The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 585 Marrying Someone Out of Spite (5)_1

Chapter 585: Chapter 585 Marrying Someone Out of Spite (5)_1

"Our families are related, and when they need help, they must help! There’s no need for adding ties upon ties!" That’s what Fang Li thought. To marry Pei Qin, he would agree, but Pei Qian? No way!

"Cousin won’t agree!" Fang Liuming could say that he had almost grasped Pei Qin’s temper. When Li Baoxiang’s arm was broken, she, pregnant at the time, rushed to the Sun family in the middle of the night, listening to Miao’s complaints, only hearing him explain the truth. She even defended him; not to mention her own cousin Qian who she had raised and nurtured. Even if others found her too fierce and unpleasant, that was her own little sister, her very own Little Radish that she had grown up.

Old Scholar Fang looked at him, his frown growing tighter, his gaze piercing and sharp. His grandson had truly grown up, become calculating!

Fang Liuming met his gaze with an increasingly determined expression. He had indeed employed a little bit of cunning. Coming from his cousin’s house, they must know that he liked Cousin Qian and wanted to marry her. Now back home to say, if he ended up not proposing marriage, it would be as if the Fang family looked down upon her, creating cracks between Cousin and the Fang family. He needed to take the imperial examinations next year and wanted to rely on his cousin’s connections for his official career. With this rift, given his cousin’s temperament, she would no longer go out of her way to help him.

The grandfather would not let a rift form between the Fang family and his cousin’s family, so he would have to agree to this marriage! He would surely propose!

Old Scholar Fang looked at him for a long time before finally letting out a breath, "Qianqian is too young, and your sister can’t wait anymore!"

Fang Liuming, seeing him relent, breathed a sigh of relief, lifted his robe, and knelt down solemnly, "Grandfather! Grandmother! Father! Mother! I am willing to wait two more years until Cousin Qian grows up! I need to study for the examinations, and getting married would distract me from concentrating on my studies and preparing for the imperial examinations. This can justify marrying off Fang Fang before me! There are such precedents! As long as you let me marry Cousin Qian, I will study diligently, pass the examinations, and bring honor to our family!"

He had even resorted to threats, causing Old Scholar Fang’s face to darken somewhat.

Fang Liuming was afraid they would agree outwardly but obstruct him in secret. He turned to Grandma Fang and Lady Yu, "Brother Song Ming is very fond of my cousin, and despite a few years of resistance at home, he couldn’t marry her yet still can’t bear to break off contact with her. He has no plans to marry to this day and everytime he leaves Happy, after visiting..." After my cousin married, he left Taiping Town, he saw the deep sorrow and desolation in his eyes, as if his heart had been hollowed out.

Seeing his tear-filled eyes as he knelt before them, Lady Yu’s heart ached with sorrow.

Grandma Fang couldn’t help her tears from flowing, coming over to embrace him, "Qianqian may be a bit too fierce, but she’s not bad in other respects! She knows how to read, write, do arithmetic, all the household chores, and even how to run a workshop at such a young age. Men would want to marry a wife like her and still not be able to find one! If Dalang likes her, let him marry her! Isn’t it better to strengthen family ties through marriage!?"

"Even if she has all these good qualities, with her temper, she cannot be married into our family! Once she’s in, she’ll turn the house upside down!" Fang Li simply wouldn’t agree to marry someone like Pei Qian.

Lady Yu felt sorry for her son and also didn’t want to create a rift between them and the siblings of the Pei family. Apart from her fiery character, Qian was indeed a good catch, "Father..." She looked at Old Scholar Fang, waiting to see how he would decide.

What more could Old Scholar Fang say? He had never expected his eldest grandson to fall for the fierce-natured Pei Qian, who took him by surprise and left him without a choice but to agree, "But have you considered, she’s young now, but what if in two years, you don’t want to marry her anymore, what then? Or what if we propose and are rejected?"

"I will definitely marry her!" Fang Liuming pressed his lips together tightly.