Within two days, a letter from the capital was received. After Li Yuxin took the letter and read it, she smiled and said, "My sister-in-law is so thoughtful."
Li Yuxin had heard about the Qin family's affairs in the capital, but after reading the description of the fourth young lady of the Qin family's words and deeds in the letter, Li Yuxin thought it was worth a try.
Li Yuxin couldn't decide the marriage of her legitimate son on her own, so she sent someone to call Sheng Huaizhong to the main house to discuss it.
In the afternoon, Sheng Huaizhong, who had just returned from an outing, came to the main courtyard. After sitting down and taking a sip of tea, he asked, "I wonder why the lady asked me to come here?"
Li Yuxin handed Xu Wen's letter to Sheng Huaizhong. After Sheng Huaizhong took it and read it, a smile broke out on his face. Holding the letter in one hand, he patted his useless leg with the other and said, "Great, great, my son has made it big and will wear an official robe from now on. Thanks to the planning of the second house, this young lady from the Marquis's Mansion is willing to marry him. This is truly a great thing. Although this young lady from the Marquis's Mansion is a concubine's daughter and is far inferior to the second house's brothers and sisters, she is still worthy of my son."
After laughing, he read the letter carefully twice and said, "I think this marriage is feasible. I wonder what your opinion is, my lady?"
Li Yuxin smiled faintly and said, "I also think it's feasible. However, the Qin family's previous eldest daughter, Da Qin, married into the Ningyuan Marquis's mansion. After entering the mansion, Da Qin ignored her parents-in-law and ignored household affairs. It took her a full ten years to have a son, and she also didn't tolerate concubines. I'm afraid that the fourth daughter will follow her elder sister's example in the future. What will happen to Wei'er's harem then?"
Sheng Huaizhong was hearing this for the first time. He was stunned for a while before asking, "I remember hearing that the old Marquis of Ningyuan Mansion passed away. Is Da Qin now the Marquis' wife?"
After putting down the teacup, Li Yuxin said, "Mrs. Qin passed away a few years ago. The new wife is Mrs. Bai, who was born into a Jiangnan salt merchant family. Mrs. Bai is now the Marquis's wife."
"From a merchant family!?" Sheng Huaizhong, who seldom paid attention to matters in the inner chambers, asked in surprise.
The Ningyuan Marquisate was unlike any other marquisate. Even if Sheng Huaizhong didn't have ambition, he'd heard from his second brother that this was a marquisate that founded and supported the nation. A marquisate like this would either choose another daughter from the wife's family or someone of equal status. Choosing a daughter from a merchant family was simply incomprehensible.
After carefully approaching Li Yuxin, Sheng Huaizhong asked, "Could it be that the Ningyuan Marquis's treasury is in deficit and they urgently need a large sum of money to fill the hole?"
After seeing Li Yuxin nod, Sheng Huaizhong leaned back in his chair, thought for a moment, and said, "The letter says that the Fourth Miss Qin is very filial, visiting her mother's courtyard every day to pay her respects and serve her. Besides, she's a concubine's daughter, not as spoiled as a legitimate daughter. I don't think she'd dare to follow the ways of the eldest Qin family."
After a pause, she looked at Li Yuxin and said, "Besides, with a sensible mother-in-law like you around, even if she wants to do something reckless, I'm sure there's nothing she can do."
This is playing tricks on me, Sheng Huaizhong actually dared to do that! Li Yuxin sneered in her heart, and said calmly: "Why don't we take a closer look? Even if this kind of person from a marquis's family is a concubine's child, he is very arrogant and might look down on our family."
Sheng Huaizhong straightened up quickly and said hurriedly, "No, no, no, there's no need to look at it anymore. My son is only a sixth-rank local official. At best, he can marry the legitimate daughter of a fourth- or fifth-rank official. It would be even worse if he married a daughter of a marquis. You should discipline her well in the future and let her assist Wei'er in the rear quarters."
Seeing that Li Yuxin didn't speak, Sheng Huaizhong thought for a moment and said, "No matter what you want to do, I will never say a word."
Li Yuxin then nodded, picked up the teacup and saw the guest off.
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