??623: Chapter 621: Why Are You Splashing Water on ?
623: Chapter 621: Why Are You Splashing Water on ?
The door was kicked open, and the sight that t them was of a figure lying rigidly on the kang bed inside.
The commotion did not wake him, and on top of that, he was snoring heavily, seemingly still lost in a drunken dream.
Wang Yongzhu charged in first, with Wang Yongping hastily following into the room, imdiately t by the sll of alcohol.
Wang Yongping asked with puzzlent, “Could he be drunk?”
Otherwise, even the dead would have leapt out of their coffins with such a racket.
Wang Yongzhu sneered coldly, pretending to be drunk?
Fine!
He turned on his heel, went to the kitchen to scoop up a ladle of cold water, and drenched Wang Yongan to the core with it.
In the chilly December, such a ladle of cold water had Wang Yongan howling as he sprang up from the kang, his whole body sopping wet, looking both pathetic and comical.
Standing barefoot on the ground, he wrung out his soaked clothes while bellowing, “What are you doing?
Why did you splash
with water?”
Wang Yongzhu threw the ladle aside, “What, not pretending to be drunk anymore?”
Wang Yongan’s face tightened, and he quickly replaced it with a look of bewildernt and helplessness: “Little sister, what is this about?
I drank too much last night, lay down on the bed, and knew nothing until you woke
with water.
What do you an ‘pretending to be drunk’?”
Seeing Wang Yongan still refusing to confess, even at this point, Wang Yongzhu was impressed: Fine!
“You say you were drunk, well then, now that you’re sober, I have a question for you!
Your wife insisted on taking
near the county Yan yesterday to stroll around, and even made a point of walking around the back door.
And this morning, the Magistrate’s Lady’s Sister Steward rushed over to say that her lady was enamored with my beauty, wanting to take
as the Magistrate’s concubine.
You didn’t know about this?
You went to the county Yan yesterday, didn’t you?”
Wang Yongan imdiately protested his innocence with all his might: “Little sister, I really didn’t know about this, I went to the county Yan because I had business to take care of, and only after that did I go for drinks with my colleagues before coming back!
I truly didn’t know about the Magistrate’s wife wanting to arrange for you to beco a concubine?”
“Now you know, don’t you!
Tell , who gave Lady Qian the audacity?
As a sister-in-law, she actually presud to make decisions for the family?
Knowing fully well I’m betrothed, she still aid to sell
off as a junior wife to the Magistrate?
Do you know what the Sister Steward ca saying?
They sold
for two hundred pieces of silver, you didn’t know about that either?” Wang Yongzhu emphasized the amount bitterly.
Wang Yongan slapped the edge of the kang bed, “That venomous Lady Qian!
Who empowered her?
I’ll go and question her!”
Saying this, he wanted to rush outside.
Wang Yongzhu signaled Wang Yongping to block him, “Don’t run off, let’s clear this up today once and for all!”
“So, according to what you’re saying, you had no knowledge of this matter, and all of it was done by Lady Qian without your knowledge?” Wang Yongzhu asked thodically.
Wang Yongan was stunned for a mont, then nodded imdiately, even showing a look of indignation.
“Yongping never expected that Lady Qian would be such a person.
Yongzhu, rest assured, Yongping will definitely teach her a lesson for you.”
“There’s no need.
As the saying goes, a son’s failure to be taught is the father’s fault; a wife’s failure to be taught is the husband’s fault.
Given Lady Qian’s character, would she dare do such a thing without your consent?
Wang Yongan, do you think that just because you have studied for a few years and beca a Scholar, you can treat everyone else like a fool?
What did you say when you went back ho during the New Year?
At that ti, you let Lady Qian praise those official’s wives for their wealth, right in front of .
You said that becoming a concubine to the County Magistrate is a lifeti of fortune.
Have you forgotten all that now?”
“Yongzhu, I was really just speaking casually, I didn’t an anything else.
At that ti, I also told father that with your talents and appearances, Yongzhu, marrying you off to so country bumpkin would be a great loss.
I wanted to take you with our parents to the county town and find you a son-in-law from an official’s family.
How could I sell you to soone as a concubine?
Would you really see your second brother as such a person?” Wang Yongan put on a wounded expression.
“Yongzhu, ask yourself, other than the land deed issue, when has your second brother wronged you?
Rember how good our relationship was before?
Every ti Yongping ca ho, he rembered to bring you delicious food and flowers for your hair.
He taught you to read and write, treating you as if you were his own daughter, better than even Jinchai.
Have you forgotten all these things?
Just because of one thing, you no longer trust your second brother?”
“In your second brother’s heart, you are the dearest sister.
Naturally, he wants to give you the best things in the world!
How could I harm you?
Let’s not talk about anything else.
Regarding the matter you just ntioned, can you listen to what your second brother has to say?” Wang Yongan played the emotional card, trying to rekindle their relationship through mories of the past.
“Go ahead,” Wang Yongzhu wanted to hear what kind of story Wang Yongan could co up with.
“Yongzhu, let your second brother speak from the heart.
Before I beca a Scholar when I was still in the countryside, I thought being a Scholar Master was impressive.
I thought that if I could beco a Scholar, I would be content for life.
But after I really beca a Scholar, I realized, what about it?
I’m just a poor Scholar in everyone else’s eyes!”
“Those who haven’t beco Scholars, relying on the legacy of their ancestors, live better than , a Scholar.
From the mont they start speaking, soone teaches them to read and write.
Their prirs are famous scholars, and for people like us, it is incredibly difficult to study under such a scholar.”
“Do you know what it feels like to be scorned for sothing you’ve put all your efforts into?
You wouldn’t know!
Ever since I started studying, I’ve been feeling this way every single day!
After becoming a Scholar, I wanted to beco a Graduate, but our family neither had silver nor connections.
Finding a good teacher was as hard as reaching the sky.”
“If I had always been that poor boy from Qilidun, ignorant of the world, I would have accepted my lot!
But I have talent!
I’ve seen the bustling world outside.
How can I be content with diocrity, to remain a poor Scholar for life?
I can’t be content with that!”
“So, about stealing the land deed and buying the fields, let
tell you the truth: I admit I was wrong!
But if I had to do it all over again, I would still do the sa!
Because this was the only chance I had.
If I missed it, I would be dood to a lifeti of poverty as just a Scholar!
I’m not content with that!”
“I don’t think I did anything wrong.
I just want to live a better life.
I have ambitions and aspirations, but just because I wasn’t born into a good family, I have to stay beneath those who are inferior to !
I’m willing to give up anything to climb higher——”
Wang Yongan’s speech was interrupted by Wang Yongzhu.
“Even if it includes selling your own sister as a concubine to the County Magistrate?”
Wang Yongan fell silent.
After a long while, he lifted his head, his face full of bewildernt.
“Yongzhu, is it really so bad to beco the Second Wife to the County Magistrate?
This isn’t just being a concubine, but the good concubines who aren’t bought and sold at will.
You would be a proper Good Concubine.
Aside from the Eldest Wife, you would be the most respected in the County Magistrate’s household.
As long as you capture the County Magistrate’s heart, if you bear him a son, you won’t have to worry about wealth and honor for life!”
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