As soon as her bark was stopped, General Big Yellow appeared in the doorway, looking puzzled. He was searching for the new small dog in the house which barked in auto tune.
"Did you have to bark?" Rose asked i i.
She shrugged. "It was the only thing I could think of to draw everyone’s attention. Now can we get back to subject of ihua’s marriage. Who is this Duan Siping and why are you marrying him? Are you done with Mr. Bo and what about our good friend that you accidentally kissed twice?"
"The one she kissed is dating my aunt Jian Yu’s daughter." Tao Taiyuan shared.
Her aunt Jian Yu had been secretly dating her uncle Tao Shuming for two months and she got pregnant. The two tied the knot in a secret wedding and Jian Yu who was an actress retired and beca Lady Jian Yu, a noble.
"For so reason, they have been keeping their relationship a secret like her parents did when they were dating." Taiyuan continued. "In order to make her feel more secure in the relationship, Mr. Si will not be spending any more social ti with us and they are now telling people about their relationship."
"Isn’t this the kind of thing the peepstar normally unveils?" Rose asked.
"Eh," i i made a small high pitched noise. "The peep star unveils things that cause people to gasp. A relationship between two mbers of the elite society is boring and sothing to be expected so it is not worth the peepstar’s ti."
"True. If it is not scandalous, the peep star does not care." Zhilan looked over her shoulder, eyes searching for a maid that she could send to the kitchen.
"Now if one of them had been peddling two boats.....!" Rose laughed. "The peep star would be all over them."
Everyone chuckled a little.
"Can we co back to ihua’s marriage." i i urged them. "I have not been around in the last eight years but I learned sothing about a ilin list recently." She looked at all the traitors that had not shared this information with her.
As her friends and sisters avoided her eyes, i i continued on with a personal observation. "I do not think that the Duan’s are on anybody’s list if they are as poor as you all say they are."
"Again, they are humble scholars." ihua raised her voice.
Jun Yi picked up a thin carrot stripe and brought it to her mouth as she said, "You are right i i, they are not on most people’s ilin list. They act like they are reincarnations of ancient scholars or sothing and they are too good for the rest of us corrupt nobles."
"They like to wear white." Zhilan chid in. "Most of them must be Cancers or Virgos. They gravitate to white the most."
Rose groaned and rolled her eyes. Everyone liked to wear white, they just chose it more carefully because of the environnt. White was only nice if it the dust and other dirt stayed away. The zodiacs had nothing to do with it!
"They are always clean." Taiyuan sighed appreciatively. "And their genes are good. We have to be honest, they are poor but hot."
"Do I have to bark again?" i i raised her voice.
Jun Yi turned the television on and at the the sa ti, Madam Feng and maids brought more refreshnts for the guests.
After she left the living room Zhilan said to i i, "Your mother-in-law is very nice. Every ti I....."
i i groaned. "Stop, stop stop!! This is not a ga of trivia, we are not jumping from one random subject to another. We should first finish ihua’s marriage."
Rose handed i i a cracker which she snatched with a huff.
ihua anwhile had decided to just say it herself and wrap it up before they deviated again. "Viscount Duan Tianyu the patriarch of the Duan family acquired a mysterious illness two years ago and the family finances are being drained to pay for his treatnt. All the Duan’s are educators and their salaries are not that high in the first place.
Duan Tianyu’s illness requires his blood to be changed six tis a month. Each session costs two hundred thousand yuan."
Nobody blinked. For everyone there, that was peanuts.
"It is not just the blood which needs changing but he has to have full body scans daily, his diet is special, his dicines are expensive and Duan Qiuyuan his oldest daughter needs money to invest in the research into her father’s condition."
"So they are a black hole because of the old man’s illness." Jun Yi concluded.
ihua nodded. "That is why they are shopping around for wealthy marriages for so of the unmarried mbers of their family. Duan Siping ca to on his own and asked to marry him. He presented a thesis on why he would be the best husband for and he had only one condition. I should give him a dowry."
Madam Feng slipped and six cups of Cre Brulee she had brought for the guests went flying.
A maid scread and ow ow squeaked in a panic.
A robot butler that had been standing idly in the corner moved at an inhumane speed and caught all six cups with six arms.
"Oh my God!" Zhilan pointed at the robot butler.
"You....shut up." i i hushed her. "Back to you ihua, your husband-to-be wants a dowry!!!!"
So of the ladies were sniggering and Madam Feng’s ears were twitching. She had never heard of n asking for dowry. Every ti i i’s friends visited, sothing outrageous was brought up.
"Does it an he is marrying into the Rong family instead of you marrying into the Duan’s?" i i asked.
ihua took one of the Cre Brulee’s from Madam Feng while responding to i i. "Of course, why else would I pay two hundred million in dowry for a man. He is not the first man to marry into another noble family in exchange for resources.
As for the children, they will still carry the Duan na. My great grandfather does not want any confusion about where they co from. The Rong family must remain in control of the Rong’s."
"Tell her the best part." Zhilan stared at ihua with a challenge in her eyes.
i i’s eyes lit up. What more was there to this arranged marriage? She also wanted to know how the Rong family would benefit from Duan Siping marrying in.
"He is your little boyfriend’s age mate." Rose blurted out.
i i gasped. Her eyes widened even more. "No way!! Weren’t you making fun of for dating a younger man? Now you are going to marry one!!!"
"Because I can’t go through the ilin list again." ihua groaned. "And when his sister’s research bears fruit, the Rong family will own seventy percent of it."
"What about love?" i i asked.
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