Salted Fish Lady Loves to Eat Melons

Chapter 180: Encounter at Dali Temple

"Well, you are really capable! You actually went crazy in public in the mansion. If you want to die, why don't you just slit your throat?" Old Madam Fan asked gritting her teeth.

"Grandma, my granddaughter really didn't mean to kill anyone. I just wanted to vent my frustration." Fan Shiliu cried with tears streaming down her face.

"Sixteen, what are you upset about? Your sister's body is still warm, but you are going crazy in the mansion!" Old Madam Fan was full of disappointment.

"Mother, your daughter-in-law has long reminded you that you should find a husband for Sixteen, but you always spoil her, which can easily lead to trouble."

The Marquis's wife said softly that her daughter had reached marriageable age this year, but several men in the mansion who were older than her had not yet found a marriage partner.

Madam Fan sighed and said, "In a few days, the boy from Kangcheng Lin's family will come to Beijing. When he comes, let Sixteen meet him.

"Grandma, I don't want to marry someone from another place. I just want to be closer to you so that I can go home and visit you more often."

"Sixteen, the Lin family kid is coming to Shangjing to take the exam this time. As long as his name is on the list, grandma can ask your uncle to make some arrangements, and he can stay in Shangjing."

"Grandma, my granddaughter doesn't want to marry anyone else."

"If you don't want to marry someone else, then who do you want to marry?" The old lady's tone was so cold that the temperature in the hall seemed to drop a lot in an instant.

She sat on a high seat, looking coldly at the daughter of her lover and the granddaughter born to her illegitimate son.

She was wearing a light blue gauze dress today, and her waist was slender and fit to the touch.

Her face is delicate and beautiful, with curved eyebrows like a painting, a nose as straight as jade, and lips as red as petals.

Her whole body was as pure and flawless as spring water, and she looked 50% like her grandfather.

Looking at her granddaughter reminded the old lady of the prince of Duke Xiao’s Mansion decades ago.

Not only did he have a good family background, he also had outstanding looks, and was the object of marriage that many noble ladies in the capital were vying to marry.

Mrs. Fan and he were childhood sweethearts, but such an outstanding man was her fiancé and the love of her life.

However, the trick of fate made their beautiful love change quietly, and finally the two of them got married.

That handsome and successful man married a beautiful and talented woman even though he was down and out.

Fortunately, the woman's family background was not high and her parents' family was not wealthy either. The already impoverished Xiao family became even more impoverished.

But the woman was so shameless that when she ran out of money she sold the shop inherited from the Xiao family's ancestors and raised her two sons and two daughters to be extremely beautiful.

In the capital, many women who once had a crush on the prince, now had grown-up sons, all of them brought their sons to propose marriage.

At that time, Madam Fan's eldest son was already married, and her youngest son was one year younger than the eldest daughter of the Xiao family. The old lady gritted her teeth and helped her second son to propose marriage to the Xiao Mansion.

The old lady had complicated feelings towards her second daughter-in-law, love and hate, but she really liked her granddaughter.

Not only does she have a sweet mouth, she also looks especially like her grandfather. The old lady feels happy just looking at this granddaughter.

The second branch of the Fan family had four sons and two daughters. The old lady's sweetheart's daughter gave birth to two sons and one daughter, and the other two sons and one daughter were born out of wedlock.

Old Madam Fan had never looked at them straight in the eye, but Fan Shiliu was the complete opposite.

Although she was born to the second master, she was the legitimate granddaughter of Madam Fan's lover.

The old lady loved her and her family, and she especially liked her. Even her eldest son, Fan Yuxuan, the daughter of Zhenxi Hou, did not receive the same treatment as Fan Shiliu.

Because of her grandmother's favoritism, her parents were also particularly nice to her. Fan Shiliu was spoiled since she was a child and had a very spoiled and willful personality.

She was seventeen years old this year, and had long passed the age for marriage, but she was always dissatisfied with the men who came to propose marriage to her. She either said that the men were too low-class and unworthy of her, or that they had bad character and she looked down on them.

Since the death of the old marquis, Old Madam Fan has become more fond of reminiscing about the past, and she also wants to keep Fan Shiliu in her sight.

With the old ancestor protecting her, no one in the mansion dared to say a word to Fan Shiliu, and they had to serve her with good food and drink.

If she hadn't chased the maid with a pair of scissors today, the Marquis's wife would not have dared to suggest finding a husband for Fan Shiliu in front of her mother-in-law.

When Fan Shiliu saw that her grandmother was determined to help her find a husband this time, she remembered the look of disgust that Xie Shaoqing had when he looked at her.

Sadness and hatred intertwined together, like a torn picture scroll, which made her heart ache.

She made up her mind, closed her eyes and gritted her teeth and said, "Grandma, my granddaughter likes the eldest son of the Duke of Huguo's mansion."

"What? Are you crazy!" the Marquis's wife asked in disbelief, her face full of anger.

"Sixteen, do you know that he is the eldest grandson of the Duke of Protectorate?" The old lady looked at her granddaughter in surprise.

She could never have imagined that her beloved granddaughter would say such irrelevant words.

Seeing that her mother-in-law was as surprised as herself, the Marquis's wife patted her chest and tried to persuade her earnestly.

"Sixteen, you'd better stop dreaming. Not only does he have a distinguished family background, he also has talent, looks, and abilities. He is truly a rare talent among thousands.

You are a junior official at a young age. If such an outstanding man really married you, your aunt would wake up laughing in her dreams."

"Why can't he marry me? Grandmother, look at how much my aunt despises me."

"Don't be silly, your aunt is right. If someone is willing to marry you, grandma would wake up laughing in her dreams.

It’s a pity that this outstanding man seems to have no interest in the princess, how could our granddaughter of the Marquisate even dream of that.”

"Grandmother, you don't love Yu'er at all. Even if he doesn't marry Yu'er as his principal wife, Yu'er is willing to marry him as a concubine."

If any other granddaughter had said this, the old lady would have scolded her back without hesitation.

He was even locked up and taught a lesson to make him understand how outstanding the eldest grandson of the Duke of Protectorate was in Shangjing City.

But this person in front of me...

The old lady took a deep breath and said, "Yu'er, Grandmother knows that you like Master Xie very much, but Master Xie even rejected the princess."

"Grandmother, it is said that the Sixth Princess is arrogant and domineering, so it is reasonable for Master Xie to refuse."

The Marquis's wife listened to her niece's words and complained in her heart, "You make it sound as if you are not arrogant and domineering!"
But she would not say it out loud, and just quietly waited for the old lady's next refusal. Unexpectedly, the old lady's words refreshed the marquis's wife's cognition.

"Since Yu'er likes Master Xie so much, then Grandmother will put aside her old face and tell the old lady of the Duke of Huguo's Mansion that it should be okay to take you as a concubine."

"That's great, Grandmother. Can Yu'er go to the Dali Temple to see Master Xie today?"

"Well, go ahead!" the old lady said lovingly.

About an hour later, Wen Mingzhu and Miss Fan Shiliu arrived at the gate of Dali Temple together.

The Dali Temple was originally a place for handling major criminal cases, and normally few women came here.

But ever since Xie Xiaofeng became Shaoqing, gorgeously dressed young ladies were often seen at the gate of Dali Temple.

The two stunningly beautiful women looked at each other with disdain as soon as they got off the carriage and asked in unison: "Who are you?"