Chen Yilin bit her lower lip tightly, her eyes filled with mist. She leaned into her mother's arms and said in a very aggrieved voice, "Mom, General Yuan actually wants to marry that foreign woman."
Although the foreign woman is a miraculous doctor, she is almost thirty years old and is not worthy of General Yuan. She claims that she is a well-known noble and young and beautiful. She and General Yuan are a match made in heaven.
When Yuan Suifeng entered the capital with the army last year, Chen Yilin accidentally caught a glimpse of his heroic appearance on the second floor of the inn, and her heart fell in love with him from then on. However, General Yuan spent most of his time in the past two years.
In Yaozhou, as a young lady of the Chen family, she had to learn housekeeping from her mother, so she could only suppress her girlish worries. Her grandfather always loved her, and after knowing her worries, he promised her that he would test General Yuan's feelings for her.
, praising her for her vision.
Now she was suddenly cut off by Zhong Zi, who even gave birth to a child. Chen Yilin was so angry that she wanted to spit out a mouthful of blood. It would be fine if she lost to another noble girl, but it was Zhong Zi. How could she accept this?
Her mother, Dai Shi, gently stroked her daughter's hair. With such a daughter under her knees, she naturally loved her very much.
"The marriage between the two of them has not been finalized yet. I think Doctor Zhong might have bewitched General Yuan. Otherwise, the two of them have not been together for so many years, and now they suddenly want to get married. No matter how you look at it, there is something fishy about it.
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Chen Yilin looked up at her and began to guess, "Could it be for the sake of the child?"
"In order to tie up General Yuan, she did not hesitate to give birth to a child out of wedlock. She is indeed a barbarian woman and has no shame."
The more she spoke, the angrier she became, her beautiful face full of disdain, "Why didn't Princess Wei and Prince Rong stop it?"
He actually allowed General Yuan to be entangled with such a despicable woman. If she had known that this method would work, she would have fallen for it a long time ago.
Dai said: "I think General Yuan is just a hothead. Or Doctor Zhong deliberately spread the rumor to the outside world in order to use public opinion to force General Yuan to marry her." The more she thought about it, the more she felt that this was the case.
If General Yuan is interested in Zhong Zi, he can take her in when she is pregnant. There is no need to wait until the child is born.
After she and her daughter analyzed it, Chen Yilin became even more disgusted with Zhong Zi, "Then what should we do?"
She originally wanted to ask people to say good things about her outside, so that Yuan Suifeng would know that a noble girl like her admired her. However, Zhong Zi suddenly appeared with her child, which directly disrupted her plan.
Dai said: "I will talk to your grandfather about this later and see how to deal with it."
The anger on Chen Yilin's face dissipated a lot, and was replaced by full peace of mind. With her grandfather here, everything will go smoothly. There was a touch of complacency in her heart. Most people in the world favor boys over girls, but her grandfather was different. He loved her.
She loves her older brothers more than she loves her. My grandfather also treats his mother better than the other aunts because of her. Even though she is the only daughter in the family, my mother is still the mistress of the Chen family. She is in charge of the middle office and her position is very stable.
Dai quickly went to see her father-in-law and told him about her daughter.
Chen Huiqing originally wanted to marry Chen Yilin to Yuan Suifeng. He comforted Dai and said, "Don't worry, I will definitely fulfill Lin'er's wish."
"How can a barbarian woman afford the position of the Duke's wife? With her status, being an aunt is like smoking from the ancestral grave." As a Daxia native, Chen Huiqing looked down on barbarian women and felt that they were inferior to Daxia.
Women are well-educated and sensible.
Dai Shi sighed and looked at him quietly, "Lin'er is our only daughter. I only hope that she can marry the person she likes. Unlike me, I can only bury my true feelings deep in my heart.
, dare not show it in front of others."
For the sake of her daughter's happiness, Dai deliberately acted resentful and pitiful. She and her father-in-law were forced by each other at first, but after benefiting from this secret relationship, Dai began to take the initiative to maintain this relationship. Also because
Her father-in-law valued her so much that even if she only had a daughter, Lin'er, her husband would not dare to spoil his concubine and destroy his wife, and would even let her educate his bastard son.
Her sad look fell in Chen Huiqing's eyes, making his heart soften even more. He also didn't expect that after his wife's death, he would still be moved by another woman.
He held her slender wrist and said, "Don't worry, I'm here."
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Chen Huiqing waited until it was time to take a break and couldn't wait to find Yuan Suifeng.
Yuan Suifeng was in the jewelry store at this time. The waiter in front of him asked him again with a confused look on his face, "Do you really want to get a toad-style hairpin? Don't think about it again?"
He has been doing business for so long, but he has never seen anyone wanting to wear hairpins like this. Aren't hairpins usually given to girls? Which girl would like something like a toad?
Yuan Suifeng nodded, "Use this piece of jade to make it."
He remembered the first time he and Zhong Zi met. At that time, Zhong Zi gave him the snow-white toad to thank him. After learning that he gave the toad to his niece Ningning, she raised a new snow-white toad to give to him.
.Over the years, Yuan Suifeng has avoided many plots because of the snow-white toad. Such a commemorative thing is of course the best choice as a gift.
Yuan Suifeng felt that the jade material used in the shop was not good enough, so he brought his own mutton-fat white jade for them to carve.
The waiter looked at the mutton-fat white jade, not to mention feeling heartbroken. Using such a good jade to carve a toad could be said to be a waste of natural resources. After persuading Yuan Suifeng to insist on his opinion, the waiter had no problem saying anything. The customer's wishes are the most important.
Yes, it can be said that they have done their best to persuade me once.
Yuan Suifeng handed them the drawings, which he had asked his sister-in-law to draw for him. As for painting, it was his eldest brother who was highly skilled in painting. But his eldest brother only painted for his sister-in-law, and Yuan Suifeng did not
Dare to find him. Fortunately, my sister-in-law is very loyal in this regard, and she really helped him, and the painting was particularly vivid.
After paying the deposit, he left the store and met Chen Huiqing, the censor of Zuodu.
Yuan Suifeng naturally recognized him, but he never interacted with these censors, so he nodded slightly and left.
Chen Huiqing stopped him and said, "I heard that the tea in a nearby teahouse is very good. It's fate that we meet each other. Why don't we have tea together?"
Yuan Suifeng touched his nose and said, "I still have important matters at home, let's do it next time."
Chen Huiqing didn't expect Yuan Suifeng to be so disrespectful, and his face darkened, "You don't even have time to drink tea?"
Yuan Suifeng said without hesitation: "Yes."
He hurried to get the sweet-scented osmanthus cake that Zhong Zi liked to eat. The sweet-scented osmanthus cake tasted best when it was freshly baked. Besides, he had no friendship with Master Chen.
After saying that, he walked away without giving Chen Huiqing a chance to speak.