Chapter 414 Breaking with Tradition
"Sister Feng is a heroine among women, but she had to endure all sorts of things at the beginning. It is said that she has finally gotten over her hardships, but she could have avoided all those hardships!"
"Why can't I be as happy as I am now as I am as I am as I am as I am as I am as I am as I am as I am as I am as I am as I am as I am as I am as I am as I am as I am as I am as I am as I am now? If I can't live the same life as I am now, I will definitely not choose to get married easily."
Daiyu was very insightful. She openly shared her thoughts with Yuan Hongqu. Although it was something she came up with on the spur of the moment, it was also her most genuine feeling.
"Daiyu, you can't deny the good aspects of marriage just because you've seen so many women who don't marry. But you're still young, you can think about it later. Now I'm going to show you some things, um, you might feel that they might spoil the good stories you have in mind..."
Yuan Hongqu compiled the stories she had read in the past into a booklet.
The text discusses various topics, including breaking up the West Chamber, repaying kindness, and other deeper methods of deceiving girls.
Daiyu looked at the cover, "The Scumbag Identification Manual," and was completely confused when she looked at the table of contents. She had already read the original versions of many of the stories, but she had never seen the adapted versions before.
Fortunately, when I watched it, I only thought the poems were beautiful, and I only skimmed through the details without paying much attention.
Now it seems that it is full of loopholes.
This booklet is specifically designed to compare the content of the book with reality and point out the flaws in the information.
"Granny, this book should be taken by the anti-fraud team so they can compose music and perform it in everyone's backyard. That way, there will definitely be fewer women mysteriously disappearing in the capital every year."
Daiyu quickly skimmed through the thin booklet.
Yuan Hongqu never expected that Daiyu's first words after reading it would be this, and she felt that she could finally put her mind at ease.
"Granny, I think we should print more copies. The most urgent thing is to send one copy each to Second Sister and Sister Qianrou in the capital," Daiyu said after thinking for a moment.
"Why?"
"When I left the capital, I heard that my second sister was getting engaged."
"Discussing marriage during the Spring Festival?"
Yuan Hongqu was too busy, and apart from paying some attention to Wang Xifeng's affairs, the Rongguo Mansion did not care much about other matters.
"I heard from the old lady and the others that the person who came to propose marriage was a military officer from Datong Prefecture. He does hold an official position, and he's sent matchmakers to propose marriage several times since spring. But my eldest uncle still hasn't agreed. I heard Tan Chun tease my second sister that the military officer even followed her carriage when she went to school, and my second sister's reaction was just shyness; she wasn't angry at all. In my opinion, someone like that should be kicked out!"
Daiyu didn't know much either, only that he was a military general, and everything else she heard from Tanchun.
Upon hearing this, Yuan Hongqu's brow twitched: Could it be that Jia Yingchun has been entangled with that Zhongshan wolf again? That Zhongshan wolf, Sun Shaozu, is a military general.
However, with Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng keeping an eye on things, and given that Jia Yingchun's personality isn't as weak as in the original story, she probably won't be sold off by Jia She so easily again.
Although rumors circulated that Jia She was quite short of money and couldn't even come up with eight hundred taels, in reality, as long as Jia She didn't do anything illegal or disorderly, Jia Lian and his wife were quite generous with the money he took from the public funds.
He's not short of money, so naturally he wouldn't marry off his daughter to pay off debts.
However, it's still necessary to take precautions.
"Yu'er, write a letter to Yingchun and send her this booklet along with it."
Daiyu nodded.
"Granny, since we're sending a letter, why not also send all the local specialties we bought along the way? We'll be staying in the south for another two months, not returning until almost the end of the year!"
“That makes sense. You write the letter, and I’ll have someone pack it. We’ll have them disembark tomorrow morning and then change boats to go back to the capital.”
The capital city, the Rongguo Mansion.
During this southern tour, many outstanding young men from noble families were selected to accompany the emperor. Jia Zheng also enrolled Jia Baoyu, but he was eliminated in the first round.
The reason was quite peculiar: it was said that Jia Baoyu was physically weak and not suited for long journeys.
The first hurdle was a physical examination. Jia Baoyu was eliminated after a royal physician took his pulse.
Meanwhile, the Imperial Medical Academy also wondered if Jia Zheng was joking, since the child clearly had severe liver qi stagnation, yet he still enrolled him.
Jia Zheng had no idea what Jia Baoyu's true character had been like these past two years, because every time he saw him, he was a well-behaved child who was always studying.
But once Jia Zheng was out of sight, Jia Baoyu seemed to have lost his soul.
Lady Wang secretly took Jia Baoyu to see many sorcerers and Taoist priests, trying to call back Jia Baoyu's soul, but to no avail.
Recently, because Wang Xifeng gave birth to a child, almost everyone in the Rongguo Mansion has turned their attention to Rongyue Courtyard, and everything is given to Rongyue Courtyard first.
It is becoming increasingly difficult for Lady Wang to obtain anything from the public funds.
That day, she planned to take Jia Baoyu to a nunnery outside the city, where she had heard that the nuns could also perform soul-summoning rituals.
Her precious jade was clearly possessed by an evil spirit that had stolen its original soul. As long as its soul was brought back, it could return to normal.
But she asked Caixia to go get the car early in the morning, and Caixia didn't return for quite a while.
"Madam, all the carriages in the house have gone out."
"They went out? What day is it today? Do we not have a carriage to ride in?" This was the first time Madam Wang had encountered such a situation at home.
"I heard that Second Madam wanted to eat a few things, but they were too scattered, so the carriages were all sent out to buy them. Otherwise, if Second Madam missed her meal, she might not have enough milk to feed Young Master Lin."
Madam Wang initially thought she had been neglected because she didn't manage the household affairs, but after hearing Caixia's words, she silently endured it.
Since that time when she conspired with Jia Zhen to frame Wang Xifeng, although they failed and Wang Xifeng was basically unharmed, she still became the most unpopular person in Rongyue Courtyard.
Whenever she went to Rongyue Courtyard, the maids there would intentionally or unintentionally separate her from Wang Xifeng. After this happened many times, Madam Wang stopped trying to make herself uncomfortable and simply stopped going to Rongyue Courtyard altogether.
If she had gone to Rongyue Courtyard herself today, or even just sent a maid to say something, Wang Xifeng would have immediately arranged for a carriage to be made available for her.
However, Madam Wang was unwilling to go to Rongyue Courtyard, nor did she want her people to beg Wang Xifeng.
Wouldn't that be embarrassing for yourself?
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