FSC [QT] Chapter 21.6

Lin Pingchun remembered Xu Baozhu. His distant cousin’s family was just an ordinary farmer, and the two sons had never gone to school. Such a birth did not meet Lin Pingchun’s requirements for a future wife.

“Mom, please tell me honestly, was the fifty taels of silver you gave me before given by my cousin from the Xu family?”

Lin Pingchun straightened his face and asked seriously.

“W-Why are you asking these questions?”

Widow Xu’s eyes were a little wandering. She didn’t dare to look directly into her son’s eyes.

“Ah!”

What else didn’t Lin Pingchun understand? He was a little dizzy and sat on a chair beside him as he felt weak.

“Since Mom likes my cousin from the Xu family, you should come to arrange the marriage as soon as possible. However, you have to make it clear to the Xu family that my destiny is not suitable for early marriage. I hope that my cousin from the Xu family can wait for me for five years and come to marry me when I am crowned.”

The Xu family gave the money, so this matter was out of the question. If Lin Pingchun was unwilling to marry Xu Baozhu, and the Xu family made a fuss about this matter, his reputation would only get worse.

Now the only thing he could do was accept this marriage, get engaged first, and wait until he reached the crowning age before getting married. In this way, it could barely prove that his destiny was indeed not to get married early but to make a marriage arrangement first.

Although this could not stop everyone’s mouth, it could at least whitewash the peace.

“Five years later? Your cousin Baozhu will be nineteen years old by then. How can there be someone in the countryside who is still not married at that age?”

Widow Xu was a little embarrassed. How could the Xu family agree to such a request?

“If Mom doesn’t want to, I won’t go to the academy to study and just come back to farming. Anyway, people in the academy say Mom and I are ungrateful. With such a reputation, my career will be over.”

Lin Pingchun knew that the most difficult person in this matter was Xu Baozhu, but now he had no good impression of his cousin whom he had only met a few times.

A woman who casually let a man call her by her maiden name and rushed to give her money without any status was enough for him to look down on her character.

“No, no, no.”

Widow Xu was shocked by Lin Pingchun’s decisive attitude. If her son stopped studying, who could she rely on in the next life?

This son who could study was her pride, and she would never allow him to go home and farm under any circumstances.

In this case, she could only have wronged Baozhu, and if they got engaged first, it already gave Baozhu a status. For the sake of his son’s reputation, she considered getting married later. She thought Baozhu, that considerate girl, would agree.

The mother and son agreed on the matter. While Xu Baozhu, who was far away in a neighboring village, shuddered for no reason, not knowing that she had been plotted by her male god.

***

Today, Huo Lindong ran around the village twice in the morning and evening. Although it was only two laps, it was enough to make him feel the bones in his body falling apart.

At night, Huo Lindong saw two quilts on the bed again and rationally told him that sleeping with separate quilts was the best choice.

In this way, he could be less tempted by the warm fragrance of nephrite, get a good night’s sleep, and lay a sufficient sleep foundation for tomorrow’s exercise.

“Ah Wu is sleepy.”

Jiang Wu sat on the edge of the bed, rubbed her eyes, and said.

Huo Lindong walked to the bed with stiff steps and put one of the quilts into a camphor wood box beside it.

He did this just to exercise his concentration. Huo Lindong hypnotized himself in his mind while making the bed. He had never thought of deliberately taking advantage of the little fool in this way.

Lying on the bed, Jiang Wu took the initiative to hold Huo Lindong tightly. He didn’t know when he would be able to eat such sweet troubles.

*****

Translator’s Comment:

Lindong, we understand. No need for you to make ‘weird’ excuses~~

The event is over~~~

Ehem, the result is…

None of you have the right answer~

This lovely translator’s shio is GOAT 🐐

Ꮚ´ꈊ｀Ꮚ Ꮚ´ꈊ｀Ꮚ Ꮚ´ꈊ｀Ꮚ Ꮚ´ꈊ｀Ꮚ

Well, really sorry for everyone, since there was no one got the right answer, so there is no Bonus Chapter.