“Huijun.”
The moment that person stuck his head in, his smile just blossomed in full bloom.
Yu Lingxin didn’t know whether in this moment, it was her eyes going dark, or her eyes lighting up, perhaps a little of both.
And as Xun Che bent his body and climbed in, he actually directly just sat down by Yu Lingxin’s side.
Yu Lingxin was just about to lift her hand to go push him when the horse carriage directly just started moving. This time, she was even more startled, “Hey, Jinrou still hasn’t gotten on yet!”
Xun Che took the opportunity to hold her right hand, enclosing in his own palm, “My carriage will send Jinrou back. Later, after I send you back home, I also need to go to Jin Duke Manor. We will just have the horse carriages swapped back when time comes.”
Yu Lingxin originally thought that she had already seen his shameless look several times and already used to it, but Xun Che’s words and actions at this time were all this natural and rightfully so, like moving clouds and flowing water. Then, recalling Ming Jinrou’s natural and sincere joyful tone before jumping off the carriage earlier, what ‘Puwei Brand’s new desserts’ and such! Yu Lingxin was angered to the point of speechlessness.
Xun Che, however, very much liked this slightly angry appearance of hers, not only holding her hand, unwilling to let go, he was even increasingly bold, moving another inch closer to her side.
Yu Lingxin finally couldn’t help but shoot him a glare, “You all had colluded and schemed this, didn’t you? When is enough? Just having me treated as an idiot?”
“How can this be called a scheme, saying it that unpleasantly.” Xun Che smiled, “Merely just cooperating. A few days ago, you were unwilling to come out, I also didn’t force you. Today, since on the way, how can I not come out to send you.”
“On the way?” Yu Lingxin spat out, “Where do you have that many convenient ‘on the way’? Xun Shenzhi, what’s wrong with you lately, once and twice, this impatient. In the past, you weren’t the impatient type.”
He hasn’t heard her call his full name like this in a very long time. Xun Che for a moment just felt that her slightly angry voice really was intoxicatingly sweet, practically wanting to have Yu Lingxin pulled into his arms and kiss. However, this thought just flashed by in his mind. In the end, he still had it pressed down once again. Even if for himself, at present, he still shouldn’t advance prematurely like this.
“Still smiling, what are you smiling for?” Yu Lingxin instinctively sensed that Xun Che was a bit different from usual, thus increasingly on guard, but under his burning gaze, her voice couldn’t help but lower a little.
Xun Che slightly restrained his smile, “Did you taste the tea I sent you a few days ago?”
Yu Lingxin slanted her mouth, “That kind of bitter tea, I’m unable to drink.”
Xun Che smiled, “You just need to have a taste, the tea like one’s feelings.”
“Then did you light the incense I gave you?” Yu Lingxin attempted to have her own hand pulled back again, “To repeatedly meet alone like this again and again, how will Jinrou and Ming eldest young master view me?”
TN: All translations outside of are stolen and reposted without permission!
Xun Che finally let go of her hand, but entirely turned his body around, directly facing her, “Jincheng and Jinrou have already laughed at me, laughing at how I am able to calculate everything, yet still unable to let you come out to play. How could they laugh at you.” He suddenly hooked the corner of his mouth again, directly looking into Yu Lingxin’s eyes, “If you really don’t like seeing me, then I will just leave.”
Then why don’t you leave!
Yu Lingxin opened her mouth. These words seemingly just continuously spun around her mouth, but even if spinning around back and forth, she ultimately wasn’t able to say it, instead slightly lowering her eyes, “I…….I just feel that we’re meeting a bit too frequently, and each time, you never tell me in advance.”
Xun Che laughed, “This is considered frequent? Then in the future, when together everyday, won’t you be annoyed to death?”
Realistically speaking, words like this, Xun Che has openly and vaguely said don’t know how many times, and hearing until now, Yu Lingxin also didn’t have that much embarrassment. Just, to mention this again when she’d just came from Wen’an Marquis Manor today, she nevertheless had a bit of faint annoyance, thus slightly turned her face away.
“What’s wrong?” Xun Che immediately sensed the change in her mood, asking with a frown, “Did mother say something?”
Yu Lingxin shook her head, “Of course not, madam is very amicable.”
“Then what are you still worried about?” Xun Che carefully studied her expression, thinking for a moment before softly asking, “Could it be that you’re worried that our matter won’t be smooth?”
Yu Lingxin was actually long used to getting seen through by Xun Che like this. His eyes were very sharp, so what can’t he make out. She lowered her eyes, not denying, just she didn’t speak either.
In the end, when she returned to the capital in past life, she was already eighteen years old. Those of the Yu family, either got demoted or dismissed, fallen to the point where they even lost their ancestral home. And her own dowry, more than seventy to eighty percent had gotten used up by her mother Qi-shi.
In terms of family background, wealth, and even age, it can all be considered the bottom of the barrel among the official daughters of the capital, but to still be able to marry into the Wen’an Marquis Manor, it was still because the Xun family similarly was facing the jade mountains collapsing, the family falling to ruins. Even Xun Che who’d inherited the noble title also just had merely half a year of life left.
Under this kind of circumstance, what good family will send their daughter over to go serve by the sickbed, and shortly after, be widowed for life.
But now, to start over again, the Xun family certainly will be safe and sound, and Xun Che’s path as a high official, she can just predict without thinking too deeply. In the last lifetime, Cheng’en Duke Manor and Noble Consort Zhu, as well as Yiyang Marquis Manor and Empress Wen, who didn’t have the upper hand, occupying all the right conditions, who didn’t rush to attack the Xun family and Qin Wang first? Yet, in the end, didn’t they still get killed one by one in retaliation by Xun Che who was dragging along a broken body like that.
This time, Noble Consort Zhu and Empress Wen don’t even have the upper hand anymore. The Wen’an Marquis Manor’s prestige and glory from here on certainly will increase by a hundredfold.
Although at present, she was also striving to preserve the Yu family from declining, but even if the Yu family doesn’t decline, based on her father Yu Bocheng’s abilities, he may not necessarily be able to reach the position of a high third rank Ministry of Works’ Assistant Minister for all his life, so how can they compare with the Wen’an Marquis Manor and Jin Duke Manor, these meritorious noble families that held actual power?
For the upper class political marriages in the capital, although a person’s talent and character also needed to be considered, the most important was still the family clan’s power and family background, especially given that Xun Che was the heir to the noble title. The Wen’an Marquis couple’s expectations towards his future wife, it goes without saying.
And she, just came from an ordinary family clan, even having divorced parents, as well as that kind of an unreliable mother. Their family status and family background had such a large gap, how can their matter be smooth? Even if Xun Che insists on forcing his way, and in the end, successfully force this matter through, his parents probably won’t be happy inside either.
Xun Che laughed again, “Silly girl, why do you think I insist on letting Ying’er and Jinrou form this Linglong Poetry Club?”
“What does this have to do with the Linglong Poetry Club?” Yu Lingxin asked back in confusion. However, just as these words came out, a vague thought just flashed through her mind, “Could it be that from the start you just wanted me to……….”
Xun Che held her hand again, saying with a smile, “On other matters, you rather trust me very much, yet how come on our matter, you’re just this nervous and scared? You really think that I would use something like saving you from the waters, having skin to skin intimacy, or perhaps use our secret affair as an excuse to forcibly carry out our matter? If really like that, then even if successfully getting married, in the future, how much gossip and slander will you hear? And how will father and mother not have barriers in their heart? How could I let you suffer that kind of grievance?”
Yu Lingxin, at this time, roughly had an understanding, but still a bit puzzled, listening to Xun Che continue, “Letting Ying’er and Jinrou form the poetry, admittedly, it’s for contending against the current Zhu family private school, as well as the Wenhua Academy in the future. But more importantly, it’s naturally for providing you an opportunity to display your talent. Ying’er is fond of literature by nature, just excelling at being meticulous and also able to stay calm. However, she’s unable to manage people, and also unable to handle arguments and disputes. Jinrou’s personality is firm, her reaction quick. If really able to go onto the battlefield, then she will probably be a female general, but how to be flexible and thorough when it comes to entertaining guests and other complicated tasks, she is still far too lacking. In this aspect, even my mother is actually all the same.”
Yu Lingxin understood his meaning. The Jin Duke Manor rose up through military achievements. The Ming family young ladies, for generations, have all practiced martial arts, their personality also a bit more straightforward and candid compared to ordinary noble daughters. But, at the same time, they naturally will also lack a bit of smoothness and tactfulness.
“That’s why,” The smile on Xun Che’s lips was increasingly deep, “the one that’s actually the most skilled in handling these things is still Huijun, you. You’re the most suitable for this. Since I’ve already convinced my mother and younger sister that this poetry gathering is for the current state of affairs and for the changes in the future, they although will headache, but they will still continue to manage it. At this time, if able to be assisted by your incomparably miraculous hands, or even have you take their place, then Ying’er and Jinrou will remember your good, and mother will further see, and even think, if able to obtain such a daughter-in-law, then the household affairs in the future will be much more relaxing.”
Listening to here, Yu Lingxin finally understood completely, but thinking again, she still asked, “Didn’t you previously say that this poetry gathering was mainly for the sake of contending against……………”
“What mainly?” Xun Che tightly held her hand, “What can be more important than our matter? Even if the Zhu family can re-obtain the popularity and glory they had in the last lifetime, I similarly have ways to let them fall into the abyss. Just, when time comes, some families will end up suffering with them. I’m merely just saving those muddled people in passing.”
Seeing this frivolous appearance of his, Yu Lingxin really wanted to spit again, but thinking of his step by step plans, her heart also softened. Especially right now, she also increasingly understood why Xun Che was feeling exceptionally guilty about Xun Ying falling ill this time.
If the poetry club’s matter was really just for the sake of the family clan, then Xun Ying suffering a little was only natural. After all, the entire family’s fate was all linked together. But, if as what Xun Che said, mainly for the sake of their marriage, then tiring out Xun Ying was just inexcusable.
“I understand. In the future, it’s better to not let Ying’er stress too much.” Yu Lingxin lightly nodded, and at the same time, also attempted to have her hand pulled back, “After talking for this long, should almost be at my manor?”
“Is that so?” Xun Che didn’t even look outside, directly just sighing with a serious look, “Aiyaa, might have taken a wrong turn! However, it’s not that serious. After going around for another hour or so, we will be able to go back.”