Chapter 272: Son Pays Father’s Debt
"Can you speak?"
Mrs. Xu expressed her displeasure at what her husband said.
"If you have the time to worry about this, you might as well think about what to say when you cancel the engagement so that our family can look more respectable."
"Hmph, what do I have to think about? If anyone needs to think about it, it should be him, Guo, who should think carefully about how to apologize to me! Otherwise, heh..."
The smile in Jiang Huailiang's eyes faded, and he looked quite domineering and difficult to mess with.
Guo, who was being targeted by Jiang Zemin, felt so headached when he saw his son kneeling in front of him with a stubborn look on his face that he wanted to bang his head against the wall.
"Brother Qian, a man of honor never has to worry about not having a wife. Since the Duke of Lingguo has already proposed to cancel the engagement, what's the point of you stubbornly refusing to agree? If the daughter of the Jiang family doesn't want to get married, you can't force her to marry you, right?"
Mr. Guo had always been a good-tempered man, always using words rather than fists to win people over with his virtue. However, when it came to his only son, he was often left feeling completely irritated.
For example, now, Guo Ziqian was kneeling on the ground looking at his father, his face full of resentment.
"Don't you know why the Jiang family insisted on canceling the engagement?
Han Jie'er and I were doing well and loved each other. We were almost getting married, but suddenly this cousin showed up and insisted on becoming my concubine!
Dad, do you think I've been wronged?"
"injustice."
Old Guo sat there motionless, looking at his son with eyes full of guilt and helplessness.
"But my son, your aunt is hanging on by a thread. She asks nothing but her parents to keep her child.
Not to mention that she and I are blood siblings, just thinking about what she did for me back then, there is no way I would not accept it.
I owe her this, you know?"
"You also said that you owed her this, why should you use me to pay it off?"
"As the old saying goes, a son pays his father's debts."
“………”
The honest words of an honest person are usually extremely destructive, and there is no room for refutation.
Guo Ziqian's eyes were red with anger. If it weren't for the upbringing he received since childhood that taught him to stay calm, he would probably have wanted to curse.
"Everyone's debt is theirs to bear, and everyone is responsible for their own actions. I won't pay it back!"
"It's not up to you."
Lord Guo sighed.
"Of course it's not up to me."
It's not that he doesn't feel sorry for his son seeing him so sad, but he really has no choice.
"I owe your aunt a life, no, I should say several lives! All those cousins of yours who couldn't support themselves are debts I owe.
If your aunt hadn't sold herself into the Geng family for me, how could she have suffered so much? If she hadn't lost her sons and then her husband one after another, she wouldn't be in such a state of imminent death.
Son, you are my only son.
I gave birth to you and raised you, so you owe me a debt. So now, let us, father and son, repay the debt..."
“Why?
I don’t accept it! "
His fists clenched tightly, and veins popped out on Guo Ziqian's gentle scholarly face. Tears welled up in his eyes, but he stubbornly refused to let them fall.
"I've been by her side since I was little, and it's been so hard for me to finally get married to her. Dad, can you please just pity your son?"
From now on, I will definitely treat Geng Xiaohe as my own sister, and I will definitely treat her better than my sisters from the same mother! Can you help me persuade my grandmother and aunt again? Dad, I beg you! "
Lord Guo closed his eyes.
Didn't he want to help his son?
He thought about it.
But just now, his eldest sister had begged him on her deathbed, asking him to keep her niece for the sake of their past relationship. Even his mother was about to kneel down before him. What could he do?
"father!"
Lord Guo opened his eyes.
"Brother Qian, your aunt didn't demand that your cousin be given the position of legal wife. She was just afraid that after she died, Xiao He would be bullied outside.
As long as you can convince Jiang Han to turn a blind eye and tolerate your cousin, Dad promises that in the future... "
"You can't promise!"
Guo Ziqian roared and interrupted his father.
"Duke Ling has no concubines, and he certainly wouldn't allow his daughter to marry someone with a concubine.
"His Royal Highness the Prince of Qi, as a dignified prince, can only live with the eldest daughter of the Jiang family. Who am I to dare to ask for a concubine before the wedding date?"
"Then we can wait until after marriage..."
"Is this the difference between before and after marriage? I promised Han Jie'er that I would be like her father and her brother-in-law, and I would be loyal to her for the rest of my life!
Dad, although I am not talented, I am still a man. Do you want me to deceive the girl I love?"
Stubborn tears finally covered his face, and Guo Ziqian tasted the bitterness of every tear that slid across the corner of his mouth.
He felt that his love was over, and the love he had worked hard for for many years was over!
"Since you understand the truth, what else do you have to say? You can't abandon your parents and family just for your own little love, right?"
Lord Guo looked at his son, and the embarrassment and pity in his eyes looked more like a cold and sharp blade, directly piercing through the pitiful expectations in Guo Ziqian's heart.
"You are right. We cannot cheat the Jiang family into marriage. Duke Ling is not easy to mess with, and Princess Qi is even harder to mess with.
But we can't be ungrateful. Not to mention whether we can get over it in our hearts, how will our Guo family survive once this gets out?
Son, this only means that you and the second daughter of the Jiang family are not destined to be together, so don't be so stubborn and force it, okay? "
"How can I force it? She's obviously going to be my wife soon! Why should I give up the person I love for these ridiculous reasons?
How great is the kindness that cannot be repaid? I must give myself to you!
Why?! "
Lord Guo spoke calmly again.
"A son pays his father's debts."
"I won't help you pay it back! If you have the guts, you..."
"Master, Master, something's wrong with my aunt!"
A servant came hurriedly outside the door to report.
"Madam asked me to come and call the master and the young master over quickly, saying that the eldest aunt might not be able to hold on any longer!"
"What?!"
Lord Guo stood up suddenly, grabbed his son and ran towards his mother's Cixi Hall.
As soon as she entered the room, she let go of her hand and rushed into the house. Bao wiped her tears with a handkerchief. She turned her head and saw her husband coming over and was about to say something, but then she looked at her son who looked as if he had lost all hope. Tears of heartache fell down her face.
Old Mrs. Ge sat in front of the bed, crying so hard that she couldn't stand up. When she saw her son and grandson coming over, she quickly shook her daughter who was on the verge of coma on the bed.
"Caiqiu, Caiqiu, wake up! Your brother is here, and your nephew is here too, Caiqiu, wake up!"
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