The Spirited Daughter-in-law and the Mountain Man
Chapter 1545 Su Jingyu

Chapter 1545: 1545 Su Jingyu

"My daughter is so beautiful, there isn’t a woman in this world who can compare with you," Xu Minglan’s face was full of tenderness.

"It’s only Mom who loves me the most. Unlike Auntie, who even tried to persuade against my marriage to Xiao Yuchuan," Gongsun Qianru’s face was filled with anger, "She herself probably wants her daughter Gongsun Qianshuang to marry Xiao Yuchuan. I’ve heard that Lady Xiao has a servant girl named Shuang’er. I wonder if it’s a coincidence, or if even the heavens think Gongsun Qianshuang is just a lowly concubine daughter, sharing a name with a maid."

"That’s a comment you should only make in front of me," Xu Minglan said, her eyebrows slightly furrowed. "If word spreads, it gives people reason to pick faults with you."

"I only say this in front of you. In front of outsiders, I am Qianshuang’s good older sister," Gongsun Qianru replied.

Xu Minglan was somewhat exasperated, "You... You have to make Mom proud. It wasn’t easy for me to finally become the main wife of the Gongsun family. Don’t listen to your aunt; she just can’t bear to see you doing well."

Speaking of her father’s main wife, Gongsun Qianru complained, "Mom, I really don’t know what Dad was thinking. Su Jingyu was insane for so long, and he only promoted you to be the main wife last year. That’s not even the worst part, she only gave birth to a loss-making good, and that loss-making good died eleven years ago. You gave birth to my older brother and me for Dad."

"It’s because Su Jingyu was born beautiful," Xu Minglan said, with a trace of sarcasm in her eyes. "Even though she was a madwoman and didn’t grow old or ugly, your dad thought she could still have children, and that’s why he didn’t discard her. But now, finally, the storm has passed. If I weren’t promoted, you could never have been elevated from a concubine daughter to a legitimate daughter. Without being the legitimate daughter, you would not be worthy of Xiao family’s direct descendant. It’s just that last year, you were betrothed to heir of the Xiao Family, Xiao Jingyuan, and it turned out he was a fake. Now that Xiao Yuchuan, the real heir, is back, you must firmly capture his heart!"

"Of course, I refuse to believe that I, a legitimate daughter of a first-class family, would lose to a village girl!"

...

The next day, Su Qingyue came out of the government office with a smile on her face. She had spent money to grease the wheels, and the farmhouse she bought three days ago was approved for demolition and reconstruction.

Maid Yinzhu followed behind her.

Su Qingyue wore a human skin mask and dressed as a man; to any outsider, she looked like just an ordinary young man. Yinzhu, on the other hand, was dressed as a male servant. Since she had once wandered the martial world, she carried a bit of masculine vigor. Thus, walking down the street, nobody suspected that the two were women.

"Look, look, so many betrothal gifts!" the common people in the street exclaimed as they looked towards a procession ahead.

Several dozen family servants were lined in a vertical column, some shouldering carrying poles with boxes, some holding brocade boxes, and two carriages were filled entirely with top-quality silk cloth.

"Did you see that? Those are all betrothal gifts. I heard that the boxes they are carrying are full of gold and silver!" a passerby said admiringly.

"Whose family is being so generous with such numerous betrothal gifts? They must have enough to last a few lifetimes without running out..."

"Who else could it be? It’s the betrothal procession of the Xiao family’s direct descendant from a first-class family. It is said that in nineteen days, he will formally marry Miss Qianru from the Gongsun family."

Someone was puzzled, "How do you know all this so clearly?"

"I have relatives who work at the Gongsun Mansion," the person said proudly. "The information is guaranteed to be accurate. I heard from my relative that Gongsun Qianru is as beautiful as a celestial being, the number one beauty in the world. The marriage of the Gongsun and Xiao families is a match of equal social and economic status, truly a good match."

"I heard that the world’s number one beauty should be Su Qingyue. She’s from some village... what’s it called... Long... something or the other," another passerby interjected, scratching his head, unable to remember.