Chapter 598, Secretly Following
Yan family.
Daohua came to the main courtyard to bring watermelon juice to Madam Li. Seeing Madam Li reading a piece of paper, she smiled and asked, "Mother, whose paper is this? Why are you reading it so carefully?"
Mrs. Li looked at her daughter and smiled: "You came at the right time, you can take a look at it too." Then she handed the card to Daohua.
Daohua took it and looked at it. Seeing that it was from the Zhu family, she looked a little surprised.
Mrs. Li took two sips of the watermelon juice her daughter gave her as a filial gift, and felt that the heat in her heart dissipated a lot: "Do you want to see her? If not, I will find a reason to refuse." She did not have a good impression of Mrs. Zhu.
Daohua was silent for a moment and said, "Let's meet her. Miss Zhu helped Yuanyao and me out that day."
Mrs. Li had no objection. She gave the post to Pingtong and asked her to reply, then started talking to Daohua about household affairs.
As Daohua grew older, Mrs. Li deliberately taught her how to manage the household.
Her daughter is smart and can handle everything assigned to her properly. Often she even exceeds expectations, which makes her even satisfied.
The more outstanding a daughter is, the less likely she is to suffer grievances when she marries into her husband's family in the future.
Zhu Mansion.
After receiving the reply from the Yan family, Mrs. Zhu was silent for a while and then called Mrs. Zhu Si and her daughter over: "The Yan family has agreed to let us visit. You guys get ready. We will go there tomorrow."
Mrs. Zhu Si's face lit up with joy: "Thank you, Third Sister-in-law."
Looking at the delighted Fourth Lady Zhu, she scoffed inwardly. What would happen if she went to the Yan family? Did they really think the Yan family would be interested in Zhu Qiyun, who had been rejected by their previous engagement?
However, Mrs. Zhu still attaches great importance to being able to visit the Yan family. After all, Lord Yan's official position is much higher than that of the master, so the proper etiquette must be observed.
The next morning, Madam Zhu Si and Zhu Qiyun followed Madam Zhu on the carriage to Ningmen Mansion.
Inside the car, Zhu Qiyun stirred her handkerchief nervously.
Because she had been rejected in an engagement, the reputation of the Zhu family girl was affected. The elders of the clan asked her to get married as soon as possible, but the family she found in a hurry was not good enough. Some clan members even wanted to use her to curry favor with the powerful.
If it weren't for her mother and brother's strong attitude, her fate would have been so tragic.
Although the young man from the second branch of the Yan family is nothing now, he is the best family she can find at the moment. If this match is unsuccessful, what awaits her is most likely that she will be pushed by the elders of the clan to marry the stupid son of the Pingzhou governor.
Mrs. Zhu Si noticed her daughter's anxiety, but she did not say anything to comfort her. She thought that letting her daughter experience more things would be beneficial to her in the future.
Zhu Qiyun was distracted for a while, and when she came back to her senses, she saw her mother carefully sorting out the gifts for the Yan family.
Seeing her mother take out the last few pieces of brocade as dowry, Zhu Qiyun felt very uncomfortable.
Mrs. Zhu Si noticed her daughter's expression and said calmly, "These things are external to the body. As long as you are a good person, you can earn back what you have lost one day. You must not learn from those petty people who are reluctant to give up the slightest benefit in front of them."
Zhu Qiyun nodded: "Mother, I know."
Mrs. Zhu Si showed satisfaction. Their family was small, with only a pair of children. Although Qiyun was a daughter, she had been raised as a boy by the master since she was young. If the master had not died early, such an outstanding daughter would never have fallen to this point.
When Mrs. Zhu Si thought of the banker family that her daughter had married into, she felt so angry that her teeth were itching.
Seeing that Mrs. Zhu Si looked unhappy, Zhu Qiyun asked worriedly, "Mother, what's wrong with you?"
Mrs. Zhu Si didn't want to affect her daughter's mood, so she suppressed her anger and shook her head. "It's okay, mother. You don't need to be too nervous when you get to the Yan family. Just show your ladylike demeanor."
Zhu Qiyun nodded solemnly: "No matter what the result is, I will not bring shame to my parents."
Yan Mansion.
Because Madam Zhu and others were coming, Madam Li asked Daohua to make some preparations, while she had a headache dealing with Yan Zhiyuan and Sun.
The couple was too picky when it came to Wenjie's marriage.
Especially when they learned that Wen Kai and Su Shiyu were engaged, the two began to compete with each other, as if they had to choose a lady from a noble family for Wen Jie.
She wanted to persuade them, but Wenxiu and Wenkai's marriage was indeed a good one. If she asked them to lower their conditions, she didn't know what they would think of her.
Mrs. Li couldn't tell Yan Zhiyuan and his wife directly, so she could only talk to her husband about the situation in private.
"There's a rumor going around in the Ning Clan Mansion right now, saying that our family has high standards and doesn't like anyone. If we continue to let my second brother and his wife continue like this, it will greatly affect our family's reputation."
Yan Zhigao frowned. He was also in a headache. The marriages of his two legitimate sons were too good. His second brother had his own ideas. He understood it, but he still felt uncomfortable with his second brother's family's unrealistic attitude.
"I'll find a chance to talk to my second brother."
Madam Li nodded. "Master, please analyze this carefully with your second brother. Our Wenxiu is a Juren, and Wenkai has been working with the young prince. The conditions are there, so it's not surprising that they can be close friends. But what about Wenjie? Tell him to stop comparing himself with us."
Yan Zhigao hummed, "I'll make it clear with him."
On the other side, after Daohua had given all the instructions for entertaining the guests, she was about to return to her own yard. The account books from the capital had arrived, along with various stories about the capital collected by Zhao Yongwang. She had not finished reading them yet.
Unexpectedly, halfway through the journey, I saw Yan Zhiyuan and Yan Wenjie leaving one after another.
Daohua's expression shifted slightly. "This second uncle and second brother are really strange. They left the house one after the other. Why didn't they leave together?"
Wang Man'er: "Why does this servant feel like the Second Master secretly followed him out?"
Daohua pondered for a moment, did not explore further, and continued walking towards her yard.
Yan Wenjie followed Yan Zhiyuan to an alley, and when he saw him knock on the door and enter a two-story courtyard, his expression suddenly became quite ugly.
The reason why he secretly followed his father was because he found that his father would come to this house every few days, stay for most of the day, and once even spent the night here.
The courtyard gate opened again, and an old woman came out, carrying a basket as if she was going to buy vegetables.
Yan Wenjie thought about it and walked towards the house. Unfortunately, the gate was closed and he could not see anything. Seeing someone coming out of the yard next door, he quickly turned around and left.
After walking for a distance, Yan Wenjie looked back at the house. He wanted to leave someone here to monitor it, but unfortunately he didn't have any reliable people to assign.
He is not like his eldest brother, whose uncle and aunt would personally train confidants for him. He is also not like his third and fourth brothers, who follow the young prince and come into contact with many people, so they can train their own people.
He had neither parents to help him nor noble people to help him. As he grew older, he became more and more aware of his embarrassing situation in the Yan family.
Yan Wenjie walked back in a daze. He remembered that when they were young, the gap between him and his eldest brother, third brother, and fourth brother was not that big. He was even better than his third brother. When did the distance between him and them start to widen?
It started when my eldest brother and his friends went to study at Wangyue Academy!
From then on, the gap between them gradually widened.
Yan Wenjie was walking aimlessly on the street when he suddenly heard a commotion in front of him. He walked forward and saw that a carriage had hit a pedestrian.
The person who was hit was a gangster who was extorting money.
Yan Wenjie had no interest in watching such things, but unexpectedly a gentle yet powerful female voice came from the carriage, and she subdued the hooligan with just a few words.
Yan Wenjie glanced at the carriage and continued walking home.
When they were almost home, they found that the carriage that hit people was parked in front of the mansion. A girl in a ginger dress got out of the carriage and turned around to help the lady behind her.
It's her!
The girl who went out for a walk with her elder sister on the Dragon Boat Festival.
In front of the Yan Mansion, Zhu Qiyun first helped Madam Zhu Si get off the carriage, then immediately trotted to the carriage in front to help Madam Zhu get off. After the two elders got off the carriage, he followed the maid who came out to greet them into the Yan Mansion.
When I stepped into the mansion, I felt someone looking at me and I couldn't help but turn my head to look over.
Looking at Yan Wenjie not far away, Zhu Qiyun was surprised at first, then smiled and nodded at him generously, and then entered the mansion.
(End of this chapter)
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