Chapter 52 Growth
Huai Anbo was a middle-aged man with a handsome appearance. When Chen Yi rushed in, he was talking to the steward.
"Father..." Chen Yi rushed to Huai Anbo, hugged his arms and cried.
Huai Anbo glanced at the steward, and the steward tactfully retreated to a corner.
"What happened to Yi'er? Did she get wronged outside?"
Chen Yi grabbed Huai Anbo's sleeve and cried breathlessly: "Yes, my daughter has suffered a great injustice, and I'm begging you to make the decision..."
Looking at the hand pulling his sleeve, Huai Anbo was surprised and felt an inexplicable feeling.
The eldest daughter had not been so close to him for a long time.
"Don't cry, Yi'er. Explain the situation clearly."
"My daughter went out today, and I heard that..." Chen Yi wiped her tears with a handkerchief, looking embarrassed and angry.
"What did you hear?"
Chen Yi bit her lip: "My daughter can't say it."
Huai Anbo smiled helplessly: "If Yi'er doesn't explain clearly, how can your father make the decision for you?"
Chen Yi struggled, gritting her teeth and saying, "My daughter heard that the Prince of Pingjiahou and the owner of Pinfangzhai were having an affair!"
Huai Anbo's first reaction was disbelief: "Where did Yier hear such rumors?"
Although he had never heard of Pinfangzhai, the owners of these shops were all men. Could it be that the two of them had made an appointment to visit a brothel?
"It's not a rumor!" Chen Yi's face flushed red. "They were just messing around in the study. I don't know what went wrong there, but they ran out to the street naked. Everyone on the street saw them..."
Huai Anbo was shocked and angry: "Really?"
Chen Yi covered her face and sobbed, "If Father doesn't believe me, just ask around and you'll find out."
"Chen Er, go out and ask around."
The steward who was hiding in the corner hurried out.
Half an hour later, the manager came back in a hurry, his expression looking extremely complicated.
"How?" Huai Anbo asked solemnly.
The steward subconsciously glanced at Chen Yi and said cautiously, "Uncle, what the eldest lady said... is true."
"This bastard!" Huai Anbo slammed the table hard.
The teacup shook, and the lid fell on the table with a crisp sound that sounded particularly harsh.
"Father, what should I do?" Chen Yi asked Huai Anbo crying.
Wyanne fell silent.
Chen Yi's face was pale and her heart was in a knot.
There had never been a moment when she felt deeply that her fate was determined by her father.
She was so stupid before. She became estranged from her father after he married a second wife, and the two of them rarely spent time together.
If she did as Ah Hao taught her today, pulling her father's sleeve and acting coquettishly more, would she feel more confident?
Chen Yi felt regretful and annoyed at times, his mind fluctuating like a prisoner awaiting verdict.
"Yier—" Huai Anbo looked at his daughter, whose face was pale, and found it difficult to speak. "If I break off the engagement with that bastard, would you be willing?"
Chen Yi's eyes flashed with surprise: "Are you serious?"
Seeing his daughter's joy, Huai Anbo felt relieved, but also felt bitter: "Father certainly doesn't want you to marry that bastard. He is wronging you and wants to cancel the engagement just after it was made—"
"It's better than my daughter marrying him and then discovering his dirty deeds."
His daughter's understanding made Huai Anbo feel even more guilty: "It's all my fault for not finding out more clearly."
Chen Yi lowered her eyes and said in a low voice, "Don't blame my father. This kind of private information is hard to find out even if you ask."
"Yier, it's your father who has let you down."
Chen Yi looked at Huai Anbo, and that face full of self-blame suddenly made her have an idea.
The thought was like a flame, burning her heart.
She knew she had to say something to make her feel better.
If she doesn't seize this opportunity, she will definitely regret it!
The young girl's sad voice echoed from within the house: "My daughter is unlucky. When I heard mother say this was an excellent match, I was overjoyed."
The "mother" Chen Yi mentioned was naturally not her deceased biological mother, but Huai'an Earl's second wife Liu.
The manager who was standing in the corner as an invisible man heard this and looked at Chen Yi deeply.
The girl has really grown up.
The words "an excellent marriage" were like several long thorns that pierced deep into Huai Anbo's heart, making it irritating no matter how he heard them.
"Bullshit good marriage!" Huai Anbo cursed angrily, but considering that his daughter was right in front of him, he didn't say anything more.
Chen Yi smiled self-pityingly. "My mother was quite considerate. She even took me to visit the Pingjia Marquis's residence and let me meet the Pingjia Marquis's son. Compared to those women who never even saw their husbands before getting married, this is already quite good. But you can only know a person's face but not his heart..."
After hearing what Chen Yi said, Earl Huai'an remembered that his wife Liu and the wife of Marquis Pingjia were cousins and they often visited each other.
Thinking of this, Huai Anbo's face changed completely.
"Where's the lady?"
The steward replied, "The Madam has gone out to the street with the Young Master and the Second Young Lady."
Needless to say, they went to watch the parade of the top scholar.
Under normal circumstances, Huai Anbo would not have thought too much about it, but at this moment, suspicions were already growing in his heart. When he thought about his wife taking their two children out early, but their eldest daughter went out alone, he immediately became very annoyed.
"Bring the person back!"
The manager was busy arranging people to go out on the street to look for the person.
Huai Anbo advised Chen Yi to go back to her room: "Yier, go back to your room and rest."
"Father, are you going to talk to Mother about my breaking off the engagement?"
Huai Anbo nodded.
"When you have the result, could you please send someone to inform your daughter?"
His daughter's cautiousness made Huai Anbo's eyes sore: "Yes, Yi'er, just rest assured."
Chen Yi bowed and turned to leave with a smile on her lips.
God knows how much she wanted to stay and watch her father and stepmother confront each other, but she couldn't.
If she stayed, there were things her father couldn't say to her face, and he might even subconsciously protect his stepmother's image. Only when she wasn't around could her father ask those questions without hesitation.
Ah Hao was right. She had to walk the rest of the road on her own and remove those thorns on her own.
Chen Yi straightened her back and walked out calmly.
This girl, who lost her mother at a young age and became increasingly estranged from her father, was reborn at this moment and truly grew up.
It was already dark when Mrs. Huai'an returned with her two children.
After instructing the maid to take the two children to wash, Lady Huai'an entered the room and asked, "My Lord sent someone to look for me. What's the matter?"
"Have you had enough fun?" Huai Anbo asked coldly.
Mrs. Huai Anbo noticed that Huai Anbo's reaction was not right, and explained with a smile: "We were out for a while, so I took Xiu'er and the others to Wuweizhai to have some food."
Huai Anbo sneered: "You've been out there for so long, haven't you heard anything?"
Mrs. Huai'an was stunned: "What's the rumor? Lord, what happened?"
"Everyone on the street saw the Prince of Pingjia Marquis fooling around naked with a man!" Huai'anbo's face was as dark as water, and he was very angry. "You really found a good marriage for Yi'er!"
Mrs. Huai'an was shocked and looked incredulous: "What did the uncle say?"
Was it discovered that the Prince of Pingjia liked men?
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