Chapter 179: Announcing the Marriage
Zhao Shen said strangely, "It's not me who's getting married, so what does it matter if I agree or not? Even if he's good at everything, it can't be considered a good match if my elder sister doesn't like him."
Although he avoided Ji Yunshu's question, there was nothing wrong with his answer.
But in this world, how many marriages are based on mutual love?
However, Ji Yunshu also understood that the most she could do was to help clear the way for trouble. Whether the marriage would be successful would ultimately depend on the Second Madam and Zhao Fu themselves.
Ji Yunshu thought that it would not be difficult for Zhao Shen to find out who was the heir of the Bo Mansion, but unexpectedly, on the day of Zhao Fu's coming of age, there was still no news.
Ji Yunshu naturally had to dress up to attend Zhao Fu's coming-of-age banquet, and Lan Yin woke her up early in the morning.
During breakfast, Lu Ru came in and replied, "The eldest lady sent a maid to question her."
She looked up at Zhao Shen: "You didn't forget, did you?"
Zhao Shen held his forehead with his hand: "How could it be? It's just that this matter... is a bit troublesome."
"What's the trouble?"
Ji Yunshu was a little surprised. In her eyes, Zhao Shen was a very reliable person. He could usually do whatever he promised.
For him to say the word "trouble" must mean that things are not going well.
Zhao Shen pondered for a moment before saying, "Chen You is indeed a homosexual. Not only is he not clean with the servants around him, but he also has a lot of affairs outside. Before, when Qin Fengwei arrested Lan Ting at Xiangguo Temple, he caught the servant next to him in disguise. He was actually a prostitute at Qingfeng Pavilion."
Ji Yunshu had previously wondered why the servant beside Chen You had changed his appearance, but he had never expected that this man would bring a young prostitute with him when he went to the temple for a blind date.
"In that case, just tell Second Aunt and Big Sister about it. What's the trouble?"
If Qin really loved her daughter, she would definitely not agree to this marriage.
This matter has nothing to do with them.
Zhao Shen shook his head and said, "Chen You is not a concern, but I checked the Cheng Anbo Mansion and found something amiss."
Ji Yunshu opened his eyes wide: "Is he really coming for you?"
"We haven't found out yet, but it's enough to tell Second Aunt about Chen You. If we can avoid this marriage, then we can do it."
Ji Yunshu nodded. Any mother would never marry her daughter off if she knew about this.
Ji Yunshu asked Lu Ru to deliver a letter to Zhao Fu.
I thought the matter ended there, but I didn't expect that after the coming-of-age ceremony, Second Madam Qin announced in front of all the guests that Zhao Fu was engaged to the Prince of Cheng'an.
Ji Yunshu looked at Qin's slightly indifferent expression and Zhao Fu's strong resistance to tears, and felt inexplicably absurd.
But she couldn't do anything.
After everything was over and the guests had dispersed, Ji Yunshu finally found the opportunity to meet Zhao Fu alone.
Without anyone around, Zhao Fu couldn't hold back any longer and threw herself into Ji Yunshu's arms and started crying.
Ji Yunshu had no choice but to take Zhao Fu back to Qionghua Courtyard first.
After Zhao Fu finished crying, he let her wash her face and clean up before asking, "What happened? Didn't I send someone to tell you? Didn't you tell your mother about Chen You?"
Hearing her talk about this, Zhao Fu couldn't help but choke up again. "I did, but my mother said...that those things were just for men's amusement, and that they would naturally change after marriage. Even if they didn't change, it didn't matter. Anyway, those people couldn't produce children, so they weren't a threat to me."
"What are you talking about?"
Normally, Ji Yunshu wouldn't express his dissatisfaction with his elders directly, so as to avoid being criticized. But what Qin said really made him angry.
Knowing clearly that the man has bad habits, she still insists on marrying her daughter to him. Is she out of her mind?
It's not like Zhao Fu can't get married. Given the current situation of the Marquis' Mansion, it's not impossible for her to find someone higher up.
Ji Yunshu pondered for a while, and intuitively felt that something was wrong.
She asked Zhao Fu, "I remember that our family wasn't very close to the Cheng'an Marquis's Mansion, and we hadn't had much of a relationship in the past. Why did your mother think of marrying into his family?"
Zhao Fu shook her head. "I don't know either. When I went to Xiangguo Temple, I didn't even know I was going on a blind date. When my mother told me about it, I wasn't happy about it, but she said she was doing it for my own good."
Seeing Zhao Fu's resigned look after crying, Ji Yunshu didn't know what to say.
But she still felt something was strange.
"Think carefully, has your mother behaved in any unusual way recently? Especially when interacting with the Chen family."
The marriage had already been arranged, and Zhao Fu had lost all hope and felt a little confused for a moment. When she heard Ji Yunshu's question, she thought about it seriously for a while.
After a while, he said, "My mother usually has nothing to do, so she just stays in her room copying scriptures and chanting Buddha's name. If there's anything unusual, it's that she's been praying to Buddha for longer these days. Apart from three meals a day, she hardly does anything else."
Ji Yunshu narrowed his eyes. Under what circumstances would a person spend the entire day copying scriptures and chanting Buddhist scriptures?
"As for the Chen family, they sent an old lady a few days ago. My mother met with them alone. I don't know what they talked about, but it might be related to the exchange of engagement letters and the announcement of the marriage today."
After Zhao Fu finished speaking, she looked at Ji Yunshu expectantly, "Sister-in-law, what should I do?"
Ji Yunshu also felt that the matter was a bit tricky. It concerned Zhao Fu's life, and she didn't know whether it was right for her to intervene.
But meeting her expectant eyes, he had no choice but to say, "Try to get some information out of your mother and find out why she must be engaged to the Chen family."
Zhao Fu's eyes gleamed with hope: "I understand. Thank you, sister-in-law."
After she left, Ji Yunshu sat down on the couch tiredly.
Although the banquet was organized by Wei Yuanmin, there were many female relatives coming today, so she naturally had to give them a warm welcome.
She had to smile at elders, peers and juniors, and her face almost froze.
Although I was thinking about something, I fell asleep soon after leaning against the warm incense burner.
When I woke up, it was completely dark and the lights were on in the room.
Zhao Shen came back at some point and sat next to her reading a book.
Ji Yunshu rubbed his eyes and asked, "What time is it?"
Zhao Shen poured her a glass of water. "It's already past the hour of You. I heard Lan Yin say you fell asleep shortly after you came back. How come you're so sleepy?"
Ji Yunshu had just woken up, her mind still a little dazed. She took a sip of water from his hand and lay back down. "After a whole day of welcoming and seeing off guests, how could you not be tired?"
Zhao Shen was already used to her occasional nonsense, so he laughed when he heard this: "What's this about welcoming and seeing off people? You're talking nonsense again."
Ji Yunshu curled his lips and said nothing.
Seeing her like this, Zhao Shen pulled her and said, "Get up and move around. It's time for dinner."
Ji Yunshu didn't want to move, so she pushed him and said, "I'm not hungry and don't want to eat. You go and eat."
Zhao Shengang had originally thought that she didn't like to move because she had just woken up. Now seeing her lazy and listless, he couldn't help but reach out and touch her forehead: "You don't have a fever, are you feeling unwell somewhere?"
Seeing that he was determined to get to the bottom of it, Ji Yunshu said unhappily, "It's my period."
"Isn't your period still a few days away?"
Zhao Shen has a good memory and Ji Yunshu's menstruation has always been regular, so he remembered that the due date had not yet arrived.
Ji Yunshu rolled his eyes and said, "I don't know why you suddenly came early. It's not a big deal. Go have dinner and stop pestering me."
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