Chapter 331 A Promising Female Official
Liu Zhentao shook his head.
“I can’t go back to the capital. If I go back, the Liu family will become the laughing stock of the entire capital.”
After hearing these two sentences, Yuan Hongqu felt that she should have grasped the truth.
"Liu Zhentao, you really are incredibly selfish." Yuan Hongqu felt she was completely wasting her time.
She thought the study tour was going to be a big challenge, but she never expected it to be just a bluff by this selfish and petty person.
"Your Liu family is full of loyal and righteous men, yet you turned out to be such a romantic." Yuan Hongqu sat down, poured herself a cup of tea, and slowly took a sip.
"A few years ago, during the imperial palace's selection of candidates, Mongolia also sent a young woman to the capital. She should be the sixth daughter of the Second Prince's family. You, Liu Zhentao, met her by chance, and you even fell in love with her, causing a rift with your family for her sake. Your family also knew that she was a candidate for the imperial selection. As a candidate from the grasslands, she had a high chance of being selected. However, she was not selected due to unforeseen circumstances. After that, you had a falling out with your family and followed her to the grasslands."
Liu Zhentao's expression grew increasingly grim; clearly, what Yuan Hongqu said, even if not the truth, was not far from it.
"But my sixth sister already had someone she loved," the woman on the ground said, her large eyes filled with tears.
Yuan Hongqu was shocked. It seems that the concept of a "backup plan" has existed since ancient times!
What a terrible fool Liu Zhentao! He gave up being a proper young master of a noble family and ran off to the unfamiliar grasslands to be someone's backup plan.
If this matter were to reach the capital, Liu Zhentao would truly have made the Liu family lose all face!
Originally, it was thought that Liu Zhentao would at most become a live-in son-in-law after following the girl, but unexpectedly, he was just played around for a few years and was eventually dumped.
Yuan Hongqu looked at Liu Zhentao again and couldn't help but feel some sympathy for him.
"Brother Liu followed my sixth sister to the grassland, but he didn't discover this matter. My sixth sister continued to deceive Brother Liu."
The woman on the ground knew the whole story very well. She felt that as long as she told Liu Zhentao about his troubles, this seemingly powerful dean would definitely be able to help her brother Liu.
"Two years ago, my sixth sister married the man she loved, but Brother Liu still thinks it was because my father forced her to marry..."
The woman recounted the entire story about the two men in detail, from beginning to end.
It all started when she went to Beijing for the talent show, and continued until a year ago when the sixth daughter's child was born. There was a large, raised red spot on her back, and the doctor said that only the teeth of a snow wolf from the top of a snow mountain could remove it.
She actually asked Liu Zhentao for help again. The people of the grasslands revere the snow-capped mountains, let alone go to the snow-capped mountains to retrieve wolf teeth, which would be considered a great disrespect.
As a member of a foreign ethnic group, Liu Zhentao was naturally not bound by these rules, so she immediately thought of Liu Zhentao.
As Sixth Sister had predicted, Liu Zhentao had no chance of refusing her.
To obtain the Snow Wolf Fang, Liu Zhentao stayed on the snow mountain for a month. Although he brought back the Snow Wolf Fang, he also broke one of his legs.
After obtaining the Snow Wolf Fang and seeing that Liu Zhentao had become crippled and would likely be of no use to her anymore, the Sixth Sister revealed her true colors.
Although Liu Zhentao had suspected that the Sixth Miss was deceiving him before, he had given so much to her that he would unconsciously hypnotize himself into believing that what she said was true.
This time, after the Sixth Sister obtained the Snow Wolf Fang, she didn't even glance at him. She directly ordered her men to break Liu Zhentao's other tooth as well, and then throw him out of the grassland.
Liu Zhentao couldn't believe that his goddess could do such a thing.
Fortunately, the Nineteenth Sister arrived in time, preventing the Sixth Sister's men from taking action.
Liu Zhentao finally realized his mistake, but he went from one extreme to another.
He felt ashamed to face his parents and ashamed to return to the capital... So he lived a muddled life on the grassland.
Until the arrival of the study tour group, Liu Zhentao felt he was facing a formidable enemy. He constantly felt that he would be recognized whenever he went out, and that the people from the capital had come in droves to mock him...
What devastated him even more was that he saw his sister in the study abroad group. Even though several years had passed, how could he not remember what his sister looked like!
Since he can remember what his sister looks like, his sister must be able to recognize him too.
Liu Zhentao felt it was better to send his younger sister away, so he asked the Nineteenth Miss to pass on a message to Liu Qianrou.
The Nineteenth Sister could only help him, and she even helped him find a way to get the study tour group to leave as soon as possible.
After hearing the whole story, Yuan Hongqu finally felt at ease.
As long as it's not a conspiracy targeting the academy, then it's fine.
After saying all this, the nineteenth girl earnestly added,
"I see that my father treats you with great respect, so I imagine you must be of very high status. Could you please help Brother Liu?"
"How do you want me to help him?" Yuan Hongqu looked down on Liu Zhentao, but she quite admired this young girl.
"Please take us back to the capital. I want to take Brother Liu back to the Liu family. It will definitely be better for him to return to the place where he grew up than to stay here."
“Your idea is good, but you need to think it through. If you go to the capital with me, you'll be a stranger there, a complete outsider. Although your appearance is somewhat similar to that of a Han Chinese, integrating into the Han community won't be difficult. But why insist on following Liu Zhentao? He's no decent man!”
Yuan Hongqu persuaded,
"Young lady, you're perfectly clear-headed. Don't hang out with idiots like him, or you'll catch his idiocy and it'll affect you too."
Yuan Hongqu really admired this woman. She was clear-headed and articulate. If she weren't so love-struck, with proper training, she could become a high-ranking female official like Ye Mengnan in the future.
This girl looks to be only fifteen or sixteen years old. She's probably in the early stages of being love-struck, so there's still hope for her.
"What's your name? Why don't you come with me? There's a large academy in the capital where women can be treated the same as men. Women who graduate from the academy can aspire to serve as officials and participate in politics, just like men..."
“I won’t go with you…” The little girl shook her head. “Wherever Brother Liu is, that’s where I will be. Brother Liu saved my life, and I will not leave him.”
Yuan Hongqu glanced at Liu Zhentao with disdain, noticing that he was lost in thought, not knowing what he was thinking about.
"The Liu family is really quite naive." Yuan Hongqu looked at Liu Zhentao and shook her head.
The Liu family's "stupidity" was well-known throughout the capital, and it seems that Liu Zhentao was no exception.
"Liu Zhentao, consider cooperating with me, and I'll let you return to the capital and the Liu family openly and legitimately."
Because of this promising candidate for female official, Yuan Hongqu considered helping Liu Zhentao this once!
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