Fang Yufu was extremely disappointed with his eldest granddaughter. Since the marriage could not be saved, he would choose Qinghe instead. A brainless person would never live as long as an ordinary-looking and smart person. It seemed that he had no choice but to break his promise to his eldest son.
"Let Qinghe marry the eldest son of the eldest house."
"Grandfather, how could you change your mind? When we were in Xuzhou, you promised my parents that I would marry into the Xiao family." Fang Qinglian never dreamed that her grandfather would give up on her at this time.
"Father is wise." The man next to him came to his senses after being poked in the waist by his wife. The unexpected good news caught him completely off guard and he didn't know how to react. He could only reply with four dry words.
"Master..." Mrs. Fang still remembered the promise he had made before arriving, patting his chest, that he would definitely marry his eldest granddaughter to Kyoto. The master's sudden change of mind also caught her off guard.
"Mother, maybe Qinglian met someone or something and has other plans!" The daughter-in-law meant to remind her mother-in-law, saying half of the words and leaving the other half unsaid.
At this moment, she was no longer afraid of her father-in-law being angry. What could be more important than her daughter's marriage? Her niece's thoughts were all written on her face, and only her parents-in-law kept believing her excuses and lies.
Mrs. Fang pondered the meaning of her daughter-in-law's words while recalling the people and things her granddaughter had encountered. Her mind, which had been shocked by her husband's decision, was temporarily blank. She suddenly remembered a scene and blurted out, "Could it be the husband I just met..." At the last moment, she regained her consciousness and hurriedly swallowed the only word she had not uttered, but it was too late.
The Xiao family heard her words clearly, and they could connect the unspoken parts with just a little imagination to piece together the meaning of the whole sentence.
As people who knew the situation, Xiao Jingkang and Xiao Jingmin cheered for Mrs. Fang in their hearts, saying that things would be much easier this way.
"Butler Feng, come in." Xiao Jingtai reacted faster. This was a rare opportunity and must not be missed.
Butler Feng came in, looking like he had something to report, but no one was in the mood to listen to his reply.
"Did Miss Fang see anyone outside our gate just now?" Xiao Jingtai asked.
"I met the Fourth Master and the Eldest Miss at the door." Butler Feng heard the whole story and replied concisely.
"Hello, you guys, first you set your sights on my grandson, then you set your sights on my granddaughter, and now you're setting your sights on my son. Shouldn't you choose all the unmarried people in my family?"
General Xiao laughed out loud in his anger. He had seen shameless people, but he had never seen a family so shameless. Just as he was about to make a few more sarcastic remarks, he heard someone outside the door shouting, "Mom, mom, mom, wake up! Someone come quickly."
As the words outside fell, all the Xiao family members in the living room rushed out.
Outside the door, Qin was leaning in Xiao Jingyan's arms with her eyes closed, her face grim, and she didn't move.
When Xiao Jingyan saw his father and three brothers coming out, he hurriedly said, "Mom fainted."
Anyone with eyes can see it, do I need you to tell me?
"Why is your mother here?" General Xiao asked his men to call a doctor, and did not forget to ask.
"Mom said she was worried and afraid that you would quarrel, so she insisted on coming to check on you. I had no choice but to accompany you." Xiao Jingyan, who knew nothing about the whole thing, did not expect that the matter handled by his father and brother was so important, nor did he expect his mother to react so strongly.
He hadn't even considered that Qin's fainting was because Fang had set his sights on his beloved youngest son. Seeing his beloved son being attacked, who could remain indifferent? Just look at the reactions of General Xiao and Xiao Jingkang. Therefore, Qin's fainting was completely understandable. On the contrary, it would have been strange if she hadn't fainted.
To explain how Qin came to the living room, we have to start from the morning. General Xiao was afraid that his wife would be embarrassed by this matter, so he decided not to let her know. The main task of the three daughters-in-law today was to accompany their mother-in-law. Everything was going very smoothly.
After Xiao Jingyan carried his niece from the gate back to the study and gave her some education, he saw that she had understood quite well.
Very satisfied with the result, he went back to Ninghetang.
When the sisters-in-law saw their uncle coming, they asked him to accompany their mother-in-law well and then went about their business. Xiao Yao followed her third aunt to Yiyuan to find Xiao Yuan. She usually avoided her grandmother and fourth uncle when they were together.
Unexpectedly, things became more and more chaotic due to some unexpected reasons.
Tong Mingyu and her two sisters-in-law thought that their uncle didn't know about this matter and had nothing to do with the Fang family, so they entrusted their mother-in-law to him without any worries and didn't leave any instructions.
Who would have thought that it was such a coincidence that Xiao Jingyan had just met the Fang family and was holding some grudges against them, so he brought it up while chatting with my mother.
When Qin heard that Fang Yufu had arrived, she begged her son to accompany her to the living room. However, before he had even heard a few words, she fainted from anger.
After the doctor arrived, everyone had already sent Qin to the backyard.
Fang Yufu wanted to take the opportunity to escape, but was stopped by Xiao Jingkang who had been keeping an eye on him.
Things have come to this point, and there must be a result today, especially since Qin fainted because of this. How can we let him go so easily with all the new and old grudges added up?
Xiao Jingkang was worried about his mother's health, so he called housekeeper Feng to his side and gave him detailed instructions. After explaining everything, he turned around and quickly caught up with the person in front.
"Mr. Fang, please come in."
Butler Feng "invited" everyone back to the living room and closed the door.
"Why are you detaining us? This is the emperor's territory, where the law is upheld. If you don't let us go, be careful that we will report you and your master after we get out."
"Butler Feng, please tell me what you want to do." Fang Yufu didn't bother to pay attention to his wife. His top priority was to find a way to leave.
"Mr. Fang should be able to guess what our general and master want." Butler Feng said neither humbly nor arrogantly.
"Have you really no regard for family affection at all?" Fang Yufu struggled desperately. Today he had truly lost both his wife and his army. Not only had he gained nothing, but his engagement was also about to be broken.
"Are you joking, Mr. Fang? How can this engagement go ahead when your family has done something like this?
Now, please write a document to dissolve the engagement. As long as our wife is safe, our two families will have nothing to do with each other from now on. You can freely cling to your powerful and influential friends, and we can live our lives in peace and quiet. Isn't that great?"
"No, I don't agree. Why should we break off the engagement? Is it because your Xiao family is so prosperous now that you don't recognize us poor relatives? Aren't you afraid that I will spread the news? I..." How could Mrs. Fang be willing to go home empty-handed? But before she could finish her threatening words, she was interrupted by her husband.
"Okay, I'll write it." Fang Yufu knew that if he didn't write something, the Xiao family would never let his family leave easily.
"Master, I can't write."
"grandfather."
Fang Yufu ignored the others and wrote a document in one go. Steward Feng took it and carefully checked it twice. He said to Fang Yufu, "Mr. Fang, please change this to say that from now on, no one in the Fang family is allowed to mention this matter again. Anyone who violates this will bear the consequences."
"You..." Fang Yufu's words were indeed a bit ambiguous, but who was Butler Feng? He had been dealing with mundane affairs for half his life and was very familiar with contracts, documents and the like. How could he be allowed to take advantage of him?
At Butler Feng's request, Fang Yufu reluctantly corrected the inappropriate wording and rewrote two copies, giving one to Butler Feng and keeping one for himself. After years of planning, all in vain, Fang Yufu walked out angrily, having come in with great joy only to leave disappointed.
Mrs. Fang followed behind with empty steps, unable to understand how things had suddenly turned out like this, not feeling at all that it was her own careless words that caused the trouble.
The remaining few people looked gloomy. Everyone in Xuzhou knew that their family and the General's Mansion were related by marriage. How were they going to explain this when they returned?
Butler Feng handed the document of dissolution of the engagement to General Xiao, who then handed it to Tong Mingyu for safekeeping.
The Xiao family would never have thought that this matter, which had been settled for them, would bring them a lot of trouble and trouble a few years later.
This is something they could never have imagined.
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