisible tail wagging so fast it blurred.
“Really? Xin’er, you’re agreeing to let me ask His Majesty to grant the marriage?”
“Mm, I agree.” Lin Xin nodded. Since she liked this person in her heart, she also wanted to give them a chance.
“Great, great! I’ll go right now. Wait for my good news!” After speaking, Mo Ziyuan jumped up and ran out the door, nearly colliding with Lin Nan who was about to enter. He dodged Lin Nan’s small body and vanished in a flash.
“Big Brother Mo, where is he going?” Lin Nan patted his pounding little heart and asked.
“He has urgent business to attend to.” Lin Xin answered vaguely.
“What business is so urgent?” Lin Nan was curious, walked up to Lin Xin, looked up at her wanting to ask more, but suddenly noticed his sister’s face was flushed red. Startled, all his curiosity vanished as he anxiously asked: “Sis, are you unwell? Do you have a fever? Why else would your face be so red?”
“What fever! Don’t touch randomly!” Lin Xin dodged Lin Nan’s hand reaching for her forehead and tickled him under his armpit twice. Lin Nan immediately burst into laughter, curling himself into a little ball—he was very ticklish!
“Nan Nan, sis has something to ask you.” After the siblings played around for a bit and quieted down, Lin Xin gently pulled Lin Nan into her arms and said.
“Ask away.”
“What do you think about me finding you a brother-in-law?”
“Finding me a brother-in-law? You’re not keeping Big Brother Mo anymore?” Lin Nan turned his head to look at her and asked.
“You want your Big Brother Mo to be your brother-in-law?”
“Mm~” Lin Nan tilted his head. “Whether I want it doesn’t matter! As long as sis wants it, it’s fine. No matter who sis chooses, I’ll support sis!”
“Little devil!” Lin Xin scraped his nose.
“Sis, are you really getting married?”
“Not so fast. We’re just settling on the person first; when the wedding will be is still uncertain!” Lin Xin didn’t treat Lin Nan like a child and fool him.
“What about me? Will sis take me along?” Lin Nan asked softly, his gaze filled with a worry that deeply pained Lin Xin.
“Silly, you’re my younger brother. Of course I’ll take you!”
“But you’re getting married, aren’t you? No girl brings her younger brother as dowry into her husband’s family.”
“Pfft,” Lin Xin was amused by his wording. After laughing enough, she asked him: “Then how about having your Big Brother Mo bring the dowry and marry me? What do you think?”
Lin Nan’s jaw dropped.
