Mo Qingze smiled helplessly, curled up his index finger, and tapped on her forehead before he repeated himself.
An engagent?
Mo Yan stared at Mo Qingze as if she had been struck by lightning, motionless, but the words of Xiao Ruiyuan, before he left, surfaced in her mind. One of them was—Don’t get engaged before I return, do you understand? Even if your father forces you, it won’t do!
Ah, why is she thinking of that man again? It must be because he was so domineering that day that it scared her. Yes, that must be it!
Suppressing the restlessness in her heart, Mo Yan patted her flushed cheeks sowhat frantically, seeing her father watch her with a smile, knowing he mistook her for being shy.
Should she pretend to be shy and run away, or hang her head and timidly voice her opinion while fiddling with the corner of her clothes?
But her acting skills were not good enough; she couldn’t manage to put on a coy expression. So she lifted her head to et her father’s gaze and said seriously, "Father, I am still young. I don’t want to get married so early!"
Mo Qingze laughed and said, "We’re just talking about an engagent for now. You don’t want to marry too early; we can wait until you are seventeen, that’s acceptable."
Seventeen is still a high school student, aaaah! Mo Yan scread internally, but she had to pluck up her courage and say, "Father, this is too sudden; I really don’t want to get engaged so early!"
Upon hearing this, Mo Qingze disagreed, "It’s not too early. Girls usually get their engagent settled before they co of age, and many get married soon after! If we delay too much, all the eligible good n will be chosen by others!"
He still preferred to find a son-in-law from the Academy; setting everything else aside, at least the candidates would be learned. Especially those few students he had his eye on; they were young but already had the title of Scholar. He imagined there must be quite a few people eyeing them, and even if he sent soone to propose, it might not be successful. However, his Yanyan was outstanding enough to be more than a match for those individuals.
Seeing Mo Qingze set on arranging her engagent before she ca of age, Mo Yan was overwheld but had to intercept him to prevent him from picking soone and directly setting things in stone, which would leave her with no place to cry.
"Father, there are many things to take care of at ho. Let’s put this matter aside for now. Can we talk about it after I co of age?"
Mo Qingze saw her aversion and, after so thought, agreed.
Firstly, those candidates needed to be thoroughly assessed; secondly, if he passed the examination and beca a Scholar, or even a Jin Shi, it would give him a better grasp on the situation and broaden the options. In any case, the son-in-law he would choose must ensure his daughter’s happiness and carefree life in the latter half of her life.
Mo Yan was unaware of how much Mo Qingze fretted over her future life. To prevent her father from bringing it up again, she quickly joined him in visiting the orchard. At the mont, the fruit seedlings were bare, their leaves all shed, leaving only the bunches of straw ropes tied around the trunks.
The Tong family took good care of the orchard, and there were no issues with dying seedlings. After a walk around both orchards, the pair visited the Tong family to check up on Uncle Tong.
It was uncertain whether it was because the Tong family’s rice and grain ca from Mo Yan’s Space, but Uncle Tong’s health had improved significantly, no longer bedridden every winter, forced to drink bowl after bowl of bitter dicine.
With a monthly inco of one or two pieces of silver and plenty of rice and grain provided by Mo Yan, not to ntion the occasional gifts of wild ga hunted by Little Flower and others, the life of the Tong family had improved greatly compared to before. In just a few months, Xiao Qing had grown much sturdier and his cheeks had gained so color.
For this, Aunt Tong deeply treasured her gratitude, ever more diligently managing the orchard, taking on tasks herself instead of hiring help whenever possible—saving Mo Yan a lot of trouble and expense.
The father and daughter spent so ti at the Tong family’s ho before they stood up to leave.
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