Second Marriage

Translator: tarararawr

Editor: Larkspur

Chapter 28 Part 6

Old Madam Xiao slapped the armrest and cursed.

All the servants knew who she had scolded, but no one made a sound.

“From now on, tell her not to go out so she doesn’t humiliate us!” After she had cursed, the old woman closed her eyes and coldly issued an order.

They took her in and could not drive her out. In that case, they would no longer behave upright anymore!

She had plenty of ways to sort her out. When the public’s opinion shifted, she would be sent to a monastery or a Daoist Temple where she would live for the rest of her life!

An orphan girl couldn’t overturn the heavens even if she had a dowry!

The next day, the capital was full of commotion. Xiao Youning was pushed into the limelight again. People no longer knew whether to sympathize with her or lament Li Qingzhi’s fate.

The news that the Li Family and the Eldest Princess Residence were going to marry reached the Qingfeng Daoist Temple very quickly. At that time, Ye Shen had just had lunch with his mother. When Old Madam Ye heard the news, her face was outright unhappy.

“As expected, she is so careless and really shameless!” Old Madam Ye could not stop her anger and smashed her teacup. “I really can’t control her!”

Ye Shen held his tea and did not even lift his eyes. No one saw the cold glint flash through his eyes.

Soon, someone came in and took away the broken pieces of the teacup. Old Madam Ye took a sip from the new teacup and her anger disappeared. She looked at her young, silent son and said, “The guzheng you rushed to repair and bring back last time has cracked again. Even the strings are broken.”

His mother never spoke nonsense. She was using her words to poke him about how he had used repairing the guzheng last time as pretext to see Xiao Youning.

If it had been before, Ye Shen would have played Tai Chi1 again to block the conversation, but today he had no such plans. Instead, he raised his head and firmly asked, “Mother, do you care that she married Li Qingzhi in the past?”

Her son’s question was so straightforward that Old Madam Ye, who had thought she was going to be fooled again, froze on the spot and stared straight at him until she confirmed that he was serious. She was speechless but still probed. “Why? Do you suddenly admit it?”

Was this still her youngest son who didn’t care about anything?

Ye Shen was a man who dared to do, dared to admit, and dared to act.

Earlier, he had thought through some of his strange accommodating behavior towards Xiao Youning and came to a vague understanding. However, this understanding was not as strong as when he was in the carriage this morning. He had hugged her and was unwilling to let go. This was entirely out of his own will. If this was not love, then it really did not make sense.

He never had such an experience before, but it did not mean that he did not understand it.

It had never dawned on him before, but it did now and it wasn’t anything he didn’t recognize. No matter how much he, Ye Shen, had fiercely and viciously handled things, he was an honorable person.

He had fallen in love with that Young Miss from the Xiao Family.

“Yes, this son admits it. Didn’t you always want me to leave the palace? When this son has a wife, he will have the best excuse to leave. Do you think she is acceptable to you?”

For a moment, Old Madam Ye could not accept that her aloof son had become so ardent. She was gaping and could not say a word.

Ye Shen continued, “Mother, even if you realize the fact that she had once married your grandson and is still a generation behind me, this son still wants her. If you don’t agree, then your son will still go and marry her.”

Old Madam Ye’s youngest son was being intense and she felt that it was even more unreal. She put her hands to her temple and strongly pressed on it. She called for her old servant next to her and said, “Did I go to sleep yesterday? Will this be a dream? My son said he is going to take a wife…”

Amused, the pozi beside her smiled. Old Madam Ye waited a little longer and decided to take another look at her son before she simply nodded. “If I were a person who cares about these strict social rules, then I should have died in my early years. How else would I have been able to live so freely? You can marry whoever you want, and whoever dares to say no, Mother will rip their mouth off!”

Ye Shen gave a small smile. He put his fingers into his wide sleeves and touched the thin deed.

In the past, she had repeatedly inquired about where he lived because she wanted to prepare this for him. She wanted to give him a home of his own, but he had misunderstood a lot of it. What man wouldn’t like a young woman who treated him so sincerely and attentively?

When Ye Shen was confronting this feeling that popped out from nowhere, Old Madam Ye suddenly took a breath in and asked, “Does she know your last name is Ye? Or that you are Fifth Master Ye?”

The Ye Shen who felt that there was nothing he did not dare to take responsibility for: “…”

The author has something to say:

After doing his best in this long chapter, the Daoist Priest has moved towards a worldly desire and he has begun to flirt.

Youning: I heard that your last name is Ye?

Ye Shen: …How do I answer when it’s a trap2? Stay online and wait for my reply.

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Footnotes

打太极 (dǎ​tài​jí) – another way of saying avoiding responsibilities送命题 (sòng mìngtí) – it means more like the question a girlfriend will ask and the boyfriend will probably never have the right answer even after he answers it. Sort of like…”Hey, do I look fat in this?”