Song Si swallowed back what he was going to say in the end.
The look on Sun Jin’s face was so happy, so why should one throw cold water on him.
“It’s nothing, congratulations.”
Sun Jin felt that something was wrong with him, although he was saying congratulations, there was no look of happiness for himself on his face at all, instead there was a bit of heaviness.
Sun Jin looked serious, “Brother Song, but I have always treated you as a brother, if you have anything to say, just say it directly, you make me feel uneasy in my heart like this.”
“What did Mr. Big say to you?”
Hearing him ask this, Sun Jin immediately forgot his uneasiness and became excited again, “Great Mister has instructed me a lot, I came over to you because apart from telling you the good news about Miss Xu and I, I wanted to tell you what Great Mister instructed me.”
“Thank you, Brother Sun, but then since it was Mr. Big who instructed you, you don’t have to share it with me, I’ll wait for your good news about the temple exam.”
“You are very wrong!”
Sun Jin moved forward a little and stared carefully at his expression, “You’ve been very off since I told you earlier about me going up to the Xu family to propose marriage. Brother Song, what’s wrong with you?”
“It’s probably because I’m tired today.”
Song Si changed the subject, “The food is getting cold, let’s go eat.”
After saying that, she got up and headed out.
Sun Jin stared at his back for a while before he got up and followed him to the dining room.
The Ding Guo Mansion’s cook was really good, and the whole dining room was filled with aromas, and Sun Jin was really hungry, so he ate without hesitation.
After he had finished eating, he remembered that something was wrong with Song Si on the way back to the inn in the carriage, and frowned all the way to the inn but couldn’t figure out what was wrong with Song Si.
“What’s wrong?”
Master Sun thought something had gone wrong with the marriage and asked worriedly.
Sun Jin told him about Song Si’s unusual reaction, and after listening to that, Master Sun stroked his beard and pondered for a while, saying, “Prince Song is not a stingy person, he must have some reason for doing this that he cannot tell us, so, tomorrow you should go over there again and ask him properly.”
Sun Jin nodded his head.
……
When Song Wan Yue was eating, she noticed that Song Si was a bit distracted, even the dishes that she normally loved didn’t have a few bites, when Sun Jin left, she went to knock on Song Si’s house door, “Big brother.”
Song Si was sitting at the table not knowing what he was thinking about, when he heard her voice, he raised his voice, “Come in.”
Song Wan Yue pushed the door in, closed the door behind her, walked to the table and sat down, opening the door, “Brother, what’s on your mind?”
Song Si opened his mouth, wanting to say something but then stopped.
“About Sun Jin?”
Song Si was stunned, “How do you know?”
“Apparently, Big Brother was happy when he sent Sister Xiao back, and when he and Sun Jin entered the dining room they lost their appetite, so it must have something to do with him.”
Song Si sighed, “It does have something to do with him, but big brother doesn’t know what to do?”
“Big brother tell us.”
To say it would be to tell him that Big Mister had set him up, Song Si hesitated for a split second before speaking out. He really didn’t know what to do, Sun Jin had already proposed his marriage, so if he told him about that day now, he would undoubtedly be giving someone a hard time, but if he didn’t tell him, he would be sorry for this affection Sun Jin had for him.
“That day, I ……”
The world-famous great scholar actually did such a thing, Song Wan Yue was stunned for a while after hearing this.
“So this is how they set you up and failed to set up Sun Jin?”
Song Si nodded.
“It shouldn’t be, with the Xu family’s reputation alone, Xu Ling’er wouldn’t be worried about getting married, so why would they set you up?”
Song Si shook his head again, since that day, he had never been to the Xu Mansion again, nor had he inquired about any news about the Xu Family.
Song Wan Yue felt that there must be something here that they didn’t know about.
“In that case, tomorrow after breakfast I’ll go and ask Sister Xiao, and when I come back we’ll decide whether to tell Sun Jin or not.”
That was all that could be done.
The next morning, after breakfast, Song Wan Yue had not yet left for the Ding Guo Mansion when Xiao Yao came over in her carriage.
After she returned last night, she went to her mother and told her about Song Wan Yue’s plan to open a pastry shop and give it to her to manage, but of course she also told her about Song Si’s plan to manage it with her.
After listening to her, Xiao Yao went back to her house and spent half the night pondering over the plan, then came over after breakfast.
“Sister Xiao.”
Song Wangyue quickly greeted her and took her arm, “I was just about to go look for you, you’re here just in time, I have gossip to ask you.”
“Gossip?”
Xiao Yao didn’t understand.
Song Wangyue blurted it out, and only after she finished did she remember that this wasn’t modern times, “It’s just to ask you about some things.”
Xiao Yao understood.
When the two of them entered the room and sat down, Song Wangyue said, “That friend of Big Brother’s that Sister Xiao saw yesterday is going to be engaged to Old Mr. Xu’s great-granddaughter in a short while. I was wondering, with the Xu family’s fame and status, what kind of family his great-granddaughter could not say to if she wanted to, so why did she say to a foreign schoolboy.”
“This you do not know, Xu Ling’er is not Mr. Xu’s own great-granddaughter, he was born of the daughter brought by Mr. Big’s ordinary wife, originally should be surnamed Li, but Mr. Big misses his lost daughter, insisted that Xu Ling’er surnamed Xu family, but after all, she is not the Xu family’s first young lady, so the marriage is not high but low, the family of good fortune is not willing to marry her, the family of bad fortune She doesn’t want to marry someone from a good family, but she doesn’t want to marry someone from a bad family.”
“A daughter from a flat wife?”
“Yes, I heard my mother say that this matter caused quite a stir in the capital at first, no one expected that the world-famous great gentleman suddenly wanted to marry a flat wife, and this flat wife is also a woman with a son and a daughter, at that time the rumors in the capital ……”
Xiao Yao subconsciously lowered her voice, “saying that the son and daughter of the wife were originally Mr. Big’s, and that he had kept an outside wife for a long time, and when he saw that his son and daughter were getting older, he recklessly took an outside wife as his wife, and brought his son and daughter back to the house in name only. As a result, many families in the capital did not see the Xu family’s family style.”
Song Wan Yue understood.
No wonder they had to set up big brother and Sun Jin one after another, with such a reputation, Xu Ling’er really couldn’t speak of any good family in the capital.
“In fact, there was another incident that happened in the Xu family, the eldest gentleman’s own daughter suddenly disappeared before he took a flat wife, and she was nowhere to be found alive. The old gentleman had always loved that granddaughter, and was so sick about it that he almost died. The old man had always been fond of his granddaughter and had fallen very ill and almost died. The eldest wife had been ill and kept a small, isolated courtyard in the house, praying for her daughter’s return, and even handed over the reins of the house to his wife. The young master of the Xu family also gave up his official position in the court and took his wife and children on a trip, returning only once a year to visit the old lady and the old man.”