Chapter 290 – No One Can Persuade Anyone

“Is there a conflict between the two? The Xu family is a prestigious family. If you marry into the Xu family, you will be the first daughter-in-law of the Xu family, so what kind of status will you have in the future? Isn’t this a good thing for you? Is it wrong for me to want you to marry into a good family?”

Yun felt a little heartbroken: ”I think about you and want you to live well, why do you always think that mother is harming you? You are a piece of meat that fell off of mother’s body, even if you didn’t live together for the first thirteen years, mother wouldn’t be harming you!”

“Mother, marrying a big family is not what I want, if mother is really for my sake, please help me reject this marriage, I just want to be an ordinary person, and later marry a farmer who works at sunrise and sleeps at sunset,” Wei Ruo replied. Wei Ruo replied.

“Nonsense!” Yun angrily rebuked, “If there was no choice, then so be it, now there is such a great opportunity in front of you, how can you still have that unproductive idea?”

Wei Ruo was silent, she didn’t agree with Yun, but she also had a hard time getting Yun to agree with her.

Despite living in this world for more than a decade, the modern female mindset within her remains unchanged.

She still believes that her value should not be tied to marriage or to a particular person.

She’s her. She’s got to live on her own.

And these ideas are hard to understand by Yun who lives in this world, in her eyes, the ultimate destination of a woman is to marry, is to teach her husband.

Seeing Wei Ruo did not say, Yun’s again serious persuasion: “Ruo child, you in the past more than ten years in the countryside, the lack of discipline, books also read less, at first my mother was worried about your marriage after returning to the problem, but also discussed with your father, if the high family can not be matched, then your father and I will be more for you to buy some dowry, so that even if you marry a poor scholar can be the rest of his life without worries.”

“But since there is a better choice, mother naturally want to plan for you, the Xu family no matter from any point of view, is a good marriage! You’re still young and don’t understand a lot of things, but believe me, as a woman, your husband is all you have to look up to and rely on.”

Wei Ruo still didn’t say anything, because it was also impossible for her to tell Yun about her intentions, which were not quite acceptable even to the Nurse and Xiu Mei who had been by her side.

After seeing Wei Ruo no longer stubbornly talking back to herself, Yun said, “Mother doesn’t need you to give me an answer right away, this is a matter for you to go back and think about it first.”

After saying that, Yun, with a tired look on her face, waved her hand and asked Cui Ping to send Wei Ruo back.

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Wei Ruo and the Xu family’s affairs have long been in the beginning, but today’s visit from Mrs. Tongzhi still made the crowd in Wangmei Yuan gnash their silver teeth.

Sister Li huffed, “What on earth does this Lady Tongzhi think, what good can Wei Qingruo be? She’s really blinded! She thinks she’s a diamond in the rough!”

Cui He was busy persuading his old mother, “Mother, don’t say anything, don’t let people hear about it then, and then punish you for going to the manor.”

When she heard that she would be punished to go to the manor, Sister Li’s voice lowered, but she was still reluctant to say, “This Wei Qingruo is just a good disguise, she runs around in the fields all day long, and I don’t know how many vulgar men she has been exposed to, so how can she be the first daughter-in-law of a big family? If they knew, why would they want her?” ….

Cui He said: “That’s also something that can’t be helped, the people in the house are all helping to hide it, it’s about the reputation of the Wei family. If the reputation of the eldest young lady is bad, our second young lady can not be good, then want to second young lady high marriage will be even more difficult.”

The mother-daughter duo muttered for a while before Wei Qingwan returned from Cang Yun Yuan.

Sister Li was busy welcoming her, “Second Miss, is Mrs. Tongzhi really going to marry our Wei Mansion?”

“I just heard from my mother that this is indeed the case.” Wei Qingwan’s expression was calm, and not a trace of displeasure or melancholy could be seen on her countenance.

“Second Miss, aren’t you angry? How can Missy, with her character like this, be a match for the Xu Family’s Grand Duke?” Sister Li asked.

“Whether or not it can be matched is something that the Xu family should consider, and as a sister in the family I should give my blessing.” Wei Qingwan said.

Wei Qingwan’s reply filled Sister Li’s head with confusion. The other day she had felt that something was not quite right with their young lady, and today’s attitude made her completely certain that the young lady had

Things are hidden from them.

“Miss, are you hiding something from us?” Sister Li inquired cautiously.

“It’s nothing.” Wei Qingwan averted her face, avoiding Sister Li’s probing gaze.

Immediately after that, Wei Qingwan didn’t give Sister Li the chance to continue pursuing her questions and opened her mouth to drive them away, “If there’s nothing else to do, you guys should retire first, I’m going to take a rest.”

Sister Li and Cui He could only exit the room with their hearts full of doubts.

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The next morning, Wei Ruo, who should have gone to Tianqin Garden, went straight to the Four Treasures.

Wei Ru walked through the store of Four Treasures, went to the backyard to find the milkmaid, the milkmaid was bookkeeping, and when she saw Wei Ru, she hurriedly put down the work in her hand.

“Miss, why are you here?” Although surprised, the nanny’s eyes were filled with the color of surprise.

“Every time I come, the nanny asks this question, am I not welcome?” Wei Ruo deliberately said.

“No such thing!” Nurse hurriedly said.

Xiu Mei laughed at the side and said, “Where would the milkmaid not welcome miss, she is just afraid that miss is tired from running back and forth.”

“It’s still Xiu Mei who understands me.” Nurse smiled.

“Nurse, I came to see you today to ask you something.”

“You ask, Miss.”

“How are you getting on with the man I wrote to you earlier asking you to find for me?”

Hearing this, the milkmaid’s eyes dodged, followed by averting her face, not daring to look directly at Wei Ruo.

Wei Ruo’s face sank slightly, “Milkmaid, have you not been looking properly?”

“No…… no…… me……”

“Nurse, you never lie to me.” Wei Ruo gazed into Nurse’s eyes.

The things she used to explain to her nanny, her nanny would do her best to help her take care of them, never delaying, never perfunctory.

Only this time, obviously a long time has passed without any news.

Seeing that she couldn’t avoid it, the Nurse could only confess, “I’m sorry Miss, I really didn’t make any inquiries with all my heart, I really don’t want Miss to casually find someone to marry, or someone who’s about to die, how could I do such a thing!”

Wei Ruo sighed, “That’s just it, I’ll take care of this matter myself.”

Wei Ruo decided not to make things difficult for the nanny, even if the nanny did help her find it, when the time came to see her as a widow, the nanny might feel that she had caused her harm and would blame herself for the rest of her life.

Upon hearing this, the nanny said sadly, “Miss, have you really thought about it?”

Wei Ruo said with certainty, “Nurse, I have indeed thought about it, and I know that my thinking like this is shocking to many people, but I want to live the life I want, and this is a viable way to do it.” .

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