A Good Country Wife
Chapter 328 - 322 It’s Intentional_1

Chapter 328: Chapter 322 It’s Intentional_1

"Isn’t that settled then, Erhu will be your brother-in-law in the future, so stop calling him a brute all the time, and call him brother-in-law instead." Lin Yue looked at Lin Qing with satisfaction. He saw potential for instruction, and with the proper guidance, he could indeed become a good big brother.

Jiang Wenshu saw them behaving like this and became somewhat anxious, "Lin Qing, you can’t just let Xiaoyue do as she pleases. Xiaoyue is still young and doesn’t understand these things. Moreover, she doesn’t remember anything from before. If she recalls it later, she will definitely regret such a decision. You, as her brother, can’t just indulge her whims."

Jiang Ziqi sneered as he listened from the sidelines, "Not indulge Little Yueyue’s whims? Should we indulge yours instead? Little Yueyue is already Erhu’s wife. You’re a scholar, yet instead of focusing on your studies, you’re preoccupied with thinking about how to run away with someone else’s wife. If Confucius knew about this, he would be rolling in his grave, pointing at your nose and cursing you for lacking even the basic morals of being a human."

Jiang Wenshu looked at Jiang Ziqi, and noticing his refined appearance, assumed he must be a do-nothing rich young master. He loathed these types of rich playboys who relied on their family’s wealth to misbehave outside, viewing them as parasites with money being their only asset. Thus, his words were tinged with disgust.

"Who are you to talk like this? If you don’t know the full story, then don’t speak nonsense. Who says Yueyue is Erhu’s wife? Yueyue and I grew up together like siblings, and we’ve long cherished mutual affection and pledged to spend our lives together. It was Erhu, that brute, who interfered and took advantage of my absence with Axin to abduct Yueyue. Yueyue should rightfully be my wife."

Upon hearing Jiang Wenshu daring to insult their young master, Axin immediately jumped up in anger, "And what are you? How dare you insult our young master? Do you know who our young master is? You shameless thing, saying that Miss Lin should be your wife, but you have neither the directive of her parents nor the matchmaker’s word, and you haven’t even gone through any engagement with Miss Lin. No matter what, Erhu did marry Miss Lin with the matchmaker’s arrangement and her parents’ consent, and even if he bought her with silver, that’s still a legitimate and lawful marriage. You, an outsider, spout such words; it’s truly laughable!"

Lin Qing’s expression turned grave as well. He found himself increasingly unable to understand this friend. Wenshu was usually a very polite person, so why was he now behaving so inappropriately? Such words should not be said casually. Although Lin Qing had a good relationship with Jiang Wenshu, hearing him tarnish his sister’s reputation made Lin Qing very angry.

"Wenshu, don’t say such things again. Although you and my sister have known each other since childhood, it has always been with feelings governed by propriety. Xiaoyue has always been obedient and never overstepped bounds. Such talk will only damage Little Yueyue’s reputation. Moreover, now that Xiaoyue has decided to stay at Erhu’s house, she is Erhu’s wife from now on. Your words could lead to unnecessary speculation. This young man here is not wrong. Even if we were unaware of Xiaoyue being married off to Erhu by our parents, the fact remains that Xiaoyue is now Erhu’s wife. In the end, it was our parents who decided, and Xiaoyue also wished to stay. You should give up on Xiaoyue for everyone’s benefit. I don’t want my sister to suffer a bad reputation."

When Jiang Wenshu heard Lin Qing say this, he felt his long friendship had been wasted. After so many years of friendship, to side with someone else, then he looked towards Lin Yue. He noticed that the girl who used to shyly but quietly express her affection for him had become even more beautiful and dazzling. So beautiful that he involuntarily became obsessed, unable to let go. How could he allow such a wonderful woman to be taken by a brute? It would be an insult to Yueyue.

Jiang Wenshu thought harder and realized this was the case. Knowing that Lin Qing had changed his mind and would no longer help him, he turned his attention to Lin Yue, attempting to persuade her, "Yueyue, didn’t you once say to me that you admired scholars the most? You even asked me to teach you how to read and write. So, how can you be willing to marry such a brute and suffer through the hard life with your face towards the yellow earth and your back to the sky? I have now been conferred the title of Scholar and am still Bingsheng. In Xin’an City, I am unparalleled, and in the future, I will achieve even higher distinctions. By then, if you follow me, you will certainly lead a good life. I will work hard, and one day, I might even grant you the title of an imperial wife."

"Jiang Wenshu, don’t you use that flowery language to trick my wife. My wife won’t fall for your tricks," Zhao Erhu said as Jiang Wenshu tried to deceive his wife right in front of him. Although Erhu knew that his little wife had a mind of her own and wouldn’t be fooled by Jiang Wenshu, he still felt a bit panicked, afraid that Lin Yue would be enticed by Jiang Wenshu and reminded of the past.

"Erhu, don’t get angry, why get angry at someone who doesn’t matter! Just look at the character of this man; he still wants to deceive me. I have a brother, and he’s also a scholar. If I want to learn to read and write, wouldn’t my brother teach me? Why do I need his teachings? And he even wants me to go with him. Erhu, please send him away; I don’t want to talk to this kind of person."

Lin Yue pouted and implored Erhu, her face full of displeasure and disdain for Jiang Wenshu, indicating her stance for Erhu to not believe Jiang Wenshu’s words. In her heart, she already cursed up a storm.

This damned Jiang Wenshu! Trying to doom her with his ambiguous words. She knew Erhu well enough; even when Jiang Ziqi called her "Little Yueyue," Erhu got so jealous, tormenting her the entire night about it. What Jiang Wenshu had said would surely be etched in the old man’s heart; he might appear indifferent now, but come evening, he’d surely recount every detail and settle scores with her slowly. Why was she so cursed? It’s like sitting at home while misfortune falls from the sky—Jiang Wenshu was a disaster.

Jiang Ziqi heard Lin Yue’s words and glanced at her with amusement, thinking that Little Yueyue was indirectly explaining herself to Zhao Erhu. That simpleton Erhu couldn’t detect it, but he saw it clearly; Little Yueyue was worried that Erhu would get jealous and angry.

Feeling Jiang Ziqi’s gaze, Lin Yue felt like she’d been seen through and uncomfortably turned her face away, thinking, damn it, what is he staring at me for, and with such an inscrutable look?

Now that his little wife had spoken, Zhao Erhu was even less inclined to be polite. He couldn’t be bothered to continue bickering with Jiang Wenshu and directly grabbed Wenshu’s collar, lifting him out of the yard and ’throwing’ him out.

"Zhao Erhu, you brute! You uncultured thing, how dare you rough handle me! It’s a disgrace to scholars; let me go!" Jiang Wenshu, a frail scholar without the strength to truss a chicken, was infuriated by Zhao Erhu’s actions and cursed loudly. In vain, he tried to break free from Erhu’s grip on his collar but couldn’t and ended up being ’thrown out,’ stumbling and landing with his feet in the air. It was clear that Zhao Erhu did it on purpose.

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