Greetings, Ninth Uncle

Ch.22 - Marriage Proposal

This news was nothing less than a thunder on a bright day. Engagement was not a child's play. Marriage was precisely to join two different surnames together. For Jingyong Marquis manor who came to propose then abruptly canceling, it was no different than causing an enmity. It was good enough that the two families did not turn against each other, yet Huo Changyuan actually came to propose another marriage?

Moreover, the object of this marriage was Cheng Yujin's younger sister, second young miss Cheng Yumo.

It was a great humiliation, and Cheng Yujin's servant girls were all shaking in anger: "This...ungrateful scum! Does he not know that our miss and second miss are biological sisters? Even if they are tang cousins, he still dares to change the elder sister with the younger sister. The eldest branch adopted our miss, Huo family do this, do they want to humiliate our miss?"

Du Ruo was calm and spoke more cautiously, but she was also furious when she heard the situation in Shou'an Hall from granny Zheng. "Huo family is bullying us too much! They cancel the engagement for no reason and ruined years of miss' hard work. Now they shamelessly come to the house to propose marriage to second miss in a grand manner. Why didn't the gatekeeper chase them out!"

Cheng Yujin was very calm. She even smiled lightly: "With an obvious profit, why should grandmother turn her face with Huo family? After my engagement canceled, grandmother has always regretted losing good support like Huo Changyuan. Now that their family comes to propose another marriage, grandmother must be thrilled. How can she be willing to drive them out."

"What?" Lian Qiao was shocked, "Does the old madam no longer want the dignity of our marquis manor? How can this kind of thing be tolerated? Proposing to the elder sister, canceling it, and then comes again to propose to the younger sister. What does Jingyong marquis manor treat our Cheng family? If the old madam agreed, it is tantamount of throwing the face of our two misses and even the entire Yichun marquis manor to the ground."

Du Ruo was also shocked. She frowned and said: "Although the old madam is biased to immediate profit, but...she won't do so far, right?"

Cheng Yujin shook her head, amused. With a light, yet firm smile, she said: "She will. My grandmother is such a person."

Lian Qiao and Du Ruo's heart almost jumped in scare. They had followed Cheng Yujin from childhood. They watched her grew from a lonely and helpless little girl, until she became the model of her peers in the capital. No one knew better than Lian Qiao and Du Ruo, how much effort Cheng Yujin had actually paid all these years. Everything she did was just to marry a good husband, which may sound ironic, but this was indeed Cheng Yujin's only way out.

She didn't live to marry someone. She has always lived for herself.

It was precisely because they understood how long years of hard work was instantly trampled and shattered so casually by other people, which made them even more distressed. After her engagement with Huo Changyuan was broken, Lian Qiao and Du Ruo were furious. But instead of being depressed, Cheng Yujin immediately went to search for the next suitable candidate, and finally set her eyes on Xu Zhixian and Lin Qingyuan. Now that everything was going on track, Huo family refused to let their miss go and came to trample her face again.

Du Ruo repeatedly said that old Madam Cheng wouldn't agree, but actually, it was because of the lingering fear in her heart that made her wanted to speak it out. However, Cheng Yujin didn't even willing to give herself a false hope.

Du Ruo felt so distressed that she weakly shouted, "Miss..."

"What are you crying for?" Cheng Yujin looked at her two servant girls with a smile. She gracefully stood up, then straightened the wrinkle on her skirt carefully. Du Ruo surprised: "Miss, what are you doing?"