Chapter 146 Village Woman
Pei Xuan and Yang Jiyu's wedding was scheduled for the end of this month. Ever since Pei Song got into trouble, Pei Yuanzhong was afraid that the night would be too long and that something else might happen, so he deliberately moved the date forward.
Pei Xuan, who knew the news, was still spending money in the incense hall. Today was a day off, so he naturally wanted to bring his friends out to have some fun.
A servant in the house leaned over and whispered something in his ear, which made his face turn cold. He waved his hand and sent the servant away.
Sitting across from him was his classmate Hu Yi. Seeing Pei Xuan's expression change, he ignored the orange slice his sister, who was sitting on his lap, and asked, "What's wrong? Is there something wrong at home?"
The girl next to Pei Xuan was about to feed him some wine, but he drew his head back, dodged it, and looked at her coldly.
The girls in the brothel were all discerning, and seeing this, the two women stood up wisely, bowed, and left, closing the door behind them.
Hu Yi reluctantly pulled the hand of his sister who had just sat on his lap. When the door was closed, he waited for Pei Xuan to speak and took a sip of tea from the cup in front of him.
Pei Xuan spoke slowly, "My family arranged a marriage for me, with Yang Zheng's sister."
Hu Yi nearly choked on the tea in his mouth when he said this. His classmate was the son of Pei Yuanzhong, the chief minister of the cabinet. He had been famous in the school since his youth and later took the imperial examination, being the youngest among his classmates.
Everyone in the court thought that Pei Xuan would be the next Pei Yuanzhong, but Pei Yuanzhong unexpectedly did not let Pei Xuan join the cabinet.
But he found him a brother-in-law who was an official in the cabinet.
At first, Hu Yi thought this matter was a bit outrageous, but then he thought there was nothing wrong with it. Yang Zheng was Pei Yuanzhong's favorite disciple, and this marriage was just a closer relationship.
Pei Xuan stroked the teacup, seemingly thinking about something. Then he chuckled and said, "I guess my father has some plans. His student has so many ideas. How can he not find some way to control him?"
Hu Yi nodded, reacted for a moment, and then asked, "Then why don't you marry your sister to Yang Zheng? Wouldn't that be more direct?"
"He has other plans for my sister's marriage." Pei Xuan said, "Besides, a man like Yang Zheng doesn't have a family behind him. It's useless for you to look after him. If he doesn't care, no one can do anything about it. But it's different if you look after his sister."
He knocked his teacup onto the table and said, "We've been dependent on each other for so many years, how could it be that it doesn't matter?"
Hu Yi pondered for a while and felt that what Pei Xuan said made sense, but then he thought that Yang Zheng's sister should be from the same market background as Yang Zheng. Yang Zheng had been studying and serving as an official over the years, so the worldly air in him had faded a lot, but his sister had always lived in the market.
In this case, wouldn’t it be inappropriate for the family background?
Hu Yi spoke hesitantly and asked, "But I heard that Yang Zheng's sister is... a village woman?"
Pei Xuan suddenly smiled: "Isn't that just right?"
He stood up, smoothed his wrinkled clothes, and gathered his collar. "If she were a daughter of aristocratic family, wouldn't she control me? If I marry her, I can have fun outside and have someone warm my bed when I get home. How wonderful is that?"
After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave, saying at the end: "Let the boss put the bill on me, I'm leaving first."
"What are you doing?"
"To meet my fiancée."
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