Chapter 815: My cousin is reborn and wants to snatch my marriage (24)
Tang Buqing returned home in a daze. When his mother saw him coming back, she asked happily, "Are you getting along well with your future colleagues? We are alone and weak in Beijing, so we have to interact with more people. When we encounter problems in the future, we can find more people to discuss..."
After hearing what his mother said, Tang Buqing forced a smile and said, "I know, Mom, I will get along well with them..."
In fact, it is impossible. No one can calmly get along with others as if nothing has happened if someone talks about them behind their back in an insulting manner.
After listening to the discussion about his marriage with the eldest daughter of the Duke of Anguo, Tang Buqing almost ran away.
But he couldn't reveal his sorrow to his mother, as she would worry... So Tang Buqing had to force himself to cheer up, talk to his mother for a while as if nothing had happened, and comfort her.
After Tang's mother left, Tang Buqing's fake smile disappeared in an instant, and his eyes became terribly cold.
If he hadn't heard those people's conversation, he might not have known about his wife's scandal even after they got married, right?
Tang Buqing wanted to go to the Anguo Mansion to cancel the engagement immediately, but he knew he couldn't because the marriage had already been decided and all the procedures had been completed, except for the wedding ceremony.
Saying that he wanted to cancel the engagement at this time was tantamount to announcing to the world that he wanted to become an enemy of the Anguo Mansion.
He is now just a young man who has just passed the imperial examination and is about to enter the official career. He has no one to rely on. If he offends the Anguo Mansion, the Anguo Duke does not need to do it himself. As long as he expresses his dislike for him, naturally there will be other people who will make things difficult for him, and his future will become extremely difficult.
He studied for more than ten years, working day and night and enduring hunger, just to make a name for himself one day, bring honor to his family, and be filial to his mother who had worked hard to raise him.
If he insisted on breaking off the engagement with the Anguo Mansion, then the hard work of him and his mother over the past decade would be wasted, he would become penniless again, and he might even lose his life - he didn't dare to hope that the powerful Anguo Mansion would not take measures to retaliate against him after he broke off the engagement.
Tang Buqing clenched his fists tightly, hating himself deeply for being blinded by profit and agreeing to this marriage without understanding the situation of the eldest daughter of the Duke of Anguo's Mansion, which made him in a difficult situation now.
But even if he knew that the Duke of Anguo was a fraud in marriage, what would it matter? It was too late. If he had refused the day when the Duke of Anguo tested his intention to marry, it would not have angered the Duke of Anguo too much. It would be useless for him to regret it now.
How excited he was when he learned that he could marry the eldest daughter of the Duke of Anguo, how embarrassed and humiliated he was now. He felt that he was really bewitched at the time. Although he wondered why he got this pie in the sky, he didn't think too much about it.
If he had been more cautious, how could he not have noticed something strange here?
He used to live in Wanfo Temple, and was devoted to studying and didn't pay attention to what was happening outside. Most of the time, the scandals about Gu Shiyao were only circulated in the upper circles of the capital, so he had no way of knowing about it.
Now he suddenly understood why the Duke of Anguo chose him. Because Gu Shiyao couldn't get married, so he might as well use her to form a marriage alliance with himself and win over a promising future talent as the next bet. If he lost, he would only lose his daughter who was already disgraced. If he won, wouldn't he be able to tie himself tightly to the Duke of Anguo's house?
Tang Buqing felt that this was a great shame and humiliation. He no longer had a good impression of Duke Anguo and his future wife Gu Shiyao. He even felt disgusted with the fact that they were plotting against him. He even began to doubt whether Gu Shiyao's kindness in saving him on the road was also a plot.
Gu Shiyao had no idea how bad Tang Buqing's impression of her was. Ever since she had snatched the marriage she had long dreamed of from Gu Shichu, she had been preparing for it wholeheartedly. Every day she either had jewelry customized for her or had her wedding dress embroidered. Everyone could see her joy.
Her half sisters and cousins only thought that she was shameless. She had done such an immoral and shameful thing, but she could still happily prepare to get married. However, because of her bad reputation, the quality of marriages of these innocent sisters plummeted. Young talents would not consider them, and they could only look for someone lower. The ones they found would not be those who truly liked them, but those who wanted to cling to the Duke's Mansion. Therefore, those sisters were so angry that they cursed Gu Shiyao, the evil spirit, in the house.
Of course, except in ancient times.
Her marriage was not very urgent. After all, she had a second cousin, Gu Taoxing's illegitimate daughter, and Zhou had to settle her marriage first.
Ming Xun and the Marquis of Qiyang and his wife insisted on marrying Gu Shichu, and they used all kinds of tactics, but in the end, the parents could not persuade their children. Therefore, no matter how much she did not want to have anything to do with the Anguo Mansion, the wife of the Marquis of Qiyang still agreed to list Gu Shichu as a candidate for daughter-in-law, but on the condition that she had to meet Gu Shichu first to see what kind of person she was.
Mingxun agreed without hesitation and acted very quickly. He immediately found Gu Shichu and agreed on a time and place to meet - a certain day, in a box on the second floor of Furong Building.
"Are you the woman my son has been dreaming of marrying?" Madam Qi Yanghou looked Gu Shichu up and down with a cold face.
In ancient times, she had willow-shaped eyebrows, a beautiful nose, a graceful figure, a pair of clear and bright eyes, a smiling mouth, and a pair of small and delicate dimples on both sides of her cherry-red mouth. She was very pleasing to look at.
The wife of Marquis Qiyang, who originally had no good impression of Gu Shichu, couldn't help but say when she saw her appearance: "She is quite pretty. No wonder my silly son is so obsessed with her that he has to marry her."
"Hehe..." Mingxun grinned foolishly and winked at Gu Shichu.
"Hello, madam. I think I'm pretty, too. Your son insisted on marrying me, not because he was attracted by my appearance, but because he wanted to find a playmate who wouldn't control him. And I just happened to be his kindred spirit, so he chose me." Gu Shichu said frankly. Seeing that the wife of Marquis Qi Yang was a cheerful and generous woman, she did not make excuses to deceive her, but chose to tell the truth.
Ming Xun was shocked when he heard her words. Fearing that the Marquis’ wife would be angry, he hurriedly stopped her: “Gu San, how can you say that…”
Who would have thought that the Marquis's wife was not angry, but her expression softened. She looked at Gu Shichu with surprise and said, "You are honest and dare to tell me the truth. Aren't you worried that I will hate you even more and not agree to his marriage with you? You know, no mother would like a daughter-in-law who seduces her son to eat, drink and have fun and has no ambition."
(End of this chapter)
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