Ning Hong scoffed.
"When you want to remarry, you can't just stop her from remarrying, can you?"
"That shouldn't be your doing." Feeling like he'd been cuckolded, his earlier joy instantly vanished.
Is this reasonable?
If word gets out, he'll be laughed at to death.
“Ning Zhen, don’t you pride yourself on being a modern, intellectual, and artistic youth? Then you should understand that since men can remarry, women can naturally remarry as well. As long as there is mutual affection, it doesn’t matter who she marries. Our family will step in to find her a new husband, firstly to intimidate her future husband, so that she will have someone backing her up. Our Ning family will absolutely not allow anyone to bully Qingxiu.”
"There's a second reason, doesn't that just prove our family is generous?"
Anyway, it's only Ning Zhen who gets laughed at.
"This, this—"
Ning was really angry.
His brother was really annoying today.
She always contradicted him.
Seeing that Ning Zhen was about to say something, Ning Hong touched the wooden stick again, squeezed it in her hand, and crushed it.
Ning Zhen: "..."
He wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he had a feeling that his brother had deliberately brought that stick in, just to scare him.
"Alright, since that's the case, let's leave it at that." Ning Hong curled her lips into a smile. "If you have no objections?"
"No, definitely not. Since you've already made your decision, then so be it."
Ning Zhen said in a low voice.
"Starting tomorrow, you're not allowed to go to school anymore. Go help out at the winery."
"What? I'm not going."
"You have to go, whether you like it or not. You're the second young master of the distillery, always doing nothing and studying at a school that teaches people to abandon their wives and children. What good will that do you think you'll end up?"
"Yes, your brother is right, you should help him too."
Ning's father nodded vigorously.
Both Ning's parents are very proud of the two brothers.
In other families, brothers would practically tear each other apart over the inheritance, but their two sons were different. The youngest never liked any of this, while the eldest was determined to get the youngest a job at the distillery.
Their harmonious and close relationship is the envy of other families.
“I’m not going. I’m doing well in my studies, and I don’t want to leave school.”
Ning Zhen practically exploded, jumping out of bed.
The person, who hadn't eaten properly for the past few days, had just gotten out of bed when their body went limp and collapsed.
Ning Hong did not move, nor did she allow her parents to help her up, letting her fall directly to the ground.
"Big brother, aren't you going too far?" Ning Zhen, clutching her sore bottom, couldn't help but shout at Ning Hongze, "Your bottom is split in two!"
"Hmph, you'll thank me later."
He wouldn't do that. Why would I be grateful to him?
Are you grateful to him for giving you a satisfying and hilarious fall?
"Go and move all of your young lady's belongings to the west courtyard."
"yes."
The maid was overjoyed and left to carry out the order.
Xiaomei thought being a young mistress—oops, I mean, a young lady—was pretty good.
She wouldn't have to leave the Ning family, nor would she have to endure the second young master's sarcastic remarks...
On that very day, Gu Qingxiu moved to the west courtyard.
The West Courtyard isn't far from here, separated by Ning Hongze's courtyard.
"Big brother, am I really not leaving the Ning family?"
She had actually packed her things long ago, and originally thought she was going to leave the Ning family, but she ended up staying. She'll become the young lady of this place.
I have to say, hearing people call her "Miss" makes me feel more at home than calling her "Young Mistress".
"What do you think of Ning Zhen?" After all the furniture and other items were moved into the yard.
Gu Qingxiu then invited Ning Hong, who had come to help, to have some tea.
Right there in the courtyard, with several maids and servants standing beside him, he was openly and honestly doing so.
"Why do you say that, brother?" Gu Qingxiu lowered her eyes, a sense of understanding creeping into her heart.
"Does my older brother want to reunite Ningzhen and me?"
"It's up to you. I'm not forcing you. If you're still willing to give him a chance, I'll naturally help you."
What's there to help? If Ning Zhen weren't his target, he would have rolled her up and thrown her out.
"Of course, if you don't want to be with Ningzhen anymore, as I said before, I will find you a good partner. Or, if you don't want to get married again, I will naturally arrange it for you."
"Think it over carefully..."
Gu Qingxiu naturally had to give it a good consideration.
Of course, if she chose the last option, she also fully believed that Brother Hong would take good care of her.
but……
She was somewhat inclined to choose the first one.
She was a little unwilling. Ning Zhen had never seriously tried to get along with her, yet he always so easily refuted her, saying that she was uncultured, illiterate, and not a good match for him.
Besides, how easy is it to marry someone? What kind of person is he? Could he be a hypocrite? Or what if he has extremely difficult in-laws? These are all problems.
One wrong step leads to another.
"I choose the first one."
Gu Qingxiu gritted her teeth and said, "If Ning Zhen is willing, then forget it; if he's not, then forget it."
She didn't want to see those disdainful looks anymore. "Brother Zhi, Ning Zhen keeps saying he has true love, he..."
"This is just wishful thinking on his part; the girl doesn't even look at him."
"She must be a very talented woman!"
Ning Zhen has always liked women like this.
"These things aren't urgent. Take your time to think them over. However, times have changed, and you'll need to change too."
Ning Hong kept his word and refused to let Ning Zhen go to school anymore.
Even if Ning Zhen made a fuss at home, he still refused to agree.
Unable to leave home or go to school, how is he supposed to pursue Bai Chen?
Bai Chen is so popular, she's bound to be pursued by other men.
“I must go to school. If you don’t let me go, I will go on a hunger strike.”
"That's all you know how to do," Ning Hong mocked. "Fine, then you don't need to eat. Lock the doors and windows. The second young master isn't eating anyway, so just leave a little gap."
"Young Master, this—"
"It's okay, listen to me."
Hearing the clanging and banging of hammers outside the door, Ning Zhen felt a little anxious.
His older brother really wanted to starve him to death.
They're getting serious now.
"Father, Mother, help! Father..."
Ning Zhen shouted towards the window.
However, the window was locked, so it could only be opened a crack.
"A grown man like you, always threatening to go on a hunger strike. I think you're just too full. You want to go on a hunger strike? I'll grant your wish."
He had left his mouth wide open during his hunger strike, so he didn't believe he hadn't eaten a single bite; he probably just hadn't eaten enough...
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