FSC [QT] Chapter 14.3

When Widow Xu stayed in the village, how could she not hear the gossip outside, especially some good-hearted people who liked to talk about these things at the top of their lungs outside her yard?

Widow Xu did not dare to go out to buy vegetables and meat these days, so she relied on the kimchi and fermented bean curd sent by her niece Xu Baozhu to make meals, which tortured her to death.

If Widow Xu was still a little guilty at first, after hearing too many remarks about Sang and Huai these days, Widow Xu’s heart had become even harder. She now wishes that the father and daughter of the Jiang family would die immediately.

Especially when her son’s first words when he came back were to accuse her, Widow Xu felt more and more that she had done nothing wrong.

Now her son was protecting Jiang Wu before she came into the family. If she waits for that girl to come through the family in the future, will there be any place for her as a widowed mother in the Lin family?

“Mom, that’s not what I meant.”

For scholars, being unfilial is a serious accusation.

Lin Pingchun frowned, feeling for the first time that his mother was unreasonable and messy.

“Forget it, things were already like this. Uncle Jiang will not marry Sister Jiang to me.”

Lin Pingchun was still a little hungover and dizzy at the moment. His mother broke off the engagement on impulse, but she did not think about the series of complicated problems that would arise after breaking off the engagement. These problems would only fall on his shoulders in the end.

“Mom, how much money do you have saved there?”

Lin Pingchun sighed. The matter had come to this, so he had to find a solution.

“What money can I have?”

Widow Xu subconsciously tightened her purse.

“Eh—”

What could Lin Pingchun not understand? He walked straight back to his room. He still had a few valuable things there. He did not know how much money it could be sold for. He heard that there were several bookstores in the county that hired people to copy books, and the wages they paid were relatively reasonable.

Because he relied on the Jiang family, Lin Pingchun had never worried about money. He was a little restrained at first, but as he took money more often, he gradually became accustomed to the Jiang family’s support. It was not until now that he realized that money was such an important and rare thing. (T/N: Heh—)

The back of Lin Pingchun’s tongue felt a little bitter. He was obviously very proud of being admitted as a scholar, but he did not know where his future direction was.

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“The Jiang family is saying that the Jiang and Lin families have no engagement?”

Huo Lindong did not expect to hear such good news as soon as he returned to the village.

“Auntie, I like little Ah Wu from the Jiang family. Please ask Auntie to come to the door for me and ask for a marriage again.”

Huo Lindong felt that this timing could not be better. He was a scholar like Lin Pingchun. He came to propose marriage, which proved that the Jiang family’s daughter was not wanted by anyone.

The Lin family broke the contract because of the Lin family’s bad character and poor vision. Even if it was to clear up the rumors and clear Jiang Wu’s name, Jiang Baozong would reconsider the marriage.

Huo Lindong was extremely happy when he thought that the delicate and soft little fool was about to get into his little bed.

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