Chapter 6: Brother, I’m sorry!

No, no!
Didn’t we just start the discussion? How come it’s already settled?

Yuan Wenchun felt very aggrieved.

For a noble family like mine, shouldn't others beg us to marry our daughter to them? Why is it that now I'm the one being the one to offer, but others are still not happy?

But no one cared about his thoughts and they all walked out of the hall.

Looking at the backs of everyone leaving, Yuan Wenchun thought that this marriage was probably off.

Even though he was thinking about how to bully his younger brother Yuan Wenshao every day, Yuan Wenchun couldn't help feeling a little guilty at this moment.

Brother, it’s my fault!

I lost your wife!
night.

In the brightly lit Shou'an Hall, although Old Madam Sheng's face looked unhappy, she no longer had the depression she had during the day.

Hualan stood by.

The girl had a delicate oval face, skin as white as snow, beautiful eyes that sparkled and sparkled. Her unmade-up face was slightly red and swollen, which made her look even more lovable.

Because she was still unmarried, she had been staying with her younger sister Rulan in the afternoon. Seeing that her sister didn't even know what was going on and was still swinging on the swing heartlessly, she thought about her own uncertain marriage and became sad again. Until now, tears have hardly stopped flowing down her face.

Sheng Hong and Wang Ruofu in the audience were completely different. They had been whispering since they arrived, with a hint of excitement flashing on their faces from time to time. They did not show any annoyance at all about their daughter's marriage being delayed.

"Father, mother!"

Hualan sniffed and pursed her nose in grievance. “My marriage is almost ruined, and you guys can still laugh.”

"My daughter's marriage is ruined, and the Sheng family's reputation is ruined. The whole of Yangzhou is laughing at our family, and you are still laughing!"

It looks so pitiful, just like a frightened deer.

Old Madam Sheng remained silent, as if she was deep in thought.

Sheng Hong spoke.

"Hua'er, you are the flesh and blood of your mother and me! Would your mother and I harm you?"

Wang Ruofu also responded: "That's right, that's right! Mother has already talked to the young marquis during the day. It's not necessarily a bad thing that you haven't gotten married yet and haven't entered the Yuan family."

Seeing her parents say this, Sheng Hualan's eyes flashed with confusion.

If the marriage fails, does that mean it’s not a good thing?
Upon seeing this, Old Lady Sheng patted Hua Lan's hand gently and comforted her.

"Now it seems that the Yuan family is not a good family, and today's marriage has become a joke."

"They treat this as a joke, and it's not my family's fault."

Hearing this, Sheng Hong immediately nodded in agreement.

"Mother is right. I heard from others that Yuan Wenshao was a good man, so I promised Hua'er this marriage. I don't know what Yuan Wenshao is like now, but his family is definitely not a good family. They even treat marriage as a joke, relying on the betrothal gift to embarrass my family everywhere. With such behavior, the Yuan family must have no future."

"It's better not to get married!"

After a day of communication, Sheng Hong discovered that Yang Wenyuan was very eloquent and his attitude towards people was far less rude than he had been in the morning. He was much better than Yuan Wenchun.

I think the claim of self-pollution must be true.

And the purpose of defilement was to avoid the fight for the throne, which was exactly what Sheng Hong wanted!

Didn't he rush to find the Yuan family for Hualan just to avoid getting involved with the Qiu family who were involved in the fight for the throne?

Now that the young marquis is like this, Sheng Hong likes Yang Wenyuan more and more.

This is my fellow human being!
Speaking of this, the young marquis had threatened to take responsibility for Hua Lan before... Seeing Sheng Hong's righteous face, the old lady Sheng above snorted coldly, "The young marquis of Pingyang Marquis's Mansion is not a good person either!"

"Yuan Jia Da Lang used him as a bridge, and he went with the flow and used Yuan Jia Da Lang as a bridge in return."

"He succeeded in defaming himself, but what about our Sheng family? We are being bullied from both sides, and our reputation is ruined!"

"He said he was responsible for Hua'er, but who knows if the teeth he spewed out of his mouth were inlaid with porcelain?"

"It may be another good way to defile yourself!"

Hearing this, Sheng Hong and Wang Ruofu looked at each other and the smiles on their lips disappeared.

Yup!

Since this young marquis came here to defile himself, maybe he was just following the flow...

"No way?" Wang Ruofu said weakly. She saw the lady of Hou Mansion who was sent to the door. Could she be a flower in the water or the moon in the well?

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel that Yang Wenyuan's face was hateful again. Her eyes became hot and she felt sorry for her own Hua'er for having met the wrong man.

"Why are you crying? The matter has not been settled yet, and I don't know what the young marquis thinks. What's the point of crying?"

Old Madam Sheng interrupted Wang Ruofu's spell and continued:
"I don't think the young marquis's words are false, but his words during the day left room for interpretation. He only said that he would take responsibility after affecting Hua'er's marriage, but he didn't mention when or how he would take responsibility. During the dinner, I heard Bai's Erlang casually mention that the young marquis wanted to wait until he was crowned to get married..."

"Crown..."

Wang Ruofu was calculating, but she forgot how old Yang Wenyuan was. Mother Liu beside her took the opportunity to remind her, "He is sixteen this year."

"Yeah, similar to my Hua'er."

But Wang Ruofu immediately came to her senses, "Four years! Four more years!"

"Does he want my Hua'er to wait for him for four years?"

Sheng Hong's face was not looking good either, and he vented his anger at Wang Ruofu, "It was because you made a big fuss about arranging a marriage for Hua'er after she came of age that this disaster happened."

"Hua'er, what's your idea?" Old Lady Sheng asked Sheng Hualan beside her.

After listening to what her grandmother, father and mother said, Sheng Hualan realized that the marriage was probably off. She didn't have any thoughts about it anymore and felt a little disheartened. She bowed lightly.

"Grandma alone has the final say!"

"Oh, my dear Huaer!"

"Grandmother originally thought this marriage was a good one. After all, it is impossible for a daughter-in-law to not be bullied after marrying into a family. So she just let your parents do what they wanted. Now it seems that this is definitely not a good marriage."

"It's good that the young marquis messed it up. My Hua'er can find a good family in any place. There's no need for her to shamelessly try to get close to the "high branch" of an earl's mansion."

Old Madam Sheng was not a person with a good temper. As the only daughter of the Marquis of Yongyi, she could be said to have a domineering personality back then.

In recent years, he gradually handed over power to steward Sheng Hong and began to cultivate his character.

Now that he sees his beloved granddaughter being wronged, he doesn't want her to continue to put up with it.

"The Yuan family's marriage proposal has been rejected. You can go and talk to the young marquis yourself. I, an old woman, am shameless and asked my old friends to help find out if there is a suitable family. We can't just hang ourselves on a tree."

If Yang Wenyuan heard these words, he would definitely regret his euphemism at the time. He should have said directly: I like Sheng Hualan, let me marry her!

As a result, I am now suspected of being insincere...

I had thought that we could love each other before getting married under certain conditions, but who would have thought that such a mistake would happen.

(End of this chapter)