Ji Chuan pursed his lips while biting the lower one. He wanted to marry a woman with no official husband or concubines but now it seemed like it was impossible. Because of Ji Shixun, he was not in a situation where he could even think of marrying a woman.
Now his situation was perilous and he was being sent as an offering to marry just anyone. The only mercy or the last bit of maternal love that his mother showed to Ji Chuan was that she did not marry him off to that cripple Yu Cheng.
“Don’t look like that,” Old Madam Ji knew what Ji Chuan was thinking and sighed. She said to him, “I know that you don’t want to get married because of what happened to your father but have you ever thought about what would happen to you if you don’t marry?”
Ji Chaun stayed quiet and Old Madam Ji understood that he was blaming her for not stopping his mother.
Old Madam Ji sighed and raised her hand before pressing it down on Ji Chuan’s head. She said to him, “Ah Chuan, I know that you are upset but your grandmother is old now. How long do you think I can hold onto life?”
“Grandmother, what are you talking about?” When Ji Chuan heard his grandmother say such words, his expression changed and he turned to look at her. He said in an agitated voice, “You will live a thousand years.”
“Hahaha!” Old Madam Ji was amused by his words and chortled. She patted Ji Chuan on the back and said to him, “I know that you are filial Chuan’er. But everyone has to leave one day, this is something that you need to accept.”
Her old eyes held wisdom beyond Ji Chuan’s age and understanding.
“You are living a decent life because I am still here, but A Chuan…have you thought about what would happen to you, after I am gone?”
Ji Chuan clenched his fists and lowered his head. His shoulders trembled as he knew what would happen to him if he were to lose his grandmother’s protection.
“That’s right,” even though Old Madam Ji did not receive an answer from Ji Chuan——she knew that her grandson was smart enough to know what she was trying to tell him. “After I am gone, that fox will blow over your mother’s pillow again and he will try to make use of your mother’s tender feelings towards him to sell you off, all for the sake of gaining a bit more strength for his son.”
“That mer is so sly that, forget about your mother, even I cannot find anything. He had never left a trail behind him which is really something. Do you think that you can deal with a person like that? He will eat you alive and then feast on your bones.”
“I know that you feel unjustified and angry but the Yu family is better than the Liu family. At least there is someone with a steady head on her shoulders. With Madam Yu as the head of the family, you can be relieved. Miss Yu will not wrong you in any way and if she does then you only need to relay it to her sister.”
“Is she really that good?” Ji Chuan had heard Yu Tong praise his sister a lot of times. However, he had never met with her.
“She is indeed excellent,” Old Madam Ji told Ji Chuan with a smile. “If she was not skilled, do you think that she would have been able to become what she is today?”
“Only fools will go against her and I don’t think Miss Tong is a fool, unlike your brother.”
Ji Shixun did not know that he was being called a fool. He was currently sitting in a well-decorated restaurant and was drinking fine tea with his friends.
“You have no idea how ashamed I am, it is bad enough that my brother went around meeting with women at night but he is still pinning on Sister Changnu. I mean if he was worthy of her, I would have stepped aside at once but…who knows what he had been doing these days and night?” Though Ji Shixun spoke as if he was embarrassed, his voice was filled with relish and excitement.
“I usually don’t say anything about him but this time around he is too much. He wanted me to return the engagement to him, even when he knows that sister Changnu and I are in love —— even when my mother brought a bunch of wonderful matches for him, he only wanted to snatch what belonged to me.”
“Really? He said that?”
“Yes of course!” Ji Shixun pouted in an aggrieved manner before saying, “Do you think I will lie about such things? That brother of mine had been visiting that woman at night for months, who knows? Maybe he might be carrying a child which is why he is in a hurry to make Sister Changnu marry him.”
“Ah! You mean to say that he already…” the mer who was speaking softly lowered his voice and said, “Slept with her?”
“If not ?” Ji Shixun chuckled. “Which mer would go meeting with a woman every night? And what can a mer and woman even do together? Other than solving each other’s itch?”
He was about to say something more crude when ——
Click.
A waiter passing by placed a small bowl on the table, it was filled with red rice soaked in wine. Ji Shixun’s eyes flashed as he raised his head and said to the others, “You all, didn’t order this wine? It is really good.”
“But it’s so expensive, ah! We dare not to buy it,” one of the mers said to Ji Shixun enviously.
“There are no worries, I will buy it for you,” he then raised his hand and called for the waiter. After giving the order, he said, “I need to go to the restroom, excuse me.”
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