Mr. Big couldn’t believe that Wen Zhong would do such a thing.
“Are you telling the truth?”
“Every word is true, and if you don’t believe me, Mr. Big, I can accompany you to confront him.”
Hearing his words, the great gentleman was completely convinced, and with anger he rose and walked out, Sun Jin respectfully seeing him out.
Seeing him descend the stairs, the corners of Sun Jin’s mouth curled into a cold smile.
Mr. Big ordered the coachman to go straight to the Household Department, and only halfway there did he remember that it was not yet time to go to court, and immediately ordered the coachman to go to Wen Zhong’s residence.
The coachman drove his horse over there just as Wen Zhong came out of his house to go to the Household Department. When he saw Mr. Big’s carriage coming, he greeted him and lifted the curtain himself after the carriage stopped, “What brings you here?”
“I asked you, why did you not agree to Sun Jin and Ling’er’s marriage?”
Wen Zhong was stunned and subconsciously wanted to retort, but thinking that it was on the street, he took a step back, “Let’s talk about it inside the house.”
The two of them went to the study, and when they were seated, Wen Zhong asked, “Why are you saying this? I have never objected to their marriage.” www.biqugebang.com
Naturally, Mr. Da did not believe him, and he forgave Sun Jin for not having the guts to lie to him.
“Did you ever ask Sun Jin to invite Song Si to dinner at Cui Xiang Court?”
Wen Zhong frankly admitted, “Yes.”
The elder gentleman slapped the table, “You are still not disagreeing? What is Cui Xiang Court, don’t you know?”
“You misunderstood, I wanted Sun Jin to lure Song Si there, I didn’t say I wanted him to follow along, besides I did so with bitterness. At that time, I didn’t know that Xu Qingwan hadn’t regained her memory, and I did so because I wanted to hold Song Si’s hand so that Xu Qingwan wouldn’t tell anyone about what happened back then, and I had no choice but to do so.”
Hearing him say this, the elder gentleman’s anger subsided by a large margin and softened his breath, “Then you can also think of other ways, or perhaps make it clear to Sun Jin in advance, so as not to cause him misunderstanding and make him mistakenly believe that you do not agree with his marriage with Ling’er. So that he will propose to marry the Sixth Princess in front of the Emperor.”
“He wants to marry the Sixth Princess?”
Wen Zhong was surprised, he had something going on at the Household Ministry today, he had come out of town for a visit and had not attended the Qionglin Banquet, he did not know what had happened yet.
The Great Mister’s heart was on fire again, Ling’er had agreed to talk about such a good marriage and it was still yellow because of a misunderstanding, what made it even more stifling was that the other party was a princess, he didn’t even have the chance to let Sun Jin back out.
“Fortunately, the Sun family only came to the door to propose marriage at that time, not betrothal, otherwise we would have lost a lot of face.”
Wen Zhong did not say anything, his face was sullen, he did not expect Sun Jin to dare to do so.
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The Song family, however, was a joyful scene.
The Song grandmother had an early lunch and took all the family’s silver and the 50,000 taels of silver that Master Gu had given Gu Yi with her, and took Liu Cui Lan to the Xu residence to ask Meng to help her buy a headdress.
Meng had not been out of the house for so many years and did not know where to buy them, so she asked Sister Wu to call the Second Lady to come over and a group of people went to the street.
After shopping all afternoon, not only did they buy the noodles, but they also bought a thousand taels of wine and the remaining betrothal gifts. The Song family separated from Meng and returned home, and it was almost dark.
“Si’er, have you set a date yet?”
“Yes, tomorrow morning.”
“Good,, good, good.”
Grandma Song couldn’t keep her mouth shut as she walked towards the house, only once she stepped inside the door did she remember one thing, the matchmaker hadn’t been invited yet, she suddenly slapped her head, “Oh no, I forgot the most important thing.”
“Grandma is talking about the matchmaker, right?
Song Wangyue smiled and came out of the house, “Big brother and I went down to invite an official matchmaker, she will come to the house early tomorrow morning on time.”
“That’s good.”
When she had finished, she was still not sure, so she called for Liu Cui Lan and Song Wan Yue to come in and asked them to count the gifts one by one, before putting them away again.
The next morning, he got up at dawn to cook a meal and called the family up to eat before waiting for the matchmaker to come.
At the beginning of the morning, Xu came over in her carriage, and she went to the Ding Guo Gong Mansion with Song Wan Yue today.
At the beginning of the morning, the matchmaker came over with her waist twisted, and when she met her, she gave her face a good hug, saying to Song’s grandmother with a smile on her face, “I’m counting on you today, as long as it’s done well, the matchmaker’s red packet will be yours.”
“Of course, of course, it’s a blessing for me to match-make for the Scholar, I will do my best to make you both happy.”
Song Wangyue called for the boy to come and carry the betrothal gifts to the carriage.
She knew that Song Si was from the countryside and did not have much silver, so she thought that the betrothal gifts would not be too good, but both the pastries and the wine in front of her were only used by those big families for their betrothal, and when she saw the box containing the jewellery, her eyes widened, looking at the size of the box it should contain the headdress, even the cheapest one had four to five thousand taels.
The matchmaker had a new estimation of the Song family in her heart, and the smile on her face became even more sincere. Sitting on the front board of the carriage, she shouted to the people on the roadside as she walked, “The new Scholar is going to be betrothed to Miss Xiao of the Ding Gong Mansion.
When the carriage arrived at the entrance of the Duke of Ding’s residence, it was followed by countless people watching the hilarity, which startled the housekeeper waiting at the entrance of the residence.
Song Si got down from the carriage and immediately caused quite a stir. That day he was parading around in his Scholar’s robe, which many people had not seen, but today he finally got to see his face.
As the crowd rushed towards the entrance of the residence, the housekeeper hurriedly let Song Si enter the residence, and only then did the commotion of the crowd calm down.
Wiping a handful of sweat from his forehead, the butler smiled and led the way, all the way to the parlour.
The Duke of Ding and his wife, Xiao Zheng, had been waiting for them for a long time, and there was a frail-looking, white-faced young man sitting next to them.
The matchmaker congratulated them and went outside with a smile on her face after receiving the silver.
After some pleasantries, Qin pointed to the young man and introduced him.
“This is my son, Xiao Qian, who has been living in the Thousand Hills Temple outside the city for a long time because he has been weak since he was a child, and we have brought him back today because Yao’er is engaged.”
Xiao Qian got up and before he could speak, there was a cough, “Xiao Qian …… cough cough …… met …… cough cough …… everyone.”
Xu’s heart ached, she was a mother and naturally knew how hard it was for a mother to hear her child coughing like that, “I don’t know what exactly is wrong with Mr. Xiao, Yue’er knows a little bit about medicine, she can let her take a look at Mr. Xiao.”
For some reason, as Xu’s words fell, Song Wan Yue clearly saw a few flashes of panic in the eyes of several members of the Xiao family.
She looked towards Xiao Qian who was holding a handkerchief over his mouth.
When Xu sensed her gaze, Xiao Qian broke out into another violent cough.