Chapter 48 Gloating
"Who can argue with that?"
Ye Yunyi was so preoccupied with the Ye family's affairs that she had no time to care about Chen Yuanzhu.
She wished the Xie and Chen families would get married tomorrow and immediately exchanged the farming and weaving charts and dyeing manuals.
Shen Yanhuai and Xie Boyu have a good relationship. If the Xie family gets their hands on the dyeing manual, they probably won't hide it.
With the new dyeing patterns and designs, there might still be a chance for the Ye family to turn things around.
Ye Yunyi carefully put away Xie Qi's birth chart and marriage certificate, and then set a wedding date with Hua Nanzhi.
After Hua Nanzhi left, she leisurely walked back to the inner courtyard.
Shen Yuanqiong was waiting in the room early on. When she saw him return, she hurriedly said, "I heard that the eldest son of the Xie family came to annul the engagement?"
"Yes, it's breaking off the engagement with Xie Xuchuan, but not with the Xie family."
Ye Yunyi tossed the marriage certificate and betrothal letter onto the table and said, "The Xie family is arranging for Yuanzhu to marry Xie Qi. Your brother is still unaware of this while he's away, and we don't know if he'll be able to return by the end of the month."
"They replaced him with Xie Qi?"
Shen Yuanqiong raised her eyebrows in surprise.
"Otherwise what?"
Ye Yunyi said, "Besides him, Xie Jingyuan is the only unmarried member of the Xie family. It's impossible for a woman rejected by one's nephew to marry one's own third uncle, right? Where would the Xie family's reputation be then?"
“Sister-in-law is right.”
Ye Yunyi smiled faintly: "It's just that Xie Qi is very mysterious. Our two families are so close, but I don't remember ever seeing him before."
"This Xie Qi must be at least one of the following: crippled, ugly, foolish, or stupid."
Why do you say that?
Shen Yuanqiong snorted softly, "Sister-in-law, think about it, what is the meaning of this word '歧'?"
Seeing Ye Yunyi shake her head, Shen Yuanqiong felt disgusted, but quickly added, "The Shuowen Jiezi says that '歧' means 'to have many fingers,' which means superfluous."
"In a large family like the Xie family, the birth of twins by the eldest son is usually considered an extremely auspicious sign. So why would they name them like this?"
"No wonder, no wonder."
Ye Yunyi stood up abruptly: "With Shen Yuanzhu's brain, she certainly wouldn't have thought of these things. Now that she has agreed to the Xie family's arranged marriage in a muddle, how am I supposed to explain it to your brother if she really marries a cripple?"
Shen Yuanqiong calculated the time in her mind. The wedding date was too close. Even if she wrote to her brother immediately, he would not be able to return in time.
Her long eyelashes fluttered slightly, and a hint of joy appeared in her heart.
"Sister-in-law, don't worry. I'll write to my brother in a bit and tell him the news."
"As for the rest, it was all agreed to by Shen Yuanzhu herself. Since she agreed, we should respect her wishes and let her marry Xie Qi."
"Since she has the family's dyeing manual in her hands, the Xie family won't make things difficult for her if she marries into the Xie family."
Hearing that Shen Yanhuai would be informed, Ye Yunyi was no longer so nervous.
As for what kind of husband Shen Yuanzhu marries, she doesn't care.
She even hoped that Shen Yuanzhu would marry someone worse off than possible, preferably someone who would suffer terribly in the Xie family.
Only in this way could she rely on her maternal clan and Shen Yanhuai to reveal the entire Shen family dyeing genealogy in order to please her maternal family.
After thinking for a moment, Ye Yunyi instructed, "I know you always like to compete with her, but before the wedding, you absolutely must not say these things to her."
"If she finds out what kind of person Xie Qi is, and then cries and begs not to marry him, then we'll really be in a difficult situation."
Why would I tell her these things?
Touching the pearl hairpin in her hair, Shen Yuanqiong smiled slightly: "My mother said before she passed away that both Shen Yuanzhu and her mother Ji Zhiyi were destined to have short lives and little fortune."
"What good is Ji Zhiyi's meticulous planning? She still couldn't have foreseen this day."
"I never imagined that Shen Yuanzhu would marry a cripple and a mentally challenged man, nor that the dowry left for her would consist of only a few empty boxes."
Shen Yuanqiong smiled and said, "Don't worry, I won't tell her anything about Xie Qi. I'll just keep my eyes open and watch her expression of surprise, struggle, and pain when she marries Xie Qi."
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