Chapter 680 After my husband passed the imperial examination, I became his second wife (8)

But the Lin Shichu that Yue Lingxuan saw was a woman with a heart harder than a man. She looked pretty and had a lovely smile, but was actually cold and heartless. Otherwise, when she saw him seriously injured that day, how could she really throw him on the roadside, leave him some medicine and leave without hesitation?

Yue Lingxuan was still upset about being abandoned by Lin Shichu that day. As the young master of the Anguo Marquis family, he had always been praised and pursued by others, but had never been despised by others! So he remembered Lin Shichu.

When Lin Shichu came back from the pharmacy, he saw a guest at home. It turned out to be Li the matchmaker from the street. When Li the matchmaker saw Lin Shichu, she smiled so hard that her teeth were exposed and her wrinkles on her face were like chrysanthemums. She said, "Miss Lin, are you back from shopping? Oh, you are so pretty. Who doesn't like a pretty girl?"

Being looked at by Matchmaker Li as if she were an object, Lin Shichu frowned slightly, greeted her with a fake smile, and then pretended to be shy and slipped back to his room.

Matchmaker Li must have come to introduce some oddball who she found from nowhere to her parents again. Ever since the Lin family spread the word that their daughter would not marry and would only take in a son-in-law, the number of matchmakers who used to be able to knock down the door has decreased a lot, and there are only a few left.

Matchmaker Li was one of them. After she knew that the Lin family was going to take in a son-in-law, she immediately changed her mind about choosing a son-in-law for the Lin family. She went to various places to find young men with many brothers and introduced them to the Lin family one by one.

But the people she found were all weird, most of them were ugly, not to mention Lin Shichu, even Lin's father and mother looked down on them.

It took a long time for Matchmaker Li to leave. It was half an hour later. After sending her away, Lin's mother and father finally breathed a sigh of relief. Lin's mother pressed her chest, frowned and said angrily: "The men introduced by Matchmaker Li are not worthy of our Chu'er at all. The eldest son of the Xian family in Xicun, the third son of the Zhou family who makes tofu in Dongzhen, the youngest son of the Chen family who sells fish in Taocun... They are either villagers or peddlers. Who does Matchmaker Li think of our Chu'er? She even introduced such a person who is not presentable! If Chu'er's marriage was not settled yet, I would have thrown her out. Really!"

Lin's father was also very unhappy. His daughter was raised with great care, so how could he possibly marry a peasant? Lin's father would rather spend a long time looking for a husband than agree to the candidates chosen by matchmaker Li. Wouldn't that be mistreating his daughter?

"Forget it. Next time we will tell Matchmaker Li that she doesn't need to worry about our Chu'er's marriage." Father Lin said.

Mother Lin nodded immediately: "Then you should talk to Matchmaker Li."

When Lin Shichu was having dinner, he heard complaints from Lin's father and mother. They all said that matchmaker Li was unreliable and that the men she introduced to him were not suitable in one way or another and none of them were good.

Lin Shichu wanted to close her ears after hearing this. She didn't want her parents to worry so much about her marriage, but in this fucked up era, the first people to oppose a woman not getting married would be her parents. Even though Lin's father and mother loved their daughter very much, they would not allow her to remain single for her entire life, because their knowledge and perspective determined their ideas.

"Dad, I want to go to the cloth shop in Lianjiang to have a look. I heard that cloth woven from silk is very precious. I want to see it with my own eyes and learn about the business of the cloth shop." Lin Shichu decided to go on a business trip to relax.

Unexpectedly, Father Lin refused outright: "No, Chu'er, I don't have time recently and can't take you to Lianjiang. I'm also worried about you going alone, so let's wait."

Lin Shichu quickly persuaded him: "Dad, Lianjiang is not far from here. It only takes two days to get there by carriage. Besides, I will bring our guards with me. What are you worried about?"

"How can you, a girl, go out alone? How can your father feel at ease?" Although Lin's father loved his daughter, the world was like this nowadays. An unmarried girl could only travel far away with the company of her father, brothers, elders or husband and other relatives. She could not go alone, so Lin's father disagreed to let Lin Shichu go to Lianjiang alone without hesitation.

"Dad, you can't treat me as an ordinary girl. I want to take over the family business and be the master of my own house. I am different from ordinary girls. What they can't do doesn't mean I can't do it. You even agreed to do something unorthodox like going out to do business. Why don't you agree to go out far away? Even if I take over the family business in the future, I still can't go out by myself? Then what kind of business will I take over?" Lin Shichu said confidently, "If there is a problem with the business outside the city in the future and I can't go out far away, then there is no need to do business at all. Let's stop it now."

Father Lin was speechless immediately after hearing what his daughter said. He sighed and said, "Chu'er, Dad is just worried about you. If anything happens to you, your mother and I will not be able to survive. It is much harder for a girl to go out than for a man. Dad really doesn't want you to suffer... Otherwise, my dear daughter, let's find a capable and conscientious son-in-law and let him take care of you, right?"

Father Lin actually backed out.

"No, it's much harder to find a son-in-law with a conscience than to travel far away by myself. If the son-in-law is an ambitious person who wants to wipe out the whole family and scheme against our family property, then we, the three of us, don't know how we will end up." Lin Shichu quickly brainwashed Lin's father, making him remember the idea that "sons-in-law are unreliable."

Finally, Lin Shichu tried her best and finally persuaded Lin's father to agree to let her go to Lianjiang alone, of course, with a bunch of people along.

So Lin Shichu happily asked Qingxue to pack his luggage, and the next day he went to Lianjiang with a group of guards.

Lianjiang is actually a coastal town with both fishing and mulberry industries. Lin Shichu said that she went to Lianjiang to see silk cloth, but this was not her main purpose. She mainly wanted to go to the beach to play and eat seafood.

The group left the city in a mighty procession. Lin Shichu sat in her carriage and drank tea comfortably. Because the Lin family was wealthy, her teas were all tribute-grade, such as Longjing before the Qingming Festival and Qingcha after the rain. Lin Shichu felt that it was a great enjoyment to drink these good teas alone or use them as a milk cart.

The carriage was moving slowly. As they were not in a hurry, Lin Shichu asked the coachman to drive slowly. When they reached the road in front of Lingshan Temple outside the city, she heard the sound of horse hooves coming from behind, which was getting closer and closer.

She couldn't help but lift the car curtain to look out, and saw a very familiar-looking man. What a coincidence, wasn't he the handsome man with whom she left a bottle of life-saving medicine and who had also picked up medicine from her pharmacy?

(End of this chapter)