Husband has a sweetheart

Chapter 31 The Best Wife

The steward's daughter-in-law and the maid in the house hurried out.

"Why didn't you tell me that Mrs. Zhang's family wanted to give Cousin Yuqing to the old man as a concubine?" Luo Danyang asked, almost unable to restrain the anger in his heart.

Mrs. Luo sighed, "It didn't happen, the Zhang family just thought about it. Telling you, it will only make you angry for nothing."

"Mother, if..." Luo Danyang said eagerly.

Mrs. Luo looked at him suspiciously.

Luo Danyang swallowed the words that almost blurted out, shook his fist, calmed down, and asked, "What does mother think of Cousin Yuqing?"

Mrs. Luo laughed and said, "Yuqing is a very good girl. I heard from Danxia that Mr. Lin even praised her, so I appreciate her very much!"

"Yes, Mr. Lin praised her for being extremely intelligent and quick-witted, she is a wonderful woman." Luo Danyang said with a smile.

Mrs. Luo nodded and sighed, "Her father and mother are smart people!"

"Then tell me... I'll marry Yuqing's cousin, okay?" Luo Danyang asked.

Mrs. Luo was stunned by one sentence, she stood up and stared at Luo Danyang in disbelief, "What did you say?"

"Mother, I, I think Cousin Yuqing is very good. She is the best girl now, and she will be the best wife in the future." Luo Danyang blushed. Although he stammered, his eyes looked at Luo firmly. lady.

Once affection arises, it is like planting a seed in the heart, and it takes root and sprouts unconsciously.

Mrs. Luo was still in shock and didn't speak for a while.

Luo Danyang squatted on the ground, held his mother's hand, and said, "Didn't mother also think Yuqing is very good? Why didn't you agree?"

Mrs. Luo's expression was complicated. It was true that she felt sorry for Zhang Yuqing, but an orphan from a relative's family and a future daughter-in-law were two different things.

Zhang Yuqing was only an orphan girl from relatives who had a good relationship back then, and she only had pity and love for Zhang Yuqing, but Zhang Yuqing wanted to be the wife of the Luo family's first son, and her family background was so weak that she couldn't afford it.

"You know, your cousin Yuqing's parents have both died, and the Zhang family has not recognized her identity to the outside world so far. She is no different from an orphan who has no support from her natal family." Mrs. Luo said slowly, "You will definitely enter the officialdom in the future. Dangerous, how difficult it is, you have known it since you were a child. When you enter the officialdom, other colleagues have father-in-law to help, but you don’t, you are far behind others! Everyone wants to climb up, but others are Two hands, and you only have one hand from the Luo family, how can you beat others?"

Mrs. Luo looked at Luo Danyang, "Although it's a bit snobby to say this, your father and I really hope that you can find a lady from a well-known family with a good family background as your wife. It's for your own good!"

Hearing what his mother said, Luo Danyang calmed down, squatted on the ground, looked up at Mrs. Luo, and said sincerely: "I understand the painstaking efforts of my father and mother. Although I am young, when I look at Danxia on weekdays, I always hope She can go smoothly in her life, walking along the best road in the eyes of the world, without any wind and rain, and without experiencing any suffering or misfortune."

"But the life on this road is comfortable and uncomfortable, only people who walk know. I don't want to marry a woman I have never met. I don't even know what kind of person she is. How can I trust each other for the rest of my life?" Luo Danyang said.

Mrs. Luo supported her forehead and said: "The order of the parents and the words of the matchmaker, blind marriage, how many people only know what the other party looks like on the wedding night! Why are you not happy? If you are afraid that my father and I will choose you Ugly, how about I arrange for you to take a look in advance?"

Luo Danyang shook his head with a smile, "Mother, you know that's not what I mean. I want a woman whom I understand and appreciate her to accompany and have children for the rest of my life."

"You've only met Yuqing a few times before you know her?" Mrs. Luo asked back.

Luo Danyang is very sincere, "Although I have only met her a few times, I am shocked by her intelligence and beauty every time. I dare not see her anymore. I am afraid to see her too many times. If I like her too much, I will be rude. Make her hate me!"

"Nonsense again!" Mrs. Luo nodded angrily on Luo Danyang's forehead.

Luo Danyang was staggered, so he just sat on the ground and put his arms around Mrs. Luo's arm, "Mother, if Cousin Yuqing has parents to take care of her, I would naturally want to know her better before thinking about lifelong affairs. But her situation You just said that her grandparents don't care about her, and my aunt always wants to take advantage of her. If I hesitate again, by the time I make up my mind, she will probably have been arranged to marry by the Zhang family!"

What good family can the Zhang family arrange for Zhang Yuqing?When Yuqing fell into the fire pit, he regretted it for the rest of his life.

Opportunities are always fleeting, and when it is time to make a move, you will only miss the opportunity if you hesitate.

Mrs. Luo looked complicated and did not speak.

"Doesn't mother like her?" Luo Danyang asked softly.

Mrs. Luo shook her head, "I like her very much, and I pity her for being transparent and stable, and her life is difficult and pitiful."

Mrs. Luo sighed for a long time, "But it's because I like her that I don't want her to be my daughter-in-law. You are young now, and she has a good color. Naturally, you like her very tightly, but you won't like her in a few years. She is gone, what should she do? If you marry someone with a good family background, even if the relationship between husband and wife fades, you have to respect her and support her. But Yuqing has nothing, and without your liking for her, What should she do? She has suffered enough since she was a child! How can I go to see my cousin and cousin-in-law in the underground? I told her that my son abandoned her girl all the time?"

"Mother!" Luo Danyang blushed, stood up in disbelief, "Is this the person I am in your eyes!"

Mrs. Luo was at a loss for words, "Son, no one can say for sure about the future..."

"Marriage is not a child's play!" Luo Dan said loudly, "Since I proposed to marry my cousin Yuqing in front of you, I naturally want to treat her well and be with her for the rest of my life! As you know, I like miscellaneous learning , if the future wife can also be proficient in this way, it would be great! If you find a rich man from an official family, you will have to urge me to work hard all day long, get promoted and get rich, I don't like that!"

Mrs. Luo looked at her resolute son and asked, "Have you really thought about it? If you regret it in the future..."

"The path I chose, I have nothing to regret!" Luo Danyang said firmly.

After a long time, Mrs. Luo sighed, "If Yuqing's Tanhualang's father is still there, I can make the decision now, maybe they still look down on us, but now... I agree, your father is afraid I won't agree either."

"As long as the mother nods, I will write to the father personally to tell him." Luo Danyang said excitedly.

Luo Danyang rushed back to write a letter to his father, as if writing later, Zhang Yuqing was about to be stuffed into a sedan chair by the Zhang family and given to the old man as a concubine.

Mrs. Luo put her hand on her forehead, remembering Luo Dan's attitude of not marrying Feiqing just now, she laughed and shook her head.

"You are a young man after all!" Madam Luo sighed, "No matter how steady and down-to-earth you usually are, when you meet a girl you like, you still look like a frizzy boy!"

The daughter-in-law who came in smiled and said, "Isn't it good to make the young master like you? You don't have to worry about the fate of the cousin girl. As long as you decide that the cousin girl is your daughter-in-law, if your mother-in-law comes forward to ask for the dowry of your daughter-in-law, that is It's only right and proper, what else can the Zhang family say? This is a good thing that has the best of all three!"

"Actually, you want to marry the cousin girl back as your daughter-in-law, right?" The wife in charge whispered, "I'm just afraid that the young master won't like it, and the master won't like it, so I never mentioned it."

If you don't want Zhang Yuqing to have anything to do with Luo Danyang at all, you should guard against it from the very beginning, let alone let Luo Danyang take Zhang Yuqing to watch a polo match, you shouldn't see each other, and Luo Danyang repeatedly took advantage of the Luo Danxia went to see Zhang Yuqing in the name of Luo Danxia, ​​and Mrs. Luo didn't even stop her.

Mrs. Luo smiled and said nothing.

Luo Danxia ran in, sat down in front of her mother, and said with a smile: "I heard it just now, does my brother want to marry cousin Yuqing?"

"There's no horoscope! Don't go out and tell people!" Mrs. Luo hurriedly urged.

Luo Danxia covered her mouth and smiled, proudly showing off, "I've already seen it!"

"How did you find out?" Mrs. Luo became interested.

Luo Danxia smiled happily, "When my brother looked at Cousin Yuqing, his eyes shone like lanterns, and he blushed at every turn. Two days ago, he kept asking me, intentionally or unintentionally, when Cousin Yuqing would come again. What about at home! It's clear that he wanted to find Cousin Yuqing, but he did so under my banner!"

Mrs. Luo raised her forehead, you silly son!It's so obvious, I don't know if Yuqing can see it!
Zhang Yuqing returned to the Zhang Mansion, and on the second day, someone from the Zhang Mansion came to inform her and asked her to prepare. Three days later, the whole family went to the temple to burn incense and pray for the Crown Princess.

Mother Liu who passed on the message sighed: "The princess concubine is really a blessed person, to be so favored by the emperor and the prince! I heard that all the female family members of the officials in Beijing will go. I am afraid that the door frames of the temples in the capital will be stepped on tomorrow." broken!"

It is the Lantern Festival to pray for blessings and go to temples to pray for blessings.

"Yes, the emperor's grace is really great!" Zhang Yuqing clasped his hands together and said enviously.

Before leaving, Ms. Liu told her: "By the way, the girl must dress plainly that day!" However, Ms. Liu remembered that Zhang Yuqing's fancy dress did not have the conditions, so she stopped talking.

After Liu's mother left, Wang Chunniang asked curiously, "Pray for the Crown Princess again?"

Didn't you pray for the Lantern Festival?I heard that the congratulations and articles wishing the princess a good health can be lined up from one end of Suzaku Avenue to the other end.

Zhang Yuqing felt that either the concubine was terminally ill and the medicine stone was ineffective, or the emperor and the prince wanted to show their benevolent side, or...or both.

On the day of offering incense, Zhang Yuqing picked up a dull, well-washed dress, and wore only a small, light yellow silk flower on her temple.

When going out, Zhang Yuqing was arranged to ride in a car with Zhang Yushu.

Zhang Yushu looked at Zhang Yuqing's bald ears, and took out a pair of silver fan-shaped earrings from the bag she carried with her, and put them on for Zhang Yuqing.

(End of this chapter)