“Lost a daughter?”
Xiao Yao nodded, “From the old gentleman’s generation, it was only in the third generation that a girl was born, the whole family loved it so much that they raised her from a young age, the old gentleman even taught her personally, it was said that Xu Qingwan was a famous talented girl in the capital at that time, proficient in everything from the piano and chess to calligraphy and painting, and even more so in female red.
Later, the old gentleman chose Shen Yan, the first son of the Duke of Zhen’s family, who was talented in literature and martial arts. The first lady couldn’t bear to see her daughter married early and kept her for two more years, but when a war broke out at the border, Shen Yan was ordered to go to war and was gone for three years.
“The Xu family’s lost daughter is called Xu Qingwan?”
Xiao Yao nodded her head.
Song Wangyue passed the name over in her mouth several times, Xu’s figure came to mind then shook her head, there were so many people with the surname Xu in the world, how could it be so coincidental that it was her own mother.
But ……, thinking that Xu not only knew how to read and write, she could also embroider flowers, and her subconscious curtsy when she saw people was even more standard, she couldn’t help but ask, “Does sister Xiao know what year Xu Qingwan was lost?”
Xu didn’t remember anything at first, and knew that her surname was Xu because the word Xu was embroidered on a corner of the handkerchief she carried with her.
“I don’t really know this, if you want to know, wait until I go back and ask my mother. ”
“Thank you, Sister Xiao.”
“You’re still polite with me.”
Xiao Yao said, taking out the plan she had written and showing it to her, “This is what I wrote last night, take a look, I’ll change anything that’s lacking.”
Song Wangyue took it and read it carefully, giving her a thumbs up, “Sister Xiao, you have a talent for business, my big brother has married you, he’s really married a treasure.”
Xiao Yao blushed again at her comment, “If you think it’s okay, we’ll discuss the decoration of the shop again.”
“Sure.”
Song Wangyue called for Song Si and Gu Yi to come over, and the four of them discussed the shop’s decoration all morning and settled on it.
“I’m going back to the house, I’ll have the people from the house come over this afternoon, and the people who will make the pastries, should we hire someone, or buy someone ourselves.”
“There’s no hurry, I have two friends who used to make their own pastry shop, but then they were not doing well plus they got a bit older, so they closed the shop, I’ll send someone to ask them if they want to come over and help, we’ll see when they write back.”
“OK.”
Xiao Yao happily went away.
Song Wan Yue told Song Si what Xiao Yao had said in the morning in front of Gu Yi, saying, “Sun Jin shouldn’t know this either, I think big brother should tell him, it’s up to him as to how he chooses, as a friend, you’ve said what you need to say, in the future if he finds out he’s been cheated or something else happens, he can’t blame you.”
“Big brother listen to you, I’ll go find him now.”
Before Song Si had even left the house, Sun Jin came over, “Brother Song, I went back last night and thought about it all night, the more I thought about it, the more I felt that your reaction was not right, is there something you are hiding from me?”
“Yes there is one …… thing.”
Song Si told the story of the day he was set up at the Xu Mansion, Sun Jin couldn’t believe it, how could Mr. Big do something like that?
Shaking his voice, “I, I was also at the Xu Mansion that day, how, how come I didn’t know?”
Then he remembered that he had been helped to the guest room because he had diarrhoea.
Diarrhoea?
Sun Jin’s hand tightened as he thought about how his stomach had hurt after drinking that cup of tea, which meant that the Xu family had set everything up long ago and could only set up Song Si if he was detached.
Bang!
He slammed his fist hard on the table, furious, “Why would Mr. Big do this?”
Expecting this reaction, Song Si gave his hand a look and proceeded to tell him, “Actually Xu Ling’er is not Mr. Big’s own granddaughter ……”
After hearing this, Sun Jin could no longer suppress his anger and stood up to walk out, and was stopped by Gu Yi just as he reached the door.
“You went to return the marriage?”
Sun Jin’s eyes were red, not knowing whether it was because of Xu Ling’er’s life or because he felt he had been cheated, “They cheated!”
“Cheated you of what?”
“Xu Ling’er she’s clearly not ……”
“You’re the one who didn’t ask around, you can’t blame others, blame yourself for coveting the Xu family’s reputation.”
Sun Jin couldn’t refute it, he did, if it wasn’t Mr. Xu Da, if it was any other family, he would have had to think about it.
“Besides, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.”
With that, Gu Yi walked into the house.
Sun Jin’s footsteps towards the outside paused and followed him in, “What do you mean?”
“Although Xu Ling’er is not a member of the Xu family, but she was raised in the Xu family after all, people outside will respect you a bit for the sake of this family name, not to mention that Mr. Big loves Xu Ling’er so much, even for the sake of Xu Ling’er’s future, he will do his best to help you, isn’t this just what you need?”
Sun Jin opened his mouth.
Gu Yi continued, “With Mr. Big’s help, in the future, although you may not be able to have smooth sailing in the capital, no one will trip you up either.
“But ……”
“There is nothing but, you have already proposed marriage, if you back out at this time, even if you won the first prize in the temple examination, I guess Mr. Big will still do something to prevent you from staying in the capital, or even let you go to a barren place to take up your post, you may spend the rest of your life in that kind of place, are you willing to do that?”
Sun Jin shuddered, how could he forget that Mr. Big was the top scholar in the world, half of the officials in the court were his disciples, if he really offended him, his fate would be absolutely miserable.
Gu Yi gave him a look, poured himself a glass of water and brought it to his mouth to drink slowly. After hearing Song Si’s words just now, he thought that only if Sun Jin married Xu Ling’er could Xu Ling’er completely die to Song Si and nothing would happen to her in the future, which is why he came over to say these words.
After he finished drinking, he picked up a cup and poured another cup and put it in front of Sun Jin, “In fact, this marriage is still too high for you. If you want me to say so, just pretend that you didn’t hear what my elder brother said today, and propose the marriage happily at home and marry her as soon as possible.”
Sun Jin picked up his cup, drained it, put it back on the table with a thud, and said through clenched teeth, “You’re right, this marriage is indeed a high climb for me, I should be happy.”
Gu Yi reached out and patted him on the shoulder, “That’s right, you’re marrying a wife and not a superfluous one, so if you can’t get past that hurdle in your heart, you can follow Mr. Big’s example and take a flat wife, anyway, with him as a precedent, the Xu family can’t say anything.”
Song Si glanced at Gu Yi.
“Sir Song, Xu Liang is here, saying that the old gentleman has asked you to come over.”
Xiao Si’s endowment voice came from the doorway.