When Lady Du heard this, she imdiately put on a stern face and said, "You don’t need to earn the bridal price to get a wife, nor do you need to cook or do laundry once she’s married in. So why are you feeling exhausted? There are three forms of unfilial conduct, of which having no descendants is the worst. The young master of the Duke Wu Qing’s family is only seventeen this year, and he’s already a father of two. How old are you? You’re twenty-two and still without a family, let alone having descendants and continuing the family line. Aren’t you embarrassed? What kind of respectable young man is over twenty and still not married? Acting so nonchalantly, do you think you’re honoring the Mu Family’s ancestral ancestors?"
As soon as he heard his old lady bring out the ancestors, Chong Wu started sweating and argued, "Mother, it’s not that I don’t want to start a family, it’s just that I don’t want to do it right now. Brother also got married at twenty-five, and I want to learn from him."
"Don’t, absolutely not..."
Lady Du interrupted Chong Wu, "You can learn anything from your brother, except for late marriage. Back then, it was because he wouldn’t get married that I was nearly driven to death by anger. If you do that too, you brothers are unfilial."
Chong Wu really didn’t want to start a family, but seeing he couldn’t defy Mother, he procrastinated by saying, "How about this, Mother, arrange for to et Miss Zhang. If I find her to my liking, I’ll heed your and Father’s arrangents; if not, even if I do marry her under your orders, we might struggle to lead a harmonious life. It would be better to keep an eye out and slowly select soone suitable."
"Agreed, that’s settled!"
Lady Du was very confident in Miss Zhang’s appearance, and upon hearing that Chong Wu agreed to the viewing, she readily consented. "Conveniently, next month is Mother’s birthday, and I will use it as an excuse to invite Miss Zhang to the mansion. You’ll take a peek, and I assure you, you’ll be satisfied. Mother wouldn’t deceive you..."
Chong Wu reluctantly agreed, but even in agreeing, it was rely a stalling tactic. He had already planned to follow in his brother’s footsteps and leave ho to travel after Mother’s birthday. By the ti he finished traveling and returned, any Miss Zhang or Miss Wang would have gotten married, and Mother wouldn’t be able to push him anymore.
The next day, Chong Wu didn’t go to Wan’er. Instead, he sent a little boy to pass on a ssage, while he went to a classmate’s house to discuss plans to travel together.
On this day, he had originally promised Wan’er to co for lunch. Wan’er got up early to prepare this lunch. Buying fish, making soup, she was busy for half the day only to be inford by the little boy that he wasn’t coming. Wan’er couldn’t help but feel extrely disappointed and, in her disappointnt, she started questioning why he wasn’t coming, where he had gone, and what he was doing.
The little boy, a young child without much scheming, always received warmth from Miss Wan’er, and upon her inquiry, he spilled the beans about the young master’s family pushing for marriage and his plans to travel for a few years.
Wan’er was disheartened to hear that Chong Wu’s family was pressuring him to marry and that he planned to travel for years. After the little boy left, she anxiously confided in her nanny, "Nanny, didn’t you say he would fall in love with ? But now his family is forcing him to marry, and he hasn’t even ntioned . What should I do? If he leaves, wouldn’t all my previous struggles be for nothing?"
The nanny, with a frown, said, "Miss, why are you in such a rush? The Second Young Master hasn’t left yet, has he? As long as he’s still in the Capital, there’s room to maneuver. Don’t think that just because he hasn’t ntioned you yet, he doesn’t have feelings for you. Haven’t you noticed? He’s been coming to our place more frequently lately. What does that signify? It indicates he’s already taken you to heart and started paying attention to you. You just need to seize the opportunity and let him want you before he leaves. With Master Mu’s character, he would certainly take responsibility for you."
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