Chapter 179 Rich businessman Bai Yang proposed marriage
He Danggui was suddenly inspired by Bai Yangbai’s words. She stared at Bai Yangbai’s mask with bright eyes and walked around him twice. Then she poked the “soft object” on his chest with her hand. Suddenly, she seed to think of sothing. A greedy thought flashed through her mind.
Under her eyes, Bai Yangbai could not help shaking. He asked in a low voice, “What’s the matter? Did I say sothing wrong?”
He Danggui bit her lips and said with a smile, “Qianjun, you are not wrong. I also want to thank you for reminding that. Yes. If I have been busy nding the hole, there will always be water leakage. So, I have to solve the problem fundantally. It’s better for to get married. However, I am fond of you more than ng Xuan. When I t you at this ti, this is your chance to help obviously.”
Bai Yangbai shook his head firmly and said, “You are fond of ? Never. I’m a real monk. I seldom go to brothels. How can I help you get married? There’s no need to talk about it. Even if you give money, I won’t agree.”
He Danggui ignored the feasibility and began to consider the details, “Your family na is Bai and your first na is Yang. You are 18 years old. Your family is engaged in tea business. Besides, your family moved to Yangzhou City from the north and planned to settle in Yangzhou City for a long ti. It is very important, because Madam Luo does not want to marry soone who lives far away. ng Xuan has a large separate courtyard on the outskirts. We can borrow it from him. He is too lazy to na the separate courtyard. I will make a big plaque of ‘Bai’s Mansion’ and send it to hang outside the separate courtyard. It will be more like your mansion. However, as you are only a tea rchant, if you want Madam Luo to agree on the marriage, you must ask to be your wife and show your extraordinary talent. Madam Luo likes the intelligent younger generation best. You can roll your eyes around to show your liveliness and cleverness.”
“I haven’t agreed yet...” Bai Yangbai interrupted in a low voice.
“By the way, you still need to prepare betrothal gifts. Generally, 1,000 liang is more than enough to marry a concubine, but marrying a wife will make you spend more money.” He Danggui touched the palm of her hand and calculated. Then she nodded and said, “5,000 liang silver is very suitable. Even if Madam Luo doesn’t really want your silver, it will be very decent if there is such an amount. Then she is more likely to agree.”
“I have no money...” Bai Yangbai whispered his objection.
He Danggui patted his shoulder and said in a soft voice, “You can get money ready before you propose a marriage officially. You go to ask for a marriage first. Then, on the pretext that you want to take the imperial examination for official rank, you can postpone the marriage for three to five years. When I write a letter to inform you of the termination of the engagent, you will break off the marital engagent. We don’t have to pay the money. I’ve already ca up with the excuse. You will disguise as a manservant to give an obituary notice. You can say that your Master Bai is killed by bandits on the way to taking the exam. Before he dies, he asks you to break off the marital engagent.”
Bai Yangbai was angry. He said, “I don’t want to help you. You can choose one of the noble childes who is fond of you to help you. Won’t you get married in the rest of your life?”
“There are different ways to have a poor or rich marriage. Naturally, I have my reasons for doing so.” He Danggui did not compromise and was not afraid of his anger. She said, “It’s useless for you to be angry with . Unless you are going to break up with , you must help !”
Bai Yangbai’s anger only lasted for a mont. He lowered his head and protested passively, “I can’t guarantee that I will obey you in everything. If you bully like this again, I’ll tell them about it and make Madam Luo be so angry. Then she will ask you to marry Guan Bai and Guan Mo at the sa ti. And you have to give birth to a child for each of them.”
He Danggui regarded that as Bai Yangbai had compromised. She nodded with satisfaction, “Bai Yang must have parents and siblings. It’s easy to find the flaws if we ask soone else to play them. It’s better to play three mbers of Bai’s Family by yourself, including the kind Madam Bai, the friendly elder sister Bai Qian, and Bai Yang. You appear several tis in turn as the three roles. After the marriage is confird, you can just play Bai Qian to co alone.”
Bai Yangbai walked to the sedan chair of Luo’s Family and muttered, “Why do you only bully ? When will you bully others?”
“Because you are a Taoist Sage. And you are the most reliable one with good conduct.” He Danggui said with a smile, “If you help successfully this ti, I will thank you sincerely after this. However, this thod can only solve temporary minor problems. It cannot solve more serious problems. There is a very powerful enemy who wants to co to the Luo’s Family to propose marriage. I need your help in this matter...”
“If I had known this, I would not have sold dicine candies at the gate of Chengxu Academy. You are so aweso. Even your enemy wants to marry you.” Bai Yangbai walked two steps into the carriage and said vaguely, “How did you start a feud? Did soone die because of your aphrodisiac?”
Before He Danggui answered, Bo He who stood beside the sedan chair ran to her imdiately and said in a flustered way, “It’s terrible, Miss. Concubine Hua of Second Branch has been pregnant for four months. When she was wandering in the garden this afternoon, she suddenly bled. Just a few days ago, Madam Luo felt that Concubine Hua was pregnant with a boy, and Madam Luo was very concerned about her. And Madam Luo sent two mammies for her, so this matter was imdiately heard by Madam Luo!”
He Danggui lightly got into the carriage and turned around to pull Bo He into it. He Danggui said, “Don’t worry. Let’s talk slowly on the way.”
After they got into the carriage, Bo He noticed the woman sitting opposite. She was surprised and asked, “Sister Huai Hua, didn’t you go back to your hotown to farm? Why did you co to Chengxu Academy?”
The woman sitting opposite giggled, and He Danggui answered for her, “She brought local products to visit . I’ll let her stay for two days. Bo He, you can go on and tell about Concubine Hua. Did she miscarry? You ca to in such a hurry. What’s the matter with you?”
“Gee! Gee!” The carriage galloped so fast that Bo He’s voice was intermittent, “No... Although the fetus was saved, the doctors said it’s not stable. It’s hard to keep it.”
He Danggui tasted the tea and cakes on the table. She raised her eyebrow and chuckled, “It’s just bleeding, not miscarriage. Amitabha Buddha, it’s so good!”
Bo He waved her hand and said, “Miss, don’t say Amitabha Buddha. Doctor Ma diagnosed that Concubine Hua’s fetus was unstable because of defects in the antiabortifacient, so he took out a pile of prescriptions prescribed for Concubine Hua to check. Both Madam Luo and Doctor Ma were sure that there was no defect in the prescription, but there was a mistake in dispensing or boiling the herbal dicine. The closest maid who boiled the herbal dicine for Concubine Hua imdiately knelt down and said that she didn’t dare to hurt the master. The herbal dicine were boiled in the big kitchen and there were people everywhere. How dare she poison Concubine Hua? Finally, Concubine Hua’s maid thought that there was so dicine left in the cupboard, so she submitted it to Madam Luo and others for inspection. As a result, they found that there were parturifacient in it!”
“Concubine Hua is pregnant for only four months, and parturifacient is taboo for her.” He Danggui said and chewed an almond cake. Seeing that she ate deliciously, Huai Hua imdiately felt hungry. She washed her hands with tea, and then grabbed most of the almond cakes from the dishes. He Danggui covered up her less half of the cakes and said with a smile, “I didn’t expect Concubine Hua to be a tough woman. After taking several pieces of parturifacient, she just bled. If soone else, she would have a miscarriage.”
Seeing the master and maid were grabbing food, Bo He said anxiously, “Miss, stop eating! Now it involves you, and parturifacient was seen at the scene. It is irrefutable evidence! They sent to take you back to trial! How to deal with it, Miss?”
He Danggui stopped chewing and repeated, “The irrefutable evidence? What’s my motive? Why did I harm Concubine Hua, who had nothing to do with ?”
Bo He said helplessly, “That’s all I know. If you want to know more, you have to go ho to be interrogated first.”
He Danggui shrugged indifferently and said, “Let’s look forward to the results.”
Huai Hua approached her ear and said, “Are you afraid? They have got irrefutable evidence. But in any case, why does Sun iniang just bully you? Isn’t there Miss Chai who is better than you to bully in Luo’s Family?”
He Danggui approached her and replied, “It’s not bullying, but framing. In the whole Luo’s Family, Sun iniang treated in a special way. As a wife in charge of the family, she was very busy every day, but she had to spend her ti to plan to fra . It’s my ‘honor’ to ntion this. As for fear, I guess the most scared one at the mont is Hua Yu, the victim of using parturifacient.”
In the previous life, Sun iniang never spent ti to “fra” He Danggui, she just “bullied” He Danggui directly. She arbitrarily skimped her food. In Luo’s Mansion, there were many snobbish villains flattering the superior and bullying the subordinate. Naturally, many of them bullied miserable Third Miss for Sun iniang. At this ti, He Danggui was weak. She pursed her mouth with hanging tears when she was bullied. She looked very pitiful and easy to be bullied. Sun iniang felt very delighted when seeing the daughter of her enemy He Jingxian had been bullied by a group of despicable minions. She really relieved her hatred.
Besides relieving hatred, Sun iniang despised He Danggui’s weakness, so she didn’t bully her directly or did anything outrageous. Therefore, He Danggui, who couldn’t distinguish right from wrong, thought that although Sun iniang was an and ungrateful, she was not a villain. Instead, she was bullied cooperated by her First Aunt and Elder Sister-in-law. They were two very annoying won. With this idea in mind, in the days to co, she who was the favorite of Lord Ning would be deceived by the hypocrisy of Sun iniang and others. She was their obedient niece and ignored the hatred generously.
In fact, in the previous life, if He Danggui hadn’t had such a good fortune to beco a superior and only married an ordinary childe as a concubine, living a diocre life, Sun iniang probably would not have planned to harm her. However, He Danggui, who was silent when she was a child, beca more and more excellent and lived better and better. She not only married a hundred tis better than the husband of Sun iniang’s own daughters, but also Sun iniang’s daughters were not promising. All of them could not attract their husbands, and they had to ask He Danggui for their husbands’ official posts. These sharp contrasts stimulated Sun iniang, so she was more and more jealous and hateful about He Danggui. She began to bedevil He Danggui, whose life was very blissful.
In this life, the situation was similar. Originally, He Danggui lived in Taoist temple for half a year. When she returned to Luo’s Mansion to keep a low profile, Sun iniang would not regard her as a top enemy. However, when she lived in the Taoist temple, she made Sun iniang be embarrassed and annoyed. In addition, Sun iniang’s brother died just after He Danggui was reborn. Although there was no relationship between them, Sun iniang still stubbornly believed that He Danggui had robbed her brother’s life. So, she hated He Danggui more and more. Although Sun iniang’s younger brother didn’t live long in his previous life, he didn’t die until he was infected with a disease. He Danggui was surprised to hear that he died so early in this life.
In addition, He Danggui lived in Tao Yao Yard as soon as she returned to the mansion, occupying the valuable land of Luo’s Mansion. Therefore, before eting with He Danggui after her rebirth, Sun iniang had hated He Danggui even more than in her previous life.
At the beginning, Sun’s thod was the sa as before. She inford the relevant administrator in charge to cut off necessities of life of Tao Yao Yard. She artificially turned the Tao Yao Yard into a doghouse and hoped that He Danggui could beco a wretch. After hearing about this, Madam Luo didn’t care about it. Sun iniang guessed that Madam Luo probably felt guilty after giving Shao’s Tao Yao Yard to soone else. And Madam Luo was too embarrassed to say anything more. So, Sun iniang felt proud and thought that she had prevailed.
However, in an instant, Zhu Quan, whose pseudonym was Ning Yuan, left a painting and a jade pendant after leaving, which made Madam Luo wonder if the identity of Childe Ning was different from others. Was he fond of Yi? These things could be regarded as a part of bride-price. When Yi grew up, he would marry her, wouldn’t he?
With this idea in mind, Madam Luo was also concerned about the daily life of her granddaughter. Madam Luo asked maids to make up for what was deducted by Sun iniang, which irritated Sun iniang. Why did Madam Luo suddenly change her mind?
Later, Feng Yang ca to visit Madam Luo. At the beginning, when Madam Luo asked him the identity of Ning Yuan, he avoided this topic without a worthwhile word, which made Madam Luo have suspicion. Later, Feng Yang furtively went to visit He Danggui, and after her entreaty and threat, they unified their views. When Madam Luo asked again, Feng Yang said that Ning Yuan was a rich businessman and his deceased younger sister was similar to He Danggui in appearance, so he gave her the painting with no other intention.
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