Chapter 2: Breaking Off The Marriage
“Yue’er, come over here.” Old master Leng, with his somewhat muddled eyes, waved towards Leng Sa.
“Grandfather.” Leng Sa returned his greeting and walked over.
The old man looked carefully. Seeing his granddaughter’s calm and relaxed expression, he nodded slightly.
On the contrary, the second master Leng and the second madam looked at the Fu Family’s fourth young master with a sullen face full of anger, yet with red eyes full of worry at their daughter .
“Sit down,” Old master Leng said to his son and daughter-in-law. “Yue’er, I believe you have heard everything?”
Leng Sa nodded.
Old Master Leng continued, “Don’t be afraid, Grandpa will decide for you. Even if I lose my life, I can’t let people trample my granddaughter like this!” After hearing this, Military Governor Fu and his wife looked at each other, worry filled their eyes.
To force the former emperor’s master to die? What he meant was.., the Fu family will never be able to find a literati to work with them in the future!
Military Governor Fu coughed and continued, “We apologize to Mingyue. If Old master Leng has something to say, please say it?”
Old Master Leng’s expression eased off a little, he looked at his granddaughter and said, “The old man is not an unreasonable person, I don’t care whether Fu si shao looks down on our family’s third lady or is in love with someone…”
“Old master Leng is joking,” Madam Fu said embarrassingly. “This is really an accident, how can you say that my son loved others?”
Old Master Leng gave a meaningful smile and continued, ”This old man wants to say that no girl from our Leng family will have her marriage called off. Not to mention… even if this old man is the first to cancel my third granddaughter’s marriage, our Leng family still has four unmarried boudoirs.”
Seeing that Madam Fu wanted to say something, Old Master Leng waved his hand. “Madam, you don’t have to tell me that this is a new era. You also have the knowledge that in-laws will not be willing to marry a girl whose marriage was called off. Take an example of yourself… are you willing to let your son marry a girl whose marriage was broken off?”
“People nowadays are open minded. They don’t care why the girl was rejected, or why her engagement was cancelled..”
Military Governor Fu sighed. “Then… What does Old master Leng mean?”
Old master Leng said, “According to the rules, that girl can only enter your family as a concubine. If the fourth young master is really reluctant to marry my third granddaughter.
“No!” Fourth young master Fu, standing in the hall, flatly refused.
Old Master Leng looked at him, as if he was looking at an ignorant child. “No? What does the fourth young master Fu mean…”
Fu si shao also knew that he was impulsive, he gritted his teeth and said ,”We’re already in this era, screw that all old custom! I can’t let my child… grow up and get laughed at, since things are already like this… Leng Mingyue, you don’t want to share a husband either, right?”
Leng Sa looked up at the impatient young man before her without uttering a word.
Fu si shao added, “This marriage agreement was decided by my grandmother, and I never agreed to it. Old Master Leng, even if Leng Mingyue enters our family, she wouldn’t have a child.” The implication of his speech was simple: If Leng Sa insisted on this marriage, she could only live as a widow for the rest of her life.
“Old master, how about…” second madam Leng said with red eyes. How could she bear to let her daughter be doomed to suffer before she even entered the house? But the old master was also right, people were ignorant, who would want to marry a girl who got her marriage broken off?
“Shut up!” Old Master Leng coldly announced, “There is no young lady in our family who got her marriage broken off. Why don’t you think about your nieces?”
Beside, the eldest master Leng’s face looked anxious. “Second younger sister-in-law, father is right. Fourth lady should be married in two years, Fifth lady should be engaged in these two years and your two nieces and grand-nephews, after a few years it is also time to find someone else.”
Fu si shao didn’t expect that the Leng family would be stubborn. He was so angry that he rambled, “For the sake of the girls? It is obvious that you simply do not want to give up this marriage with our Fu family! In order to climb the Fu family, you are even willing to lose face!”
“You!” Old Master Leng was furious. With a trembling finger he pointed at Fu si shao and coughed repeatedly.
“Fourth son, you shut up!” Military Governor Fu said angrily.
Fu si shao took a sigh of relief and glanced coldly at Leng Mingyue, who was sitting quietly on the side, his eyes full of disgust and contempt. Apparently, she was also aiming for the Fu family’s glory and riches and will insist that she would not withdraw from the marriage.
“Father, I will never marry Leng Mingyue! How about you kill me instead.” Fu si shao sneered, looking at Governor Fu with unruly eyes.
“You think I don’t have the guts to kill you?” Military Governor Fu banged the table in anger. If he did not have to worry about his eldest son, he would have really killed this bastard.
“Master!” Madam Fu’s eyes were red. “Our fourth son has already suffered from an accident, if anything happens to Yucheng then I will no longer live!”
Military Governor Fu was panting with anger. He was a crude man and was impatient to deal with these messy things, but now it was his son who created such a mess that they couldn’t ignore..
This bastard is simply a pit!
The two sides were at each other’s throat, daggers drawn and neither willing to retreat, and the hall was silent.
Leng Sa raised her eyes slightly, and looked at Fu Yucheng who was standing in the middle of the hall and was going to confront the whole world without a trace.
This pampered son lived in a sheltered house and had not suffered setbacks.
But now the thousand-li-colt and the qilin son of the Fu family, once regarded as the most likely Fu Fengcheng to lead the Fu family to glory. Wasn’t this one just getting valuable all of a sudden?
TLN: thousand -li-colt – son who showed great promise. Qilin – very talented person
After some time, Military Governor Fu suddenly seemed to think of something and looked at Leng Sa sitting across the table. Hesitating for a moment, he took a deep breath and said, “Old Master Leng, this bastard looks like this, if Mingyue marries him she would also be troubled. I have a proposal here, I wonder what you think?”
“Military Governor, please enlighten me.”
Military Governor Fu said in a deep voice, “Let Ming Yue marry Fengcheng.”
“What?!”
“No way!”
Second Master Leng and Second Lady said in unison.
Fu Fengcheng was crippled. Six months ago, Fu Fengcheng was ordered to escort a batch of important supplies back to Yongcheng from the northern part. He encountered robbers on the way. The most important thing was… there were rumors that Fu Fengcheng not only lost his legs, but also hurt his vital points. He would not be able to have children in his life.
Old Master Leng’s face also sank. “The military governor is joking.”
Military Governor Fu shook his head and said, “The old man is assured our Fu family will never wrong Mingyue. The first thing we need to do is to get rid of the problem, and if Mingyue is still willing to live with Fengcheng after a year or two, that’s good, if not, my Fu family will never make things difficult. I can send Mingyue to the capital, or even abroad, and the Fu family will definitely take care of Mingyue for the rest of her life. We’ll consider her as one of our daughters!”
Old Master Leng narrowed his eyes slightly, “In that case, the fourth young…”
Not waiting for him to finish, Fu Yuncheng already said, “Impossible, I won’t marry her!”
At that moment, people could not know that Fu si shao had an accident and had something with Miss Zheng. It was clear that he had already been secretly familiar with harmony for a long time.
Although he was contemptuous in his heart, other than the second madam, the others’ faces did not show anything.
“Mingyue, what do you say?” Military Governor Fu asked and looked at Leng Sa.
Leng Mingyue raised her eyes and was about to speak, but old master Leng suddenly raised his hand to stop her. “Military Governor, our Leng family needs time to consider this matter.”
“How long will it take?” Fu Yuncheng couldn’t help but ask.
Old master Leng was indifferent. “Don’t worry, fourth young master. We will not wait until your son or your precious daughter is born.”
Fu Yuncheng instantly turned red, apparently being spoken to by the old master Leng. He was indeed worried that the Leng family would deliberately delay. It would be bad for the Fu family and Zheng family or the unborn child if they waited until the children were born or had a big belly before entering the door. Although it was a new era, many members of the Fu family still followed the rules of the old era, otherwise the Fu family’s concubine son would not have been unable to get out of the head.
Military Governor Fu sighed and stood up, “Then, we shall take our leave.
“Don’t bother sending us off.”