Chapter 16: Liu Zhiyan's 'playing the victim'
As a father who loves his daughter, Qin Laicai feels that getting married is a major event in his daughter's life and it is necessary to tell her.
So, after sending Liu Zhiyan away, Qin Laicai walked towards the backyard with his hands behind his back.
I feel happy when I think that maybe in the near future I will have a son-in-law who is a top scholar.
He walked to the second gate, and thinking of the girl who had just said something to him in a shy manner, he ran back to the backyard.
He immediately realized that his silly girl must have known Liu Zhiyan's thoughts at that time, which was why she acted like a little girl.
Thinking of this, Qin Laicai suddenly felt depressed, as if "the daughter I raised with great difficulty turned out to be so disloyal", and his good mood disappeared in an instant.
He angrily quickened his pace and walked into the backyard, as if he was going to argue with his daughter.
Qin Xue, who was swinging on the swing in the yard and paying attention to what he and Liu Zhiyan were doing, saw Qin Laicai walking in angrily through the second door. Her originally itchy mind couldn't help but sink.
I immediately jumped off the swing, ran up to him, and asked cautiously, "Dad, did he say something to make you unhappy?"
The fact that his daughter cared about his mood first made Qin Lai's fortune better for some reason.
But thinking of this little girl, who didn't tell him immediately after such a big thing happened, Qin Laicai felt sour again. "It's his words that made me unhappy. What are you going to do?"
"Apologize." Qin Xue said firmly, but before Qin Laicai could be happy, she continued, "I'll apologize to you on his behalf first, and I'll scold you back when we meet tomorrow."
Hearing his daughter treat him like an outsider, Qin Laicai's face turned completely black. "Who are you to him? Why should you apologize to me on his behalf?"
"I just simply apologized on his behalf to help you calm down. What does it have to do with who he is?" Qin Xue had no idea why Qin Laicai became even angrier.
Facing his daughter who looked confused, Qin Laicai felt a little depressed. "When you had conflicts with your sisters in the past and told me about it, did I ever apologize to you on their behalf?"
"No, if you dare to apologize to me on their behalf, I will immediately..." Before she could finish her words, Qin Xue realized what Qin Laicai meant.
She opened her mouth and hesitantly explained, "Dad, I just saw that you were angry and wanted to cheer you up. It's not as complicated as you think."
It’s not like Qin Laicai hasn’t been young before.
It’s not like he hasn’t stolen other girls’ hearts.
He didn't believe her at all. "Huh, nothing has happened yet, and someone is already obsessed with me. If I really take him in, will I still have a place in the family?"
Although Liu Zhiyan said he would tell his father about this, Qin Xue still felt a little uneasy without hearing it in person. So, she waited by the swing for as long as the two of them chatted in the outer courtyard.
The purpose is to know firsthand how the two men are talking about their affairs.
But after Qin Laicai made such a fuss, she no longer cared about the outcome of their conversation. When she unexpectedly heard this result that did not count as a result, Qin Xue's face turned red instantly.
She blushed and said, "Dad is always the most important person to me. No one else in this family has a place, and you are no exception."
"Hehe, who knows."
When I stole the hearts of other girls in the past, I didn’t feel sorry for my father-in-law.
Now that it's someone else's turn to steal his girl's heart, he realizes that being a father-in-law is really not easy.
I can only be thankful that I have always wanted to find a son-in-law.
In this way, even if his daughter's mind is on her son-in-law, at least his old father can see him every day.
It's better than those families who marry off their daughters.
Thinking of this, Qin Laicai's unbalanced heart was finally calmed down a little.
"That brat may be a little older, but he's more caring. Plus, with his face, your two children will definitely be good-looking. Of course, the most important thing is that he said that in order to better protect you, he wants to participate in this year's provincial examination."
"Before, Dad was afraid to marry you a poor student. He was afraid that after he passed the exam, he would look down on us because we were from a merchant family and that we wouldn't be able to help him in the officialdom. He would eventually become jealous and give up the idea."
"He didn't even want to take the imperial examinations because he didn't want to be an official. Now he's willing to take them for you. So, if he passes the exam in the future, he might despise our family for not being able to help him, and then develop other ideas."
Qin Xue was confused by his words. "What do you mean by 'you're willing to take the imperial examination just for me'? What does that mean?"
Looking at his daughter who looked confused, Qin Laicai was also dumbfounded. "Didn't he tell you that he would participate in this year's imperial examination?"
He thought the other party should have told his daughter this a long time ago.
Qin Xue shook her head and briefly recounted their conversation yesterday. "He just said that he had originally planned to remain single for life, but now he's willing to find a partner, and his parents wouldn't object to him becoming a live-in son-in-law. I said that marriage is a serious matter, and it's up to the parents and the matchmaker to decide. I couldn't agree to it myself, so he said he would talk to you himself."
Qin Xue's words "parents' orders and matchmaker's words" made Qin Laicai feel relaxed.
Although this girl is a little silly, she is still very sensible at critical moments.
"You're right to think so. You're my only daughter, and I won't let anyone else down, so just leave these things to me and just wait to be my bride."
The heat on his face that had finally dissipated came back because of Qin Laicai's words, "Dad~~"
In the past, when he talked to this child about her marriage, she would always discuss it with him openly, never showing any shyness like a little girl. This made Qin Laicai wonder more than once whether he had told her too many bizarre stories about eating out the family's wealth, causing her to never have any illusions about her own marriage.
Now it seems that it’s not that she doesn’t have any fantasies about her marriage, but that the person who makes her have such fantasies has not appeared yet.
Thinking of this, Qin Laicai felt sad and relieved at the same time, which was very contradictory. "Alright, alright, Dad won't say anything more."
Festivals are joyful in themselves, and with the addition of a son-in-law who is about to take the provincial examination, Qin Laicai is in a very good mood.
Not only was a sumptuous dinner prepared that night, but the servants in the house were also given an extra month's salary. The entire Qin family was in high spirits.
That night, Qin Xue had a beautiful dream. She dreamed that Liu Zhiyan won the first place in the provincial examination, the metropolitan examination, and the palace examination, becoming the top scholar who won the first place three times in a row, and she also became the wife of the top scholar that everyone envied.
Because of this dream, Qin Xue went to Fang's dessert shop the next day and was too embarrassed to get close to Liu Zhiyan.
She was afraid that if she got too close to him, she would not be able to help but show her sexual desire, which would be extremely embarrassing.
But Liu Zhiyan, who had already planned to pour out her troubles to her today, didn't notice her deliberate avoidance at all. She started playing the victim the moment she caught him. "The day before yesterday, I was thinking about spending the Dragon Boat Festival with you yesterday, so I sent all the servants home to celebrate the festival. As a result, not only did I not get to eat zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, I even had to make do with some desserts for dinner."
"No one probably celebrates the holidays as miserably as I do."
I heard that he didn't even have a good dinner last night. Compared with the sumptuous dinner she and Qin Laicai had, and the whole family cheering happily because they got an extra month's salary, he looked really miserable.
Qin Xue felt a little guilty when she thought about it. She decided to pass the blame on to someone else. "Actually, I really wanted to keep you for the holidays, but you just left without even saying hello. Even if I wanted to keep you, I couldn't."
"Really?" Seeing her subconsciously clutching the corner of her clothes, Liu Zhiyan knew her words were false. "It's not that I don't want to say hello to you, but my future father-in-law didn't give me the chance. He urged me to go home and write a letter to my eldest brother."
"I thought that if I wrote to my eldest brother as soon as possible, he would come to discuss our marriage with your father sooner, and we could become a legitimate engaged couple sooner. That's why I suppressed my reluctance to leave you and hurried home."
Qin Xue found that Liu Zhiyan had changed.
She became a little overwhelmed.
Originally, he was very measured in what he said and did, and never made her feel rushed.
Later, it became a little sticky for some reason, but it was still within an acceptable range.
Ever since he revealed his feelings that day, what he said always made her unable to cope.
Just like now, facing his serious expression and hot words, her face was burning hot and she had no idea how to respond.
However, from the corners of her lips that unconsciously turned up, it was not difficult to tell that she was in a very good mood at the moment.
In the past, Liu Zhiyan thought it was a very stupid thing to let his joys, sorrows, anger and happiness be controlled by others.
At this moment, he discovered that his joy, anger, sorrow and happiness had been influenced by the little girl in front of him without him knowing when.
Seeing her happy, he couldn't help but feel happy too.
Surprisingly, he did not reject this influence and even liked it a little.
"I really want to get married with you as soon as possible. What about you? Do you want to?"
Because of Qin Laicai's indoctrination, Qin Xue always thought that she would not get married until she was eighteen years old.
And because of all the stories Qin Laicai had told her about how his family would be wiped out, she had never had much hope for her marriage.
Therefore, she was never in a hurry to get married, and she never thought about what her future partner would look like.
But since Liu Zhiyan expressed his feelings that day, although she did not give him a clear answer, she had ideas and expectations about getting married and what her other half would look like.
The idea, of course, is that this man in front of her, who is so handsome that he doesn't look like a real person, can really become her future husband.
Of course, she hopes that this relationship can be settled as soon as possible so that she can feel at ease.
Logically, she should have done as her father said. No matter what he discussed with the man in front of her, she should just wait to become the bride.
But facing his overly handsome face, which was full of smiles and eyes that were waiting for her answer, Qin Xue finally couldn't help but replied in a low voice, "I think so too..."
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