Chapter 948 Five More Years (Part 1) Engagement
The sixth day of the sixth lunar month is an auspicious day for marriage.
Dewdrop was over fifteen years old, but hadn't yet celebrated her birthday, and wasn't even sixteen yet, but she was already engaged.
Li San Niang naturally didn't want to arrange a marriage for her darling so early, but she couldn't resist Tang Jia Da Lang's persistent pleading.
Although Tang Jia Dalang had entered the Imperial Medical Bureau at the young age of eighteen, what did that amount to compared to the talented young men that Li San Niang had seen?
Although Li San Niang had noticed Tang Da Lang's unusual feelings for Lu Zhu'er a few years ago, she thought it was just a childhood sweetheart relationship between young people.
Besides, Lu Zhu'er had seen handsome young noblemen since she was a child. Not to mention aristocratic young masters like Mr. Bu Ke and Xu Jingzhen, even Lu Zhu'er's junior uncle, Li San Niang's junior brother, the young boy Shao Yang, was quite good-looking when he grew up.
Logically speaking, having seen so many handsome, polite, capable, and well-off men, Dewdrop shouldn't have any feelings for an ordinary man like Tang Dalang.
But human emotions are so unruly; Dewdrop likes Tang Dalang.
At that time, the mother and daughter were lying on the same bed talking. Lu Zhu'er was nestled in Li San Niang's arms, listening to Li San Niang nagging and finding fault with Tang Da Lang. In the end, Li San Niang even found fault with Tang Ming Yue and Chen Yan Fu.
This made the dewdrop extremely happy.
"Haha, Mother, I'm going to tell Aunt Chen this later, that you were lying when you called her Sister Afu, haha."
Li San Niang was taken aback by Lu Zhu'er's words, and in a fit of "exasperation," she lowered her head and flicked Lu Zhu'er's nose.
"Which side is Mother's precious child from?"
Lu Zhu'er laughed and snuggled into Li San Niang's arms. After rubbing against her a couple of times, Lu Zhu'er spoke to reassure Li San Niang: "Although Brother Shi Lin isn't that handsome, he still has a dignified appearance."
His family has been practicing medicine for generations, just like ours. We both learned medicine from the pharmacopoeia!
And Er and he had known each other since childhood and shared a childhood friendship.
Besides, Mother is now a fifth-rank Imperial Physician!
In the entire Imperial Medical Bureau, only two people had a higher rank than my mother.
But my mother is only thirty years old, and she has already achieved so much!
In the future, my mother will be able to go even higher and further!
I am my mother's child. If Tang Shilin treats me badly in the future, I will divorce him and come home. Would my mother still abandon me then?
Listening to Lu Zhu'er explain her reasons for choosing Tang Dalang as her son-in-law, Li San Niang finally felt a little more at ease.
As long as your precious child doesn't fall for a man impulsively or without thinking, it's fine.
Li San Niang gently tucked the dewdrop in her arms towards her chest before slowly saying, "You are my precious darling, the apple of my eye. I'll take care of you for the rest of your life, and if you have children in the future, I'll support your whole family!"
These words made Lu Zhu'er even more coquettish. She buried her face in Li San Niang's chest, took a satisfied breath of "Mother's taste," and then spoke softly again.
"Mother, don't worry, how could I be fooled by a man?"
In recent years, my sister Fuling and I have been helping our mother treat patients. We also work with the women's support association managed by my grandmother and aunt. How could I not know about the affairs of those women?
I admire Brother Shilin, but I know I should love myself even more.
I have my mother, my grandmother, my aunt, my uncle, my grandfather, and so many brothers, as well as my sister Qiuxiang, my tenth uncle, and my nineteenth uncle. So many people love and care for me, how could I only want the affection of one man?
He likes me and loves me, so I will return his affection to him.
If he treats me even slightly worse, I'll just dump him. Do I need anyone to like me?
"Furthermore," Dewdrop looked up at Li San Niang, "Mother, Aunt Chen, as a woman, is now working for you in the maternity ward, and Uncle Tang is under your command. Mother's rank and official position are higher than others, so how dare their family treat me badly?"
If I get married in the future, I will be able to go out and work, just like my mother and Aunt Chen.
Most importantly, Mother, Pearl doesn't want to leave you!
Yongpingfang and Changshoufang are so close together that in the future, when Zhu'er gets married and misses her mother, she can come back to see her anytime.
"Pearl is my mother's child, and I will take care of her in her old age and see her off in her final days!"
"Hmph! Saying such nice things to make me happy!"
In any case, you can only get married after you turn eighteen!
If you plan to have children in the future, it's best to wait until you're over twenty.
"Hmm, I don't want to get married so early."
Mother, I didn't want to get engaged so early;
Shilin said that if he didn't settle down with me soon, someone else would snatch me away.
He was a grown man, and he was begging and pleading in front of me like that. How could I possibly have the heart to refuse him?
Moreover, when I was at the academy, people from the neighboring academy always found excuses to come near me. I got annoyed and thought I should just get engaged, and then Brother Shilin would take care of all the other matters.”
Regardless, on this day, Dewdrop was finally engaged to Tang Shilin, the eldest son of Tang Mingyue and Chen Yanfu.
Of the six traditional wedding rites—betrothal, name inquiry, auspicious date selection, gift exchange, wedding date setting, and the wedding ceremony—today's ceremony is the auspicious date selection, which involves consulting the couple's birth dates and times to preliminarily establish the marriage arrangements.
In fact, the Tang family wanted to take it a step further and go through the betrothal ceremony, that is, to formally betroth Lu Zhu'er and establish the marriage agreement between the two parties.
But Li San Niang refused!
She didn't want to arrange a marriage for Dewdrop so early.
She couldn't control other people's daughters, but she had to carefully choose her own precious daughter. She usually thought Tang Dalang was a polite person.
But ever since she found out that he was "coveting" her Luzhu'er, Li Sanniang couldn't stand him no matter what. Even when she saw Chen Yanfu in the maternity ward, she felt uncomfortable and wanted to find fault with him for no reason.
Besides, who can say that Dewdrop won't fall for another man in the future?
The capital of the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an, was teeming with talent; when would it ever lack young men? Where would it ever lack promising young men?
Or, will Tang Dalang take a fancy to another girl in the next few years?
Otherwise, Tang Dalang and Luzhu'er are almost four years apart in age. If Li Sanniang wanted to keep Luzhu'er, she would have to keep her until she was at least eighteen, which would have taken almost four years.
Four years have passed; who knows what mistakes Tang Dalang might make?
Why make a decision right away?
What is so special about Tang Shilin?
However, Naji still had to leave. Li San Niang learned from Mr. Bu Ke that the Prince Xiang intended to take a concubine for his third son!
Regardless of whether this matter has nothing to do with her family, it's better to be safe than sorry. To be a loyal subject, Li Sanniang only wants to do what's in her heart, and it's best to stay away from anything that can be kept away from the Prince.
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